Ind. Man With 47 Guns Arrested After School Threat
CEDAR LAKE, Ind. December 16, 2012 (AP)
Authorities say an Indiana man who had 47 guns and ammunition in his home has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kill people at an elementary school near his home.
Cedar Lake police were called to the home of 60-year-old Von I. Meyer early Friday after he allegedly threatened to set his wife on fire. A police statement says Meyer also said he would enter Jane Ball Elementary School and "kill as many people as he could."
Authorities found 47 guns and ammunition worth over $100,000.
Prosecutors filed felony intimidation charges against Meyer on Saturday, one day after the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. He is being held without bond.
Cedar Lake is about 45 miles southeast of Chicago.
By SAL HERNANDEZ, MIKE REICHER, SARAH de CRESCENZO, JOSH FRANCIS and KEITH SHARON / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
NEWPORT BEACH – The suspect from Saturday's Fashion Island shooting was being held by the Sheriff's Department Sunday morning, with his bail is set at $250,000 Article Tab: image1-At least 50 shots fired at Fashion Island
Garden Grove resident Marcos Gurrola, 42, has been charged with shooting at an inhabited dwelling.
Police say Gurrola fired about 50 rounds from a handgun into the air, stopping to reload the weapon with multiple magazines.
On one of the busiest retail days of the year, holiday shoppers scrambled for their lives.
The suspect fired near the eastern store entrance at the crowded outdoor mall, said Kathy Lowe, Newport Beach Police spokeswoman. No one was hit by the shots, Lowe said. One person suffered a minor injury running in the aftermath of the shooting, but they were treated and released at the scene, Lowe said.
Lowe said the first 911 call was made at 4:35 p.m. She said the suspect was in the parking lot firing shots into the air and into the ground. The shooter put the gun down, and was intercepted and arrested without a struggle by two Newport Beach bike officers, Lowe said. Originally, Gurrola was reported to be white, but authorities have since said he is Latino.
Gurrola doesn't appear to have a criminal record.
In the parking lot, police focused their attention on a white Honda Civic with an exposed black handgun sitting on its trunk. Shell casings were on the ground next to the car. A black jacket and Lakers cap were also sitting on the trunk of the car.
One witness said she saw the suspect in a white shirt shooting into the air. He wasn't aiming at anyone.
"I thought he was joking," said Laby Shayan. "I thought it was a toy. Oh my God. It was a real gun."
Witnesses said the shooting was especially scary because the thoughts of the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., where 28 people were killed Friday, were still fresh in their minds.
Hanaa Escatel, who had been Christmas shopping with her 11-year-old son, Robert, said her mind flashed to the horrible images more than 24 hours before.
"I thought of yesterday," said Escatel of Huntington Beach. "And then I thought Oh my God, it's happening here."
Witnesses said they began hearing shots just before 5 p.m. The sound triggered mass chaos and confusion.
Mobs of people ran away from Macy's. They ducked into clothing stores, the movie theater and other businesses.
Rita Schneider of Northridge was standing in front of a kiosk when she saw people running.
"People started screaming and scrambling," Schneider said. "The woman who was helping us said, 'There's a shooting. Run.'"
Schneider and her husband Larry ran into a clothing store where they were directed into a dressing room to hide.
"It was chaos," Schneider said. "There was a lot of confusion. People were yelling, 'Shots fired.'"
Naim Salem, 27, a Fashion Island valet, said he heard the shots.
"You could hear gun shots flying over your head," Salem said. "After about five minutes, everybody started to rush out of Macy's."
Tara Kuhnert, 35, of Newport Beach, was in the Macy's shoe department when the shooting started.
"People were screaming at the top of their lungs," Kuhnert said. "They were saying, 'There's a shooter.'"
Heather Hurley, a Nordstrom employee, was helping a customer, when she saw a "stampede of people."
They were "running inside the store and knocking over the cosmetics chairs," Hurley said. "I could see people crying, and I asked what was going on. They said there was shooting near Macy's. So we started herding people to the back of the store into a storage room. I was super calm for some reason, but some customers were shaking and others were crying."
In the aftermath of the shooting, Orange County Sheriffs deputies could be seen patrolling the outdoor mall in flak jackets and military-style helmets and carrying rifles.
Robert Escatel, the 11-year-old who was at the mall with his mother said he was quite relieved when they made it out of Fashion Island.
"I'm just glad it's over. I'm not good at scary situations. I was terrified," he said.
The suspect was standing next to his vehicle at the time of the arrest and advised officers there was more ammunition in the trunk of his car. As a precautionary measure the Orange County Sheriff's Department Bomb Squad was called in to remove the ammunition from the vehicle.
During the incident and for a short time following, several stores in Fashion Island secured their doors as a precautionary measure, however most stores remained open throughout the evening.
The investigation is continuing at this time. Anyone with more information is asked to call Detective Garrett Fitzgerald at 949-644-3781.
The sound of the shots are captured in this YouTube video.
Register reporter Cindy McNatt contributed to this story.
22 children stabbed at Chinese elementary school December 14, 2012 at 2:20 pm in World
A knife-wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes Friday, police said, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at Chinese schools and kindergartens.
By Staff, Associated Press
A knife-wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes Friday, police said, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at Chinese schools and kindergartens.
The attack in the Henan province village of Chengping happened shortly before 8 a.m., said a police officer from Guangshan county, where the village is located.
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The attacker, 36-year-old villager Min Yingjun, is now in police custody, said the officer, who declined to give her name, as is customary among Chinese civil servants.
A Guangshan county hospital administrator said the man first attacked an elderly woman, then students, before being subdued by security guards who have been posted across China following a spate of school attacks in recent years. He said there were no deaths among the nine students admitted, although two badly injured children had been transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside the county.
A doctor at Guangshan’s hospital of traditional Chinese medicine said that seven students had been admitted, but that none were seriously injured.
Neither the hospital administrator nor the doctor would give his name. Children likely between 6-11 years old
It was not clear how old the injured children were, but Chinese primary school pupils are generally 6-11 years old.
A notice posted on the Guangshan county government’s website confirmed the number of injured and said an emergency response team had been set up to investigate the attacks.
No motive was given for the stabbings, which echo a string of similar assaults against schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly 20 and wounded more than 50. The most recent such attack took place in August, when a knife-wielding man broke into a middle school in the southern city of Nanchang and stabbed two students before fleeing.
Most of the attackers have been mentally disturbed men involved in personal disputes or unable to adjust to the rapid pace of social change in China, underscoring grave weaknesses in the antiquated Chinese medical system’s ability to diagnose and treat psychiatric illness.
In one of the worst incidents, a man decribed as an unemployed, middle-aged doctor killed eight children with a knife in March 2010 to vent his anger over a thwarted romantic relationship.
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Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him.
Police in Bartlesville, about 65 kilometres north of Tulsa, arrested Sammie Eaglebear Chavez, 18, early Friday on charges of conspiring to cause serious bodily harm or death. He remained in jail Saturday.
An assistant principal at the school alerted police to the alleged plot on Thursday, according to a probable cause statement.
A student told authorities Chavez had tried to "recruit other students to assist him with carrying out a plan to lure students into the school auditorium where he planned to begin shooting them after chaining the doors shut," a police lieutenant wrote in the affidavit.
Chavez told the students he planned to place bombs at the doors that he'd detonate when police arrived, and he threatened to kill students who didn't want to join him, police wrote.
Students said they saw Chavez researching the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, in which 12 Colorado students and a teacher were murdered by two students who also died.
After Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., there were several other fatal shootings across the U.S. this weekend:
? A man opened fire early Saturday at a hospital in Birmingham, Ala., wounding a police officer and two employees before being shot and killed by another officer, authorities said.
? East of Birmingham, police shot and killed a man armed with an AK-47 assault rifle at the end of a pursuit that began with a triple killing in a Cleburne County mobile home Saturday morning, authorities said.
A child under the age of two at the mobile home was injured and taken to hospital, while a police officer was critically injured while engaging the suspect.
? A man shot and fatally wounded a woman, then killed himself Friday evening at the busy Excalibur hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Police: Crowd attacked officers after robbery suspect shot, killed Authorities say cops fired after violent confrontation with suspect
(Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune / December 15, 2012)
Photos: Crowds gather near shooting scene Photos: Crowds gather near shooting scene Maps 1600 W Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60609, USA
By Bridget Doyle, Deanese Williams-Harris and Liam Ford, Chicago Tribune reporters
December 16, 2012
A robbery suspect was shot to death by officers Saturday after a "very violent encounter" in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, Chicago police said, sparking a mob scene.
The shooting happened just before 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1600 block of West Garfield Boulevard near a gas station, police said.
A melee erupted when a crowd gathered after the shooting and relatives of the dead man — identified as Jamaal Moore, 23 — accosted police officers and threw bottles, bricks and rocks, Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said. A family member assaulted an officer and was arrested, McCarthy said at an unrelated news conference.
Eight people were arrested at the scene, McCarthy said, adding that he had no information about how many officers were injured in the confrontation.
The chain of events began when armed robbers held up a truck driver near 38th Street and Kedzie Avenue between 10 and 11 a.m., authorities said.
Several suspects in a silver SUV reportedly broke into a truck. The driver confronted the thieves, and they pulled out a weapon, said Patrick Camden, a police spokesman. The driver called 911 and told a dispatcher that the robbers were probably armed, Camden said.
Police chased the SUV until it lost control near Garfield Boulevard and Ashland Avenue and struck a light pole, authorities said.
About five suspects ran from the SUV, McCarthy said, and four remain at large.
One police car responding to the scene skidded and may have hit Moore as he tried to get away, McCarthy said.
A male and a female officer exited to confront Moore, who got into a struggle with the male officer, throwing the officer to the ground twice, McCarthy said. Moore is listed in court records as 6-foot-1-inch and 205 pounds.
While still struggling with Moore, the male officer yelled that Moore appeared to be holding something, McCarthy said.
"It was reported as a gunpoint robbery, so the officers had good reason to believe that there was a gun there," McCarthy said.
After throwing the male officer to the ground a second time, Moore charged the female officer, McCarthy said.
"Based on the male officer saying that (Moore) had a gun, she was in fear, and she fired twice, striking him," McCarthy said.
No weapon was recovered. Officers later learned that Moore had been holding a flashlight, police said.
Both officers were taken to Mercy Hospital & Medical Center with minor injuries. Moore was taken to St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:13 p.m.
Cook County court records show that Moore had been charged with crimes about a dozen times since 2006. In a 2007 case, he was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to six years in prison.
On Nov. 26, he pleaded guilty to felony aggravated fleeing, a charge related to an attempt to escape arrest. Further details on the crime were not available Saturday, but Moore received 24 months probation and was sentenced to 60 hours of community service plus fines, court records show.
At the scene of the shooting, the crowd that gathered afterward included people who identified themselves as relatives of Moore. Word spread quickly that Moore was shot while handcuffed, an account that bystanders heard from others who said they witnessed the shooting and that was shared by two people who called the Tribune.
McCarthy said he had no information about whether that was the case.
"To my knowledge, it's nothing about handcuffs," McCarthy said. "There is in-car video that is going to support this detailed story."
Camden said, "If he were handcuffed, we wouldn't have a reason to shoot him."
Sgt. Michael Martin, speaking near where the shooting took place, said people there were reacting with anger.
"People were throwing bricks and bottles at cop cars," Martin said. "A few squad cars are damaged."
Police responded by sending in several brigades of officers and closing off the area to traffic until the tensions eased and the damaged SUV was towed from the scene.
Tribune reporters Dawn Rhodes and Jeremy Gorner contributed.
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CLEVELAND — A chase that ended with 13 officers firing 137 rounds, killing two people, began with a pop – perhaps a gunshot or backfire from a car speeding past police headquarters.
For the next 25 minutes late in the night of Nov. 29, the car crisscrossed Cleveland tailed by officers, headed along Interstate 90 and wound up near the back entrance of a school in East Cleveland, where police opened fire.
Police don't know why the driver, Timothy Russell, 43, refused to stop. Russell had a criminal record including convictions for receiving stolen property and robbery. His passenger, Malissa Williams, 30, had convictions for drug-related charges and attempted abduction.
The fallout from their deaths has cast the Cleveland police department in an uneasy light amid community complaints about what's been called a racially motivated execution of two people with no evidence they were armed.
The state took over the case and families for both victims and civil-rights groups have demanded a federal investigation. They accuse officers of alleged civil rights violations in the pursuit and gunfire barrage.
"You just can't help but wonder how so many officers were able to shoot so many bullets at these two people in this vehicle," said Paul Cristallo, an attorney representing Russell's family.
Protesters yelled "execution" at a community meeting called by Mayor Frank Jackson to quell rising tensions. The city tried to defuse the outrage by reaching out to federal officials for help. There was no immediate federal decision to intervene.
The officers involved in the shooting have been assigned to desk duties, which is standard procedure after a shooting. They want to avoid talking to the media while subject to the state and internal investigations, their union president said.
The scene of the deaths has turned into a memorial, with small vigil candles arranged in the shape of a heart and the number 137 and stuffed animals piled together with a frost-encrusted poinsettia.
The chase began about 10:30 p.m. when an officer thought he heard a gunshot from a car speeding by the police and courts complex in downtown Cleveland and jumped into his patrol car, made a U-turn and radioed for help.
The chase went through crowded residential neighborhoods, then reversed course, headed east onto busy I-90 and through parts of Cleveland and eventually East Cleveland, ending with the car blocked in the rear of a school.
By police accounts, at least 30 patrol cars were involved in the chase, including Cleveland and East Cleveland police, sheriff's deputies and state troopers.
As the chase ended along hillside driveways heading to the school in John D. Rockefeller's old neighborhood, Russell allegedly rammed a patrol car and drove toward an officer on foot. Then the gunfire erupted: 137 rounds, Russell shot 23 times and Williams 24 times and their car pockmarked.
Jeff Follmer, president of the police union, defended the officers' actions and said officers used force to confront a driver using his vehicle as a potentially deadly weapon.
That was an acceptable police response, said David Klinger, a former Los Angeles and Redmond, Wash., patrolman who teaches criminal justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
"Police officers are authorized to use deadly force to protect themselves and others from great bodily injury or death," he said. "I don't know about you, but I'm not going to stand there and let somebody run me over."
While the driver may have endangered officers, Klinger questioned why the passenger was shot two dozen times, though he wondered whether officers missed while aiming at the driver.
Follmer said some officers in the chase believed both the driver and passenger were armed, and police radio chatter had numerous references warning about a weapon or gunfire from the fleeing car. "I guess he's waving a gun out the window pointing at the officers," one radio dispatch said.
But no weapon or shell casings were found in the fleeing car and the chase route was searched for any trace.
In a well-integrated police force, the makeup of the officers who fired raised the issue of race: 12 are white and one Hispanic. Both victims were black.
The police union president said race wasn't an issue and said the racial makeup of the pursuing officers was random.
But the NAACP called the shootings unacceptable and avoidable and called on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio went further, calling for a special prosecutor without ties to the northeast Ohio law enforcement community. The ACLU also asked the attorney general to remove East Cleveland police and the sheriff's department from the state probe because they were involved in the chase.
Cristallo said people who are part of Cleveland's black community are angry. "The people who live in the inner city in Cleveland, the black people in this community, feel that this was an assault on the whole community," he said.
Complaints about the relationship between police and Cleveland's black residents date back to the discovery of the bodies of several black women in a home in an impoverished neighborhood east of downtown in 2009. The man who lived in the home was sentenced to death last year in the killings of 11 women.
That case shed light on residents' complaints that reports of missing black women involved in drugs and prostitution were ignored, tarnishing the image of police.
"This most recent shooting is only the latest in a long line of incidents in Cuyahoga County that have tested people's faith in their public servants," said James Hardiman, a veteran civil-rights attorney and legal director of the ACLU of Ohio.
The shooting deaths have also strained the relationship between officers and city leaders.
The mayor offered an even-handed approach and said police would be backed if they obeyed procedures during the chase but would face unspecified consequences if that wasn't the case.
But the quick response by a glum-looking police Chief Michael McGrath that that the shooting was a tragedy upset rank-and-file officers who felt he spoke too fast without knowing the facts.
"Morale is down. There is no confidence that there's backing with the chief right now," union president Follmer said.
The internal investigation on whether officers followed departmental procedures could take six weeks or more, the chief said. The mayor said the state investigation could take months.
Aunt: Mall shooter always warm, loving STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: "Average talent, average grades," says school spokesman Officials identify the shooter as Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22 A mall employee heard the suspect announce he was the gunman "I can't believe he did this," a friend of the shooter says
Follow continuing local coverage on CNN affiliates KPTV, KATU, KGW and KOIN. See photos from the scene
(CNN) -- The gunman shot three people on the second floor of an Oregon mall, then ran.
Shoppers hid behind racks as the man, wearing a vest and a mask, ran down a corridor and to a back hallway that led downstairs.
By then, he likely heard the sirens as dozens of police vehicles converged on the Clackamas Town Center in Happy Valley.
He then took his own life.
As details of Tuesday's mall shooting emerged, the question of motive remained unanswered. Witness: She was not breathing Gunman opens fire in Oregon mall Gunman opens fire in Oregon mall 'Not a good idea to arm more people' Aleshire: 'Knew him as a kind person'
At a news conference on Wednesday, investigators identified Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, as the lone suspect in the shootings -- two of which proved fatal -- at the suburban Portland mall.
Sheriff's investigators said there was no apparent connection between Roberts and any of his victims.
The fatalities were identified as Cindy Ann Yuille, 54, and Steven Mathew Forsyth, 45.
Oregon mall shooting victims had 'zest for life'
The incident unfolded during the afternoon as the gunman moved quickly through the Macy's at the mall and toward the food court on the second floor, where he opened fire, the sheriff's office said.
The arrival of police within a minute of receiving the first calls of the shooting may have influenced the gunman's ultimate course of action, Sheriff Craig Roberts said.
The gunman was wearing a load-bearing vest -- a military-style garment designed to carry heavy equipment, which some witnesses confused with a bulletproof vest -- and was carrying a semi-automatic rifle.
At one point, the rifle jammed but started working again, the sheriff said.
Kristina Shevchenko, 15, was taken to the Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, where she was in serious, stable condition on Wednesday with a bullet wound to her chest, her surgeon told reporters.
Shevchenko, who suffered a collapsed right lung and injuries to her liver, underwent an hourlong operation Tuesday night to remove bullet fragments and was in the hospital's intensive care unit, Dr. Laszlo Kiraly said.
He said he was optimistic that she would recover fully but added that she was in shock and at risk for complications, including infection. "She's a very brave young woman," he said, adding that she was awake and talking to her family. Two shot dead inside Oregon mall People leave Oregon mall with arms up Woman: Thought shooter was in flash mob Shooting inside Oregon shopping mall
Further surgeries will focus on closing her wounds "and getting her to heal properly," he said. "I would anticipate that she would be with us for about a week or so."
Friends of the gunman said they were shocked when they heard who the shooter was.
"This is more than a tragic event, and my heart goes out to everyone affected by it, but I also feel as if the side of Jake that I remember needs to be shared," said Erin Philpot, a friend of the shooter, in an e-mail to CNN.
"He was a very loved individual that always seemed as if he had great intentions and a heart of gold. I know that must be hard for people to see/think/understand, but It's the truth. I don't know what caused him to do such a horrendous, terrible thing, but I do hope that somehow answers will be available to us all."
Philpot, who attended middle school and high school with Roberts, said he had recently broken up with a girlfriend and was considering moving to Hawaii. "I just had drinks with him in November, and he had just moved into a new place and was totally stoked about it," she said. "I can't believe he did this."
Jordan Salazar, who attended Milwaukie High School in the Portland area with Roberts, said in an e-mail, "He was a really nice guy, and it's completely shocking he did this."
She added, "He was a popular guy in high school and had a lot of friends," she said. "I was pretty much in shock with all of this."
Oregon mall gunman: 'I have lived one crazy life so far'
Roberts attended Milwaukie High School for three years but did not graduate, said Joe Krumm, the director of community relations for North Clackamas County School District. "Average talent, average grades," Krumm said about Roberts, who was in a mainstream program and had no record of discipline issues or extracurricular activities.
Roberts then transferred to another district and graduated in 2008 from Oregon City High School, the school said in a statement on its website that also talked about the killings.
"This news is very shocking to those who knew Jacob while at OCHS," the statement said. "He was known as a soft-spoken and polite young man who was often eager to be helpful. The motive for such a horrific act is likely to remain a mystery to us all."
The families of the victims who died -- Yuille and Forsyth -- provided brief comments through authorities but asked for privacy as they mourn.
Yuille was remembered as "everybody's friend" who put others first.
Forsyth had two children, a great sense of humor and a zest for life, his family said.
During the shooting, mall patrons said they had no clue where the gunman would fire next.
Entire swaths of Clackamas Town Center became silent except for the rifle blasts and screams. Even the mall's Santa dropped to the ground.
"I thought I was going to die," mall employee David Moran said. "The gunshots were so loud, it was very scary. ... Kids were crying. Parents were crying, too."
Kira Rowland was holding her 6-month-old baby in Macy's when the shots rang out.
"I threw my baby into the stroller and just started running, because everybody was screaming and everybody just started to run," she said.
Inside Clackamas Town Center
The gunman wore a hockey mask and jogged through Macy's wielding a rifle, a woman told CNN affiliate KOIN.
As some panicked customers bolted for the exits, others ducked under store counters or hid behind clothing racks.
"I am the shooter," he said as he ran through Macy's, said witness and store employee Austin Patty.
As the shooting started, Patty ran from the store, warning all in earshot that a shooter was loose and ordering them out of the store.
The sheriff's office said a rifle and a mask were recovered from the scene.
Investigators were reviewing surveillance footage to get a better picture of what happened.
Erin Quackenbush-Baker was with her grandmother and three children at a kiosk in the middle of the mall when she heard the shots.
"My 5-year-old was covering her ears and crying. I was frantic to find a place to run, and I looked back -- my son in my stroller and glass is falling over us," she said. "The shots were getting closer."
She added, "I felt like sitting ducks where we were."
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During a brief halt in the gunfire, a man helped hustle the family members into a cosmetics store, where they hid for an hour "waiting to see if we were going to be shot or not."
As word spread that the shooter was moving from store to store, customers at Sears burst into tears, Christina Fisher told KOIN.
"We were told to stand in a group by the top of the escalators and stay away from the windows out of the aisle. ... We stood there for probably a good 20 minutes," she said. "All of the sudden, somebody came through with a radio, yelling, 'Get down!' "
As the mayhem unfolded, some customers watched television reports about the shooting from inside the Sears entertainment center, Tylor Pedersen told affiliate KGW.
Antonio Charro spotted a wounded woman near a cell phone store and tried to help.
"She had apparently been shot in the chest, and I couldn't get her turned over to help her," said Charro, who had been shopping at the mall with his daughters. "There was no one around. She wasn't breathing."
Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts said about 10,000 people were in the mall at the time.
No law enforcement officers fired any shots when they arrived, sheriff's Sgt. Adam Phillips said.
The 1.4 million-square-foot mall remained closed Wednesday as investigators looked for clues about the attack.
Rowland said she's grateful she got distracted while shopping and didn't venture farther into the mall.
"I think if I hadn't stopped to smell that perfume, that maybe me and my baby wouldn't be here today."
CNN's Meridith Edwards, Catherine E. Shoichet, Cristy Lenz, Chandler Friedman, Michael Martinez, Tom Watkins and AnneClaire Stapleton contributed to this report.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- An Oklahoma City man is accused of planting bombs that were intended to maim or kill a romantic rival.
Police arrested 38-year-old Kevin W. Burke, who officials said Tuesday planted an explosive in the fuel tank of a tractor-trailer at an Oklahoma City trucking company. Another bomb was in the truck's cab.
Burke was arrested Tuesday evening on charges of placing an explosive device on a vehicle with intent of bodily harm or death and of manufacturing an explosive device.
Police blocked traffic near the business for a time Monday while they searched for and disabled the bombs.
The Oklahoman reports the triggering mechanisms on the devices malfunctioned, but otherwise could have killed or injured the intended target.
Police say Burke wanted to be with the intended victim's wife.
Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
it's like news anchors talking about car accidents then saying there were no deaths....but they fail to tell the rest of the story about the person who will have a limp the rest of their lives and can't wear certain shoes, do certain jobs etc because of their 'non-serious' injury
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
sooooooooooooo......any thoughts??? And to be fair....watch the entire video first!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Serious would be like in Conn, where almost all died.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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