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Tuesday 26 sepTember 2017
Man on trial for gun thefts wishes he had died in shootout

MADSION, Wis. (AP) — A where jurors were selected other hand, I haven’t been possession of those firearms government buildings, and
man accused of stealing Monday. afraid of dying for a long and silencers, according to many schools in the area
an arsenal of firearms from In an interview with the time. How can you value the U.S. Attorney’s Office. canceled classes.
a southern Wisconsin gun Wisconsin State Journal , life when you’re told what Jakubowski had southern Jakubowski said stealing
shop and sending an anti- Jakubowski said he’s proud to do for your entire life?” Wisconsin on edge after the guns was central to his
government manifesto to that he was able to publi- The 33-year-old self-pro- breaking into the Arma- plan to show how the fed-
President Donald Trump cize his anger and frustra- claimed anarchist from geddon Gun Shop on the eral law forbidding felons
says he wishes that he had tion toward the govern- Janesville faces a maxi- outskirts of Janesville. Au- from owning a gun was
died in a gun battle with ment. mum of 20 years in prison if thorities learned he had proof the government was
police. But, he says, he would rath- convicted of the two fed- written a rambling 161- corrupt. “I have the right to
Joseph Jakubowski said er have died in a gun bat- eral charges against him, page anti-government defend myself,” he said.
his 10 days on the run last tle with officers. including stealing firearms manifesto and that he had A Vernon County land-
April were the best days of “I didn’t go into it planning and silencers from a feder- mailed it to the president. owner found Jakubowski
his life. Jakubowski is on trial to die; that would be sui- ally licensed firearms deal- They feared Jakubowski camping on his property on
in federal court in Madison cide,” he said. “But on the er, and being a felon in would target schools or April 13. q
Police: Tennessee church shooting suspect sent suicidal text

By ERIK SCHELZIG son has an attorney in ad- tact. He told officers he gun from the suspect’s ve- “Without him I think it could
KRISTIN M. HALL vance of his first court hear- was afraid of her because hicle. be worse. He was the hero
Associated Press ing Wednesday. she had struck him in the Rosa said the reading today.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police records in Murfrees- past. that day had been from Authorities said Samson
A man charged in a mass boro, about 20 miles (32 No charges were filed in ei- Luke, Chapter 8, and she came to the United States
shooting at a Tennessee kilometers) southeast of ther incident. recalled the part about from Sudan as a child in
church expressed suicidal the church, show that Sam- Toward the end of servic- a woman who touched 1996 and is a legal U.S. resi-
thoughts in June and had a son’s father reported that es at the Burnette Chapel Jesus and was cured of dent.
volatile relationship with a his son had texted him on Church of Christ on Sun- bleeding. No motive has been im-
woman that twice involved June 27 to say “Your phone day, member Minerva Rosa By the end of the shooting, mediately determined.
law enforcement interven- is off, I have a gun to my said members were talk- she was on her knees, her Church members told in-
tion this year, according to head, have a nice f------ ing about the success of dress stained with blood, vestigators that Samson
police records. life.” their yard sale the previous putting pressure on the had attended services a
Emanuel Kidega Samson, Officers in January re- day when they heard gun- gunshot wound in Pastor year or two ago, said Don
25, is charged with the fa- sponded to two domes- shots outside the building. Spann’s chest. She and Aaron, a spokesman for
tal shooting of one woman tic disturbances between The church pastor, David others got on their phones the Metro Nashville Police
and is expected to face Emanuel Samson and a Spann, 60, then shouted for to call 911. Department.
several more charges fol- woman who accused him everyone to run, according Another church member, Melanie Smith, 39, of Smyr-
lowing the rampage that of cheating on her. Sam- to a witness. a 22-year-old usher named na, Tennessee, was killed
left six others wounded on son cut his hand when he The gunman entered the Robert Engle, tackled the when the shooter opened
Sunday. punched a small TV on her church from the back after gunman and suffered in- fire in the parking lot.
According to an affidavit desk, according to state- fatally shooting a woman juries when he was pistol Spann’s wife, Peggy, 65,
filed with the court, Samson ments to police. outside, police said. He whipped. was also shot as well as Wil-
Police investigate the scene outside the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ after a deadly shooting In the struggle, the shooter liam and Marlene Jenkins,
at the church on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017, in Antioch, Tenn. shot himself, although it 83 and 84 respectively,
(Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP) wasn’t clear if it was on pur- Linda Bush, 68, and Kath-
pose or an accident. Engle erine Dickerson, 64. Police
told Nashville police fol- In March, police were then walked through the retrieved his own gun from said none of the surviving
lowing his arrest that he ar- dispatched to Samson’s church silently, shooting his car and held the man victims suffered life-threat-
rived at the church armed home. Samson told police six more people before an until police arrived, police ening injuries.
and fired upon the build- the woman was trying to usher subdued him, police said. Forty-two people were at
ing. Court documents do enter his house despite his said. Police later recovered “He’s amazing,” Rosa told the church at the time of
not indicate whether Sam- attempts to break off con- another pistol and a shot- reporters about Engle. the shooting, Aaron said.q

Accused leaker asking again for pre-trial release from jail

By RUSS BYNUM government contractor in inserted a portable hard cused of leaking a single computer and didn’t know
Associated Press Augusta until June, when drive into a top-secret Air document a single time to what might be on it.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — At- she was charged with Force computer before she a single source,” Winner’s Winner’s lawyers included
torneys for a woman ac- copying a classified report left the military last year. attorneys wrote. “... De- an email from Solari in their
cused of leaking a clas- and mailing it to an online Winner’s defense lawyers tention should not be pre- latest court filing in which
sified U.S. report want a news organization. argued in a court filing sumed. It is not the norm. It the prosecutor noted she
judge to free her from jail U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Saturday that prosecutors is not appropriate here.” was mistaken when she pre-
pending trial, arguing pros- K. Epps has scheduled a have not accused Winner Prosecutors had not yet viously told the judge that
ecutors have added no hearing Friday to recon- of any additional crimes filed a response Monday Winner was recorded in a
new charges months after sider releasing 25-year-old more than three months afternoon. jailhouse phone conversa-
they warned the woman Winner on bond. He or- later. They noted several Jennifer Solari, an assistant tion saying, “Mom, those
may have stolen addition- dered her jailed in June other cases in which defen- U.S. attorney, warned the documents. I screwed up.”
al secrets. Reality Winner, after prosecutors said Win- dants accused of leaking judge in June that investi- Solari wrote the recording
a former Air Force linguist ner may have taken more multiple secret documents gators had not found the shows Winner actually told
with a top secret security than a single classified re- were freed on pre-trial portable hard drive Winner her mother: “I leaked a
clearance, worked as a port. They said Winner had bonds. “Ms. Winner is ac- plugged into an Air Force document.”q