Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jamaal-bowman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamaal Bowman</a> (D-NY) is under investigation after pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol office building on Saturday as top Republican lawmakers accuse him of violating the same law that many January 6 defendants were convicted of violating.
Bowman pulled the fire alarm in the House Cannon office building as House Democrats were trying to delay a vote on a GOP stopgap spending bill, which sparked an evacuation of the building.
Bowman&#8217;s chief of staff confirmed that Bowman was the one who pulled the fire alarm and claimed: “Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The Congressman regrets any confusion.”
U.S. Capitol Police released a photograph showing Bowman pulling the fire alarm near a door. Bowman, who is a former school principal, claimed: “I thought the alarm would open the door.”
The incident, however, sparked serious backlash from prominent Republicans who demanded that he be criminally charged for his actions and compared his actions to the actions of some of those who were arrested for their participation during the January 6 riot.
Donald Trump Jr. posted the photo released by Capitol Police, writing: &#8220;If they don’t charge Rep Bowman, with a crime for endangering the lives of those in the capitol &amp; obstructing congressional proceedings then they better let every single J6er that’s rotting in prison for nonviolent offenses out with an apology &amp; compensation right f***ing now!&#8221;
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If they don’t charge Rep Bowman, with a crime for endangering the lives of those in the capitol &amp; obstructing congressional proceedings then they better let every single J6er that’s rotting in prison for nonviolent offenses out with an apology &amp; compensation right fucking now! <a href="https://t.co/Cpc2su2VJP">pic.twitter.com/Cpc2su2VJP</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1708210455775248877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Punchbowl News co-founder John Bresnahan posted a photo of the door where Bowman pulled the fire alarm which shows that a red sign that reads &#8220;EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY&#8221; was present at the time that Bowman pulled the lever.
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This is the door that ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/RepBowman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepBowman</a>⁩ used to leave the Cannon Building <a href="https://t.co/OiUVB0iyJ4">pic.twitter.com/OiUVB0iyJ4</a>
&mdash; John Bresnahan (@bresreports) <a href="https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1708247334998454304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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An additional photo showed that the fire alarm was the only thing fixed to the wall that could be activated that did not require a maintenance key.
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This doesn’t really seem that confusing <a href="https://t.co/EXM5VOWJAp">pic.twitter.com/EXM5VOWJAp</a>
&mdash; John Bresnahan (@bresreports) <a href="https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1708247568084307989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepHarshbarger/status/1708201690057330768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X: &#8220;Today, we would’ve been working from our office in Cannon, helping constituents before a potential government shuts down, BUT Congressman Jamal Bowman pulled the fire alarm to delay the CR. EXPEL THE CONGRESSMAN!&#8221;
&#8220;How is it that Rep. Jamal Bowman (D-NY) can pull a fire alarm during a vote, which is clearly &#8216;interfering with a legislative proceeding,&#8217; and there be no ramifications?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRosendale/status/1708209690113430004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT). &#8220;Yet, protestors from across the country who came to Washington on January 6th are serving hard time in prison for doing less! #EqualJustice?&#8221;
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1708189879320854985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;A Democrat Member of Congress just committed a felony by pulling the fire alarm to try to delay and stop a Congressional vote to fund the government.&#8221;
The Committee on House Administration and the Capitol Police both announced that they had opened separate investigations into the incident.
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Rep Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm in Cannon this morning. An investigation into why it was pulled is underway. &#8211; Chairman Bryan Steil
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USCP says they’re investigating the Bowman fire alarm incident <a href="https://t.co/d2YXVDXwtN">pic.twitter.com/d2YXVDXwtN</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicholaswu12/status/1708212418348798069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is a felony, plain and simple,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLisaMcClain/status/1708193654223896896" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI). &#8220;USCP had to waste resources investigating rather than actually keeping the Capitol safe. The House must hold Rep. Bowman accountable. Now.&#8221;
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGregMurphy/status/1708184345805025781" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;If true, charges should be filed. Pulling a false fire alarm puts the safety and welfare of federal employees at risk. What a childish and reckless move.&#8221;

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Newly released video shows a Jack in the Box restaurant employee in Texas shoot at a drive-thru customer, allegedly over missing curly fries.
Anthony Ramos says he was in a vehicle with his pregnant wife and six-year-old daughter when an argument erupted over his missing order of curly fries. The confrontation, which occurred in March 2021, ended with employee Alonniea Ford-Theriot, now 30, shooting at Ramos.
Video appears to show Ford-Theriot throwing handfuls of ketchup packets at Ramos from the drive-thru window, before walking a few steps away, grabbing a gun from her pocket, and then shooting at Ramos. The vehicle swiftly drives away and Ford-Theriot closes the drive-thru window.
Ramos has since filed a lawsuit against Ford-Theriot and Jack in the Box over the incident and is seeking $250,000 in damages. His attorney, Randall Kallinen, was able to obtain the video of the confrontation through discovery and released the footage this past week.
&#8220;It was pointed right at me,&#8221; Ramos <a href="https://abc13.com/jack-in-the-box-shooting-houston-employee-defends-against-lawsuit-florida-customers-drive-thru-fight-over-missing-curly-fries/13832757/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m surprised she didn&#8217;t get me.&#8221;
&#8220;She&#8217;s aiming. She&#8217;s leaning. She&#8217;s not just going up in the air. She&#8217;s trying to kill them,&#8221; Kallinen said of Ford-Theriot during a recent press conference.
Ford-Theriot <a href="https://abc13.com/jack-in-the-box-shooting-houston-employee-defends-against-lawsuit-florida-customers-drive-thru-fight-over-missing-curly-fries/13832757/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC13 that she&#8217;s &#8220;not an angry person&#8221; or a &#8220;mad monster.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m just a woman trying to work for my family,&#8221; Ford-Theriot said, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to pull out no gun and shoot at somebody over no curly fries. Come on.&#8221;
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The news outlet asked Ford-Theriot about the video showing her shooting at Ramos, but the former fast-food employee seemed to deny this. &#8220;If you hear the audio, you didn&#8217;t hear the gun go off at all,&#8221; she claimed.
ABC13 noted that the video has no audio, but it does show a muzzle flash and court records confirm that Houston police found a spent shell casing.
Ford-Theriot was initially charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which is a felony, but pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of deadly conduct, ABC13 reports. The former Jack in the Box employee has completed one year of deferred adjudication community supervision.
Kallinen has <a href="https://chicagodefender.com/jack-in-the-box-worker-shot-at-family-over-curly-fry-dispute-lawsuit-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the media that Ford-Theriot pleaded guilty to terroristic threat back in 2012, before she was hired by Jack in the Box.
“Jack in the Box needs to investigate their prospective employees,” the attorney said. “As in this example, Ms. Ford had pled guilty to a terroristic threat, and that was a public record in Harris County. Also, the manager should have de-escalated the situation. On the video, it appeared that the manager did not do anything to tell the employee to go back or that they would take care of it, and let the situation escalate.”
A spokesperson for Jack in the Box has denied all responsibility relating to the incident.
&#8220;While we cannot comment on ongoing litigation, we are aware of the situation involving an employee of one of our independent franchisees and remain focused on providing a safe environment for customers and restaurant workers,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
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Video Shows Jack In The Box Employee Shoot At Drive-Thru Customer, Allegedly Over Missing Curly Fries

Video Shows Jack-In-The-Box Employee Shoot At Drive-Thru Customer, Allegedly Over Missing Curly Fries

A teacher in Flint, Michigan, was hospitalized Thursday after a student hurled a chair at her in a classroom attack caught on video. 
The attack took place at Flint Southwestern Academy, and video of the incident showed a female student on one side of the classroom arguing and yelling expletives at a student on the opposite side of the room. As the teacher stood between the students, appearing to try to calm the situation, one of the teenagers picked up a chair and threw it, nailing the teacher in the head and knocking her to the ground. 
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Flint Community School Superintendent Kevelin Jones addressed the “deeply concerning incident” in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=813401800788038&amp;set=a.522406376554250">statement</a> Friday, saying the teacher who was attacked had been released from the hospital, is “doing well,” and will return to the classroom. Jones added that the student who was involved “will be held accountable according to the law.” 
“We are committed to ensuring that such incidents are thoroughly investigated, and appropriate measures are taken to prevent their recurrence,” Jones added. 
The Flint Police Department issued a <a href="https://midmichigannow.com/news/local/district-says-teacher-released-from-hospital-after-attack-by-flint-student">statement</a> saying it “made an arrest related to an assault at Flint Southwestern Academy” and “An investigation is ongoing.” 
Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/james-craig-michigan-senate-run-trump-f90308a4fb4c8cca6aa74b3208654a7b">expected</a> to jump into the Michigan Senate race as a Republican, commented on the video, saying it “captures the sad state of Education in Michigan.”
“[N]o sense of order or direction, no respect for teachers, and worst of all, NO LEARNING. Failure to educate young Michiganders is a recipe for increased CRIME, upticks in UNEMPLOYMENT, and SOCIETAL DISORDER,” Craig said. “Michiganders deserve better.”
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Flint schools have the lowest graduation <a href="https://detroit.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/24/23613804/michigan-graduation-dropout-rate-high-school-increase">rate</a> (43.8%) and the highest dropout rate (33.3%) in the state. The city of 80,000 that is plagued by gang violence and drug use is also one of the most violent in the country, <a href="https://247wallst.com/city/flint-mi-reported-one-of-the-highest-murder-rates-in-the-us/">posting</a> the 10th highest murder rate in the U.S., according to data from 2020.

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The U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> announced criminal charges on Friday against a contractor with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who is accused of stealing the tax returns of former President Donald Trump and distributing the material to the media.
Federal law enforcement officials announced the charges against 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn, who was a contractor with the IRS from 2018 to 2020. The company that Littlejohn was working for was not identified and it was not clear &#8220;why a contractor had access to sensitive taxpayer information that is supposed to be protected by numerous legal and procedural safeguards,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/politics/irs-contractor-charged-with-leaking-tax-returns.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;While Defendant was working on an IRS contract, he stole tax returns and return information associated with Public Official A and thousands of the nation&#8217;s wealthiest people, including returns and return information dating back more than 15 years,&#8221; court documents <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24000154/irs-contractor-charges.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a>. &#8220;He thereafter disclosed the tax information associated with Public Official A to News Organization 1 and the other tax information to News Organization 2. Both news organizations published numerous articles describing the tax information they obtained from the Defendant.&#8221;
While the identity of Public Official A is not mentioned in the court documents, numerous publications <a href="https://apnews.com/article/leak-tax-return-irs-charges-213909430bcaf8b50600d67bfe45f89a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Trump is the figure in question.
The two news organizations, which were also not mentioned in the charging documents, were The New York Times and ProPublica, according to various media <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/politics/irs-contractor-trump-taxes/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>. The news organizations have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Littlejohn was charged with one count of Disclosure of Tax Return and Return Information and faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
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The charging documents <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24000154/irs-contractor-charges.pdf">said</a> that if Littlejohn is convicted, &#8220;all property he has used in violating the provisions of the internal revenue laws is subject to forfeiture.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> County and city will spend billions of dollars on its homelessness crisis thanks to a lawsuit settlement reached this month.
Together, the county and city <a href="https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-homeless-lawsuit-settled-10ae69e3306e4ecaec211e9cb270ed7a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to provide tens of thousands more shelter beds by the end of 2026 for residents with mental health and substance abuse issues.
The settlements end a 2020 lawsuit from the LA Alliance for Human Rights, a coalition that includes businesses, residents, landlords, homeless people, and others, who claimed the city and county failed to address the homelessness issue and caused dangerous conditions.
Los Angeles County settled its part of the lawsuit this month, and it was approved Thursday by a federal judge. The city previously reached its settlement agreement earlier this year.
The county agreed to provide 3,000 new mental health and substance use treatment beds.
Meanwhile, the city <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-29/judge-approves-l-a-countys-agreement-for-3-000-new-mental-health-and-substance-use-treatment-beds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to nearly 20,000 new beds of either interim or permanent housing and has said it will <a href="https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-los-angeles-eb569af45027d8730b2b30bcdd8b91ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spend</a> around $3 billion over five years to construct the housing.
“This is an extraordinary step forward,” U.S. District Judge David Carter <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-29/judge-approves-l-a-countys-agreement-for-3-000-new-mental-health-and-substance-use-treatment-beds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “It’s going to save a lot of lives.”
Los Angeles <a href="https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-los-angeles-eb569af45027d8730b2b30bcdd8b91ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has</a> a huge homelessness population, with more than 69,100 homeless people in Los Angeles County and about 42,000 in Los Angeles itself as of February.
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California has started to take a more direct approach to its homelessness crisis, which is rapidly worsening.
California’s new court-ordered treatment program goes into effect next week, a significant attempt by the state to get a handle on homelessness, as well as the addiction and mental illness issues that come with it.
The Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act program <a href="https://www.chhs.ca.gov/care-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> families of adults suffering from a serious untreated psychotic disorder to file a petition in civil court for court-ordered treatment. Clinicians, first responders, and others can also file a petition. If the petition is approved, a judge can order a year-long care plan, which can be renewed for a second year.
While the program is technically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/californias-mental-illness-homelessness-court-program-takes-effect-next-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voluntary</a>, judges do have leverage. The court cannot force people to take medication or lock them up, but if a person is not successful in CARE Court, that can be used later to put a patient in a mental institution or conservatorship.
California has about 170,000 homeless people, the biggest homeless population in the country, according to a <a href="https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> last year from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nearly a third of the country’s homeless people live in California, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/06/20/california-accounts-for-nearly-one-third-of-the-nations-homeless-people/70340309007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a June statewide study from a research group at the University of California, San Francisco.
Other California cities have particularly dire homelessness problems as well, and have struggled to find long-term solutions to curb the problem.
San Francisco has been in the throes of a homelessness crisis for years now, and it has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge">are homeless</a> in the Bay Area on a given night, up 35% since 2019.
Last week, Sacramento’s top prosecutor sued the city over its homeless encampments, accusing city officials of allowing the homeless population to become a public nuisance.

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A woman pled guilty on Thursday to calling in a fake bomb threat at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boston-childrens-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital</a> while the hospital was at the center of a controversy about its transgender youth surgery program.
Catherine Leavy, 37, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/westfield-woman-pleads-guilty-making-hoax-bomb-threat-against-boston-childrens-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled guilty</a> in Boston federal court to one count of making a false bomb threat and one count of intentionally conveying false or misleading information that a bomb was on the way to the hospital, prosecutors said in a press release Thursday.
Leavy called in the hoax bomb threat in August of last year, just as Boston Children’s Hospital was facing a flood of criticism over its transgender youth surgery program. The next month, Leavy was arrested at her home just west of Springfield. She was charged and later indicted by a federal grand jury in October.
She is scheduled to be sentenced in March and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for the false bomb threat, the more serious charge. The other charge carries five years in prison, and both carry three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.
On August 30 last year, the hospital got a call in which the caller said, “There is a bomb on the way to the hospital, you better evacuate everybody, you sickos.”
The hospital and nearby area was put on lockdown, and a bomb squad arrived on the scene, but no explosive devices were found.
When police showed up at her house, Leavy expressed her disapproval of Boston Children’s Hospital in an interview with law enforcement, but she said she had no plan to actually bomb the hospital, according to the DOJ.
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Last summer, the hospital, which is one of the nation&#8217;s top hospitals and affiliated with Harvard Medical School, came under fire from critics over its transgender surgeries available to children.
Boston Children’s Hospital’s Center for Gender Surgery <a href="https://www.childrenshospital.org/treatments/chest-reconstruction" rel="noopener">lists</a> chest surgery with parental consent for girls 15 and up who identify as male.
Initially, the hospital&#8217;s website had <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220725014638/https://www.childrenshospital.org/treatments/vaginoplasty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> 17-year-olds could qualify for vaginoplasty surgery, but that language was removed, and the hospital <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pediatric-gender-clinics-scrub-their-websites-amidst-criticism-of-gender-related-treatments">claimed</a> it was &#8220;misinformation&#8221; that they ever performed transgender genital surgeries on minors.
The hospital also <a href="https://www.childrenshospital.org/programs/transgender-reproductive-health-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lists</a> &#8220;gender-affirming hysterectomies&#8221; for women 18 and older.
Over the last few years, critics have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/st-louis-clinic-ditches-transgender-care-for-minors-over-law-exposing-doctors-to-lawsuits">sounded the alarm</a> about the permanent effects of both gender hormone treatments such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures, especially on children.
The number of gender surgeries nearly tripled in the U.S. from 2016 to 2019, according to an <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808707?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=082323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open. In 2016, there were about 4,550 procedures, and that number spiked to around 13,000 in 2019.
Hundreds of girls in the U.S., some as young as 12, <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/101252?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2022-10-17&amp;eun=g394940d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202022-10-17&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have gotten</a> elective, gender-related double mastectomies to remove their healthy breasts over the last few years.
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.

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Woman Who Called In Fake Bomb Threat At Boston Children’s Hospital Pleads Guilty

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A Clark County grand jury voted this week to indict 60-year-old Duane “Keffe D” Davis for the murder of rap icon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rap-music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tupac Shakur</a> 27 years ago, law enforcement officials said at a press conference on Friday.
The announcement comes after the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department executed a search warrant at Davis&#8217; home in July and seized multiple tablets and computers, a cell phone, hard drives, photos, and more.
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said that Davis was arrested on Friday morning and that the investigation was &#8220;far from over,&#8221; and that remarks that Davis made back in 2018 &#8220;reinvigorated&#8221; the investigation.
Metro Lt. Jason Johansson said that sheer persistence by the detectives in the case ultimately paid off and is what led to Davis&#8217; arrest.
&#8220;Prior to September 7, 1996, as we all know, Tupac Shakur was a artist who had signed with Death Row Records, and that Death Row Records and its CEO Marion &#8220;Suge&#8221; Knight were closely affiliated with the Mob Piru criminal street gangs and that they had an ongoing feud with the South Side Compton Crips,&#8221; said Johansson. &#8220;Dwayne Davis was the leader and shot caller of the South Side Compton Crips, and both of these gangs operated out of the Southern California area of Compton.&#8221;
Shakur was shot four times on September 7, 1996, in Las Vegas after attending a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and died six days later.
&#8220;Members of the South Side Compton Crips, which included Dwayne Davis, along with his nephew Orlando Anderson were also in attendance at the same event,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As both were leaving the fight, members of Death Row Records spotted Orlando Anderson near an elevator bay bank inside the MGM at the time they began to kick and punch him.&#8221;
Johansson showed security camera footage from the fight that showed Shakur and other members of Death Row Records attacking Anderson near the elevator.
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&#8220;Little did anyone know that it is this incident right here that would ultimately lead to the retaliatory shooting and death of Tupac Shakur,&#8221; Johansson said. &#8220;Following this incident, Tupac and Suge Knight both left the MGM to make their way to a post fight party, which was the occur at a local nightclub. At the same time, word had spread amongst members of the South Side Compton Crips of what had occurred inside the MGM and then that&#8217;s when Dwayne Davis began to devise a plan to obtain a firearm and retaliate against Suge Knight and Mr. Shakur for what occurred inside the hotel against Mr. Anderson.&#8221;
&#8220;After Davis obtained a gun, he entered into a white Cadillac along with Terrence Brown, DeAndre Smith, and Orlando Anderson,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;At some point in time, as they are in the white Cadillac, Mr. Davis took the gun that he had obtained and provided it to the passengers in the rear seat of the vehicle.&#8221;
The four men located the black BMW that Knight and Shakur were driving in and pulled up alongside the vehicle and opened fire.
Johansson said that detectives knew most of this information within the first few months of the investigation but they never had the necessary evidence needed to bring the case forward and present criminal charges.
&#8220;But it wasn&#8217;t until 2018 that this case was reinvigorated as additional evidence came to light related to this homicide,&#8221; he said, noting that Davis had told multiple media outlets that he was allegedly involved in the homicide.
McMahill, when asked toward the end of the press conference, declined to say what specific statements that Davis made the piqued investigators&#8217; interests.
This story has been updated to include additional information.

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One person was shot and injured Thursday in northern New Mexico at a protest over a statue of a Spanish conquistador.
A man was rushed to the hospital after gunfire broke out in the city of Española at a protest against installing a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate. Española is about 25 miles north of Santa Fe.
Authorities took the suspected shooter, Ryan Martinez, 23, into custody and said they are not looking for any other suspects in connection with the shooting.
The shooting <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juan-de-onate-shooting-new-mexico-statue-spanish-conquistador-espanola/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">happened</a> just before 12:30 p.m. local time outside the county&#8217;s offices, Rio Arriba County Sheriff Billy Merrifield said.
The suspect had <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/protest-in-new-mexico-over-statue-of-spanish-conquistador-juan-de-onate-leaves-one-shot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> been told to leave by police after getting into a verbal altercation with protesters and using obscene language.
In cell phone video footage of the moments leading up to the shooting, the suspect is seen returning to the protest and jumping over a short wall as several protesters try to grab him.
“Hey, hey, hey. Let him go!” one person shouts.
The suspect breaks free and jumps over the wall one more time, then pulls out a handgun and fires one shot into the group of people.
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Afterwards, the suspect can be seen in the video running away across a parking lot as several people chase him. Screaming can be heard in the background.
The victim was shot in the upper torso, and his condition was unknown as of Thursday, the sheriff&#8217;s spokesperson said.
&#8220;Once again, the saddest part about this is we have another incident of gun violence,&#8221; Merrifield <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/protest-in-new-mexico-over-statue-of-spanish-conquistador-juan-de-onate-leaves-one-shot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a news briefing on the incident.
The previous day, county officials had postponed installing the statue over concerns it would cause backlash that could lead to safety concerns, but protesters still showed up. Merrifield said he had written to county commissioners last week warning them about his safety concerns with erecting the statue outside the county building.
&#8220;I&#8217;m very grateful for that, and they made the decision to not do it, with all the safety concerns that have risen from this,&#8221; the sheriff <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juan-de-onate-shooting-new-mexico-statue-spanish-conquistador-espanola/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The New Mexico State Police is heading the investigation into the shooting.
Oñate is a controversial figure in New Mexico&#8217;s history. He is known for founding early Spanish settlements in the late 1500s, but he is also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180925220604/http://www.pbs.org/pov/lastconquistador/background/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notorious</a> for the Acoma Massacre, Oñate&#8217;s brutal retaliation against the men, women, and children of a Native American tribe that had killed 13 Spaniards including Oñate&#8217;s nephew. He was later <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180925220604/http://www.pbs.org/pov/lastconquistador/background/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> of excessive cruelty to both natives and colonists.
In 1997, protesters <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/us/statue-foot-new-mexico.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sawed off</a> the right foot on a bronze statue of Oñate in New Mexico, a reference to Oñate&#8217;s order that Acoma men have their right foot amputated. In June, 2020, a similar incident occurred in Albuquerque when a man <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protester-shot-new-mexico-conquistador-juan-de-onate-statue-albuquerque/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was shot</a> as protesters tried to tear down a bronze statue of Oñate outside the Albuquerque Museum. After that shooting, the city said the statue would be removed until officials figure out next steps.
In recent years, statues of other historical figures with a range of legacies have been targeted with vandalism including Christopher <a href="https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/10/christopher-columbus-memorial-vandalized-with-genocider-spray-paint.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbus</a>, Confederate general Robert E. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876124924/in-richmond-va-protestors-transform-a-confederate-statue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lee</a>, and Saint Junipero <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-over-das-decision-to-reduce-charges-in-junipero-serra-statue-vandalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Serra</a>.

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The Las Vegas Metro Police Department has reportedly arrested a man in connection with the 1996 drive-by shooting of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, according to the <a href="https://www.wkyt.com/2023/09/29/las-vegas-police-arrest-man-suspicion-murder-1996-drive-by-shooting-tupac-shakur-ap-sources-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.
Per the AP, the LVMPD arrested Duane “Keffe D” Davis. His alleged arrest comes more than two months after the Las Vegas Metro Police Department searched a Henderson, Nevada, home in connection to a nearly three-decade-long homicide investigation into the death of Shakur, who was shot dead in Las Vegas in 1996 when he was only 25 years old.
Law enforcement briefed on the investigation told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/magazine-articles-tupac-shakurs-death-items-seized-home/story?id=101489530&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a> in July that authorities seized magazine articles on the life and death of Shakur, computer hard drives, and pictures from the 1990s that allegedly show individuals connected to the homicide.
Police also found copies of Keefe D’s book “Compton Street Legend.” Davis reportedly is one of two living eyewitnesses of Shakur’s murder.
The exact charges against Keefe D are unclear.
Brandon Drey contributed to this report.
This is a breaking news story; please check back for updates.

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Prosecutors preparing to try the 28-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students previously demanded Amazon turn over customer information about the suspect, new court records show.
The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, has been charged with murdering Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022.
The new released records show that prosecutors demanded in May that Amazon turn over the suspect’s customer information relating to the alleged purchase of knives. Prosecutors had obtained search warrants for customer accounts associated with the suspect at companies including Amazon, Apple, and PayPal, CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/28/us/bryan-kohberger-trial-idaho-murders/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The three companies sent over the requested information, after which it was inventoried and placed into evidence by the Moscow Police Department.
The warrants included requests for &#8220;all detailed customer click activity pertaining to knives and accessories,&#8221; along with other information that could show the suspect’s shopping movements and interests on the site, ABC News reported. This was done, the warrants said, &#8220;in order to locate any materials referencing the planning or commission&#8221; of the crime that occurred in November.
The warrant for Apple included a request for instant messages and the contents of files and records stored on iCloud. The warrant for PayPal requested payment information and recipients of any financial transactions, as well as associated information.
The accused has no definite trial date, as the original October start date has been pushed back.
DNA found on a knife sheath left behind at the crime scene has been matched to the suspect, according to court documents.
In early August, his attorneys <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accused-university-of-idaho-killer-offers-alibi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered an alibi</a> for the suspect’s whereabouts on the night of the murder, saying he was out driving late at night.
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“[The suspect] has long had a habit of going for drives alone. Often he would go for drives at night. He did so late on November 12 and into November 13, 2022,” Anne Taylor, the suspect’s attorney, wrote in the filing. “[The suspect] is not claiming to be at a specific location at a specific time; at this time there is not a specific witness to say precisely where [my client] was at each moment of the hours between late night November 12, 2022, and early morning November 13, 2022. He was out, driving during the late night and early morning hours of November 12-13, 2022.”
Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously unsealed</a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. The footage showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.
The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).
Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. This vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus at around 5:25 a.m.
Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the suspect’s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.
Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.
In a previous filing, the suspect’s attorneys claimed that DNA found at the crime scene may have been planted by police.
“The State’s argument asks this Court and [the suspect] to assume – is that the DNA on the sheath was placed there by [the suspect], and not someone else during an investigation that spans hundreds of members of law enforcement and apparently at least one lab the State refuses to name,” the suspect’s defense attorneys wrote.

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The county clerk accused by convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys of tampering with the jury to get a book deal has spoken out and refuted the allegations.
Colleton County Clerk Rebecca Hill has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alex-murdaughs-attorneys-accuse-court-clerk-of-jury-tampering-to-get-book-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused of</a> urging jurors to “reach a quick guilty verdict” and even helping to remove a juror in order to ensure that Murdaugh was found guilty.
In <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/accused-clerk-murdaugh-trial-refutes-bombshell-jury-tampering-allegations-case-lot-juggle.amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a new episode</a> of Fox Nation’s “The Fall of the House of Murdaugh,” however, Hill denied the allegations.
Hill hinted at the allegations that she pushed for a quick verdict by saying she thought it would only take the jury “45 minutes” to find Murdaugh guilty. The jury took several hours to reach the guilty verdict.
Murdaugh’s defense team also accused Hill of presenting false information to the judge to get a juror kicked off the panel because Hill thought that juror wouldn’t vote guilty. The defense team also alleged that Hill discussed Murdaugh’s guilt with jurors in an attempt to secure a conviction so she could get a book deal.
Specifically, the defense team argued that Hill falsely told Judge Clifton Newman that the female juror’s ex-husband had accused the juror in a Facebook post of getting drunk and talking about the case – even telling people she planned to vote not guilty. That juror was kicked off the panel on February 28, just before jury deliberations began. Hill wrote about the incident in the book she published.
Hill told Fox that the trial was challenging to manage, given the media attention it garnered, but insisted Murdaugh was indeed guilty, saying he must have murdered his wife and son in a &#8220;weird twisted way of love.&#8221;
Earlier this month, Hill also <a href="https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2023/09/11/clerk-becky-hill-denies-jury-tampering-charges-co-author-speaks-out/70795000007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> the allegations to the Greenville News, but did not give the outlet details. Her co-author Neil Gordon, however, has released a statement regarding the allegations.
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&#8220;Overall, I would ask anyone following these alleged &#8216;jury tampering&#8217; allegations to please reserve judgement until all the facts come out and all interviews are conducted by the proper, objective law enforcement authorities,&#8221; Gordon told the outlet in a statement. &#8220;Please remember in our society people are innocent until proven guilty. That basic tenet of our judicial system was there for Alex Murdaugh during his double-murder trial and should be in place for Becky Hill for accusations of jury tampering.&#8221;
The accusatory filing submitted by Murdaugh’s attorneys, Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin, cited at least three sworn affidavits, including one from a juror who decided Murdaugh’s fate and another who was dismissed. It also includes excerpts from Hill’s book, titled “Behind the Doors of Justice: The Murdaugh Murders,” which was published in August.
A jury found Murdaugh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alex-murdaugh-found-guilty-of-killing-wife-son" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guilty of murder</a> on March 2, and he was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.

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Prosecutors working the case of two Delphi, Indiana, teenagers who were murdered said the defense team’s latest filings are “fanciful.”
Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland this week filed new court documents responding to last week’s motions from the defense that included an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorneys-for-delphi-murder-suspect-claim-young-teens-were-killed-by-white-nationalist-pagan-group-in-ritual-sacrifice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alternate theory</a> of the crime. In those filings, defense attorneys Andrew Baldwin and Brad Rozzi alleged that the man arrested for the crime, 50-year-old Richard Allen, did not murder best friends Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, in 2017. Instead, the attorneys wrote, the girls were murdered by a group known as Odinists, a pagan Norse religion taken over by white nationalists.
McLeland, however, said that only 13 pages of the defense’s 136-page filing were relevant to the hearing they called for, known as a “Franks hearing,” which allows a judge to determine whether a law enforcement officer lied in order to obtain a search warrant.
&#8220;The remaining 90% of the Memorandum outlines its fanciful defense for social media to devour,&#8221; McLeland wrote.
The prosecutor added that while the allegations from Allen’s defense team are “colorful, dramatic and highly unprofessional, it is not completely true.”
&#8220;[T]he State believes the allegations outlined by the Defense are not supported by evidence that they have collected,&#8221; McLeland added.
Allen, a CVS worker and father, is accused of forcing Abby and Libby off of a trail they were hiking and into a wooded area, where he allegedly killed them both.
The defense team, however, said the girls were killed by “[m]embers of a pagan Norse religion, called Odinism, hijacked by white nationalists.”
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“Richard Allen has zero connections to any pagan cult or pagan cultists, and furthermore no forensic evidence (such as DNA) or electronic evidence links Richard Allen to the girls or to the crime scene – i.e., he is a completely innocent man” they wrote.
The attorneys wrote in the filing that two groups of Odinists, one from Delphi and the other from Rushville, Indiana, were investigated for their possible involvement in the murders. As evidence the girls were murdered as part of a ritual sacrifice, the attorneys point to ritualistic symbols allegedly found at the crime scene, which include the strange way young Libby’s body was positioned.
A March 2017 search warrant request from the FBI <a href="https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-8/fbi-agent-bodies-moved-and-staged-in-delphi-murders-suspect-took-clothing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that the girls’ bodies looked as though they had been “moved and staged.”
The filing also notes that investigators didn’t further investigate the alleged ritualistic symbols left at the crime scene, which included sticks and tree branches placed on the girls’ bodies that mimicked certain Norse runes. At least one branch appeared to have been cut with an electronic device, suggesting premeditation, the defense argues. Libby’s blood was also used to paint a rune on a tree that was identified as a calling card of the pagan religious cult, they added.
While such a claim sounds outrageous, the attorneys note that those investigating the Delphi murders early in the case claim to have consulted a Purdue professor who said a cult was not responsible, which is why the angle was dismissed. The defense attorneys claim that those leading the investigation can’t name this professor, and that three law enforcement officers continued to pursue this lead prior to Allen’s arrest. One of the officers, Todd Click, was so concerned about the information used to arrest Allen that he obtained an attorney to help him draft a letter to the prosecutor in this case. This letter was only shared with defense attorneys until after it became clear they would most likely talk to Click – more than four months after the letter was sent to the prosecutor.
In addition to not turning over the letter, law enforcement also allegedly withheld an 85-page compilation of reports from Click and the other officers who investigated the white supremacist angle and several videotaped statements that all supported Allen’s innocence.
Included in the compilation is a statement that an FBI profiler had determined that the person or person’s responsible for Libby and Abby’s murder “were involved in Nordic beliefs,” the defense wrote.
Click agreed to attend a meeting with a law enforcement officer, hoping he would prove to Click that Allen was, in fact, the killer. But in an affidavit after the fact cited by Allen’s defense, Click wrote that this officer did not provide any evidence as to why Allen was the killer, and that he believed “the interview was an attempt by them to clean up their loose ends…”
Through Click’s investigation, names of alternate suspects were given to Delphi law enforcement no later than February 2018, the attorneys wrote.
The attorneys have also <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/672090544/Franks-Motion-in-Richard-Allen-Delphi-Case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested a hearing</a> to present evidence that the search warrant obtained for Allen’s home should be suppressed at trial because it was based on faulty probably cause. The attorneys argue that detective Tony Liggett did not include “crucial information” and “provided false statements” that led to a judge approving the warrant. Had the detective included the missing information, including the evidence compiled by Click and the other officers, then the judge never would have approved the warrant, the defense argues. The attorneys also accuse Liggett of withholding information that altered the timeline of the crime, which would exclude Allen as a suspect.
Finally, the defense attorneys point to members of the cult as alleged suspects, whom The Daily Wire will not be naming since they have not been charged with any crimes. One of these named individuals’ social media posts contained images that mimicked the runes found at the crime scene, even though such images have never been released to the public, according to the defense. The individual allegedly also posted numerous “easter eggs” on social media that pointed to his involvement in the crime, including a recreation of the crime scene involving two women posing as dead with sticks over their bodies, just like the actual crime scene. This same individual also seemingly taunted police on social media, the defense claims.
One further tie to the victims is that this man’s son was allegedly “dating” the young victim Abby.
Police cleared this individual as a suspect within 30 days of the murders, even with this evidence, the defense argues.
This individual’s ex-wife also allegedly told police that he and another man in the Odinists had a falling out in February 2017 after conducting a ritual in the woods, near a river. The main alternate suspect lived very near to where the girls’ bodies were found, according to the defense’s filing. This ex-wife also allegedly told police that her ex-husband and “his people” killed the girls because one of their mothers was “mixing” with people who weren’t of the same race.
This individual was also tied to others who allegedly confessed to the crime. One of these individuals allegedly told his sister that he was involved in the crime and included details of the crime scene that were never released to the public. This man was also questioned, but denied involvement, according to the court documents. According to a state trooper who dropped him off at his home, this individual allegedly returned to the trooper’s vehicle and asked if he would still be in trouble if his spit was found on one of the victims, saying he could explain it away. This individual also told another one of his sisters that he spit on one of the victims, according to the defense.
This individual and a fourth man provided shaky alibis to police for their whereabouts at the time of the murder, with contradictory stories, Allen’s defense attorneys contend.
The connection between the four individuals – two in Delphi and two in Rushville – was a recruiter for the Odinists, who knew all the men, the attorneys continued.
Police knew all of this information, yet didn’t include it when seeking warrants against Allen, whose sole connection to this crime is an unspent shell casing that can’t be forensically linked to his gun, according to the defense attorneys.

Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland

‘Colorful, Dramatic, And Highly Unprofessional’: Prosecutors Push Back On Defense Theory About Delphi Murders

'Colorful, Dramatic, And Highly Unprofessional': Prosecutors Push Back On Defense Theory About Delphi Murders

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