A man in South Carolina who fatally shot a public safety officer during a traffic stop at a regional airport on Sunday and fled the scene has been caught, authorities said. The suspect initially fled the Florence Regional Airport, but was later captured by Florence County deputies, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) said in a news release. The SLED said no additional details on the circumstances that led up to the shooting or how deputies caught the suspect could be released at this time. The names of both the suspect and the officer have also yet to be released. The incident marks the first officer-involved shooting in South Carolina in 2020, according to the SLED. Last year, 45 officer-involved shootings occurred in the state. The division said it’s handling the ongoing investigation and will summarize all information gathered in a case file report which will be submitted to prosecutors.
A South Carolina prison escapee was back behind bars on New Year’s Day after spending 40 years on the lam. Jose Romero was part of a prison work crew when he took off on Dec. 13, 1979, with seven years to go on an 18-year-old prison sentence for armed robbery, FOX News reports. He was apprehended Wednesday in Dover, Del., where he was living under the name Arnaldo Figueroa, Dover police said Thursday. He became a fugitive when he was 24. Romero's eventual undoing was a Dec. 28 arrest for public intoxication and trespassing in Dover. Police processed the case under Romero’s assumed name. His proof of identity was an identification card from the Delaware Department of Motor Vehicles that had been issued to Arnaldo Figueroa, police said. But police also took his fingerprints, which came back two days after the arrest to Romero “who was a wanted subject out of South Carolina.”
January is traditionally the coldest time of year for much of the East, but several states will see an uptick in weather in the next eight to 14 day outlook. The warmest conditions are predicted to be felt in the Southeast and lower Mississippi Valley, with an extension into the Midwest, Plains and mid-Atlantic. The lowest point in the Southeast, including Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, are expected to see hotter than average temperatures. In Orlando, Florida, average temperatures peak at 75 degrees, but upcoming forecasts show a high of 84 degrees just before mid-January. Nashville, Tennessee, which typically sees an average high of 47 degrees, may see a 66 degree day as early as Friday. The average 57 degrees high in Dallas, Texas, can also be upstaged by a surprisingly warm 71 degrees by Thursday.
A 13-year-old boy has died after armed gunmen shot him and his family as they traveled home to the U.S. from a vacation in Mexico. The parents of the boy, mother, 42, father, 48, and another boy, ten, were shot as they drove in a minivan from Mexico to the U.S. border on Reynosa-Nuevo Laredo Highway, Los Arcos, on Saturday night. It is believed they had been visiting relatives in the state of San Luis Potosi from their home in Oklahoma, reports The New York Post. Some local reports have identified the deceased 13-year-old as Oscar Castillo López and his injured parents as Juanita Castillo López and José Silva Mendoza. Attackers are said to have collided with the family's Chevrolet SUV, with Oklahoma plates, when they refused to stop - the family were accompanied by another relative in a car behind who was not injured. After being forced to a stop the mother, father and two young boys were shot - fatally injuring the 13-year-old.
A one-year-old boy was killed and a 20-year-old college student injured after a gunman opened fire through a bedroom window early Sunday morning in South Dallas, police said.The unnamed gunman, who remained at large, walked up to the home just before 3:30 a.m. and opened fire with a rifle, investigators said. The child, Rory Norman, who would have celebrated his second birthday on Jan. 24, later died after paramedics rushed him to the hospital, reported FOX News. The shooting sparked an angry reaction from Dallas Police Chief Reneé Hall, who later said at a news conference, "this shit has to stop in this city!" Norman's uncle, a 20-year-old college student, was home for the holidays when the gunman shot him multiple times. He was recovering in stable condition at the hospital. "Whoever pulled this trigger, we will find you," Hall said, adding that very little information was known about the shooter but that the Homicide Response Team and the Dallas PD were investigating 👮🏻♂️
Tennessee Titans offensive lineman Taylor Lewan had the last laugh over Tom Brady after his team stunned the host Patriots in Saturday’s AFC Wild Card playoff game in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Lewan trolled the legendary quarterback by posting a video to his Instagram account parodying a similar inspirational clip that Brady posted to his social media before Saturday’s contest. ‘Too late to be scared,’ Brady wrote in the caption of the video, which showed a montage that mixed footage of lions attacking wildebeests in the jungle and Patriots clips. The video included a voiceover from actor Christopher Walken, who is heard reading a monologue from the movie Poolhall Junkies. But after the Titans shocked the Pats on the field on Saturday, Lewan responded with his own video. 🏈 #funny
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! Graphic photographs from Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy have revealed for the first time his bloody neck wound - as other images taken inside his New York prison cell show several nooses fashioned from bed sheets, pills and electrical cords. The images, which were obtained by 60 Minutes and shown publicly for the first time on Sunday, were taken by the New York City medical examiner's office after Epstein killed himself in his cell last August. His death prompted widespread conspiracy theories and speculation that he had instead been murdered. The photos from inside his cell reveal that fragments of material were found hanging from a window, while a large strip of bedding was also looped through a hole on the top bunk bed.
A professor at a prestigious Massachusetts college has been charged with trying to kill a female faculty colleague who suffered severe injuries after being attacked with a rock, garden shears and a fireplace poker, prosecutors said. Rie Hachiyanagi, an art professor at Mount Holyoke College, was charged Friday with armed assault to murder, Fox 6 Springfield reports. The victim, a 60-year-old woman, went to the hospital with broken bones to her face and other injuries. Reports citing a police report suggest Hachiyanagi may have attacked her colleague over unrequited love. “During the winter recess, there was a serious incident involving two Mount Holyoke faculty members,” Mount Holyoke spokeswoman Christian Feuerstein said. “The incident occurred off-campus and resulted in the hospitalization of one faculty member who is receiving care.” Feuerstein said Hachiyanagi had been placed on administrative leave and was barred from setting foot on campus. #facepalm