Indianapolis cop allegedly beat wife so bad, her eye came ‘out of its socket’
An Indianapolis cop beat his wife up so savagely, her eye was “coming out of its socket,” disturbing court records show.
Jason D. Norman, 41, was charged Friday with counts including felony domestic battery and criminal confinement after allegedly abusing his wife on several occasions, Hamilton County prosecutors said in court records cited by the Indianapolis Star.
Norman’s wife, who lost her right eye in February, couldn’t recall details from the day of the injury but told investigators of the bruises on her legs and the broken nose she sustained during previous beatings, court documents show.
A probable cause affidavit does not indicate what happened on Feb. 25 when Norman — a 14-year department vet — called cops from his Sheridan home to report that his wife had fallen from a bathtub, the newspaper reports.
Norman, who was not charged with causing the injury to his wife’s eye, told dispatchers her eye was “coming out of its socket,” the affidavit shows.
She later had surgery at a hospital but told cops a week later she couldn’t remember “salient details” from the incident.
However, she did recall two years of prior beatings by her husband, including one assault last summer when Norman allegedly kicked in a bathroom door, hitting her face and breaking her nose, she told investigators.
At another point, the woman said she tried to leave her home to give Norman time to “cool off,” but he blocked the garage with his department-issued squad car, court records show.
Then, in August, Norman grabbed his wife’s legs and pulled her off the couch as he watched a “political show,” thinking she had said something, she told investigators.
“[Norman’s wife] likened the way Jason David Norman pulled her off the couch to the way you would pull-start a lawnmower,” the affidavit reads.
“Just walk it off, it’s gonna be fine,” Norman told his wife afterward, according to court records. “You’re going to be fine.”
Indianapolis Police Chief Randal Taylor has recommended Norman, who has been placed on unpaid leave, be terminated, WTHR reports.
“No chief wants to be faced with the prospect of arresting their own officer, but law enforcement has a responsibility to do what is right and a sworn duty to protect our community,” Taylor’s statement read.
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Partygoer jokes about having coronavirus — then infects several others
A California birthday party guest who joked about having the coronavirus ended up sparking an outbreak — infecting at least four others who attended the gathering, officials said.
The party was held in Pasadena — after the city had already issued its March 19 stay-at-home order. Multiple extended family members and friends who did not wear face coverings or stay six feet apart attended, the city said in a news release.
The “index case” — or first patient identified with the disease — was coughing as she mingled with the other guests, according to the city.
“One person showed up to the party exhibiting symptoms and joking she may have the virus,” Lisa Derderian, spokeswoman for the city of Pasadena, said in an email to the Los Angeles Times. “The aftermath affected several others who became seriously ill because of one person’s negligent and selfish behavior.”
A local public health department disease investigation team used contact tracing to discover a half-dozen laboratory-confirmed coronavirus cases among the guests, “and many more ill individuals,” according to city officials.
“This is an example of how good contact tracing can identify disease clusters and tell us more about the spread of disease in our community,” Dr. Matthew Feaster, a Pasadena Public Health Department epidemiologist, said in a statement.
“We’re grateful to our large team of public health nurses, case investigators, and contact tracers who help track the virus and prevent the disease from spreading to other members of our community.”
Officials are advising those 65 and older, or those with underlying health conditions, to stay home — even as some recreation areas in the city are beginning to reopen and select retail businesses are resuming curbside pickup services.
“Although we are moving forward with small modifications to the Safer at Home Order, gatherings of people who do not live in the same household are still prohibited,” Dr. Ying-Ying Goh, director and health officer for the public health department, said in the statement.
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Nurse in Quebec fakes symptoms, French accent to get tested for coronavirus
A nurse in Canada said she had to fake symptoms in order to get tested for the coronavirus — and her results came back positive.
Kristy-Lyn Kemp said she called a hotline in Quebec to request a test on Sunday, and was turned away even after explaining that she’d worked at a care home experiencing an outbreak, the CBC reported.
“I told them I was coming from a COVID-positive environment, but I was completely asymptomatic. They told me I didn’t need a test,” Kemp told the outlet.
Baffled, she called back, faking a French accent so they wouldn’t suspect she was the same person.
“I made up symptoms. I said I had a fever and a cough. And that’s when they gave me an appointment,” Kemp said.
Her results came back positive about 24 hours later.
Kemp said she wanted to be tested because she feared starting an outbreak of COVID-19 at her new job, for a care home in Lachine.
“Had I brought it to the new place, I don’t know what I would have done. I would have been absolutely devastated,” Kemp said.
Kemp got the new gig after resigning from her post at a private long-term care home in Dorval — which was taken over by the government last month when its owners asked for help with the outbreak.
At least 33 residents at CHSLD Résidence Herron died of complications from the virus, and the facility is now the subject of at least three separate inquiries, including a criminal investigation by Montreal police, according to the report.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health said screening priorities are for symptomatic health professionals in direct contact with patients. Staffers at CHSLD Résidence Herron are tested, with or without symptoms, he said.
Kemp said she didn’t understand how she was able to fall through the cracks.
“The consequences could have been catastrophic,” she said.
She now has to wait until she has two back-to-back negative COVID-19 tests before starting her new job.
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Child in Georgia fatally shoots brother with gun found in woods
GRIFFIN, Ga. — A 5-year-old boy fatally shot his 12-year-old brother with a gun he found in the woods over the weekend, according to authorities in Georgia.
Griffin police found the 12-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest on Saturday evening, the department said in a statement. First responders performed CPR and the boy was taken to a hospital where he later died.
The victim and his siblings, ages 5 and 7, were in the woods when the 5-year-old found the gun, according to the statement. Special investigators spoke to the child and determined he thought it was a toy when he fired it, striking his brother.
Officers had searched an area near where the gun was found earlier Saturday after suspects fled a traffic stop nearby, police said. A bag of suspected drugs was discovered, but no gun was found at the time.
In their statement Sunday, Griffin police said the shooting was likely a “tragic accident” and officers would now investigate who discarded the weapon.
“We will diligently pursue and charge any other parties responsible for the actions leading up to the apparent abandonment of this weapon allowing for access by these innocent children,” officials said.
The gun was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab for an analysis, authorities added.
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Florida cop drove over 66-year-old beachgoer, investigators say
A 66-year-old man was injured at a Florida beach on Friday after a police officer drove a cruiser over him, investigators said.
William Koziarz of Michigan was laying on a beach in Indian Shores when the officer, driving a fully marked 2018 Ford Explorer, ran him over, according to a press release from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
The officer was 27-year-old Natasha Hindman of the Indian Shores Police Department. She had reportedly just started her beach patrol.
“As Officer Hindman drove along the sand at low speed, the left side tires of her cruiser drove over the hips of 66-year-old William Koziarz, who was lying on the sand,” the sheriff’s office said.
Hinman immediately stopped to render aid until the paramedics arrived.
Koziarz was transported to Bayfront Health in St. Petersburg with “serious, but non-life threatening injuries.”
Officer Hindman was not injured in the incident. It was not immediately clear what led to the crash.
An investigation is ongoing.
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Woman drives over gravestones at Houston cemetery on Mother’s Day
A woman trying to beat traffic after a flyover to honor the end of World War II ran over multiple gravestones on her way out of Houston National Cemetery, video shows.
Amanda Hill, who was at the cemetery Sunday for the event by the Lone Star Museum, said an unidentified woman behind the wheel of a red SUV made a heartless dash for the exit just after the event.
“She tried to back up, and then went up on the curb of the section where my grandparents are buried,” Hill told KTRK. “[The woman] couldn’t get around some cars and then she started running over the graves.”
While trying to get around traffic inside the cemetery, the woman “went over dozens of graves,” Hill said, prompting several witnesses nearby to yell out for her to stop, the station reports.
“I was shocked, and never would have expected that to happen,” witness Jeremiah Johnston said. “This is Houston, and there are crazy drivers, and I never would have expected to see them going through a cemetery – especially when everyone was there to pay their respects during a patriotic flyover.”
The female motorist, who was not identified as of Monday, had her window down at the time and heard onlookers telling her to stop, according to Hill, whose mother tried to block the woman from driving onto her grandparents’ graves.
“My mom stood in front of the van, and finally had to jump out of the way, because she was going to hit her,” Hill said, adding that the woman knew she was being photographed but “didn’t care” about possible repercussions.
The vehicle was a Dodge SUV, KPRC reports.
The incident was reported to authorities early Monday and charges could be filed by the end of the day, the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office said.
“It’s under investigation,” Sgt. Cinthya Umanzor told The Post.
No gravestones or markers were damaged during the incident, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday.
“Houston National Cemetery was appalled by the level of disgrace shown by a driver on the grounds of the cemetery on May 10,” VA spokesperson Jessic Jacobsen said in a statement to The Post. “Fortunately, no gravestones or markers were damaged, and VA is working with local authorities to identify the driver so proper legal action can be taken. VA’s national cemeteries are shrines and we expect all visitors to treat them accordingly.”
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Neighbor says he’s ‘not proud’ of filming Ahmaud Arbery shooting
The Georgia man who filmed the shooting death of unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery says he’s “not proud” he did so — but he hopes it “helps in the end.”
William “Roddie” Bryan, whose cellphone footage of the Feb. 23 incident sparked national outrage, told “Good Morning America” he has “tons of regrets” over the incident.
“Yeah, I wish I hadn’t been there,” Bryan told the ABC-TV show Tuesday. “But, once again, if I hadn’t have been there, there’d be no video.”
“If the video wasn’t there, I don’t think there would be an outcome that anybody would be satisfied with,” he said.
“I’m not proud that I shot the video, but maybe it helps in the end.”
Arbery, 25, was shot during an encounter with Travis McMichaels, 34, and his 64-year-old father, Gregory McMichaels, a former cop and retired investigator with the local district attorney’s office.
Both men told police they believed Arbery was a burglar and sought to detain him for police. But Travis McMichaels shot and killed Arbery with a shotgun during a struggle.
No charges were filed in the case until this month, when Bryan’s video was made public, sparking an outcry for justice that led to murder charges against the father and son.
The charges were filed by the Georgia Bureau of
of Investigation, a state agency, after local prosecutors recused themselves over their ties to the elder McMichael.
On Monday, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, who asked federal prosecutors to investigate the circumstances of Arbery’s shooting death, appointed a new state prosecutor to the case.
Cobb County District Attorney Joyette Holmes is the third state prosecutor on the case, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Also Monday, the US Department of Justice said it would weigh federal hate crime charges in the case, which could carry the death penalty.
“There’s tons of regrets,” Bryan said on “GMA.” “Can I sit here and tell you what they all are? No. I regret that the family lost a loved one. That’s not just something that should’ve happened.”
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A 38-Year-Old Brazilian Man Has Just Discovered He Has Three Kidneys
In a rare incident, it was found that a man has three kidneys instead of two.
The person, who is 38 years old, consulted the doctor after he was suffering from severe lower backache. According to a report in Times Now, the person’s name is Rim in São Paulo and he is based out of Brazil.
The doctors had done a CT scan of his back area in order to diagnose the cause of the ache. In the scan, it was seen that the man had suffered from a slip disc. But this was not something that shook the doctors as the same is quite common.
What left them surprised was the fact that the person had three and not two kidneys. The report states that Rim’s left kidney was normal while the one on right had two fused kidneys around the pelvis area.
The report has quoted The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), which mentions that the said person did not have any symptoms of a kidney problem and all other organs in his body appeared to function normally as well.
If the report is to be believed, then this condition is suspected to have arisen during embryonic development. But because there are no particular symptoms that are caused, one does not know about such a condition until they discover it by chance.
This person too did not need any special care for his extra kidney and was only given painkiller medicine for his backache.
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How to Keep an Indoor Plant Alive
Keeping an indoor plant alive means providing it with what it needs on a long-term basis. Keeping an indoor plant alive means no forgetting about its existence for months at a time. Keeping an indoor plant alive is a sign that you’ve managed to cross the threshold into competent adulthood.
So how do you keep an indoor plant alive?
Sunlight, water and soil keep plants happy
Keeping a plant alive requires giving it the appropriate amount of sunlight and water, as well as the right soil and nutrients. How much of each will depend on the particular plant, and too much or too little will lead to yet another death. The key to is to research what your particular plant needs and figure out the right way to provide it and how to recognize the warning signs that something is out of whack if you’re doing it wrong. Although this sounds simple, it does take a bit of practice to get right (sorry, starter plants).
How to tell if a plant is getting too much or too little sunlight
Plants require light for photosynthesis, which is how they are able to produce energy. Each type of plant requires different amounts of light.
Too much light and plants become scorched, bleached and limp. Too little light and they become pale and wilted, their leaves growing long and thin in order to stretch toward a light source—or alternatively, dropping their leaves altogether.
Different plants will require low, medium or high light conditions, which is why it’s important to figure out what an individual plant needs and what place in your home might be able to provide it. Low light plants should be placed away from direct sunlight, medium light plants should be in a well-lit part of the house and high light plants should be in the sunniest spots in your home.
If you don’t know what the sunlight requirements for your plant are, one useful metric is to search out its foot-candle estimate, which is a measure of light intensity or brightness. A low light plant needs between 50-250 foot-candles, a medium-light plant needs between 250-1000 foot-candles, while a high light plant needs more than 1000.
How to tell if a plant is being over- or under-watered
Too much water is just as bad as not enough. If a plant is over-watered, the tips of its leaves turn brown, the stem’s base turns soft and mushy, and it develops yellow leaves which drop off. If a plant is under-watered, the leaves start to curl and get brown and crispy.
That’s why it’s important to water your plant at the right intervals and in the right amount. Each plant will have different requirements, but a good measure of whether a plant needs more water is to feel the soil. If the soil is wet or damp, it doesn’t need to be watered. If the soil is dry, then, depending on the plant, it might need more water.
When it comes to ensuring your plants get the right amount of water, drainage is critical. For example, if the soil in the pot is constantly damp, that’s a sign that the water isn’t draining, and can lead to molding roots.
Two hacks for ensuring proper drainage would be to either fill the bottom half of the pot with packing peanuts, or to line your pot with coffee filters, which will encourage proper drainage. It’s also important to dump any water that accumulates in the drainage tray, as letting it sit there isn’t good for the roots either.
Soil
Most house plants should be planted in regular potting soil. The exceptions would be orchids, which need more drainage and for which special orchid mixes are available, and cacti and succulents, which need more drainage, for which adding in sand will help.
Nutrients
You’ll want to fertilize your plants periodically to ensure they are getting the nutrients they need. A general indoor plant fertilizer will usually be enough, as long as it has a mixture of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. These fertilizers can be bought in liquid, stick and tablet forms, as well as slow release or granular. A good rule of thumb is to fertilize when the plant is actively growing—usually during the spring—and remember that, like water, too much fertilizer is just as bad as too little.
Easy plants for beginners
Some beginner-friendly indoor plants include aloe vera, chinese evergreen, christmas cactus, dumb cane, jade plant, lucky bamboo, snake plant and peace lily. Although these names may sound unfamiliar to plant newbies, you’ve probably seen them in the homes and apartments of people you know. These types of plants could probably thrive in your home as well—as long as you do a little bit of research to figure out what they need and how to give it to them. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be well on your way to keeping your plant friend alive. And just think how satisfying that will be.
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The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
At around 7 am on a quiet Wednesday in August 2017, Marcus Hutchins walked out the front door of the Airbnb mansion in Las Vegas where he had been partying for the past week and a half. A gangly, 6’4″, 23-year-old hacker with an explosion of blond-brown curls, Hutchins had emerged to retrieve his order of a Big Mac and fries from an Uber Eats deliveryman. But as he stood barefoot on the mansion’s driveway wearing only a T-shirt and jeans, Hutchins noticed a black SUV parked on the street—one that looked very much like an FBI stakeout.
He stared at the vehicle blankly, his mind still hazed from sleep deprivation and stoned from the legalized Nevada weed he’d been smoking all night. For a fleeting moment, he wondered: Is this finally it?
But as soon as the thought surfaced, he dismissed it. The FBI would never be so obvious, he told himself. His feet had begun to scald on the griddle of the driveway. So he grabbed the McDonald’s bag and headed back inside, through the mansion’s courtyard, and into the pool house he’d been using as a bedroom. With the specter of the SUV fully exorcised from his mind, he rolled another spliff with the last of his weed, smoked it as he ate his burger, and then packed his bags for the airport, where he was scheduled for a first-class flight home to the UK.
Hutchins was coming off of an epic, exhausting week at Defcon, one of the world’s largest hacker conferences, where he had been celebrated as a hero. Less than three months earlier, Hutchins had saved the internet from what was, at the time, the worst cyberattack in history: a piece of malware called WannaCry. Just as that self-propagating software had begun exploding across the planet, destroying data on hundreds of thousands of computers, it was Hutchins who had found and triggered the secret kill switch contained in its code, neutering WannaCry’s global threat immediately.
This legendary feat of whitehat hacking had essentially earned Hutchins free drinks for life among the Defcon crowd. He and his entourage had been invited to every VIP hacker party on the strip, taken out to dinner by journalists, and accosted by fans seeking selfies. The story, after all, was irresistible: Hutchins was the shy geek who had single-handedly slain a monster threatening the entire digital world, all while sitting in front of a keyboard in a bedroom in his parents’ house in remote western England.
Still reeling from the whirlwind of adulation, Hutchins was in no state to dwell on concerns about the FBI, even after he emerged from the mansion a few hours later and once again saw the same black SUV parked across the street. He hopped into an Uber to the airport, his mind still floating through a cannabis-induced cloud. Court documents would later reveal that the SUV followed him along the way—that law enforcement had, in fact, been tracking his location periodically throughout his time in Vegas.
When Hutchins arrived at the airport and made his way through the security checkpoint, he was surprised when TSA agents told him not to bother taking any of his three laptops out of his backpack before putting it through the scanner. Instead, as they waved him through, he remembers thinking that they seemed to be making a special effort not to delay him.
He wandered leisurely to an airport lounge, grabbed a Coke, and settled into an armchair. He was still hours early for his flight back to the UK, so he killed time posting from his phone to Twitter, writing how excited he was to get back to his job analyzing malware when he got home. “Haven’t touched a debugger in over a month now,” he tweeted. He humblebragged about some very expensive shoes his boss had bought him in Vegas and retweeted a compliment from a fan of his reverse-engineering work.
Hutchins was composing another tweet when he noticed that three men had walked up to him, a burly redhead with a goatee flanked by two others in Customs and Border Protection uniforms. “Are you Marcus Hutchins?” asked the red-haired man. When Hutchins confirmed that he was, the man asked in a neutral tone for Hutchins to come with them, and led him through a door into a private stairwell.
Then they put him in handcuffs.
In a state of shock, feeling as if he were watching himself from a distance, Hutchins asked what was going on. “We’ll get to that,” the man said.
Hutchins remembers mentally racing through every possible illegal thing he’d done that might have interested Customs. Surely, he thought, it couldn’t be the thing, that years-old, unmentionable crime. Was it that he might have left marijuana in his bag? Were these bored agents overreacting to petty drug possession?
The agents walked him through a security area full of monitors and then sat him down in an interrogation room, where they left him alone. When the red-headed man returned, he was accompanied by a small blonde woman. The two agents flashed their badges: They were with the FBI.
For the next few minutes, the agents struck a friendly tone, asking Hutchins about his education and Kryptos Logic, the security firm where he worked. For those minutes, Hutchins allowed himself to believe that perhaps the agents wanted only to learn more about his work on WannaCry, that this was just a particularly aggressive way to get his cooperation into their investigation of that world-shaking cyberattack. Then, 11 minutes into the interview, his interrogators asked him about a program called Kronos.
“Kronos,” Hutchins said. “I know that name.” And it began to dawn on him, with a sort of numbness, that he was not going home after all.
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