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Thursday 16 November 2017
Dangerous psychiatric patient flew to California Michigan:

Doctor expected
By AUDREY McAVOY outside Honolulu on Sun- spokesman for the airport.
JENNIFER KELLEHER day at 10 a.m. and didn’t He said police have not to change plea in
Associated Press return, police said. Hospital advised him of any threats sex assault cases
HONOLULU (AP) — A man staff called 911 to report his at the facility.
acquitted of a 1979 murder disappearance shortly af- Late Tuesday night, the By DAVID EGGERT
by reason of insanity es- ter 7:30 p.m. — two hours Hawaii Attorney General’s Associated Press
caped from a Hawaii psy- after he landed in San office charged Saito with LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A
chiatric hospital over the Jose, police said. An all- felony escape and issued a former Michigan State Uni-
weekend, took a taxi to a points bulletin was issued at $500,000 bench warrant for versity and USA Gymnas-
chartered plane in Hono- 8:30 p.m. his arrest. Hawaii Attorney tics doctor accused of mo-
lulu bound for the island of It wasn’t immediately General Doug Chin said lesting girls under the guise
Maui and then boarded known how he was able officers in all 50 states may of medical treatment at his
another plane to San Jose, to charter a plane. Police enforce the arrest warrant.
Hawaii authorities are home, a campus clinic and
searching for Saito, who was California, police said. wouldn’t provide details “This is a dangerous individ- a youth gymnastics club
found not guilty of murder Randall Saito, believed to about his flight to California. ual,” Chin said. “We need is expected to change his
by reason of insanity, after be in Northern California, is The FBI and U.S. Marshals him off the streets.” not-guilty pleas in a bid to
he escaped from Hawaii considered extremely dan- Service have reviewed se- Saito was committed to the close the state’s criminal
State Hospital in Honolulu on gerous and should not be curity footage from San hospital outside Honolulu cases against him.
Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, and approached, Honolulu po- Jose International Airport in in 1981, two years after he
flew to Maui. lice said late Tuesday. connection with the man- was acquitted in the killing Online court records show
(Maui Police Department via change-of-plea hearings
AP) Saito left the state hospital hunt, said Jon Vaden, a of Sandra Yamashiro.q for 54-year-old Dr. Larry
Nassar are scheduled for
California: Nov. 22 and Nov. 29 in two
Michigan counties. Jury se-
Police find gunman’s wife dead in their home lection was to begin in one
courthouse on Dec. 4.
A spokeswoman for state
on his property at the end Attorney General Bill
of a dirt road in Rancho Te- Schuette declined to com-
hama Reserve. ment, citing a gag order. A
But his many contacts with message was left Wednes-
authorities raised questions day for one of Nassar’s de-
of why he was out of cus- fense lawyers.
tody and able to go on In February, the state
the 45-minute rampage. charged Nassar with 22
Two of his neighbors were counts of first-degree crimi-
killed in an apparent act nal sexual conduct involv-
of revenge before he went ing nine girls who said they
looking for random victims. were molested at Michi-
Cristal Caravez and her gan State’s sports medi-
father live across a ravine cine clinic, his home or the
from the roadway where Twistars Gymnastics Club.
the gunman and his first All were age 16 or under.
victims lived. More recently, Olympic
She said they and others gymnasts Aly Raisman and
heard constant gunfire McKayla Maroney said
from the area of the gun- they were among those
man’s house, but couldn’t sexually abused by Nassar.
say for sure it was him firing. Nassar began working with
Investigators view a pickup truck involved in a deadly shooting rampage at the Rancho Tehama “You could hear the yell- USA Gymnastics as an ath-
letic trainer in 1986 and be-
Reserve, near Corning, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. A gunman driving stolen vehicles and ing. He’d go off the hing-
choosing his targets at random opened fire “without provocation” in the tiny, rural Northern es,” she said. The shooting came the national team
California town Tuesday, killing several people, including a student at an elementary school, “would be during the day, doctor in 1996. He stepped
before police shot him dead, authorities said. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) during the night, I mean, it down in 2014 but remained
By DON THOMPSON rampage, said Tehama knowledged officers had didn’t matter.” on staff before being fired
PAUL ELIAS County Assistant Sheriff Phil visited the home. She and her father, who is in 2015. In a probable-
Associated Press Johnston. “We can’t anticipate what president of the communi- cause hearing in June,
RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Neal shot and killed four people are going to do. ty’s homeowners’ associa- prosecutors played a vid-
Calif. (AP) — The wife of other people and wound- We don’t have a crystal tion, said neighbors would eo of Nassar’s 40-minute
a gunman who went on ed 10 at different locations ball,” Johnston said. complain to the sheriff’s de- voluntary interview with a
a shooting rampage in a around the rural commu- Yet Neal was free and able partment, which referred university police detective.
Northern California town nity of Rancho Tehama Re- to use a semi-automatic ri- the complaints back to the Nassar denied any inap-
was found dead inside serve. Police later shot and fle and two handguns Tues- homeowners’ association. propriate contact and said
their home, authorities an- killed him. day to shoot 14 people, “The sheriff wouldn’t do he got no sexual pleasure
nounced Wednesday, rais- At the time of the attack, including at an elementary anything about it,” Juan from treating gymnasts.
ing the death toll from the the gunman was out on school, before he died in a Caravez said. He repeatedly moved his
attack to five. bail after he was charged shootout with police. The gunman’s sister, Sheri- arms and hands as he ex-
Investigators discovered with stabbing a neighbor. It’s not yet clear what the dan Orr, said her brother plained his techniques, us-
the body of Kevin Janson Others had complained terms of Neal’s bail were, had struggled with mental ing phrases such as “lift and
Neal’s wife hidden under about him firing hundreds and whether he would illness throughout his life shift” and “tissue tension”
the floor. They believe her of rounds from his house, have been allowed to pos- and at times had a violent to describe treatments for
slaying was the start of the and the assistant sheriff ac- sess and fire the weapons temper. q back and hip injuries.q