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A 9-year-old girl was found safe after vanishing on a New York camping trip and a suspect has been detained, police say – CNN

  1. A 9-year-old girl was found safe after vanishing on a New York camping trip and a suspect has been detained, police say CNN
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  3. Missing 9-year-old girl Charlotte Sena found safe after New York state park disappearance: police Fox News
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Chicago 9-year-old Serabi Medina allegedly shot by neighbor while riding scooter – The Washington Post

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  2. 9-year-old girl fatally shot by neighbor in front of her father after buying ice cream and riding her scooter, prosecutors allege CNN
  3. 9-year-old girl fatally shot by neighbor in front of her father after buying ice cream and riding her scooter, legal document says Local 3 News
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Gerson Fuentes gets life sentence in rape of 9-year-old who had abortion – The Washington Post

  1. Gerson Fuentes gets life sentence in rape of 9-year-old who had abortion The Washington Post
  2. Man sentenced to life in prison for rape of 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled for legal abortion WLWT
  3. Man sentenced to life in prison for rape of 10-year-old who then sought abortion in Indiana Yahoo! Voices
  4. Man who raped, impregnated 9-year-old girl pleads guilty, sentenced to life in prison WSYX ABC 6
  5. ‘A hard pill for this court to swallow’: Judge says child rapist in high-profile Indiana abortion case has a chance of parole only because victim’s family ‘begged’ for the sentence Law & Crime
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Keanu Reeves melts hearts in clip with 9-year-old fan: ‘Oh my gosh, Noah, thank you!’ – Fox News

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  5. ‘John Wick’ Keanu Reeves’ Sweet Interaction With A Little Boy Discussing Toy Story 4 Goes Viral, Netizens Call Him “Internet’s Husband” Koimoi
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Funerals for Nashville school shooting victims start with service for 9-year-old Evelyn Dieckhaus – CBS News

  1. Funerals for Nashville school shooting victims start with service for 9-year-old Evelyn Dieckhaus CBS News
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  3. First funeral of Nashville school shooting victim comes a day after police release terrifying 911 calls of attack CNN
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Iowa family killed in campground shooting survived by 9-year-old son

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The three victims of a shooting at an Iowa campground on Friday were a mother, father and child, according to law enforcement and local officials.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation identified them as Tyler and Sarah Schmidt, both 42, and their daughter Lula, 6, of Cedar Falls, Iowa.

The Schmidts are survived by their 9-year-old son Arlo, who “survived the attack, and is safe,” Cedar Falls Mayor Rob Green wrote in a Facebook post.

Law enforcement were “notified of a triple homicide” Friday morning at the Maquoketa Caves State Park campground in eastern Iowa. Upon arriving, officers found the three victims and, after a brief search, the body of Anthony Orlando Sherwin, 23, the suspect in the killings who apparently shot himself, police said.

3 people killed in shooting at Iowa state park; shooter also dead, police say

The state medical examiner is set to conduct autopsies on the victims, as well as on Sherwin, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said. A motive was not yet clear.

Green said he was “devastated” by the loss of the family, noting that they were “regular walkers here in the Sartori Park neighborhood” of Cedar Falls, a city of 40,000. He remembered Sarah Schmidt as “a beloved library employee” at the Cedar Falls Public Library, where Green invited neighbors and friends to leave cards and mementos in honor of the family.

As of late Saturday, a GoFundMe fundraiser for Arlo Schmidt had drawn more than 2,000 donations amounting to more than $100,000. “Arlo is a strong boy, surrounded by family and friends who are supporting him as best we can,” said Beth Shapiro, the fundraiser’s organizer, who said she was Sarah Schmidt’s cousin.

Adam Morehouse, Sarah Schmidt’s brother, told the Associated Press that the family had no connection to Sherwin and that he believed it was a “completely random act.” Morehouse confirmed Arlo was on the family’s camping trip but said he did not know exactly where the boy was at the time of the shooting.

The state park was closed after the shooting, which also forced the evacuation of the Camp Shalom children’s summer camp.

Known as a destination for spelunkers and hikers, Maquoketa Caves State Park has more caves than any other state park in Iowa. About 61 miles northeast of Cedar Rapids, Maquoketa Caves State Park features 13 caves, including Dancehall Cave, which is approximately 800 feet long, according to its website.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said in a statement that she was “horrified by the shooting this morning at Maquoketa Caves State Park and devastated by the loss of three innocent lives.”

Timothy Bella contributed to this report.



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Texas school shooting: A 9-year-old describes escaping through a window as anger mounts over law enforcement’s response

Daniel, 9, alongside his mother, Briana Ruiz, told CNN the gunman fired several shots into his classroom after being unable to enter. The door had been locked by his teacher, and the bullets fired struck the teacher as well as a classmate.

Daniel survived by first “hiding under a table next to the wall.” He said he could see the gunman through the door’s window.

“I could still see his face,” the boy said. “I could see him staring at people in front of me.”

Daniel later climbed out of a broken window to escape, cutting his hand on some glass, he said, and the two people injured in his class would survive.

But his cousin, Ellie Garcia, was in a different classroom. She was one of 19 children and two teachers killed in the worst school shooting in a decade, and less than a week later, major questions remain about the timeliness of the law enforcement response and whether more children could have been saved.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has laid out a timeline of the Tuesday shooting, showing the gunman was in a classroom with students for more than an hour before he was shot and killed by a Border Patrol tactical response team. Officers arrived at the school within minutes, but the commander on scene decided to wait over an hour for reinforcements, even as children locked inside the room with the gunman called 911 and begged for police help.

Video taken from the outside of the school during the incident, obtained by ABC News, includes what appears to be dispatch audio informing officers on scene a child is calling 911 from a classroom.

“Advise we do have a child on the line,” the dispatcher says. “Child is advising he is in the room full of victims.”

The video indicates police at the scene were informed at least one child remained alive inside the classrooms.

CNN has not been able to independently confirm the video/audio. The source of the video is unclear and it is unclear at what point in the incident the audio is heard. CNN has reached out to authorities to answer questions about this audio.

Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw told reporters Friday there were at least eight 911 calls from at least two separate callers from inside the school, covering a span of nearly 50 minutes. The decision made on scene to treat the incident like a barricaded suspect, rather than an active shooter, was “wrong,” he said.

Also on Monday, funeral services for two victims are set to take place at local funeral homes. Visitation and Rosary for 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza will take place Monday at Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home, and services for 10-year-old Maite Yuleana Rodriguez will take place at Rushing Estes Knowles.

Law enforcement response called into question

Alfred Garcia, whose daughter was killed in the shooting, told CNN he was in “disbelief” over how much time elapsed during the shooting before it ended and shared his frustration with authorities’ response.

“It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it just took too long to get in there and, you know, had they gotten there sooner, and someone would have taken immediate action, we might have more of those children here today, including my daughter,” he said.

Law enforcement officers in Texas are trained to intervene quickly, according to active shooter guidelines in the state’s commission on law enforcement 2020 training manual obtained by CNN. The manual states an “officer’s first priority is to move in and confront the attacker.”

“As first responders we must recognize that innocent life must be defended,” it says. “A first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field.”

Seven officers arrived at the scene within two minutes of the shooter firing in the classroom. Three officers approached the locked classroom where the gunman was, and two officers suffered graze wounds from bullets fired from behind the door, DPS said. Officers then stationed down the hallway.

Border Patrol agents belonging to a specialized unit arrived at the scene around 12:15 p.m., roughly 45 minutes after the gunman began shooting. The officer in charge had already made the determination the subject was barricaded in the room, according to a source familiar with the situation.

The team then did not breach the classroom for at least another 30 minutes, according to the timeline provided by DPS. A 911 call placed at 12:16 p.m., according to DPS, from a girl in one of the classrooms told the operator eight or nine students were still alive.

The delayed police response in Uvalde runs contrary to well-established, commonly taught active shooter protocol established after the Columbine school shooting of 1999, experts said.

“Even under fire, officers are trained to go to that threat because every second counts,” said Jonathan Wackrow, a CNN law enforcement analyst. “What we saw here was that delay cost children their lives, full stop.”

At the request of Uvalde’s mayor, the US Department of Justice announced it will conduct an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the shooting.

“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” the DOJ said in a statement Sunday.

The DOJ is expected to select someone in the next few days to lead the review, according to two sources familiar with the process. The Justice Department has traditionally relied on people outside the DOJ with law enforcement expertise and on-the-ground experience with mass-casualty events to conduct such reviews.

The department conducted similar reviews after mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015, and at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June 2016.

Biden hopeful ‘rational’ Republicans can agree to gun reform

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited Uvalde Sunday to pay their respects, attending Mass and laying flowers at a memorial for the victims. The two also met privately with family members of the victims as well as first responders.
In an interview with CNN affiliate KSAT, Texas state Senator Roland Gutierrez said Biden told him “we’re going to look to raze that school, build a new one.” Gutierrez said there is a federal grant process for schools like Columbine and other schools to raze these schools. Sandy Hook Elementary was rebuilt after the 2012 shooting, for example.

“What kind of world are we living in that legislation was created for razing these schools?” Gutierrez asked during the interview.

According to Gutierrez, Biden also told him, “I’m not going away … I’m gonna bring you resources … look to getting real money for mental health care.” There is only one psychiatrist in Uvalde, according to the senator.

Biden voiced optimism on Monday certain “rational” Republicans could agree to some type of new gun restrictions.

“I think things have gotten so bad that everybody’s getting more rational about it. At least that’s my hope and prayer,” Biden told reporters at the White House.

Biden, in his most extensive comments about gun control since last week’s murders, said he was limited in steps he could take alone.

“There’s the Constitution. I can’t dictate this stuff. I can do the things I’ve done, and any executive action I can take I’ll continue to take. But I can’t outlaw a weapon, I can’t change the background checks. I can’t do that,” he said.

Community comes together

In the wake of the shooting, an outpouring of support to those in the community is being provided.

Carlos Hernandez, whose restaurant is a mile from Robb Elementary, wrote on Facebook hours after the shooting, “There’s no possible way I can open my kitchen with a broken heart and have fun doing it.”

On Thursday — his 33rd birthday — Hernandez decided to cook for the community, whipping up favorite dishes, including wings, mac-and-cheese and fried fish tacos.

Within two hours, Hernandez had given away more than 60 family-sized platters to feed mourning families and neighbors who are still learning how to cope with the tragedy inflicted on their tight-knit community.

“It’s a real tough situation, I’m just trying to show the kids that they do have us as their backbone and a support system,” Hernandez told CNN. “We always provide, whether there is an incident or no incident.”

Elsewhere in Uvalde, the El Progreso Memorial Library has become a place of healing.

On Wednesday, just a day after the shooting, children’s librarian Martha Carreon sat in front of rows of little faces, reading, singing, and giggling with the children, taking them away to a safe place far from the school where many of them became witness to horror.

“We want our building to be a safe space, a refuge that is a quiet, calm and cool haven,” El Progreso Memorial Library director Mendell Morgan told CNN.

Along with psychologists who will be available every weekday for children and adults to talk to, there will also be massage therapy practitioners, volunteers for arts and craft activities, pianists to play soothing music, and even magicians to hold professional magic shows.

“This is a strong community where we have true care and concern for one another,” Morgan said. “Many, if not most here, hold fast to their faith believing in God, that good is stronger than evil and light is stronger than dark.”

CNN’s Alaa Elassar, Ed Lavandera, Amanda Watts, Hannah Sarisohn, Eric Levenson, Virginia Langmaid, Paula Reid, Priscilla Alvarez, Whitney Wild, Paula Reid, Jennifer Henderson, Emma Tucker, Christina Maxouris, Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi contributed to this report.

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Texas school shooting: A 9-year-old describes escaping through a window as anger mounts over law enforcement’s response

Daniel, 9, alongside his mother, Briana Ruiz, told CNN the gunman fired several shots into his classroom after being unable to enter. The door had been locked by his teacher, and the bullets fired struck the teacher as well as a classmate.

Daniel survived by first “hiding under a table next to the wall.” He said he could see the gunman through the door’s window.

“I could still see his face,” the boy said. “I could see him staring at people in front of me.”

Daniel later climbed out of a broken window to escape, cutting his hand on some glass, he said, and the two people injured in his class would survive.

But his cousin, Ellie Garcia, was in a different classroom. She was one of 19 children and two teachers killed in the shooting.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has laid out a timeline of the Tuesday shooting, showing the gunman was in a classroom with students for more than an hour before he was shot and killed by a Border Patrol tactical response team. Yet questions remain over whether the response from law enforcement agencies was timely enough to prevent further casualties.
At the request of Uvalde’s mayor, the US Department of Justice announced it will conduct an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the shooting.

“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” the DOJ said in a statement Sunday.

Alfred Garcia, whose daughter was killed in the shooting, told CNN he was in “disbelief” over how much time elapsed during the shooting before it ended and shared his frustration with authorities’ response.

“It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it just took too long to get in there and, you know, had they gotten there sooner, and someone would have taken immediate action, we might have more of those children here today, including my daughter,” he said.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited Uvalde Sunday to pay their respects, attending Mass and laying flowers at a memorial for the victims. The two also met privately with family members of the victims as well as first responders.

Funeral services for the victims are set to begin Monday and funeral homes in Uvalde have committed to covering costs for families.

Law enforcement response called into question

The actions undertaken by first responders — or lack thereof — during the shooting has been a focal point for those who say more should have been done sooner.

Law enforcement officers in Texas are trained to intervene quickly, according to active shooter guidelines in the state’s commission on law enforcement 2020 training manual obtained by CNN, which states an “officer’s first priority is to move in and confront the attacker.”

“As first responders we must recognize that innocent life must be defended,” it says. “A first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field.”

Seven officers arrived on scene within two minutes of the shooter firing in the classroom. Three officers approached the locked classroom where the gunman was and two officers suffered graze wounds from bullets fired from behind the door, DPS said. Officers then stationed down the hallway.

Border Patrol agents belonging to a specialized unit arrived to the scene around 12:15 p.m. — roughly 45 minutes after the gunman began shooting. The officer in charge had already made the determination that the subject was barricaded in the room, according to a source familiar with the situation.

The team then did not breach the classroom for at least another 30 minutes, according to the timeline provided by DPS. Because the Border Patrol often serves in a support role, they will defer to the agency on command, according to the source.

A 911 call placed at 12:16 p.m., according to DPS, from a girl in one of the classrooms where students were shot told the operator that eight or nine students were still alive.

When asked Friday why officers didn’t move in sooner, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said “it was believed at the time that the subject was stationary and barricaded,” adding they believed “there was no risk to other children.”

“On retrospect, from where I’m sitting right now — clearly there was kids in the room, clearly they’re at risk,” McCraw said. “There may be kids that are injured, that may have been shot but injured and it’s important for life saving purposes to immediately get there and render aid.”

Community comes together

In the wake of the shooting, an outpouring of support to those in the community is being provided.

Carlos Hernandez, whose restaurant is a mile from Robb Elementary, wrote on Facebook hours after the shooting, “There’s no possible way I can open my kitchen with a broken heart and have fun doing it.”

On Thursday — his 33rd birthday — Hernandez decided to cook for the community, whipping up favorite dishes, including wings, mac-and-cheese and fried fish tacos.

Within two hours, Hernandez had given away more than 60 family-sized platters to feed mourning families and neighbors who are still learning how to cope with the tragedy inflicted on their tight-knit community.

“It’s a real tough situation, I’m just trying to show the kids that they do have us as their backbone and a support system,” Hernandez told CNN. “We always provide, whether there is an incident or no incident.”

Elsewhere in Uvalde, the El Progreso Memorial Library has become a place of healing.

On Wednesday, just a day after the shooting, children’s librarian Martha Carreon sat in front of rows of little faces, reading, singing, and giggling with the children, taking them away to a safe place far from the school where many of them became witness to horror.

“We want our building to be a safe space, a refuge that is a quiet, calm and cool haven,” El Progreso Memorial Library director Mendell Morgan told CNN.

Along with psychologists who will be available every weekday for children and adults to talk to, there will also be massage therapy practitioners, volunteers for arts and craft activities, pianists to play soothing music, and even magicians to hold professional magic shows.

“This is a strong community where we have true care and concern for one another,” Morgan said. “Many, if not most here, hold fast to their faith believing in God, that good is stronger than evil and light is stronger than dark.”

CNN’s Alaa Elassar, Ed Lavandera, Amanda Watts, Hannah Sarisohn, Virginia Langmaid, Paula Reid, Priscilla Alvarez, Christina Maxouris, Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi contributed to this report.

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Florida deputies save 9-year-old boy from house fire

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The inferno was so bright that Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Deputy Alexander Maldonado could see the flames from down the block.

“You could feel the heat coming from the house,” Maldonado said at a news conference on Friday.

Neighbors in the Tampa suburb stood by watching in horror late Thursday night. When they spotted deputies running toward the house, they yelled an urgent plea: “There’s a kid inside!”

With no time to wait for the fire department to arrive, Maldonado and fellow deputy Kevin Reich knew they had to get the child out of the house.

“That was the only thought at that point in time,” Maldonado said.

On Friday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released body-cam footage showing the deputies’ efforts to save the 9-year-old boy.

“I couldn’t be more proud,” Sheriff Chad Chronister said at the news conference. “This child is alive today because of their heroic actions.”

Maldonado and Reich arrived at the house in Seffner, Fla., at 10:48 p.m. on Thursday. Reich’s body-cam video shows him running up to the front porch, where a mother said that her son was still inside his bedroom. Wielding his expandable baton, Reich smashed the boy’s bedroom window as the mother yelled his name.

“Owen! Right here, baby. Right here, baby,” the mother bellowed, body-cam footage shows.

But the boy wasn’t responding, and behind the freshly shattered glass, waves of thick smoke flooded the 9-year-old’s bedroom. Deputies couldn’t see anything but clouds of gray.

Reich shined his flashlight into the bedroom.

“Come over to the light,” he said to the boy. “Stick your hands out.”

Maldonado then heard coughs, cries and groans, he said at the news conference.

“So we knew that he was somewhere in that room. It was just a matter of where in the room and how far into the room he was,” Maldonado said.

A baby was trapped in a fire. A deputy scaled a building to save her.

Reich’s body-cam footage shows him rounding the corner of the house in an attempt to break down a side door. But it wouldn’t budge. So he headed back to the bedroom windows just in time for Maldonado to call out for help.

“Right here! Right here!” Maldonado hollered. “Come here! Get up, bud.”

“Reach out to us! Keep coming!” Reich added.

Leaning into the smoky abyss, Reich attempted to grab the boy, video shows.

“Give me your hand,” he said.

The deputies then pulled the boy’s limp body through the window and carried him to the front lawn, where his mother collapsed beside him. The boy was barely responsive, letting out only small moans; his bare chest was covered in ash.

“He’s breathing, he’s breathing,” the mother said. “Baby, you’re okay.”

Paramedics took the boy to Tampa General Hospital, where he was “in severe condition due to burns and smoke inhalation” as of Friday, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

“I hope he makes a speedy recovery,” Maldonado said. “Hopefully if we’re able to see him … he’ll be in a better state.”

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9-year-old Evanston boy fatally shot in Skokie identified: officials – Chicago Tribune

A 9-year-old boy fatally shot in Skokie early Saturday has been identified, officials said. Another boy, 6, was also shot but survived.

Jeremiah Ellis was found when police officers rushed to the scene of “shots fired” and found two boys shot at an apartment building in the 4700 block of Main Street just after midnight Saturday, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Life saving measures were conducted for Jeremiah, of the 2000 block Darrow Avenue in Evanston, until fire department paramedics arrived, and he was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

A 6-year-old boy who suffered a graze wound was also taken to a hospital but survived.

The North Regional Major Crimes Task Force was investigating the shooting, but Skokie police asked anyone with information to contact investigators at 847-982-5900 or the 24-hour Skokie Crime Tip hotline at 847-933-8477.

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