In a victory for Kevin Spacey, a New York jury on Thursday afternoon found him not liable for battery on allegations he picked up actor Anthony Rapp and briefly laid on top of him in a bed after a party in 1986..
Jurors deliberated for about an hour, and concluded Rapp did not prove that Spacey “touched a sexual or intimate part” of Rapp.
Judge Lewis Kaplan formally dismissed the case. Attorneys seated on either side of Spacey immediately put their hands on his back when the verdict was read.
The attack unfolded at around 5:51pm on Wednesday afternoon when East was filling up his vehicle at the 76 gas station in Westminster, Orange County, police said.
Westminster police officers arrived on the scene to find the racing star lying on the ground suffering from a serious stab wound to the chest.
East was rushed to hospital where he died from his injuries.
The suspect had fled the scene before officers arrived.
Initial reports: Police are responding to a shooting in downtown Highland Park, Illinois, in the area of a July 4th parade, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said. The city of Highland Park, a suburb about 25 miles north of Chicago, said its Independence Day parade has been canceled and advised people to avoid downtown.
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Reporter Lynn Sweet posts image of Highland Park Independence Day shooting aftermath.. blood on the ground and dead bodies appear to be laying in the background.. discretion advised
MORE FROM SUN TIMES REPORTER LYNN SWEET:
A Fourth of July parade-goer runs for cover after gunfire was heard at the parade Monday morning.
MORE FROM THE SUN TIMES REPORT:
Several witnesses said they heard multiple shots fired. One witness said he counted more than 20 shots.
Miles Zaremski, a Highland Park resident, told the Sun-Times: “I heard 20 to 25 shots, which were in rapid succession. So it couldn’t have been just a handgun or a shotgun.”
Zaremski said that after the shots at Central Avenue around Second Avenue in downtown Highland Park, he saw “people in that area that got shot,” including “a woman covered with blood … She did not survive.”
There are reports that the Highland Park Independence Day shooting may have been on top of a building ..
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The parade route was near Central Avenue and Second Street.
The parade was stopped about 10 minutes after it kicked off at 10 a.m. when shots were fired, striking an unknown number of parade-goers and sending hundreds of people running for safety.
A Chicago Sun-Times reporter saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade’s reviewing stand. Several witnesses said they heard multiple shots fired. One witness said he counted more than 20 shots.
Police were telling people: “Everybody disperse, please. It is not safe to be here.”
Police in the Louisville suburb of Jeffersonville responded to Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center on Friday evening and found 31 bodies, including some “in the advanced stages of decomposition,” Maj. Isaac Parker said.
He said the county coroner’s office had reported a strong odor emanating from the building. Inside, officers wearing hazmat gear found bodies “in different places around the building.”
Do not trust this place. This man took my money, promised me my fathers remains and then gave them to my brothers, one of which is wanted by the state of Ohio. This man rejected all my phone calls for two months and exactly two months after my dad had passed, finally answered my call and told me he had given the ashes away. THIS PLACE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED. The man was rude to me on the phone and wouldn’t even tell me when in the past two months my fathers remains had been picked up. I’m 2k miles away on the west coast and he told me he would ship them to me since i had paid for the cremation. This place wouldn’t even post an obituary for my father even through I had written and submitted one (w a pic) for their website. They won’t even upload my dads pic on the website.
At least 3 killed, 11 injured in mass shooting on South Street
At least three people were killed and 11 injured when multiple people opened fire in the busy South Street area of Philadelphia Saturday night, police said.
Officers were patrolling the area when they heard gunfire shortly before midnight, Philadelphia Police Inspector D.F. Pace said, adding the officers observed “several active shooters shooting into the crowd.”
One officer was “within about 10 to 15 yards” of one of the individuals firing into the crowd and shot at the suspect, Pace said. “We’re uncertain whether he was struck or not, but the officer was able to get that individual to drop his gun and flee,” the police inspector said.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/us/philadelphia-south-street-shooting/index.html
South street is a popular location for nightlife, bars, and restaurants ..
Can we admit, this week has been awful.. the mood of America is divided.. depressed… morbid.. and angry. We are mixed with rage and rot..
The apple has been browning for years.. it has made it to the core..
We have no other words to offer.. Just that it’s all sickening, and awful. Just awful..
Six people at the house of worship were struck by gunfire after the shooter, said to be an Asian male in his 60s, opened fire at around 1:25 p.m. That man is now in police custody.
About 40 parishioners witnessed the violence – but those who were present also helped to prevent further bloodshed by overpowering the shooter and tying him up.
The group reportedly confiscated his weapons and restrained him until police arrived on the scene.
Police say those involved ‘showed exceptional heroism and bravery in detaining the suspect.’
‘That group of churchgoers displayed what we believe is exceptional heroism and bravery in intervening to stop the suspect. They undoubtedly prevented additional injuries and fatalities,’ Orange County Undersheriff Jeff Hallock said. ‘I think it’s safe to say that had people not intervened, it could have been much worse.’
Another weekend of disgusting news..
The AP reporting:
A gunman wearing military-style clothing and body armor opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing at least 10 people before being taken into custody Saturday afternoon, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
Details on the number of additional people shot at the Tops Friendly Market and their conditions weren’t immediately available. The two officials were not permitted to speak publicly on the matter and did so on the condition of anonymity. The suspect was being questioned Saturday evening by the FBI, one of the officials said.
Investigators believe the gunman may have been streaming the shooting through a camera affixed to his helmet, one of the officials said. The video showed the gunman, dressed in military gear, pulling up to the front of the store with a rifle on the front seat and then pointing the rifle at people in the parking lot as he exited the vehicle and opening fire, the official said.
This is a developing story..
UPDATE: police say the crime was racially motivated ..
Samples taken from three tourists from Tennessee and Florida who died at a resort in the Bahamas under mysterious circumstances have been sent to a lab in Philadelphia to expedite results and help authorities understand what happened, officials said Monday.
The police commissioner of the Bahamas, Paul Rolle, said officials also collected samples from the rooms where the tourists were staying and the surrounding property to determine whether any contaminants were present.
The associated press further reports that the samples taken from the victims were sent to a lab in Philadelphia, with results of the toxicology study expected in about a week..
All four tourists went to a doctor the night before their bodies were discovered and they had complained of feeling ill.. It is reported that they went at different times and had eaten different things.
The teens who were killed were both 17-year-old males, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Eight other people were shot and five others were injured while running from the gunfire, Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert said.
As many as 200 people attended the party, most of whom were underage, the city said in a news release.
The shooting took place around 12:30 a.m. and as police arrived at the scene, they saw several young people running from the area.. Airbnb said in a statement it has reached out to the Pittsburgh Police Department and Mayor Ed Gainey’s office.
There also is video of the scene..