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      Illinois Sheriff’s Deputy Charged in Death of Sonya Massey

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      The deputy, Sean Grayson, has since been fired. A review of the investigation did not find the use of deadly force “justified.”A grand jury in Illinois charged a sheriff’s deputy with murder on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a 36-year-old woman who called the police over concerns about a prowler.Sean Grayson, a sheriff’s deputy with the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office in Springfield, Ill., faces three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct in the death of the woman, Sonya Massey, according to a news release from the Sangamon County State’s Attorney’s Office.The case was first evaluated under Illinois law for the use of deadly force, the office said. “A review of the Illinois State Police investigation, including the body-worn camera footage, does not support a finding that Deputy Sean Grayson was justified in his use of deadly force,” John Milhiser, the Sangamon County state’s attorney, said in the statement.Mr. Grayson has since been fired from the sheriff’s office, Sheriff Jack Campbell said in a statement posted to the agency’s Facebook page.“It is clear that the deputy did not act as trained or in accordance with our standards,” Sheriff Campbell said.The shooting that led to the charges occurred on July 6, when Mr. Grayson and another deputy were sent to Ms. Massey’s home in Springfield at around 12:50 a.m., after Ms. Massey called 911 to report “a prowler,” according to officials’ statements.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Inmate Dies After Fight Breaks Out at Troubled Brooklyn Jail

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      Edwin Cordero, 36, died at the Metropolitan Detention Center, where his lawyer said conditions were “awful.”A 36-year-old inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn died Wednesday after he was injured in a fight at the jail, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.The inmate, Edwin Cordero, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which is part of the Justice Department and runs the jail. No other employees or inmates were injured during the brawl, which was stopped by jail employees, according to officials.Mr. Cordero had been in custody at the detention center, or M.D.C., which has more than 1,300 inmates, since March 2024. He was initially sentenced to 18 months in the District of New Jersey for wire fraud and was later sentenced in June to 24 months in the Southern District of New York for committing assault, which was a violation of his supervised release.Andrew Dalack, a lawyer representing Mr. Cordero, called his client’s death “senseless and completely preventable,” while adding that Mr. Cordero was “another victim of M.D.C. Brooklyn, an overcrowded, understaffed and neglected federal jail that is hell on earth.”A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment on the matter.In February, Mr. Cordero was walking home from a deli in the Bronx when he was struck by a snowball thrown by a small child who was playing with a 17-year-old across the street, prosecutors said in a court document. Mr. Cordero confronted them and slashed the older child’s face, the document said.Mr. Cordero’s death comes just months after a federal judge, Jesse M. Furman, refused to send a man convicted in a drug case to the troubled jail. The judge cited complaints of horrible conditions, frequent lockdowns and staffing shortages.In a June letter to another federal judge, Ronnie Abrams, Mr. Dalack cited the “awful” conditions at M.D.C., as he requested that Mr. Cordero’s sentence be 18 months instead of 24, followed by 12 months of supervised release. Mr. Dalack wrote that Mr. Cordero and other detainees were “denied the most basic level of care, including access to showers, medical treatment and phone calls with their families” during lockdowns.Ashley Cordero, Mr. Cordero’s wife, wrote to the judge in a June letter that she had spoken to her husband recently and that he was “depressed and upset.”The couple had two children together: a baby who was 8 months old at the time of the letter and a 2-year-old daughter. “Mr. Cordero is more than just a statistic,” Mr. Dalack said. “He is a real person with a family who genuinely loved and cared for him.”M.D.C. has been the primary federal detention center in New York City since the Bureau of Prisons closed its sister jail in Manhattan in 2021 because of deteriorating conditions there. Visitation has been suspended until further notice, according to the center’s website.Benjamin Weiser More

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      Six People Dead, Apparently by Poisoning, in Thailand, Police Say

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      The dead did not show outward signs of injury. Mass violence is unusual in the capital, Bangkok.Six people were found dead on Tuesday in a hotel room at a Grand Hyatt in the heart of downtown Bangkok, according to police officials, who said they appeared to have been poisoned.Two of the dead were Americans of Vietnamese descent and four were Vietnamese nationals, according to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. Police Maj. Gen. Theeradej Thumsuthee, chief investigator of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, who was being interviewed on Nation TV, a Thai news channel, said three of the dead were men, and three were women.“From the preliminary examination of the scene, it was assumed that they had been poisoned,” General Theeradej said. He added that there were traces that all six drank coffee or tea. A preliminary autopsy did not find any injuries, he said.A guide was being questioned, he said.Police Lt. Gen. Thiti Saengsawang, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, told reporters that there were no signs of a struggle. The bodies were found in the same room, a suite. All six were supposed to check out on Tuesday and had their bags packed.Mass violence is unusual in Bangkok, but the capital was shaken by a shooting last October when a 14-year-old gunman opened fire in a luxury shopping mall, eventually killing three people.The Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel is on a busy intersection in Bangkok’s city center. It sits opposite the Erawan Shrine, the site of a deadly bombing in 2015 that killed 20 people. More

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      Two Hikers Die in Canyonlands National Park in 100-Degree Temperatures

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      A father and daughter were found dead in the park after they texted 911 that they ran out of water and were lost while hiking in triple-digit temperatures.A man and his daughter died in Canyonlands National Park in Utah on Friday after they ran out of water and texted 911 for help while hiking along a challenging trail in temperatures of well over 100 degrees, according to the park officials and the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office.The causes of death had not been determined, but emergency dispatchers received text messages on Friday afternoon from the man, Albino Herrera Espinoza, 52, and his daughter Beatriz Herrera, 23, that said they had run out of water and were lost. National Park Service rangers and Bureau of Land Management personnel found both of them later that afternoon, already dead.There was an excessive-heat warning in the park at the time and the high temperature for the day was 106 degrees, according to AccuWeather.The two, who were from Green Bay, Wis., were hiking the Syncline Trail, which is considered strenuous and is where most of the rescues in the park occur, according to Canyonlands National Park. The trail is a little over eight miles and has a steep elevation change of about 1,500 feet.Karen Garthwait, public affairs specialist for Southeast Utah Group parks, said the trail has sections where hikers are between rock walls that radiate heat — and that hiking in these spots is sometimes referred to as “being in the oven.”The two deaths were the latest in Southwestern parks at a time when heat waves have consumed much of the United States. Millions of people in the western United States have experienced back-to-back days with triple-digit temperatures. June broke global heat records for the 13th consecutive month.On July 7, a 50-year-old man was found dead while hiking in Grand Canyon National Park during a heat wave. His cause of death is still not known. He was the third hiker to have died there in less than a month amid the heat.In late June, two people died from heat-related causes at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, and another died in Death Valley National Park on July 6.Park officials in both Canyonlands and Grand Canyon National Park warn against hiking during the hottest hours of the day, especially during heat advisories. In both parks, there is little shade on trails to protect people from the sun, and heat can increase as hikers descend into canyons.There have been 26 deaths in Canyonlands National Park from 2007 to April 2023, according to National Park Service data. Two of those deaths have been from hyperthermia, which is when the body overheats. More

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      Carnage at Gaza School Compound Adds to Mounting Death Toll at U.N. Buildings

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      At least 27 people were killed when an Israeli airstrike exploded as people played soccer at a school turned shelter in southern Gaza.The soccer ball went out of bounds and the goalkeeper was lofting it toward his teammates as dozens of people looked on from the sidelines of the courtyard. It was a moment of respite in the Gaza Strip — but it did not last. Before the ball reached the ground, a large boom shook the yard, sending players and spectators fleeing in frenzied panic.The Gazan authorities say that at least 27 people were killed on Tuesday in that explosion, which was caused by an Israeli airstrike near the entrance to a school turned shelter on the outskirts of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.Displaced Palestinians had sought shelter at the school in Khan Younis that was hit by the airstrike. The Israeli military said the target was a Hamas member who participated in the Oct. 7 attack.ReutersIyad Qadeh, who was sitting outside his home near the school property, said the day had been calm, without drones buzzing overhead. Then a warplane appeared and fired a missile toward a group of young men sitting at an internet cafe, he said.“After that, it was screams and body parts everywhere,” Mr. Qadeh said.Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N. agency that helps Palestinians, UNRWA, said on Wednesday that it was the fourth strike in four days to hit or damage a school building in Gaza. Two-thirds of U.N. school buildings in the enclave have been hit since the start of the war, with more than 500 people killed, UNRWA said.Grieving the dead at a hospital in Khan Younis on Wednesday after an Israeli airstrike.Haitham Imad/EPA, via ShutterstockWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      More Ukrainians May Die in Attacks on Medical Sites in 2024, W.H.O. Data Suggest

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      A Russian missile strike on a children’s hospital in Kyiv on Monday highlighted the growing number of deadly attacks on medical facilities, vehicles and workers.A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital on Monday highlighted the growing number of deadly attacks on medical facilities, vehicles and workers in the country this year. It adds to data from the World Health Organization and suggests that more Ukrainians may be on track to be killed in such attacks this year than last year.Before the strike on the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, the W.H.O. documented 18 deaths and 81 injuries from more than 175 attacks on health care infrastructure in Ukraine for the first half of 2024. The organization also recorded 44 attacks on medical vehicles in that period.In all of 2023, the organization tallied 22 deaths and 117 injuries from 350 such attacks, and 45 more specifically on medical vehicles like ambulances. Other organizations put the death toll even higher.In the attack on Monday, at least one doctor and another adult were killed at the hospital, and at least 10 other people, including seven children, were injured during a Russian barrage across the country. In all, the bombardment killed at least 38 people, including 27 in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, local officials said. Attacks on civilian hospitals are prohibited under Article 18 of the Geneva Convention, which was ratified by United Nations member states after World War II. And Article 20 of the convention says that health care workers must be protected by all warring parties.Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukrainian health care infrastructure, experts say, in a campaign that some say amounts to war crimes.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Deadly Flooding and Landslides in Nepal

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      In this monsoon season, so far there have been more than 60 weather-related fatalities. With roads cut off and more rain expected, the toll could rise.Landslides and floods set off by torrential rains have killed at least 15 people in Nepal in the last 24 hours, officials in the small Himalayan nation said on Sunday, expressing fear that with further heavy rains expected, that number could rise.Eighteen people were also injured in the flooding over the past 24 hours, and two are missing, said Dan Bahadur Karki, a police spokesman. Dozens of people were evacuated to safety, including some pulled from the rubble of their damaged homes.Officials said the landslides had hampered vehicle traffic in most parts of a country where the terrain already makes travel difficult. Highways were damaged, as were the serpentine roads that connect cities with mountain villages. Military and police forces were deployed to help clear the roads.Koshi, Gandaki and Bagmati Provinces, in the east and center of the country, were among the hardest hit. Weather experts predict that heavy rainfall could affect the remaining provinces as the rain heads west.Nepal, which is among the places most vulnerable to climate change, routinely faces landslides and floods. Last year’s monsoon affected nearly 6,000 households, damaging homes and flooding fields. Since the beginning of the current monsoon season in June, at least 62 people have lost their lives, according to the country’s home ministry. Most of the deaths were because of flooding, but lightning was also a factor.Political instability and widespread corruption have complicated a disaster response already short on resources.The coalition government in Kathmandu is in disarray again, with a new alliance seeking to topple the current prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal. If he is ousted, the country will get its second government since the parliamentary elections held in November 2022. More

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      Pakistan Withers Under Deadly Heat and Fears the Coming Rains

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      Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, endured days of temperatures above 100 Fahrenheit, made worse by power cuts and high humidity.In nearly every corner of Karachi, there are signs of the heat wave scorching the sun-baked city.Hundreds of patients suffering from heat-related illnesses pour into the hospitals every day, pushing them far past their capacity. Morgues overwhelmed by a surge in bodies are struggling to find space.Frustrated residents have begun blocking roads with stones and sticks to protest shortages of electricity and drinking water. Even the usually bustling markets and streets have emptied as people avoid leaving their homes unless they must.Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and its economic hub, is the latest place to suffer as South Asia roasts under a blistering heat wave this summer, a brutal reminder of the deadly toll of climate change in a part of the world especially vulnerable to its effects, and in a country where ineffective governance and large economic disparities have magnified the sufferings of its poorest citizens.In a particularly dire eight-day stretch late last month, temperatures reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius), with high humidity adding to the misery. That was the hottest since 2015, a year when officials reported that more than 1,200 people died from heat-related causes in Karachi.With temperatures still hovering near 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the sense of crisis has persisted.“It feels like living in a furnace,” said Akbar Ali, 52, a rickshaw driver who has transported many heat-struck people to the hospital in recent weeks. “It’s terrible seeing people collapse on the street.”Inside a crowded children’s ward at a hospital in Karachi on Friday. Children and older people are particularly sensitive to excess heat.Insiya Syed for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More