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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 1 august 2018
4, including boy, dead in murder-suicide amid custody battle

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and zines loaded with dozens of
JENNIFER PELTZ rounds of ammunition, po-
Associated Press lice said.
NEW YORK (AP) — A New He had a permit to keep
York City dad who had guns in his residence and
ranted online that his life the pistols appeared to
was being destroyed by a have been legally pur-
trans-Atlantic custody fight chased, according to in-
fatally shot his 6-year-old vestigators.
son, his ex-wife and his cur- A building caretaker saw
rent wife before turning a the bloodied first-floor
gun on himself, police said. apartment through a win-
James Shields opened fire dow while taking out gar-
Monday night at his Queens bage and called 911. A
apartment on what his fa- throng of officers, some in
ther said was one of the heavy tactical gear, re-
last days of a summer visita- sponded to the low-rise
tion with his son, Giacomo brick building.
James. Police held off on releas-
James Shields Sr. said his ing the name of Shields's
son's ex-wife, 47-year-old current wife, also from the
Dutch artist Linda Olthof, Netherlands, pending no-
had been raising Giacomo tification of her family. The
in the Netherlands and was Dutch government said she Police officers stand in front of a building where there was a shooting with multiple fatalities in the
due to take him back there was 38 years old. Queens borough of New York, Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
next week. Olthof and her son arrived Associated Press
Shields Sr. said Tuesday that in New York for Shields's visi-
his grandson, known as Jim- tation on July 21, Chief of fortune" to see Jimmy as a wrote. "I desperately need nabe anthropologist" who
my, was "a beautiful boy." Detectives Dermot Shea baby. any help you can provide." enjoyed traveling to new
He defended his son as a said. Shields complained that The posting was pulled from and exotic locations. He
"good man." Shea said Shields' neigh- the financial stress of their GoFundMe by Tuesday af- said volunteering at a nurs-
Shields, 39, wrote in an on- bors appeared to know dispute was ruining his life ternoon. ing home at age 16 led to
line post that Olthof only little about him. Police and destroying his second Shields, a co-founder of a his career in physical ther-
wanted Jimmy in the U.S. for were called last Decem- marriage. Manhattan physical and apy.
two weeks a year. Shields ber when someone heard "I had the perfect life a few occupational therapy His business partner,
said that was something "I people arguing and possi- years ago but it has spi- practice, described himself reached by telephone, de-
just can't accept as a fa- bly throwing things around raled out of control," Shields in an online bio as a "wan- clined to comment.q
ther." He posted his custody in his apartment.
dispute rant on GoFundMe Shields wrote that Olthof
in April under the subject had gone back to the
"Child Kidnapping." Netherlands while preg-
Shields, a licensed physical nant because she couldn't
therapist, was armed with find work in the U.S. as an
a pair of Glock pistols and artist. He said the move
had seven extra maga- forced him to spend "a

Activists block trains, protest

Minneapolis police shooting

By YOUSSEF RDDAD After a rally at the Hennepin
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — County Government
Activists and family Center, the protesters
members of a black marched along the light
man who was fatally rail tracks, shutting down
shot by Minneapolis service for nearly an hour
police marched through as workers were leaving
downtown Tuesday, downtown and Minnesota
blocking trains during the Twins fans were trying to
evening rush hour as they get to a game.
chanted some of Thurman Blevins, 31, was shot
Blevins' last words: "Please June 23 by Minneapolis
don't shoot me! Leave me officers after they chased
alone!" him into an alley in north
Roughly 300 demonstrators Minneapolis. His sister,
called for the officers Darlynn Blevins, said her
involved to be fired brother “ran for his life”
and arrested, though a because he was scared
prosecutor announced and the officer “emptied
a day earlier that he was his clip into my brother’s
declining to file charges. back.”q