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U.S. NEWS Saturday 22 april 2017

Fresno killings suspect shouts out during 1st court hearing

SCOTT SMITH kill as many white people
Associated Press as possible before he was
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The caught.
suspect in this week’s ra- He shot three other white
cially motivated shooting men at random Tuesday,
rampage in Fresno shouted police said, including a Pa-
Friday that natural disas- cific Gas & Electric utility
ters will increasingly hit the worker sitting in a truck and
United States as he was two men who had come
ushered into a cramped out of a Catholic Charities
courtroom for his first ap- building. Muhammad fired
pearance before a judge. 17 rounds in less than two
Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, minutes, police said. Offi-
was supposed to be offi- cers with help from acous-
cially informed about the tic sensors posted in the
first-degree murder charge area arrested him less than
he is accused of in the five minutes after the ram-
shooting death of an un- page began.
armed security guard. Muhammad said Williams
Authorities have said he showed him disrespect
then killed three more peo- while Muhammad was visit-
ple in the rampage, target- ing a woman at the motel,
ing white victims, before he according to police.
was caught. Fresno County Superior Court judge W. Kent Hamlin presides over the courtroom during an ap- Prosecutors said they are
But the reading of the pearance by shooting-spree suspect Kori Ali Muhammad, on Friday, April 21, 2017. waiting for investigators to
charge never happened (Craig Kohlruss /The Fresno Bee via AP) finish compiling their case
because Muhammad had before filing charges relat-
another outburst, yelling His court appointed law- ceed.” Muhammad yelled tion for Muhammad. Police ed the other three victims.
“Let black people go” and yer, Eric Christensen, then again and the judge can- have said Muhammad told Christensen after the court
a phrase similar to “in repa- told the judge: “I believe celed the proceedings, set- them that learning he was hearing declined com-
rations” that was not clear- this gentleman may not be ting bail at $2.6 million and wanted for the Williams’ kill- ment about his client or the
ly enunciated. mentally competent to pro- ordering a mental evalua- ing prompted him to try to authorities’ case.q

Man charged with making threatening calls to Jewish centers

MIKE SCHNEIDER Israel, Michael Ron David Kadar has duel Israeli condition had prevented said that Kadar made 245
Associated Press Kadar was charged with and U.S. citizenship. The him from attending el- threatening calls, most of
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An 28 counts of making threat- calls to the Jewish com- ementary school, high them to Jewish community
18-year-old man living in Is- ening calls and conveying munity centers and schools school or enlisting in the centers and schools, from
rael left scores of messages false information to police, stoked fears of rising anti- army, which is compulsory January to March, using an
graphically describing chil- according to the indict- Semitism and led to cam- for most Jewish men. online calling service that
dren’s deaths in calls to ment filed Friday in federal pus evacuations. The JCC Association of disguised his voice and al-
Jewish community centers court in Orlando. Online federal court re- North America said in a lowed him to hide his iden-
and schools across the Unit- Separately, he was cords in Florida showed no statement that it welcomes tity. He recorded each of
ed States, using an online charged with three more attorney listed for Kadar. the charges against Kadar the calls himself and kept
calling service to disguise counts of making threaten- At the time of his arrest last and that it is “enormously them in organized files at
his voice as a woman and ing calls, conveying false month, his lawyer in Israel proud of the extraordinary his home in Ashkelon, Israel,
hide his identity, accord- information and cyberstalk- said Kadar had a “very se- commitment to safety and along with news articles
ing to a federal indictment ing in an indictment filed rious medical condition” security” at the community describing the police re-
filed Friday in Florida. in federal court in Athens, that might have affected centers. sponses to the threats, the
A month after his arrest in Georgia. his behavior. She said the The Florida indictment indictment said.q