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But he and his 32-year-old wife, Yusleydis Blanca Loyola, refused to comply, police said.

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A Georgia sheriff's deputy was shot and killed while responding to a reported domestic dispute in what police said was an ambush on officers by a suspect who took his own life.

Deputy Brandon Cunningham, 30, and another deputy responded to a call shortly after 6 a.m. ET Saturday at a home in a subdivision in Hiram, Georgia. Upon arrival, a male suspect fired a "hail of bullets" at the deputies and other officers, striking Cunningham, Major Ashley Henson of the Paulding County Sherriff's Office said during a news briefing.

"Unfortunately, it appears as if our deputies were ambushed," Henson said.

He called the shooting a "tremendously tragic situation."

Activists and doctors in India demand better safeguarding of women and medical professionals after a trainee medic was raped and murdered in Kolkata.

Activists and doctors across India continued to protest on Wednesday to demand justice for a female doctor, who was raped and murdered while on duty in a hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata.

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A 31-year-old trainee doctor’s dead body, bearing multiple injuries, was found on August 9 in a government teaching hospital in Kolkata.

The parents of the victim were initially told “by hospital authorities that their daughter had committed suicide,” lawyer and women’s rights activist Vrinda Grover told Al Jazeera. But an autopsy confirmed that the victim was raped and killed.

Olympic boxing champion Khelif is understood to have filed a criminal complaint to French authorities.

The complaint details alleged "acts of aggravated cyber harassment" against the Algerian boxer.

Khelif's lawyer Nabil Boudi told Variety: "JK Rowling and Elon Musk are named in the lawsuit, among others.

"Trump tweeted, so whether or not he is named in our lawsuit, he will inevitably be looked into as part of the prosecution.

"What we’re asking is that the prosecution investigates not only these people but whoever it feels necessary.

The Parisian lawyer added: "If the case goes to court, they will stand trial."

Khelif won Olympic gold in the women's 66kg boxing contest on Saturday after critics said her partipation risked women's safety.

The Algerian was born female and does not identify as transgender or intersex.

But Khelif faced criticism on social media from a number of public figures saying she is male and should not be taking part.

Five individuals have been charged in connection with the 2023 death of actor Matthew Perry, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

The charges, announced Thursday morning at a press conference in Los Angeles, come after investigators say they uncovered an underground network of drug sellers and suppliers they allege are responsible for distributing the ketamine, a potentially deadly drug, that killed Perry.

The defendants include two doctors, Perry’s live-in personal assistant and a person referred to by authorities as “The Ketamine Queen,” according to a press release from the US Attorney’s office.

US Attorney Martin Estrada said the defendants “took advantage of Mr. Perry’s addiction issues.”

“They knew what they were doing was wrong,” Estrada said.

Three of the five charged have reached a plea agreement.

The other two defendants are Dr. Salvador Plasencia, of Santa Monica, California, and Jasveen Sangha, who Estrada said ran what amounted to “a drug selling emporium” in her home, were indicted on Wednesday, the US Attorney said.

A Detroit judge has been temporarily taken off the bench after he forced a 15-year-old girl to wear handcuffs and a jail uniform because she appeared to fall asleep during a field trip to his court.

District Court Judge Kenneth King said he did not like Eva Goodman's "attitude" and said he wanted to show her "how you are to conduct yourself in a courtroom".

The teenager was visiting the 36th District Court for a trip organised by the environmental charity The Greening, whose other excursions include kayaking and bird-watching.

On Thursday, the chief judge of the 36th District Court, William McConico, said in a statement that he had conducted a "swift and thorough internal investigation" of the incident and decided to temporarily take Mr King off his cases to undergo "necessary training".

“We sincerely hope that this incident does not undermine our longstanding relationships with local schools,” Judge McConio said.

The girl's mother, Latoreya Hill, told local news: "Would you want someone to treat your child like that?

"To belittle her in front of the whole world and her friends, to make her feel even more worse about her situation."

Video from the court shows Judge King telling Ms Hill's daughter: "One thing you'll learn about my courtroom is that I'm not a toy. I am not to be played with."

He asked other visitors on the trip to vote if he should put Eva in a juvenile detention centre, before deciding to have her handcuffed and dressed in a jail outfit before releasing her. "It was her whole attitude and her whole disposition that disturbed me," the judge said in interviews afterwards.

"I wanted to get through to her, show how serious this is," he said, adding: "I'll do whatever needs to be done to reach these kids and make sure that they don't end up in front of me." In the video of the incident, Judge King tells Eva: "You sleep at home in your bed, not in court."

A man received a life sentence without parole for the shooting deaths of his three young sons at their Ohio residence last year.

On Friday, a Clermont County judge sentenced Chad Doerman, 33, to three consecutive life terms after he admitted to aggravated murder charges. Additionally, he received 16 more years for injuring his former wife and stepdaughter with two felonious assault charges.

When one of the boys tried to flee into a nearby field, Doerman hunted him down and dragged him back to the house in order to kill him.

Prosecutor Mark Tekulve initially aimed for the death penalty for the June 15, 2023 murders of Clayton Doerman, 7, Hunter Doerman, 4, and Chase Doerman, 3, in Monroe Township, about 75 miles west of Columbus.

However, he acknowledged the ongoing trauma for the surviving family members on Friday. Tekulve expressed his intent to spare them further suffering.

“My job, as I saw it this week, was to relieve them of that additional agony,” he informed reporters.

Prosecutors indicated that Doerman, apprehended while sitting on a stoop at the home, confessed to planning the killings. He reportedly chased one of the boys into a field when the child attempted to escape. Defence attorneys claimed Doerman struggled with severe mental illness.

In court, the children’s mother, Laura Doerman, and the ex-wife of the defendant, cried as a prosecutor read her statement, describing her life as “ripped away and destroyed.”

What a clucking shame.

An Illinois school worker will spend the next nine years in prison after she stole 11,000 cases of chicken wings worth $1.5 million that were meant for students during the height of the COVID pandemic, prosecutors said.

Vera Liddell used her position as the food service director at Harvey School District 152 to carry out the unappetizing crime that was only unearthed after the district realized the school system blew past its budget, prosecutors reportedly said.

Liddell, 68, started the scheme in July 2020 and didn’t stop until February 2022, the Cook County State Attorney’s Office said, according to ABC 7 Chicago.

While she bought up the incredible amount of poultry and used a school cargo van to pick up the food, students never saw a single wing, prosecutors said, per WGN.

Schools were closed, but the district near Chicago was still sending out meal kits to students in remote learning during the height of the pandemic.

She was originally charged with theft and operating a criminal enterprise in January 2023.

It’s an episode in his life that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz points to as the reason he stopped drinking. In 1995, Walz was a 31-year-old high school teacher living in Nebraska when he was pulled over for speeding, failed a sobriety test, and was arrested, according to court documents posted online two years ago by Alpha News, a conservative site based in Minnesota. He later pleaded guilty to reckless driving.

Since that night, Walz has served with the Army National Guard, rising to the rank of command sergeant major, won six Congressional races, and was elected to two terms as Governor of Minnesota. And now, Vice President Kamala Harris has picked him to be her running mate. Soon after Walz’ name emerged on Harris’ shortlist, supporters of former President Donald Trump began sharing details of Walz' nearly 30-year-old DUI on social media.

In an 2018 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Walz described the episode as a gut-check moment. He had gotten married the year before. That night, he was driving home from watching college football with some friends. His wife Gwen Walz described to the Star Tribune how she told her husband after the arrest that now that he’s married, he has obligations and “can’t make dumb choices.”

The officer at the scene noted that Walz’s silver Miata was going 96 miles per hour in an area where the speed limit was 55. When Walz saw a car pull out quickly behind him, he sped up thinking someone was chasing him, Walz’s lawyer explained to the court. Walz stopped when the officer turned on the patrol car’s flashing lights.

The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster and accusing the sub’s operator of gross negligence.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet was among five people who died when the Titan submersible imploded during a voyage to the famed Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic in June 2023. No one survived the trip aboard the experimental submersible owned by OceanGate, a company in Washington state that has since suspended operations.

Known as “Mr. Titanic,” Nargeolet participated in 37 dives to the Titanic site, the most of any diver in the world, according to the lawsuit. He was regarded as one of the world’s most knowledgeable people about the famous wreck. Attorneys for his estate said in an emailed statement that the “doomed submersible” had a “troubled history,” and that OceanGate failed to disclose key facts about the vessel and its durability.

According to the lawsuit, the Titan “dropped weights” about 90 minutes into its dive, indicating the team had aborted or attempted to abort the dive.

“While the exact cause of failure may never be determined, experts agree that the Titan’s crew would have realized exactly what was happening,” the lawsuit states. “Common sense dictates that the crew were well aware they were going to die, before dying.”

The lawsuit goes on to say: “The crew may well have heard the carbon fiber’s crackling noise grow more intense as the weight of the water pressed on Titan’s hull. The crew lost communications and perhaps power as well. By experts’ reckoning, they would have continued to descend, in full knowledge of the vessel’s irreversible failures, experiencing terror and mental anguish prior to the Titan ultimately imploding.”

A Mississippi man authorities are calling a “suspected serial killer” has been charged in connection with the 1977 strangulation deaths of three women in Southern California, prosecutors in California said Wednesday.

Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and also faces special allegations of multiple murders, according to a news release from the Ventura County district attorney’s office. He was extradited on Tuesday from Surry County, North Carolina, where he was awaiting prosecution in connection with a 1992 homicide, according to the release.

In February 2023, the cold case unit of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department started re-examining the killings of Kimberly Carol Fritz, 18, Velvet Ann Sanchez, 31, and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez, 21, officials said.

All three victims were sex workers and all died by strangulation, said District Attorney Erik Nasarenko in a news conference Thursday. Prosecutors believe Alexander initially picked each of the women up for sexual activity. Although detectives saw similarities among the crimes, the cases went cold.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called on Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell to resign Wednesday over his handling of the fatal officer-involved shooting of Sonya Massey – a request Campbell dismissed as “political maneuvering during a tragic event.”

“We join the Massey family in calling for Sheriff Campbell’s resignation immediately so the Springfield and Sangamon County community can begin to rebuild and restore trust between citizens and the sheriff’s department,” Pritzker and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton said in a joint statement.

Good. He did hire someone with a list of past issues and he has not done everything he should have to align himself with the victim's family as I seem to understand it.

On July 6, former deputy sheriff Sean Grayson responded to a report of a prowler at Massey’s home. Bodycam footage from another deputy showed Massey saying she rebuked Grayson, and the former deputy threatening the 36-year-old Black woman. Grayson asked Massey to remove a pan of water from a burner on the stove. Grayson moved away from the steaming water.

“Sonya turned to face me holding the pot. I did not know the type of liquid that was boiling,” Grayson wrote in his report three days after the incident.

“I advised Sonya to put the boiling liquid down. Sonya stated (she) was going to rebuke me in the name of Jesus. She stated this twice. I interpreted this to mean she was going to kill me.”

The encounter ended with Grayson shooting Massey in the head and failing to render aid. Massey’s family has said that Sonya Massey struggled with mental health issues.

I do not know how he would have come to those conclusions... Just bizarre.

He was far from her. She had lifted the pot. Everything that happens next happens so quickly while he is standing 10+ feet away from her, there's no way she posed any kind of threat to him, and she makes that enigmatic statement about rebuking him in the name of Jesus...

My first guess is that the meaning of this is purely verbal, almost like an incantation, "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus" doesn't make me think of a threat of violence, it makes me think of something like words from an exorcism or a harsh condemnation that I am doing something unchristian...

And this lunatic cop shoots her in the head, I think even technically after she quickly ducked down to put the previously boiling pot on the floor.

It's such an open & shut case - I feel insulted that they are trying to couch the events like that and gaslight us.

A second person was arrested Tuesday and charged in acts of antisemitic vandalism at the New York City homes of two Brooklyn Museum leaders earlier this summer, court records show.

Samuel Seligson faces four felony counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime and four misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief for vandalizing, along with others, the homes of Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak and President and Chief Operating Officer Kimberly Panicek Trueblood in June, according to a criminal complaint.

The investigation remains ongoing, according to a New York City Police Department spokesperson.

CNN has reached out to Seligson’s attorney Leena Widdi for comment. Seligson is on supervised release and is scheduled to appear in Brooklyn Criminal Court in November, prosecutors said.

Last week police arrested Taylor Pelton, 28, on the same charges, according to court records. Her attorney, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, has declined comment. Pelton is on supervised release and is scheduled to be arraigned in October, according to the Kings County District Attorney’s Office.

Red paint was splattered on the front doors and windows of Pasternak’s home on June 12, and a sign was left hanging in the entrance filled with red handprints that referenced her and the museum, CNN previously reported.

Red inverted triangles were also painted on the windows and doors. The red inverted triangle is symbol used by the Hamas military wing to indicate Israeli and Jewish targets, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Also on June 12, the vandals also allegedly spraypainted the front and sidewalk of Trueblood’s building, and hung a banner decorated with red inverted triangles and referencing her by name, according to the complaint.

The United States has seen rising levels of antisemitic incidents since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, according to data from the ADL. The most recent data from the organization, which has tracked antisemitic incidents in the US since 1979, found a 140% increase in incidents from 2022 to 2023, with a “dramatic” increase taking place after October 7. According to NYPD data, 329 hate crime incidents took place in New York City during the first half of 2024, with 200 involving Jewish targets.

Daria Ostapenko, a Belarusian nude model who spied on Belarusian opposition groups for the Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB), has been charged with espionage in Warsaw.

According to an update from Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office, the suspect was detained in December 2023 “in connection with the suspicion of participating in the activities of the Belarusian intelligence service [KGB].”

The suspect moved from the Belarusian city of Baranovichi to Warsaw in 2023 and was arrested in Lodz later the same year.

“During the investigation, it was established that in 2023, the suspect repeatedly provided officers of the Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus with information on the activities, structure and financing of organizations supporting the Belarusian opposition,” the update read.

A 27-year-old Czech citizen who fought as a mercenary in Ukraine has been sentenced by a Prague court to seven years in prison for looting in the towns of Bucha and Irpin. Filip Siman claims that he was just following orders.

Siman enlisted in the ‘Carpathian Sich’ unit at the start of the Ukraine conflict and boasted on social media of “liberating” the belongings of both civilians and fallen soldiers. Czech authorities charged him last month with looting and with serving in foreign armed forces.

“The defendant is guilty both due to the video recordings he took on the territory of Ukraine, as well as the statements of the witnesses,” Judge Hana Krestynova of the Prague City Court said on Tuesday, as quoted by the newspaper Ceske Noviny (CTK).

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According to videos he posted on social media, Siman looted both civilian homes and the personal effects of fallen soldiers. Among his acquisitions were jewelry, Gucci eyeglasses, silver and gold bars, and cash. He also took rings and berets off his fallen comrades.

Looting is a crime under Czech law, punishable by anywhere from eight to 20 years in prison, or even more in aggravated circumstances. The court sentenced Siman to less than the minimum, however, noting he had led “an orderly life” before. Prosecutors said they would appeal the sentence as too lenient, as they asked for at least ten years.

An Alabama man is accused of fatally shooting his wife and four children inside their home overnight, according to officials with the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Alabama District Attorney’s Office.

Brandon Allan Kendrick II, 32, is facing five counts of capital murder. The charges are four counts of capital murder of a child under the age of 14, and one count of capital murder in the slayings of two or more people in one act.

He was booked into the Bibb County Jail shortly before 3:30 a.m. Friday.

Bibb County Sheriff Jody Wade said they received a 911 call at 8:18 p.m. about a child that had been shot on Greentree Drive area of Bibb County.

They arrived to find five people shot - including four children under the age of 10. Officials say two of the young victims were the suspect’s children and two were a nephew and niece.

Alabama State Trooper Cpl. Reginal King said the child victims were ages 2, 6 and 9. Two of the children were 6 years old.

Three of the children were dead on the scene. The wife and another child were airlifted to Birmingham hospitals where they later died.

The elderly man was described as a supporter of the former president who was posting a political sign in his yard, according to police. Police also said the man displayed stickers and flags that were supportive of law enforcement. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition with serious injuries after the man on the ATV struck him, authorities said.

Investigators said they had identified a suspect in the case by Monday evening, and he had been linked to a total of three cases which were apparently “politically motivated”.

That man later contacted officers, told them he wanted to “confess a crime involving an ATV driver within the last 24 hours” and asked to be picked up, police said in a statement. When police arrived at the scene, they found a 22-year-old man dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

There were scenes of violence and chaos in Leeds on Thursday night (July 18) with fires started in the street and police cars overturned and smashed up in a mass riot.

Police were called to the large scale disorder as hundreds descended on the street. Crowds were seen throwing items at police cars and starting a huge blaze in the middle of the road.

People have described the scenes as 'mayhem' and 'a riot' on social media. A number of videos surfaced online showing scooters, pushchairs, bikes and bats also being used in the assault on a police car.

And a police inspector with West Yorkshire Police was even filmed on a social media video urging people to 'stay in their houses' amid the growing chaos. Riot police in protective gear were also seen being attacked. Read here.

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West Yorkshire Police said they were initially called to an incident at an address on Luxor Street and found a 'disturbance' involving agency workers and children. More people then started to arrive before 'pockets of disorder' began breaking out in the area.

Johannesburg — Kenya's National Police said Monday they had arrested a 33-year-old man whom they called a "psychopathic serial killer with no respect for human life." They said the suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, had admitted to murdering 42 women, including his wife, whom they say he acknowledged as his first victim.

Mohammed Amin, chief of Kenya's national Directorate of Criminal Investigations, said Khalusha had murdered some victims as recently as just four days prior to his arrest, but that his alleged killing spree began in 2022.

Amin made the statement during a news conference at DCI headquarters in Nairobi on Monday, and his remarks were also shared by the agency in a series of social media posts, which included a photo of Khalusha in custody.

The police said they had been tracking Jumaisha's cell phone signal.

"It is the transaction of mobile money transfer using Josphine Owino's phone number that led detectives to tracking the suspect," Amin said, referring to one of the victims.

Khalusha was arrested early Monday morning outside a club where he had gone to watch Sunday's European soccer championship final. The police said that after he was arrested, Khalusha confessed to "having lured, killed and disposed of 42 female bodies," including that of his wife and Owino.

The suspect lived in a one room rented house just 300 feet from the Kware dump, an abandoned quarry now filled with garbage, where the remains of some of the victims had been found earlier, the police said.

Khalusha was allegedly working to lure another victim, a woman police identified only as Susan, when he was arrested.

"We have a second suspect who was caught with one of the handsets from one of the victims," added Amin, without providing any further information on the second suspect's identity or how they were believed to be connected to the murders.

At the news conference, police displayed a number of items they said had been found in Khalusha's possession, including 10 cell phones and 24 SIM cards, six ID cards for men and two ID cards for women, one pair of rubber gloves, 12 nylon sacks, ropes, gloves and a machete, which police believe was used to dismember some of the victims.

Officials started discovering the mutilated remains of women between the ages of 18 and 30 stuffed into sacks last week near the Kware dump, prompting locals and police to speculate about whether there could be a cult or a serial killer operating in the area.