Daily Misfortune Saturday, May 2, 2015

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1. 1 injured and died 1 arrested May 2, 2015 NYPD Officer Brian Moore Shot In Head, Later Dies Suspect Demetrius Blackwell 
2. Nigerian Armed Forces announce they rescued another 234 women and girls from Boko Haram control in the Sambisa Forest on April 30. (AP)
3. 3 killed 3 injured Two policemen and a civilian are killed and three others injured after a grenade attack in Burundi's capital Bujumbura. The attack takes place a day after a similar incident injured three officers, and comes in the midst of intensifying protests against current president Pierre Nkurunziza. (Al Jazeera)
4. Two explosions in Baghdad kill at least 13 people and injure dozens. (Al-jazeera)
5. Terrorism: Republic of Congo bans full face-veils in an apparent attempt to prevent religious 
6. 7,040 deaths 2015 Nepal earthquake: The death toll from last month's earthquake rises to 7,040 people and a total of 14,025 injured with thousands missing. Authorities in Nepal have given up hope of finding more survivors in the rubble. (Xinhua), (BBC), (CNN)
7. 2,400 rescued More than 2400 migrants have been rescued after boats they were travelling on were rescued off the Libyan coast. (Al-Jazeera)Health
8. 30 deaths Thai police dig up a campsite in southern Thailand used by human traffickers with 30 grave sites. (AP via Daily Mail)
9. 1 injured In auto racing, a crewman from Aric Almirola's team is airlifted to a hospital during the Winn-Dixie 300 of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, after Brendan Gaughan's vehicle crashed into the pit wall and struck tires and a sign, which then struck the crew member. (ESPN)
10. May 2, 2015 Experts Caution Convictions In Freddie Gray Case Against Baltimore Police Unlikely 
11. 1 killed May 2, 2015  One man killed in shooting by bystander in Orem Macey's parking lot after chase 
12. 1 air incident May 2, 2015  Man accused of taking plane from N. Las Vegas airport 
13. 2 killed 2 injured May 2, 2015  Suspected DUI crashes into Livermore CA backyard party, kills woman walking with baby  
14. 1 wounded 1 killed attempted murder suicide May 2, 2015 Sidman shoots man across street in face then himself in Oregon two men in shooting named  

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1. 1 injured and died 1 arrested May 2, 2015 NYPD Officer Brian Moore Shot In Head, Later Dies Suspect Demetrius Blackwell 1 hr ago Inquisitr A New York Police Department (NYPD) plain clothes officer was reportedly shot in the head this evening in Queens, and rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Officers quickly searched the scene, an arrested a...  New York Post, the anti-crime plainclothes police officer was on duty conducting vehicle stops at 212th St. and 104th Road when he noticed a man messing with something around his waistband. The police officer got out of his car and started to approach the man, but was shot at several times, with one bullet reportedly hitting his cheek or head... five months after two NYPD officers were killed a little over two weeks after the grand jury’s decision to not indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who placed Eric Gardner in a fatal choke hold. The two officers, Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, were shot point blank in the head on Dec. 20, while sitting in their patrol cruiser in Brooklyn. The shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, jumped onto a subway platform after shooting the officer, killing himself almost instantly, saying on social media he wanted to avenge Gardner.  NYPD Sergeant Shot In The Head In Queens: Reports Huffington Post - Andrew Hart A sergeant with the New York Police Department was critically wounded after being shot in the head and chest on Saturday in Queens, according to reports. Sources told PIX11 that the officer was speaking to...Huffington Post - Andrew Hart shot in the head and chest on Saturday in Queens, according to reports, the fifth NYPD officer shot in the last five months....Queens: Demetrius Blackwell shoots, kills officer in car Man indicted in shooting of (White) cop in face A Queens grand jury has indicted the ​man authorities say fatally shot a young cop in the face ​when the officer asked to see what was in his waistband. Demetrius Blackwell, 35, will be brought to Queens Supreme Court from jail at 2 p.m. Thursday to answer to the indictment, which charges him in the murder of Police Officer Brian Moore three ways, under three separate statutes. The top murder charge, aggravated murder, accuses Blackwell of intentionally killing a police officer in the line of duty. If convicted of that charge, Blackwell would be thrown in prison for life, without the possibility of parole. That sentence would be mandatory, meaning a sentencing judge would have no option to give him less. Finally, he is charged with the attempted murder of Moore’s partner, Police Officer Erik Jansen, who was sitting in the driver’s seat of the pair’s unmarked car as Moore, sitting in the passenger side in plain clothes but identifying himself as an officer, was shot through his open window..  Slain NYPD cop Brian Moore honored with memorial service at National Arts Club - June 4, 2015
   Brian Moore honored at Memorial Day ceremony in Massapequa - May 23, 2015
   Brian Moore, New York Police Officer Shot in the Head, Dies - May 4, 2015
   NYPD Officer In Critical Condition After Queens Shooting in car by Thug - May 3, 2015 CBS local Officer Moore positioned the vehicle behind the suspect and inquired about the suspect’s actions,” NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said. “The male immediately removed a firearm from his waistband and turned in the direction of the officers and deliberately fired several times into the vehicle.” A bullet hit Moore in the head. The officers did not get out of their car or open fire. Blackwell has nine previous arrests on his record, including charges of attempted murder, robbery, weapons possession and assault on two officers, authorities said. In 2013 he was arrested on attempted grand larceny charges. That same year, he was also charged for assault on a police officer. A city cop was critically wounded by a cowardly ex-con blasted two bullets into his head New York Post  May 2, 2015 on a Queens street Saturday evening — the fifth NYPD officer to be shot in as many months. hooting, which occurred after Moore and partner Erik Jansen spotted suspect Demetrius Blackwell fiddling with an object in his waistband on a Queens street around 6:15 p.m. Saturday. “Do you have something in your waist?’’ Moore asked Blackwell while sitting behind the wheel of the cops’ unmarked car, sources said. “Yeah, I got something,” Blackwell, 35, snarled back. The ex-con, who has a long history of violence, whipped out a handgun and opened fire on the cops, sources said. Blackwell fired three rounds, hitting Moore at least once. Jansen wasn’t hit.
2. Nigerian Armed Forces announce they rescued another 234 women and girls from Boko Haram control in the Sambisa Forest on April 30. (AP)
3. 3 killed 3 injured Two policemen and a civilian are killed and three others injured after a grenade attack in Burundi's capital Bujumbura. The attack takes place a day after a similar incident injured three officers, and comes in the midst of intensifying protests against current president Pierre Nkurunziza. (Al Jazeera)
4. Two explosions in Baghdad kill at least 13 people and injure dozens. (Al-jazeera)
5. Terrorism: Republic of Congo bans full face-veils in an apparent attempt to prevent religious 
6. 7,040 deaths 2015 Nepal earthquake: The death toll from last month's earthquake rises to 7,040 people and a total of 14,025 injured with thousands missing. Authorities in Nepal have given up hope of finding more survivors in the rubble. (Xinhua), (BBC), (CNN)
7. 2,400 rescued More than 2400 migrants have been rescued after boats they were travelling on were rescued off the Libyan coast. (Al-Jazeera)Health
8. 30 deaths Thai police dig up a campsite in southern Thailand used by human traffickers with 30 grave sites. (AP via Daily Mail)
9. 1 injured In auto racing, a crewman from Aric Almirola's team is airlifted to a hospital during the Winn-Dixie 300 of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, after Brendan Gaughan's vehicle crashed into the pit wall and struck tires and a sign, which then struck the crew member. (ESPN)
10. May 2, 2015 Experts Caution Convictions In Freddie Gray Case Against Baltimore Police Unlikely AP "To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America: I heard your call for, 'No justice, no peace,'" the prosecutor said. "Your peace is sincerely needed as I work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man." Within hours, the city's police union questioned the prosecutor's impartiality, accusing her of a rush to judgment and demanding she recuse herself from the case. Alan Dershowitz: Charges Against Baltimore Police Officers Are About 'Crowd Control,' Not Justice  Dave Urbanski He called the charges "outrageous and irresponsible."  getting a jury to convict police officers of murder and manslaughter will be far harder than obtaining arrest warrants., suggested that State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby’s actions against the officers were motivated more by political expediency and short-term public safety than strong evidence. called the charges “outrageous and irresponsible,” especially the second degree murder count filed against the van’s driver under a legal principle known as “depraved heart.” State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby announced the charges Friday amid a backdrop of a city in turmoil
11.  1 killed May 2, 2015  One man killed in shooting by bystander in Orem Macey's parking lot after chase Daily Herald  OREM - A man suspected of stealing a truck Saturday and leading police on a chase through Orem was shot and killed by a bystander in the Macey's parking lot, where police say he tried to steal a woman's car.
12. 1 air incident May 2, 2015  Man accused of taking plane from N. Las Vegas airport KVVU Las Vegas‎ 27-year-old man Evan Grant was accused of taking a plane from North Las Vegas airport early Saturday morning, booked into jail for grand larceny auto... former student pilot took a plane from North Las Vegas Airport for a joyride shortly after midnight Saturday PD: Man steals airplane from NLV airport, flies around Las ...  Flight in stolen plane leads to man's arrest - News3LV A twin engine Piper 44 Seminole aircraft
13. 2 killed 2 injured May 2, 2015  Suspected DUI crashes into Livermore CA backyard party, kills woman walking with baby Suspected drunk driver kills a 40 year old mother and 14 month old baby and injures 2 other children. He missed a turn and instead crashed his car into the backyard party of an apartment complex celebrating first communion, running over a mother and child walking on a pathway.  Alleged drunk driver accused of killing mom, 14-month-old baby in Livermore abc7news.com‎  A 35-year-old man Brian Jones arrested suspected of DUI.from Livermore is in custody Woman, Toddler Killed When Car Hits Apartment Complex ABC News  
14. 1 wounded 1 killed attempted murder suicide May 2, 2015 Sidman shoots man across street in face then himself in Oregon two men in shooting named  The Register-Guard Sidman was found dead after the shooting, inside his own home, after a Lane County Sheriff's Office armored car approached the residence, according to neighbors. Sidman fired a gun at a man who lived across the street from him — identified as 60-year-old Dale Allen Lloyd. Then Sidman, 64, is believed to have fatally shot himself. But that’s not something authorities — nor Sidman’s son, Matt Sidman — have yet confirmed. John Sidman lived at 1680 Curry Ave. and Lloyd lived across the street at 1695 Curry Ave. Lloyd was shot in the face but is expected to survive. Sidman was found dead after the shooting, inside his own home, after a Lane County Sheriff’s Office armored car approached the residence, according to neighbors.

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1 killed 1 arrested March 18, 2015 Phoenix AZ police: Craig Uran carjacking suspect shot, killed in busy downtown, weapon was pellet gun  Craig Uran, shown in an earlier prison mug shot, was a convicted felon with a violent past that included weapons. Jessica Hicks, 23, was riding with Uran when he was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon. Phoenix police said the gun waved by a suspected carjacker  26-year-old Craig Uran was a pellet gun that even his accomplice thought was real before he was shot and killed by a police officer in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday. woman riding with Uran, 23-year-old Jessica Hicks, was booked into jail on charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery in connection with Uran's death. Uran was a convicted felon with a violent criminal past that included felony convictions for theft of transportation, a drive-by shooting and misconduct involving a weapon. Police were following them driving a stolen car, then saw them carjack a Ford Escape. After chase they were cornered in a garage rammed by an armored vehicle and two police cruisers, pinning the stolen SUV against a Subway sandwich shop before the man was killed by a single shot from a Phoenix police special assignment officer just before 11 a.m. authorities can seek a first-degree murder charge against a person involved in a violent felony crime if anyone is killed during the crime. Woman in Phoenix officer-involved shooting 'under duress' The Arizona Republic Mar 19, 2014 - Phoenix police identify the woman accused in a pursuit and carjacking that ended in a deadly shooting as 23-year-old Jessica Hicks. 12 News.

1 car damaged, 1 arrested April 27, 2015 Texas Reserve Deputy Stops Truck, Starts Shooting, No Motive  Blaze - Zach Noble "All of a sudden, this red truck comes around me, pulls in front of me, and hit his brakes…"He Gets Out…and Just Starts Popping’Forth Worth trucker Frank Collins III had to deal with last Sunday night, and now reserve sheriff’s deputy Daniel Zurita Jr. is facing  aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges, police said. “All of a sudden, this red truck comes around me, pulls in front of me, and hit his brakes,” Collins said. ”Then, he gets out, started walking toward me, and just starts popping — shooting at me.” Collins said he managed to duck and get away as bullets ripped through his windshield. The reasons the man opened fire are unclear, but police were quickly able to arrest the man suspected of driving the red pickup, 41-year-old Zurita. Shots fired during San Marcos road rage incident - KVUE.com Daniel Zurita Jr., 41, fired six rounds from his Glock 40 handgun into an 18-wheeler tags: road rage, cop suspect

April 29, 2015  Assassination? Queens Youth Football Coach Who Fought to Prevent Violence Targeted, Shot, Killed in Car: NYPD NBC New York Police are searching for the suspect who shot and killed a well-known youth football coach in Queens. Friends and family say Jerwaine Gorwan  a African American 34-year-old father of three, was sitting with a passenger inside a 2011 Mercedes Benz a gunman walked up to the car and fired one shot at him before running away, according to police. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital with a wound to the torso and was pronounced dead.  same Jerwaine Gorman, 34, a board member of the South East Queens County Democrats

2 killed hit by car April 30, 2015 Father, 6-month-old son killed on 10 Freeway apparent murder suicide by traffic after domestic dispute Los Angeles Times A man and his 6-month-old son were killed late Thursday when he walked onto the 10 Freeway in Beaumont after getting into an argument with his ... Man, baby struck and killed on 10 Freeway in Beaumont - San Bernardino County Sun Man, Infant Killed Walking on Interstate 10 in Beaumont - Patch.com  2 killed on I-10 after man carrying baby crosses into traffic - KESQ man and his six-month-old son were hit by three vehicles while walking across I-10 in Beaumont Thursday nightOfficers with the California Highway Patrol said a 23-year-old woman from Beaumont called 911 to report an argument she had with her boyfriend at about 10 p.m. Before officers arrived, the man walked away from the home with the couple's son in his arms.boy's name was Yadriel (hispanic) Mariscal. still unclear why the man was trying to cross the freeway with his child.

1 arrested April 30, 2015  Christopher David Sullivan Gets 80 Years For Wild Colorado Crime Spree

4:04 PM Reuters - David Lohr
A gun-toting felon whose two-hour carjacking and crime spree in Colorado last year played out on live television filmed from a news helicopter has been sentenced to 80 years in prison, prosecutors said on Thursday....un-toting felon whose two-hour carjacking and crime spree in Colorado last year played out on live television filmed from a news helicopter has been sentenced to 80 years in prison, prosecutors said on Thursday. Christopher David Sullivan, 37, pleaded guilty last month to 46 charges including aggravated robbery, menacing with a deadly weapon and first-degree assault, the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. "Wielding an assault rifle and high on cocaine, Sullivan terrorized residents and visitors on Lookout Mountain, stealing cars and breaking into houses while running from ... deputies, "He committed carjackings, burglaries, and felony menacing of numerous individuals at gunpoint. see Christopher David Sullivan, Colorado Carjacking Crime Spree

April 30, 2015 Medical professionals will try to determine how Gray's neck was injured - Baltimore Sun. ome medical experts look at the choppy, grainy video of Freddie Gray's arrest, they see that he has a spinal cord injury. Others are not so sure. "He can't use his legs," said Dr. Mary Anne Whelan, a retired neurologist from Cooperstown, N.Y. "It's entirely consistent with a spinal cord injury." "It's so hard to tell" from a video whether there's damage to a neck and spine or the extent of it,  Witnesses have said Gray's legs looked broken and suggested the injury may have occurred during his arrest. Police acknowledged Gray was having trouble breathing and asking for an inhaler for asthma. Police now say he should have received medical treatment before being loaded in the van, where they also say they failed to buckle him in.

April 30, 2015 Woman killed in Atlanta police shootout had long arrest record Atlanta Journal Constitution Jail records show Alexia Christian was arrested in East Point in March for selling marijuana, and by Atlanta police in January for shoplifting. Thursday wasn’t the first time Christian fought back while being arrested, criminal records showed. When she was caught in a stolen car in September 2006, Christian got into the driver’s seat of a patrol car and drove off, dragging an officer with her, the police report states. The officer was thrown from the car and Christian was later arrested and convicted, spending three and a half years in state prison, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.

1 killed August 14, 2013 April 30, 2015 update distracted crash Woman Texted 'Drunk Driving Woo' To Boyfriend Just Before Fatal Crash Inquisitr Mila Dago has been charged with manslaughter following the death of her passenger after she crashed the Smart Car she was driving while drunk and texting. Miami woman, 22-year-old Mila Dago, was charged with manslaughter after she crashed her vehicle into another vehicle and killed her passenger and friend, Irena Reinoso, also 22, at approximately 4:45 a.m. on August 14, 2013. Dago had been text-fighting with her boyfriend all evening long as the two women attended several bars. Dago, intoxicated and angry, then got behind the wheel of her vehicle before the fatal crash. Bitter ex Mila Dago's text to boyfriend as she killed friend Daily Mail

May 1, 2015 Istanbul Goes Into Security Lockdown to Stop May Day Rallies NBCNews.com
Two of his cousins in the police force were also killed in a firefight with the ... The new arrivals killed one person in the neighboring village, he said, ... normally thronged Isitklal shopping avenue leading to Taksim was deserted, with shops shuttered and metal barricades blocking off side streets. Police helicopters circled overhead. "I wish May 1 to be celebrated in a festive mood without provocations," Erdogan said in a statement... previously dismissed protesters as "riff-raff" and terrorists, outraged by the unrest in 2013

May 1, 2015 Freddie Gray Wasn't The Only Person Killed By Police In April  ThinkProgress Killed by Police, which documents the names, age, gender, and race of people ... Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd says one of the bulletsinjured ... Killed by Police, which documents the names, age, gender, and race of people killed by police every day, as well as the circumstances leading up to officers’ use of lethal force, recorded more than 90 people who died at the hands of officers in April.
May 1, 2015 Police Wanted Us To Believe Freddie Gray Killed Himself. Quickly Debunked:  We've Heard Stories Like This Before. Huffington Post Earlier this week, a source in the Baltimore Police Department leaked a document to The Washington Post With the leaked document so quickly debunked, many people were left to conclude that police had released it in a last-ditch effort to push the narrative that Freddie Gray was responsible for his own death. The implausibility of the claims helped ensure that they failed, 

3 lockdowns at high schools

May 1, 2015 Gun left on vehicle prompts brief N. Royalton HS lockdown WKYC-TV NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio -- A brief lockdown was issued at North Royalton High School Friday morning after a student's parent left a handgun on the ... North Royalton school lockdown lifted; gun found was mistakenly left on car bumper -newsnet5.com

May 1, 2015 Gun report prompts lockdown at Windsor High School Santa Rosa Press Democrat
A report of a gun on campus prompted a lockdown Friday morning at Windsor High School and an investigation by law enforcement officers and  Unloaded gun triggers high school lockdown in Md. - W*USA 9


May 1, 2015 Lakeshore High School has brief lockdown Friday; no injuries reported NOLA.com  Still, authorities felt they had no choice but to alert Lakeshore High administrators and put in place the brief lockdown. The school system then sent out ...Lakeshore High School placed on lockdown after man calls 911 for help from 'witches and demons'- WDSU New Orleans

1 killed Nov. 28, 1994 murder  May 1, 2015 update Inmate goes public with why he killed serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer Chicago Tribune Inmate who killed Jeffrey Dahmer says the serial murderer "crossed the line" with some in prison. The inmate who fatally beat serial killer Jeffrey ... nmate who fatally beat serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in prison in the early 1990s says Dahmer taunted inmates with "severed limbs" he would construct out of pieces of food. Christopher Scarver, 45, told the New York Post. Scarver was incarcerated at the same Portage, Wis., prison as Dahmer in 1994. on Nov. 28, 1994, Dahmer, Scarver and another inmate were tasked to clean the bathrooms, unshackled and unattended  Scarver said he went to retrieve a mop when he felt someone poke his back. When he turned around, he saw Dahmer and the other inmate “laughing under their breath," he told the Post.... Scarver decided to follow Dahmer to the locker room.  He told the Post he confronted Dahmer with the article, asking the killer if he’d really done the things described in the story. When Dahmer tried to escape, Scarver said he took a metal bar and swung it at his head, crushing Dahmer’s skull.  Scarver said he found the other inmate, Jesse Anderson, and did “pretty much the same thing.”...  pleaded insanity, but later changed it to “no contest” in exchange for a transfer to a federal penitentiary.  He was sentenced to two life terms on top of the one he was already serving.

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Exclusive Look Inside The Baltimore Police Investigation Into Freddie Gray's Death  Huffington Post - Andrew Hart

Man Locked Girlfriend In Box For Months, Missouri Sex Offender James Horn Still On The Run  Inquisitr - Patrick Frye A Missouri man locked his girlfriend in a box for months, and police are still searching for James Horn, who has a history as a violent sex offender. Police have released a description of his last...



How Baltimore's Police Department Avoided a Civil Rights Investigation TIME - Marisa Schwartz
The city's involvement in a Justice Department program shows the softer side of intervention...

Chart: Deaths from Police Shootings

3:55 PM Outside the Beltway - Steven L. Taylor
I do not have a lot to say about the following at the moment, but it is still worth a look (via The Economist): Yes, one comparative stat is not sufficient to tell the whole...

Court says DEA is allowed to secretly fill your truck with weed, get into firefights with Zetas
3:00 PM Boing Boing - Cory Doctorow Craig Patty asked his employee Lawrence Chapa to help take one of his two trucks to the garage, not realizing that Chapa was a DEA undercover planning to fill the truck with weed, which ended in...

Grading Baltimore's Mayor on Her Own Advice for Police 2:21 PM CityLab
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and other mayors put together a January set of guidelines for cities on improving police-community relations. She's followed few of them herself.



After Baltimore cops' arrests, police scrutinized elsewhere AP
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Arizona 2-Year-Old 'Luckty To Be Alive' After Shooting Himself In Face: Police 8:26 AM Reuters - David Lohr A 2-year-old Arizona boy was in critical but stable condition on Friday after he shot himself in the face with his father's handgun, which he apparently found wrapped up in sheets on the man's bed,...

Thousands expected in Baltimore for 'victory rally' after officers charged
8:06 AM AP - Mike Conneen
A massive march planned for Saturday to protest the death of a man in police custody is now being billed as a "victory rally" after Baltimore's top prosecutor filed criminal charges against the six officers involved...

More Bodies Found At Mass Grave In Suspected Thai Trafficking Camp

7:45 AM Reuters - Nick Robins-Early
Dozens of police and volunteers exhumed six more bodies on Saturday in the second day of digging out a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp on a hillside deep in a southern Thai...

Md. Episcopal bishop accused in drunken-driving death resigns1:10 AM AP
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland says a bishop accused of fatally striking a bicyclist while driving drunk in Baltimore has resigned. The diocese announced Friday that it has accepted the resignation of Heather Cook, who...

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