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Tuesday 19 July 2022
Police laud actions of man who killed Indiana mall attacker

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and time preparing and possibly
RICK CALLAHAN assembling a disassembled
Associated Press rifle that he had brought in
GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — his backpack. He ended
A gunman who shot five up firing 24 rounds within
people at a suburban In- two minutes. Ison said Sa-
dianapolis shopping mall, pirman used an AR-15-style
killing three of them before rifle during the shooting and
a shopper shot and killed that investigators found an-
him, was a 20-year-old lo- other one and magazines
cal man who was appar- with more than 100 rounds
ently facing eviction, au- of ammunition in the bath-
thorities said Monday. room. They also found a
Jonathan Sapirman, of handgun on Sapirman.
Greenwood, began firing Although police don’t
after leaving a bathroom know a motive for the at-
at the Greenwood Park tack, Sapirman’s relatives
Mall shortly before it closed told investigators that he
Sunday evening, the city’s recently received notice
police chief, James Ison, that he was being evicted
said at a news conference. from his apartment, though
Sapirman continued shoot- Ison said authorities were
ing people until he was shot still trying to confirm that.
and killed by 22-year-old Greenwood Police Chief James Ison speak during a press conference at the Greenwood City Relatives also said Sapir-
Elisjsha Dicken, of Seymour, Center in Greenwood, Ind., Monday, July 18, 2022. Associated Press man resigned from a ware-
a city about 45 miles (72 house job in May, he said.
kilometers) south of Green- Pineda, 56, and Rosa Mir- as having a felony convic- the country’s staggering The chief said Dicken fired
wood, who was shopping ian Rivera de Pineda, 37 — tion, facing a restraining murder rate can often be 10 rounds from his hand-
with his girlfriend, Ison said, and Victor Gomez, 30, also order or having a danger- seen more clearly in indi- gun, and that as he fired,
calling Dicken’s quick ac- of Indianapolis. A woman ous mental illness as deter- vidual killings that rarely Sapirman “attempted to
tion “nothing short of he- and a 12-year-old girl who mined by a court. Indiana’s make major headlines. retreat back into the rest-
roic.” was hit by shrapnel were Republican-dominated Authorities said Sunday that room and failed, and fell
“Many more people would wounded in the attack, po- Legislature retained provi- four of the victims were fe- to the ground after being
have died last night if not lice said. sions in the law that allow male and one was male, shot.”
for a responsible armed cit- Although authorities said private property owners to but they corrected that “He engaged the gunman
izen,” said the chief, noting Dicken was legally armed, prohibit firearms. Monday to two males and from quite a distance with
that authorities were still try- the mall prohibits people The attack Sunday was three females. a handgun and was very
ing to determine a motive from carrying weapons on the latest in a string of Ison said Sapirman entered proficient in that, very tac-
for the attack. its property. mass shootings in the U.S. the mall and walked into a tically sound. And as he
The Johnson County and As of July 1, Indiana law Schools, churches, grocery bathroom, where he spent moved to close in on the
Marion County coroners’ allows anyone age 18 or stores and a July Fourth pa- about an hour before he suspect, he was also mo-
offices identified the slain older to carry a handgun rade near Chicago have emerged and opened fire. tioning for people to exit
victims as a married India- in public except for those all become killing grounds He said investigators be- behind him,” Ison said of
napolis couple — Pedro prohibited for reasons such in recent months, though lieve Sapirman spent that Dicken.q

Search for Alaska grandma halted after toddler

found in car

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) from “active” to “reactive,” handed over to the state backcountry, where Mc-
— Officials have ended meaning that a search Office of Children’s Servic- Candless took shelter in an
their search for a woman could be launched again es and appeared to be in abandoned city bus after
whose 2-year-old grand- if officials receive new in- good health, officials have he became trapped by
child was found alone last formation or evidence, the said. the swollen Teklanika River.
week in a locked car that statement said. The child was later reunit- He died of starvation in
stuck in mud on a rural Alas- The statement added that ed with their mother, the 1992 and his life and death
ka road, authorities said. at “this time, there is no Anchorage Daily News re- were made famous by the
No clues to the where- evidence of foul play asso- ported. Wilson had been book “Into the Wild” by Jon
abouts of Mary Dawn Wil- ciated with Wilson’s disap- watching the child while Krakauer and then by the
son, 69, have emerged pearance.” the mother was working in movie directed by Sean
since her Ford Focus was Wilson’s car was found rural Alaska. Penn.
found last Thursday with Thursday on Stampede Stampede Road is famous Over the years, people try-
the child and personal Road, off the Parks High- for being the main thor- ing to reach the bus that
items believed to belong to way just outside the small oughfare that adventurers was located about 25 miles
Wilson, the Alaska Depart- community of Healy. Of- used to retrace the steps of (40 kilometers) from Healy
ment of Public Safety said ficials believe her vehicle Christopher McCandless, a to pay pilgrimage to Mc-
in a statement on Saturday. got stuck on Tuesday and young idealist whose jour- Candless had to be res-
Authorities believe the child that she started walking ney on the Stampede Trail cued or died. That prompt-
This undated photo provided was alone in the car for two away from the highway in- ended with his death. ed state officials to remove
by the Alaska State Troopers
shows Mary Dawn Wilson. days. stead of toward it. The trail road eventually the bus from the back-
Associated Press The search was changed The toddler was initially ends at treacherous Alaska country in 2020.q