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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 23 august 2017
Man who shot judge was stopped earlier by police

The shooting happened Police have questioned a
about four hours after Rich- second man who was in
mond was warned about Richmond’s vehicle at the
his headlights during the time, but no arrests have
traffic stop, The Intelligenc- been announced.
er and Wheeling News- Jane Hanlin, prosecutor for
Register in nearby West Vir- Jefferson County, said au-
ginia reported. thorities are still looking for
Richmond arrived at a a motive.
neighboring bank a short Records show Bruzzese, 65,
while before the shoot- was overseeing a wrongful-
ing, left, then returned and death case that Richmond
walked quickly toward the filed against a housing au-
judge from a parked car thority over a fire that killed
and fired, and the judge Richmond’s mother and his
returned fire, said Jefferson 2-year-old great-nephew
County Sheriff Fred Abdal- in April 2015.
la.Surveillance video cap- Richmond’s lawsuit against
This booking photo by the Jefferson County Prosecutor’s Of- tured the scene in Steu- the Jefferson Metropolitan
fice shows Nathaniel Richmond, who authorities said shot and benville in eastern Ohio, Housing Authority alleges
wounded a judge outside a county courthouse Monday in Steu- Abdalla said. The video has the home had exposed
benville, Ohio, before being gunned down by a probation of- yet to be released. electrical wires and had
ficer. One of the first people to missing and inoperable
(Jefferson County Prosecutor’s Office via AP) help Bruzzese was fellow smoke alarms. Richmond’s
By ANDREW HUGGINS the early morning darkness, Jefferson County Judge Mi- nephew and two of his
Associated Press authorities said. chelle Miller, a former nurse, nephew’s other children
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The suspect, 51-year-old the newspaper reported. escaped the fire.q
The man who shot an Ohio Nathaniel Richmond, was
judge outside a courthouse fatally shot Monday after
was stopped by a police wounding Jefferson Coun-
officer hours earlier for hav- ty Judge Joseph Bruzzese
ing a defective headlight Jr., who’s expected to sur-
as he drove downtown in vive.
Missouri governor halts man’s

execution after DNA questions

By JIM SALTER he’s innocent.
Associated Press “A sentence of death is
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri the ultimate, permanent
Gov. Eric Greitens on Tues- punishment,” Greitens said
day halted the scheduled in his statement. “To carry
execution of condemned out the death penalty, the
inmate Marcellus Williams people of Missouri must
after DNA testing raised have confidence in the
questions about whether judgment of guilt.”
he actually killed. Greitens said he will ap-
Just hours before Williams point a five-member board
was to be put to death, the of inquiry made up of re-
Republican governor said tired judges with subpoe-
in an email that he was is- na power. The board will
suing a stay of execution. make a recommendation
Williams was convicted to the governor concern-
of fatally stabbing former ing whether the 48-year-
St. Louis Post-Dispatch re- old Williams should be ex-
porter Lisha Gayle during ecuted. No timetable has
a 1998 burglary at her sub- been set.
urban St. Louis home. Wil- Williams’ attorney, Kent
liams’ execution had been Gipson, who had asked
scheduled for 6 p.m. Tues- Greitens for clemency, said
day. the stay of execution was
The governor’s decision “the appropriate thing to
comes after Williams’ at- do.” He believes large-
torneys cited DNA evi- scale opposition to the ex-
dence found on the mur- ecution was a factor in the
der weapon that matched governor’s decision.
another unknown person, “The people have spoken,”
but not Williams. But St. Lou- Gipson said. “This online
is County prosecutor Bob petition had a quarter of a
McCulloch said there was million signatures. The case
ample other evidence to has generated a lot of out-
convict Williams, and that rage all over the country
there’s “zero possibility” and the world.”q