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Bloody Days: Police Shot Around The Country
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Woman Denied $43 Million Casino Jackpot
Katrina Bookman and a slot machine screen displaying what she thought were her winnings.
ST, LOUIS, MO --- A man accused of shooting a St. Louis City police sergeant Sunday night in an ‘am- bush’ attack was killed in a shootout overnight, accord- ing to St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson.
Sources identified the 19- year-old suspect fatally shot early Monday morning as George Bush, III, of the 7000 block of Lansdown
George Bush, III was fa- tally shot for the shooting of a police sergeant in St. Louis.
Avenue in St. Louis.
The 46-year-old sergeant
was inside his vehicle at a stop light near Hampton and Pernod when he was shot twice in the face around 7 p.m.
According to Chief Dot- son, Bush, III pulled up next to the officer and fired two shots into the squad car, shattering the glass window.
San Antonio Officer Fatally Shot
SAN ANTONIO, TX --- San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Monday evening that a sus- pect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a police officer Sunday, a bloody day for police officers across the nation.
McManus said Otis Ty- rone McCain, 31, was ar- rested without incident in the ambush of Detective Benjamin Marconi. He was arrested around 4:30 p.m. Monday after the car he was driving was stopped
Otis McCain apologized for killing Det. Benjamin Marconi.
was more than a random act.
5 Students Die In Bus Crash In Chattanooga
The New York State Gam- ing Commission told WABC that they immediately pulled the machine from the casino floor to fix it, and it is now up and running once again.
The commission said that by law they can only award Katrina Bookman her ac- tual winnings of $2.25, printed by the machine.
“They win, and now the house doesn’t want to pay out. To me that’s unfair,” says Bookman’s attorney, Alan Ripka. He’s fighting for the casino to pay Bookman the maximum amount allowed by the Sphinx slot machine — $6,500.
“The machine takes the money when you lose. It ought to pay it when you win,” Ripka said.
Resorts World spokesman Dan Bank told CNN: “Upon being notified of the situa- tion, casino personnel were able to determine that the fig- ure displayed on the penny
slot was the result of an obvi- ous malfunction — a fact later confirmed by the New York State Gaming Commission.
“After explaining the cir- cumstances to Ms. Book- man, we offered to pay her the correct amount that was shown on the printed ticket. Machine malfunctions are rare, and we would like to ex- tend our apologies to Ms. Bookman for any inconven- ience this may have caused.”
The casino couldn’t send a portion of its revenue to a New York state education fund, as mandated by law, it had to pay out massive jack- pots like the one displayed on Bookman’s machine, Bank said. In five years, the casino has generated more than $1.6 billion for the fund, he said.
But Bookman remains frustrated.
“I should win the max. And I feel like I should treat him (the casino employee) to a steak dinner,” she said.
on Interstate 10. McManus said
the death of Marconi during an otherwise routine traffic stop near the police station
Bus driver,
Walker, 24, was being held on $20,000 bail after crashing.
CHATTANOOGA, TN --- A school bus driver has been arrested in connection to a crash that killed five young children in Tennessee. Of the five deaths, interim superin- tendent Kirk Kelly of the Hamilton County Depart- ment of Education told re- porters this morning, three of the children were in fourth- grade, one was in first-grade and the other was a kinder- gartner, officials said.
Four of the five were girls.
Six students also remain in intensive care, but details had not been released.
The bus was carrying 37 children from Woodmore El- ementary School in Chat- tanooga, ranging from kindergarten to fifth-grade, when it crashed into a tree at around 3:30 in the afternoon Monday, officials said.
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