Suicides

March 19, 2020 - 10:51 am

Man Dies By Apparent Suicide In Ice Family Detention Center

HOUSTON (AP) — A 27-year-old Honduran man died by apparent suicide at one of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's family detention centers, authorities said Thursday. ICE said the man was pronounced dead at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday after being found unresponsive at the Karnes County...
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March 16, 2020 - 4:34 pm

Sheriff: North Carolina Man Kills 6 Relatives And Himself

PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A 66-year-old man fatally shot six relatives in a small North Carolina community over the weekend, then killed himself, authorities said Monday. The shooting happened late Sunday afternoon in the Moncure area of Chatham County, the county sheriff's office said in a statement...
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FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, Chelsea Manning attends the 22nd Annual OUT100 Celebration Gala at the Altman Building in New York. Former intelligence analyst Manning is again asking a judge to let her out of jail. Her lawyers filed a motion seeking her release Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, in federal court in Alexandria, Va. The lawyers say Manning has shown during 11 months of incarceration that she can't be coerced into testifying. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
March 11, 2020 - 5:08 pm

Lawyer: Chelsea Manning Attempts Suicide In Va. Jail

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Chelsea Manning said Wednesday that the former intelligence analyst tried to take her own life Wednesday, but was transported to a hospital where she is recovering. Manning has been in jail since May 2019 for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating...
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FILE- This March 12, 2009 photo shows the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. The federal jail in New York City where wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life is on lockdown as authorities try to determine whether someone smuggled a gun inside one of the most secure federal jails in the country. That's according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke Friday to The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
March 05, 2020 - 4:59 pm

Ap Exclusive: Gun Found Inside Epstein Jail During Lockdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators found a loaded gun Thursday that had been smuggled into the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself last summer, following a weeklong lockdown that turned up other contraband and led to a criminal probe into guard misconduct, the federal Bureau of Prisons...
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This undated photo provided by Craig Mastantuono, an attorney representing the Ferrill family, shows Anthony Ferrill, the man police say killed five people at the Molson Coors brewery complex in Milwaukee on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (Courtesy of the Ferrill family via AP)
February 28, 2020 - 3:24 pm

Brewery Gunman Accused Of Punching Woman, Gun Crime In 90S

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The man police say killed five co-workers at one of the nation's largest breweries before killing himself was accused of pointing a gun at an SUV and punching a woman in the face in the early 1990s, court documents show. Anthony Ferrill, a 51-year-old electrician at Moslon Coors'...
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FILE - In this March 4, 2017, file photo, a man writes a condolence message during the Day of Remembrance for MH370 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has claimed the “top levels” of the Malaysian government long suspected the vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 almost six years ago was a mass murder-suicide by the pilot. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan, File)
February 19, 2020 - 4:56 am

Abbott Says Top Malaysian Leaders Suspected Pilot Of Mh370

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said the “top levels” of the Malaysian government long suspected that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 almost six years ago was a mass murder-suicide by the pilot. Abbott was prime minister when the plane...
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February 17, 2020 - 6:22 am

Popular Rwandan Gospel Musician Found Dead In Police Cell

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A popular Rwandan gospel musician who in 2015 was found guilty of conspiracy to murder or harm President Paul Kagame was found dead in a police cell Monday in the capital, Kigali, authorities said. Kizito Mihigo, 38, an ethnic Tutsi survivor of the 1994 genocide that killed...
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February 12, 2020 - 3:51 am

Ex-Official Kills Himself In Moscow Courtroom After Verdict

MOSCOW (AP) — A former Russian prison service official shot himself dead in a courtroom Wednesday after being handed a three-year sentence on corruption charges. Local court and investigative officials said Viktor Sviridov, who had served as chief of department in the federal prison service, took...
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FILE - This is a July 12, 2002 file photo of the entrance to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Miss. The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the Mississippi prison system after a string of inmate deaths in the past few months, officials said Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis, File)
February 05, 2020 - 5:32 pm

Feds Investigate Mississippi Prisons After String Of Deaths

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the Mississippi prison system after a string of inmate deaths in the past few months, officials said Wednesday. Federal prosecutors are looking into conditions at four state prisons after the deaths of at...
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FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. A U.S. prosecutor overseeing the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation said Monday, Jan 27, 2020 that Britain's Prince Andrew has been uncooperative in the inquiry so far. Speaking at a news conference outside Epstein's New York mansion, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, said prosecutors and the FBI had contacted Prince Andrew's lawyers and asked to interview him. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)
January 24, 2020 - 5:38 pm

Ap Exclusive: Feds Plan To Move Epstein Warden To Prison Job

WASHINGTON (AP) — The warden in charge when Jeffrey Epstein ended his life in his jail cell is being moved to a leadership position at another federal correctional facility, putting him back in the field with inmates despite an ongoing investigation into the financier’s death, two people familiar...
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