#Mississippi Police Chief Mike DeNardo FATALLY SHOOTS himself after being SUSPENDED!

Chief Mike DeNardo

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On Thursday September 8th 2016, Bay St. Louis, Miss., Police Chief Mike De Nardo was suspended from his duties as part of an investigation by the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office into an ongoing personnel issue.

Immediately after receiving the news, De Nardo turned in his city belongings and walked out to the parking lot, accompanied by two Hancock deputies. De Nardo grabbed a gun — it is unclear whether the weapon belonged to him or one of the two deputies — and shot himself in the chest.

Witnesses told the Sun Herald that De Nardo continued speaking after shooting himself and seemed alert as he was loaded into an ambulance. He was rushed to the Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, Miss., where he was pronounced dead at 3:15 p.m.

Bay St. Louis Mayor Les Fillingame told the Associated Press that De Nardo was under investigation, but he declined to give any more details concerning either the investigation or the suspension. Fillingame also told the Associated Press he believed De Nardo would have been cleared of any wrongdoing.

But he also told WLOX that the evidence against De Nardo seemed “credible.”

“We were made aware of what seemed to be credible evidence,” Fillingametold WLOX. “No charges were filed. Just the very initial phase of an investigation.”

The AP reported Friday that De Nardo was facing an investigation focused on the sale of weapons:

Hancock County Chief Deputy Don Bass told the Associated Press that Bay St. Louis police chief Mike DeNardo illegally sold one city-owned assault rifle, and that authorities were looking into allegations that other city-owned weapons were sold as well.

It wasn’t clear if the buyer knew the sale was illegal, and Bass said he could not discuss whether the weapon was evidence from a case or had been purchased for the department’s use.

According to the police department’s website, De Nardo spent 30 years in law enforcement before his death Thursday. He served as a patrol supervisor and SWAT commander for 18 years at the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana before taking a position as a patrolman at the Bay St. Louis Police Department in 2004. There, he quickly rose through the ranks to patrol supervisor, then deputy chief.

Fillingame appointed him as police chief in 2010.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been as shocked in my life,” Fillingame told the Sun Herald. “He lost his mother this weekend. He had just gotten back from New York.”

Fillingame called De Nardo a “tremendous chief” who was a mentor and a friend.

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Why was #Ferguson Activist Darren Seals SHOT and KILLED, left in burning car?

Darren Seals (Facebook)

When the gunfire stopped on Aug. 3, 2013, Darren Seals had six gunshot wounds. The then-26-year-old, known for running with a rough crowd, had been hit as he stood outside his cousin’s house, waiting for a ride. The first tore through his stomach. Three more hit his hands, which he had thrown up to block his face. As he fell to the ground, two more bullets struck his feet.

It was the second time he’d been shot, according the account Seals would later provide in interviews and social media posts.

The third, and final time, came earlier this week.

St. Louis County Police say the remains of Seals’s lifeless body, which had at least one gunshot wound, were found early Tuesday morning inside his vehicle, which had been set aflame. Police are investigating his death as a homicide.

During the past three years, Seals had become among St. Louis’s most prominent anti-violence advocates and a co-founder of Hands Up United, an activist collective formed after the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

“Every time he talked about getting shot, he would say that moment forever changed his life,” said Mya Aaten-White, a St. Louis-based activist and close friend of Seals’s. “In that moment he made an agreement with himself to give his life to his community.”

Seals decided that once he got out of the hospital after his 2013 shooting he would join the ranks of local anti-gun-violence activists, according to accounts he gave in previous interviews and recollections of those who knew him. Not long later, he added police brutality to his list of causes. He was a “day-one” Ferguson protester — among the first to take to the streets to demand justice after Brown’s death.

“After Mike Brown, we saw it as our responsibility to step up,” said Aaten-White, who first met Seals on Aug. 9, 2014, the day Brown was killed, as they both stood with the crowd that was gathering at the QuikTrip gas station.

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“His Facebook page shows how controversial he was, under every post there was some kind of argument over what he was saying,” said Bradley Radford, a photojournalist who is among those who spent the most time covering the young activists who took to the streets after Michael Brown’s death. “He was always on 100.”

Those online tensions boiled over physically in February 2015 when, during a protest outside of the Ferguson Police Department, Seals confronted Mckesson in the parking lot of Andy Wurm Tire & Wheel autoshop, where demonstrators often gathered. According to previous interviews with both men, Seals approached and accused Mckesson of stealing money from local protest groups — an accusation often leveled at Mckesson and other prominent activists, but that has never been substantiated. When Mckesson smirked in response, Seals smacked him across the face.

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2 women SHOT in 8 hrs as Gang Wars brewing in #Manchester, United Kingdom

Two women have been shot ­within eight hours of each other amid fears of ­escalating gang warfare in Greater Manchester.

A 65-year-old was blasted in the leg in Clifton area on Friday evening with what are thought to be shotgun pellets and is in a stable condition in hospital.

And a 33-year-old woman was shot in Middleton in the early hours of yesterday ­while getting out of a car. She too was hit in the legs and is being treated for serious wounds in ­hospital, although her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

Detectives are treating the incidents separately but have not ruled out if one or both are connected to gang warfare.

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2 Veteran California officers SHOT by Jail Visitor and former inmate in #Fresno

Corrections Officers Juanita Davila (L) and Toamalama Scanlan Fresno County Sheriff's Office

Thong Vang (Fresno County Sheriff's Office)

Juanita Davila, with 18 years of experience, and Toamalama Scanlan, with 10 years of experience, both underwent surgery after suffering bullet wounds to their heads and their necks, according to a statement from the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.

The suspect, Thong Vang, 37, was also hospitalized with minor injuries after the incident, which occurred at 8:30 a.m., the statement said.

Vang is a known gang member who served 14 years in prison for multiple rape charges before he was released in 2014. The sheriff's office said he was at the jail to visit someone Saturday morning and became disgruntled when he was told he could not cut the line. He was told to take a seat but refused, and a "struggle ensued between Vang and the officers," at which point, Vang pulled out a handgun and shot Davila and Scanlan, the sheriff's office said.

Vang first fled and didn't surrender until after a Taser was deployed on him, but he finally "conveyed to officers he was giving up and wanted to be arrested," the sheriff's office said. He was being held on felony charges.

He was later charged with attempted murder, being a felon in possession of a gun, and a bringing drugs into jail. He was also placed on a parole hold.

Davila is a grandmother and Scanlan is a father of six, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.

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Annabelle Flores, 15 was TARGETED in #Oceanside #SanDiego park SHOOTING

Police say a 15-year-old girl Annabelle Flores was shot and killed at a San Diego County park.

Oceanside police spokesman Ryan Keim says officers responded to calls about gunshots at Joe Balderrama Park in Oceanside shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

A spokeswoman for the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office on Sunday said the case was sealed and no further information would be released at the request of law enforcement.

Oceanside police officers responded to reports of shots fired at Balderrama Park, in the 700 block of San Diego Street at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday. They found the girl on a playground structure with at least one gunshot wound, Officer Ryan Keim said.

The girl was pronounced dead at the scene despite officers' attempts to save her life, according to Keim.

The preliminary investigation indicated that witnesses were most likely present during the shooting, Keim said. More information as I get it.

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Help @TPSHomicide #Toronto Police solve the KILLING of 61yo Grandmother Peggy Ann Smith

Peggy Ann Smith Smith (Toronto Police handout)

Toronto police say they believe a shooting that left a grandmother dead in a Riverdale community housing complex on Saturday was targeted, but that the 61-year-old woman wasn't the person the gunmen wanted to kill.

Police originally said Peggy Ann Smith was found with an apparent gunshot wound in an alleyway behind a home near Don Mount Court and Kintyre Avenue shortly after 6:15 p.m. on Saturday and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Speaking near the Smith family's home on Tuesday, homicide Det. David Dickinson told reporters Smith was found on the steps of her family's home. At least ten shots were fired in the incident, he said.

Dickinson said police are seeking two suspects and have released some surveillance footage that captures the men approaching the scene. Toronto Community Housing security as always were absent on duty. That area is a heavily Somali area of Toronto from when I lived in Canada and not new to crime.

Dickinson described one suspect as a male with a brown complexion in his twenties, approximately 5'6 tall with an average build. The man has a full beard and was wearing dark pants, a grey hoodie with the hood up and black cap at the time, the detective said.

The second suspect is described as black, of Somali descent in his late teens or early twenties, approximately 5'11 with a skinny build. Dickinson said he he was wearing dark pants and a grey hoodie with hood up at the time. The hoodie may also have have had dark band on it running horizontally.

In the video, the two men are seen calmly walking southbound toward the alleyway before fleeing northbound moments later. The two were last seen running on Hamilton Street, near Dundas, Dickinson said.

Dickinson said a group of men who were also in the alleyway at the time were likely the intended targets, but police haven't been able to speak to all of the men as yet.

There has been a recent spate of shootings over there I heard and most are gang related. Anyone with information is asked to contact Toronto police's homicide unit at (416) 808-7400 or 55 Division at (416) 808-5500, or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

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Why were #Aurora Massacre SHOOTING survivors SUED for $700,000?

James Holmes Aurora Mass Shooter

DENVER — They had survived brain damage, paralysis and the deaths of their children. For four years, they met in secret as a group. Now, they were finally prepared to settle with the Aurora movie theater that became the site of one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history.

Marcus Weaver kept a calm facade, but writhed with anxiety within. His dreams often return him to the theater, the sounds of gunshots and the feeling of his friend's lifeless body slumped against him. After he escaped, he found a bullet hole in his shoulder.

On a conference call, the federal judge overseeing the case told the plaintiffs' attorneys that he was prepared to rule in the theater chain's favor. He urged the plaintiffs to settle with Cinemark, owner of the Century Aurora 16 multiplex where the July 20, 2012, shooting occurred. They had 24 hours.

But before that deadline, the settlement would collapse and four survivors of the massacre would be ordered to pay the theater chain more than $700,000.

The Los Angeles Times corroborated this account with four parties who were present at the settlement conference but declined to be identified because the negotiations were private.

A separate set of survivors had just suffered a devastating defeat in state court, where a jury of six decided that Cinemark could not have foreseen the events of that night, when James Holmes killed 12 people and injured 70 others in a 10-minute rampage at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."

The survivors, some of whom had two or three attorneys with them, were told that the state case had decided the issue — Cinemark was not liable for the shooting, and U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson, who oversaw the federal case, was about to issue an order saying as much.

The federal lawsuit was effectively over.

But Jackson wanted the survivors and Cinemark to end the case with a settlement. It was 8 a.m. June 23. For the next eight hours, attorneys for both sides inched closer to a deal.

At 4 p.m., Cinemark's attorneys presented a settlement offer. Before it was read, a federal magistrate cornered Weaver to speak with him one-on-one. He asked Weaver to remember the slow pace of change in the civil rights movement, and told him that changing theater safety would also be slow.

"It was the biggest smack in the face," Weaver said. "He was basically telling us, you're right, they're basically at fault, but there's justice and then there's true justice."

It wasn't a good deal, Weaver thought: $150,000 split among the 41 plaintiffs.

Weaver leaned in close to his attorney.

"That's it?" he asked.

"That's it," Phil Hardman replied.

But the settlement would achieve the one thing Weaver had been pushing for, an acknowledgment that the theater chain would take new measures to protect patrons. Still, something was worrying him.

"It was the 12th hour, we were all feeling the same way. We all knew they were liable. We knew they were at fault," Weaver said. "(The settlement) was a slap in the face. But I said, 'Let's go for it because it's better than nothing.'"

The deal came with an implied threat: If the survivors rejected the deal, moved forward with their case and lost, under Colorado law, they would be responsible for the astronomical court fees accumulated by Cinemark.

The choice for the survivors was clear, Weaver said.

"Either seek justice and go into debt, or take that pitiful offering of money and the improved public safety," Weaver said.

The plaintiffs and their attorneys all seemed to agree. They decided on a split of $30,000 each to the three most critically injured survivors. The remaining 38 plaintiffs would equally share the remaining $60,000.

Attorneys with Cinemark drafted a news release to distribute the next day.

Then one plaintiff rejected the deal.

The plaintiff, who had been gravely wounded in the shooting, wanted more money than the proposed share of the settlement. The Times is not naming the plaintiff because the plaintiff could not be reached for comment.

Weaver's vision briefly blurred. The eight hours they had spent negotiating the deal, the weeks of the failed state court trial, the four years of anger at the theater since the shooting — all of it was for nothing.

"It was done then," Weaver said.

He removed himself as a plaintiff immediately. So did 36 other people. Four plaintiffs remained on the case the next day, June 24, when Jackson handed down the order that Cinemark was not liable for the damages.

The court costs in the state case were $699,000. The costs in the federal case are expected to be far more.

"A blind guy in a dark alley could have seen (the state verdict) coming," Hardman, Weaver's attorney, said.

Several plaintiffs and attorneys, including those who would not comment on the settlement negotiations, expressed frustration with the way the state case was handled.

In that case, a New York attorney representing 27 people paid one expert $22,000 to testify. Cinemark paid five experts $500,000 to testify. Most damaging to their case, the state plaintiffs were not permitted to enter a crucial piece of evidence before the jury — a May 2012 warning from the Department of Homeland Security to theater chains nationwide concerning the potential for a mass-casualty attack on a theater.

"I strongly think that this guy was trying to make a name for himself and he wanted to get ahead of the curve," Weaver said. "You've got this guy from New York representing people in Colorado who were probably misguided, to be honest."

The case put forward in state court was so weak, the federal plaintiffs felt, that a rumor circulated among them that the case was a setup by Cinemark designed to fail.

"That's ridiculous," said Marc Bern, the attorney who argued the state case and is known for representing rescue workers from the Sept. 11 attacks. "We had all the resources possible. The only expert we needed was a security expert."

In August 2015, Holmes was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, avoiding the death penalty.

Weaver, 45, has married and had a child since the shooting, a blue-eyed girl named Maggie. He still goes to therapy, which he said has helped him. The way the case ended, however, will never leave him.

"Theaters aren't any safer," Weaver said. "It's almost like everything was for naught."

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