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Thursday 1 October 2015
Mom accused of Police:
tossing newborn
held for murder Officer killed in mall shooting; suspect charged
COLLEEN LONG S. M. SCHAFER Columbia Police Officers investigate the scene where a Forest Acres Police Officer was fatally
Associated Press Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A wom- FOREST ACRES, South Caro- shot in the Richland Mall Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015, in Forest Acres, S.C. Police say a suspect is
an believed to have given lina (AP) — A police officer
birth in the bathroom of her responding to a report of in custody. (Matt Walsh/The State via AP)
boyfriend’s apartment be- a suspicious person was
fore tossing her newborn fatally shot at a suburban stolen from neighboring wife, Kassy, recently had a for that length of time,”
daughter to her death from South Carolina mall on Lexington County in early baby, Sealy said. Woodward said.
a seventh-story window Wednesday, and police September, according to Joan Woodward, 81, lived She remembered sneaking
was being held without bail say the suspect is charged arrest warrants. next door to the officer’s candy to the officer when
Wednesday on a murder with murder. Hall also had a knife, Sealy parents and said she had he came to her door as a
charge, police and pros- Police first got a call on said. The chief did not take known him since he was child, and she called him
ecutors said. the shooting about 8 a.m., questions at the news con- a baby. She said Wednes- “a special human being.”
Jennifer Berry, 33, ap- Forest Acres police Chief ference. day afternoon that she’d “When my husband died
peared in a Bronx court- Gene Sealy told report- Sealy said Alia was 32 just visited with his wife and eight years ago, he was so
room late Tuesday and was ers. Two officers respond- years old and had been baby. sweet,” she said. “He came
also charged with man- ed and attempted to talk with the department for “She said she was so for- and sat with me. God al-
slaughter in the death of to Jarvis Hall, who fled on seven years. He and his tunate that she had him ways takes the angels.”q
the girl. Officials said she foot and ran through parts
concealed the final stage of Richland Mall, includ-
of her pregnancy from ing the Barnes and Noble
friends and family, telling bookstore, officials said.
some she miscarried much Officer Greg Alia confront-
earlier on. The boyfriend, ed Hall, there was a strug-
who was home when the gle, and he was shot, Sealy
baby plunged from the win- said.
dow, told police he did not Alia was taken to a hospi-
know she was pregnant. tal and later died, officials
The attorney who repre- said. No other injuries were
sented Berry at her arraign- reported.
ment did not return a call The State Law Enforcement
seeking comment. Division charged Hall with
Berry initially denied to po- murder and possession of
lice that she was pregnant a weapon during com-
before saying she had giv- mission of a violent crime
en birth in the shower, au- Wednesday afternoon. He
thorities said. She said the killed Alia with a .40-caliber
newborn wasn’t breathing handgun that had been
when she threw the baby
— and the placenta — from Oklahoma delays execution over drug protocols
the window, police said.
But prosecutors say she SEAN MURPHY the use of potassium chlo- ment waited for the U.S. sip promised him $10,000.
knew the baby was alive Associated Press ride. She reset Glossip’s Supreme Court to weigh in Sneed — who is serving a
when she threw her, umbili- McALESTER, Oklahoma execution for Nov. 6, say- on Glossip’s claim of inno- life sentence — was the
cal cord still attached, into (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. ing it would give the state cence. Justices ultimately state’s key witness against
the alley below. The medi- Mary Fallin postponed an enough time to determine rejected his appeal. Glossip in two separate tri-
cal examiner said the baby inmate’s scheduled ex- whether potassium ace- Glossip was convicted of als.
died from blunt force trau- ecution Wednesday, say- tate is a suitable substitute, ordering the 1997 killing Glossip was originally
ma in the fall, meaning she ing a drug that the state or to find a supply of potas- of Barry Van Treese, who scheduled for execu-
was born alive. Department of Corrections sium chloride. owned the Oklahoma City tion on Sept. 16. But just
Assistant District Attorney had received to carry out It’s not clear why the er- motel that Glossip man- hours earlier, the Okla-
Georgia Barker said the a lethal injection didn’t ror wasn’t caught be- aged. homa Court of Criminal
baby weighed 8 pounds (4 match those listed in the fore Wednesday, or an- Glossip has long claimed Appeals granted a rare
kilograms) — the weight of agency’s protocols. nounced until an hour he was framed by hotel two-week reprieve to re-
a full-term newborn. Fallin said prison officials re- after Glossip’s scheduled handyman Justin Sneed, view his claims of new evi-
“There was air in the lungs. ceived potassium acetate execution. who admitted to fatally dence, including another
This was a healthy baby for use in Richard Glos- Part of Wednesday’s de- beating Van Treese with inmate’s assertion that he
girl,” Barker said in court, sip’s execution, but Okla- lay, though, occurred as a baseball bat, but said overheard Sneed admit to
according to the Daily homa’s guidelines call for the Corrections Depart- he did so only after Glos- framing Glossip.q
News of New York.q
