Three faculty members were killed in Wednesday’s shooting on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, authorities confirmed Thursday. The suspected gunman was a former college professor who had applied for a job at the university and was denied. Omar Villafranca reports.
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A shooting in Las Vegas Friday evening left two people dead and three others wounded, authorities said.
The shooting occurred a little after 5:30 p.m. local time at an intersection near U.S. Highway 95 in East Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to CBS News.
All five victims were homeless, police disclosed.
The three wounded victims suffered injuries not believed to be life-threatening, police told CBS affiliate KLAS-TV.
The circumstances of the shooting and identities of the victims were not immediately provided. The shooter was still at large as of Friday night, police told KLAS.
This comes after Los Angeles officials reported Friday that they are seeking a suspected serial killer in the shooting deaths of three homeless people earlier this week. The killings occurred on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.
In a news conference Friday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass urged unhoused people to immediately seek shelter.
“Our message to the unhoused community is clear — do not sleep alone tonight. Seek shelter, seek services, stay together, seek support and we need your help to get the word out,” Bass said.
Faris Tanyos is a news editor for CBSNews.com, where he writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He previously worked as a digital news producer at several local news stations up and down the West Coast.
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One person was killed and five others wounded in a shooting in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Friday night, authorities said.
In a news briefing late Friday night, Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said the incident occurred a little before 9:30 p.m. local time on a street in the city’s West End neighborhood, located near downtown.
Theetge said officers arrived to find one person, a male, dead at the scene. Five others were rushed to local hospitals. Their conditions were not confirmed.
Some of the victims were juveniles, Theetge disclosed. The deceased victim was not immediately identified.
“This is absolutely unacceptable in our city, unacceptable, that on a Friday night, six people were shot in one incident,” the police chief said.
The circumstances that led up to the shooting were unclear, she added. There was no word of any arrests.
Theetge said there was “no indication” of an ongoing threat to the public.
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A manhunt is underway for a man suspected in the shooting death of Maryland Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson in the driveway of his home Thursday night in what authorities are calling a targeted attack. The shooting occurred hours after the suspect lost custody of his children in a divorce proceeding Wilkinson was presiding over. Jeff Pegues has the latest.
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An associate circuit court judge was shot on the driveway of his home in Hagerstown, Maryland Thursday night and later died in a hospital, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said. His assailant was being sought.
There was no initial indication of a possible motive.
The victim was identified as Washington County Circuit Court Associate Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, of Hagerstown.
State delegate Neil Parrott (R-MD) said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Wilkinson was apparently shot “multiple times.”
Horrible news in Washington County tonight. It appears that Judge Andrew Wilkinson was shot multiple times and has passed away. Police are actively searching for the murderer. Please pray for our police and for Judge Wilkinson’s family at this time. https://t.co/aUbdagfkd0
According to the Maryland Government website, Wilkinson has been a judge with the 4th Judicial Circuit since January 2020. He was born in Agana, Guam in 1971 and later attended the University of North Carolina before getting his law degree at Emory University. The site adds that Wilkinson was active in youth soccer and baseball.
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A shooting at a Florida auto shop that killed two men was triggered by a former customer’s dissatisfaction with work done on his car two years ago, police said Thursday.
The Largo Police Department said Eugene Frank Becker, 78, arrived at Stout’s Automotive in a rental car Wednesday and sought out business owner Jodie Stout, 52. Investigators say Becker pulled out a handgun and shot Stout, who returned fire with his own gun, striking Becker multiple times.
“The two exchanged multiple rounds of gunfire, during which time both Becker and Stout suffered life-threatening injuries,” police said.
Both men later died at a hospital. The shooting brought dozens of police officers to the scene.
HORRIBLE: Detectives say the 78-year-old customer apparently shot the auto shop owner because he was unhappy with past service on his car. https://t.co/mNgvF0aUhg
Police said that evidence and witnesses indicate Becker felt he was overcharged when he brought a vehicle to Stout’s for service in 2021.
Earlier this month, Becker was involved in a car crash in Pinellas Park, which “resulted in a hospitalization and the total loss of his current vehicle,” police said. A family member told police that Becker has been depressed and frustrated since the crash, police said, and he went to the shop Wednesday “with the intent to shoot the victim in retaliation for the perceived wrong.”
Largo is located just west of Tampa.
This marks at least the third time this month in Florida that a seemingly minor dispute ended in a deadly shooting.
On Saturday night, a man in Jacksonville fatally shot two adults and a toddler during an argument over the sale of a dog, CBS affiliate WTSP reported. And earlier this month, a 78-year-old man in DeLeon Springs allegedly shot and killed a neighbor who was trimming trees over his property line.
In another incident last week, a former assistant attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office stabbed a man on a Tampa Bay highway after the man crashed into his car, according to CBS affiliate WTSP. The victim was taken to a local hospital with injuries authorities described as serious but not life-threatening.
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India’s government strongly denied on Tuesday any involvement in the murder of a prominent Sikh leader in Canada and expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat response as tension between the two countries soars. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau drew India’s ire by suggesting Indian officials could have had a role in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
A sign outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple is seen after the killing on its grounds in June 2023 of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada September 18, 2023.
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Trudeau appeared to try to calm the diplomatic clash Tuesday, telling reporters that Canada is “not looking to provoke or escalate,” The Associated Press reported.
“We are simply laying out the facts as we understand them and we want to work with the government of India to lay everything clear and to ensure there are proper processes,” Trudeau said. “India and the government of India needs to take this matter with the utmost seriousness.”
In remarks to Canada’s parliament on Monday, Trudeau said Canadian security agencies were actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of India and the killing of Nijjar — a vocal backer of the creation of an independent Sikh homeland known as Khalistan — who was gunned down in June in the city of Surrey in British Columbia.
“We have seen and reject the statement of the Canadian Prime Minister in their Parliament… such unsubstantiated allegations seek to shift the focus from Khalistani terrorists and extremists who have been provided shelter in Canada and continue to threaten India’s sovereignty,” Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said Tuesday a statement posted on social media.
A second social media post shared by Bagchi said that the Canadian High Commissioner in India had been summoned and a senior Canadian diplomat had been expelled from the country in retaliation for Ottawa booting a senior Indian diplomat on Monday.
Canada on Tuesday issued a travel advisory for Canadians traveling to India, advising citizens to “exercise a high degree of caution” due to a threat of terror attacks throughout the country.
Trudeau said Monday that he brought up the potential links between Nijjar’s murder and the Indian government with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a G20 summit last week “in no uncertain terms,” adding that “any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.”
The Sikhs are a religious minority in India and Nijjar was a supporter of a separate state for the community. His killing sparked protests by Sikhs in Canada, who blame the Indian government for the murder.
The Khalistan movement that supports the creation of a new Khalistan state is a banned organization in India. Nijjar’s name appeared on the Indian Home Affairs terror watch list prior to his shooting.
Canadian investigators revealed that they believed three suspects were involved in the shooting of Nijjar and released CCTV images of a getaway car (pictured) that they believe was used for two gunmen to escape
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
In August, Canadian investigators said they believed three suspects were involved in the shooting of Nijjar. They released security camera video of a car they believe was used by two gunmen to escape, aided and abetted by the vehicle driver.
A suspect is in custody in connection to the ambush of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy. The 29-year-old was arrested Monday morning following a standoff. Elise Preston reports.
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The 66-year-old California store owner who was shot dead Friday over a dispute about an LGBTQ Pride flag had been worried an altercation would one day take place over the flags she hung outside her store, a friend told CBS News on Monday.
Laura Ann Carleton, who owned the clothing shop Mag.Pi in Cedar Glen, was an unapologetic LGBTQ ally, Melissa Lawton told “CBS Mornings” lead national correspondent David Begnaud.
Carleton, who preferred to be called “Lauri,” started putting small gay Pride flags in the flower pots outside her store to show her support for the LGBTQ community, Lawton said, but people kept taking them.
Carleton would replace them, and every time she put in a new one, she’d make sure it was a bigger flag, according to one of her daughters.
Soon, the Pride flag outside her store was as big as the American flag Carleton also flew outside the store, Lawton said.
About a year before she was killed, Carlteon told Lawton people were still coming to the store and taking down the flag. She continued replacing it every time, but she worried the flag would one day lead to a confrontation, Lawton said.
“She used to say, ‘Those motherf*****s tear it down, and I just put a new one back up, and I’m scared that I’m going to get into an altercation some day,’” Lawton told Begnaud.
The message “We Love You Lauri ” is seen on a Pride flag at a makeshift memorial outside the Mag.Pi clothing store in Cedar Glen, near Lake Arrowhead, California, on August 21, 2023.
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On Friday, 27-year-old Travis Ikeguchi of Cedar Glen tore down the flag, police said. According to Lawton, Carleton went outside and exchanged words with him. He then followed Carleton into the store and shot her dead.
He ran away and was later killed by officers from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department after firing at them and hitting several patrol vehicles, authorities said Monday.
Carleton had nine children. Her husband, a shoe designer, had seven children before marrying Carleton and the couple then adopted twin girls, Lawton said.
According to Lawton, Carlton was a West Coast executive for the fashion brand Kenneth Cole at a time when most in the executive ranks were men. Her passion was rescuing animals, and she was happiest on her boat.
She wasn’t just a woman who spoke words, Lawson said, adding that she took action and had no regrets over hanging the Pride flag outside her store.
Cedar Glen, Calif. — – A dispute over an LGBTQ+ pride flag at a California clothing store spiraled into deadly violence this weekend when a man shot and killed the 66-year-old business owner right in front of her shop, authorities said.
The man ran away from the store after the shooting Friday night but was later found and killed in a confrontation with officers from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
The agency said Laura Ann Carleton was pronounced dead at Mag.Pi, the store she owned and operated in Cedar Glen. The small community in the San Bernadino Mountains is roughly 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
Before the shooting, the man “made several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store,” sheriff’s officials said.
It wasn’t immediately clear what happened when officers confronted the man, whose identity hadn’t been released as of Sunday.
Carleton, who preferred to be called “Lauri,” is survived by her husband and nine children in a blended family.
An LGBTQ group in nearby Lake Arrowhead said Carleton didn’t identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. But she spent time helping and advocating for everyone and was defending her Pride flags placed in front of her shop on the night of the shooting, the group said.
There was an outpouring of support on social media over the weekend, with commenters expressing shock and sadness on the store’s accounts. Many included rainbow flag emojis.
According to CBS News Los Angeles, San Bernardino County Supervisor Dawn Rowe issued a statement calling the shooting “tragic” and Carleton a “beloved member of the Cedar Glen community. This senseless act of hate and violence is unthinkable and I stand with my mountain communities as we mourn this incredible loss. Everyone deserves to live free of hate and discrimination and practice their constitutional right of freedom of speech. Lauri was a remarkable member of the community and I send my deepest condolences to her family in this time of grief.”
Law enforcement agencies in several states have investigated the destruction of rainbow Pride flags as potential hate crimes in recent years.
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A weapons supervisor already facing involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the Western film “Rust” now faces an additional felony count.
In a court filing obtained by CBS News Thursday, special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis charged the weapons supervisor, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, with one count of fourth-degree tampering with evidence.
On the day of Hutchins’ shooting, according to the court documents, Gutierrez-Reed is accused of transferring narcotics “to another person with the intent to prevent the apprehension, prosecutions or conviction of herself.”
No details on the charge were provided.
In a statement provided to CBS News, Jason Bowles, an attorney for Gutierrez-Reed, criticized the new allegations, saying that “it is shocking that after 20 months of investigation, the special prosecutor now throws in a completely new charge against Ms. Gutierrez Reed, with no prior notice or any witness statements, lab reports, or evidence to support it.”
On Oct. 21, 2021, on a film set outside Santa Fe, 42-year-old Hutchins was struck and killed when a prop gun being held by actor Alec Baldwin discharged during a rehearsal. Joel Souza, the film’s director, was also wounded.
Following a lengthy investigation, both Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed were charged with involuntary manslaughter in January.
In April, however, Lewis and Morrissey announced that the charges against Baldwin were being dropped because “new facts were revealed that demand further investigation and forensic analysis.” They noted though that their “decision does not absolve Mr. Baldwin of criminal culpability and charges may be refiled.”
However, they said at the time the charges against Gutierrez-Reed would remain in place.
In court filings earlier this month in response to a request from Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys to have the involuntary manslaughter charges dropped, the special prosecutors said that they had witnesses who could testify that Gutierrez-Reed was “drinking heavily and smoking marijuana” at nights during the “Rust” production. They also claimed she was likely “hungover when she inserted a live bullet” into Baldwin’s gun.
In March, as part of a deal with Santa Fe County prosecutors, “Rust” assistant director David Halls pleaded guilty to unsafe handling of a firearm and was sentenced to six months’ probation.
On the afternoon of the shooting, prosecutors alleged in a probable cause statement filed in January, Gutierrez-Reed retrieved the gun from the prop truck and handed it to Halls without conducting a necessary safety check.
Prosecutors said Halls also did not request the safety check —which would involve Gutierrez-Reed showing Halls each dummy round in the gun— before he subsequently handed the weapon to Baldwin.
Filming on “Rust” resumed in April at Yellowstone Film Ranch in Montana. In late May, Baldwin said that he had wrapped filming on the production.
An 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base Wednesday, killing two of them, officials said.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at the scene in the Gifu prefecture in central Japan, police said.
The suspect fired a rifle at other soldiers during a shooting exercise at the Hino Kihon firing range, police said. Among the three wounded is a 25-year-old soldier, police said.
The Ground Self Defense Force, Japan’s army, confirmed that two of those wounded were later pronounced dead at a hospital.
A number of other people were believed to be participating in the training when the shooting occurred, but details are still under investigation, an army official said on condition of anonymity, citing protocol.
Japan has been known for its safety, with strict gun control laws, but high-profile violence has occurred in recent years, including shootings and random knifings on subways and arson attacks, and there is growing concern about homemade guns and explosives.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was almost hit by a pipe bomb thrown by a suspect at an election campaign venue in April.
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated in July 2022 by an attacker using a handmade gun.
Last month, a man was arrested after he allegedly shot two police officers to death after killing two women with a knife in Nagano prefecture.
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The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said Susan Lorincz, 58, was charged with manslaughter with a firearm and other offenses.
Ajike Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four, was killed Friday night in a shooting Sheriff Billy Woods said was the culmination of a 2-and-a-half-year feud between the neighbors.
They lived in the rolling hills south of Ocala, a north Florida city that’s the heart of the state’s horse country.
According to the sheriff’s office, evidence showed that, over time, Lorincz had become angry over Owens’ children playing in a field close to her apartment.
Ajike “AJ” Owens was shot and killed in Florida.
Benjamin Crump
On Friday night, the office said, Lorincz got into an argument with the children and “was overhead yelling at them by a neighbor.”
During the argument, the office continued, Lorincz threw a roller skate at Owens’ 10-year-old son and hit him in a toe. The boy and his 12-year-old brother then went to speak to Lorincz, and she opened her door and swung at them with an umbrella. They told their mother what happened and “Owens approached Lorincz’s home, knocked on the door multiple times, and demanded that Lorincz come outside. Lorincz then fired one shot through the door, striking Owens in her upper chest.
“At the time she was shot, Owens’ 10-year-old son was standing beside her,” the sheriff’s office noted.
Deputies responding to a trespassing call at the apartment Friday night found Owens suffering from gunshot wounds. She later died at a hospital.
When questioned by the sheriff’s office, Lorincz claimed she acted in self-defense and that Owens was trying to break down her door. “Lorincz also claimed that Owens had come after her in the past and had previously attacked her,” the office continued.
But “detectives were able to establish that Lorincz’s actions were not justifiable under Florida law” and she was arrested, the office said.
Susan Lorincz in mugshot after her arrest on June 6, 2023
Marion County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office
The manslaughter charge Lorincz is facing is punishable by up to 30 years in prison, the office noted. She’s also charged with culpable negligence, battery, and two counts of assault.
Billy Woods said in a statement that he wants “to thank Ms. Owens’ family for their patience as we conducted the diligent investigation that we were bound by law to conduct. Ms. Lorincz’s fate is now in the hands of the judicial system which I trust will deliver justice in due course. As I go to bed tonight, I will be saying a prayer for Ms. Owens’ children and the rest of her family. I’d ask all of you to do the same.”
And at a vigil Monday, Owens’ mother, Pamela Dias, said she was seeking justice for her daughter and her grandchildren.
“My daughter, my grandchildren’s mother, was shot and killed with her … son standing next to her,” Dias said. “She had no weapon. She posed no imminent threat to anyone.”
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who’s representing Owens’ family, said in a statement that the shooter had been yelling racial slurs at the children before the confrontation.
The sheriff’s office hasn’t confirmed there were slurs uttered or said whether race was a factor in the shooting.
About three dozen mostly Black protesters had gathered outside the Marion County Judicial Center Tuesday to demand that the shooter be arrested in the country’s latest flashpoint over race and gun violence. The chief prosecutor, State Attorney William Gladson, met with the protesters and urged patience while the investigation continued.
Woods said Monday detectives were working with the State Attorney’s Office and had to investigate possible self-defense claims before they could move forward with any possible criminal charges. The sheriff pointed out that because of the stand your ground law, he couldn’t make an arrest unless he could prove the shooter didn’t act in self-defense.
On Tuesday, a stuffed teddy bear and bouquets marked the area near where Owens was shot. Nearby, children were riding bikes and scooters, and playing basketball. Protesters chanted “No justice, no peace” and “A.J. A.J. A.J,” using Owens’ nickname. They carried signs saying: “Say her name Ajike Owens” and “It’s about us.”
Outside, the Rev. Bernard Tuggerson said the Black community in Ocala has suffered injustices for years. “Marion County is suffering and needs to be healed completely,” he said. “If we don’t turn from our wicked ways of the world, it’s going to be an ongoing problem. We want answers.”
Lauren Smith, 40, lives across the street from where the shooting happened. She was on her porch that day and saw one of Owens’ young sons pacing, and yelling, “They shot my mama, they shot my mama.”
She ran toward the house, and started chest compressions until a rescue crew arrived. She said there wasn’t an altercation and that Owens didn’t have a weapon.
“She was angry all the time that the children were playing out there,” Smith said. “She would say nasty things to them. Just nasty.” Smith, who is White, described the neighborhood as family friendly.
The sheriff said that since January 2021, deputies responded at least a half-dozen calls in connection with what police described as feuding between Owens and the woman who shot her.
“There was a lot of aggressiveness from both of them, back and forth,” the sheriff said the shooter told investigators. “Whether it be banging on the doors, banging on the walls and threats being made. And then at that moment is when Ms. Owens was shot through the door.”
“Stand your ground” laws in focus
“I’m absolutely heartbroken,” Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told The Associated Press. She described the fatal shooting as “so senseless.”
“We’ve seen this again and again across this country,” she said, adding that “it’s really because of lax gun laws and a culture of shoot first.”
Ferrell-Zabala said stand your ground cases, which she refers to as “shoot first laws,” are deemed justifiable five times more frequently when a White shooter kills a Black victim.
In 2017, Florida lawmakers updated the state’s self-defense statute to shift the burden of proof from a person claiming self-defense to prosecutors. That means authorities have to rule out self-defense before bringing charges. Before the change in law, prosecutors could charge someone with a shooting and then defense attorneys would have to present an affirmative defense for why their client shouldn’t be convicted.
In fact, stand your ground and “castle doctrine” cases – which allow residents to defend themselves either by law or court precedent when threatened – have sparked outrage amid a spate of shootings across the country.
In April, 84-year-old Andrew Lester, a White man, shot and injured 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who rang his doorbell in Kansas City after mistakenly showing up at the wrong house to pick up his younger siblings. Lester faces charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action; at trial, he may argue that he thought someone was trying to break into his house, as he told police.
Missouri and Florida are among about 30 states that have stand your ground laws.
Zimmerman, who had a White father and Hispanic mother, told police that Martin attacked him, forcing him to use his gun in self-defense. He was allowed to go free, but was arrested about six weeks later after Martin’s parents questioned his version of events and then-Gov. Rick Scott appointed a special prosecutor.
Before trial, Zimmerman’s attorneys chose not to pursue a stand your ground claim, which could have resulted in the dismissal of murder changes as well as immunity from prosecution. But during the trial, the law was essentially used as part of his self-defense argument. Jurors found him not guilty.
A Los Angeles jury on Friday found a man guilty of second-degree murder in the 2018 shooting death of a father who was camping with his young daughters — and of the attempted murders of the two young girls — all at a popular state park in the Malibu area of Southern California.
Rauda, 46, fatally shot Tristan Beaudette in the head while the 35-year-old father, a chemist from Irvine, camped in a tent with his daughters on June 22, 2018, in Malibu Creek State Park, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, the jury ruled.
While the jury also found Rauda guilty of one count of attempted murder for shooting at a vehicle four days prior to Beaudette’s killing, he was found not guilty of seven other counts of attempted murder in multiple other shootings.
The jury, however, did find him guilty of all five counts of burglary he faced.
At the time, Beaudette’s slaying — coupled with the revelation of the other mysterious shootings — rattled the surrounding community and shuttered the state park for nearly a year. It did not reopen to campers until May 2019.
The jury exonerated Rauda on a first-degree murder charge but convicted him on the second-degree offense. He faces 40 years to life in prison and will be sentenced next month.
A conviction for first-degree murder requires the government to prove intention and premeditation. Second-degree murder does not.
Beaudette’s daughters, then ages 2 and 4, were not injured but were considered victims of attempted murder. The jury convicted Rauda on the attempted murder counts related to the girls but ruled that Rauda had not acted willfully to kill them or with premeditation.
Rauda had waived his right to appear in court and was not present for the verdict Friday. Prosecutors declined to comment on the outcome.
“I appreciate how careful the jury appears to have been,” Rauda’s attorney, Nicholas C. Okorocha, said after the verdict. “The jury did a good job being careful and detail-oriented.”
While investigating Beaudette’s shooting death, and prior to Rauda’s arrest, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department revealed that there were at least seven other unsolved shootings in the area dating back to November of 2016.
Rauda was taken into custody on Oct. 10, 2018, nearly four months after Beaudette’s slaying, in a canyon near the park carrying a rifle in his backpack. Described by sheriff’s authorities as a “survivalist” who lived outdoors, he was initially apprehended in connection with several burglaries in the area, before being charged with Beaudette’s murder and the other shootings.
Rauda previously served time in state prison for possessing explosives and later for possessing a loaded gun, which is illegal for people with felony convictions. He was on probation at the time of his arrest, authorities said.
Much of Malibu Creek State Park, which has served as a set for movies and TV shows such as “M.A.S.H.,” has been charred in wildfires.
Kansas police announced the arrest of two suspects allegedly involved in the May 3 shooting of a 6-year-old boy.
Authorities took Lakevis Sloan, 20, and an unnamed 17-year-old male, both residents of Kansas City, Kansas, into custody on Tuesday when they got off a Greyhound bus in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, police said in a news release.
Both suspects were charged with second-degree murder and were being held in South Dakota as they awaited extradition to Kansas City, police said.
A third, unnamed suspect was still at large, police said.
Earlier this month, 6-year-old Sir’Antonio Brown was shot and killed as he was playing in the front yard of a Kansas City home, authorities said.
Police found more than 30 shell casings at the scene and police Maj. Violeta Magee told reporters at the scene that police did not believe the attack was a “random act.”
Police are urging anyone with information on the whereabouts of the third suspect to come forward or face arrest.
“We want Sir’Antonio’s family and our community to know that we are not slowing down the pace of this investigation,” the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department said in a statement.
“Somebody out there knows who this third suspect is and where he is. Now is the time to make the call. Don’t wait any longer because we will arrest anybody and everybody who is housing or covering for this child killer,” police added.
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A man fatally shot his girlfriend in Dallas this week after learning that she had gone out of state to undergo an abortion procedure, authorities said.
Harold Thompson, 22, allegedly shot and killed 26-year-old Gabriella Gonzalez in a parking lot Wednesday after he learned that she had traveled to Colorado to have an abortion and returned the previous day, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by CBS News. Nearly all abortions are banned in Texas.
Thompson was believed to be the father, the affidavit read, and “did not want” the victim “to get an abortion.”
The shooting was captured on surveillance video and it showed the suspect first putting Gonzalez in a choke hold, shooting her once in the head and then firing several more shots after she fell to the ground, police said in the affidavit.
Gonzalez died at the scene.
Gonzalez’s sister also told officers that she happened to be passing by and saw the couple together in the parking lot just prior to the shooting, and then heard the gunfire, “looked back and saw her sister on the ground,” the affidavit states.
Thompson was later arrested on murder charges.
Texas is one of several states which enacted trigger laws banning abortion in response to the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
The Texas law, which bans nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, took effect last August.
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A 17-year-old girl was killed and five people were wounded in a shooting early Saturday morning at a large house party in Chico, California, police said, just a few blocks from the campus of California State University, Chico.
Chico Police Chief Billy Aldridge said in a news conference Saturday that officers were first dispatched to a different party at around 12:27 a.m. on a report that “several rounds from a firearm were discharged.”
A fight had occurred at that party, Aldridge explained, and the suspect had been asked to leave prior to the arrival of officers. Two people were hospitalized after reports that they were physically assaulted, Aldridge added.
A few hours later, just before 3 a.m., officers were called to a different party about a mile away on Columbus Avenue, where there were reports of a gun, police said. At that second party, police found a person matching the description of the suspect from the earlier incident, and he was arrested for possession of a gun and reckless discharge, Aldridge said.
Less than 30 minutes later, just before 3:30 a.m., police were called back to the Columbus Avenue party to find that six people had been shot, with one fatality, Aldridge said.
The victims ranged in age from 17 to 21 years old and were taken to local hospitals, police said. The five people wounded all sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Aldridge called the shooting an “isolated incident” with “no ongoing threat to the community.”
The names of the victims, including the 17-year-old girl who was killed, were not being immediately released as the investigation is ongoing, Aldridge said.
The police chief did not say if investigators had a motive in the shooting, or whether they had identified a suspect or suspects.
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Atlanta Police arrested a 17-year-old on Thursday in connection with the murder of Black transgender woman Rasheed Williams, who was featured in the Sundance Film Festival documentary “Kokomo City” in January 2023.
Williams, 35, who performed under the stage name Koko Da Doll, was found shot to death in southwest Atlanta on April 18, according to police. She “was not alert, conscious or breathing, and pronounced deceased on scene,” a statement from the Atlanta Police Department read.
Atlanta Police said homicide detectives were able to secure arrest warrants for murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm against 17-year-old Jermarcus Jernigan, who is being charged as an adult under Georgia law.
“On April 26, 2023, Mr. Jernigan turned himself in at the Zone 1 Precinct,” a separate police statement said. The statement confirmed that Jernigan was transported to the Fulton County Jail and placed into custody without incident.
While the police statement did not identify Williams, “Kokomo City” director D. Smith wrote on Instagram that the victim was Williams.
“On Tuesday night, Rasheeda Williams was shot and killed in Atlanta. Rasheeda, aka Koko Da Doll, was the latest victim of violence against Black transgender women,” Smith wrote on Instagram. “I created Kokomo City because I wanted to show the fun, humanized, natural side of Black trans women. I wanted to create images that didn’t show the trauma or the statistics of murder of Transgender lives.”
The Atlanta Police Department noted in its statement that it was “actively investigating three violent crimes involving transgender women this year.”
It added, “While these individual incidents are unrelated, we are very aware of the epidemic-level violence black and brown transgender women face in America.”
The department told CBS News that it was not able to release further information about the incident at this time.
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A man has been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of four people Tuesday morning at a home in Bowdoin, Maine, and a highway shooting in a nearby town in which three drivers were wounded, authorities said.
Maine State Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old Joseph Eaton.
Officers on Tuesday morning were called to a home in Bowdoin, where they found four people dead inside, state police said. Their names were not immediately released.
A short time later, at about 10:30 a.m. local time, several vehicles were struck by gunfire on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, a town about 25 miles south of Bowdoin.
Investigators work at the scene of a shooting on April 18, 2023, at a home in Bowdoin, Maine, in which four people were found killed.
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State police later confirmed that three drivers had been hospitalized with gunshot wounds, and one was in critical condition.
Cassidy Voisine, who witnessed the highway shooting, told CBS affiliate WGME-TV, “We just saw a bunch of smoke. And my friend in the truck was like, ‘I think that’s gunpowder, like gunsmoke.’”
She said she was a passenger in a pickup truck heading south on I-295, when a car with its windshield shot out swerved in front of them.
“So weird to think that we were right behind them when this happened,” Voisine said.
Eaton was later arrested and charged with murder for the slayings of the four people found in the home, state police said. It was not clear how he was taken into custody.
“A person of interest has been detained, and the incidents are connected,” Maine State Police Lt. Randall Keaten told reporters in a briefing prior to the arrest.
Authorities did not disclose a possible motive in the shootings, or provide details on a link between the suspect and the deceased victims. A news conference was scheduled for Wednesday.
In response to the shootings, Maine Gov. Janet Mills tweeted that she was “shocked and deeply saddened — acts of violence like we experienced today shake our state and our communities to the core.”
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A former Indian lawmaker convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges was shot dead along with his brother in a dramatic attack that was caught live on TV in northern India, officials said Sunday.
Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were under police escort on their way to a medical checkup at a hospital on Saturday night when three men posing as journalists targeted the two brothers from close range in Prayagraj city in Uttar Pradesh state.
The men quickly surrendered to the police after the shooting, with at least one of them chanting “Jai Shri Ram,” or “Hail Lord Ram,” a slogan that has become a battle cry for Hindu nationalists in their campaign against Muslims.
Police and media surround the area where Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were shot in front of the Motilal Nehru medical college in, Prayagraj, India, Saturday, April 15, 2023.
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Uttar Pradesh is governed by India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party since 2017. Since then, over 180 people facing criminal charges in India’s most populous state have been killed in so-called “police encounters” that rights groups say are often extrajudicial killings.
Following Saturday’s shooting, authorities imposed a ban on the assembly of more than four people across the state and also cut internet access on mobile phones in Prayagraj city. The government also ordered a judicial probe headed by a retired judge.
Police officer Ramit Sharma said the three assailants came on motorcycles posing as journalists.
“They managed to reach close to Atiq and his brother on the pretext of recording a byte and fired at them from close range. Both sustained bullet injuries on the head,” he said. “It all happened in seconds.”
Multiple videos of Saturday’s shooting went viral on social media. It was initially broadcast live on local TV channels as the brothers spoke to media while being taken to the hospital.
The footage shows someone pulling a gun close to Atiq Ahmad’s head. As he collapses, his brother is also shot. The video shows assailants repeatedly firing at the two men after both fell on the ground.
Atiq Ahmad, 60, was jailed in 2019 after he was convicted of kidnapping a lawyer, Umesh Pal, who had testified against him as as a witness in the killing of a lawmaker in 2005. In February, Pal was also killed.
On Thursday, Atiq Ahmad’s teenage son and another man, both of whom were blamed for Pal’s death, were killed by police in what was described as a shootout.
Two weeks earlier, Atiq Ahmad had petitioned the Indian Supreme Court for protection, saying there was an “open, direct and immediate threat to his life” from state functionaries of Uttar Pradesh, according to media reports. But the court declined to intervene and instead asked his lawyer to approach the local state court.
Atiq Ahmad was a state lawmaker four times and was also elected to India’s Parliament in 2004 from Uttar Pradesh’s Phulpur constituency, once represented by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
He faced more than 100 criminal cases and was among the first politicians from Uttar Pradesh to be prosecuted under the stringent Gangster Act in the late 1980s. He also cultivated a Robin Hood image among mostly Muslim constituents and used to financially help many poor families.
But he was also criticized for leveraging his political clout to develop a syndicate that was an active player in the real estate market amid allegations of forced capture of properties and other crimes.
Opposition parties criticized the killings as a security lapse and accused the government of ruling by fear.
