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Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 053 ~ 34 of 45
“He is very intelligent, and he can cut to the chase,” Corabi said. “He spots issues, and he resolves the issues.”
Bruzzese hears general and domestic relations cases as one of two judges serving in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court.
Bruzzese has served on that court since 1997. He was most recently re-elected in 2014 for another six- year term.
He had likely arrived early to review his usual Monday morning batch of legal motions, Corabi said.
The shooting suspect’s body could be seen lying next to a car at the drive-thru of a neighboring bank. Police said a man who was in the car with him was taken into custody.
The courthouse was closed for the day as local and state authorities helped secure the scene. Jefferson County Commissioner Thomas Graham told WTOV some courthouse workers witnessed the “tragic situ- ation” and people would need time to process what happened.
The state crime lab will help investigate the shooting, Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine said.
The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, Maureen O’Connor, called the attack a “cowardly ambush” and urged court personnel, especially judges, to take extra precautions.
“Violence against judges represents an attack on the Rule of Law, the foundation of our country,” O’Connor said.
Danish police nd torso of woman after submarine sinking By MATTI HUUHTANEN, Associated Press
HELSINKI (AP) — The body of a woman has been found in the Baltic Sea near where a missing Swedish journalist is believed to have died on a privately built submarine, Danish police said late Monday.
A female torso without legs, arms or a head was found by a passer-by, said the head of the investiga- tion, Jens Moller Jensen.
“We have recovered the body ... It is the torso of a woman,” Jensen told reporters. “An inquest will be conducted.”
He said it was “too early” to say if the body was that of 30-year-old Swedish reporter Kim Wall, who went missing more than a week ago after a trip on the submarine owned by 46-year-old Peter Madsen, a Danish inventor.
Jensen said the body was discovered hours after Madsen told authorities that Wall had died onboard in an accident and that he buried her at sea at an unspeci ed location.
Madsen was arrested in connection with Wall’s disappearance after his submarine sank off Denmark’s eastern coast, an event police said they suspected the inventor caused on purpose.
He denied any wrongdoing and initially told authorities he had dropped the reporter off on a redeveloped island in Copenhagen’s harbor about 31⁄2 hours into a nighttime trip Aug. 10.
Madsen will continue to be held on preliminary manslaughter charges, police said. They declined to provide further details about the new information he had provided.
Madsen was known for nancing his submarine project through crowdfunding. The rst launch of his 40-ton, nearly 18-meter-long (60-foot-long) UC3 Nautilus in 2008 made international headlines.
Wall’s family earlier told The Associated Press that she had worked in many dangerous places as a jour- nalist and it was unimaginable “something could happen ... just a few miles from the childhood home.”
The International Women’s Media Foundation said it was “deeply saddened” to receive con rmation that Wall had died.
“She was dogged in her pursuit of important and sometimes quirky stories. She was adored by those who knew her,” the organization said in a statement.
Wall was last seen atop the Nautilus submarine on Aug. 10, about to embark on a brief ride in the vessel for a pro le about its Danish inventor.
Before his arrest, Madsen appeared on Danish television to discuss the submarine’s sinking and his rescue. The journalist’s boyfriend alerted authorities that the sub had not returned from a test run, police said.