3 year student was a rapist

For three years, Benjamin Holm walked the Catholic campus at Loyola University in Chicago like any other student, pursuing a double major in finance and economics and playing for the school’s golf team.
But his life in Chicago hid the reality he faced back home in the suburbs of Atlanta.
There, he was being investigated for rape.
Holm had been accused of and arrested in the crime in the spring of 2013, weeks before his high school graduation and five months after he had committed to playing golf at Loyola, but his trial didn’t start until the end of last month — more than three years after the alleged sexual assault.
And it seems throughout that lengthy span, nobody at the university knew of Holm’s pending rape trial, not as his charges were upgraded to felony status while he was already on campus or even when he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and statutory rape Dec. 5.
Media reports about the rape case published last week — in which the university refused comment — were followed by days of outrage from Holm’s former Loyola classmates, which included a change.org petition signed by more than 1,200 people demanding an explanation from the university.
“Students at Loyola University Chicago are disgusted by the institution’s actions and do not feel safe on campus,” wrote sophomore student Ashley Kennedy. “The administration’s silence is only making things worse.”
On Dec. 16, 11 days after Holm pleaded guilty to the sexual assault, the university issued a statement from Title IX coordinator Thomas M. Kelly, who oversees sexual assault education and enforcement on campus.

To our knowledge, we neither received information about the crime, nor had any awareness that it occurred until Monday, December 12, when we received a media inquiry. Based on media reports, the individual is in police custody in Georgia. The individual is not registered for classes in the Spring Semester.

Violence of any kind is not tolerated at Loyola, and the safety and security of all members of our campus community remain a top priority.

The uproar comes at a critical juncture in the national controversy about sexual assault at America’s college campuses, an issue that in 2016 became more prominent in part because of White House initiatives, publicity about Rolling Stone’s now-retracted article about a gang rape that wasn’t at the University of Virginia and several high profile cases.
Just this week, the California judge who sentenced Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a woman on the Stanford University campus was cleared of judicial misconduct by an independent state agency after critics called for him to resign because of what they considered an unjustly light punishment.
At the University of Minnesota, the football team for two days last week refused to play in an upcoming bowl game because players disagreed with the way campus officials handled the suspensions of 10 of their teammates accused of sexual assault. An ongoing investigation at Baylor University in Texas this year revealed a widespread, chronic pattern in the football program of covering up alleged sexual assaults involving football players.
And in recent months, athletic teams at a handful of colleges, including several Ivy League universities, have faced discipline for digital conversations deemed inappropriate by officials that included lewd language and physical rankings of women or other female athletes.
Other, less high-profile incidents have been chronicled in lawsuits challenging the fairness of Title IX investigations for both the accuser and the accused.
But what sets Holm’s case apart is that the assault occurred before the student-athlete stepped onto campus — something the university emphasized in its statement.
“In the past few days, Loyolans have expressed concern following media reports related to a student-athlete who was charged and pled guilty to a gender-based violent crime that occurred in his home state of Georgia,” the Dec. 16 statement said. “This crime occurred prior to the individual joining Loyola.”
Critics in the online petition argued that the university should keep closer tabs on its student-athletes, who are often offered additional resources and scholarship money not granted to an average student. A 2012 article published in the North Fulton Herald reported that Holm was offered an athletic scholarship when he committed to playing golf at Loyola, but the university Athletic Department would not confirm that information in an interview with the student newspaper.
The university publication, the Loyola Phoenix, wrote:

The Loyola Athletic Department had no comment on the situation, wouldn’t disclose information regarding Holm’s possible scholarship and didn’t confirm whether he had athletic or academic scholarships. Loyola’s Athletic Director Steve Watson and Deputy Director of Athletics Jermaine Truax, the administrator in charge of the golf program, declined multiple interview requests from The PHOENIX.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Holm’s case began in April 2013, when during a high school party weeks before his graduation, the then-18-year-old sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at a playground at the Country Club of the South, Johns Creek police said.
The victim’s friends grew worried when she disappeared, police told the AJC, and eventually found her at the playground. Her pants were down, police said, and Holm was on top of her.
“They observed the sexual assault taking place and heard her clearly saying ‘No, stop,’ ” Capt. Chris Byers of the Johns Creek police told the AJC.
He was initially charged with statutory rape, a misdemeanor in Georgia, and pleaded not guilty. He bonded out of jail and headed to Loyola’s campus several months later. Nearly two full years after the incident, in April 2015, according to a timeline from the Loyola Phoenix, the county solicitor determined Holm should have been charged with felony rape, and a year later, in April 2016, a grand jury issued an indictment on the upgraded, more severe charge.
That spring, Holm left the Loyola golf team for unspecified reasons, reported the student newspaper.
Holm pleaded not guilty again, according to the Phoenix, and on Nov. 28 his trial began. It wasn’t until jury deliberations that Holm, now 21, reversed course and decided to take a deal offered by the prosecution, pleading guilty to aggravated assault and statutory rape.
He received a 20-year sentence, 10 of which he would serve in prison and the other 10 on probation, according to the AJC. He was booked into the Fulton County Jail

Toddler killed in road rage attack

Newly released 911 recordings depict a frantic, chaotic scene as a grandmother pulls into a Little Rock shopping center and discovers her 3-year-old grandson has been shot in what police describe as a road-rage killing.

"The woman's saying this little kid's been shot," a female caller said on the 911 call, released Tuesday to The Associated Press under an open-records request. According to police, the grandmother, Kim King-Macon, was in her car at a stop sign in the pouring rain Saturday when a man driving a black Chevrolet Impala opened fire on her vehicle, fatally striking the boy.
King-Macon told police that she didn't realize her grandson had been shot until she pulled into the shopping mall, about 10 miles from where the shooting occurred, and discovered the toddler slumped over in his seat. No arrests have been made and the FBI said Monday's it's joining the investigation. A $40,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.
In the 911 recording, a dispatcher asks the caller — an apparent bystander at the shopping mall — for any suspect information. The caller yells: "Ma'am, do you know who did it?"
A woman, presumably King-Macon, is heard responding: "I was at the stop sign and the guy blew the horn at me, and I blew it back. And he shot, but I thought he shot in the air. He shot at the car!"
Little Rock police have said there is no apparent connection between King-Macon and the shooter and described the shooting on Twitter as a "road rage incident."
It's the second fatal shooting of a toddler in a month in Little Rock. Last month, 2-year-old Ramiya Reed, who went by the nickname "TinkerBell," was fatally struck by gunfire while riding in the back seat of a vehicle with her mother. No arrests have been made in that case, and police have said they don't know if the two shootings are connected.

Bus driver was holding cell phone & speeding...

The driver of a school bus that crashed in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last month, killing six children, was speeding and holding a cellphone while he drove, police said on Thursday.
Johnthony Walker, 24, who police have said was driving the bus on Nov. 21 on a winding road well above the speed limit of 30 miles per hour (48 kph), has been charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving.
A Hamilton County Criminal Court judge on Thursday said there was enough evidence to send the case to a grand jury.
“I do find the conduct to be reckless," Hamilton County General Sessions Judge Lila Statom said. "There was a conscious disregard for the risk in this case.”
The bus veered off the road, flipped on its side and smashed into a tree, injuring over a dozen children in addition to the six killed, police have said.
Officials said on Thursday that Walker had been videotaped on the bus holding his cell phone while he drove, which is illegal for school bus drivers in Tennessee.
Electronic evidence, including readings from a GPS unit and engine monitor on the bus, shows the bus was traveling between "50 and 52 miles an hour," (80 to 83 kph), Chattanooga Police Department traffic officer Joe Warren told the court on Thursday during a court appearance by Walker, who did not speak.
In addition, there were several caution signs saying that the road's curves need to be negotiated at 20 mph, Warren said.
Warren described a video showing Walker holding his cell phone while he drove. Warren did not say whether Walker was using the phone at the time. The video was not shown in court. Warren said it was recorded by a camera inside the bus.
No drugs or alcohol were found in Walker's system.
Walker's attorney, Amanda Dunn, could not be reached for comment. She refused to comment to local reporters as she left the courtroom Thursday.
According to court records, Walker remains in jail on $107,000 bond.
(Writing by Timothy Mclaughlin in Chicago; Editing by Leslie Adler)

Man drowns daughter in church

When officers found Gerardo Mendoza Ordaz Sunday night, he was standing in the Healdsburg, Calif., police station parking lot, naked, holding his limp 4-year-old daughter. Her clothes were soaking wet.
The California man’s 9-year-old son stood nearby, wearing shorts but no shirt.
Ordaz, 42, was screaming, “help!” and “police!”
For 90 minutes, authorities attempted to revive the unresponsive girl. At a local hospital, she was pronounced dead.
  Hours later, after a lengthy, detailed statement from Ordaz, the man was arrested in connection with his daughter’s slaying, according to the Associated Press. At a press conference Monday, Healdsburg Police Chief Kevin Burke would not say why authorities believe Ordaz killed his daughter, but he did say how.
“We do believe she was drowned intentionally,” Burke said.
The man and his son led authorities to the crime scene, just 75 yards away from the police station, inside St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.
There, in the sanctuary, sits a large baptismal pool, about one- to two-feet deep, eight feet wide and 10 feet long, Lt. Matt Jenkins told the Press Democrat. On Sundays, the doors to the church are often left unlocked, authorities said, for those who wish to linger in the sanctuary and pray. Police believe Ordaz was alone there with his children when he allegedly submerged the 4-year-old girl under the baptismal waters, Jenkins said.
An autopsy was conducted Monday to determine an official cause of death.
“This is very unusual,” Burke told CBS San Francisco. “I’ve never seen anything like it in my career.”
Classes resumed Monday at St. John’s church school and preschool, but the sanctuary remained closed. The 9 a.m. mass was canceled, reported the Press Democrat, and yellow police tape cordoned the front entrance.
Church personnel did not respond to requests for comment from local media outlets, but the Rev. Sean Rodgers, pastor of the Healdsburg church, released a statement Monday afternoon on the Diocese of Santa Rosa website.

“Sunday night there was tragedy in the church; a little girl lost her life. When police finish the investigation we will know more. In the meantime, please pray for the family, and the parish community.”

Police were overburdened by the investigation, the chief told the Democrat, which spread thin the resources within their small police department in a town of about 11,200 people, located about 100 miles west of Sacramento in northern California.
“It’s a very complicated investigation. We’ve had staffing up all night,” Burke told the newspaper. “It’s a very challenging and tragic case.”
The town hasn’t experienced a homicide investigation in eight years. The young girl’s death Sunday sent shockwaves through the community.
“I’m so sad,” Healdsburg resident Katie McDowell told the Democrat. “It’s Healdsburg. Such a small town. Scary things can happen.”
According to Sonoma County court records, Ordaz was involved in some criminal activity in the late 1990s, including a conviction for disturbing the peace by fighting in public and a guilty plea of felony burglary, both in 1996. He served time in jail for both incidents.
In 1998, he was sentenced to two years in prison on the burglary charge and another offense because he violated his probation, CBS reported.
Police told the TV station they were unaware of any domestic related calls to the man’s home.
Ordaz and his wife live just outside city limits, the chief told the Democrat, and have four children, including the girl and her 9-year-old brother. Child protective services determined the children were safe in their mother’s care.
Ordaz was booked into the Sonoma County Jail without bail and will be arraigned in Sonoma County Superior Court Tuesday afternoon. It was unclear, according to local media reports, if the man had a lawyer.

Off duty cop killing case continues

The widow of the Brooklyn motorist shot and killed by an NYPD cop during a road rage incident vowed Tuesday to show up for all of the officer’s court appearances until “justice is served.”
“I will be here for every court appearance until justice is served for my husband,” said Delrawn Small’s widow Wenona Howser Small outside Brooklyn Supreme Court.
Inside the courthouse, attorneys for Officer Wayne Isaacs received some 800 pages of evidence Tuesday from prosecutors with the attorney general’s office regarding Wayne Isaacs’ murder and manslaughter case.
Isaacs, 37, spent five days at Rikers Island after he was indicted for shooting Small in East New York on July 4.

He was released after posting $500,000 bail.
The officer, who is suspended without pay, initially told officials that Small, 37, punched him during a road rage incident.
A surveillance video of the incident later revealed otherwise.
Court papers obtained by the Daily News showed that Isaacs initially downplayed the shooting on Atlantic Ave. near Bradford St.
“I was involved in an off-duty incident,” he told a fellow officer after the midnight shooting.
Isaacs, speaking to a second officer, insisted that he was a victim.
“He kept hitting me. My lip, my lip,” the officer said.

Killer should've been deported

A Dallas woman accused of killing a Wichita mother and taking her baby was in the country illegally when she was released from a Kansas jail this summer before immigration officials had a chance to request she be held, law enforcement authorities said Wednesday.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not receive the July 25 list of arrests from the Sedgwick County sheriff's office showing Yesenia Sesmas' name on it until the following day, and by that time she had already been released from local custody, said ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok. The agency would have asked that she b e detained if Sesmas, a Mexican national, had still been in jail, he said.
Sesmas posted bond and was released less than 24 hours after her arrest in that case, said Col. Brenda Dietzman, undersheriff for the Sedgwick County sheriff's office.
Even if ICE had made the request, it is not clear that the county would have honored it. Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter announced in 2014 that the jail would no longer honor ICE requests to hold inmates unless the agency presents a warrant or court order requiring them to hold an inmate in custody longer. The policy change stems from a 3rd Circuit appeals court ruling finding a Pennsylvania jail unjustly held a man on suspicion he might be in the country unlawfully after he posted bail. Several jails across the country have refused to automatically honor ICE requests after the American Civil Liberties Union warned they could be sued.
Now if Sedgwick County gets a request a hold on an inmate, jail officials call the agency about 2 to 3 hours before that person is released, and tell ICE "if you want them come get them," Dietzman said.
Sedgwick County officials say they have no record of an ICE request to hold Sesmas when she was in custody in Kansas in the summer for allegedly threatening another Wichita woman with a knife and trying to hold that woman's two daughters for ransom.
Sesmas never showed up for her August court hearing in that case and was a fugitive until her arrest Saturday during a pre-dawn raid at her Dallas home following last week's killing of another Wichita woman, Laura Abarca-Nogueda, and the abduction of Abarca-Nogueda's 6-day-old daughter Sophia. The girl was found safe and reunited with family.
ICE said it asked the Dallas jail to detain Sesmas following her recent arrest.
Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said Wednesday he does not know whether his office was aware of Sesmas' immigration case at the time of the earlier kidnapping case, but said he believed that an ICE hold meant a person can't get out of jail.

Man 62 kills 15 year old in racially charged shooting

Federal officials are investigating the shooting death of a black 15-year-old in West Virginia as a hate crime. Sixty-two-year-old William Pulliam has reportedly confessed, saying he felt threatened when confronted by the teen outside a Charleston convenience store Monday night.
The complaint signed by Charleston police reportedly said Pulliam wasn’t just unremorseful; he also referred to the victim as “trash.” And now the teen’s family said they’re putting their faith in the law to see justice done, reports CBS News correspondent Don Dahler.
The police complaint reportedly stated 15-year-old James Means was part of a group that engaged in a verbal confrontation with Pullium outside a Charleston convenience store. It escalated into violence, with Pulliam allegedly opening fire. The teen was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead with two gunshot wounds. Pulliam gave a jailhouse interview after his arrest, repeating what he says he heard from the group.

“‘What the f*** you say?’” I said, ‘Man, I didn’t say anything.’ I’m sorry, but, I mean, I’m 62 years old. I’m not going to take a bunch of punks beating me up,” Pulliam said.
The police complaint reportedly said Pulliam confessed, stating, “The way I look at it, that’s another piece of trash off the street.” Authorities are now looking into whether the shooting falls under the federal hate crime statute -- killing someone because of their race.
“I just shot him. I mean, I felt my life was in danger,” Pulliam said. “I don’t care if they’re white or black. Nobody’s going to treat me like that. It doesn’t make any difference he’s black.”
Means’ family said this is not a time for revenge, but for justice.
“We don’t hold a grudge, so nobody else should hold a grudge,” said his aunt, Teresa Means. “We all have to forgive and let everything take its place.”
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that Pulliam was not allowed to have a gun because of a previous domestic violence conviction. A Thanksgiving peace walk for the teenager is set to take place in Charleston later Thursday morning.

Hawaiian woman kills her own twin sister

A Hawaiian woman wanted on a murder charge was arrested in Albany Friday, State Police said.
Troopers and Albany police officers arrested 37-year-old Alexandria Duval of Maui on Friday after finding her at an Albany home. According to news media reports, she is charged in the death of her twin sister, Anastasia. They appeared enraged before their SUV, driven by Alexandria, fell 200 feet off a cliff in Maui, according to the reports.
The Maui Police Department had issued a warrant for Duval after she was charged with murder stemming from a May 29 incident. A State Police investigator from the New York State Intelligence Center located a possible address for Duval in Albany and Troop G members were notified.
Duval was seen standing outside the home and tried to flee, but was taken into custody and brought to the Latham barracks, troopers said.
She was arraigned in Albany City Court and sent to the Albany County Jail to await extradition back to Hawaii.

Man caught with woman in storage unit now has body count of 6 and rising

Investigators digging into the life of Todd Kohlhepp — the South Carolina man accused of murdering four people, kidnapping a woman and then killing her boyfriend — have found a long trail of macabre online activity they think might be linked to him.
A police source at the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office confirms to PEOPLE that, among other things, law enforcement is looking into bizarre reviews on Amazon that seem to be connected to Kohlepp, a 45-year-old realtor.
In May 2014, an Amazon user began leaving reviews on products such as weapon mounts, padlocks, shovels and a tourniquet, among others more generic items such as dog toys, chocolate bars and DVD copies of The Walking Dead.
While the username was simply “me,” the account linked to a wish list named “Todd Kohlhepp.”
PEOPLE has reviewed dozens of the Amazon user’s product reviews. Most of them were posted in 2014, reportedly in the months after Kohlhepp purchased his land in Woodruff, South Carolina, where human remains and a chained-up woman have since been found.
On Jan. 14, 2015, the user reviewed a set of padlocks, saying, “now my locks have locks…place is Hotel California now,” apparently referencing The Eagles’ song (which contains the line “You can check out any time you like/But you can never leave”).
On another review of padlocks, the user wrote, “solid locks…have 5 on a shipping container.. won’t stop them.. but sure will slow them down til they are too old to care.”
The user said they purchased a knife on Sept. 13, 2014. On the review, they wrote, “havnet (sic) stabbed anyone yet…… yet…. but I am keeping the dream alive and when I do, it will be with a quality tool like this…”
On a shovel purchase, the user wrote, “keep in car for when you have to hide the bodies and you left the full size shovel at home…. does not come with a midget, which would have been nice.”

Suspect Is a ‘Serial Killer’

The Amazon reviews might seem like attempts at dark and twisted humor, but investigators believe they could be written by Kohlhepp, who was arrested after 30-year-old Kala Brown was found chained alive in a storage container on his property last week.
The product reviews “show similarity to the language and style Kohlhepp used on his Facebook profile,” according to the Greenville News. (Citing law enforcement, the paper reports the Amazon posts are a secondary part of the investigation.)
Brown and her 32-year-old boyfriend, Charlie Carver, went missing in late August. Kohlhepp is expected to be charged in Carver’s murder after his body was found Friday in a shallow grave on the Woodruff property.
A friend of Brown’s has said the couple was allegedly abducted at gunpoint after going to do some odd jobs for Kohlhepp. A Facebook post on Carver’s page, made after he disappeared and which his family does not believe he made, referenced “Hotel California,” according to the News.
Over the weekend, Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said in a news conference that more victims are expected. “Mr. Todd Kohlhepp was here on the scene earlier today,” Wright told reporters. “Yes, he did show us where two more graves are. He sure did. He showed us where two more victims .”
A second body and two more graves were recovered this weekend, Wright said. That would bring Kohlhepp’s alleged body count to at least six, after he also reportedly confessed to a 2003 quadruple slaying in Chesnee, South Carolina.
Wright has called Kohlhepp a “serial killer,” and court documents have reportedly documented Kohlhepp’s psychological troubles as well as a previous guilty plea for kidnapping when he was a teenager.
Kohlhepp appeared in court on Sunday for a bond hearing for his murder charges. He was denied bond, and it remains unclear if he has entered a plea to his charges or retained an attorney.

Undercover sting nabs Facebook food vendors

Mariza Ruelas never expected a plate of ceviche would lead her to the court house and maybe even a possible jail sentence.
For more than a year, undercover investigators in San Joaquin County, California tracked the sales of food — such as homemade tamales, tortillas and cakes — through a community Facebook group, a sting that Mariza Ruelas called a “waste of time and resources and taxpayers’ money.”
Ruelas, a single mother of six, first came across the Facebook group about two years ago when she needed a last-minute cake for her daughter’s quinceañera, the Hispanic coming-of-age celebration on a young woman’s 15th birthday.
The community forum, 209 Food Spot, allowed Stockton, Calif. residents to share recipes, organize potlucks and occasionally sell or exchange food items.
As a hobby, about once a month, Ruelas began offering up her own dishes — a tray of rice and beans in exchange for a birthday cake, her staple chicken-stuffed avocados to those who requested it, she said in a phone interview with the Post.
Then, in July, she received a letter in the mail: she was being summoned to court. Ruelas, along with several other group members, faced citations for two misdemeanors — operating a food facility and engaging in business without a permit. An undercover investigator had ordered a ceviche from her through the Facebook group in October 2015 as part of a sting.
At least a half-dozen other members accepted a plea deal of one year of probation, a $235 fine and 40 hours of community service. Ruelas was offered a deal with twice the community service, three years of probation and the $235 fine, so she refused to accept it, she said.
The single mother of six is headed to trial and faces up to a year in jail for her misdemeanors.
“We didn’t see any harm in that,” she said, of selling and exchanging meals through the group. “There wasn’t anybody selling it daily. A lot of times, they were just getting back what they put into the ingredients.”
She hadn’t ever looked into obtaining a permit, Ruelas said, because she only sold or exchanged food items once or twice a month at most, as a hobby on occasional weekends. It was an activity she enjoyed sharing with her children, ages 6 through 20, who would help prepare and deliver some of the dishes with her.
Sometimes, during the holidays, Ruelas and her children would donate the meals to the homeless, Ruelas said.
“The purpose wasn’t to sell food,” Ruelas said. “We wanted to bring something positive to our community.” She mentioned Stockton’s high crime and soaring homicide rates.
“They took the time to be investigating for over a year now,” she said of her case. “But they can’t solve all these unsolved murders?”
Kelly McDaniel, the San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney said that the 209 Food Spot Facebook group was sent a warning before charges were filed. She added that selling any food not subject to health department inspection is a danger to the public and undercuts business owners who purchase permits to cook and sell food.
“People are assuming that I was taking from other businesses,” Ruelas said. “It’s not something that I was trying to make a business out of.”
Ruelas has been out of work for two years, for personal reasons and to care for her children. After paying rent, electricity, water and other monthly bills, she only has $200 per month left for food and necessary shopping, she said. Simply paying the $235 fine for her misdemeanors would be a blow to her family’s finances.
Although she rarely earned much of an income from the food sales through the Facebook group, she occasionally received useful items — such as clothes for the kids — in exchange for food. When a neighbor knew she needed furniture for her home, he offered to give her family couches in exchange for a home-cooked meal.
“I have two kids that are going to have a birthday party next week and I have no idea what I’m going to do about it,” she said.
On Sunday, Ruelas posted a message from her 17-year-old daughter, Mariyah, on Facebook. She said she didn’t want to be home when her mother made phone calls to her lawyer or to reporters about the case. It scared her, she wrote, thinking about her mom going to jail and leaving her and her siblings without a parent.
“That’s just sad,” Ruelas wrote in the Facebook post. “I need this done already so we can just breathe.”

Teacher arrested in slaying of 2 men

A Dallas-area middle school teacher has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the slayings of two men in Fort Worth.
A Fort Worth police statement says Cary Joseph Heath was arrested Monday at Permenter Middle School in Cedar Hill, where he has been a teacher. Bond is set at $1 million.
No attorney is listed in jail records for the 35-year-old suspect.
Police haven't released much information on the shootings, which happened about 4 a.m. Sunday. Officers arrived to find two men dead on the driveway of a house. The men have not been identified, and a motive has not been given.

Cocain found at Coca-Cola packaging factory

Coca-Cola workers found a huge stash of cocaine when they opened a delivery of fruit juice concentrate from Costa Rica at their factory in southern France.
The haul, which came from Costa Rica, weighed 370kg (815 pounds) and has a market value of AUD $74 million (USD $55 million) said prosecutor Xavier Tarabeux, according to local newspaper Ver-Matin . Those figures could not be confirmed by Coca-Cola.
The Coca-Cola factory in the town of Signes, near the Mediterranean coast, produces concentrates for various drinks. A spokesman for Coca-Cola France says employees immediately notified police and judicial authorities have opened an investigation.
"You can well imagine the surprise," said a spokesman for Coca-Cola, adding that the workers who found the drugs were ruled out as potential suspects. Sacks containing the drugs were hidden in a shipping container holding orange juice arrived at the factory on August 26.
The Marseille prosecutor's office said Wednesday it opened an investigation into trafficking and importing illegal drugs.
Coca leaves were reportedly used in the original Coca-Cola drink, created in 1886 by US pharmacist John Pemberton, although the company says cocaine has never been an "added ingredient."

Human head transplant to be preformed

While severing someone’s head and attaching it to another person’s body sounds like something straight out of a science fiction or horror movie, some real-life scientists say they are planning to do just that – as early as next year.
Italian neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero made headlines last year when he announced his plans to perform the first human head transplant in 2017. Since then, he’s recruited Chinese surgeon Dr. Xiaoping Ren to work with him, and now has found a volunteer patient for the procedure: a Russian man named Valery Spiridonov.
Spiridonov suffers from Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease, a rare and often fatal genetic disorder that breaks down muscles and kills nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that help the body move. Spiridonov is confined to a wheelchair; his limbs are shriveled and his movements essentially limited to feeding himself, typing, and controlling his wheelchair with a joystick.
In its September issue, The Atlantic profiles Spiridonov and the two scientists who hope to perform the experimental – and highly controversial – procedure.
“Removing all the sick parts but the head would do a great job in my case,” Spiridonov told the magazine. “I couldn’t see any other way to treat myself.”
Many scientists have spoken out against Canavero and Ren’s plans, accusing them of promoting junk science and creating false hopes. One critic went so far as to say the scientists should be charged with murder if the patient dies, a very likely outcome.
Canavero has published detailed plans for the procedure, which has been successfully tested in mice, in several papers published in the journal Surgical Neurology International.
First, like with other organ transplants, he and his team would need a suitable donor. This procedure would require a body from a young brain-dead male patient.
Once permission from the family is granted, the surgeons would set the body up for surgical decapitation.
At the same time, Spiridonov would be brought in and another surgical team would cool his body to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. This would delay tissue death in the brain for about an hour, meaning the surgeons would need to work quickly.
Using a transparent diamond blade, they would then remove both patients’ heads from their bodies, ultimately severing their spinal cords at the same time.
A custom-made crane would be used to shift Spiridonov’s head – hanging by Velcro straps – onto the donor body’s neck. The two ends of the spinal cord would then be fused together with a chemical called polyethylene glycol, or PEG, which has been shown to promote regrowth of cells that make up the spinal cord.
The muscles and blood supply from the donor body would then be joined with Spiridonov’s head, and he would be kept in a coma for three to four weeks to prevent movement as he healed. Implanted electrodes would be used to stimulate the spinal cord to strengthen new nerve connections.
Canavero has said the transplant – which would require 80 surgeons and cost tens of millions of dollars if approved – would have a “90 percent plus” chance of success.
Yet many in the scientific community strongly disagree.
“It is both rotten scientifically and lousy ethically,” Arthur Caplan, the head of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, wrote in an article for Forbes last year.
Dr. Jerry Silver, a neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve whose work on repairing spinal cord injuries was cited by Canavero, told CBS News in 2013 that the proposed transplant is “bad science. This should never happen.”
“Just to do the experiments is unethical,” he added.
Even in the unlikely event that the surgery worked, it raises further, uncharted ethical concerns.
For example, Canavero is presuming that transplanting Spiridonov’s head and brain onto another body would automatically transplant his whole self with his mind, personality, and consciousness. But it’s not that simple, as Anto Cartolovni and Antonio Spagnolo, two Italian bioethicists, pointed out in a letter to Surgical Neurology International after Canavero’s paper was published last year.
“Despite his [Canavero’s] vision, modern cognitive science shows that our cognition is an embodied cognition, in which the body is a real part in the formation of human self,” they write. “Therefore, the person will encounter huge difficulties to incorporate the new body in its already existing body schema and body image that would have strong implications on human identity.”
Furthermore, if Spiridonov were to reproduce with his new body, his children would not have his genetic makeup but that of the donor’s. What kind of rights, then, might the donor’s family have to the offspring?
Finally, Cartolovni and Spagnolo argue that because of the uncertainty of the operation, such a procedure would take away vital donor organs that could have been used for someone else who needed a heart or a liver​ transplant to save their lives.
If approved, the procedure would likely take place in China or another country outside of Europe or the United States, The Atlantic reports, as it would not be approved in the Western world.

Cocain cowgirls caught

A duo of gorgeous Canadian gals documented their $20,000 worldwide cruise like any 20-something would.

But authorities in Australia say Isabelle Lagace, 28, and Melina Roberce, 22, had more in their luggage than string bikinis.
They also allegedly had $23 million worth of cocaine — the most ever seized from cruise or airline passengers.
From Southhampton in the U.K. to Sydney, Lagace and Roberce appear on Roberce's colorful Instagram feed posing in Times Square, wearing bikinis on beaches in countries down the coast of South America, and getting tattoos in Tahiti aboard the MS Sea Princess.
The world cruise likely cost the girls about $20,000.
The many glamorous stops actually may have contributed to suspicion of the women, officials said.
"Sydney is highly attractive for cruise ships... so we're continually risk assessing the cruise ships and the passengers that come by air. This particular cruise ship — because of the nature and the amount of ports it had been to — was considered quite high risk in itself," Australian Border Force Commander Tim Fitzgerald told reporters Monday.
And the sheer bulk of cocaine allegedly seized in locked luggage from Tamine and the women makes authorities suspect this was more than just a three-person job.
"I can't go into specifics about the background of this particular syndicate, but you have to be a very organized to get your hands on 95 kilograms of cocaine," Fitzgerald said.
The maximum penalty for this offense is life in prison.

The famous afro Bob Ross had was fake!! (PIC)

Long before ASMR and Tasty videos came along, the best Zen thing to watch with your eyes glazed over and your jaw fully slack was The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross.
For 403 episodes of the PBS classic, Ross softly guided the viewer through the process of painting a blank canvas — his signature ‘fro making the show as much as his deft and deliberate art skills. But it turns out it was all a lie — Ross’s hair was actually stick straight.

In an interview with NPR, his business partner, Annette Kowalski, revealed that Ross initially grew out his hair and permed it to save money on haircuts when he was fresh out of the Air Force and trying to make it as a painter. But soon, he became trapped by his look.
Thank you for your sacrifice, Bob. We’re all happier little trees for it.

Disneyland sued due to bedbugs

Back in 2014, Joseph and Danielle Jones took their children to what's supposed to be the happiest place on earth: Disneyland. They packed up their bags and drove more than 350 miles from their San Leandro, California home and stayed at the Grand Californian Hotel and Spa in Anaheim. But it wasn't long before their 9-year-old daughter started complaining about itchy, painful bites on her face - the result of bedbugs.
A Family Is Suing Disneyland After Getting Bedbugs From a Famous Hotel Two years later, the family is now suing Disney and seeking unspecified damages for alleged battery, negligence, fraudulent concealment, nuisance and both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The complaint states that the hotel already had a history of guests reporting bed bug bites before the Jones' arrived. But when the family reported the bites, the hotel staff did not listen: "The housekeeping manager suggested the family's bites were probably mosquito bites, dismissing their concerns that they could have been bedbugs," the suit states.
By the next day, the entire family had bites on their bodies alleges the suit and doctors at the Oakland hospital confirmed the bites were from bedbugs. After returning home, the family had to throw out all of their clothing and luggage. The youngest daughter also has permanent scarring from the event. It remains to be seen how the lawsuit will turn out, but maybe the hotel should start using yellow or green sheets to ward off these insects in the future?

Man acting as neighborhood watch kills one person in a racial tantrum

A white man who apparently called police to complain about "hoodlums" near his house was charged with murder after he shot and killed a black man outside, authorities said.
The shooting happened early Sunday morning when 39-year-old Chad Cameron Copley fired a shotgun from inside his garage and hit the victim, according to a Raleigh Police Department news release. He was arrested hours later, and jail records show the suspect was being held on a murder charge.
Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas, 20, suffered a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police spokeswoman Laura Hourigan said Thomas was black.
A male relative who answered the phone Monday at a listing for members of the victim's family said they weren't doing well.
"We're broken apart torn apart, not doing well. Trying to get our lives back on track the way it was but it's hard. We lost somebody very special to us," said the man, who hung up before giving his name.
Police released an audio recording of a 911 call that came in shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday in which a male caller tells a dispatcher that he's "locked and loaded" and preparing to go outside. Saying there are people outside with guns, he tells the dispatcher he is on neighborhood watch and asks them to send police.
"We've got a bunch of hoodlums out here racing," he says. "I am locked and loaded. I'm going outside to secure my neighborhood."
The dispatcher then attempts to get a numeric address for the caller, but he declines and hangs up.
About seven minutes later, an upset female caller gives the dispatcher an address that authorities would later identify as Copley's house. The dispatcher asks what happened.
"I don't know. I'm upstairs with our children," the female caller says.
She then gives the phone to what sounds like the same male caller from earlier.
"We have a lot of people outside of our house yelling and shouting profanity. I yelled at them 'please leave the premises.' They were showing firearms so I fired a warning shot," he says. "And, uh, we got somebody that got hit."
After the dispatcher asks if someone was shot, the male caller responds: "I don't know if they're shot or not. I fired my warning shot like I'm supposed to by law. ... They do have firearms and I'm trying to protect myself and my family."
After the dispatcher asks who was outside, the caller says: "There's black males outside my freaking house with firearms."
Hourigan said state law prohibits the police from releasing the identity of emergency callers.
Copley lives in a subdivision in the northeastern stretches of the city where tidy two-story homes sit on tree-shaded lots. The surrounding Census tract is about 60 percent white and almost 30 percent black, with a median household income of about $76,000 — well above the state as a whole, according to 2014 Census estimates.
The news release says Thomas was among people who were outside of Copley's home, but Hourigan declined to elaborate on where he was when he was shot.
Two people who called 911 tell the dispatcher that the shots came from inside the house, with one giving the address for Copley.
"Someone just got shot," one of the callers says. "Someone shot him out of his house."
A dispatcher tells another caller not to move the victim as commotion and profanity can be heard in the background.
"Tell him help's already on the way," the dispatcher says.
Police announced Copley's arrest on a murder charge Sunday afternoon.
Copley appeared before a judge during a short hearing Monday, and he was denied bail. The Capital Defender's Office said it hadn't assigned an attorney to Copley's case as of Monday afternoon.

Man drugs police officers soda at Subway restaurant

A Utah sandwich shop employee has been arrested on accusations he put methamphetamine and THC into the drink of a uniformed police officer.
A probable cause statement filed Tuesday says the Layton police sergeant immediately felt impaired after getting the drink at a Subway restaurant Monday. The sergeant was in a marked patrol car going through the restaurant's drive-thru.
He struggled to find the brake pedal of his patrol car at a red light and couldn't answer questions at the police station.
Police Lt. Travis Lyman says the officer has been released from a hospital and is okay.
Tanis Ukena, 18, was arrested on suspicion of surreptitiously giving a poisonous substance. He denied the allegations.
Ukena prepared the sergeant's drink and was seen with something in his hand as he stepped out of view of a surveillance camera for an extended period of time before returning and handing the officer the drink, Layton Police tell KUTV.
Lyman says police don't know why Ukena allegedly drugged the drink.
It's unclear if Ukena has an attorney. No listed phone number for him could be found.
Subway spokesman Shawn Cook says the company is shocked and is cooperating with police.
Ukena is being held on $10,000 bail.

Murder suicide for family of 5

A Pennsylvania woman found dead alongside her husband and three children in an apparent murder-suicide had told friends on social media that she planned to leave him.
Megan Short alleged abuse and posted on Facebook that she needed help moving out of the family's Sinking Spring home Saturday, the day authorities discovered the family shot dead, The Reading Eagle reported (http://bit.ly/2aUuXSw ). A neighbor, Angie Burke, told the newspaper she saw the post about a week ago.
Short and her husband, Mark Short Sr., had been featured in news stories about their difficulties getting medication for a daughter who had a heart transplant. The girl, 2-year-old Willow, and her siblings, 8-year-old Lianna and 5-year-old Mark Jr., were found shot to death near their parents.
Police found the five bodies in the living room while conducting a welfare check at the home. A dog also was found dead.
Police also found a handwritten letter that "appeared to be a 'murder-suicide' note" and a handgun near one of the adults, the district attorney's office said. The couple had been having "domestic issues," District Attorney John Adams said.
Authorities have yet to identify the suspected shooter. Investigators scheduled a Monday afternoon autopsy for Mark Short and are conducting forensic analysis of evidence taken from the scene.
In an April 13 post on Philly at Heart, a website devoted to families dealing with congenital heart issues, Megan Short wrote that anxiety related to her daughter's condition had left her with post-traumatic stress disorder and "survivor's guilt" when children with similar problems from other families died.
Burke told the newspaper that she and Megan Short stayed in contact through Facebook. She said Short commented on a link to an online article about abuse, then wrote that she planned to leave her marriage after 16 years.

Politician's son breaks neck on waterslide

A Kansas waterslide billed as the world's tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker's 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it.
Details remained murky about what happened Sunday to Caleb Thomas Schwab on the 168-foot-tall "Verruckt" — German for "insane" — that since its debut two years ago has been the top draw at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas.
Kansas City, Kansas, police issued a statement late Monday afternoon saying that Caleb suffered a fatal neck injury around 2:30 p.m. while he was riding the slide with two women, neither of whom was related to him. They suffered minor facial injuries and were treated at an area hospital, police said.
Emergency responders arrived to find the boy dead in a pool at the end of the ride, according to the statement, which offered no further details.
In a statement Monday afternoon, Schlitterbahn said it was "deeply and intensely saddened for the Schwab family and all who were impacted by the tragic accident." The park was tentatively scheduled to reopen Wednesday, but "Verruckt is closed," according to the statement.
Officer Cameron Morgan, a police spokesman, said no police report about the incident was available. He said police were investigating because a death was involved and they want to ensure no crime was committed, but he noted that such accidents are usually handled as civil cases.
"It's being investigated as a criminal case but we are not saying something criminal happened," Morgan said Tuesday.
Schlitterbahn spokeswoman Winter Prosapio declined interview requests Monday but told reporters a day earlier that Caleb had been at the park with family members, adding that "we honestly don't know what's happened."
It wasn't immediately clear whether results of an autopsy Monday on Caleb would be publicly released or, if so, how soon, said Margaret Studyvin with the Wyandotte County coroner's office.
Leslie Castaneda, who was at Schlitterbahn on Sunday, told The Kansas City Star that she saw Caleb's crumpled shorts or bathing suit at the bottom of the ride, along with blood on the slide's white descending flume.
"I'm really having a tough time with it. I really am," said Castaneda, of Kansas City, Kansas. "I saw his (Caleb's) brother. He was screaming."
On the waterslide certified by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest, riders sit in multi-person rafts during "the ultimate in water slide thrills," subjecting "adventure seekers" to a "jaw dropping" 17-story drop, the park's website says. Passengers then are "blasted back up a second massive hill and then sent down yet another gut wrenching 50 foot drop," the website adds.
Each rider must be at least 54 inches tall, and the group's weight is limited to a total of 400 to 550 pounds. Authorities didn't release information about Caleb's height or the combined weight of his group of riders.
According to rules sent to the media in 2014, riders had to be at least 14 years old, but that requirement is no longer listed on the park's website.
Caleb's parents — Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife, Michele — have requested privacy as the family grieves, saying in a statement Sunday that "since the day he was born, (Caleb) brought abundant joy to our family and all those he came in contact with."
"As we try to mend our home with him no longer with us, we are comforted knowing he believed in our Savior Jesus, and they are forever together now. We will see him another day," the statement added.
The tragedy happened on a day the park offered lawmakers and other elected officials a buffet lunch, hot dogs and hamburgers.
Verruckt's 2014 opening repeatedly was delayed, though the operators didn't explain why. Two media sneak preview days in 2014 were canceled because of problems with a conveyor system that hauls 100-pound rafts to the top of the slide.
In a news article linked to the news release announcing a 2014 delay, Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry told USA Today that he and senior designer John Schooley had based their calculations when designing the slide on roller coasters, but that didn't translate well to a waterslide like Verruckt.
In early tests, rafts carrying sandbags flew off the slide, prompting engineers to tear down half of the ride and reconfigure some angles at a cost of $1 million, Henry said.
A promotional video about building the slide includes footage of two men riding a raft down a half-size test model and going slightly airborne as it crests the top of the first big hill.
The Unified Government of Kansas City, Kansas, and Wyandotte County said it does not inspect the operations of such rides and is responsible only for ensuring they've adhered to local building codes.
Without specifically mentioning waterslides, Kansas statutes define an "amusement ride" as any mechanical or electrical conveyance "for the purpose of giving its passengers amusement, pleasure, thrills or excitement." Such rides, by statute, commonly are Ferris wheels, carousels, parachute towers, bungee jumps and roller coasters.
State law leaves it to the Kansas Department of Labor to adopt rules and regulations relating to certification and inspection of rides, adding that a permanent amusement ride must be scrutinized by "a qualified inspector" at least every 12 months. Kansas' Labor Department didn't return messages Monday.
Prosapio said Sunday the park's rides are inspected daily and by an "outside party" before the start of each season.
Kansas state Sen. Greg Smith, an Overland Park Republican, said that although state law doesn't specifically address waterslides, it's clear they "would fall into that category." He called any potential legislative response to Sunday's tragedy premature, saying the investigation should be given time to play out.

Racist miss teen "usa" uses "N" word

Miss Teen USA Karlie Hay allegedly used the N-word a number of tweets prior to being crowned on Saturday night at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Hay’s tweets have seemingly been removed from her Twitter account @haaykarris,  but there still remain offensive messages from a few years ago.
Not long after the 18-year-old blonde-haired, blue-eyed Hay beat out runner-up Miss North Carolina Emily Wakeman for Miss USA did social media explode with purported screen grabs of Hay’s past tweets filled with the N-word (below). While the former Miss Texas did not comment on the controversy, she wrote on Instagram after her win, “Several years ago, I had many personal struggles and found myself in a place that is not representative of who I am as a person. I admit that I have used language publicly in the past which I am not proud of and that there is no excuse for.”
Hay added, “Through hard work, education and thanks in large part to the sisterhood that I have come to know through pageants, I am proud to say that I am today a better person.” “I am honored to hold this title and I will use this platform to promote the values of The Miss Universe Organization, and my own, that recognize the confidence, beauty and perseverance of all women,” concluded the new Miss Teen USA.

Rape victim arrested and jailed

Prosecutors broke the law when they jailed a rape victim in order to secure her testimony against her attacker, the attorney for the woman said in a letter to Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson.
In the letter delivered Monday, Sean Buckley, the rape victim's attorney, said he believes prosecutors illegally obtained a court order to confine his client in the Harris County Jail last December, committing the crime of official oppression. He requested that Anderson appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the matter.
"I have made a colorable claim that employees in your office engaged in official oppression in their mistreatment of my client," Buckley stated in the letter. The attorney filed a federal suit for his client in July over her jailing. "This is a very serious matter that deserves a full, independent investigation by a neutral prosecutor with no ties to your office."
The 25-year-old woman, identified in court documents as "Jane Doe," agreed to testify in the December trial against her assailant, serial rapist Keith Edward Hendricks. However, the victim, who has long-suffered from mental illnesses, suffered a psychological breakdown while testifying about her 2013 attack, according to the lawsuit.
She was subsequently taken to a hospital for mental health treatment and then jailed for 27 days following her release at the request of prosecutors who wanted to ensure she would testify in the January trial.
It is that court order - called an "attachment order" - prosecutors used to take the woman into custody that Buckley says was illegally obtained.
"The evidence shows that prosecutors and others in your office broke the law by obtaining an illegal attachment order/witness bond that was unauthorized by any statute," Buckley stated in his letter. "Specifically, there was no legal basis for your employees to 'attach' my client and throw her in the Harris County Jail for 27 days, since she was not under subpoena, was not a resident of Harris County, and was not financially able to pay a surety bond."
The DA's office has not yet been reached for comment regarding Buckley's request.
During her confinement in jail, the rape victim, who was housed in the facility's general population, was attacked by another inmate, had a altercation with a jailer and was not regularly given her medications, according to her lawsuit.
Anderson has previously defended her prosecutors' actions, stating that while the DA's office does not jail victims, this was "an extraordinary set of circumstances."
On Jan. 11, the woman returned to court and testified against Hendricks. He was convicted and received two life sentences.
    In a video statement released last month, Anderson said Hendricks, 55, could have gone free had she not taken the stand in the trial and the woman's life again would have been at risk.
In his letter to Anderson, Buckley asked for a response by Friday.

Teen with cancer killed before receiving "Make A Wish" donation

A Texas teen battling bone cancer was killed by a 15-year-old just days before he was set to see his Make-A-Wish dream come true.
Diego Rodriguez, 17, was fatally shot Tuesday by a teenage boy playing with a handgun, it was reported.
The gun went off when Rodriguez tried to take the weapon from the younger boy, police said.
At the time of his death, the San Antonio teen had one wish.
He’d been battling bone cancer for two years and just wanted to live to see his grandfather’s truck redone by the Black Jack Speed Shop owned by retired NBA All-Star Tim Duncan.
The 23-year-old old Chevy S10 was probably only worth $1,500 — and the restoration may have cost $15,000. But the Make-A-Wish Foundation was willing to help.
As soon as the nonprofit approached Black Jack about pitching in, they said yes.
“I was excited to bring some joy to a young man who was down for the better part of his earlier years,” Pena said.
Getting the truck work done was part of a birthday promise from the boy's mom.
"She had promised Diego if he can fight the cancer and make it to his 16th birthday that she would give him the truck," Pena said.
But Rodriguez didn’t live to see the completed product.
Now shiny and new-looking, the treasured truck boasts new paint, a custom interior, new suspension and new wheels and tires.
All the work isn’t for naught, though — the truck will be unveiled Monday at the teen’s funeral service, where it will be featured in the procession.
"I'm grateful to have been a part of the journey with Make-A-Wish and Diego's family and I still look forward to unveiling it to the family so they have some sort of bright spot in this whole equation," Pena said.

Off duty cop shoots another cop during domestic violence dispute

An off-duty Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer shot a detective Friday night who was investigating a report of domestic violence involving he and his estranged wife, then fled to Ohio.
The wounded detective, a veteran of the department, police said, was shot at least once in the elbow, and possibly a second time in his side. He is expected to survive his injuries.
The shooting, police said, stemmed from an investigation into the off-duty IMPD officer, who was involved in "some type of domestic incident" with his estranged wife in an apartment on the southeast side Friday.
About 8 p.m. local time, southeast district officers were called to the 6700 block of Valley Ridge Drive, in the Overlook at Valley Ridge apartments, regarding the disturbance; however, since the incident involved an IMPD officer, the department's special investigation unit (SIU) was requested to handle the case.
As the SIU detective began his investigation, police said, the off-duty officer, who is also a veteran of the department, returned and began shooting inside the apartment sometime around 10 p.m local time. The detective, who was struck at least once, returned fire, but didn't hit the off-duty officer, police said.
After the shooting, the off-duty officer fled the scene in his personal vehicle. The wounded detective was rushed to Methodist hospital, where he remains in good condition.
Over the course of the next few hours, police were able to track the off-duty officer to Cincinnati, where he was taken into custody, "without incident," by Cincinnati Police Department officers, said IMPD Major Rich Riddle.
"Our detectives our on their way to Cincinnati to continue their investigations," Riddle said early Saturday morning. "(The off-duty officer) will be facing criminal charges here in Indianapolis once our investigation completes."
At the time of the domestic disturbance, and the shooting that followed, police said, the off-duty officer's two children were inside the apartment. They were not injured.
It was unclear early Saturday morning what exactly happened between the off-duty officer and his wife before police were called, but Riddle said the circumstances were "serious enough of a criminal nature to call in our SIU detectives."
Friday's incident marks the second time an IMPD officer has been shot this week. On Monday, an officer was shot in the ankle while pursuing a suspect who fled a traffic stop at a gas station at 71st Street and Georgetown Road.
The off-duty officer involved in Friday's shooting, who is assigned to southwest district, has been immediately suspended without pay, pending termination from IMPD, police said.
The names of the officers involved in the incident have not been released. Both have at least 18 years of service on the force.

3 killed more hurt in home invasion shooting

A gunman attacked a gathering of young adults at a suburban Seattle home early Saturday, killing two people at a fire pit before firing more shots from the roof, the grandmother of one of the witnesses said.
Three people were killed and another injured at the Mukilteo property. State troopers pulled over and arrested the fleeing suspect on an interstate three counties away, authorities said.
"She was hiding in the closet and called me from the closet while it was going on," Susan Gemmer said of her 18-year-old granddaughter, Alexis. "We were texting back and forth, telling her to stay quiet, stay calm, we're on our way. She kept saying, 'They're dead, they're dead, I saw them, I was right there and I saw them.'"
Gemmer said that according to her granddaughter, the gunman arrived with a rifle at the party of about 15 to 20 friends from Kamiak High School — mostly recent graduates aged 18 to 20. The gunman walked through the house to the fire pit out back, where he shot two of the victims. Those present knew the gunman, she said, and he and one of the victims had broken up last week.
The shooter then made his way onto the roof, where some of the friends were hanging out, Gemmer said.
  The young man who lived at the home tried to lead Alexis Gemmer to safety by escaping out the garage. As they rolled under the garage door and the boy bolted across the street, the gunman began shooting at him from the roof, her granddaughter told Gemmer.
"She panicked and ran back in the house and hid in the closet until police arrived," Gemmer said.
Authorities did not immediately release information about or the identities of the suspect or the victims.
"Our community has suffered a great loss tonight," Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer Gregerson said. "There were many young people who saw and heard things that no one should ever experience."
The shooting happened in the upscale Chennault neighborhood of Mukilteo, a waterfront town of about 20,000 people, 25 miles north of Seattle.
Washington State Patrol Trooper Will Finn said the male suspect was pulled over at around 2 a.m. heading south on Interstate 5 near Chehalis, about 113 miles away. Finn declined to release information about his identity, but said troopers returned him and the vehicle he was driving to the custody of Mukilteo police.

Prisoner killed during escape attempt

An inmate who killed two bailiffs during an escape attempt from a southwestern Michigan courthouse had written in a letter to his ex-wife that he was going on the run or would die trying because he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in prison.
The letter by Larry Darnell Gordon was found after authorities searched a Berrien County Jail unit where he had been housed before a July 11 appearance at the county courthouse in St. Joseph, sheriff's Detective Lt. Greg Sanders said Friday during a news conference.
"I'm not trying to die, and I don't want too," the letter reads. "I'm just trying to get free and I'll die trying.
"Getting free is the only chance at being able to see you!!! Hopefully I make it!!!"
Gordon, 44, was facing possible life in prison on rape and kidnapping charges involving a 17-year-old girl.
Moments after a handcuffed Gordon had been removed from courtroom 315, a security camera recorded sounds of a struggle from an adjacent holding area.
Police have said Gordon attacked and disarmed Deputy James Atterberry Jr. and wounded him. Bailiffs Ronald Kienzle, 63, and Joseph Zangaro, 61, rushed to the area and were shot and killed.
"He's got a gun" and "help me" are heard from the holding area. Someone also is heard yelling at Gordon to put the gun down, Sanders said.
About a dozen people were inside the courtroom. Some initially fled through a door, while others ducked beneath benches before court staff ordered them to leave.
A man identified by Sanders as Gordon yells "I got hostages."
Sanders said Gordon had eight hostages. Cameras outside the courtroom show some hostages fleeing down a hallway as other bailiffs converge on Gordon.
Gordon can be seen crossing a hallway while using a female hostage as a human shield. They are followed by three other hostages.
What follows are about a dozen gunshots, Sanders said.
A bailiff said he "took the shot to save the hostage's life," Sanders told reporters. "Another bailiff began firing and they continued to fire until he was no longer a threat."
A female hostage was shot in the arm by Gordon, Sanders said.
Gordon was arrested in April and accused of holding the teenage girl against her will for two weeks and giving her methamphetamines in exchange for sex.
Police had gone to his Coloma Township home to serve Gordon with a domestic violence warrant, prosecutors said earlier this month. Gordon barricaded himself in a shed and escaped through a back access door before being found several streets away. Officers later found the girl in the shed.
In the letter to his ex-wife, Gordon wrote how much he will miss her and their daughter.
"Baby they want to send me away for the rest of my life," Gordon continued. "I don't deserve that. That's not living. I'm not going to do it!!!"

Parents keep children in cages

Pennsylvania police say a couple locked their three young children in a basement dog cage as punishment and left the youngest child, 6, inside the cage overnight.
Thirty-six-year-old Nicholas Chamberlain and 34-year-old Linda Chamberlain were charged Friday.
State police troopers say the investigation began June 19 when police responded to a call of a child refusing to return home in Huntingdon County. Police say the couple's 13-year-old child escaped to a neighbor's house to call police after the 6-year-old was locked in the cage overnight.
The couple also has a 10-year-old.
Online court records don't list attorneys for the Chamberlains, who remain jailed Monday and face a preliminary hearing Aug. 3.
Both are charged with false imprisonment and endangering the welfare of children. Nicholas Chamberlain is also charged with simple assault.