Student shoots multiple people in classroom (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

A teenage student suffering from depression opened fire at a private American school in northern Mexico on Wednesday, injuring three students and a teacher then shooting himself in what state officials called an unprecedented attack that was caught on security video.
Aldo Fasci, security spokesman for Nuevo Leon state, said the 15-year-old student pulled out a handgun inside a classroom at the bilingual Colegio Americano del Noreste and began shooting, leaving three of the victims and himself gravely injured.
Security camera footage showed the teenager quickly and calmly firing what appeared to be seven shots at seated students and a female teacher, some at point blank range. At least two victims immediately slumped over after being hit.
The shooter, looking dazed, aimed at his own temple and pulled the trigger twice, but he had apparently ran out of bullets. He walked back to where he had been sitting, reloaded, and shot himself in the chin. He keeled over.
Students who had been cowering beneath desks and chairs then fled the classroom, stepping over the shooter to reach the door.
"He had depression and was being treated," Fasci told local television. "We have no motive yet."
Ambulances and police raced to the school, which offers pre-school, elementary and high school classes on the southern outskirts of the industrial city of Monterrey.
Fasci said one 15-year-old student was shot in the arm, and two 14-year-olds were shot and injured. There were no details on the nationalities of the victims.
He said the shooter had brought a .22 caliber firearm from home.
Oscar Aboytes, spokesman for emergency services in Nuevo Leon, said all of the wounded were rushed to hospital.

Woman missing since 1981 but was just reported missing a few weeks ago

The FBI investigated a home in a Manchester neighborhood Tuesday as officials searched for clues in the 1981 disappearance of a 23-year-old woman.
Denise Beaudin has not been seen nor heard from since 1981, but she was just reported missing a few weeks ago. Beaudin, her boyfriend, Robert "Bob" Evans, and her baby daughter lived in a home at 925 Hawyard St., which was the focus of Tuesday's search.

A swarm of FBI agents streamed in and out of the home while a green tent was set up in the back of the house. The sound of sawing filled the neighborhood
"I don't really know anything about the case, because I was just a youngster when it all happened," neighbor Anne Cayford said.
Investigators said that when Beaudin's parents went to the house to visit her the week after Thanksgiving in 1981, they found the home empty.
"The home has never been searched by law enforcement, so this is our first time in there," Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeff Strelzin said.
Beaudin's daughter is in her 30s now and living in California with children of her own. Investigators said they have spoken with her, and she would like to remain anonymous.
Beaudin's father is in his 80s now and still lives in the area. Her mother and brother are deceased.
Investigators said they know where Beaudin's boyfriend is, but they declined to elaborate.
"We hope to be in a position in a week or two to be able to release a lot more details about this case," Strelzin said.

Wife post on FB after husband murders her

“I can’t believe I dropped my phone in the toilet,” it read. “I’m such an idiot. Message me here, til I can get it fixed.”
But according to police, McShane was already dead when the update was posted.
Her husband, George McShane Jr, told investigators that he’d pretended to be his wife by posting on her Facebook wall to convince family members and friends that she was still alive. He said he posted that his wife’s phone had been dropped in the toilet so no one would panic that she was not returning calls or text messages, according to an arrest affidavit.
Police say the 42-year-old Orlando resident killed his wife after the two had a fight.
The Orlando Police Department was called to the couple’s home on Tuesday, days after authorities say Kristen McShane was killed.

Officers found George McShane inside his sport-utility vehicle that was parked in the garage with the engine running, the affidavit said. Police believe he was trying to kill himself.
They found Kristen McShane’s body in the master bedroom, under a comforter.
George McShane told police that he and his wife had an argument about 3:30am on January 7. He lost his temper, jumped on his wife and choked her to death, according to the affidavit.
Six hours later, Kristen McShane’s Facebook profile picture was updated to show her next to a man at what appeared to be a social event.
“Who’s your friend,” one person commented.
“That’s my new guy,” was the reply a few hours later.
George McShane, who has been charged with second-degree murder and domestic battery by strangulation, told police he used his wife’s Facebook page to send messages to friends.
There also were responses to people’s suggestions for how to fix the phone.
“Put it in rice,” a friend suggested on January 7.
“Already did girl. Fingers crossed,” was the response just minutes later.
“I have it in rice … I checked yesterday, but it didn’t work then,” read a comment posted on January 9, in response to a question about the status of the phone. “If it’s not working, I’m gonna bring it to Verizon after George gets home from work and see if they’ll give me one.”
Kristen McShane’s profile picture also was changed twice on January 8 — first to a photo of her smiling and painting a snowman, and again, just two minutes later, to one of a little girl sleeping.
Only messages of condolences have appeared on her Facebook page since George McShane was arrested and arraigned on Wednesday. Online court records show that he has been assigned a public defender.
The Florida case is the latest incident in which someone is believed to have used a person’s social media account to create distraction from a crime.
In October, a man’s Facebook account suddenly became active after he and his girlfriend disappeared. First, there was an announcement that the two had gotten married; then came various postings, including news stories about the missing couple, and strange, violent images and memes.
The man, Charles Carver, was found buried on a rural South Carolina property in November. His girlfriend, Kala Brown, was found alive, “chained like a dog” in a metal container on the property.
Although the rate of violent acts committed against women by their spouses or intimate partners declined by 72 percent from 1994 to 2001, federal statistics show that women were more likely to be victims of homicides committed by their intimate partners.
Nearly 40 percent of the 3,032 homicides involving female victims in 2010 were committed by their intimate partners. Of the 10,878 homicides involving male victims, only 3 percent were committed by their intimate partners, according to the federal agency’s data.
Family members have started GoFundMe campaigns to help support Kristen McShane’s two young children and to help pay for her funeral.
“This beautiful girl lost her life due to domestic violence,” Kristin Lynn wrote on one of the GoFundMe pages. “She always put herself last and others first. This beautiful human being (my best friend) was taken way too soon.”
By Sunday, several of Kristen McShane’s loved ones had changed their profile pictures to a purple ribbon, with the words “RIP Kristen” and “Love shouldn’t hurt.”

Couple starves unwanted children

An investigation into a Halifax, Pa., couple charged with child abuse has unearthed startling details about the living conditions in which the kids who were placed in their care faced.
Their house reportedly rampant with bed bugs, mold and lice according to CBS 21, Joshua and Brandi Weyant allegedly starved three children placed under their supervision, ages 6, 5 and 4, for months. Investigators believe the juveniles’ last meal was in September, and the children would not be rescued until Dec. 16.
Their frail frames prominently showing their ribs and spine, they initially vomited back up liquid and solid food because of their poor health.
Police said they believe the Weyants intentionally starved their children because "they did not want them anymore."
Besides severe malnutrition, among the many horrifying hardships the children reportedly had to endure were getting punched in the face so hard a tooth got knocked out, and getting locked inside a toyless room with no heat source at night, where the kids resorted to urinating on themselves and on the floor.Joshua Weyant would justify the nightly imprisonment by saying, "They would get out a lot and destroy everything."
When the children were finally brought out of the home by authorities, their core body temperatures hovered around 94 degrees, with medical officials stating they showed signs of hypothermia and weak heart rates.
It's suggested that none of the victims are the biological children of the Weyants, two of the juveniles coming into their lives when their mother, Jess David, needed someone to watch them as she battled a heroin addiction.
"I failed them in every possible way," David said. "My kids could have died and I wouldn't have known."
David claims she was in a relationship with Josh Weyant around 2010 and asked him about four years ago to take care of her children. According to the distraught mother, the couple took long-term custody without her permission and she didn't know anything about their condition until she heard of the Weyants' arrest.
Bail has been set for the Weyants at $1 million each. They face charges including aggravated assault, false imprisonment and endangering the welfare of children.

Newly Elected Sheriff steals from evidence to feed addiction

A newly elected sheriff in West Virginia faces removal after being arrested three days into the job for stealing methamphetamine from the evidence locker.
Bo Williams was elected to be the top cop in Roane County in November, but was arrested Tuesday and charged with grand larceny after starting the new job on Sunday.
He is accused of stealing more than $1,000 in evidence, the majority of which was meth, at his previous job as an officer in Spencer, W.Va.
A criminal complaint against Williams filed Tuesday says that evidence bags with case numbers matching the missing evidence were found in his desk and car.
 The Roane County Commission voted Tuesday to remove their new sheriff, citing a law that allows them to do so for drunkenness or drug addiction. A resolution says that Williams admitted to the theft and having more than a yearlong addiction on Nov. 26, but was still sworn in at the end of the year.
He was placed on leave and resigned from the Spencer police department in December, though it was not immediately clear Tuesday if he would resign as sheriff or g

o through the formal removal process.
 Williams left jail on $50,000 bond ahead of a court appearance next week, and faces up to 10 years in prison.
 Todd Cole, who was sheriff from 2000 to 2008, has been appointed to run law enforcement operations in Roane County.

Man set to die after killing friends

Lawyers for a Texas death row inmate who killed two men after one of them mocked him for falling for a fake drug deal are looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him from becoming the first prisoner executed in the nation this year.
Christopher Wilkins, 48, is set for lethal injection Wednesday evening.
Wilkins explained to jurors at his capital murder trial in 2008 how and why he killed his friends in Fort Worth three years earlier, saying he didn't care if they sentenced him to death.
In an appeal pending before the high court, Wilkins' attorneys contended he had poor legal help at trial and during earlier appeals and that the courts improperly refused to authorize money for a more thorough investigation of those claims to support other appeals and a clemency petition.
State attorneys said courts have rejected similar appeals and that defense lawyers are simply employing delaying tactics.
Wilkins was released from prison in 2005 after serving time for a federal gun possession conviction. He drove a stolen truck to Fort Worth, where he befriended Willie Freeman, 40, and Mike Silva, 33.
Court records show Freeman and his drug supplier, who wasn't identified, duped Wilkins into paying $20 for a piece of gravel that he thought was a rock of crack cocaine. Wilkins said he shot Freeman on Oct. 28, 2005, after Freeman laughed about the scam, then he shot Silva because he was there. Wilkins' fingerprints were found in Silva's wrecked SUV and a pentagram matching one of Wilkins' numerous tattoos had been carved into the hood.
Wilkins also testified that the day before the shootings, he shot and killed another man, Gilbert Vallejo, 47, outside a Fort Worth bar in a dispute over a pay phone, and about a week later used a stolen car to try to run down two people because he believed one of them had taken his sunglasses.
"I know they are bad decisions," Wilkins told jurors of his actions. "I make them anyway."
Wes Ball, one of Wilkins' trial lawyers, described him as "candid to a degree you don't see," and had hoped his appearance on the witness stand would have made jurors like him.
"It didn't work," Ball said.
While awaiting trial, authorities discovered he had swallowed a handcuff key and fashioned a knife to be used in an escape attempt.
"This guy is the classic outlaw in the model of Billy the Kid, an Old West-style outlaw," said Kevin Rousseau, the Tarrant County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Wilkins.
Thirty convicted killers were executed in the U.S. last year, the lowest number since the early 1980s. That tally includes seven executions in Texas — the fewest in the state since 1996. Wilkins is among nine Texas inmates already scheduled to die in the early months of 2017.

Handcuffed suspect shoots and kills self in squad car

A handcuffed shoplifting suspect who shot himself in the back seat of a patrol car in Texas on Sunday died Monday morning, authorities said.
Austin Police Department spokeswoman Anna Sabana identified the man as 19-year-old Zachary Khabir Anam.
Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told reporters that officers were responding to a shoplifting report at a mall in a wealthy neighborhood east of downtown Austin at noon on Sunday.
Police found Anam, who was wanted on several felony warrants, Manley said. He didn't have an ID, so an unidentified officer was tasked with driving him to police headquarters to confirm his identity.
When they were outside a bar roughly five miles from the mall, Anam began discussing suicide with the officer, Manley said.
"The officer inquired if he had the means," Manley said. "The individual stated that he did."
Manley said that Anam pulled a pistol from the small of his back and, while handcuffed, managed to pull the weapon around to the right side of his body and place the barrel at his head.
The officer jumped out of the car and started giving commands, Manley said.
Inside the bar, a server watching the encounter saw the officer walking around the car with his gun drawn. Then, the she saw Anam slump over.
"I just saw his head ... slowly fall over, as if he had been knocked out," the server, identified only as Keisha H., had said.
Manley said the incident lasted roughly six minutes, and that Anam fired a single shot.
The chief said it was unclear if the officer, an 11-year veteran, had searched him before placing him under arrest.
The Associated Press reported that in May, local police issued an arrest warrant accusing Anam of being involved in several burglaries and auto thefts.
"If this individual had chosen to remove that weapon and fire at the officer instead without saying something, we could be here discussing a very different incident here," Manley said.

Man caught with cocaine hidden under belly fat

Authorities say a Texas man tried to destroy cocaine hidden under his belly fat while being taken to jail after failing a field sobriety test early on New Year's Eve.
An Austin police officer pulled over Florentino Herrera early on the morning of Dec. 31 after he says he saw the 48-year-old run a stop sign and cross a solid white traffic line. Herrera was arrested after failing field sobriety tests and refusing to take a blood alcohol test.
In an affidavit, police say the squad car's camera recorded Herrera trying to destroy cocaine concealed under his stomach fat.
Herrera is being held on charges of evidence tampering and driving while intoxicated.

Cellmate: Mother killed 3-year-old son

The former cellmate of a Florida woman accused of killing her 3-year-old son told investigators the mother has no remorse because she believed the boy “was the soul of Hitler.”
Authorities say 28-year-old Egypt Moneek Robinson remains in custody two years after the body of 3-year-old Aries Juan Acevedo was found in a suitcase floating in the swamp behind her Florida Panhandle home.
The  prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Robinson.
Investigators say 28-year-old Tiffany Powell, who’s jailed on attempted murder charges, told them Robinson believes she was protecting everyone by killing the boy because he was an evil child.
According to court records, Powell requested to no longer share a cell with Robinson after talking to investigators.
Robinson has a hearing scheduled in February.

Couple found dead with sign on door

 Authorities say they have found the bodies of a couple after someone found a sign on the door warning people to not come inside and wait for help.
Greenville County Coroner Parks Evans told media outlets that 69-year-old Paul Smith and his 70-year-old wife Sandra showed signs of carbon monoxide poisoning and also had wounds on their bodies. He did not give additional details on their injuries. Autopsies are scheduled for Friday.
Evans says it appears to be a murder-suicide, but more investigation is needed before a final determination.
Deputies say they were called to the home near Berea around 9 p.m. Thursday for a welfare check. The couple is believed to have died around 3 p.m. Thursday, the station reports.

Cops reveal motive in chopping death

A 22-year-old man has been arrested in the slaying of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s nephew after telling a friend in a recorded phone call that he did it because the nephew had abused a 17-year-old girl, authorities said Thursday.
The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said investigators arrested 22-year-old John A. Radavich on Thursday evening at an apartment in Spokane Valley for investigation of first-degree murder. It was not immediately clear if Radavich had an attorney
or someone who could speak on his behalf.Robert Tester, the 35-year-old nephew of the Democratic senator from Montana, was found dead on Sept. 6, after his 8-year-old daughter reported witnessing part of the homicide. The girl had been sleeping in bed with her father when he was attacked, investigators said.
The girl called a family member, who then called 911. The girl wasn’t able to identify the assailant, who she said was wearing all black with most of his face covered, the station reports. The girl told deputies the man had a sword and a knife, the station reports. She said the man told her to stay in bed because he was going to kill her dad.
An ax was found at the scene, authorities have said. The medical examiner said Tester died from “chop wounds” to the head and his stomach area and chest, KREM reports.
“Detectives learned Tester had a 17-year-old girlfriend who he assaulted the day before the murder,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a news release. “During the last week of 2016, detectives received information from a friend of Radavich. The friend stated Radavich confessed to killing Tester during a phone call he had recorded and provided a copy of the call to detectives.”
Radavich had previously dated the girl, who contacted him after Tester abused her on Sept. 5, the sheriff’s office said. In the recorded call, Radavich told his friend he had to take care of it by killing Tester, the news release said.
The sheriff’s office did not immediately release more details of the alleged abuse, but said the case remains an active investigation.
In the wake of the arrest, Sen. Jon Tester released thsi statement to MTN news: “Sharla and I and the entire Tester family would like to thank the public for their continued thoughts, prayers and respect for our privacy during this difficult time.”

Ex-Mich. teacher who admitted sex with student

Jamee Hiatt of Grass Lake told a Jackson County Circuit Court judge on Thursday that her actions “were inexcusable” and she “became out of control.”
The 32-year-old Hiatt earlier pleaded guilty to one count each of first-degree and third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Hiatt told the court that she began a sexual relationship with a student in 2014, when he was 13.
The victim told police that Hiatt had sex with him “so many times that he couldn’t begin to tell how many times that there were,” Jackson Police Det. Gary Schuette testified. The boy recounted five or six specific incidents, Schuette said, which took place at Hiatt’s home in Grass Lake and on one occasion in a parking lot of a store in Jackson.
The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports Judge Thomas Wilson ordered her to spend 3 to 20 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of monitoring as a sex offender. She was arrested by Jackson police in January 2016 after resigning from her job as third-grade teacher at Woodworth Elementary School in Leslie, Mich., the station reports. Prior to that, she taught at Leslie Middle School as recently as 2013, according to the district’s website.
Last year, authorities also said she gave the student a gun that was believed to have been used in a Jackson shooting.
Defense lawyer Phillip Berkemeier said Hiatt has done “a lot of things she regrets.” Berkemeier said Hiatt had been “forthcoming” about the gun.

Woman killed in motel

A Martinez woman was found beaten to death in an Antioch motel room Friday morning, and her estranged boyfriend who was with her is considered a suspect, police said.

A male friend of the 52-year-old victim called police to the Riverview Motel on East 18th Street just before 8 a.m. after going to a motel room and discovering the aftermath of a violent struggle, police said.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene from what appeared to be blunt-force injuries. Her identity was not immediately released. Her death marked the city’s seventh homicide of the year.
The woman’s estranged boyfriend, a 62-year-old Antioch resident, was present when police arrived, and investigators believe he was with the victim in the room, which police said was “in disarray.”
Acting Lt. Diane Aguinaga said the victim and her boyfriend were attempting to reconcile before violence broke out. The man is considered a suspect and is being questioned by police, but no arrest has been made.

People Who Swear May Be More Honest

Swearing may be considered impolite and vulgar, but a new two-part study has revealed a more gracious attribute for those with an off-color vocabulary: Honesty. According to the research, people are more likely to swear as a way to express themselves, rather than cause harm to others, and the more an individual swears, the more honest they are likely to be.
The researchers found that while liars are known to prefer third-person pronouns and negative words in their speech, honest individuals are more likely to use profanity. According to the researchers, that's because swearing is often used to express one’s feelings, and people who do this more regularly portray themselves in a more honest light it was said.
“The consistent findings across the studies suggest that the positive relation between profanity and honesty is robust, and that the relationship found at the individual level indeed translates to the society level,” the study read.
For their report, the team of international researchers asked a group of 276 participants about their swearing habits as well as how honest they were in different situations. In addition, they analyzed the status updates of more than 73,000 Facebook users, measuring for honesty and profanity. In the second study, the same team used previous data to compare the integrity levels of US states with how often they swear. All the experiments had the same result: honesty was associated with higher levels of swearing.
Past research has suggested that swearing may also be a sign of increased intelligence. A 2016 study found that individuals with higher levels of verbal intelligence, that is intelligence associated with oral language, tended to use more swear words.