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U.S. NEWS Monday 19 March 2018

Suspect accused of fatally stabbing 2 men was drunk

tleview Apartments in the circumstances that led
Rochester, a 32-unit build- to the stabbings, but Sher-
ing that provides shelter win said the suspect report-
for the homeless, disabled, edly had "bickered" with
those in poverty or who the victims "quite a bit." The
have mental health issues. suspect was combative
Rochester police Capt. with arresting officers and
John Sherwin told the Post would not tell investigators
Bulletin newspaper the what happened after he
suspect was "definitely was arrested, Sherwin said.
under the influence of al- The victims were identified
cohol" when he allegedly as 57-year-old Phillip Wil-
stabbed the two men on liam Hicks and 45-year-old
the fourth floor of the build- Eric Alan Flemming. Both
ing. The 53-year-old man men were stabbed in the
was arrested shortly after chest and upper abdo-
A victim is carried to a waiting ambulance after a stabbing Sat- the stabbings as he tried to men, Sherwin said. Police
urday, March 17, 2018, at the Salvation Army Castleview Resi- leave the building through said in a news release that
dence in downtown Rochester, Minn. Police have arrested a a rear stairway and was officers found the two men
man in the fatal stabbings at a Salvation Army apartment build- being held Sunday on two "suffering from critical stab
ing in Minnesota.
(Joe Ahlquist/Rochester Post-Bulletin/AP) tentative counts of second- wounds." They were later
degree murder. pronounced dead at a
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) rested a suspect who tried Police said the men who hospital.
— Two men were fatally to leave through a rear were stabbed and the sus- Rochester, a city of around
stabbed at a Salvation stairway. The stabbings pect all lived at the apart- 209,000 people, is about 90
Army apartment building in were reported around ments. Authorities still were miles (145 kilometers) south-
Minnesota, and police ar- 7:15 p.m. Saturday at Cas- trying to piece together east of Minneapolis.q

Teen home, man in custody after found in Mexico

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A they bought one-way tick- times in the last few months. issued an Amber Alert in the
Pennsylvania teenager ets from Philadelphia to The girl had altered her stu- case on Thursday. Amy's
who was missing for almost Dallas and then headed to dent records to list Esterly family previously said the
two weeks along with the Cancun. Police said they as her stepfather, said Gary two met at church years
45-year-old man who fre- believed the teen went Hammer, of the Colonial ago, and the 16-year-old
quently signed her out of willingly with Esterly, who Regional Police Depart- girl is friends with one of Es-
school without her parents' signed her out of school 10 ment. Mexican authorities terly's daughters. q
permission was returned
home and the man was in
custody after the two were
found in Mexico, authorities
said. Federal agents and
Mexican authorities found
16-year-old Amy Yu and
Kevin Esterly in Playa del
Carmen on Saturday and
they were flown to Miami,
authorities said. Police said
the girl, who was in good
health, arrived on Sunday
in Philadelphia and was
taken home to Allentown,
60 miles (97 kilometers)
northwest of the city. Esterly
was awaiting processing in
Miami. The married father
of four will face a charge of
child custody interference
when he arrives in Pennsyl-
vania.
The girl's mother, Miu Luu,
told The (Allentown) Morn-
ing Call that she cried from
relief after being told that
the pair had been located.
"For two weeks, I've had
trouble sleeping and eat-
ing," Luu told the paper.
"I'm very happy." They had
been missing since March
5, when local police said