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ROUZERVILLE, Pa. (WHTM) -
Police believe a former police officer shot and killed his wife and injured her 18-year-old son before killing himself Tuesday night in Franklin County.State police said their preliminary investigation determined 45-year-old Cathy Fleagle and 50-year-old John Fleagle died in an apparent homicide-suicide.Trooper Rob Hicks said John Fleagle apparently shot and killed his wife in their Rouzerville home with a handgun and then shot her son, 18-year-old Mitchell Robinson, in the arm.  John Fleagle then shot and killed himself, Hicks said.Police said Robinson was able to call 911 for help following the shooting.The motive for the shootings currently is unknown.  Police said they will interview Robinson as a part of their investigation."Obviously having a witness in this situation is going to help us get the facts and be able to solve this crime," Hicks said.State police were called to the couple's home in the 13000 block of Mar Pen Avenue at around 5 p.m.Hicks said the incident occurred in the jurisdiction of the Washington Township Police Department, but state police are handling the investigation because both John and Cathy Fleagle had an affiliation with the township police department.Cathy Fleagle was an office administrator for the police department and John Fleagle was a former police officer for the township.

(CNN) -- Even for stone-faced, seen-it-all-before officers, the act that took place at a police lieutenant's Las Vegas-area home Monday was deeply distressing.The 52-year-old lawman, police said, killed his wife and child, called 911 to say he was burning his house down and warned he would take the life of anyone who tried to stop him.Then he waited.When a SWAT team arrived at the lieutenant's Boulder City home, they found Hans Pieter Walters outside with what looked like a handgun.Officers asked him to drop the weapon -- commands the lieutenant must have screamed many times before in his 20-year career. He ignored them and ducked back into the blazing home.It was then, police believe, that he killed himself.Once firefighters put out the blaze that tore through the home, they found Walters's body, his 46-year-old wife's, and their five-year-old son's.The lieutenant worked for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, where he supervised patrol officers, CNN affiliate KVVU reported.The station had interviewed him before about other crimes.The wife, Kathryn, worked for some time as a Las Vegas police officer, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said.She won a community service award and a lifesaving award before leaving the department in 2004."Anyone involved with law enforcement for any amount of time is usually prepared for any scenario, but nobody can prepare for something like this," Las Vegas Metro Sheriff Doug Gillespie told reporters.Last year, 126 police officers killed themselves, according to the National Study of Police Suicides by the nonprofit The Badge of Life.It's a steep drop from the other two years the survey was conducted: 143 in 2009 and 141 in 2008.Yet, it's cause for concern."In spite of this encouraging news, the fact is that police suicides continue at a rate much higher than the number of police officers killed by felons," the group said.Folks who knew Walters were also trying to make sense of it. The soul-searching was agonizing for some.Retired Las Vegas lieutenant Randy Sutton told KVVU he had worked alongside Walters for years."There's no rhyme or reason," Sutton said, saying the lieutenant was hard-working and seemed well-adjusted.This is "the most unconscionable, dishonorable thing to do I can ever imagine," he added."The memories I have of him, they mean nothing to me anymore."

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 93-year-old Kansas City man has been charged with killing his 95-year-old wife in what investigators are calling a homicide and attempted suicide.The Jackson County prosecutor filed the second-degree murder charge Wednesday against Harry Irwin, who remained hospitalized with self-inflicted stab wounds in his chest.Police have not said how Grace Irwin died. Paramedics who were called to the couple's home around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday found her in bed, with blood on her head.A paramedic told police Harry Irwin was unresponsive in a chair, with blood on his shirt and arms. The paramedic says Irwin regained consciousness and said he had killed his wife and himself, then asked, "Why am I awake?"


Neighbors said the wife had been in poor health. The couple's children and grandchildren visited them often.

HAZLETON – City police on Tuesday charged the ex-boyfriend of a Hazleton woman in connection with her December strangulation death, but the suspect remains at large, most likely in Mexico.Oscar Lozano Garcia, 35, with a last-known address of 343 E. Diamond Ave., Hazleton, has been charged with an open count of criminal homicide, Police Chief Frank DeAndrea said at a press conference at City Hall.Police have been trying to locate Lozano Garcia since Dec. 18 – the day they discovered the body of 32-year-old Maria Brea in the apartment she had once shared with her alleged assailant. Brea recently had ended a relationship with him, police had said, and sought him for questioning; no suspect was named.After obtaining a search warrant on Dec. 18, police found Brea’s body in the attic of her apartment. Her body had been bound with tape, wrapped in plastic and bound with tape again. The door to the attic had been padlocked with Lozano Garcia’s padlock and the seam to the door sealed with tape, police said.Six latent fingerprints found on the tape binding Brea’s body were analyzed and compared with a fingerprint card for Lozano Garcia obtained from the Department of Homeland Security. All six prints matched, authorities said.Luzerne County Acting Coroner Bill Lisman determined the cause of her death to be asphyxiation due to strangulation.Detective Lt. Ken Zipovsky on Tuesday said he was confident Lozano Garcia is not in Pennsylvania.U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that Lozano Garcia entered Mexico on Dec. 17, according to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint.Talked to sister Dec. 14Family members last spoke to Brea, 32, on Dec. 14, the same day she failed to pick up her children from school and her family reported her missing to police.According to the affidavit: Brea’s sister, Wendy Rodriguez, told police she spoke with Brea at about 1:30 p.m. that day and that Brea was at home in her pajamas cooking food. Brea had told Rodriguez she had just broken up with Lozano Garcia and was surprised at how well he had taken the news. That was the last time the sisters spoke.Rodriguez then received a call from the Hazleton Area School District at about 3:35 p.m. notifying her that Brea had not picked up her two children. She could not reach Brea by cellphone, so she picked up the children and took them to Brea’s apartment.Rodriguez opened the door and found food on the stove, music playing and lights on, but no sign of Brea. Brea’s daughter called Lozano Garcia’s cellphone and no one answered.Lozano Garcia eventually called Brea’s daughter back and, when asked where Brea was, replied, “I left her in the house. Maybe she went shopping.” Rodriguez and Brea’s children left around 4:30 p.m. and Rodriguez returned at about 5:30 p.m. with Rodriguez’s sister, Wendy DeJesus, Brea’s daughter and another woman, Aura Santiago.Lozano Garcia returned a call to Santiago at about 10 p.m., said he had been at work, tried to reach Brea all day by phone and that he would be at the apartment within an hour. She waited until 2 a.m.; he never came.Affidavit: Suspect left townPolice said Brea’s and Lozano Garcia’s cellphone records showed Lozano Garcia had not called Brea that afternoon. The records also showed that the pair’s cellphones were interacting with cell towers in the same geographical area in the same stretch of time after Rodriguez’s last contact with Brea.According to a neighbor, Lozano Garcia was in the apartment with Brea at 1:45 p.m. Dec. 14 and was still there when the neighbor left for work at about 2:15 p.m.Lozano Garcia’s managers and co-workers told police Lozano picked up his paycheck at 4 p.m. Dec. 14 and told them he would not be returning to work and that he was going back to Mexico because he had a fight with his girlfriend and police were looking for him. Four of them said they saw scratches on his face and arms, according to the affidavit.They also said he had not worked that day. Lozano Garcia’s supervisor told police Lozano Garcia might be going to Mexico with co-worker Juan Cervantes.District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said investigators met with Brea’s family members Tuesday and updated them on the case. “Of course, they’re still devastated over this,” she said. “They lost a loved one, and our hearts go out to them.”Lozano Garcia might be driving a red-and-black Chevrolet pickup with a Pennsylvania license plate YYF-5939. He is described as Hispanic, about 5 feet, 9 inches tall and 165 pounds with black hair.Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call 911.

A 24-year-old Lake Charles, La. man has been arrested for allegedly attacking his girlfriend and killing her dog.According to Tuesday's KATC News, a violent domestic dispute took place between Sean L. Collett, and his girlfriend, who was not named.According to a press release from theCalcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office, an argument between the couple turned violent on Jan. 18, when Collett began to physically attack his girlfriend, and later, her dog.The victim advised the authorities that she had been dragged, choked and hit in the jaw and back.The victim also informed the deputies that her dog began to bark at Collett when she was being attacked.According to the victimized girlfriend, Collett turned his rage towards the barking dog, who was was repeatedly slammed against the wall. The dog did not survive the vicious attack.Collett's girlfriend was taken to a hospital to be treated for her injuries and she was later released.Collett was arrested on charges of 2nd degree battery and aggravated animal cruelty.The judge set Collett's bond at $30,000.

A 66-year-old Wesley Hills man is facing a murder charge for the killing of his 68-year-old girlfriend early Friday morning inside the couple's Grandview Avenue home, Ramapo police said.Riad Dib was due in Ramapo Town Court Friday afternoon to face a charge of second-degree murder, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 25 years to life in prison upon conviction.Police responding to the home at 171 Grandview Ave. about 12:45 a.m. found Cecile Garbarino dead on the bedroom floor, authorities said. Dib was taken into custody at the scene.Police were summoned to the home by a 911 call.The couple lived together but were not married, according to a news release from Ramapo police.Wesley Hills Mayor David Goldsmith said he did not know the victim or suspect but he had been informed by police of the alleged crime before dawn Friday morning, according to News 12."It's tragic. It's a terrible thing," Goldsmith said. "Obviously bad things happen and we don't know much of the details of what was going on but there isn't a good reason for something like this."Dib was arraigned Friday afternoon before Ramapo Town Justice Rhoda Schoenberger and ordered held without bail at the Rockland County Jail. No information on an attorney for Dib was available Friday afternoon.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) – St. Louis police say a stalker was responsible for killing a woman in the city’s Dogtown neighborhood and critically injuring her boyfriend.Tequila Sandford, a nurse, was shot to death outside of her condo in the 6600 block of Oakland Ave. on Dec. 27.Her current boyfriend was shot in the head but survived. He was taken to an area hospital, where he was initially listed in critical condition, but survived.The suspect is in custody but not yet charged.Police allege the suspect, a former boyfriend who was the father of Sandford’s child, called Sandford about 150 times in the 12 hours before she was killed.

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Soccer Riot Sentencing Sparks More Riots in Egypt
The Atlantic Wire
After 21 people were sentenced to death by an Egyptian court for their roles in deadly soccer riots last year, violence erupted outside of the Port Said courtroom and resulted in ever more deaths. They were sentenced for their roles in the deadly ...