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Saturday 21 OctOber 2017

Alabama inmate defiant before execution 3 arrested after shooting following

By KIM CHANDLER ney in the death chamber nous flow of lethal injec- white nationalist speech in Florida
Associated Press at a southwest Alabama tion drugs from an adjoin- By JASON DEAREN ter Spencer’s speech and
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — The prison, McNabb used his ing control room, McNabb Associated Press began making Nazi salutes
convicted killer of a police final words to lash out with raised his arms as far as GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A and shouting Hitler chants
officer used his final mo- an obscenity at the state he could and extended man who fired a shot at an- at a group of people hold-
ments before being put to executing him. the middle fingers of both ti-Nazi protesters following ing anti-Nazi signs near a
death to curse at the state “Mom, Sis, look at my eyes. I hands, keeping them in the a speech at the University bus stop, Gainesville Police
of Alabama, raising his got no tears in my eyes. I’m air for several minutes until of Florida by a white na- Officer Ben Tobias said.
middle fingers in defiance unafraid. ..... To the state his hands dropped as he tionalist has been charged One person in the group of
at the start of a lethal injec- showed signs of drowsiness. with attempted murder, about six people struck the
tion his lawyers described McNabb was one of sev- police in Gainesville said back window of the men’s
as inhumanely painful. eral inmates in an ongo- Friday. vehicle with a baton, po-
Torrey Twane McNabb, 40, ing lawsuit arguing that the Two men who allegedly lice said.
was executed Thursday for sedative midazolam does urged him to shoot face Tenbrink, a convicted fel-
the 1997 slaying of Mont- not reliably render a person the same charge. on, showed a handgun af-
gomery police officer An- unconscious before subse- A Gainesville Police De- ter exiting the car while the
derson Gordon. McNabb quent drugs stop the lungs partment report released Fears brothers encouraged
shot Gordon five times as and heart. In the Alabama on Friday said that Ty- him to shoot, police said.
the officer sat in his patrol procedure, a prison guard ler Tenbrink, 28; William “Colton Fears and William
car after arriving at a traffic performs a consciousness Fears, 30; and his brother, Fears were also yelling, ‘Kill
accident McNabb caused check by pinching the 28-year-old Colton Fears, them’ and ‘Shoot them,’”
while fleeing a bail bonds- inmate’s arm, saying his all from Texas, were ar- the police report stated.
man. name and touching his rested on attempted homi- The men fled the scene
McNabb’s attorney said This photo shows Alabama eyelid to see if the inmate cide charges following an and headed north on High-
Friday that his movements inmate Torrey Twane McNabb. reacts before the killing appearance on campus way 75, police said.
McNabb, 40, was executed
during the middle of the Thursday for the 1997 slaying drugs are administered. by white nationalist Rich- Just before 9 p.m. an off-
execution, that included of Montgomery police officer McNabb appeared to re- ard Spencer. duty Alachua County
moving his arm and rolling Anderson Gordon. act by flicking his hand up- Hours before the shooting, Sheriff’s deputy who had
his head back and forth af- (Alabama Department of ward after a first conscious- all three men had spoken worked the Spencer event
ter a consciousness check, Corrections via AP) ness check. He did not ap- with the media in support earlier saw the men’s ve-
showed problems with the pear to react immediately of Spencer’s speech and hicle. A group of officers
sedative used by the state. of Alabama, I hate you in response to a second white nationalism. called in stopped the vehi-
Alabama Commissioner ... I hate you. I hate you,” check about 18 minutes The three were in a vehicle cle and took the men into
Jeff Dunn said his was confi- McNabb said as the war- into the procedure. Prison Thursday immediately af- custody.q
dent that McNabb was un- den held a microphone for officials in the control room,
conscious and the move- him to speak. unseen by witnesses, then
ments were involuntary. After the warden left the administered the next two Infant found covered in white
While strapped to the gur- room to start the intrave- drugs.q
powder dead in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An in- vious signs of injury, Mota
fant died and a young girl said. Detectives were look-
and a woman were hos- ing for surveillance foot-
pitalized after they were age and canvassing for
found naked, unconscious witnesses. Sunhee Chung,
and covered with a white who owns a nearby liquor
powder Thursday in a store store, told KABC-TV and
parking lot in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times that
police said. the woman, a regular cus-
Officers responded shortly tomer, came in Wednes-
before 2 a.m. to reports of day with the 8-year-old
a female screaming near girl. The woman was in pa-
the market in a South Los jamas and barefoot with
Angeles neighborhood, messy hair. She bought
according to Officer Irma three cans of Ajax cleaner
Mota. and latex gloves.
The three victims were The woman complained
found on the pavement that the girl had been cry-
next to a car, covered in ing all night, and the child
the powder that a hazard- said she wanted to live with
ous materials team deter- her grandmother, Chung
mined was not dangerous said. The woman also
and was possibly baby wandered around trying
powder. All were rushed to to open car doors, Chung
a hospital, where the infant said. Later Wednesday
was pronounced dead, night, one of Chung’s em-
Mota said. The 8-year-old ployees saw the woman,
girl was in critical condi- girl and baby, all naked
tion and the 26-year-old and covered in white pow-
woman — believed to be der, outside the store and
the girls’ mother — was in the woman was breast-
stable condition. feeding the baby, Chung
The victims showed no ob- told the Times.q