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Friday 5 May 2017
Texas stabbing suspect told police he didn’t remember attack

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The in jail Thursday on $1 mil- hearing voices in his head, days earlier for protection campus. The affidavit said
University of Texas student lion bond. Attorneys listed White said his mind told him but Monday was the first the freshman died from a
accused of stabbing four for him didn’t immediately to “tell the truth and with- day he carried it, accord- stab wound to the chest.
students, one fatally, told return messages left Thurs- hold any action that he ing to the affidavit. Lori Brown told the televi-
police he didn’t remember day. The affidavit said after did because it really didn’t The affidavit said White sion station KXAN that she
attacking anyone, accord- White, 21, was taken into happen,” according to the stopped the interview and had talked with her son on
ing to an arrest affidavit. custody he agreed to talk. affidavit. said: “If I did something the phone a few minutes
Kendrex J. White, who When asked if he knew why White told police it was I don’t remember then I earlier and he told her he
authorities have said suf- he was there, he said, “Yes, possible he used a knife to want to be told.” had just played basketball
fered from mental health accusations of pushing hit someone but that he Harrison Brown was the first and was headed to a food
troubles, was charged with someone down and I think didn’t remember, the af- person to be stabbed as truck. The next call she got
murder in Monday’s cam- using a bladed weapon.” fidavit said. White said he White struck a path across from his phone was from a
pus attack. He remained When asked if he was had bought a knife several a plaza in the heart of the female student.q
Prosecutor had complained about Texas cop’s conduct

CLAUDIA LAUER as a dispatcher and public
WILL WEISSERT works employee between
Associated Press 1999 and 2004.
DALLAS (AP) — The pros- The statement said he re-
ecutor’s office investigat- ceived an award for “meri-
ing the death of a black torious conduct” as a dis-
teenager who was shot by patcher and there were no
a Dallas-area police officer documented complaints or
had once filed a complaint disciplinary action in either
over that officer’s aggres- his work as a public safety
sive behavior, according to officer or dispatcher. Be-
records obtained Thursday tween his employment as
by The Associated Press. a dispatcher and officer in
Personnel records from the the Dallas suburb, he was in
Balch Springs Police Depart- the U.S. Army, rising to the
ment show former officer rank of sergeant while serv-
Roy Oliver was suspended ing two tours in Iraq and
for 16 hours in December earning various commen-
2013 after the Dallas Coun- dations. After the Dallas
ty District Attorney’s Office County Attorney’s Office
filed a complaint about his complained about Oliver’s
conduct when he was serv- behavior, Morris suspend-
ing as a witness in a drunk- State Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas speaks at a news conference at the Supreme Court Building in ed the officer for 16 hours,
en-driving case. That office Austin, Texas, on Thursday, May 4, 2017, about the shooting of Jordan Edwards in Balch Springs, which Oliver completed
is now investigating the Texas. Listening are, left to right, state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, Sen. Royce West, D- by forfeiting two sick days.
shooting Saturday night in Dallas, and state Rep. Toni Rose, D-Dallas. Oliver also was ordered
which Oliver, who is white, (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) to take training courses in
fired a rifle at a car full of one instance when Oliver ting Oliver to attend the Chief Ed Morris wrote in the anger management and
teenagers leaving a party, was reprimanded for be- trial, he was angry he had suspension findings. courtroom demeanor and
testimony. Heath Harris,
striking and killing 15-year- ing “disrespectful to a civil- to be there, he used vulgar Oliver joined the Balch the former first assistant dis-
old Jordan Edwards. ian on a call.” That evalu- language that caused an Springs department in 2011 trict attorney under Dallas
Messages left with a ation, dated January 27, assistant district attorney to after being an officer with County District Attorney
spokeswoman for the pros- 2017, called the reprimand send a female intern out of the Dalworthington Gar- Craig Watkins, said he did
ecutor’s office, a police an isolated incident and the room, and he used pro- dens Police Department not remember the incident
spokesman and a lawyer urged Oliver to be mindful fanity during his testimony. for almost a year. A state- or which of the many courts
for Oliver were not immedi- of his leadership role in the “In an email from one of ment from Dalworthing- might have been involved.
ately returned Thursday. department. the prosecutors he states ton Gardens officials late He said he did not believe
The personnel records also The complaint from the you were a ‘scary person Wednesday included some it would impact the office’s
included periodic evalu- prosecutor’s office said the to have in our workroom,’” details of that and previous ability to investigate the
ations that noted at least office had a hard time get- then-Balch Springs Police intermittent employment shooting.q
British man deported home after prison in Trump attack case

KEN RITTER 21, was escorted by federal Sandford’s court-appoint- ford suffers seizures, obses- Sandford pleaded guilty in
Associated Press agents aboard a commer- ed attorney in Las Vegas, sion-compulsion, anxiety September to being an il-
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A British cial aircraft Wednesday for Brenda Weksler, said she and autism spectrum disor- legal alien in possession of
man was deported home his flight from Seattle to Lon- spoke with Sandford’s ders, and that a psychiatrist a firearm and disrupting an
to England after nearly 11 don, Immigration and Cus- mother, Lynne Sandford determined that he was official function. It was not
months in U.S. custody for toms Enforcement spokes- of Dorking, England, while delusional at the time of clear if Trump recognized
trying to grab a police of- woman Virginia Kice said. Sandford was on the way the attempted attack. a threat before officers es-
ficer’s gun in a bid to shoot Sandford was found to home. Weksler didn’t de- A federal judge acknowl- corted Sandford out of the
then-presidential candi- have overstayed a 90-day scribe the conversation. edged in December that 1,500-seat theater at the
date Donald Trump at a visa after entering the U.S. The mother’s lawyer in Lon- Sandford had been di- Treasure Island hotel-casi-
campaign rally in Las Ve- in June 2015, Kice said. He don, Saimo Chahal, didn’t agnosed with psychotic no. But Trump noticed the
gas, authorities said Thurs- had been held at a federal immediately respond to mental illness, and said he commotion and thanked
day. prison near the Seattle-Ta- messages. Chahal said pre- would be deported after police as Sandford was
Michael Steven Sandford, coma International Airport. viously that MIchael Sand- he served his prison time. ushered away.q