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Monday 12 October 2015

Police: Off-duty Memphis officer fatally shot

People wait outside the Regional Medical Center, Sunday, Oct. at a home in the Memphis than four years.
11, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn. Memphis Police Director Toney Arm- suburb of Cordova, Arm- In August, Memphis police
strong said Memphis Police Officer Terence Olridge was killed strong said. A male suspect officer Sean Bolton was fa-
after being shot multiple times while off duty on Sunday. is in custody, but Armstrong tally shot in the line of duty.
didn’t say whether the per- Police have charged
(Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal via AP) son has been charged. 29-year-old Tremaine Wil-
Armstrong said the investi- bourn, who was on pro-
ADRIAN SAINZ thorities said. gation is ongoing and that bation for an armed bank
Associated Press Memphis Police Direc- “details are sketchy.” Rela- robbery, with first-degree
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An tor Toney Armstrong said tives of the officer could murder in Bolton’s death.
off-duty police officer died 31-year-old Terence Ol- be seen crying outside the Bolton was white, and Wil-
Sunday after being shot ridge was taken to the hospital. bourn is black.
multiple times, the fourth Regional Medical Center, Police blocked the street Officer Tim Warren was
Memphis police officer to where he later died. in front of the house where killed while responding to
be fatally shot in slightly Officers got a call around the shooting happened. a shooting at a downtown
more than four years, au- 1 p.m. about a shooting A plainclothes detective Memphis hotel in July 2011.
spoke with a neighbor and In December 2012, Officer
uniformed officers also Martoiya Lang was killed
were on the scene. while serving a warrant.
Olridge joined the depart- In past shootings, Arm-
ment in September 2014. strong has addressed the
He had a fiancee who media outside the Region-
is four months pregnant, al Medical Center.
Armstrong said. “I didn’t think that we’d be
Olridge is the fourth Mem- here again so soon,” Arm-
phis police officer to be strong told reporters on
fatally shot in slightly more Sunday.q

Southwest Airlines: Technical
issues cause mass flight delays

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest for the day had been de-
Airlines says hundreds of layed.
flights have been delayed E.J. Schultz, a reporter for
by technical issues that are Ad Age who was taking a
forcing it to check in some Southwest flight from Chi-
customers manually at air- cago’s Midway Interna-
ports and causing long tional Airport, said the air-
lines. line was telling people at
The Dallas-based company the gate that travelers with
is asking travelers to arrive paper boarding passes
at least two hours before were fine. But those who
their scheduled departures had downloaded their
as the problems that be- tickets onto their mobile
gan Sunday morning con- phones were told they had
tinued into the evening. to stand in line, he said.
It is also asking customers Schultz said he didn’t un-
to useairport kiosks to print derstand why Southwest
boarding passes and tags didn’t announce that peo-
for luggage. ple should print out their
Representatives for South- boarding passes at home
west did not say what before getting to the air-
caused the problem, how port.
long it would take to re- “If everyone had done
solve or whether the issues that, it would’ve saved so
may have been the result much time,” he said.
of a hack. Schultz said there was a line
At Los Angeles Interna- of about 50 people at the
tional Airport earlier in the Southwest gate. His flight
day, several dozen people took off roughly 15 minutes
crowded the Southwest after its scheduled depar-
terminal waiting to be is- ture time of 4:30.
sued hand-written tickets. The long lines at check-
By late afternoon, South- in may mean some pas-
west said about 450 of sengers didn’t make their
the 3,600 flights scheduled flights.q