‘Things could have gone much worse’: Ex-student shot by officer during gunfire exchange at Dixon High School
police officer working at Dixon High School on Wednesday shot a former student who fired a gun near the school’s gym and later tried to shoot the officer Wednesday, officials said.
The incident began about 8 a.m., according to officials speaking at a late-morning news conference. Students had gathered at the gym for graduation practice.
Dixon police Chief Steven Howell said the suspect, a 19-year-old man, “fired several shots” near the gym.
The school resource officer, identified as Mark Dallas, confronted the suspect, who then fled from the school with the officer in pursuit, Howell said. During the pursuit, the suspect fired several shots at the officer but did not strike him.
The officer returned fire and struck the suspect, who was then taken into custody just west of the school, Howell said. He was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening. No one else was injured.
An earlier news account said the gunfire exchange took place in the gym.
Howell and other officials praised the officer for saving lives.
“From the angle I’m looking at right now, at lot of things went right today when a great many of them could have (gone) wrong,” Dixon Mayor Liandro Arellano Jr. said. “Things could have gone much worse.”
“He saved an enormous amount of lives,” Lee County Sheriff John Simonton.
Gov. Bruce Rauner in a statement credited “school resource officer Mark Dallas for his bravery and quick action.”
Authorities have not provided the gunman’s name.
According to WGN-TV, a woman who identified herself as the gunman’s mother told reporters: “My son has been very, very sad for a long time.”
She said her son was bullied and ostracized at school, and was beaten up in October. She said she doesn’t know know where her son got a gun, according to WGN.
Devin Scott, 18, a senior, said he and 150 others students were in gym at 8 a.m. They heard what sounded like firecrackers. Gym teacher Andrew McKay came running into gym and shouted that everyone should get out, Scott said.
“We all got up, and everyone started running toward the doors,” Scott said. “Some people didn’t take it seriously. They thought it was firecrackers. Some people did. They started crying as they were running.”
The students ran out of the building and went to a National Guard armory a short distance from the gymnasium. They didn’t know if the shooting was real or not until other students started pouring into the armory.
Scott said the experience didn’t begin to sink in until his adrenaline began to wear off.
“I almost started crying,” he said. “It was scary. My life could have ended.”
He and his brother, Skylar, 16, a junior, credited Officer Dallas and their teacher, McKay, for preventing what could have been a horrible tragedy.
“I feel like he (Dallas) is a hero. I feel like Mr. McKay is a hero,” Devin Scott said.
Russ Shuck, 65, owner of Russ’ Automotive Service & Towing, said he began to notice something was amiss when students started pouring out from between the houses that separate him from the high school.
“I was sitting here in the office with a couple of other guys drinking Pepsi and shooting the bull,” he said. “We were wondering what was going on. Then we heard the sirens.”
Shuck expressed surprise that a school shooting could happen in a town like Dixon.
“It’s just kinda of shocking that it happened in Dixon,” he said. “Never thought I’d see it around here.”
Authorities say students did exactly as they were trained to do in such situations. Officials said they were pleased to discover that students had barricaded themselves into classrooms by blocking doorways with chairs, desks and other furniture.
Police have not said why the former student came to the school.
Police said they believe the gunman acted alone and that there was no further threat to anyone in the area. Howell declined to discuss why the former student brought a gun to the school.
According to the city of Dixon website, the school resource officer position was started by the Dixon Police Department in 2000 to help prevent school violence.
Officials said all schools in Dixon, which is about 100 miles west of Chicago, were placed on lockdown in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. The other schools reopened after officials determined the gunman acted alone.
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U.S.C. Admits Fault in Response to Complaints Against Gynecologist
LOS ANGELES — For decades, medical staff at the University of Southern California complained about inappropriate touching of students during pelvic exams by a gynecologist at the campus health center. On Tuesday, the university admitted it failed to respond to the accusations strongly or quickly enough.
The scandal comes at a difficult time for the university, which was rocked last year by reports that the former dean of the medical school had spent months partying with criminals and using drugs on campus, and was forced to resign.
In 2016, the university conducted an internal investigation, which concluded that the doctor’s pelvic exams may have been inappropriate and that he had repeatedly made racially and sexually offensive remarks to patients. The doctor, George Tyndall, agreed to retire under a separation agreement last summer, a year after he was suspended, U.S.C. officials said Tuesday.
But university officials did not make a report about Dr. Tyndall to the California Medical Board until earlier this year, after he wrote a letter asking the university for reinstatement. Officials now say that was a mistake. The university made the investigation public after it was contacted by The Los Angeles Times, which first reported the complaints about Dr. Tyndall on Tuesday.
“In hindsight, we should have made this report eight months earlier when he separated from the university,” C. L. Max Nikias, the president of U.S.C., wrote in a letter sent to all students and staff earlier Tuesday.
Mr. Nikias said that there had been repeated complaints about Dr. Tyndall dating back to 2000, which “were concerning enough that it is not clear today why the former health center director permitted Tyndall to remain in his position.”
In its report, The Los Angeles Times found that Dr. Tyndall was not suspended until a frustrated nurse turned to the rape crisis center on campus in 2016.
In its statement, the university did not directly address the most serious allegations of misconduct unearthed by The Los Angeles Times, which were based on extensive interviews with students and university employees as well as documents. The newspaper reported that Dr. Tyndall often photographed women’s genitals, moved his fingers in and out during pelvic exams, and in one case asked a woman if he could keep the IUD he had just removed from her. In recent years, Dr. Tyndall appeared to be targeting students from China.
Dr. Tyndall denied any wrongdoing to The Los Angeles Times and did not return phone calls on Tuesday.
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Rapper T.I. calls arrest outside his gated community ‘nonsense,’ blames ‘white cops’
Atlanta rapper and actor T.I., who reinvented himself as an activist and political force after time in federal prison and years of trouble with the law, was arrested early Wednesday outside his gated community in Henry County, authorities said.
The music star, whose legal name is Clifford Harris Jr., was arrested after returning to the Eagle’s Landing Country Club community in the 100 block of Eagle’s Landing Way around 4 a.m.
T.I. did not have his key and argued with a security guard who would not grant him access, Henry County police said. At some point, the rapper called a friend who eventually joined him.
T.I. was arrested on misdemeanor charges of simple assault, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. His friend, Marquinarius Holmes, 40, of Stockbridge, was arrested on outstanding charges out of Clayton County and for not having proof of car insurance, the sheriff’s office told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Via a live Instagram video, T.I. addressed the arrest as “nonsense” and “small potatoes,” adding that God will take care of it. He appeared in the video while celebrating his son’s 10th birthday at his home.
Later Wednesday, he told TheBlast.com that law enforcement in the county are “white cops in a very white area.”
He was released from the Henry County Jail about 8 a.m. Wednesday after posting $2,250 bond. He did not appear before a judge.
In a statement to The AJC, attorney Steve Sadow said T.I. “was wrongfully arrested” and accused the guard of refusing him entry into his own home after the superstar’s wife confirmed he “should be let in immediately.”
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BREAKING: Just got this from T.I’s attorney about this morning’s arrest
According to Sadow, police were not interested in hearing T.I.’s side of the story when they arrived on the scene and “wrongfully chose to end the situation by arresting” him. Henry police have not addressed the comments from T.I.’s attorney.
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Woman fired after cops seize laxative-laced brownies
DANG??? Are you mad??? I wonder did she use Pepto or Kaopectate? LMBFAO
SALINE, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan engineering company employee has been fired after police determined she baked laxatives into brownies intended for a departing colleague’s send-off.
Saline police Chief Jerrod Hart says officers confiscated the tainted confections May 3 after another employee tipped off management. No one ate the brownies.
The Ann Arbor News reports that Hart says the 47-year-old woman initially denied putting laxatives in the brownies, but after learning investigators would test them she admitted she had. Her name hasn’t been released……
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Rapper T.I. misplaced house keys and the security guard T.I. arested
DAYUM THIS IS AMERICA.
After a Tuesday night out, Atlanta based rapper T.I. attempted to reenter his gated community home, but realized he misplaced his keys. Apparently the security guard wasn’t interested in letting him into his home, and an altercation occurred, which ended up in T.I. being arrested at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
According to the Associated Press, T.I. (born Clifford Harris) was hit with disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and simple assault charges. Before his arrest, T.I. attempted to contact a friend, who came out to assist, who also ended up being arrested because of an outstanding warrant.
Henry County Police says the rapper was released from the Henry County Jail about 8 a.m. Wednesday after posting $2,250 bond. He did not appear before a judge.
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WATCH: White woman calls the cops on black man who’s trying to fix up house in her neighborhood
SIGH ANOTHER DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE BLACK. ? She was like… *Mr Rogers voice* DON’T YOU PLEASE BE MY NEIGHBOR!
A video posted on YouTube earlier this month shows a black real estate investor in Memphis, Tennessee dealing with local police officers after a neighbor called them on him while he was trying to fix up the next-door house.
As real estate investor Michael Hayes writes, he went to the house, which is in a dilapidated condition, to inspect it. The woman came out of the house and asked him what he was doing. At this point, he showed her the investment contract that he had giving him permission to work on the house, as well as written permission that he received from the house’s owner to be on the property.
However, this didn’t seem to satisfy the woman’s suspicions about him, and she ended up calling the police……
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6 states sue maker of OxyContin as they battle expenses, human costs of opioid crisis
Only when it affects YOU or what YOU care about. Is when YOU care about an already existing drug problem. When it effects the WHITE FOLKS is when the nation comes together to solve an already existing problem that has been pledging Black and Brown communities for decades.
AUSTIN — Attorneys general in six states filed lawsuits Tuesday against the maker of OxyContin and other pain medicines, for what the Texas attorney general called misleading marketing tactics that are fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic……..
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NJ teen earns college degree before graduating high school – graduates college on May 19, High school on June 13
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – A New Jersey teen is skipping the usual academic order and earning a college degree before he’s even graduated high school.
Kwinton Adams, 17, is set to earn his associates degree from Warren Community College on Saturday. He graduates from high school on June 13.
“I like studying,” Adams said.
Adams pulls 6-hour study sessions each day to conquer both his high school assignments and college class homework. He earned six Advanced Placement credits toward his degree and took online courses in order to complete his fast track of studies.
“I just schedule and plan when I’m going to do homework,” he said.
Adams also credits his mom for the inspiration to tackle both at once. She gave him his motivation.
“You have to try twice as hard and you should not be afraid to, to like take the next step,” he said.
Adams will attend Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania next fall. He plans to study biology and attend medical school. He wants to be a physician or neurosurgeon.
He offered this tip to other teens: “Don’t doubt yourself.”
via: http://pix11.com/2018/05/15/nj-teen-earns-college-degree-before-graduating-high-school/
Worst ambulance dispatcher ever told woman she’d die
An unapologetic ambulance dispatcher claims she was overworked and under pressure when she told a dying French woman, “You’ll definitely die one day” — hours before the victim actually did, according to reports.
Patient Naomi Musenga was having severe stomach pain when she dialed the city of Strasbourg’s ambulance service and got the gruff operator on the line, BBC News reported.
“I’m going to die,” Musenga told the worker, who replied, “You’ll definitely die one day, like everyone else.”
As Musenga struggled to describe her pain, the dispatcher responded, “If you don’t tell me what’s going on, I’ll hang up!”
The worker, who has not been identified, eventually dispatched a doctor to Musenga instead of an ambulance. After five hours, the 22-year-old victim was rushed to a hospital, where she suffered a stroke and died of multiple organ failure.
The dispatcher, who came under fire for her callous comment, tried to defend herself by saying she and her colleagues are “constantly under pressure” — but she stopped short of apologizing to Musenga’s family.
“In the conditions, let’s say it was inappropriate,” the worker told French TV on Sunday night when asked if she regretted her behavior. “We are constantly under pressure … I can be two or three hours hanging on my phone, I have no time to get up. There’s so much [demand] everywhere. We hang up, and we pick up.”
Last week, her lawyer said she normally fields an average of 2,000 calls a day.
“When … you hear, ‘I have a stomach ache’ … it is true that the first reflex is to think that there is no absolute emergency and that one has to go and see their [general practitioner],” the lawyer said.
The dispatcher had just returned to work after being off for two weeks and started her day at 7:30 a.m. Musenga’s call came four hours into her shift, at 11:30 a.m.
The victim’s 3-minute call dates back to December — but it recently made headlines after the disturbing audio was released.
The worker, who has been a part of the ambulance system for 24 years, has been suspended, the BBC said, citing Le Parisien newspaper.
Musenga’s family said the operator isn’t to blame and sympathized with her stressful working conditions, France’s BFMTV reported.
Authorities are investigating but said they’re looking into streamlining France’s emergency phone numbers, which vary for police, ambulance, fire and the European Union emergency number 112.
Benjamin Griveaux, a spokesman for the French government, said French citizens are more familiar with 911 than their own set of numbers.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/05/14/worst-ambulance-dispatcher-ever-told-woman-shed-die/