Tag: murder

  • Inmates Were Freed Long Enough To Carry Out Revenge Killings In Mexico

    Like I needed another reason never to go back to Mexico: Prison inmates allowed to leave their cells with weapons borrowed from guards carried out last week’s killing of 17 people in northern Mexico, federal authorities said Sunday. Ricardo Najera, spokesman for the federal attorney general’s office, said prison officials in the northern state of Durango…

  • Man Accused Of Murdering Rapper Dolla Found Not Guilty

    A man accused of murdering an up-and-coming rapper who was fatally shot at the Beverly Center last year was found not guilty Friday by a Los Angeles jury. The trial of Aubrey Berry, an events promoter from Atlanta, revolved in part around the victim’s violent rap lyrics as the defense sought to portray the rapper as…

  • Obama Assassination Used To Teach Geometry In Alabama School

    Birmingham, AL – The teacher was apparently teaching his geometry students about parallel lines and angles, officials said. He used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama. “He was talking about angles and said, ‘If you’re in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,’ ”…

  • More Apache Helicopter Reuters Photographer Incident Info

    Yesterday when I reported on the leak of the video footage, for some reason I attached the edited video rather than the full one.  The edited video is more of a “highlights reel”. Here is the full 40 minute unedited video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik[/youtube] I stayed out of the discussion on the previous post, and I’m going…

  • WikiLeaks Publishes Disturbing U.S. Military Apache Helicopter Footage

    WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people (July 12, 2007) in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack.…

  • Crackhead Fires 15 Shots At Girlfriend

    Birmingham, Alabama – A  man angry at his girlfriend fired 15 rounds at her Monday night. Stephen Gafford, 43, missed but some of the bullets hit too close for comfort. Investigators recovered seven .22-caliber projectiles from the lining of the woman’s purse, said Jefferson County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Randy Christian. The victim, whose name wasn’t…