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Thursday 4 May 2017
Police: 2 dead in suspected murder-suicide at Texas college

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Two doesn’t appear anyone A math tutor at the college, arrive. She said she also sued an alert to students
people died Wednesday else was hurt in the shoot- Nasrin Nanbakhsh, said she emailed her supervisors to late Wednesday morning
in an apparent murder- ing at North Lake College, saw a man shoot a woman let them know what was telling them to barricade
suicide at a Texas commu- a two-year public school in in a hallway. happening. themselves in the nearest
nity college, prompting an suburban Dallas. The col- “I saw a guy standing and “I just saw the gun, as soon room and wait for further
active-shooter alert that in- lege said classes will not re- there was a girl sitting on as I looked at it. I saw the instructions from police.
structed students and em- sume until Friday. a chair. I saw him shoot- gun, and he shot her three Broadcast images showed
ployees to barricade them- Irving police said on Twit- ing her three times,” Nan- times, and it was too close,” students rushing from cam-
selves in rooms. It was the ter : “There appears to bakhsh told reporters. Nanbakhsh said. pus buildings as police
second deadly attack on a be no continuing threat Nanbakhsh said she ran The names of the gunman swarmed the area. Officers
Texas campus this week. but police will continue to into a room, locked the and the woman have not with their weapons drawn
Irving police spokesman search to make the cam- doors, turned off the lights been released. cautiously moved toward
James McLellan said it pus safe.” and waited for help to North Lake College had is- campus buildings.q
San Francisco police shoot, kill man on Market Street

PAUL ELIAS ery year to ride the city’s said. city as the lunch hour ap- exactly where the shooting
Associated Press famous cable cars. The street was closed for proached, watching offi- occurred.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scott said the suspect was hours as police investi- cers collect evidence. Most of the police action
San Francisco police shot shot while the stabbing gated, disrupting numer- Scott gave few details dur- appeared to occur in front
and killed a man who of- of and inside a Subway
ficers say was stabbing sandwich shop.
another man on the city’s Scott was sworn as chief in
busy downtown Market January and this was the
Street on Wednesday. first fatal shooting by an of-
Police Chief Bill Scott told ficer this year.
reporters the shooting hap- Scott replaced Greg Suhr,
pened shortly before 11:30 who resigned under pres-
a.m. when officers walking sure last year after police
their usual beat in a neigh- shot and killed an unarmed
borhood crowded with 29-year-old woman driving
shoppers and tourists en- a stolen car last May.
joying a warm day came Mayor Ed Lee last year also
upon the stabbing. called in the U.S. Depart-
He said a white man was ment of Justice to help the
stabbing an Asian man. police department reform
The stabbing victim was its policies, procedures
taken to a hospital. and training after officers
“Loss of life is always trag- shot and killed two minority
ic no matter how it hap- suspects wielding knives.
pens,” Scott said. “We try Both shootings led to wide-
to avoid it when we can, spread protests in the city,
but we have an obligation which started with the De-
to protect the public.” cember 2015 shooting of
The shooting occurred in San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott speaks to reporters in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 3, Mario Woods, 26, who was
the heart of San Francis- 2017. San Francisco police shot and killed a man who officers say was stabbing another man on black. That was followed
co’s downtown above a the city’s busy downtown Market Street on Wednesday. by the April 2016 shoot-
congested transit station, (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ing of Luis Gongora, 45, a
across the street from a homeless Latino man.
large, upscale mall with “was in progress.” ous bus and subway lines. ing a short news confer- The San Francisco District
a popular food court and “In the course of interven- Crowds pushed up against ence, declining to discuss Attorney is still investigating
just steps from where thou- ing, one of the officers dis- the police tape on an un- how many shots were fired, the last three fatal shoot-
sands of tourists line up ev- charged a firearm,” Scott usually warm day in the how many officers fired or ings in the city. q
7 bounty hunters shot at wrong car, charged with murder

SHEILA BURKE ers shot at the four people bounty hunters to bring in people would suddenly people at risk.
Associated Press in the sedan and chased people who violate the block their car in the Wal- The Montgomery County
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — them for seven miles. terms of jail bonds, but they Mart parking lot. Fearing an grand jury charged all sev-
Seven bounty hunters who Not one of the men in the can’t use deadly force un- attack by gang members, en men with first-degree
descended on the wrong sedan was wanted on out- less it’s self-defense. they tried to flee. felony murder, three counts
car outside a Wal-Mart standing charges. Killed was 24-year-old Jalen The bounty hunters, Jenkins of attempted second-de-
have been indicted on first- In fact, the Clarksville boun- Johnson, a father of three said, started shooting in the gree murder, three counts
degree murder charges in ty hunters were looking for from Clarksville. His fam- parking lot and continued of especially aggravated
the killing of an unarmed someone else, and there ily called him an innocent to fire on them during the kidnapping, attempted
man and the wounding of is no indication that any man who died in an act of chase, even ramming the especially aggravated kid-
another, Tennessee police of the victims fired at the terrorizing violence. Nissan along the way. napping, four counts of ag-
announced Wednesday. defendants or were even Johnson’s uncle, Toni Jen- Clarksville police would not gravated assault, employ-
The charges come after a armed, police spokesman kins, told The Associated confirm or deny these de- ing a firearm in commission
chaotic scene in Clarks- Jim Knoll said in an email. Press that his nephew and tails, but authorities have of a dangerous felony and
ville on April 23, where po- Bail bondsmen are em- the three men in the car said they are troubled by felony reckless endanger-
lice said the bounty hunt- powered to hire or act as with him had no idea why how the bounty hunters put ment, police said.q