Kroger shooting: At least 2 dead and suspect in custody
Both victims died at the store, authorities said.
JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. — A male suspect fatally shot a man and a woman at a Kroger grocery store on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky, and then exchanged fire with an armed bystander before fleeing the scene, police said. He was captured shortly afterward.
Both victims died at the store, said Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers. He did not say whether police had determined a motive in Wednesday’s shooting. He also did not identify the suspect.
Police received a call about 3 p.m. reporting the shooting, Rogers said. He said the suspect fired multiple rounds at the man inside the store, and shot the female victim multiple times out in the parking lot. A citizen armed with a gun engaged the shooter in the parking lot, but the suspect was able to flee before he was captured on a nearby road, Rogers said.
Eric Deacon, who identified himself as an EMT, told The Associated Press that he was in the self-checkout lane of the store when he heard the first shot, in the pharmacy.
He said a man came around the corner and “the look on his face, he looked like he just didn’t care.”
Deacon said he saw another man in the store with a gun who appeared to be shooting at the suspect, trying to get him out of the store. Deacon went outside and saw a woman in her mid-50s or early 60s who had been hit, and tried to resuscitate her.
“She was gone, there’s nothing I could do,” Deacon said. “I think she just got caught in the crossfire.”
As police officers swarmed the scene and blocked off the area with yellow crime tape, a man identified by the Louisville Courier Journal as Tim King stood in the parking lot waiting for his wife to come out. He said he drove to the store after she called him sobbing to tell him what had happened.
“I said, ‘What’s wrong?'” King said in a video posted on the newspaper’s website. “And she said, ‘There’s someone shooting up here.'”
King said his wife said she heard popping noises, then someone ran around a corner and said, “Oh my God, he’s killed her.”
Customers were moved to the back of the store, she said.
“It’s just a very, very scary situation,” King said.
The Kroger Co. issued a statement saying that company officials were “shocked and saddened by the shooting.”
“Thanks to the quick response of the local police department, the suspect was apprehended and our store is secure.”
The store was closed and will not reopen until the investigation is complete, the release said.
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Airstrike kills at least 19 civilians at vegetable market in Yemen’s Hodeidah, official says
At least 19 civilians were killed and 10 others injured on Wednesday in an airstrike at a vegetable market in Yemen, a local health minister told NBC News.
The airstrike hit a market in the city of Yemen’s Hodeidah province, Sana’a-based heath minister Taha Mutawakil said. Eight of the injured were in critical condition and at a local hospital, he said.
The minister added that the bodies were so badly damaged that it was not yet possible if those killed were men, women or children.
A Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015 has conducted frequent airstrikes targeting the Iran-aligned Houthi group and has often hit civilians, although it denies doing so intentionally, according to Reuters.
News of the airstrike comes as Saudi Arabia is facing international condemnation for the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi at a consulate in Istanbul. When the kingdom finally acknowledged Khashoggi’s death — 17 days after he disappeared after entering the consulate to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage — Saudi Arabia claimed the writer died following a “quarrel and fighting by hand.”
That explanation, and repeated claims that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was unaware of the operation, even though some of his lieutenants were involved, has drawn international skepticism.
On Tuesday, the Saudi government said a 15-member squad was sent to take Khashoggi, a legal resident of the U.S., to a safe house in Turkey for up to two days to try to convince him to return to his homeland.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country has “strong signs that this murder did not stem from a momentary incident, but it is rather a planned operation.”
Residents in Yemen told Reuters violent clashes erupted in the southern outskirts of Hodeidah, a port city that pro-government forces have been trying to capture from the Houthis since the renewal of an offensive in September.
A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Colonel Turki al-Malki, told Reuters the alliance is investigating the incident.
“We take this report very seriously and it will be fully investigated, as all reports of this nature are, using an internationally approved, independent process. Whilst this is ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further,” he said.
The coalition sometimes admits “errors” and has in the past pledged to hold accountable anyone who caused civilian deaths, according to Reuters.
The coalition entered Yemen’s conflict after the Houthis ousted the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than 2 million and driven the country, already the poorest on the Arabian Peninsula, to the verge of widespread famine.
On Tuesday, the United Nations humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said, “There is now a clear and present danger of an imminent and great big famine engulfing Yemen: much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives.”
The U.N. said that revised assessments showed that the number of people facing pre-famine conditions could soon reach reach 14 million, three million more than the estimate last month.
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2 middle school girls planned to kill classmates and drink their blood
BARTOW, Fla. — Authorities in central Florida say two middle school girls brought knives to school in a foiled plot to kill classmates, cut them up and drink their blood.
Arrest affidavits released Wednesday by the Bartow Police Department say the two girls, ages 11 and 12, were armed with knives Tuesday at Bartow Middle School before they were caught. No one was hurt.
Investigators say the girls planned to stake out a bathroom and wait for smaller students to enter.
The affidavit says the students planned to cut their victims’ throats, cut up their bodies, eat the flesh and drink their victims’ blood.
Authorities say the students then planned to kill themselves.
Police say the plot was foiled when administrators searched for them after they didn’t show up for class.
Venom Movie Review
After his horrible version is Spider-Man 3 Venom was finally able to get his own solo movie! But does it live up to its height? Let’s see!
I know I’m several weeks late on this review m,but better late than never. I saw Venom the weekend it was released and despite all of the negative reviews I thought it was a pretty decent movie.
Venom by no means is a perfect movie but it’s definitely no where near as bad as critics say it is. Though the plot is somewhat predictable I still enjoyed it nonetheless. But the most stand out parts of the movie were Eddie Brock and Venom.
Tom Hardy definitely delivered when it came to both of these characters. I loved their dynamic and I especially loved their comedic moments. Since this movie will more than likely get a sequel, I look forward to seeing more of their relationship dynamic in the future.
However with the good that this movie has, there’s also the bad. The villain of this movie is very bland and forgettable. Riot who appears in this movie doesn’t get too much screen time and last but not least, no bloodshed.
You would think that after the success of Logan and both Deadpool films that Sony would give Venom the R rating it deserved. Turns out we were wrong, and it caused the movie to suffer. With scenes of Venom slamming people into walls, or biting their heads off, you’d think you’d see blood right? Wrong. There’s absolutely no sign of blood after Venom does damage and I feel like that’s a tad bit ridiculous. This is why movies like Venom need R ratings to showcase things like this.
But despite all of this I did enjoy the movie and on a scale of 1-10 I give it a 7/10. I still look forward to it’s sequels and I hope it ups the ante with an R rating next go round!
Freshman dies after ‘initiation’ party where students bobbed for apples in urine
Students bobbed for apples in a mixture of booze and urine as part of a drink-fuelled initiation ceremony where a British student died, an inquest heard.
First-year economics student Ed Farmer, 20, died after being found slumped in a corridor not breathing at the end of a student society’s night out in Newcastle in 2016.
Although he was rushed to the hospital, he died the next day with his parents at his bedside.
During the initiation, freshmen had their heads shaved by older students and drank vodka from a pig’s head after visiting bars in the city center.
The inquest previously heard that 100 treble vodkas were consumed by the 40-strong group in just seven minutes at one of the stops on the undergraduate bar crawl.
CCTV footage shown to the inquest showed Ed being carried by two friends in a Metro station at one point in the evening because he was too drunk to walk.
He was later discovered not breathing at around 4 a.m. by the chairman of the Agricultural Society, James Carr, and driven to the hospital.
The court was told that if Ed had been taken to hospital sooner, he may have been saved.
Newcastle University had banned boozy initiations, leading to one student suggesting that others should deny knowledge of the ceremony in which Ed died.
Jonathan Hedley told the inquest he sent a WhatsApp message to other students as a “joke” telling them to pretend to not know anything about the event.
He said the message – which was sent before he realized how serious the situation was – read: “The three D’s boys, deny, deny, deny”.
The secret ceremony began with an invitation being sent to first-years for the bar crawl telling them to bring $39, lubrication, swimming goggles, a Kinder egg candy and a train ticket.
Society chairman James Carr admitted that the first-years drank more on the night with the second- and third-years “egging them on.”
Man points gun at girlfriend’s face when baby shower runs late
HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas — A Central Texas man has been arrested after police say he pointed a loaded gun at his pregnant girlfriend when her baby shower at their home went longer than planned.
Bell County Jail records show 42-year-old Raymond Allen Strange of Harker Heights was jailed Tuesday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Online records listed no attorney for Strange, whose bond was $100,000.
Police in Harker Heights, 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of Austin, responded to a report of a man with a gun threatening a woman.
Police say Strange was upset that the shower was supposed to end at 7 p.m. Sunday but was still going on when he arrived at 7:30 p.m.
Police say the girlfriend apologized to Strange before he told everyone to leave and pointed a gun at her face.
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Halloween Movie Review
The time for Halloween is almost upon us and it arrived a little early in the form of a movie. Halloween is the direct sequel to the original 1978 slasher film ignoring everything from Halloween 2 on down. Does it live up to its height? Let’s find out.
Let me start off by saying that I really enjoyed this movie. It’s rare these days that a horror movie can entertaining these days though it seems like it’s slowly turning around. Everything from the acting to the pacing was great in my opinion.
Jamie Lee Curtis is still great as Laurie Strode and you really get to see how much Michael Myers has traumatized her character for the past 40 years.
The eeriness Of Michael Myers is still there as well, even after being locked up for 40 years and still never speaking he still sits there waiting for his chance to escape and kill again. One aspect that they removed from the franchise is the sibling relationship between Michael and Laurie which makes his obsession to kill her that much more creepy and frightening.
One thing that this movie does really good is make callbacks to the original film and some of its sequels. To people getting pinned to walls with knives to eerie creepy ghost costumes, it’s definitely a nostalgia trip.
However I will say my most favorite part in this movie and is the little black boy in this movie! All I have to say is, I want my future son to be just like him when it comes down to danger!
All in all Halloween was a very fun and enjoyable film, will there be a sequel? Who knows, but for now this maybe the best one since the original film, I give it a good 9/10! If you haven’t seen it yet, go see it soon!
Parents upset after drag queen speaks to students on career day
THORNTON, Colo. – The principal of a Colorado middle school is apologizing for not warning parents before a drag queen spoke to their children during career day Friday.
Some Rocky Top Middle School parents told KDVR they are furious that she was invited to speak, alongside a police officer and an architect.
“I was pretty appalled. I was pretty surprised. It was a shock because no one was notified,” parent Jen Payer said.
Ms. Jessica is a gay man, who was invited by one of her fans, a Rocky Top student, to come to career day. All of the guests talked about their jobs and their connection to literacy.
“This person is an adult entertainer and is talking to 12-year-old students about something that’s adult [in] nature,” parent Heather Rogers said.
KDVR reached out to the Rocky Top principal, Chelsea Behanna, who said this event reflected the diversity of the community.
In a letter send home to parents on Monday, she wrote, “Jessica read a chapter from Horrible Harry and she used the text to illustrate the damage bullies can do, the need to always put kindness and acceptance at the forefront, and the shortsightedness of judging a book by its cover.”
Ms. Jessica told KDVR she used career day to show kids it’s okay to be different.
“I had a couple kids that were like, ‘I’m gay in school and I get bullied every week and I don’t know what to do and just talking to you helped me realize that I can still be me and still be happy,’” Jessica said. “I got messages being like, ‘thank you so much for coming to my class. I was having a really horrible week and you made my day.’”
But some parents said they should have been notified so they could make the decision to have their child attend the career day or not.
When asked if she would allow her daughter to attend, Payer said, “No. Not for that day.”
Principal Behanna said in a letter to parents:
“I take responsibility for not notifying families ahead of time and apologize for any stress this has caused you and your child. Moving forward, a prominent step in planning for next year will be to share the guest list for all families prior to the event. Should you feel like any of the sessions are not appropriate for your child, you’ll be welcome to notify us and we’ll make alternate arrangements for your child during that time.”
Meanwhile Jessica says the negative feedback from some parents won’t stop her from speaking to kids, no matter the age.
“I want to go to more elementary schools, because of this experience at Rocky Top, I’ve already reached out to a couple people about how to develop a Ted Talk,” Jessica said.
Jessica uses the stage name “Jessica L’Whor.” She told KDVR she introduced herself as Ms. Jessica during career day because she did not think her last name was appropriate for a school setting.
This is the letter that Principal Behanna sent out to parents:
October 22nd, 2018
Good Afternoon Grizzly Families,
Last Friday, Rocky Top hosted our 2nd Annual Rocky Top READS! event, and it was a great success because of so many people! We put out a call to our families and community members and received an overwhelming response. As a result, we welcomed more than 100 guest readers throughout the day on Friday!
Our volunteer guest readers spent 20 minutes in different classrooms talking about their career and its connection to literacy, reading to the students and then answering questions. In addition to highlighting the connection between literacy and a successful career, this event reflected the diversity of our community. We had a broad range of careers represented— emergency responders, elected officials, clergy, research assistants, tradespeople, journalists, professional athletes and even a drag queen!
All families in our Grizzly community are receiving this letter because a handful of people have expressed concern over the presence of a drag queen in our middle school. Jessica, the drag queen, began her guest session with an explanation of her career–as did all other guests. She explained that she is a performer who, though a man, portrays a woman for her performances. She detailed her background in the performing arts throughout middle and high school, talked about her dream of being a teacher, then explained how she earned a business degree from Colorado State University. Jessica then read a great chapter from Horrible Harry in Room 2B by Suzy Kline. She used the text to illustrate the damage bullies can do, the need to always put kindness and acceptance at the forefront, and the shortsightedness of judging a book by its cover. Students were completely engaged and asked lots of great questions.
I take responsibility for not notifying families ahead of time and apologize for any stress this has caused you and your child. This year we used the same process as last year, sharing the schedule of speakers with staff so they could prepare students and plan for questions, but realize we cannot make it the students’ responsibility to share that information at home. Moving forward, a prominent step in planning for next year will be to share the guest list for all families prior to the event. Should you feel like any of the sessions are not appropriate for your child, you’ll be welcome to notify us and we’ll make alternate arrangements for your child during that time.
We’re thankful for the many volunteers who made this year’s Rocky Top READS! event a success. The focus of the event was a celebration of literacy and was reflected in the incredibly positive experiences of staff, students and guests throughout the day.
Thank you for your continued support of Rocky Top,
Chelsea
Chelsea Behanna
Principal
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Rae Carruth released from prison 17 years after conviction in murder of son’s mother
In 2001, Rae Carruth went to prison, convicted for conspiracy to murder his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams.
Monday he walked free, having completed his sentence. At 8:02 a.m. ET, Carruth, the former Carolina Panthers wide receiver, walked out of Sampson Correctional Institution, got in a white Chevy Tahoe and drove away without speaking to an assembly of reporters outside the facility.
“I’m excited about just being out of here. I’m nervous just about how I’ll be received by the public,” Carruth said in a phone interview with WSOC-TV on Sunday. “I still have to work. I still have to live. I have to exist out there and it just seems like there is so much hate and negativity toward me. I’m actually somewhat frightened.”
Whether he will seek a relationship with his son, who was born with brain damage after being removed from his dying mother’s womb, is unclear.
Carruth’s son born with cerebral palsy
Chancellor Lee Adams, now 18, was born with cerebral palsy after Carruth’s accomplices shot his 24-year-old mother in her BMW while she was eight months pregnant in Charlotte, North Carolina. He requires a caregiver.
Adams said in a Nov. 16, 1999, 911 call that Carruth, then a third-year wide receiver with the Carolina Panthers, stopped his car in front of her as she was following him from a movie date. That’s when three accomplices of Carruth’s pulled up and shot her through the driver’s side window of her car, according to her account.
Adams survived long enough to have a C-section to save her son, but died four weeks later from her injuries. She was 24.
Carruth jumped bail, hid trunk of a car
Carruth was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder after the shooting. When Adams died, he jumped bail and fled. FBI agents found him hiding in the trunk of a car in the parking lot of a Tennessee Best Western motel.
Carruth was eventually convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied dwelling and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child. He was sentenced to 18-to-24 years in prison. He escaped a first-degree murder conviction, which could have carried the death penalty.
Now 44, Carruth is a free man.
Carruth wanted custody of his son after prison release
Carruth reached out publicly during his final months in prison, wavering on his desire to have a relationship with his son and confronting Chancellor’s caretaker Saundra Adams, Cherica’s mother.
He broke a 17-year silence in February in an interview with Charlotte’s WBTV in a letter to Saundra Adams he gave to the TV station. He didn’t detail the specifics of the night of Cherica’s murder, but he did apologize, though he’s never done so directly for conspiring to murder Adams.
“I’m apologizing for the loss of her daughter,” Carruth told WBTV of Saundra. “I’m apologizing for the impairment of my son. I feel responsible for everything that happened. And I just want her to know that truly I am sorry for everything.
“If I could change anything, I’d change the whole situation. His mother would still be here and I wouldn’t be where I’m at. So that’s what I’d want to change. I want the incident to never have happened at all.”
His outreach wasn’t all conciliatory. Carruth’s letter lashed out at Saundra and declared his desire to “debunk the lies that Ms. Adams continues to tell about me.”
Carruth hasn’t seen son since he was a baby
Carruth met his son twice in the early years of his life — once on the night of his birth and another during a court-ordered visitation when Chancellor was around 1 year old. Carruth hasn’t seen him since, according to The Observer. But he has watched from afar via news reports and developed an attachment to his now-grown son.
He made a plea, via WBTV, for custody of the son he almost killed in the womb.
“I let him down as he came into this world, and the only way that I can make that right, and the only way I can work out my relationship with my son is to be there for him, Carruth said.”
“I should be raising my son. His mother should be raising her son. Ms. Adams should not be doing this, and I want that responsibility back. I feel like he might not ever have his mother in his life, but he could still have me, and I could still make a difference, and I don’t think that’s anyone’s responsibility when I’m still here.”
His letter echoed that plea.
“I mean come on, Ms. Adams, the reality is you aren’t going to be around forever,” Carruth wrote. “At some point, someone else will have to be responsible for Chancellor’s care. … I would like to be in a position to be seriously considered as a viable option.”
Saundra Adams: Carruth won’t get custody
Saundra, 60, told The Observer that she had forgiven Carruth and was open to him seeing his son.
She has watched Chancellor as he defied doctors’ expectations that he would never walk, graduating to a walker and eventually able to take steps on his own. She has family that she says will take over Chancellor’s care when she’s not able.
Custody for Carruth is not on the table.
“I’ve forgiven Rae already, but to have any type of relationship with him, there does have to be some repentance,” Adams said. “And I think this opens the door. But I can say definitively he’s not ever going to have custody of Chancellor. Chancellor will be raised either by me or, after I’m gone, by someone else who loves him and who knows him. He will never be raised by a stranger – someone he doesn’t know and who tried to kill him.”
Carruth’s accomplice not so forgiving
Saundra isn’t the only person not ready to give Carruth the benefit of the doubt. Carruth’s accomplices all received prison sentences for Cherica’s murder. While two of them — Michael Kennedy and Stanley Abraham — have been released, the third remains behind bars.
Van Brett Watkins admitted to firing five shots into Cherica’s car the night she was killed. He’s not scheduled to be released from prison until 2046 on a second-degree murder conviction. He sounded vindictive in a letter sent to The Observer.
“I believe the public should see what Rae Carruth ‘PAID’ me to do,” Watkins wrote. “Unlike Mrs. S. Adams … I don’t forgive Carruth. He owes me.”
Carruth has change of heart
In March, Carruth wrote another letter to Adams, this time shared with Observer columnist Scott Fowler. He’d experienced a change of heart on his desire to connect with his son.
“For all involved or invested in this ordeal, please calm down,” Carruth wrote. “I will no longer be pursuing a relationship with Chancellor and Ms. Adams. I promise to leave them be, which I now see is in everyone’s best interest.”
“I now understand that any notions of me one day being welcome to Sunday dinner is totally out of the question. And lastly, I didn’t foresee the media and general public being unanimous in its belief that I shouldn’t be allowed to ever have anything to do with Chancellor.”
What’s next for Carruth is a mystery. He’s walking into a world he won’t recognize, that’s seen more than 17 years of rapid social and technological change.
However he deals with the transition, it seems unfathomable that he would be allowed to have a relationship with Chancellor, a son he didn’t want and tried to have killed. That’s a conclusion he appears to have reached in March.
Whether he still feels that upon release and if he plans to approach his son are unknown.
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