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Authorities in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, are searching for the gunman who shot a Logan County sheriff's deputy, Oklahoma City police said. The suspect allegedly stole a car and fled after the shooting, police said. The suspect was identified as 45-year-old Nathan Aaron Leforce, the FBI said. View image on Twitter  Follow FBI Oklahoma City   @FBIOklahomaCity Suspect has been identified by OHP as 45 year-old Nathan Aaron Leforce. 4:51 PM - 18 Apr 2017     8 8 Retweets     4 4 likes  Follow Oklahoma City Police   ✔ @OKCPD UPDATE: Police have located the Logan County shooting suspect vehicle near County Rd 76/Jaxton Rd. northeast of Guthrie. 1/2 4:46 PM - 18 Apr 2017     39 39 Retweets     19 19 likes The condition of the sheriff's deputy was not immediately clear. This story is developing. Please check back for more updat...

Steve Stephens, the suspect in the Cleveland, Ohio, FACEBOOK killing, shot and killed himself after a brief pursuit in Erie County, Pennsylvania, this morning, the Pennsylvania State Police said. Stephens allegedly killed 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr. in Cleveland Sunday afternoon and later posted a video of the killing on Facebook, according to police. Stephens, who was considered armed and dangerous, had been on the run since Sunday. The manhunt was nationwide and billboards around the country have been plastered with Stephens' photo. Shortly after 11 a.m. today, Pennsylvania State Police received a tip that the vehicle police were looking for in connection to Stephens was in a McDonald’s parking lot near Erie, Pennsylvania, about 100 miles northeast of Cleveland, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said at a news conference this morning. Officers responded and the driver of the car fled, leading police on a roughly two-mile pursuit, police said. After Stephens...

MARCEL WILLIAMS Found guilty of abducting and killing Stacy Rae Errickson as she stopped at a Jacksonville gas station in November 1994 Scheduled for execution on April 24, 2017 Date of original condemnation: Jan. 14, 1997 County in which crime occurred: Pulaski ______  Marcel Williams abducted Stacy Errickson in November 1994 as she stopped at a gas station, later killing her and burying her body near the Arkansas River, prosecutors said. Police said Williams admitted to kidnapping 22-year-old Errickson on Nov. 20, 1994, at a Jacksonville convenience store and forcing her to withdraw money from several ATMs after she left work. He also confessed to raping, beating and choking the mother of two at Riverfront Park in North Little Rock before disposing of her body “where she could not be found.” Trista Wussick (right) puts her arm around Carolyn Moore after both spoke at a clemency hearing for Marcel Williams, who is scheduled to be put to death April 24 for raping a...

Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya  between Friday and Sunday during the Easter by rescue workers, but 20 died, including an eight-year-old.According to Africa Review, more than 2,000 people were rescued on Friday and 3,000 on Saturday in dozens of separate rescues, the Italian Coast Guard said. But at least 20 drowned as aid workers struggled to rescue more than 1,500 migrants in one ongoing operation.An eight-year-old boy was among the dead, rescue workers said. The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (Moas) said its rescue started in the early hours of Saturday and had continued non-stop into Sunday afternoon.The group said it had rescued at least 453 people, but more than 1,000 remained in danger. A Reuters photographer on board the Phoenix, a ship run by Moas, counted at least 20 bodies during the rescue.Mr Chris Catrambone, one of the founders of Moas, said it had requested “urgent assistance” on Saturday morning.“Our crew says they’ve never seen ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) says it has arrested the former wife of Mamman Nur,a factional Boko Haram leader in Borno state.Ibrahim Abdullahi, NSCDC commandant in the state, disclosed this while speaking with reporters on Tuesday. He said his men arrested two female suspects in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Friday. Abdullahi said at first they were suspected to be suicide bombers but that findings revealed that the two suspects were from Sambisa forest, and were heading to Kangarwa camp to meet the factional leader of the sect.  “One of the suspect claimed that she is the ex-wife of the factional Boko Haram leader,” he said. “They said they escaped from a camp in Sambisa forest after Nigerian troops attack the terrorists.”  Abdullahi said the suspects were abandoned by the Boko Haram commander who asked them to wait in Maiduguri pending the time he would provide them accommodation.

Amilcar Henriquez shot dead in his Panama home . Police in Panama say national team soccer player Amilcar Henriquez has been shot dead while leaving his home. The press chief for Panama’s National Police says the killing happened Saturday in the country’s Colon province. Authorities say a gunman shot the 33-year-old midfielder several times. Another two people were wounded. The player died at a nearby hospital. President Juan Carlos Varela has condemned the killing on his Twitter account. He is calling for authorities in Colon to find those responsible. Henriquez was part of the Panama team that is trying to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. He played in the last 20 minutes of Panama’s 1-1 tie with the United States last month and has appeared 75 times for his country.

Mr Ime Atakpa. Four unidentified gunmen have killed the newly sworn-in Ukanafun Local Government Council Secretary in Akwa Ibom, Mr Ime Atakpa. Atakpa was shot when he was in his farm in his backyard at Ukanafun on Sunday. His wife, Imo, who confirmed this to newsmen, said they went to Ukanafun for Easter service.She said prior to the church’s service they decided to check on some pigs in the farm.While she and the children were in the house, she heard gunshots.When she tried to find where the sound of the gunfire emanated, she saw four masked men walking away from the compound. The Akwa Ibom Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Chukwu Ikechukwu, also confirmed the incident.Okechukwu said four gunmen shot the late council secretary in the stomach.He added that he died on the way to hospital. “The man was in his farm in Ukanafun LGA when four unidentified gunmen shot him,” he said.

JACK JONES Found guilty in the death of Mary Phillips, who was beaten, raped and choked with an electrical cord in June 1995 Scheduled for execution on April 24, 2017 Date of original condemnation: April 17, 1996 County in which crime occurred: White ______  Mary Phillips’ body was found in the office of a bookkeeping and accounting firm where she worked on June 6, 1995, after she had been raped, beaten and strangled with an electric coffee-maker cord while her daughter, Lacy, was in the next room. The then-11-year-old, who was also severely beaten, was reportedly at work with her mother because she had a dentist appointment that day. Prosecuting attorneys argued at a 1996 trial that then-31-year-old Jack Jones Jr. had visited Phillips' office twice on the day of her death. The first time, he was looking for work. The second, he returned with a BB pistol, latex gloves and wire. (In later hearings, the attorneys said Jones saw Phillips while painting a sign nearby.)...

REV KING Chukwuemeka Ezeugo a.k.a. Rev. King is set to be executed alongside other inmates on death row in a Lagos State Prison. The state’s attorney general and commissioner for justice, Adeniji Kazeem made this known at a news conference today Tuesday, April 18th. Adeniji described the development as an instruction from the state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode. He said that the state had begun reviewing the matter after prison officials complained of the highhandedness of some death row inmates who felt they had certain rights which excluded them from being executed. The Attorney-General assured that, unlike previous administrations, Governor Ambode would sign the necessary documents to execute those on death row.Kazeem said, “Very soon, you will see the action of this government on that issue,we are reviewing the case on Rev. King and others on death row. He added, “Lots of people are on death row,Rev King is not the only one on death row, it is on the instruction of Ambod...

    The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, has arrested a ‘high-profile thief’ identified as Augustine Joseph, who specialises in impersonating journalists to steal gadgets and defraud dignitaries at events.             The suspect who posed as an employee of Linda Ikeji blog, with an identity card bearing the name Michael Mordi, was arrested and paraded last week for robbing unsuspecting members of public of their belongings at public events. Joseph had walked into one of the new generation bank’s head-office at Victoria Island, Lagos, for an event on March, 30, and made away with a Samsung Galaxy S6 phone and other items belonging to guests at the event. A statement by the IGP team, said:      “Immediately we received the information, operatives of the IGP’s Intelligence Response Team led by Superintendent Lateef Balogun, swung into action and based on t...

Five Zimbabwean nationals have been arrested in connection with the robbery of a mall in Johannesburg’s wealthy suburb of Hyde Park, the South African Police Service has confirmed. Gauteng provincial Police Commissioner Deliwe De Lange said the suspects have confessed to three other mall robberies. Six armed men got away with thousands worth of jewellery from the Thursday heist on Thursday morning. RSA Min of Police   ✔ @MbalulaFikile We have arrested 5 Zimbabweans in connection with Hyde Park Robbery  # WanyaTsotsi 3:20 PM - 16 Apr 2017     452 452 Retweets     931 931 likes The new police minister Fikile Mbalula also confirmed the arrest on his Twitter account. There was some backlash over the reference to Zimbabweans which he said was neither here nor there as there was nothing xenophobic about exposing the nationality of a suspect.

FATUMA MOHAMED MASOU     One of Kenya’s most wanted terror suspects, Fatuma Mohamed Masou, who had a Sh2 million bounty on her head, was found dead in Kedong, Kenya. She was the wife of slain terrorist Kassim Omondi, who was killed by police during a raid in 2013.     On the run since September last year, her body was found in Kedong, near Naivasha, more than a month ago, but the police officers who stumbled upon her remains did not immediately identify her.Her family did not show up for the brief burial ceremony at the Naivasha Muslim cemetery, but instead asked well-wishers to inter her remains.      Police put a bounty on Ms Masou’s head after they accused her of hiding yet another terrorist, Ishmael Shosi, who was killed in September last year during a raid in Mombasa.     They believed she was armed, dangerous and closely linked to jihadist networks in Somalia and the region. Although she was arrested soon after her husband’s...

Abductors of two Turkish expatriates in Akwa Ibom have demanded N200 million to release them.The victims were abducted on April 10 from their Airstrip hotel room in Eket Local Government Area of the state. A security source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Eket that the abductors had been in touch with the BKS Construction Company in Onna Local Government Area where the expatriates work. He said that the abductors contacted the construction company and demanded N200 million as ransom to release them. “The abductors have demanded the sum of N200 million before the victims could be released to the company.“The company is negotiating with the abductors to secure the release of the victims,” the source said. According to the source, the firm is offering N500,000. The State Police Public Relations (PPRO), ASP Chilly Ikechukwu, said the police were not aware of the ransom.

STACEY JOHNSON Found guilty of beating, strangling and killing Carol Heath while her children were in their De Queen home in April 1993 Scheduled for execution on April 20, 2017 Date of original condemnation: Sept. 23, 1994 County in which crime occurred: Sevier ______ When the beaten and strangled body of Carol Heath was found in her De Queen apartment on April 2, 1993, her two children were also found in a bedroom, looking out the window. Heath’s daughter, Ashley, who was 6 at the time, told investigators that a man had come to their door who said he had just been let out of prison. He and her mother started arguing about another man Carol Heath was seeing, the girl said. The man had visited their home a couple times before the day of the killing, she said. The 6-year-old told police that at one point, she and her 2-year-old brother, Jonathan, hid in a closet while the duo fought. The children were in the closet when their mother was killed, which police say was either...

Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli jails are beginning a mass hunger strike in protest against their conditions. The action is being led by Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader jailed by Israel for life for five murders. Barghouti, a key figure in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction, has been touted as a possible future successor to Mr Abbas.There are fears the protest could fuel tensions across the occupied West Bank. According to Israel’s prison service, 1,187 Palestinians in Israeli prisons are joining the hunger strike, which coincides with the annual Palestinian Prisoners Day.The issue of Palestinians held in Israeli jails is an ongoing source of tension between the two sides. Palestinians regard the detainees as political prisoners, many of whom have been convicted of attacks against Israeli and other offences. Others are detained under so-called Administrative Detention, which allows suspects to be held without charge for six-month intervals. ...

Swaziland King Mswati III has issued a decree at his Easter meeting with local pastors at the Engabezweni Royal Residence banning divorce in the southern African nation. Africa Review quoted the Times of Swaziland newspaper that King Mswati told the pastors to educate the people that there was no pulling out once they got married.👳👳 “In our culture, once you marry someone, there is no turning back,” the Times of Swaziland quoted King Mswati as saying. The decree comes in the wake of the Swazi Attorney-General Office’s drafting the Marriage Bill of 2017, which contains five grounds for divorce.The existing Marriage Act of 1964 prohibits divorce.The newspaper quoted King Mswati comparing marriage to a covenant with God, pointing out that it was wrong for people to break agreements made with the latter. The Kingdom of Swaziland in southern Africa is one of the world’s last remaining absolute monarchies.It has, according to UNICEF, the highest HIV/Aids prevalence rate in the w...

SENATOR DINO MELAYE The Administrator of Ijumu LGA of Kogi State, Toufiq Isah, has accused Senator Dino Melaye of stage managing the attack in order to cause unnecessary tension in the local government. It will be recalled that the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district escaped an assassination attempt made on his life by yet to be identified gunmen at his country home in Aiyetoro-Gbede in Ijumu LGA. His building was riddled with bullets while two vehicles were destroyed. Melaye accused Isah of being behind the attempt on his life. Addressing newsmen on Monday at his country home in Okoro-Gbede, Isah also called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the presidency to investigate how Melaye allegedly diverted items meant for Internally Displaced People (IDP) last December.         The council boss, who is also chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) in the state, said it was unfortunate that Melay...

LEDELL LEE Sentenced to death after convicted in the February 1993for the beating to death of Debra Reese with a tire iron in Jacksonville Scheduled for execution on April 20, 2017 Date of original condemnation: Oct. 16, 1995 County in which crime occurred: Pulaski ______ Debra Reese called her mother, who lived houses away, just minutes after a man came to her house seeking tools for a broken-down vehicle.  Reese, who had been home alone while her truck-driver husband traveled to Dallas for a delivery, planned to leave the Jacksonville house after detailing the encounter over the phone the morning of Feb. 9, 1993, but was unable to leave in time, her mother, Katherine Williams, testified. The man convicted in Reese's death, Ledell Lee, returned to the residence minutes later, barged inside and bludgeoned her to death with a tire iron that her husband had given her as a form of protection, prosecutors said. At Lee's trial, Holly Lodge Meyer, senior deputy pros...

Time: April 1865 Crime: John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in the state box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., jumped onto the stage, and escaped through the back of the theater—dramatically changing the course of our nation's history with a single bullet. Evidence: Booth dropped his gun in the state box. The recovered gun was a single-shot pistol with a black walnut stock inlaid with silver, manufactured by the Henry Deringer Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was placed on display at the Ford's Theatre National Historic Site in 1940. Did the gun go missing?Possibly. In 1997—132 years after Lincoln's death—the authenticity of the pistol on display was called into question when the estate of a member of a Northeastern U.S. burglary ring was settled. Members of the ring had allegedly stolen the original Booth pistol in the 1960s—when security at the theater was less vigilant than it is today--and replaced it with a replica. Who did the Nati...

BRUCE WARD Found guilty of killing Rebecca Doss as she worked a late-night shift at a Little Rock gas station in August 1989 Scheduled for execution on April 17, 2017 Date of original condemnation: Oct. 17, 1990 County in which crime occurred: Pulaski ______ Within an hour of Rebecca Doss' strangulation death, her killer, Bruce Earl Ward, a homeless perfume salesman, was stopped at the gas station where she worked by a Little Rock police officer who had stumbled upon the crime scene. The officer became concerned after finding the Jackpot Inc. convenience store empty and conducted a check of the building, later finding Doss strangled in the men’s restroom with the door key inches away from her outstretched hand. Authorities believe the teen was also sexually assaulted before her death. In a videocassette played for jurors midway through his October 1990 trial, Ward could be heard asking the clerk to help him open the restroom door and telling Doss that the key would ...