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Wednesday 7 February 2018
Officer: woman never swung bat before being shot Cops: Woman says

Voodoo ritual led her
NEW YORK (AP) — A po- Sgt. Hugh Barry before Bar- were present have testified after the shooting. "Some-
lice officer testified that a ry shot her. Barry is on trial that Rosario was the only thing went horribly wrong to kill sons, 5 and 8
mentally ill woman never for murder in Danner's Oct. officer who had a clear here." Commissioner James
swung the baseball bat she 18, 2016, shooting death. view of the fatal encounter. O'Neill said his department BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) —
was holding at the police Danner was a paranoid Danner's death drew rare had "failed" by not subdu- A Massachusetts woman
sergeant who shot her to schizophrenic who had rebukes from the mayor ing Danner without resort- used a kitchen knife to
death in her Bronx apart- been hospitalized at least and police commissioner. ing to deadly force. stab two of her children to
ment. 10 times. Barry's lawyer, "Our officers are supposed "That's not how it's sup- death and later told police
The New York Times reports Andrew Quinn, said in his to use deadly force only posed to go," O'Neill said. it was part of a Voodoo
that Officer Camilo Rosa- opening statement that when faced with a dire sit- "It's not how we train; our ritual, authorities said Tues-
rio testified Monday that Barry fired because Danner uation. It's very hard to see first obligation is to preserve day.
66-year-old Deborah Dan- was swinging a bat at his that standard was met," life, not to take a life when Latarsha Sanders, 43, told
ner did not swing the bat at head. Other officers who Mayor Bill de Blasio said it can be avoided." q police she attacked her
8-year-old son, Edson "Mar-
Philadelphia: lon" Brito, with a kitchen
knife as part of a ritual but
Amtrak engineer ordered to stand trial in crash failed, so she attacked her
5-year-old son, Lason Brito,
By MICHAEL SISAK assistant Plymouth District
Associated Press Attorney Jessica Kenny
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Am- told a judge during Sand-
ers arraignment on murder
trak engineer Brandon Bos-
tian sat stunned Tuesday as charges.
She told police it had to
a judge reinstated twice-
rejected criminal charges do with "Voodoo stuff," ac-
cording to a police report
and ordered him to stand
trial for a deadly 2015 train of their interview with her.
The older boy was stabbed
wreck in Philadelphia.
Judge Kathryn S. Lewis 50 times, and she admitted
to the killings, Kenny said.
ruled that another judge
erred in dismissing the reck- "She said she had stabbed
him because she had
less endangerment and
involuntary manslaughter 'failed' in the ritual with
Marlon," Kenny said, ac-
charges at a hearing in
September. cording to The Boston Her-
ald . "She responded to po-
Lewis said evidence at the
hearing — including testi- lice that she felt bad about
what she had done."
mony from an injured pas-
senger and gruesome de- Sanders also told inves-
tigators she mopped up
tails of tattered cars and
strewn limbs — should have blood from the floor, left
the kitchen knife in the sink,
been sufficient to warrant a
trial. cleaned up both boys and
placed them in separate
"The victims are going to
have their day in court, Brandon Bostian, the Amtrak engineer involved in a 2015 derailment in Philadelphia that killed beds, Kenny said.
Plymouth District Attorney
which is all they have ever eight people and injured more than 200, departs from the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia.
sought," said Thomas Kline, (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Timothy J. Cruz told report-
ers that Sanders' interview
the lawyer for the family of
a victim that kept the case his passport and call court agreed to pay $265 million of limitations loomed. City with police was "disjointed"
but said investigators are
alive by filing a private officials weekly. He opted to settle civil claims filed by prosecutors said their deci-
criminal complaint after not to attend his Feb. 21 ar- victims and their families. sion not to prosecute Bosti- not aware of Sanders hav-
ing a history of mental ill-
city prosecutors declined raignment. The railroad also has in- an left them unable to take
to bring charges. Bostian's lawyers declined stalled positive-train control up the criminal complaint ness.
"We don't have a lot of
Eight people were killed to comment on the ruling. technology that can au- from the family of crash vic-
and about 200 were hurt They've argued before tomatically slow or stop a tim Rachel Jacobs. clarity to a lot of the things
she was saying at this
when the Washington-to- that his speeding was a speeding train on its track Jacobs, the head of a
New York train rounded a momentary lapse from an from Boston to Washington. Philadelphia-based tech- point," Cruz said. The boys’
bodies were discovered in
curve at more than twice otherwise safety-conscious The technology wasn't in nology startup, was return-
the 50 mph (80 kph) speed engineer. place when Bostian's train ing home to her husband their Brockton apartment
on Monday after Sand-
limit and hurdled off the Bostian has been on unpaid crashed and is still miss- and 2-year-old son in New
tracks. leave from Amtrak since ing on third-party tracks York when she was killed. ers asked a neighbor to
call 911 because she was
National Transportation the crash. He is suing the Amtrak uses in other parts She was 39. "We see no ex-
Safety Board investigators government-owned rail- of the country. It wasn't tenuating circumstances," having a medical issue.
When authorities arrived,
concluded Bostian lost his road, alleging he was left in place on tracks where Kline said. "Mr. Bostian had
bearings while distracted disoriented or unconscious deadly crashes occurred in one job and one job only the neighbor told police
that there were children
by radio chatter about an when something struck his South Carolina on Sunday on that day, which was to
incident with a nearby train. train before it derailed. and in Washington State in get the train from Point A to in the apartment, so they
checked and discovered
They found no evidence NTSB investigators have December. Point B and to carry those
Bostian was impaired or us- said nothing struck the lo- Pennsylvania's attorney passengers safely. He did them. The boys were last
seen by their grandmother
ing a cellphone. comotive. general picked up the not do that. He has no ex-
Bostian, 34, remains free Amtrak has taken respon- criminal case against Bos- cuse for the speeding on on Saturday, prosecutors
said. Sanders was ordered
on bail but must give up sibility for the crash and tian last May, as a statute the tracks that day." q
held without bail.q