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BAKERSFIELD, United States (AFP) — A man who killed five people, including his wife, in California before taking his own life had been in the midst of a contentious divorce, authorities said Thursday. “It appears that the suspect targeted each of his victims,” Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood told a news conference in Bakersfield, where Wednesday’s deadly rampage took place. He said the shooter, identified as Javier Casarez, 54, was in divorce proceedings and his […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A man went on a shooting rampage in California on Wednesday, killing five people including his wife, before taking his own life, a police spokesman told AFP. The shooting in Bakersfield in central California was possibly “a domestic violence incident,” said Lieutenant Mark King of the Kern County sheriff’s office. Police received their first call at 5:19 pm before responding to the first location, a trucking company, where the rampage began. Three people were killed there and the shooter, armed with […]
PERTH, Australia (AFP) — A 24-year-old man has been accused of killing his wife, three toddlers and mother-in-law with a blunt instrument and knives at their suburban family home, where he remained for several days before turning himself in, Australian police said Monday. Police charged Anthony Robert Harvey with the murders of his two-year-old twins Alice and Beatrix, his three-year-old daughter Charlotte and his 41-year-old wife Mara in the southwestern city of Perth. Harvey, who […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A 14-year-old suspected of having raped and killed a woman in her eighties in the US city of Baltimore was charged as an adult with murder, authorities said Friday. Tyrone Harvin, who turned 14 last month, is accused of attacking 83-year-old Dorothy Mae Neal at her home and leaving her for dead. She died in hospital on August 30. “We can tell you without even checking our records this is […]
by Ignacio Carvajal Agence France Presse COATZACOALCOS, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican authorities discovered at least 166 bodies at a mass grave site in Veracruz state, prosecutors said Thursday, the latest horrifying find in a region hit by bloody drug cartel turf wars. Home to the city of Veracruz, one of Mexico’s largest ports, the eastern state has a history of corrupt politics and grisly power struggles between rival cartels — a toxic mix that has […]
by Germain Moyon with Jan Hennop in The Hague Agence France Presse AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch police were investigating Saturday a suspected terror attack at Amsterdam’s Central Station, in which two people were stabbed before the knifeman was shot by police. The assailant was identified as an 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit. “We are seriously taking into account that there was a terrorist motive,” Amsterdam police spokesman Frans Zuiderhoek told AFP. […]
by Leila MACOR / with Sara KAMOUNI in Washington Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP)–Several people were killed in a mass shooting at a video game tournament in the northern Florida city of Jacksonville Sunday, local police said, with the lone suspect among the dead. In a news conference, Sheriff Mike Williams confirmed there were multiple fatalities and injuries in the shooting at a Madden 19 American football eSports tournament, with an unidentified white male the only suspect. “We have no outstanding […]
by Katell Prigent / Marie Giffard Agence France Presse TRAPPES, France (AFP) — A man stabbed his mother and sister to death and seriously injured another person in a town near Paris on Thursday before being shot dead by police. The 36-year-old had serious mental health problems and had been on a terror watch list since 2016, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told reporters after visiting the scene in the town of Trappes. The motive for […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A Republican congressman from California and his wife were indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday over the suspected misuse of $250,000 of campaign funds, authorities said. Duncan and Margaret Hunter are accused of syphoning the cash over seven years for family vacations to Hawaii and Italy, dental bills, theater tickets and numerous other non-campaign expenses. US Attorney Adam Braverman said in a statement that Hunter, 41, and […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France-Presse RIO DE JENEIRO, Brazil (AFP)–Rio de Janeiro’s drug war hit a bloody crescendo Monday when at least 11 suspected criminals and two soldiers were reported killed in a huge military sweep through impoverished favelas and during a rush-hour police car chase. The military command heading security in Brazil’s second biggest city said the two troops killed were the first lost since conservative President Michel Temer sent them into protect Rio. […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – A police crackdown on petty crime in the run-up to the Asian Games in Indonesia has claimed dozens of lives, Amnesty International said Friday, criticizing what it said was an “unnecessary and excessive” campaign. The rights group said at least 31 suspects were killed under a “shoot first and ask questions later” operation in host city Jakarta and South Sumatra in the lead-up to the world’s second-biggest multi-sport event, which kicks […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A Malaysian drug dealer dubbed the “Iceman” was sentenced to death Thursday by a court in Thailand after he was convicted of running a narcotics network that funnelled huge profits into legitimate businesses. Tun Hung Seong was arrested in April last year after a tipoff that he had hired a man to smuggle nearly 300 kilogrammes of crystal meth — known as ice — through the violence-scarred south. Investigators believe […]
