Ohio man fatally shoots son while deer hunting
An Ohio man shot and killed his son when he mistook him for a deer on a hunting trip, officials said.
Bradley Smith, 63, shot his 28-year-old son, Andrew Smith, while with a group of friends last week in a heavily wooded area just outside the city of Delaware, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
“It’s just the worst kind of tragedy,” said Tracy Whited, a spokeswoman for the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office. “He thought he was shooting at a deer. It was his son.”
The shooting occurred just before dusk around 5:45 p.m. Dec. 2, Whited said.
Emergency crews responded to the shooting but the younger Smith was pronounced dead at the scene.
He had not been wearing any orange shooting gear, which is legally required when hunting during deer season 30 minutes before sunset, the newspaper reported.
His father will not face any charges in his death, authorities said.
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Dad who died from cancer left son $10 to buy first beer on 21st birthday
A Massachusetts man learned on his 21st birthday that his late father left him a $10 bill to buy his first legal beer — so he celebrated with a heartfelt toast to his old man.
“Almost 6 years ago before my dad passed he gave my sister this 10$ bill to give to me on my 21st birthday so he could buy me my first beer, cheers pops havin this one for you!” Matt Goodman tweeted Sunday, along with a photo of himself sipping suds from a frosty mug.
Goldman, whose father died of cancer in 2014, had no clue his dad had instructed his sister Casey and his mom to keep the beer money a secret until the young man’s milestone birthday.
So the son was flooded with emotion when Casey handed him an envelope with the dough inside last week.
“She kind of explained the backstory and everything, and then it turned into a pretty emotional moment, and [I] started crying,” Goldman told CBS Boston.
On birthdays and other big life events, Goldman has struggled with the empty spot where his dad once was, Casey told the station.
“Him and my dad were so close, and he’s had such a hard time anytime that a monumental moment comes up in his life that my dad’s not there,” she said of her sibling.
It was just like their father to have the forethought to know his boy would miss drinking with him on his 21st birthday, she said.
Matt Goldman said he and his pop had a strong bond, often going fishing, riding quads and playing games in their backyard before he got sick.
“Me and him were just like best friends,” he told the station. “Anytime we would hang out, it was just like having fun.”
The son’s now-viral post struck a chord on Twitter, prompting users to share stories about losing loved ones and family members.
“My dad passed when I was 13,” one observer wrote. “What I’d give to simply have a beer [with him].”
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12-year-old boy takes parents’ car and goes on a 5-hour, multi-state joyride with 7 year old cousin – outruns state trooper
(Meredith) — A social media challenge may have inspired a 12-year-old boy to take his 7-year-old cousin on a 100-mile joyride.
Police spent hours on Monday searching for the kids, who traveled from New York to the New Jersey-Delaware border in a Range Rover.
Someone reported the children missing around 9 a.m. in Queens.
Investigators said surveillance video showed the 12-year-old boy took the keys to a white Range Rover before he and his 7-year-old cousin drove off.
Police used an electronic toll collection system and license plate readers to track the vehicle on the Verrazano Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island, around 11 a.m.
New Jersey State Troopers later spotted the SUV and flashed sirens to get it to stop — but the boys sped off.
Authorities eased off the pursuit for the safety of the children. At 2:15 p.m., police said the 12-year-old used his dad’s credit card to buy cookies at a rest stop.
The credit card was flagged, and the kids were apprehended.
It turns out the 100-mile joyride may have been inspired by a social media challenge — taking a car and driving it until it runs out of gas.
Police are withholding the children’s names because they are minors.
The two cousins were taken to an area hospital for a check-up, then to the local police precinct for questioning before being reunited with their family.
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Drugs recalled after “mix-up” packages depression medication and erectile dysfunction drug together
(CNN) — Parmaceutical distributor AvKare is voluntarily recalling 100mg sildenafil tablets and 100mg trazodone tablets due to a “product mix-up,” the company announced Wednesday. The tablets were “inadvertently packaged together” when they were bottled by a third-party vendor.
Sildenafil is the active ingredient in Viagra, which is used for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Trazodone is used to treat major depressive disorder.
Unintentional consumption of sildenafil can pose serious health risks for those with underlying health issues, such as lowering blood pressure to dangerous levels for those taking prescriptions containing nitrates.
Unintentional intake of trazodone can results in sedation, dizziness, constipation and blurred vision. So far, AvKare said, it has not received any reports of adverse events related to this recall.
The lots that are being recalled are sildenafil 100 mg tablet Lot 36884 with an expiration date of 03/2022 and trazodone hydrochloride 100 mg tablet lot 36783 with an expiration date of 06/2022.
Consumers with questions about the recall can contact AvKARE at 1-855-361-3993 Monday- Friday (8am — 4pm CST).
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Ga. Girl, 5, Is Fatally Shot by Playmate Accidentally After Man Allegedly Left Gun Unattended
A 5-year-old Georgia girl was fatally shot last week, and authorities allege the person who accidentally pulled the trigger was a small child who was her lifelong playmate.
Little Jada Willingham died on Friday, soon after arriving at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston Hospital, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WXIA-TV and WAGA-TV.
She’d been shot in the face in what police suspect was an accidental shooting.
However, detectives continue to investigate the shooting inside a home in Lithonia.
Investigators spoke to Jada’s longtime babysitter, who was in the house when the tragedy unfolded.
The 68-year-old woman told DeKalb County police investigators Jada was one of four children she was watching at the time of the shooting.
According to the Journal-Constitution, police arrived at the home at about 3:20 p.m., to find the babysitter kneeling on the ground next to Jada, using a cloth to stop the bleeding.
According to the reports, the shooter and the victim had known each other their entire young lives.
The babysitter said the two girls had been been playing together, and apparently had found a loaded handgun, playing with it in a bedroom.
The babysitter recalled hearing the gunshot from where she was in the kitchen. Crying followed; she ran to the bedroom, and found Jada unconscious on the floor, bleeding from her face,
On Saturday, police charged 36-year-old Chad Brooks, Sr., with second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to children for allegedly leaving the gun unattended.
Brooks is currently in custody at the DeKalb County Jail. He’s yet to enter pleas to the charges he faces, and information on his attorney was unavailable Thursday.
A GoFundMe campaign has been established online to help Jada’s family pay for her impending funeral.
According to the GoFundMe page, Jada “was a beautiful, loving little girl” who loved Barbie dolls and painting.
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Utah teacher admits to inappropriate relationship with 14-year-old student
A Utah teacher has admitted having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old pupil — even sneaking her into their school in a large storage bin, according to an affidavit.
Father of four Lucas Sloan Talley, 38, had “personal contact via text message and email with multiple young girls” during his 12 years at South Hills Middle School in Riverton, according to the affidavit obtained by Deseret News.
That increased when the school shut down because of the pandemic and he “struggled” with no longer getting the girls’ “validation” that he “thrives on,” he told investigators, according to the affidavit.
He started to think of being a “couple” with one 14-year-old girl, with “multiple emails, text messages and video messages” showing him telling the teen “he loves her and misses her,” the affidavit said.
“Lucas began taking treats to the young female’s home and spending time (hours) inside the girl’s home with her,” admitting to hugging and inappropriately touching the girl multiple times, police said.
The girl was “scared something sexual was about to happen and felt uncomfortable” — and her mother warned the teacher to stop contacting her daughter, the Deseret News said.
But he persisted — and even smuggled her into their school when it was closed because of the pandemic, the affidavit said.
“Lucas told the girl to get into a large black and yellow Sterilite bin. Lucas placed the Sterilite bin (with the female victim inside of the bin) on a dolly device and wheeled the girl into his classroom,” the affidavit said.
He told cops that he named the bin after the girl, and put a note inside reading, “Hope your box is comfortable.”
Talley said the girl’s parents didn’t know he had put her in a bin — and admitted he “does not feel a girl at the age of 14 is able to consent or even choose to be put into a bin and wheeled into his classroom,” the report said.
Talley resigned from the school a week before he was arrested and charged with two counts of kidnapping Friday, the paper said. He is being held without bail, jail records show.
“Lucas told detectives he has had other parents reach out to him and tell him to stop talking to their young daughters,” the affidavit said.
“Detectives are still actively investigating other cases which will be linked to Lucas,” police said, according to the Utah paper.
Jordan School District spokeswoman Sandy Riesgraf confirmed that Talley is “no longer employed” by the district but declined further comment, citing the ongoing police investigation, the paper said.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/teacher-admits-to-inappropriate-relationship-with-14-year-old-girl/
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Black man carrying sandwiches was shot and killed on his grandmother’s doorstep last week by a sheriff’s deputy
Franklin County sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade was working with the U.S. Marshal’s fugitive task force looking for violent offenders when he opened fire on Casey Christopher Goodson Jr., 23, as he was entering his home in Columbus Friday, Columbus police said.
Columbus police had said earlier that Goodson was carrying a gun, and that Meade, a 17 year veteran in the force, had recovered it at the scene.
Meanwhile, U.S. Marshal Peter Tobin said at a press conference Friday that Meade reported Goodson was drove by and waved a gun at him.
Goodson’s family didn’t confirm whether he was carrying a gun or not when he was shot.
But Walton + Brown LLP, the law firm representing Goodson’s family painted a different picture, saying he picked up Subway sandwiches on his way home from the dentist and was gunned down in front of his 72-year-old grandmother and two toddlers.
His family watched in horror as Goodson fell to the ground and the sandwiches laid next to him in a pool of his blood, the firm said.
Tamala Payne called her son’s death “senseless” and said couldn’t understand why he was killed.
“This was senseless. My son would not have harmed a fly. If my son was given a command, he would have listened,” the grieving mother told CNN on Tuesday. “He was a law abiding citizen. Everything he did was legal. My son was murdered and there’s no way around it. He deserves justice.”
The incident began when Meade reported seeing a man with a gun, and encountered Goodson. The two men exchanged words before Meade shot and killed Goodson, police said, adding that Goodson wasn’t the man the deputy was looking for during the investigation.
Columbus police said there were no witnesses to the shooting and no body cam footage because Franklin County deputies aren’t issued cameras.
Sean Walton, the family’s attorney, said the allegation that Goodson was waving a gun is outrageous.
“It doesn’t make sense,” he told NBC News on Monday. “Who drives down the street waving a gun out of the window? This isn’t a music video. This is real life.”
He added that Goodson was licensed to carry a gun and Ohio doesn’t prohibit the open carrying of firearms.
Meade has been placed on paid administrative leave pending and investigation, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced Tuesday it has opened a civil rights investigation into Goodson’s death and is working the FBI and Columbus police.
Columbus police is conducting a separate investigation where homicide detectives will turn over evidence to the Franklin County prosecutor who will then present to the grand jury, which will determine if the shooting was justified.
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Woman sues boyfriend for not proposing after 8 years
A story first reported by the Kenyan news site Tuko has gone viral globally for its protagonist’s folk hero-like litigiousness. According to Tuko, Gertrude Ngoma grew tired of waiting for her boyfriend of eight years — and the father of her child — to propose and decided that he’d wasted her time to a criminal degree. So she took him to court.
Ngoma, 26, reportedly sued her partner Herbert Salaliki, 28, not only for fiddling away years of her life without eventually proposing to her, as she alleged he had promised he would, but also for texting with another woman, Tuko reported.
“He has never been serious, that is why I [brought] him to court, because I deserve to know the way forward and our future,” Ngoma told a Zambian court, according to Tuko.
Salaliki defended himself with the excuse that he is not currently in a financial position to afford a wedding and, to add insult to injury, he accused Ngoma — who still lives with her parents — of not giving him sufficient attention in their relationship.
The case’s judge, Evelyn Nalwize, reportedly told Ngoma that the court could not do anything for her as there was no formal marriage, Zambian news site Mwebantu reported.
The Tuko article compares the woman’s story to another recent marriage drama aired on the internet, in which a woman talked on-camera about how she had given up on young men because they take forever to propose and that it’s more advisable to marry an older man who will take good care of his wife.
“I’m tired of these games. A man courts you for one, two, five, others to eight years and when you ask them when you guys are getting married he never lacks a reason,” the woman said in Swahili in the clip, Tuko reported. “They claim they have not settled yet, all those years, when will you ever be ready?”
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Server told she was ‘too old’ to ‘handle’ rowdy crowd at NYC eatery
A middle-aged Queens woman was hired at a Forest Hills restaurant, then promptly fired before taking her first drink order — when the owner told her she “couldn’t handle” the rowdy night crowds because of her age and gender, new court papers allege.
Out-of-work events planner Mara Risa Newman, 51, was desperate for a job when she applied to work as a server at Dylan’s Forest Hills on July 2, according to her Queens Supreme Court lawsuit from Tuesday.
The owner, Brian Urbina, hired her on the spot and scheduled her for training five days later, the court papers say.
When Newman showed up at the scheduled time, “Urbina sat her down and told her she was ‘too old’ for the position, which he had just days ago hired her for, and that the position was ‘beneath her,’” the court documents claim.
What’s more, “Urbina told her that as a woman she would not be able to handle the rowdy men at Dylan’s in the evening,” the suit alleges.
Newman — who says she’s planned events including the Atlantic City Borgata opening and a Maxim Superbowl party — hasn’t had work since the pandemic hit, she told The Post.
“I applied to over 1,000 jobs since March,” Newman said in an interview. “I applied for lot of server positions, a lot of manager positions.”
“I was so shocked that I was speechless, because I’ve never experienced that,” Newman said. “Especially during COVID when nothing’s beneath anyone. Minimum wage is the same for any age.”
“I would have worked 150 times harder than any 20-year-old,” Newman said.
So Newman was delighted when Urbina offered her the job — only to be devastated when he so quickly reneged on the offer, according to Newman and the court papers.
“I’m used to doing whatever it takes to make my clients happy,” she said. “So to be told that you’re too old, that being a woman you wouldn’t be able to handle being a server, is beyond my comprehension.”’
Newman’s lawyer, Matthew Blit of law firm Levine & Blit, slammed the restaurant for having “the audacity to blatantly deny my client work because of her age and gender.
“Now, instead of serving food for Dylan’s, together we will be serving justice at Dylan’s,” he said.
Urbina told The Post that Newman’s allegations are false — including that he said she couldn’t handle the rowdy patrons.
“Nobody gets rowdy. This is Forest Hills, dude. It’s not a rowdy neighborhood,” Urbina said adding that his restaurant doesn’t even have a bar area.
Knowing that Newman was an event planner he asked her to submit a proposal for starting a catering service at the restaurant. Only Newman never followed through, Urbina claimed.
“I think that she’s gone through a hard time,” Urbina said. “She showed up here crying a few times and I felt bad.
“I said, ‘We’re looking to go into catering and you do this thing, maybe you can do this for us.’ It was the biggest mistake I could have done,” Urbina said.
“I have older people working for me. It’s just not an issue,” he said. “My reputation’s impeccable.”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/server-told-she-was-too-old-to-handle-rowdy-crowd-at-nyc-eatery-suit/
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Doctors warn teens not to try new ‘scalp popping’ TikTok trend
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — A new TikTok trend has teens pulling their scalp in hopes of getting it to “pop.”
The hashtag “scalp popping” has more than 6.5 million views on the popular video sharing app.
But is scalp popping safe?
Pediatrician Dr. Andrew Doyle weighed in on this new trend.
“What you’re trying to do is pull tissue layers apart in your scalp,” he said. “If you pull too hard or the wrong way you risk tearing the tissue, tearing the skin itself and pulling out a whole lot of hair.”
Dr. Doyle says while this trend might not be the most dangerous thing on the Internet, it does help him discuss social media with his patients.
“Teens need to be aware that not everything they see on the Internet or on TikTok is safe or what they think it is,” he said.
One New York massage therapist says this practice has actually been around for years, but says someone could still hurt themselves or pull out a chunk of hair.
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