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Thursday 1 June 2017
Man who threw baby off bridge gets 70 years in prison

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) ary of murder and risk of July 2015. He then jumped the infant’s mother in the to court documents. She
— A Connecticut man who injury to a minor. “The utter off and was seriously minutes before he jumped. refused his marriage pro-
killed his 7-month-old son depravity of the crime, a wounded, but survived. He She frantically pleaded posal, and a custody dis-
when he threw the boy off father killing his infant son, testified during his trial that with him to not hurt the boy. pute was settled just days
a 90-foot-high bridge, then speaks for itself,” Middle- he accidentally dropped “Enjoy your new life without before the bridge incident.
survived the plunge himself, town Superior Court Judge the boy and did not intend us,” Moreno wrote. “He’s Police responded to the
was sentenced to 70 years Elpedio Vitale said. to harm him, despite hav- dead. Soon I will be too.” bridge after Moreno’s
in prison Wednesday. Police said the 23-year- ing confessed to police Moreno’s relationship mother called 911 to report
A judge imposed the maxi- old Moreno threw his son, that he threw the baby off with the boy’s mother that her son had called her
mum prison time on Tony Aaden, off the Arrigoni the bridge. Court records had become strained in from the bridge with Aaden
Moreno, 23, who was con- Bridge over the Connecti- show Moreno exchanged the months leading up to and said he was going to
victed by a jury in Febru- cut River in Middletown in angry text messages with Aaden’s death, according jump. q
NY officer pleads not guilty in mentally ill woman’s death

tober death. He was re- ed his training on handling
leased on bail. people with mental illness.
Police were responding to He had a stun gun, but did
a 911 call about an emo- not use it.
tionally disturbed person His lawyer, Andrew Quinn,
when Barry, who has been said that the sergeant con-
with the New York Police fronted a woman “armed
Department for eight years, with a deadly weapon, a
encountered Danner in her bat.”
Bronx apartment. Sgt. Ed Mullins, the head of
Danner had been diag- the Sergeants Benevolent
nosed with schizophrenia. Association, said Barry “did
Officers had been called not go to work intending to
to her home several times kill anyone.” Mullins called
before to take her to the the murder charge “ob-
hospital during psychiatric scene.”
episodes and had been “Officers risk their lives go-
able to take her away ing into these situations. It’s
safely, Mayor Bill de Blasio a split-second decision,”
said at the time. the union leader said, pre-
On Oct. 18, Barry persuad- dicting Barry would be ac-
ed Danner to drop a pair of quitted.
scissors she had been hold- But a relative of Dan-
New York City Police Sgt. Hugh Barry, center, is arraigned at Bronx Supreme Court on Wednesday, ing, police said. But after ner’s said the indictment
May 31, 2017, in the death of Deborah Danner. Barry was charged with murder in the shooting of she picked up a baseball marked a start toward get-
the 66-year-old mentally ill woman wielding a baseball bat in October 2016, a death New York bat and brandished it to- ting justice. Still, the fam-
City Mayor Bill de Blasio called tragic and unacceptable.
(Gregg Vigliotti/The New York Times via AP, Pool) ward him, he shot her twice ily is watching to see how
in the torso, Bronx District the case plays out in court,
Attorney Darcel Clark’s of- cousin Wallace Cooke Jr.
By COLLEEN LONG shooting of a 66-year-old not guilty at an arraign- fice said. said.
JENNIFER PELTZ mentally ill woman wield- ment Wednesday to Danner was black. Barry is “If he’s guilty — which he
Associated Press ing a baseball bat, a death charges that also included white. is — of killing Debbie, he
NEW YORK (AP) — A police the mayor called tragic manslaughter and crimi- Assistant District Attorney should serve time,” Cooke
sergeant was charged with and unacceptable. nally negligent homicide Wanda Perez-Maldonado said, adding that he himself
murder Wednesday in the Sgt. Hugh Barry pleaded in Deborah Danner’s Oc- said Barry had disregard- is a retired police officer. q

16-year-old girl accused of hacking Uber driver to death

LINCOLNWOOD, Ill. (AP) — climbed into a car driven out paying. screamed, “Help me, help ger was someone named
A 16-year-old girl walked by 34-year-old Grant Nel- Prosecutors said that Nel- me! I’m going to die!” until Eliza.
out of a suburban Chica- son, and stabbed him son, a resident of Wilmette, residents called 911. Officers followed the trial
go Walmart holding a ma- and hacked him to death picked the girl up shortly Wasni climbed into the of blood and found Nel-
chete and knife she’d sto- early Tuesday morning. after 3 a.m. Tuesday in Lin- front seat of Nelson’s son lying in grass. He was
len, climbed into an Uber The judge ordered the girl, colnwood. blood-splattered silver se- bleeding profusely from
car and began hacking at who was charged as an It was her third ride in an dan and drove away, strik- several wounds, and was
the driver, prosecutors said adult with first-degree mur- Uber vehicle in the early ing a median in the road. able to tell the officers
at a hearing on Wednes- der, held without bond. morning hours of Tuesday. She jumped out of the ve- what had happened. He
day. The driver died of his The 2-page description of- Two minutes after he be- hicle and fled on foot. died at a nearby hospital
wounds Tuesday after giv- fers no reason for the at- gan driving, prosecutors When Lincolnwood police a few hours later.
ing police a description of tack, but portrays Wasni said that Wasni began arrived, they found the ve- Using the description given
the attacker that led to as a calm girl who “non- stabbing Nelson from the hiclewith blood on both by Nelson, police found
her arrest. chalantly” could be seen back seat. Nelson was the inside and the outside, her nearby crouching be-
A prosecutor read in court walking through Walmart, able to pull over and ran with Nelson’s phone open hind an air conditioner —
a description of the attack the knives in hand, before into a nearby condomin- to the Uber app. The app a machete in one hand
that said Eliza Wasni simply she walked outside with- ium building, where he said that Nelson’s passen- and a knife in the other. q