Friday, October 28, 2011

1 dead , 2 wounded

After a shooting in St. Louis one man is dead and two others are hospitalized. Police officers were called to a house on a Thursday afternoon where they had found a dead man. One of the men were found injured in the street about two blocks from the house. The other man had been found in a small market four blocks away from the house. The police said the man that died lived with his girlfriend and her son. The two were not home at the time. Two people had kicked in the door and witnesses said they heard gunfires.


The man had died at the scene. One of the robbers were wounded in the leg and the other in his chest. Police do not yet know whether the shooter had been among the victims but he said that the police are not putting together a manhunt. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-20126738/1-dead-2-wounded-in-st-louis-area-shooting/?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea

7 killed in minivan

A minivan full of family were killed in their car when they hit a deer on an Indiana highway. They slowed down or even stopped right before a semitrailer slammed into them from behind. Not one person in the minivan were wearing seatbelts when the crash took place that Thursday night on Indiana Toll road. The infant that was in a car seat had not been buckled in either.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141784317
Police said that the minivan had Illinois license plates and they were Ecuadoran immigrants who were currently living in Chicago. A man and a women were taken by helicopter that night in critical condition. One other man was in stable condition said Polive officer
Smith. The semitrailor was going about 65 miles when it hit the families minivan before they struck the deer.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dead-semi-truck-slams-minivan-ind-14831537

Turkey Survivor

13-year-old boy was trapped for five days under fallen debris. Farhat Tokay was pulled out of the debri from rescuer Azerbaijan early Friday. Tokay is the latest survivor to have emerge from the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that had leveled buildings and killed nearly 570 people. He had used his sneakers as a pillow to sleep. Tokay had used a tiny gap to determine wheather it was day or night. Tokay said that he was very hungry the first day, but the hunger pains had soon disappeared. When Tokay was pulled from the hole he didn't even have a scratch on him. http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-survivor-emerges-quake-rubble-003535070.html The rescue team had sent the family and his other relatives away from the rescue site to get some rest on early Friday. The family had been told there was no chance of finding him alive. Later on the family was called back with news that the rescue team had reached their son.

College Student Dies after Workout

At the University of Rhode Island a student has died after his baseball workout. Joseph Paul Ciancola died Thursday after he had suffered a unspecified medical emergency during his baseball preseason workout on Monday. 20- year old Ciancola died at the Rhode Island Hospital. The cause of death is currently unknown. But according to source Ciancola was treated for maligant hyperthermia when his body temp. had reached 105.9 degrees. http://www.mhaus.org/
The condition causes a sharp rise in body temperature and severe muscle pains. Symptoms of Malignant Hyperthermia includes bleeding , dark brown urine , and muscle ache with out reason. Maligant Hyperthermia is an inherited muscle disorder. It is triggered when certain types of anesthesia. It may cause fast acting life- threathening. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/28/college-student-dies-after-baseball-workout/?test=latestnews

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Ohio Animals Escape Zoo

A town in Ohio is on lockdown after dozens of dangerous wild animals escaped a private zoo. Police said there are about 48 animals which inculde - Grizzly , Black Bears , Wolves, and sereral species of large cats. The animals were kept in cages out side of 62-year old Terry Thompsons house. Thompson had been released from federal prison three weeks earlier after he served a year term for firearm charges. Federal agents raided the farm in June 2008. They seized more than 100 guns. Thompson was had also previously been fined with letting his animals wander. A nearby cattle farmer Kate Riley said Thompson would sometimes come and take her dead cattle and feed it to his lions. She also told Columbus Dispatch newspaper that he would have claw marks all over him and that his wife had recently left him and moved out.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/wild-animals-escape-ohio-private-zoo-loose-14767621


  Officials closed school areas and have ordered that residents take extreme caution. Locals were also ordered to stay indoors and off areas around the farm where the owner was found dead near several open cages. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111019/world/massive-hunt-for-dozens-of-escaped-zoo-animals-in-ohio.389845

12-year old murder Brothers

Cristian Fernandez 12-years-old is being charged as an adult in the murder of his brother. He is the youngest person to be charged with murder as an adult in Jacksonville's history. If he is convicted he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Fernandez is being charged with first-degree murder. Police say that the crime was premeditated and that Fernandez intentionally killed his two- year old brother. Fernandez had violently shoved him into a bookshelf twice, causing his skull to fracture and cause massive internal bleeding. Medical examiner said David's death was a homicide, and was caused by blunt-force trauma. Mother, Briannela Susana was not home at the time of the incident. 

The police say that David was laying in his bed unconscious, thats when Cristian called his mother, who then came home. Susana,25, is being charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and felony child abuse. She will remain in jail on a $1 million bond and if she is convicted she will face up to 30 years in prison. A doctor from St. Luke's said that if the child had been treated sooner he may have survived.  Fernandez's public defender said that all the blames belongs to his mother and that he doesn't deserve to me prosecuted as an adult. Fernandez's next court date will be October 31 , and his mother is to stand trail on Feb.27 
.http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/cristian-fernandez


Pepper Spraying at Middle School

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44968209/ns/local_news-portsmouth_va/
   Administrators of Lafayette-Winona Middle School in Norfolk,Va are investigating the school security guard's use of pepper spray during a food fight. It happend during a lunch period on Tuesday in the school's cafeteria. Elizabeth Mather public school spokesperson said that the offiver used pepper spray to break up the fight. Mather reported that 37 students complain of physical symptoms from the pepper. The students had been examined by the school's nurse and their parents were contacted. After the incident five parents had contacted the school.


One student Derrell Hairston 12-years old said "It was terrible in there". Hairston mother Tyheshia said "He stayed up all night coughing and gagging". Lafayette's school superintendent Dr. Richard Bentley said " I'd be upset absolutely I don't blame the parents for being upset I understand that". Accoding to school security officer policy, the security must give warning before the use of pepper spray and only when lesser forms of force don't work. Derrell Hairston also reported that the guards did not give warning they just started spraying. The school is still investigating all of the facts on what happened during lunch that day. http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/norfolk/school-security-guard-uses-pepper-spray