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(WARNING 21+) The Civilian Office of Police Accountability released video Friday of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a suspected kidnapper on the Northwest Side. The body camera video shows an officer confronting a man July 8 in an apartment in the Belmont Central neighborhood. After partially entering the room, the police officer yells, “Don’t move. Chicago police. Don’t move,” the video shows. The suspect, reclined on the sofa, leans forward, yells something inaudible and begins to turn over, the video shows. As the suspect places his hand near an apparent handgun on the edge of the sofa, the officer lets off several shots, and the suspect falls to the ground. He died later at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said. Ephraim Eaddy, a COPA spokesman, said the investigation into the officer’s actions is ongoing. The suspected kidnapper, 42-year-old Luis E. Vasquez, had allegedly carjacked two people the night before in the west suburbs, police have said. 🔫👮🏻♂️#shooting
A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a fury that took even storm-hardened residents by surprise, forcing people to climb into their attics. Hundreds were feared trapped by high water, and neighbors used boats to rescue one another. Medics and other rescuers rushed to Ocracoke Island - accessible only by boat or air - to reach those who made the mistake of defying mandatory evacuation orders along the 200-mile ribbon of low-lying islands. 'We are flooding like crazy,' Ocracoke Island bookshop owner Leslie Lanier texted. 'I have been here 32 years and not seen this.' Its winds down to 90mph, Dorian howled over the Outer Banks as a far weaker storm than the brute that wreaked havoc on the Bahamas at the start of the week. Just when it looked as if its run up the Southeast coast was coming to a relatively quiet end, the Category 1 hurricane sent seawater surging over neighborhoods, flooding the first floors of many homes, even ones on stilts.🌪💦😱
David Sparks, 23, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Savannah Spurlock on Friday. The mother-of-four's body was found in July, six months after she had gone missing. Sparks was arrested in July and charged with tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse after Spurlock's remains were discovered on a property in rural Garrard County owned by the his parents. The mother-of-four went missing on January 4 after leaving a bar in Lexington with Sparks and two other men, as seen in surveillance footage. The first pretrial hearing will happen in 60 days due to the amount of evidence and the number of agencies involved.
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BREAKING NEWS! 'People are shooting each other for food and water': Bahamas Hurricane Dorian death toll will be 'staggering' with THOUSANDS still missing as bodies pile up and militias are formed to stop looting. Up to 70,000 are in need of 'life-saving assistance'…
This is the tragic moment a Bahamian man returned home after spending six days in Hurricane Dorian relief shelters, only to find it gone. Bradley Forbes was heartbroken to find the structure, on the East End of Grand Bahama, completely destroyed by the deadly storm this week. His boat - which was tied between two trees - also vanished as a result of the hurricane which has caused a tremendous loss of life' in Abaco's main city of Marsh Harbor, Bahamas Health Minister Duane Sands said. He confirmed to @police_frequency in the Telegram that the death toll on Friday had risen to 43, but warned it could climb to the thousands. During a briefing with media, he said: 'I am sure that your reporters have seen uncollected bodies on the ground. I am sure there are many persons who know individuals who have personally lost loved ones. So where we end up with the death toll is likely to be significantly higher than where we are right now.' 😱😱😱