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A crash on Thursday closed three lanes on Interstate 40 West near Airport Boulevard.
The crash was reported after 3:30 a.m. At 5 a.m., traffic was passing slowly around the crash at Exit 284.
Multiple firefighters and emergency responders were on scene.
WRAL News is working to learn if anyone was injured.
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A suspected drunk driver accused of killing two people and injuring two in a North Texas crash turned herself in to face charges including intoxication manslaughter, Azle police said on Saturday.
The five-car crash occurred on Sept. 23 in the 13000 block of FM 730 S. in Azle. Two people — 67-year-old Robert Anness and 73-year-old Johna Wicker — died at the scene, and two others were taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
The driver of a northbound vehicle veered into the southbound lanes, hitting one car head-on and causing a chain-reaction crash, authorities said.
Azle police investigated with the Tarrant County Accident Reconstruction Team, which resulted in multiple charges against 48-year-old Tammy Jo Lawrence, of Springtown, police said in a news release on Saturday.
On Friday, Feb. 13, Lawrence turned herself in after being told that warrants had been issued for her arrest on two counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault.
Lawrence was taken to the Parker County Jail and is being held on over $50,000 bond. Jail records show she also faces a charge of driving with an invalid license.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Two Chicago police officers and a CTA bus passenger were hospitalized after a Northwest Side crash early Friday, CPD said.
Police said the crash happened in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood near North Hoyne and West Chicago avenues just after 12:15 a.m.
CPD officers in a marked SUV were traveling southbound on Hoyne Avenue, approaching the Chicago Avenue intersection, when they collided with the bus, which was traveling westbound on Chicago Avenue, police said.
Police said a woman on the bus suffered a minor injury. She was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.
Two officers were also transported to a local hospital for observation and are listed in good condition, police said.
Further information was not immediately available.
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A part of US-1 is down to one lane after a crash on Friday.
According to DriveNC, the crash
happened just before 11 p.m. near US-64 in Apex.
It is unclear what caused the
crash and if there were any injuries. Roads are expected to reopen just before 1 a.m.
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One person was killed and multiple people, including a police officer, were injured in a four-vehicle crash near the George Mason University campus in Fairfax, Virginia, on Friday afternoon.
One person was killed and multiple people, including a police officer, were injured in a four-vehicle crash near the George Mason University campus in Fairfax, Virginia, on Friday afternoon.
Police responded around 1:09 p.m. to a multivehicle crash at the intersection of Braddock Road and Campus Drive.
The crash involved a Fairfax County police cruiser and three other vehicles, Capt. Jesse Katzman said during a news conference Friday afternoon.
During their preliminary investigation, officers discovered three of the vehicles had been idling at a stoplight when a fourth vehicle, described by Katzman as a black car, was driving erratically and at a high speed when he struck the police cruiser from behind.
“Our officer was then pushed into the other two vehicles in front of him,” Katzman said.
The driver of the black vehicle, a 56-year-old man, was killed in the crash. No other serious injuries were reported, but all three drivers were taken to hospitals for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
The police department is currently investigating the crash and is asking anyone with information, including dash camera footage, to contact them.
Below is a map of the area where the crash occurred:
Both ways on Braddock Road are closed near Campus and Prestwick Drive. Motorists are asked to drive with caution and follow police direction.
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More than one thousand Duke Energy customers are
without power in Raleigh after a crash on Wednesday night.
Raleigh police said a car crashed into a power pole
along Millbrook Road. The driver was not injured.
Police have not released any information about
the driver or what caused the crash.
Officers said Duke Energy crews are working to
repair the outage. As of 9 p.m., 1,370 customers were without power.
Power is expected to be restored by 11:15 p.m.
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An Upper Marlboro, Maryland, woman will spend two years in prison after pleading guilty to her role in a 2024 crash that killed Khyree Jackson and two other men.
An Upper Marlboro, Maryland, woman was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison after pleading guilty to her role in a 2024 crash that killed Khyree Jackson and two other men.
Months before the crash, Jackson had been selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL Draft. The two other men killed were former teammates of Jackson’s at Wise High School in Upper Marlboro.
Cori Clingman pleaded guilty in November to three counts of negligent homicide under the influence of alcohol. Each count carried a maximum penalty of five years in prison, but prosecutors said at the time of her plea they would recommend 15 years, with all but three years suspended.
She was given that sentence Wednesday — 15 years with all but three suspended and credit for time served, which is 377 days. So, effectively, Clingman will spend about two more years in prison.
“I hope that she will use this time really to think about her actions and the lives that have been lost, her friends, the lives of her friends that have been lost, and become a more productive member of our community,” Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Tara Jackson said.
Prosecutors said Clingman caused the death of the three men, all Maryland natives, when she rammed her Infinity Q50 into a Dodge Charger and a Chevrolet Impala on July 6, 2024, while driving on Route 4-Pennsylvania Avenue.
Inside the Charger with Jackson were 23-year-old Isaiah Hazel and 24-year-old Anthony Lytton Jr. Officials said Clingman was friends with them and that the Charger was also traveling at a high rate of speed.
None of the occupants of the Impala or Clingman’s Q50 were injured.
Had the case advanced to trial, prosecutors said, an expert would have testified that Clingman’s blood alcohol level was between .12 and .18 at the time of the crash.
“I really just want to take this opportunity to highlight how dangerous speed and alcohol are. To have to watch parents grieve, siblings grieve, cousins grieve, to talk about losing children that are in their early 20s, at the prime of their lives — it’s devastating. And it’s because of choices that we don’t have to make,” State’s Attorney Jackson said.
Jackson played cornerback for Alabama before transferring to Oregon for his final year of college. He shined for the Ducks as a starter and was named first-team All-Pac-12. The Vikings selected him in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL Draft.
During his short time with the Vikings before his death, head coach Kevin O’Connell said Jackson made a lasting impression.
“He cared about being a good teammate, being part of a locker room and committing to working hard for something that was bigger than himself,” O’Connell said.
WTOP’s Scott Gelman and Jessica Kronzer contributed to this report.
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A driver crashed a vehicle into a terminal at Detroit Metro Airport Friday night.
The crash occurred at the McNamara Terminal near Delta’s check-in counters sometime before 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
Delta Airlines said in a statement to CBS News that no injuries were reported and there was no operational impact. Three employees were checked by emergency personnel after encountering debris, the airline said. It was unclear how many people were inside the vehicle at the time.
CBS News Detroit reached out to the Wayne County Airport Authority, which released the following statement:
“The Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA) Police Department is currently investigating a vehicle that drove into the entrance of the McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW), hitting a ticket counter. The incident occurred at approximately 7:30 this evening. The driver is in custody and the cause of the crash is unknown at this time. The WCAA Fire Department treated six people at the scene. We’ll provide more information as it becomes available.”
A CBS News Detroit crew captured footage of the crashed vehicle inside the building. The circumstances of the incident were unknown. An investigation is underway.
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Julius Bernstein, who was convicted of three counts of vehicular manslaughter in a fiery crash that killed a mother and her two daughters, is sentenced before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Zachary James at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building in Miami, Florida, on Friday, January 23, 2026. The crash occurred on the 79th Street Causeway on June 27, 2022.
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Samir Saidi, the husband of the woman and two girls who were killed in a fiery crash in 2022, detailed how he struggles to sleep at night because thoughts about his family’s final moments run in his mind.
“There is not one single day that I haven’t cried for my loss,” Saidi said on the stand, adding that he wishes he could have done something to save the lives of his wife, Cynthia Orsatelliz, and daughters Sofia, 15, and Maria, 12.
On June 27, 2022, Julius Bernstein, 27, was speeding at nearly 100 mph on the 79th Street Causeway in North Bay Village when he rammed his Dodge Charger into a car turning left from the eastbound lanes at Harbor Island Drive. After the crash, Bernstein jumped out of his car and ran. He hadn’t had a driver’s license since 2016.
Bernstein sat quietly as he was sentenced on Friday afternoon to 45 years in state prison followed by 10 years of probation by Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Zachary James. In September, a Miami jury found Bernstein guilty of three counts of vehicular homicide as well as other charges linked to the fatal collision. The sentence is 15 years per count of vehicular homicide.
“What a beautiful family. So full of life, so full of promise… torn away by a vehicle that this defendant turned into a bullet,” James said before announcing the sentence.
Bernstein will get credit for the three years that he has served behind bars in Miami-Dade. A month after the wreck, he was taken into custody by federal agents in North Carolina.
READ MORE: Driver accused of killing 3 in Miami Beach area hit-and-run lost his license in 2016
Bernstein was stoic as the family recounted their suffering, wiping their tears. After their impact statements, he stood up and spoke briefly, the rattle of chains echoing in the courtroom.
He apologized.
Bernstein’s attorney, Dustin Tischler, had requested a 25-year sentence, citing a history of mental-health and substance-abuse issues. Prosecutor Laura Adams, however, sought a life sentence under a sentencing enhancement because Bernstein is a “habitual violent felony” offender. At the time of the crash, Bernstein was serving three years of probation for a slew of convictions, including for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and fleeing law enforcement, Florida prison records show.
Bernstein, Adams argued, annihilated a family when he got behind the wheel.
Saidi said he met Cynthia in 1995 when they were studying together — and quickly became inseparable.
“She was my rock, my support,” he said, sniffling. “God blessed us with a … very comfortable life.”
The couple were also blessed with two daughters, he said: Sofia, who was passionate about writing and often embarrassed him by saying words he wouldn’t know, and Maria, who loved cooking shows and told him she wanted to become a chef.
“I thought that there would come a day that there is a book that had Sofia’s name on it or a restaurant that Maria would be so proud of being the main chef,” Saidi said.
The girls, Saidi said, were the “most beautiful souls, angels,” and he can’t forgive Bernstein because they, along with their mother, were casualties of Bernstein’s sheer recklessness.
Omar Orsatelliz, Cynthia’s brother, said his sister — who was the oldest daughter of their five siblings — was like a mother to him. She guided, protected and shaped him into who he became.
“As a brother, I grieve for her every day,” Orsatelliz said. “As an uncle to Maria and Sofia, I grieve for the lives that never got to unfold. I’m not the same person I was before that day and neither is our family.”
Orsatelliz said his father — the girls’ grandfather — suffered a stroke around the anniversary of the crash last year and now requires constant care. Orsatelliz said he believes the stroke was brought on by his father’s heartache.
“This tragedy did not end on the day of the crash,” he said. “Its consequences continue to uphold. Family gatherings are quieter. Holidays and birthdays feel incomplete. Ordinary days are filled with reminders of who was missing and what has been taken from us.”
Family attorney Omar Saleh said outside the courtroom: “This is just a small piece of closure to this horrific family tragedy.”
Now-retired Miami-Dade Det. Wanda Milian, who investigated the wreck, said the emotional impact of the scene was “unlike anything I had previously encountered.”
Milian broke down as she testified about how Bernstein launched a barrage of obscenities at her. Bernstein’s erratic behavior, the officer said, was something that she had encountered only two other times in her 17 years as a detective.
“It is said that law enforcement will always remember their first case and their last,” the detective said. “This case, my last, will always remain [with me.]”
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A 33-year-old man is accused of having a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit hours after a crash involving a train in Minneapolis last October, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Police say officers responded to the collision near Central Avenue Northeast and Columbia Parkway around 2:32 a.m. They saw a freight train traveling across the tracks, and two heavily damaged vehicles — a Cadillac Escalade and Toyota Rav4 — the court documents filed with Hennepin County said.
The Cadillac was stopped at the train crossing when the Toyota, later identified as being driven by the Columbia Heights, Minnesota, man, rear-ended it at high speed, according to the complaint. The impact resulted in both SUVs hitting the passing train.
Court documents said the driver of the Cadillac was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. A passenger of the same vehicle reported having glass in her face and mouth.
Paramedics at the scene said the man, who sustained serious injuries, appeared intoxicated and an officer saw he had bloodshot eyes and “different sized pupils,” according to the complaint.
The man was taken to the hospital where a blood draw, administered around four hours after the collision, showed he had a blood alcohol concentration of .223, court documents said.
The speedometer of the Toyota was “locked” at 68-69 mph after the crash, and the Cadillac driver estimated the man was driving between 85 and 90 mph before the incident, the complaint said. The posted speed limit at the scene is 30 mph.
According to court documents, the man was not in custody on Wednesday.
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A person is dead and part of Interstate 85 in Butner is shut down Tuesday after a vehicle hit someone in the road and drove away from the scene, according to State Highway Patrol.
A state trooper on the scene told WRAL News that authorities are searching for the driver who hit and killed a person on I-85 North near N.C. 56 in Butner around 2 a.m.
Traffic was being diverted off I-85 North at Exit 191. Drivers can get back on I-85 at the next entrance. The interstate is expected to reopen around 6 a.m.
The trooper said the investigation spanned two counties — Granville and Vance — with an investigation into a vehicle found near Henderson, about 20 miles from the original crash.
WRAL News is working to find out if the driver has been found, the identity of the person who was killed and if the driver is facing any charges.
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For Lacy Cornelius Boyd, March 19, 2024, was an exciting day. She and her husband had taken their 6-year-old daughter to the Grand Canyon as part of a family road trip. Boyd, her husband and their daughter were planning to stop at McDonald’s before heading home to Oklahoma.
Everything was well — until their car hit a patch of black ice.
“We were spinning. My husband obviously lost control, and he hit another car head-on,” Boyd recalled. Everything else was a blur.
Boyd’s daughter had a broken arm. Her husband and the other driver were fine. Boyd had broken bones in her neck and ribs, a collapsed lung, and severe injuries to her intestines. She had six surgeries in five days.
But the damage to her intestines — caused by a too-tight seatbelt — kept getting worse, Boyd said.
“They were trying to save my intestines, and every time they would go back in, they were just dying from no blood flow,” Boyd said. “I was told that most people have 35 feet of small intestine. I was left with about 35 inches.”
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Boyd was discharged from the hospital after a month. She was diagnosed with short bowel syndrome and had an ileostomy bag attached to her side to collect waste. Her remaining intestines couldn’t process the nutrients from food, so she needed 12 hours of IV nutrition a day. She said her daughter was afraid of the tubes, wires and medical machines that now filled their home. Boyd was always weak and dehydrated, and never wanted to leave the house.
“If I went out to eat somewhere, I’d be in the bathroom immediately, or I’d have to go to the bathroom five times at a restaurant, so it was just embarrassing,” Boyd said. “I felt like everyone was enjoying their life and I was just going through the motions.”
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Boyd, who had previously worked in healthcare, regularly met with doctors to see if her quality of life could be improved. No one had answers. Finally, she followed up on an unlikely lead. During her hospitalization, a surgeon had told Boyd’s sister she should contact the Cleveland Clinic.
Boyd self-referred herself to the hospital system in November 2024. She met with general surgeon Dr. Masato Fujiki and after an evaluation, he suggested something she’d never heard of before: An intestinal transplant.
“I started crying. I think he thought I was sad, but I was really happy,” Boyd said. “Everyone had told me that was going to be my life.”
Intestinal transplants are a rare procedure, said Dr. Adam Griesemer, a transplant surgeon at NYU Langone. Only about 100 are done in the U.S. every year, compared to the 25,000 kidney transplants done annually, said Fujiki, the director of Cleveland Clinic’s Intestinal Transplant Program.
Intestinal transplants have the worst outcomes of any type of transplant, Griesemer said, so there is a “high threshold” for doctors to consider them. They are generally only recommended for children born with intestinal defects and people who will be dependent on IV nutrition for the rest of their lives, like Boyd, he said.
Intestinal transplant patients “really struggle with rejection and infections,” Griesemer said. Intestines harbor bacteria inside them, so during cases of organ rejection, the barrier preventing the bacteria from entering the bloodstream breaks down. Fujiki said rejection rates have been improving over the past decade, estimating that it has decreased from 40% of cases to about 8%. Medication can help reduce infections, he said.
Only about 50% of patients survive more than five years after receiving the transplant, Griesemer said. In comparison, kidney transplants have a 98% five-year survival rate.
Boyd began the process of getting listed for an intestinal transplant in November. In July 2025, 16 months after the car crash, Boyd received the transplant at the Cleveland Clinic. The day of the operation was filled with emotion, she said.
“I was excited. I was nervous. I was sad about leaving my daughter, and I felt for the donor’s family,” Boyd said. “But really, I was prepared for the worst.”
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The operation took about 12 hours, Fujiki said. Everything went smoothly. But it was just the first step in a long process: Boyd spent the next three weeks recovering in the hospital, followed by three months of outpatient recovery in Cleveland so she could stay near her care team for close monitoring.
Boyd had no complications in her recovery, Fujiki said. Her ostomy bag was removed. She no longer needed IV nutrition. The weekend before Thanksgiving, she returned to Oklahoma.
“It was amazing to be able to come home,” Boyd said.
Boyd arrived home just in time for beloved holiday traditions. After missing other milestones, like her daughter’s first day of school and Halloween, Boyd was relieved to be a part of the celebrations.
“My daughter is six now, but my husband carries her to the Christmas tree every morning to get her presents. I don’t know how much longer she’s going to let him do that,” Boyd said. “I was like, ‘This year might be the last time, and I’ll miss it.’ But I didn’t.”
Boyd remains on a regimen of anti-rejection medications and will continue to receive follow-up care at the Cleveland Clinic. Otherwise, normalcy reigns, and it feels like the last of the trauma from the crash has been repaired, she said.
“It’s nice to take my daughter to school, pick her up, not have to worry about anything, to take her and to be able to go out to eat. I couldn’t drink Coke before. I couldn’t do normal things for like, a year and a half,” Boyd said. “It’s so much. Everyone is just a little bit more at peace.”
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Four people were injured after a crash on Highway
87 near Lee County on Thursday.
State troopers said the crash happened near
Olivia Road. Three adults and a child were injured but are expected to be OK.
Troopers said no arrests were made.
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After a chase ended in a crash, deputies in Duluth, Minnesota, on Saturday arrested a man wanted in connection with a fatal stabbing in the Twin Cities.
The St. Anthony Police Department says officers were called to Equinox Apartments just after 5 a.m. for a reported stabbing.
Officers arrived to find a man and a boy who had been injured. The man died, but the boy was transported to the hospital with serious injuries.
Law enforcement attempted to contact the suspect, who they believed had been inside an apartment, but later learned he had fled the scene before officers arrived, police say.
The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office says information indicated the suspect may have been attempting to drive a stolen vehicle to an address in Lake County, along the North Shore of Lake Superior.
A deputy observed the vehicle in Duluth around 9 a.m. Deputies attempted to perform a traffic stop, but the suspect fled in the vehicle for several miles before it crashed into a squad car near the intersection of North Shore Drive and Homestead Road.
Law enforcement arrested the suspect, who attempted to flee on foot.
A St. Louis County sheriff’s deputy suffered minor injuries in the crash and has since been released from the hospital, according to the sheriff’s office.
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Search warrants have offered new insights into a crash that killed a 15-year-old girl in December.
According to search warrants, the car was filled with teens who were leaving a wrestling tournament to pick up food and then drive back.
The warrants said the driver turned without the right of way on Dec. 5 at the intersection of Louis Stephens Road and Morrisville Parkway, which authorities said caused the crash.
The crash killed Lena Goff and injured several passengers in the car. The warrants said that based on the driver’s license level, she was not supposed to have more than one non-family member in the car. At the time of the crash, authorities said she had three.
Authorities charged the driver with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and failing to yield.
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A pedestrian has been killed in multivehicle crash near the White House on Wednesday afternoon.
A pedestrian has been killed in multivehicle crash near the White House on Wednesday afternoon.
It happened at the intersection of 16th and L streets in Northwest near the Capital Hilton Hotel in Downtown D.C. around 4 p.m.
At least four vehicles were involved, and police said that a man died at the scene and three people were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
D.C. police said in a post on X that the 1000 block of 16th Street and 1600 block of L Street remain closed due to the police investigation.
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the city’s mayor described as “reckless” and unnecessary.LIVE video above: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz holds press conference on deadly ICE shootingThe woman was shot in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets and about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. Her killing quickly drew a crowd of angry protesters.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, during a visit to Texas, described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism” carried out against ICE officers by a woman who “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him.”But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey blasted that characterization as “garbage” and criticized the federal deployment of more than 2,000 officers to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul as part of the immigration crackdown.“What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust,” Frey said, calling on the immigration agents to leave. “They’re ripping families apart. They’re sowing chaos on our streets, and in this case, quite literally killing people.”PGlmcmFtZSB0aXRsZT0iSUNFIGFnZW50IHNob3QgYW5kIGtpbGxlZCB3b21hbiBpbiBhbiBTVVYgc291dGggb2YgZG93bnRvd24gTWlubmVhcG9saXMiIGFyaWEtbGFiZWw9IkxvY2F0b3IgbWFwIiBpZD0iZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItY2hhcnQtT2NzOTMiIHNyYz0iaHR0cHM6Ly9kYXRhd3JhcHBlci5kd2Nkbi5uZXQvT2NzOTMvMS8iIHNjcm9sbGluZz0ibm8iIGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyPSIwIiBzdHlsZT0id2lkdGg6IDA7IG1pbi13aWR0aDogMTAwJSAhaW1wb3J0YW50OyBib3JkZXI6IG5vbmU7IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjYyMyIgZGF0YS1leHRlcm5hbD0iMSI+PC9pZnJhbWU+PHNjcmlwdCB0eXBlPSJ0ZXh0L2phdmFzY3JpcHQiPndpbmRvdy5hZGRFdmVudExpc3RlbmVyKCJtZXNzYWdlIixmdW5jdGlvbihhKXtpZih2b2lkIDAhPT1hLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdKXt2YXIgZT1kb2N1bWVudC5xdWVyeVNlbGVjdG9yQWxsKCJpZnJhbWUiKTtmb3IodmFyIHQgaW4gYS5kYXRhWyJkYXRhd3JhcHBlci1oZWlnaHQiXSlmb3IodmFyIHIsaT0wO3I9ZVtpXTtpKyspaWYoci5jb250ZW50V2luZG93PT09YS5zb3VyY2Upe3ZhciBkPWEuZGF0YVsiZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItaGVpZ2h0Il1bdF0rInB4IjtyLnN0eWxlLmhlaWdodD1kfX19KTs8L3NjcmlwdD4=“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is bullshit,” the mayor said.Videos taken by bystanders with different vantage points and posted to social media show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The SUV begins to pull forward and a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the SUV at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.Video below: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says federal agents are “sowing chaos on our streets”It was not clear from the videos if the vehicle made contact with the officer. The SUV then sped into two cars parked on a curb nearby before crashing to a stop. Witnesses screamed obscenities, expressing shock at what they’d seen.The shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major cities under the Trump administration. The death of the Minneapolis woman, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was at least the fifth linked to immigration crackdowns.The Twin Cities have been on edge since DHS announced Tuesday that it had launched the operation, which is at least partly tied to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents. During her Texas visit, Noem confirmed that DHS had deployed more than 2,000 officers to the area and said they had already made “hundreds and hundreds” of arrests.Video above: Witness describes Minneapolis shooting involving ICE officerMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara briefly described the shooting to reporters but, unlike federal officials, gave no indication that the 37-year-old driver was trying to harm anyone. He said she had been shot in the head.“This woman was in her vehicle and was blocking the roadway on Portland Avenue. … At some point a federal law enforcement officer approached her on foot and the vehicle began to drive off,” the chief said. “At least two shots were fired. The vehicle then crashed on the side of the roadway.”A large throng of protesters gathered at the scene after the shooting, where they vented their anger at the local and federal officers who were there, including Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.In a scene that hearkened back to the Los Angeles and Chicago crackdowns, bystanders heckled the officers and blew whistles that have become ubiquitous during the operations.“Shame! Shame! Shame!” and “ICE out of Minnesota!” they loudly chanted from behind the police tape.For nearly a year, migrant rights advocates and neighborhood activists across the Twin Cities have been preparing to mobilize in the event of an immigration enforcement surge. From houses of worship to mobile home parks, they have set up very active online networks, scanned license plates for possible federal vehicles and bought whistles and other noisemaking devices to alert neighborhoods of any enforcement presence.On Tuesday night, the Immigration Defense Network, a coalition of groups serving immigrants in Minnesota, held a training session for about 100 people who were willing to hit the streets to monitor the federal enforcement operation.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the city’s mayor described as “reckless” and unnecessary.
LIVE video above: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz holds press conference on deadly ICE shooting
The woman was shot in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets and about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. Her killing quickly drew a crowd of angry protesters.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, during a visit to Texas, described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism” carried out against ICE officers by a woman who “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him.”
But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey blasted that characterization as “garbage” and criticized the federal deployment of more than 2,000 officers to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul as part of the immigration crackdown.
“What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust,” Frey said, calling on the immigration agents to leave. “They’re ripping families apart. They’re sowing chaos on our streets, and in this case, quite literally killing people.”
“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is bullshit,” the mayor said.
Videos taken by bystanders with different vantage points and posted to social media show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The SUV begins to pull forward and a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the SUV at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.
Video below: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says federal agents are “sowing chaos on our streets”
It was not clear from the videos if the vehicle made contact with the officer. The SUV then sped into two cars parked on a curb nearby before crashing to a stop. Witnesses screamed obscenities, expressing shock at what they’d seen.
The shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major cities under the Trump administration. The death of the Minneapolis woman, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was at least the fifth linked to immigration crackdowns.
The Twin Cities have been on edge since DHS announced Tuesday that it had launched the operation, which is at least partly tied to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents. During her Texas visit, Noem confirmed that DHS had deployed more than 2,000 officers to the area and said they had already made “hundreds and hundreds” of arrests.
Video above: Witness describes Minneapolis shooting involving ICE officer
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara briefly described the shooting to reporters but, unlike federal officials, gave no indication that the 37-year-old driver was trying to harm anyone. He said she had been shot in the head.
“This woman was in her vehicle and was blocking the roadway on Portland Avenue. … At some point a federal law enforcement officer approached her on foot and the vehicle began to drive off,” the chief said. “At least two shots were fired. The vehicle then crashed on the side of the roadway.”
A large throng of protesters gathered at the scene after the shooting, where they vented their anger at the local and federal officers who were there, including Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.
In a scene that hearkened back to the Los Angeles and Chicago crackdowns, bystanders heckled the officers and blew whistles that have become ubiquitous during the operations.
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” and “ICE out of Minnesota!” they loudly chanted from behind the police tape.
For nearly a year, migrant rights advocates and neighborhood activists across the Twin Cities have been preparing to mobilize in the event of an immigration enforcement surge. From houses of worship to mobile home parks, they have set up very active online networks, scanned license plates for possible federal vehicles and bought whistles and other noisemaking devices to alert neighborhoods of any enforcement presence.
On Tuesday night, the Immigration Defense Network, a coalition of groups serving immigrants in Minnesota, held a training session for about 100 people who were willing to hit the streets to monitor the federal enforcement operation.
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A federal officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist when she allegedly tried to run over law enforcement officers during an immigration crackdown in the city, authorities said Wednesday.The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot the woman in her vehicle in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.Livestream above: Officials speak at press conference on shooting of woman by ICE agent in MinneapolisThe shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major American cities under the Trump administration. The woman is at least the fifth person killed in a handful of states since 2024.The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have been on edge since DHS announced Tuesday that it had launched the operation, with 2,000 agents and officers expected to participate in the crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.A large throng of protesters gathered at the scene after Wednesday’s shooting, where they vented their anger at the local and federal officers who were there, including Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.In a scene similar to the Los Angeles and Chicago crackdowns, bystanders heckled the officers and blew whistles that have become ubiquitous during the crackdowns.“Shame! Shame! Shame!” and “ICE out of Minnesota!” they loudly chanted from behind the police tape.After the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frey said immigration agents were “causing chaos in our city.”“We are demanding ICE leave the city and state immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities,” Frey said on social media.The area where the shooting occurred is a modest neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets in the area and a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.The Immigration Defense Network, a coalition of groups serving immigrants in Minnesota, held a training session Tuesday night for about 100 people who are willing to hit the streets to monitor the federal enforcement.“I feel like I’m an ordinary person, and I have the ability do something so I need to do it,” Mary Moran told KMSP-TV. Dell’Orto reported from St. Paul, Minnesota. Associated Press reporter Ed White in Detroit contributed.
A federal officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist when she allegedly tried to run over law enforcement officers during an immigration crackdown in the city, authorities said Wednesday.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot the woman in her vehicle in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
Livestream above: Officials speak at press conference on shooting of woman by ICE agent in Minneapolis
The shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major American cities under the Trump administration. The woman is at least the fifth person killed in a handful of states since 2024.
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have been on edge since DHS announced Tuesday that it had launched the operation, with 2,000 agents and officers expected to participate in the crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.
A large throng of protesters gathered at the scene after Wednesday’s shooting, where they vented their anger at the local and federal officers who were there, including Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.
In a scene similar to the Los Angeles and Chicago crackdowns, bystanders heckled the officers and blew whistles that have become ubiquitous during the crackdowns.
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” and “ICE out of Minnesota!” they loudly chanted from behind the police tape.
After the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frey said immigration agents were “causing chaos in our city.”
“We are demanding ICE leave the city and state immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities,” Frey said on social media.
The area where the shooting occurred is a modest neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets in the area and a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
The Immigration Defense Network, a coalition of groups serving immigrants in Minnesota, held a training session Tuesday night for about 100 people who are willing to hit the streets to monitor the federal enforcement.
“I feel like I’m an ordinary person, and I have the ability do something so I need to do it,” Mary Moran told KMSP-TV.
Dell’Orto reported from St. Paul, Minnesota. Associated Press reporter Ed White in Detroit contributed.
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State troopers said speed played a role in a crash that
seriously injured a motorcyclist on Friday.
The crash happened just after 3 p.m. on Pagan Road. Troopers
said the motorcyclist was driving over 90 mph when it crashed into a pickup
truck.
Pagan Road was temporarily shut down while troopers
investigated the crash, it has since reopened.
No other injuries were reported.
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A three-car crash in Livermore left at least one person with major injuries on Tuesday, police said.
The crash happened around 4:15 p.m. in the area of Portola Avenue and Tranquility Circle.
Police said roadways in the area will be closed for several hours, and they will release more information as it becomes available.
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