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Friday 10 November 2017

1 person dead, 1 injured in police shootout on busy I-95

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Route 146, police said.
A midmorning chase and Authorities still are search-
shootout involving several ing for Donald Morgan,
police oficers on busy In- who is wanted for stealing
terstate 95 in Providence the cruiser, said State Po-
left one person dead and lice Col. Ann Assumpico.
one injured Thursday. He was being transported
The shootout came less to court and was left alone
than two hours after a sus- and handcuffed in the
pect being taken to court vehicle when the trooper
was left in a state police stepped out to check on
cruiser alone and stole it, an accident, she said.
driving it to a Providence “I know the trooper did
neighborhood and aban- leave the vehicle for a short
doning it. Police initially time,” she told reporters. “I
said the shooting and theft want to sort through it. ...
were related, but then said You have to understand,
later Thursday that the man when we come upon an
who stole the police cruiser accident on the highway, it
is not the same man who is our duty to check on the
got into the shootout less welfare of the people.”
than two hours later. Morgan, a 35-year-old
One man was killed and a Providence resident, was
woman was injured in the arrested Wednesday on
A Rhode Island State policeman walks past a white pickup truck with multiple bullet holes in the
shootout that happened windows and right side at the scene of a shooting on Interstate 95 in Providence, R.I., Thursday, charges of obstruction and
around 10:45 a.m. Police Nov. 9, 2017. possession of a stolen mo-
have not identiied them. (Bob Breidenbach /Providence Journal via AP) tor vehicle, Assumpico said.
Police said several oficers condition, Providence Pub- shooting, and we have one police swarmed over the The cruiser was found with-
were chasing a white pick- lic Safety Commissioner person that is deceased,” highway looking for shell in the hour abandoned in
up truck with two people Steven Pare said. Pare said Pare said. casings. Senior prosecu- Providence after police
inside when the shooting they’re reviewing footage Video posted online from tors from the state attorney tracked it there with the
happened on a stretch of from body cameras the witnesses show the driver of general’s ofice were also car’s GPS system, but the
the interstate that skirts the responding oficers were a white pickup trading gun- on scene, which is proto- thief was not located.
city’s downtown and the wearing. No oficers were ire with numerous police col for any oficer-involved Police launched a search
Providence Place mall. hurt. “We are actively in- oficers as it was trapped in shooting, according to throughout the neigh-
A woman in the truck was vestigating all the circum- by other cars. The truck sat the ofice. The cruiser was borhood and were seen
injured and taken to Rhode stances. There are multiple riddled with bullets on the taken around 9 a.m. Thurs- searching house-to-house
Island Hospital in serious oficers involved in the road Thursday afternoon as day during a trafic stop on with riles and dogs. q

Ohio:

Court Employee Charged With Leaking Info

By DAN SEWELL gations” and pass along “The charges ... are grave
Associated Press speciics from the search and serious,” Pureval said
CINCINNATI (AP) — A veter- warrants. Authorities didn’t in a statement. “If true, her
an Hamilton County clerk of specify Bryant’s role in the actions are criminal and
courts employee has been leaks. Other details of the a violation of the public
charged with leaking con- allegations weren’t made trust.” He also said his of-
idential information from public immediately, and ice is taking immediate
search warrants, allowing the sheriff’s ofice said a action to make sure all em-
potential law enforcement “lengthy” probe is continu- ployees are trained about
targets to be warned, au- ing. Spokesman Jim Knapp handling sensitive informa-
thorities said Thursday. said the impacts of the tion and said there will be
Hamilton County Sheriff Jim leaks on cases and possible “zero tolerance” for viola-
Neil said the employee, Ya- danger caused for police tions of the policy. Pureval,
kyma Boyd, 45, was arrest- are under investigation. a Democrat , ended long-
ed on two felony counts of Attorney Clyde Bennett time Republican leadership
tampering with records af- II said Boyd will ight the of the clerk’s ofice with a
ter an investigation by the charges against her. November 2016 upset elec-
sheriff’s organized crime “Based on what I know tion victory.q
division. Ernest Bryant, 49, about the case, I don’t be-
was charged with tamper- lieve she is guilty,” Bennett
ing with records, and drug said. Court records didn’t
traficking, drug possession list an attorney for Bryant.
and weapons counts. The Clerk of Courts Aftab Pu-
sheriff’s statement said the reval said his ofice in Cin-
clerk employee provided cinnati is cooperating with
information “to another in- police and also is investi-
dividual who would then gating. He said Boyd, a 22-
warn the potential targets year employee, has been
of these criminal investi- suspended without pay.