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u.s. news Diaranson 9 Juni 2021

Man charged with murder of boy in road-rage shooting

(AP) — A Southern Cali- who could speak on their be- road rage violence stemmed crime, the Orange County ied by the family only hours
fornia man was charged half. from “a perceived unsafe lane Register reported. before he held a news confer-
Tuesday with murder in change.” ence announcing the arrests.
a road rage shooting that Authorities said they believe The gun was discovered at
killed a 6-year-old boy on Lee was driving the car and The case drew widespread Eriz’s workplace in San Ber- “I do want to promise today,
a local freeway last month. Eriz fired the shot that killed outrage in the county of nardino County, officials when Aiden was put below
Leos while his mother was 3 million people. At least said. ground, that we will get jus-
Prosecutors in Orange driving the boy to kinder- $500,000 in rewards had been tice for him,” Spitzer said.
County, California charged garten on May 21 in Orange offered from around the U.S. Orange County District At- “We have to promise him
Marcus Anthony Eriz, 24, County, southeast of Los An- for information leading to an torney Todd Spitzer on Mon- that.”
with murder in the death geles. arrest in the case. day noted that boy was bur-
of Aiden Leos. Eriz was also
charged with shooting at an According to accounts from Authorities said they received
occupied vehicle and with the mother and witnesses hundreds of tips. The couple
sentencing enhancements. who stopped to help her, an- was arrested on Sunday in
other car cut her off and she the city of Costa Mesa.
Eriz’s girlfriend, Wynne Lee, responded with a hand ges-
was charged with being an ture and the car slipped in be- Authorities said the car, de-
accessory after the fact and hind her and someone inside scribed as a white Volkswa-
illegally carrying a concealed fired a shot through the rear gen Golf SportWagen, was
firearm. of her car. relatively rare and that helped
investigators who examined
Both were expected to ap- ADVERTISEMENT surveillance footage. It was
pear in court on Tuesday. It found at Eriz’s grandmoth-
was not immediately clear California Highway Patrol er’s house in Whittier, but
whether they had attorneys officials have said that the she is not implicated in the

Crews work to reopen Floyd square, activists close it again

closed to traffic since Floyd’s sprang up organically in the Tuesday seeking comment on
death on May 25, 2020, and days after Floyd’s death. As the activists closing down the
some residents and business- people gathered to express intersection again.
es have expressed frustration their grief and anger, com-
that it has been closed for so munity members set up Former Minneapolis police
long. makeshift barricades to block Officer Derek Chauvin was
traffic, which the city eventu- convicted in April of second-
Last Thursday, city crews re- ally replaced with concrete degree unintentional mur-
moved concrete barriers that ones. der, third-degree murder and
blocked traffic at 38th Street second-degree manslaughter
and Chicago Avenue, but Mayor Jacob Frey and other for pressing his knee against
community activists quickly city leaders pledged to re- Floyd’s neck for about 9 1/2
put up makeshift barriers and open the intersection, but minutes as he pleaded for air.
resumed chanting the name activist leaders have said Chauvin has also been in-
of the Black man whose kill- they won’t step aside unless dicted on federal charges al-
ing galvanized the racial jus- the city meets their 24 de- leging he violated Floyd’s
(AP) — City crews re- tice movement. mands. Among them: recall civil rights, as well as the civil
turned early Tuesday to Workers using front-end the county prosecutor, fire rights of a 14-year-old he re-
a Minneapolis intersec- loaders and brooms arrived As soon as workers left the the head of the state’s crimi- strained in a 2017 arrest.
tion where a memorial to just before 5 a.m. and cleared area on Tuesday, activists nal investigative agency, and
George Floyd was assem- the intersection where Floyd moved back in, again block- spend hundreds of thousands The three other former Min-
bled after his death last was killed, which is informal- ing traffic with parked cars, of dollars on programs to cre- neapolis officers involved in
year and worked to reopen ly known as George Floyd trash cans, traffic signs and ate jobs, combat racism and Floyd’s arrest and death were
it to traffic by removing Square, the Minneapolis Star other items in a repeat of last support affordable housing. also charged with federal civil
debris and makeshift bar- Tribune reported. Thursday’s scene. rights violations. They await
riers, only to have activists City officials didn’t imme- trial in state court on aiding
barricade the area again. The intersection has been The tribute at the square diately respond to an email and abetting counts.

Ex-pharmacist gets 3 years in jail for tampering

(AP) - A former pharma- erator for hours at Aurora years of imprisonment and
cist in Wisconsin who in- Medical Center in Grafton, $250,000 in fines for each
tentionally ruined more located just north of Mil- felony count.
than 500 doses of CO- waukee. Brandenburg said
VID-19 vaccine has been in a statement before receiv- Brandenburg is an admitted
sentenced to three years ing his sentence that he felt conspiracy theorist who be-
in prison. “great shame” and accepted lieves vaccines are a product
responsibility for his actions. of the devil. Brandenburg
Steven Brandenburg, of The Milwaukee Journal Sen- also secretly substituted sa-
Grafton, was sentenced tinel reports he apologized to line for flu vaccine that he
Tuesday after pleading guilty his co-workers, family and was mandated to receive and
in February to two felony the community. persuaded several co-work-
counts of attempting to tam- ers to secretly swap saline for
per with a consumer product. Prosecutors asked for a sen- their flu vaccine as well, ac-
He had admitted to remov- tence of three years and five cording to court filings.
ing the doses manufactured months. Brandenburg faced
by Moderna from a refrig- a maximum penalty of 10