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U.S. NEWS Saturday 8 September 2018

Dallas officer in shooting to be charged with manslaughter

By RYAN TARINELLI It's not clear whether the declined to speculate as
DALLAS (AP) — A white Dal- officer is in custody, though to whether fatigue or oth-
las police officer who shot Hall said she didn't know er factors, including race,
and killed her black neigh- the officer's whereabouts. may have factored into
bor and later explained According to police, the the shooting. She also said
that she had mistaken his officer, whose name hasn't the Texas Rangers will con-
apartment for her own been released, returned duct an independent in-
will be charged with man- home in her uniform after vestigation.
slaughter, the police chief her shift. She called dis- Authorities haven't said how
said Friday. patch to report that she the officer got into Jean's
It's not clear what the of- had shot a man, and she home, or whether his door
ficer may have said to later told the officers who was open or unlocked. The
26-year-old Botham Jean responded to the call that apartment complex is just a
between entering his home she believed the victim's few blocks from Dallas' po-
and shooting him late Thurs- apartment was her own lice headquarters.
day, police Chief U. Renee when she entered it. Residents of the apartment This Sept. 21, 2017, photo provided by Harding University in
Hall said during a news The responding officers ad- complex said they can ac- Search, Ark., shows Botham Jean leading worship at a university
conference. But given ministered first aid to Jean, cess their units with a regu- presidential reception in Dallas.
what investigators currently a native of the Caribbean lar key or through a keypad Associated Press
know about the case, they island country of St. Lucia code.
decided to pursue a man- who attended college in Two women who live on the News. Jean grew up in St. Lucia
slaughter charge, she said. Arkansas and worked for second floor near where Yazmine Hernandez, 20, and attended Harding Uni-
"Right now there are more accounting and consulting the shooting happened was studying with Simpson versity in Searcy, Arkansas,
questions than we have firm PwC. Jean was taken said they heard a lot of when they heard the com- where he often led cam-
answers," Hall said, adding to a hospital, where he noise late Thursday. motion. pus worship services before
that she spoke to Jean's died. "It was, like, police talk: "We heard cops yelling, graduating in 2016, the
sister to express the depart- Hall said the officer's blood 'Open up! Open up!'" but otherwise had no idea school said in a statement.
ment's condolences to the was drawn to be tested 20-year-old Caitlin Simp- what was going on," Her- That July, he went to work
family. for drugs and alcohol. She son told The Dallas Morning nandez said. for PwC in risk assurance.q

Oklahoma governor candidate charged in murder-for-hire plot

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — two separate people to kill on YouTube, Maldonado-
An Oklahoma zookeeper the woman, who wasn't Passage finished third in a
at an exotic animal park harmed. three-way Libertarian pri-
and candidate for gov- One of the unidentified mary in June.
ernor earlier this year has people he sought to hire In October 2017, Garvin
been charged in a murder- connected him with an County authorities investi-
for-hire scheme alleging he undercover FBI agent, gated after Maldonado-
tried to hire someone to kill who met with Maldona- Passage's then-husband,
a Florida woman, federal do-Passage in December 23-year-old Travis Maldo-
prosecutors announced on 2017. The indictment, un- nado, shot himself in the
Friday. sealed on Friday, indicated head in the zoo gift shop.
Joseph Maldonado-Pas- Maldonado-Passage had Garvin County Sheriff Larry
sage, 55, also known as been arrested. Rhodes said at the time
"Joe Exotic," was indicted Court records don't list an that witnesses reported
on two counts of hiring a attorney for Maldonado- Travis Maldonado put a
person to commit murder in Passage, who didn't imme- loaded firearm to his head
federal court in Oklahoma diately respond to an email In this Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, Joseph Maldonado answers a and pulled the trigger to
City. seeking comment. question during an interview at the zoo he runs in Wynnewood, prove the weapon would
Prosecutors allege Maldo- Known for his blonde mullet Okla. not fire with the magazine
nado-Passage tried to hire and expletive-laden rants Associated Press removed.q