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U.S. NEWS Monday 3 april 2017
Chicago:
Police seek 2nd teen in Facebook sexual assault case

DON BABWIN pects, whom she knew, on
Associated Press the day of the attack. She
CHICAGO (AP) — An arrest said the suspect “lured”
warrant has been issued her into the home of one of
for a second teenage boy the offenders in the North
in the sexual assault of a Lawndale neighborhood
15-year-old Chicago girl on the city’s West Side,
that was streamed live on where she also lives.
Facebook, and further ar- “She was not allowed to
rests are expected, police leave and she did not con-
said Sunday. sent to what occurred,”
A day after announcing he said. Police spokesman
the arrest of a 14-year-old Anthony Guglielmi said
boy on sexual assault and the girl was threatened
child pornography charg- by suspects, but he would
es, police said they were Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson talks not say what those threats
looking for a 15-year-old with reporters about a criminal sexual assault incident broad- entailed. Deenihan also
suspect in the March 19 cast on Facebook, during a press conference Sunday, April 2, said there were multiple
attack, which investiga- 2017, at the City of Chicago Public Safety Headquarters. cellphone videos made of
tors have said involved (Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune via AP) the attack, not just the one
five or six males. Investi- streamed live on Face-
gators didn’t specify how of the ongoing investiga- Commander Brendan book that was viewed by
many others would likely tion, but they did provide Deenihan said that the about 40 people — none
be charged, but they did some that helped illustrate victim saw one of the sus- of whom reported it.q
say one adult male was why Superintendent Eddie
among them. Johnson remained visibly
Police were careful not to upset as he has been since
release too many details the investigation began.

Oklahoma cop says race didn’t
factor in shooting of black man

J. JUOZAPAVICIUS Shelby pleaded not guilty
Associated Press to first-degree manslaugh-
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A white ter and goes to trial May
Oklahoma police officer 8. Prosecutors say Shelby
charged with manslaugh- overreacted because
ter for fatally shooting an Crutcher wasn’t armed or
unarmed black man last combative when she ap-
year says the man’s race proached him on a north
had nothing to do with her Tulsa street after his SUV
decision to fire her gun. broke down and that he
Tulsa officer Betty Jo Shelby obeyed orders to raise his
told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in hands.
an interview scheduled to The shooting was caught
air later Sunday that she on video from a police he-
used lethal force because licopter and a dashboard
she feared 40-year-old Ter- camera.
ence Crutcher was reach- Footage showed Crutcher
ing inside his vehicle for a walking away from Shelby
gun. with his arms in the air, but
“I’m feeling that his intent is the images don’t provide a
to do me harm and I keep clear view of when Shelby
thinking, fired the single shot.
‘Don’t do this. Please don’t Shelby believes that she
do this. Don’t make this was swiftly charged be-
happen,’” Shelby told cor- cause authorities feared
respondent Bill Whitaker in civil unrest if they delayed
her first interview since the taking action.
Sept. 16 shooting. Residents in other cities
Shelby said she remembers took to the streets in pro-
the moment Crutcher ap- test last year in response to
peared to reach inside. a series of deaths of black
“And it’s fast. Just that residents during encoun-
would tell any officer that ters with police.
that man’s going for a Terence Crutcher’s twin sis-
weapon,” she says. ter told “60 Minutes” that
“I say with a louder, more her brother was obeying
intense voice, ‘Stop. Stop! Shelby’s commands to
Stop!’ And he didn’t. And raise his hands.q
that’s when I took aim.”