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CDC shortens isolation time for health care workers with Covid-19 – CNN

By Michael Nedelman and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN

Updated 2:17 PM ET, Fri December 24, 2021

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‘A horrible scene’ inside Burlington dressing room where LAPD fatally shot girl – Los Angeles Times

When Edwin Arroyo, supervisor of Nancy’s Cleaning Services, headed out to work before 7 a.m. Friday, he had no idea it was to the scene of a shooting he’d heard about on the news.

His assignment was the Burlington clothing store in North Hollywood, where on Thursday an LAPD officer fatally shot a 14-year-old girl, Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was trying on clothes in a dressing room. The officer was firing on a suspect, and one bullet went through a wall and struck the girl, police said.

On Friday morning, Arroyo cleaned up broken glass outside the front doors before he headed to the second-floor dressing rooms inside.

It was there that he found blood smeared on a wall, on a cream colored dress left on a hanger and more than a dozen other items.

“It was a horrible scene,” Arroyo said. “I don’t know how many gunshots there were, but there was a lot of blood everywhere.”

“The little girl was trying on a dress,” he said, his tone grim. “The parents never imagined their daughter would die here.”

Later, Arroyo, who wore a pair of white gloves and a black surgical mask, wheeled out a gray trash can filled with 25 items he needed to dispose of, including the dress. There were picture frames, vases and cups.

Arroyo has two daughters, ages 12 and 18. On Thursday, he said, they were out Christmas shopping.

“I can’t imagine that happening to one of my daughters,” he said. “It hurt me so much being there. I could imagine having that same pain because I’m a father.”

Around 11:30 a.m. Friday, Arroyo had finished cleaning. He prepared to leave, not for another job but for home, where he planned to hug his daughters tight.

Valentina was at the Burlington store trying on dresses for a quinceañera at the time of the shooting, a Los Angeles Police Department source confirmed to The Times.

Officers responded to a call about an assault with a deadly weapon at the store in the 12100 block of Victory Boulevard about 11:45 a.m. Thursday and shot the suspect a short distance from a woman “suffering from various injuries and bleeding,” police said.

The unidentified woman was later taken to the hospital for treatment of her injuries, police said. Her condition was not immediately known.

Valentina was in a changing room with her mother when an officer fired a round through a wall near the assault suspect, striking her and killing her at the scene, according to preliminary information from police.

The assault suspect, who was also shot and killed by police, was identified as Daniel Elena Lopez, 24, by the county coroner.

During a search of the premises for additional suspects or victims, an officer found the slain girl in the dressing room, LAPD officials said.

A heavy metal cable lock — no gun — was recovered from near the suspect, police said.

Other residents tried to come to terms with the shooting, with some expressing outrage.

Graciela Cornejo, 70, who lives near the store, said she heard about the shooting from her daughter after she got home from work around 6 p.m.

“Fourteen years old. She was 14 years old. A little girl,” said Cornejo, who lost her 24-year-old son this past February. “I know the pain this family is going through. Why do they have to go through this? Why? … it’s the worst pain in the world.”

She also questioned the police response.

“¿Cómo se pueden disparar a lo loco?” she asked. How can they shoot crazy like that?

“They’re trained for all of this. I just can’t understand.”

Regardless of whether the family gets a settlement, Cornejo said, she doubts that’ll ease their pain.

“Money is nothing,” she said. “It’s not a life. It’s not going to bring back their daughter.”

As rain started to come down, Leila Murca, 22, ran up to leave white roses in front of a flickering candle outside the store.

She and her family live in North Hollywood and wanted to do something in memory of Valentina.

“We felt bad, so we were like let’s leave something nice for the family,” Murca said.

“As a mom, I just wanted to leave flowers,” said Linda Murca, Leila’s mom. “My heart really goes out to the mom in this difficult time.”People kept walking up to the store. A man left another bouquet of flowers beside the white roses.

Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-24/a-horrible-scene-inside-burlington-dressing-room-where-lapd-fatally-shot-girl

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West Coast battered by severe storms as parts of U.S. see springlike temperatures – NBC News

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Oakbrook Mall shooting: Police searching for suspected shooter after 4 shot inside Oak Brook Center; 2 in custody – WLS-TV

OAK BROOK, Ill. (WLS) — The Oakbrook Center mall reopened Friday with a heavy police presence after a shooting at the shopping center Thursday night injured four people, police said.

Police said one suspected shooter is in custody, as well as a “companion.” Charges are pending.

Another suspected shooter is still on the loose as of Friday morning, but police said they have some leads.

Police said the third suspect was wearing a blue puffy coat and is believed to be in his 30s.

Police are looking for this man, who they say may be involved in the shootout at Oakbrook Center Thursday evening.

Squad cars were seen circling the mall throughout Friday morning, but shoppers didn’t seem to be worried, saying they felt safe enough to finish up their Christmas shopping in the western suburb.

“I just wanted to make sure the mall was open,” Tinley Park resident Taura said. “I wasn’t concerned, no, because I saw last night it was an isolated incident, so I knew that it wasn’t like a mass shooting.”

It’s almost as if the shooting never happened. Almost.

“I went up to the perfume section and talked to the girl at the Coco Chanel section and she pointed at the door where the shooter came in right by her,” said Steven Stratton, shopper.

“I wasn’t concerned because I knew there would be a heavy police presence here today,” said Marilyn Sliter, shopper. “I wasn’t concerned at al. But then again, I wasn’t concerned all through Christmas.”

Oak Brook police said a security officer working the holiday detail at Nordstrom heard gunshots shortly after 6 p.m. and immediately called in the incident.

WATCH: Latest police update on Oakbrook Center shooting

Police said two people were exchanging gunfire with each other in a corridor area in the east part of the mall adjacent to the Nordstrom.

Four people were injured by gunfire, police said. Police said one of the suspected shooters is a man in his 30s, who was shot four times and underwent several surgeries.

The other three shooting victims are two women in their 40s and one woman in her 20s, who were out shopping Thursday night. Each of them was struck once.

All gunshot victims have non-life-threatening injuries, police said. They were stable Friday morning but remained in the hospital.

Additionally, a woman in her 20s twisted her ankle fleeing the shooting and was taken to be treated for a fracture.

“Everybody was panicking,” said Diane Sprague, witness. “We tried to keep everyone calm and safe: Stay away from the windows. We locked the doors, stayed away from the back door. We gave people some water to calm people down. There were children, elderly people. Made sure everybody was not injured.”

WATCH: Witnesses describe shooting at Oakbrook Center

Another man was taken into custody after running into the Nordstrom and attempting to flee, police said. Police said they believe he was the companion to one of the people involved in the shootout.

Two weapons were recovered. Both are pistols, police said, including a 9mm.
READ MORE | Oak Brook mall retail theft: Grab-and-run thieves target Nordstrom twice in one day, police say

Witnesses said the mall was crowded with last-minute Christmas shoppers at the time of the incident.

Shoppers at the mall explained some of the chaos as holiday music was overtaken by gunshots.

“I start walking, and all I hear is ‘bam, bam, bam.’ And I kinda stop, and I look and I go, ‘no, there’s no way;’ so then I keep walking and all of a sudden I see a stampede of people just running towards me,” said Nicole Stevenson, who was sheltered for two and a half hours at the mall.

Stevenson was just a few stores away from the scene where police say two men were firing pistols at each other.

She ended up sheltering in place at a department store in the mall with 50 other people.

“For the first time I think in my life I was actually fearful for my life that something might happen,” she said.

Family members rushed to the mall to meet their loved ones as soon as the lockdown was lifted.

“It is really sad and scary,” Nordstrom employee Susie Nash said. “I’ve always felt so safe working here, so you know just thoughts and prayers; I know we have plenty of security.”

Many are still trying to wrap their heads around what happened.

“It was things you see on the movie and when you walk out of the store, your hands are up, you see the SWAT team, all the police. It’s crazy,” Stevenson said.

The last time there was a shooting at Oakbrook Center was nine years ago, Oak Brook police said, when a security officer opened fire during a confrontation.

Source Article from https://abc7chicago.com/oakbrook-mall-shooting-oak-brook-center-news-shooter/11380094/

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Surfer killed in apparent great white shark attack at California beach – ABC News

A surfer was killed in an apparent great white shark attack off the central California coast Friday, authorities said.

The incident occurred at the Morro Bay State Park beach before 11 a.m. local time, according to the Morro Bay Police Department.

The man was unresponsive after he was pulled from the water “suffering from an apparent shark attack,” the department said in a statement.

A woman surfing nearby saw a boogie board and someone face down in the water whom she tried to bring to shore, Morro Bay Harbor Patrol Director Eric Endersby told ABC News. Morro Bay Harbor Patrol showed up shortly after and assisted in bringing the victim in, he said.

The surfer was pronounced dead at the scene and has not been identified yet, police said.

There doesn’t appear to be any witnesses to the attack, Endersby said.

The bite, which will be measured by a coroner, appeared to be consistent with that of a great white shark, based on what responding officers saw, Endersby said.

The San Luis Obispo County Coroner’s Office and state parks representatives were investigating the scene, police said Friday afternoon. A biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife was also on scene, Endersby said.

The beaches in the area of the apparent attack will remain open but authorities have ordered people to stay out of the water for the next 24 hours.

Shark attacks are very rare, especially fatal ones.

There were 33 unprovoked shark attacks on humans in the United States last year, three of which were fatal, according to data from the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.

Nearly half of the unprovoked attacks occurred in Florida. The fatalities were in California, Hawaii and Maine.

ABC News’ Nicholas Kerr contributed to this report.

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Travel Between U.S. and Southern Africa Will Resume, White House Says – The New York Times

The ban was announced on Nov. 26, after officials in South Africa reported the emergence of the variant, which has a large number of mutations that allow it to evade the immune response of even vaccinated people. The ban went into effect at midnight on Nov. 29.

The countries in southern Africa will now be subject to the same protocols imposed on all nations, with a requirement that foreign incoming travelers be fully vaccinated and show proof of a negative coronavirus test within one day of their trips.

“We certainly welcome this development,” Clayson Monyela, head of public diplomacy in South Africa’s department of international relations, said on Friday. “We’ve always maintained that these travel bans were unscientific and discriminatory. They’ve had a devastating impact on our travel and tourism industry, on business and families.”

Lemogang Kwape, Botswana’s foreign minister, said officials there were delighted by the news. “We hope the world would come together as one to fight all the challenges that we are besieged with,” he added.

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Michigan shooting suspect’s parents willfully disregarded signs that their son was a threat, prosecutors say – CNN

By Sonia Moghe, CNN

Updated 3:06 PM ET, Fri December 24, 2021

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/24/us/michigan-school-shooting-suspect-parents/index.html

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Biden to lift travel restrictions on southern African countries that were put in place due to Omicron – CNN

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN

Updated 9:12 AM ET, Fri December 24, 2021

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/24/politics/travel-restrictions-african-countries-omicron/index.html

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Floods, snow and a heatwave: U.S. set for Christmas weather extremes – NBC News

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Teen Girl, Assault Suspect Both Killed By LAPD In Shooting At Burlington Store In North Hollywood – CBS Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Los Angeles police officers shot and killed both a 14-year-old girl and an assault suspect when they opened fire inside a Burlington store in North Hollywood Thursday morning, authorities said.

Dec. 23, 2021. (CBSLA)

Los Angeles police believe the girl was struck by a stray bullet that passed through a dressing room wall. The 14-year-old was identified by the L.A. County Coroner’s Office Friday as Valentina Orellana-Peralta. The male suspect’s name has not yet been released.

A woman who was assaulted by the suspect was taken to the hospital with moderate to serious injuries, police said.

It’s unclear exactly why police opened fire. The suspect is not believed to have been armed with a gun.

The situation unfolded when officers were sent to the Burlington store at Laurel Canyon and Victory boulevards at around 11:45 a.m. in response to a 911 call from a person who reported hearing arguing inside the store and shots fired, according to police.

Dec. 23, 2021. (CBSLA)

As officers were responding to the call, police received additional reports of a possible active shooter, according to LAPD Capt. Stacy Spell.

“As the officers were responding, they arrived at this location and began a search, looking for a suspect,” Spell said. “While conducting that search for a suspect, the officers encountered an individual who was in the process of assaulting another, and an officer-involved shooting occurred.”

The suspect was fatally shot, police said. LAPD Assistant Chief Dominic Choi said that during a subsequent search, police found a hole in a stretch of drywall that was in front of the officer or officers who opened fire at the suspect.

Dec. 23, 2021. (CBSLA)

“We went behind it (the wall), and it turned out to be a dressing room up there,” Choi said. “We were able to locate a 14-year-old female who was found deceased in that dressing room.”

Asked if the girl was shot by police, Choi said, “Preliminarily, we believe that round was an officer’s round.”

It was initially unclear if the teenage girl’s parents were in the store at the time, and whether she was hiding in the dressing room when she was killed by the stray bullet. An LAPD source disclosed to the Los Angeles Times that the victim’s mother was in the dressing room with her as her daughter tried on dresses for her quinceaneras.

A woman who was being assaulted by the suspect when officers arrived was taken to a hospital in unknown condition. She was seen in video footage from the scene being loaded into an ambulance, awake but bloodied.

Choi said it was unclear if the suspect was armed.

“We did not find a gun,” Choi said. “However, until the coroner gets here and we do a full search of the suspect, that won’t be definitive. But right now we haven’t located a firearm.”

He said officers did find a “steel or metal cable lock, a very heavy lock,” near the suspect that may have been used in the assault.

An employee, who did not want to be identified, told CBSLA that she had just started working at Burlington a week earlier. She said she saw the suspect attack his first victim.

“I was with other customers trying to take them to the exit, and the suspect was waiting downstairs,” the employee said. “The customer in front of me, he attacked her and hit her with a bike chain.”

The fatal shooting happened just two days before Christmas. Worried relatives lined up outside the store waiting for word on those inside.

“We are at the very preliminary part of this investigation,” Spell said. “There is still surveillance video to look at, witnesses to talk to, and we are looking at body worn video.”

Grieving family members converged on the store looking for answers.

“These are tragic and unfortunate sequence of events,” Choi said.

Choi said the LAPD Force Investigation Division and L.A. County Inspector General’s Office were both on the scene investigating. According to Choi, investigators had not yet reviewed the store’s security camera footage or video from the officers’ body-worn cameras.

The California Department of Justice Police Shooting Investigation Team for Southern California is also investigating the incident.

Burlington released a statement in response to the tragic shooting.

“At Burlington, our hearts are heavy as a result of the tragic incident that occurred today at our North Hollywood, CA store. Our top priority is always the safety and well-being of our customers and associates. This is an ongoing investigation, and we are supporting authorities.”

LAPD Police Chief Michel Moore, who was out of town at the time of the shooting, also issued a statement on the incident:

“This chaotic incident resulting in the death of an innocent child is tragic and devastating for everyone involved. I am profoundly sorry for the loss of this young girl’s life and I know there are no words that can relieve the unimaginable pain for the family. My commitment is to conduct a thorough, complete and transparent investigation into the circumstances that led up to this tragedy and provide the family and public with as much information as possible. I have directed the release of the critical incident video by Monday, December 27th, which will include the 9-1-1 calls, radio transmissions, body worn video and any CCTV and other evidence gathered at this preliminary stage.”

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Oakbrook Center mall to reopen Friday as police search for gunman after 4 injured in shooting; 2 in custody – WGN TV Chicago

OAK BROOK, Ill. — Oakbrook Center mall will reopen Friday with increased police presence as officials continue to search for a suspect after four people were shot during a shootout Thursday.

Police responded to the mall just before 5:45 p.m. on the report of shots fired. The shootout happened outside of Nordstrom’s near a corridor by Ann Taylor.

Three women, two in their 40s and one in their 20s, were struck by gunfire during a shootout between two men. Each of the women were shot once and suffered non life-threatening injuries.

Police said during a news conference that one of the suspects, who is believed to be one of two shooters, was also shot. He was taken into custody after undergoing surgery.

Another man involved, who is not being considered a shooter, is also in custody.

Police are currently looking for a third suspect with shoulder length locs and was wearing a “blue puffy coat” with a white symbol on the back of the jacket. Police believe the man, who is in his 20s, was the second shooter. SWAT team members were going from store to store, looking for the him and to evacuate shoppers.

Surveillance footage of second shooter

As of 11 p.m. Thursday, mass evacuations began after police said they no longer believed the gunman was at the mall. Authorities did set up a reunification site for families at the Marriott nearby following the shooting.

Police said one of the suspect’s vehicles was recovered at the scene via a license plate reader.

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Trump touts effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccine – CNN

By Veronica Stracqualursi and David Wright, CNN

Updated 9:44 AM ET, Fri December 24, 2021

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/trump-vaccine-covid-effectiveness/index.html

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Why you should upgrade your mask as the Omicron variant spreads – CNN

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Satellite images show Russia still building up forces near Ukraine – Reuters

Dec 24 (Reuters) – New satellite images captured by a private U.S. company show that Russia has continued to build up its forces in annexed Crimea and near Ukraine in recent weeks while pressing the United States for talks over security guarantees it is seeking.

Reuters could not independently verify the latest images from U.S.-based Maxar Technologies. The Kremlin reiterated on Friday that it reserves the right to move its own forces on Russian territory as it sees fit and that Western countries were carrying out provocative military manoeuvres near its borders.

U.S., European and Ukrainian leaders have accused Russia of building up troops again near Ukraine’s border since October after an earlier brief buildup in April, when Maxar also released images. U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders say Moscow appears to be weighing an attack on Ukraine as soon as next month, something Moscow has repeatedly denied.

The images released late on Thursday showed a base in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, packed with hundreds of armoured vehicles and tanks as of Dec. 13. A Maxar satellite image of the same base in October showed the base was half empty.

Maxar said a new brigade-level unit, comprised of several hundred armoured vehicles that include BMP-series infantry fighting vehicles, tanks, self-propelled artillery and air defence equipment, had arrived at the Russian garrison.

“Over the past month, our high-resolution satellite imagery has observed a number of new Russian deployments in Crimea as well as in several training areas in western Russia along the periphery of the Ukraine border,” Maxar said in a statement.

It cited increased activity at three sites in Crimea and at five sites in western Russia.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia wanted to avoid conflict, but needed an “immediate” response from the United States and its allies to its demands for security guarantees. read more Moscow has said it expects talks with U.S. officials on the subject to start in January in Geneva.

On Friday, Putin said Russia had conducted a test launch of a hypersonic missile. The test follows earlier ones this month, in October, and in July as part of what he said was a new generation of unrivalled arms systems. read more

When asked on Friday about the build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was acting to defend its own security.

“Russia is moving its own troops around on its own territory against the backdrop of highly unfriendly actions by our opponents in NATO, the United States and various European countries who are carrying out highly unambiguous manoeuvres near our borders,” said Peskov.

“This forces us to take certain measures to guarantee our own security.”

Russia also accused the United States and the European Union of using the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline to take Russian gas to Europe as a bargaining chip. The West has threatened to block the pipeline, which is awaiting regulatory approval in Germany, if Russia invades Ukraine. read more

Biden has threatened strong economic and other measures in retaliation for any invasion, building on sanctions imposed over Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and backing for an ongoing separatist rebellion by pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. read more A U.S. official has said new retaliatory measures could include tough export controls. read more

Russia says its wants NATO to halt its eastwards expansion and is seeking guarantees that the Western military alliance will not deploy certain offensive weapons to Ukraine and other neighbouring countries.

Other Maxar images showed a build-up at the Soloti staging ground in Russia close to the Ukrainian border, with photos shot at the start of December showing a larger concentration of military hardware than in September.

Pictures also showed continuing build-ups at Yelnya, a Russian town around 160 miles (260 km) north of the Ukrainian border, and at the Pogonovo training ground near the southern Russian city of Voronezh.

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Ex-officer Kim Potter wouldn’t have been convicted in Daunte Wright’s fatal shooting years ago, legal experts say – CNN

CNN’s Omar Jimenez, Josh Campbell, Topher Gauk-Roger, Ashley Killough, Carma Hassan, Kim Berryman, Brad Parks and Anna-Maja Rappard contributed to this report.

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Los Angeles police kill girl, 14, when firing at suspect in clothing store – The Guardian

Los Angeles police have fatally shot a 14-year-old girl who was in the dressing room of a clothing store when officers fired at an assault suspect and a bullet went through the wall, hitting the girl, authorities have said.

Officers also fatally shot the suspect on Thursday morning at a Burlington store in the North Hollywood area of the San Fernando valley, police said.

Witnesses told KCBS-TV that a man began acting erratically, threatening to throw items from the upper floor, and attacked a woman with a bicycle lock shortly before noon as the store was crowded with holiday shoppers.

Officers answered a report of an assault and others of shots being fired, police said. Investigators have not found a gun at the scene.

The suspect was shot and died at the store but one of the bullets went through a wall behind him, killing the girl. Police found her dead in a changing room with her mother after seeing a hole in “a solid wall that you can’t see behind”, said the Los Angeles police department’s assistant chief, Dominic Choi.

Investigators did not know whether she was in the dressing room before the violence began or had run in there to hide, he said.

“This chaotic incident resulting in the death of an innocent child is tragic and devastating for everyone involved,” said the chief of police, Michel Moore, on Thursday night. “I am profoundly sorry for the loss of this young girl’s life and I know there are no words that can relieve the unimaginable pain for the family.”

Moore promised a “thorough, complete and transparent investigation” into the shooting and said a critical incident video that will include 911 calls, body camera and other video would be released by Monday.

The names of the girl and the suspect were not immediately released, and the woman who was attacked is not being identified. Investigators were trying to determine whether the assault was random or targeted. Choi said they did not believe the teenager was related to the person who was attacked.

Police found a heavy metal cable lock near the suspect, Choi said.

The California department of justice was investigating the shooting, the attorney general, Rob Bonta, said.

News reports showed a woman with a bloodied face, who appeared to be the assault victim, being placed in an ambulance. The victim was taken to hospital with moderate to serious injuries, said the fire department’s spokesperson, Nicholas Prange. Choi said she had wounds to her head, arms and face.

The shooting recalled a confrontation on 21 July 2018, in which LAPD officers accidentally shot and killed a woman at a Trader Joe’s market. Officers got into a gunfight with a man who, authorities say, shot his grandmother and girlfriend before leading police on a chase that ended when he crashed his car outside the market.

A police bullet killed Melyda Corado, 27, the assistant store manager, as she ran toward the store’s entrance after hearing the car crash. The suspect, Gene Evin Atkins, took employees and shoppers hostage for three hours before surrendering, authorities said. Atkins has pleaded not guilty to the killing. Prosecutors found two police officers acted lawfully when they returned Atkins’ gunfire.

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/24/los-angeles-police-kill-girl-14-when-firing-at-suspect-in-clothing-store

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Parents of Michigan school shooter failed to act after teachers showed them he’d drawn GUN – Daily Mail

Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old accused of going on a rampage and killing four of his fellow students at Oxford High School in Michigan, was ‘intent on violence,’ prosecutors revealed Thursday.

The most troubling piece of evidence revealed was a drawing of a gun on a math homework sheet with the messages: ‘My life is useless,’ ‘Blood everywhere’ and ‘The thoughts won’t stop, help me.’

It’s part of Oakland County prosecutors’ attempt to paint his parents, James and Jennifer, both 43, as neglectful and aware of Ethan’s potential for violence. The prosecutors’ filings include allegations that Ethan’s mother was carrying on an affair while ignoring her son’s spiral and had texted her boyfriend about the murder weapon.

School counselors showed Crumbley’s parents messages and drawings just hours before he fatally shot four and injured seven others on November 30.

Their son had allegedly drawn the messages earlier that morning and a teacher had found them, took a screenshot and got in touch with a counselor.

It’s part of a pattern of signs that prosecutors accuse the Crumbleys of ignoring over the past six months suggesting that their teenager needed help.

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald revealed two versions of a screenshot of Ethan Crumbley’s drawings in a filing Thursday. In the first drawing, pictured, Ethan writes several troubling messages, such as ‘My life is useless,’ ‘Blood everywhere’ and ‘The thoughts won’t stop, help me.’

Pictured: A second piece of homework that Ethan allegedly altered crosses out other disturbing messages and adds ones like ‘video game this is,’ ‘we’re all friends here,’ ‘harmless act,’ ‘I love my life so much!!!!’ and ‘OHS rocks!’

Ethan, 15, (center) is charged as an adult with murder, terrorism and aggravated assault for the deadly shooting at Oxford High School on November 30 that killed four students and injured several others. James, 45, (left) and Jennifer, 43, (right) have each been jailed on $500,000 bond since their arrest on December 4

Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald has charged James and Jennifer Crumbley in a rare move to hold the parents of an accused school shooter accountable

The Crumbleys’ lawyers allege the parents were unaware that Ethan, 15 (pictured in court on December 13), was a danger to other students and are ‘devastated by the school shooting’

They say that Jennifer and James ‘failed to take even the simplest actions that would have prevented the massacre’ in court documents.

Prosecutors also point out that the parents had recently bought Ethan a gun.

The Crumbleys ‘knew their son was depressed, that he was fascinated with guns… that he had been researching ammunition while at a school and that he was seen watching violent videos of shootings that morning,’ prosecutors said, but they purchased the gun for Ethan as an early Christmas present anyway

‘All they had to do was tell the school that they had recently purchased a gun for their son, asked him where the gun was, opened his backpack or just take him home,’ the prosecution alleges. ‘Defendants were in a better position than anyone else in the world to prevent this tragedy, but they failed to do so.’

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald revealed two versions of the photo in the filing. A second version that Ethan allegedly altered crosses out the disturbing messages and adds ones like ‘video game this is,’ ‘we’re all friends here,’ ‘harmless act,’ ‘I love my life so much!!!!’ and ‘OHS rocks!’

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald has been leading the county’s case against the Crumbleys

The Oakland County Prosecutors’ Office submitted filings Thursday in an attempt to keep the Crumbleys’ bond at $500,000

McDonald argued that instead of caring for their son, the Crumbleys spent time with their horses and Jennifer pursued an extramarital affair.

Prosecutors allege Jennifer Crumbley had told her boyfriend the day of the shooting that the alleged murder weapon had been in her car.

The filings are part of a response by McDonald to keep Ethan’s parents in jail on $500,000 bond.

James, 45, and Jennifer, 43, have each been jailed on $500,000 bond since their arrest on December 4. In Wednesday’s filing, defense attorneys Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman asked that their bond be lowered to $100,000 each and said the couple would wear electronic monitors if released from jail.

McDonald, however, counters that the Crumbleys are a flight risk. They’re also behind on house payments to the tune of $11,000 and are trying to sell their assets, included horses and their home.

Ethan is charged as an adult with murder, terrorism and aggravated assault for the deadly shooting at Oxford High School on November 30 that killed four students and injured several others.

Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald charged James and Jennifer Crumbley in a rare move to hold the parents of an accused school shooter accountable.

James and Jennifer are accused of making a gun accessible to Ethan and for failing to pull him out of school when summoned about his cryptic writings before the shooting on November 30.

Their lawyers allege that the Crumbleys were unaware Ethan was a danger to other students and are ‘devastated by the school shooting.’

Prosecutors have argued that a ‘don’t do it’ text Jennifer sent Ethan the day of the shooting proves she knew what was going on.

Defense attorneys said Jennifer was urging him not to kill himself, and not in reference to the deadly shooting that unfolded, her lawyers allege.

In a court filing seeking lower bond for parents Jennifer and James Crumbley, their attorneys claim the text Jennifer sent Ethan, 15, was a plea not to commit suicide following the shooting that had already taken place and is not an indication the couple knew of their son’s plans.

In Wednesday’s filing, the defense argued that the prosecution will be unable to prove Jennifer and James knew Ethan would take the gun they bought him as an early Christmas to his high school and fire at other members of the community.

‘The prosecution will not be able to prove that the Crumbleys … knew their son was a danger to other students, or that they knew there was a situation that required them to take care to avoid injuring another,’ the lawyers wrote.

‘The last thing they expected was that a school shooting would take place, or that their son would be responsible

Also, for the first time, the defense shared how James and Jennifer felt following the shooting.

‘The Crumbleys, like every parent and community member, are devastated by the school shooting,’ the court filing alleges. ‘This situation is entirely devastating.’

The defense also noted there are community members who would ‘vouch for the Crumbleys’ but who wish to remain anonymous due to the ‘overwhelming media attention’ surrounding the case.

The legal team offered to provide the names of those individuals privately to the judge and prosecution.

Their attorneys argued the charges against the parents are ‘inappropriate’ and the case will raise ‘unprecedented legal issues.’

‘It is clear from the media appearances by Ms. McDonald that this case is one she takes very personally, was filed out of anger and filed in an effort to send a message to gun owners,’ the defense stated in court documents.

In Wednesday’s filing, the defense argued the prosecution will be unable to prove Jennifer and James knew Ethan would take the gun they bought him as an early Christmas to his high school (pictured) and fire at other members of the academic community

In an effort to stress their point, the attorneys cited statements McDonald made about the case in a Dec. 18 interview with NPR:

‘I absolutely acknowledge that it hasn’t been done before, though I didn’t know that at the time,’ McDonald said, according to the filing.

‘I did receive pushback, but prosecutors don’t like to do things for the first time, and they also don’t like to do things that might result in a ‘not guilty.”

The Crumbleys, like their son, are being held at the Oakland County Jail.

They were arrested on Dec. 4 after the U.S. Marshals offered a $10,000 bounty for information leading to their capture. Their absence prompted a manhunt involving several agencies, including the Marshals’ Fugitive Task Force, state police and the FBI.

Law enforcement sources say the couple withdrew $4,000 from an ATM and were last seen around 2-3 pm shortly before the 4pm deadline to turn themselves in.

Smith said they had planned to appear the next day at a different court handling Saturday arraignments and were not trying to flee.

‘It should be noted that the Crumbleys would not have retained (us) if their plans were to flee,’ Smith and Lehman wrote in the filing.

A bond hearing for the parents has been set for Jan. 7.

McDonald has said she would oppose a lower bond. The Crumbleys were arrested at a Detroit art studio less than a mile from the Canadian border, hours after their charges were announced and they failed to appear in court on December 3.

Meantime, Jennifer’s text message to Ethan only added fuel to the narrative surrounding the parents’ alleged knowledge of the shooting.

Before the shooting, Jennifer bragged on social media about going out with her son to test his Christmas present – a 9mm handgun – just three days before the shooting and just one day after her husband, James, had purchased the gun for Ethan

According to authorities, Ethan was seen in class browsing for ammunition on his cellphone a day before the massacre.

When Jennifer was made aware of her son’s ‘inappropriate’ web search researching firearm ammunition while at school, she texted him: ‘LOL I’m not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught.’ She never responded to the school’s message about the ‘inappropriate internet search.’

Hours before the school shooting begun, the Crumbleys were called to the school to discuss Ethan’s disturbing behavior including drawings depicting a gun, a bullet, blood everywhere, a shooting victim and a laughing emoji.

The note included the words: ‘Thoughts won’t stop, help me’; ‘my life is useless’ and ‘the world is dead,’ McDonald said. After the meeting, the Crumbleys left their son to finish the day at school when he opened fire on his classmates and teachers.

Both Crumbleys have pled not guilty to all four charges of involuntary manslaughter – one for each Oxford High School student who was killed. Each count is punishable by up to 15 years in prison along with a $7,500 fine and mandatory DNA testing.

Their 15-year-old son is accused of killing Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17, and injuring several others after opening fire in the school. Ethan was charged as an adult with two dozen crimes, including murder, attempted murder and terrorism, and is being held at the same jail as his parents.

Madisyn Baldwin, 17, (left) and Hana St Juliana, 14, (right) died in a shooting rampage at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit

Justin Shilling, 17, (left) died in the hospital the morning after the shooting and Tate Myre (right) died in the school on November 30

‘These two individuals could have stopped it and had every reason to know he was dangerous,’ McDonald told the judge during the Crumbleys’ arraignment. She claimed that not one person in the community would vouch in favor of either Crumbley.

But Smith denied that James and Jennifer had any responsibility for their son’s alleged crimes. She adamantly declared that it is ‘absolutely not true’ that they gave their child ‘free access’ to the weapon he used to kill several students at his Michigan high school.

The Crumbleys appeared in court on December 14 for a 20 minute hearing and asked to reschedule the preliminary exam which was scheduled for Wednesday. The court was adjourned until next month.

The hearing concluded with Judge Julie Nicholson granting a request by prosecutors and defense lawyers to postpone until February 8 a key preliminary hearing that will determine whether the Crumbleys will face a trial.

McDonald said she needs more time to collect a ‘staggering’ amount of evidence from investigators and share it with the defense.

The Crumbleys appeared in court on December 14 for a 20 minute hearing and asked to reschedule the preliminary exam which was scheduled for Wednesday. The court was adjourned until next month

The Crumbleys will all spend the holidays in jail pending a bond hearing for the parents in January (Pictured: James Crumbley being escort out of the courtroom on December 14)

‘We have police narratives, we have digital evidence, we have video evidence,’ McDonald later told reporters. ‘We have viewed a lot of it, certainly enough to establish charges here. But there’s also more investigation that needs to be done.’

In explaining her decision to seek the delay, the district attorney said she wants to give witnesses ‘time to heal’ through the holiday season before subjecting them to interviews as part of the ongoing investigation, the Detroit Free Press reported.

McDonald added that she and her prosecutors ‘owe it to the victims’ to go through every single piece of evidence and ‘do this right.’ She says that the hearing will involve 15-20 witnesses and last 3-5 days.

The couple did not speak, beyond acknowledging, when asked, that they understood and were waiving their right to a speedy preliminary exam, and confirmed that they wished to continue being represented together by their two attorneys.

Source Article from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10341825/Parents-Michigan-school-shooter-failed-act-teachers-showed-hed-drawn-GUN.html

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2 dead in submerged car in San Francisco – KTLA

Heavy overnight rains in Northern California left two people dead in a submerged car as authorities on Thursday ordered evacuations for a fire-scarred Southern California canyon area because of possible mud and debris flows.

Firefighters in Millbrae, just south of San Francisco, rescued two people who had climbed atop a vehicle at a flooded underpass. But they weren’t able to reach people in a fully submerged car, San Mateo County sheriff’s Det. Javier Acosta said.

In the Sierra Nevada, an evacuation warning was issued for about 150 homes downstream of Twain Harte Lake Dam after cracks were found in granite that adjoins the manmade part of the 36-foot-high (11-meter) structure. Authorities began releasing some water, but the dam didn’t seem in any immediate danger, Tuolomne County sheriff’s Sgt. Nicco Sandelin said.

The precautions for Southern California came as precipitation that had mostly been falling in Northern California this week spread throughout the state. Heavy rain was falling Thursday night in the southern part of the state.

Earlier, firefighters used a litter basket to rescue a man stranded on a bridge pillar above the flowing Los Angeles River.

The National Weather Service issued an advisory for minor flooding of roadways and low-lying areas in counties around San Francisco Bay and an avalanche warning was posted for eastern Sierra Nevada backcountry areas in Mono and Inyo counties.

Tire chains were required on several major routes through the Sierra, and flooding closed a stretch of coastal Highway 1 in San Luis Obispo County and a section of U.S. 101 in Santa Barbara County.

Forecasters issued a flood watch for areas east and southeast of Los Angeles starting Thursday evening because of possible heavy overnight rain fed by an atmospheric river, a long plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean.

An evacuation order was issued by Orange County authorities for three canyons near a wildfire burn scar where rain last week unleashed muddy torrents.

Warnings urging voluntary evacuation were issued by San Bernardino County authorities for a half-dozen mountain areas.

Periods of rain and snow were predicted for California through Christmas and into next week. Snow levels in the north could drop to 1,000 feet (300 meters) or lower by Sunday, forecasters said, warning holiday travelers to be ready.

“Foothill locations that do not normally receive snow should prepare for winter conditions, especially from Sunday morning through Tuesday morning,” the Sacramento weather office said.

Source Article from https://ktla.com/news/2-dead-in-submerged-car-in-san-francisco/

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Right-wing fringe factions erupt in anger after Trump backs vaccines – Business Insider

The fringe factions of the right wing erupted in anger after Trump lauded the COVID-19 vaccines.
Figures from Alex Jones to Ali Alexander swiftly rebuked Trump for his pro-vaccine stance.
Members of QAnon-linked Telegram channels said they felt betrayed after Trump encouraged more people to get the COVID-19 shot.

The fringe factions of the right-wing have erupted in anger and confusion at former President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic lauding of the COVID-19 vaccine this week.

On two separate occasions, Trump advocated for people to take the COVID-19 vaccine this past week. On Sunday, crowds booed the former president when he revealed to Bill O’Reilly that he had taken a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot and is pro-vaccination. Trump doubled down on his stance during an interview with conservative commentator Candace Owens on Wednesday, hailing the vaccine as “one of the greatest achievements of mankind.”

“No, the vaccine worked. But some people aren’t taking it. The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don’t take their vaccine,” Trump told Owens.

“If you take the vaccine, you’re protected. Look, the results of the vaccine are very good. And if you do get (COVID-19), it’s a very minor form. People aren’t dying when they take their vaccine,” he added.

On social media, right-wing figures from conspiracy theorist and talk show host Alex Jones to recently-subpoenaed “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander came out in force, rebuking Trump for his position.

“Remember when Trump said you would be playing right into the Democrat’s hands by mocking the rushed, ineffective shot? Yeah, Joe Biden praises him and his booster shot,” Alexander wrote on his Telegram channel on December 23.

“Trump, stop. Just stop. Have your position (backed by Fauci) and allow us to have ours (which is backed by science). This losing is getting boomer level annoying,” Alexander wrote.

InfoWars talk show host Alex Jones also lashed out at Trump after the former president announced on Sunday that he had received a COVID-19 booster shot and was in favor of the vaccine.

“Sign on to it. Take credit for it. Take this, sign on, believe it. Hell, we’re fighting Bill Gates and Fauci and Biden and the New World Order and Psaki and the Davos Group…and now we’ve got Trump on their team!” Jones said.

Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood, however, tried to justify Trump’s pro-vaccine-stance, positing that Trump was employing “wartime strategy and the tactics designed to achieve victory” by recommending the COVID jab, though he did not elaborate on what he thought those tactics were.

Ron Watkins, a congressional candidate in Arizona known for his QAnon links, posted a message on his Telegram channel after the Trump interview with Owens aired, calling the vaccines “subscription suicide shots,” and calling on his followers to “choose life” and “never comply.”

Some members of Watkins’ Telegram channel, which functions as a chatroom for 40,167 members, also voiced their doubts about Trump.

“I guess God lead to me it and then I had my doubts about Trump. So I give up on him saving America,” wrote one member of Watkins’ chat with the ID David Deitrich. “My beliefs …. He came into presidency making America great … so that we could all trust him … and let our guards down … and then he leaves us and betrays us to Bidan [sic] and the CCP and all these evil SOBs.”

Source Article from https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-fringe-factions-erupt-anger-after-trump-backs-vaccines-2021-12

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Inside Biden’s failure to avert a testing shortfall – The Washington Post

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-covid-test-shortfall/2021/12/23/aca925a0-629d-11ec-a7e8-3a8455b71fad_story.html

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Biden: Potentially facing Trump in 2024 only increases desire to run for reelection – WKRC TV Cincinnati

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