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U.S. NEWSTuesday 3 November 2015
Man says wife beat him before he posted picture of her body
CURT ANDERSON synthetic drugs such as Ec- admitting in the post that Colodny. his physically weaker wife.
AP Legal Affairs Writer stasy, that she battered her he killed her and would like- Prosecutor Scott Dunn Other evidence shows that
MIAMI (AP) — A man who husband and that she was ly go to prison. In later inter- urged Colodny to limit de- Medina had years earlier
killed his wife and posted deeply involved in the oc- views with police, however, fense use of the allegations told a friend he would kill
a photo of her corpse on cult and Satan worship. he said it was self-defense. involving Alfonso, remind- Alfonso if she ever tried to
Facebook shot her in self- Jury selection begins Tues- Zangeneh said Alfonso ing the judge that she is the leave him, which her friends
defense because he lived day for Derek Medina, 33, started the fight, which es- victim and is not on trial. said was her plan.
in fear of her drug abuse, vi- who faces life in prison if calated to the point where “It is not open season on a Colodny ruled that the
olent tendencies and even convicted of the August she came after Medina victim just because a de- evidence involving the Al-
Satan worship, the man’s 2013 slaying at the couple’s with a knife. He then shot fendant is claiming self-de- fonso allegations could
attorney said Monday. South Miami home. Medina her. fense,” Dunn said. only be used if the proper
Defense attorney Saam has been jailed since his ar- “She initiated a confronta- The prosecution will seek to legal foundation is laid for
Zangeneh said Monday rest. tion. My client tried to calm cast doubt on the self-de- the jury. She also imposed
that he will seek to in- The case gained national her down,” Zangeneh said fense claim with evidence some limits on the prosecu-
troduce evidence that attention because Medina during a hearing on trial ev- that Medina was an ac- tion’s use of the Medina
27-year-old Jennifer Al- posted the photo of Al- idence before Miami-Dade complished amateur boxer boxing evidence.q
fonso was an avid user of fonso’s body on Facebook, Circuit Judge Yvonne who had little to fear from
Colorado Springs gunman identified as 33-year-old
SADIE GURMAN The rear window of a Colorado Springs Police car is shattered was then killed in a gunbat- police released no new
Associated Press after a shooting in Colorado Springs, Colo. The man who fatally tle with police. details about the shoot-
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col- shot three people during a rampage through the streets of Colo- A motive for the downtown ing and refused to iden-
orado (AP) — The man who rado Springs was 33-year-old Noah Jacob Harpham, who lived shootings in broad day- tify those killed pending the
fatally shot three people just feet from where his first victim was killed. light was unknown, and completion of autopsies.
during a rampage through Harpham left few clues in The El Paso County sheriff’s
the streets of Colorado (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP) blog posts and on social office said four officers fired
Springs was a recovering media. His mother, Heather at Harpham but that they
alcoholic who posted an had a rifle in one hand less than a mile and fatally Kopp, a freelance writer liv- were not wearing body
online video two days ear- and a revolver in the other shot two women who were ing in New York, described cameras, and their squad
lier expressing displeasure when he first killed a bicy- chatting on the porch of a his longtime struggle with cars were not equipped
with his father for allegedly clist. He then calmly walked sobriety house. Harpham addiction in “Sober mer- with dashboard cameras.
falling under the sway of a cies: How love caught up A fuller picture of Harpham
particular preacher — but with a Christian Drunk,” a emerged in details from his
gave no indication of the book also about her own mother’s book, in which
violence to come. battle with alcoholism. she described him as “in-
Authorities on Monday Authorities have not said troverted and moody” and
identified the gunman as whether there was any turning to drugs and al-
33-year-old Noah Jacob link between his substance cohol around the time he
Harpham, who lived just abuse problems and the gave up on college. Kopp
steps from where his first fact that two of his victims said Harpham, who was liv-
victim was slain on Satur- were women who them- ing in Eugene, Oregon at
day. selves were in addiction the time, “struggled just to
Witnesses said Harpham recovery. Colorado Springs live and keep a job.”q
