If you're like us, you're trying to comprehend why a person would shoot and kill 20 kids at an elementary school, but as we await more news, here's a video of a pony on the train in Berlin.
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According to a lawsuit filed in early October, [Chang Ho Yi, the owner of Austin Bluffs Plaza Liquor, pictured, above] witnessed the theft on Oct. 25, 2010, and pursued Dewberry out of his store with a loaded .357 revolver, which fired as Dewberry was in the backseat of a getaway car. The bullet hit Dewberry in the torso before it passed through his jaw and exited through a cheek, the lawsuit said. The same projectile hit a 17-year-old passenger in the leg, Colorado Springs police said at the time. Dewberry’s lawsuit alleges that Yi behaved “negligently and recklessly” in brandishing a gun at a shoplifter who posed no physical threat. Colorado law permits residents to use deadly force in self-defense, but offers no such protections in defense of property. Yi and his company, Yi Enterprises Inc., are the sole defendants. Although Yi was initially arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the El Paso County District Attorney’s Office sent the case to a grand jury, which declined to charge Yi. His attorney, Alan C. Gasper, said afterward that he would have argued at trial that Yi had been hit on the head during the episode and was disoriented when the gun went off.Dewberry, who was 22 at the time of the shooting and has had repeated run-ins with the law, wasn’t charged, but according to his lawsuits, he's “disfigured” and suffered wounds to his lips and tongue that require ongoing speech therapy. That'll learn him.
source: Gazette
In the latest case, the plaintiff said Clash approached him on Miami Beach, complimented his appearance and struck up a friendship. Clash returned home to New York, but stayed in touch with the teen, promising to be a dad to him. The youth, who was 16 or 17 at the time, had been molested by a teacher and was considering running away from home, according to the lawsuit. "These are all vulnerable boys. None of them had father figures in their lives and they were looking for that father figure," said [attorney Jeff Herman], who represents three of the alleged victims. The lawsuit says Clash paid for a plane ticket from Florida to New York in 1996 and arranged for a car service to pick up the teen and bring him to his upscale apartment, where he gave him cash and showered him with "attention and affection" and ultimately engaged in numerous sexual acts. Herman said he is poring over receipts and other documents to see if the car service was paid for by Clash's employers at Sesame Street. Clash's attorney Michael Berger said in a statement that "the lawsuit is without merit and we will vigorously defend the case and Mr. Clash's reputation." [...] Herman said the alleged victims didn't come forward sooner because they were afraid, but have found courage as others have spoken up. He said they are compliant victims who participated in the sexual acts, but didn't consent because it's illegal for a minor to do so. "Because they participated in the sex they feel like they're doing something wrong ... they're ashamed, they're embarrassed, not something they really want to talk about," he said. Herman said he's been contacted by several other possible victims and is vetting their cases.
source: WCPO
At 12:26 a.m. Sunday, officers were called to the Red Ivy sports bar at 3525 N. Clark St., where the 25-year-old suburban victim told officers Greaves jumped out of a bathroom stall and attacked him with a broken beer bottle, slicing him on both sides of the throat, according to a police report. The victim also suffered cuts on his chin, hands and neck while pushing the assailant away. At some point, another man entered the bathroom and helped hold the attacker until police got there, the report stated. The victim was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was treated and released, the report said. Greaves refused to wear his pants and yelled obscenities while being processed at a police station. Also, while being processed, the man defecated into his hands and threw the matter onto the floor of the station, the report stated.
source: Chicago Tribune
The owners of Max Harvest International Holdings went into hiding this month after the shoe factory owner ho hadn't been paid kidnapped one of their managers in mainland China, according to sources. The kidnappers held the man for two weeks before releasing him shaken but unharmed. The manufacturing firm's owners, a businessman and his wife who do not want to be identified, fled Hong Kong, a New York based business associate said late Tuesday. According to the Hong Kong couple's lawyer, Staci Riordan of Los Angeles, Williams and her husband, Kevin Hunter, never paid their shoe bill which now exceeds $419,000. She said they signed a contract last year to buy the shoes as part of Williams' Adorn line. "Things don't work in China the way they work in the United States," Riordan said. She said she has been trying for months to negotiate a settlement, but if it can't be resolved soon, her client will file a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court.This will likely be resolved and settled before court.
source: NY Daily News
According to police, Armstrong was at her home in the 10000 block of Golf Crest in the Sappington area when she threw down her grandmother and stomped on her, breaking both her arms and eight ribs on November 12. According to police, Armstrong thought her grandmother was a demon and tried to beat it out of her before tucking her in bed.
The victim was taken to a local hospital, where she died on Sunday. St. Louis County Police said Armstrong later admitted to the beating. Police was arrested and taken to the St. Louis County jail, where she remains with a $75,000 bond. Authorities said they would seek additional charges after determining the victim’s death was a result of the beating.
source: KMOV
Officer Michael Virgilio wrote in his report that he responded to a call for police help at the World Sports Bar Sunday afternoon. The manager told him that Williams had returned to the bar after being involved in a dispute with a customer the night before, Virgilio said in his arrest report. "I suppose you're going to ask me to take my hands out of my pockets, huh?" Williams said to Virgilio, according to the report, after the officer told Virgilio he had been "involved in a few disturbances." Williams refused to give his name or show an ID, but "yelled out a CA driver's license number," the officer wrote. When Virgilio warned he would arrest him for obstruction unless he produced an ID, Williams responded "No." The comedian then turned around and placed his hands behind his back "on his own accord," the arrest report said. "Two of Williams' associates were standing nearby and were pleading for Williams to calm down," the officer wrote. While being handcuffed and searched, Williams "made several comments about how he was going to sue the department," the report said. "He stated he had been arrested over 30 times in the last few months and every time he was released prior to being booked into jail," Virgilio wrote. "He made comments regarding my employment with the city of Seattle and how it would end as a result of his arrest. Williams stated he had millions of dollars and this arrest would not affect him." After the search turned up Williams' passport in his pocket, the officer asked why he hadn't just handed it over. "You asked for my driver's license," he quoted Williams saying. "I didn't have it!" Then, it got worse, the arrest report said. "Williams became aggressive and resistant and his actions forced me to take him to the ground for a short period of time. He was subsequently placed in the back of my patrol car." Williams was playing pool in the bar when Sunday's trouble started, the report said. "An argument began and quickly escalated." When the manager tried to separate Williams from the couple with whom he was arguing, Williams yelled at him for "protecting the customers from the famous guy," Virgilio wrote. "Williams picked up a pool stick, raised it up and pointed it at his face," the report said. "He continued to state if he hadn't stepped back the stick would have hit in the the face." When the manager asked him to put the stick down, Williams said "What if I don't?" and jabbed the stick toward him again, the report said. "At one point during the altercation, Williams followed a family outside of the bar where, as the family got into their car, Williams flicked a cigarette through a car window at a woman, striking her just below her eye," the police news release said. "Williams also threw a rock at the family's car." Officer Virgilio said he would request additional charges against Williams including reckless endangerment, because he threw a rock that hit a window in the family's car, "directly next to an 8-year-old girl." "Had the glass shattered or the rock had penetrated the window it could have struck and harmed the 8-year-old victim," he said.