2 Chicago police off job after fatal shots
CHICAGO — Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson late Friday relieved two officers of their powers after a police-involved shooting that left a suspect dead.
Although the Thursday night shooting of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal of Chicago remains under investigation, the officers may have violated departmental policies, said department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. He added that the department is still reviewing the actions of a third officer involved in the shooting.
Chicago police said that officers stopped a stolen Jaguar convertible Thursday evening in the city’s South Shore neighborhood and were getting out of their own vehicle when the driver sped away, sideswiping a squad car and a parked vehicle.
The department said two officers fired their weapons, wounding O’Neal, who was pronounced dead at a hospital. The department said some officers were injured, but that their injuries were not considered life-threatening. Police did not find a gun at the scene, either on the street or inside the stolen vehicle, Guglielmi said Friday.
“At this moment the department has, unfortunately, more questions than we do answers,” Guglielmi said.
Crash of medical plane kills at least 2
CRANNELL, Calif. — Authorities found the wreckage of a small medical transport plane with four people aboard and confirmed at least two deaths Friday after a search across a densely forested mountain range in Northern California.
The Piper PA31 was carrying a flight nurse, a transport medic and a patient about 360 miles from Crescent City, near the Oregon border, to Oakland when the pilot reported smoke filling the cockpit and declared an emergency around 1 a.m.
The Humboldt County sheriff’s office, which led the search on the ground, did not immediately release information about the fates of the other two people aboard.
Rescue teams found the crash site on remote land owned by a private timber company in Humboldt County, about 280 miles north of San Francisco. Sheriff’s Lt. Wayne Hanson confirmed the deaths, saying that only two bodies could be seen inside the plane from a distance.
Police: Girl slits a throat; yen reported
MADISON, Wis. — A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl tried to kill her brother’s 15-year-old girlfriend, slitting her throat and describing herself during the attack as a psychopath looking for her first kill, according to investigators.
Kali Jade Bookey of New Richmond was charged as an adult Thursday with attempted first-degree intentional homicide. She was being held without bail Friday. Her attorney, Barbara Miller, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to a criminal complaint, Kali called the St. Croix County sheriff’s office on Wednesday to report that two men had tried to abduct her but she had told them that her brother’s girlfriend was home alone and they should take her instead.
Deputies went to the girlfriend’s trailer and found her in a bedroom bleeding profusely. The girl was taken by ambulance to a hospital where she told investigators that she was sleeping in her bedroom when Kali entered and put her hands over her mouth. A struggle ensued, with Kali breaking two bowls over her head and using a shard to cut her and slit her throat, she said.
The victim said Kali asked her if she wanted to die or bleed out, so she opted to bleed out, the complaint states. The victim said Kali described herself as a crazy psychopath looking for her first kill, saying she probably would kill again. Kali then told her to “have a nice afterlife” and left, investigators said.
Marine Corps pilot dies in plane crash
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — A Marine Corps F/A-18C warplane crashed in the California desert Thursday and the pilot was killed, the service said Friday.
The jet went down around 10:30 p.m. during a training mission in the vicinity of Twentynine Palms, according to a statement from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the aircraft’s San Diego-area base.
The sprawling Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center is located at Twentynine Palms, about 140 miles east of Los Angeles.
The pilot from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing was not identified.
The F/A-18C is a twin-engine fighter-attack aircraft capable of multiple types of missions.