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Thursday 6 July 2017
Guns, bomb-making material taken from ‘AK-47’ suspect’s home

By MATT VOLZ The property seized from ercole, 39, is the man they in Lexington, Nebraska, ments. It does not include
Associated Press Richard Gathercole’s call “the AK-47 bandit” where he is accused of details of the improvised-
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — FBI home in Roundup shows who held up at least six stealing a truck and guns explosive device material
agents seized bomb-mak- that agents also found sher- banks since 2012 in Cali- and firing on a Kansas state that was found other than
ing materials, seven guns iff’s badges and patches, a fornia, Washington, Idaho, trooper who was trying to “IED components.”
and ammunition from the sheriff’s vest, Nebraska and Iowa. pull him over for a traffic Travis Burrows, the FBI’s se-
Montana home of a man an ammunition vest, a mili- The suspect typically wore stop last month. nior supervisory resident
they suspect of carrying tary style helmet, an organ- a mask with only his nose The inventory list filed with agent in Billings, said a
out bank robberies in five ic chemistry book and ma- and eyes showing and car- U.S. District Court in Billings total of seven explosives
states, according to an in- terial to make identification ried an AK-47 rifle with a on June 27 listed 39 seized were found in Gathercole’s
ventory list filed with a fed- badges. drum magazine. items, including comput- home, and a bomb squad
eral court. Authorities believe Gath- Gathercole is being held ers, books and other docu- detonated them all.q

Gunman kills 3, wounds 4th before being shot dead by police

By MARINA VILLENEUVE the original location and
Associated Press wounded another rela-
MADISON, Maine (AP) — A tive before being shot and
gunman shot and killed his killed by deputies.
partner, their adult son and The attorney general’s of-
a neighbor and wounded fice sent investigators to
a fourth person before be- the scene to review the use
ing fatally shot by deputies of deadly force by sheriff’s
early Wednesday, leaving deputies.
detectives at a loss to ex- But Somerset County Sher-
plain the outburst of vio- iff Dale Lancaster stood
lence, an official said. behind the actions of his
Three deputies ended law enforcement officers
the rampage by shooting to end the shooting.
51-year-old Carroll Tuttle in “I have total confidence
a confrontation in his drive- in the performance of my
way, said Steve McCaus- deputies,” he said.
land, a spokesman for the The couple lived in a trail-
Maine Department of Pub- er, and there also was a
lic Safety. camper where other fam-
Detectives are now fo- ily members were living on
cused on determining the property,
what sparked “an extreme said a neighbor, Wayne
case of domestic vio- Parlin. There had been a
lence,” McCausland said. party on the Fourth of July
“Our role now is to inves- State police in Madison, Maine, have closed the country road Wednesday, July 5, 2017, where a with fireworks on the prop-
tigate exactly what hap- series of Wednesday shootings left three victims dead and one injured. A gunman killed multiple erty, he said.
pened and what set this people and wounded another Wednesday morning before being fatally shot by deputies, authori- Lori Hayden was the
gunman off,” he said. “We ties said. It was Maine’s deadliest shooting since 2015. daughter of Skowhegan
don’t have that answer. (AP Photo/Marina Villeneuve) selectwoman Darla Pick-
We hope to get it.” ett and the sister of Skow-
The shootings unfolded just an emergency call dis- Tuttle had killed his partner, bor, 57-year-old Michael hegan’s finance and hu-
hours after a neighbor said covered the bodies and 52-year-old Lori Hayden, Spaulding, at his home a man resources director,
there had been a party were present when Tuttle and their son, 25-year-old short distance away, Mc- Trisha Austin, the Morning
with Fourth of July fireworks. returned with a handgun, Dustin Tuttle, at their home Causland said. Sentinel newspaper report-
Deputies responding to McCausland said. before killing a neigh- The gunman returned to ed. q

Prosecutors: Kidnapping suspect marched in victim’s vigil

By MICHAEL TARM ance arose at a detention day, which was the day someone close to him se- of the ideal victim.”
AP Legal Affairs Writer hearing for Brendt Chris- before Christensen was ar- cretly recorded him. They Christensen’s lawyer, Evan
CHICAGO (AP) — The sus- tensen in U.S. District Court rested, hundreds of people divulged the new details Bruno, didn’t immediately
pect in the kidnapping of in Urbana, not far from the gathered on campus and at Wednesday’s hearing to return a message seeking
a University of Illinois schol- central Illinois school, a walked to a street where back their contention that comment Wednesday.
ar from China marched in statement from the U.S. at- Zhang was last seen. Prose- Christensen is too danger- Zhang was abducted on
a vigil for the victim a day torney’s office in Springfield cutors say Christensen was ous to release. her way to sign an apart-
before his arrest last week said. U.S. Magistrate Judge in the vigil group. Zhang’s The U.S. attorney’s office ment lease off campus in
and also talked about how Eric Long ordered that father, a factory driver who statement said Christensen Urbana. Christensen alleg-
she resisted and described Christensen, 28, remain traveled to Illinois from Chi- “made a threat to another edly lured her into his car
what made an ideal victim, jailed pending trial. Long na, for the search also at- person to whom he made after she got off one bus
federal prosecutors said said the recent graduate tended. incriminating statements.” and tried to flag down an-
Wednesday. student at the university’s Prosecutors haven’t ex- The statement didn’t elab- other bus. In April, his phone
The new details surround- physics department poses plained who Christensen orate. It added that he was allegedly used to view
ing 26-year-old Yingying a danger to the community spoke to about abducting “has made statements a forum called “Abduction
Zhang’s June 9 disappear- and is a flight risk. Last Thurs- Zhang, including whether about the characteristics 101” online. q