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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
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