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      Kansas City Parade Shooting and Gun Violence: Young Victims, Young Suspects

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      In the Super Bowl parade shooting, many of the wounded were children, and the two people charged so far in connection with the gunfire are also under 18.After the shooting in Kansas City this week at a parade to celebrate the Super Bowl victory of the hometown Chiefs, children who had been struck by gunfire flooded into Children’s Mercy Hospital, less than a mile from Union Station, where the shooting occurred.“Fear,” the hospital’s chief nursing officer, Stephanie Meyer, told reporters. “The one word I would use to describe what we saw and how they felt when they came to us was fear.”On the other side of the guns were young people, too, according to the authorities who said on Friday that two teenagers detained in the aftermath of the shooting had been charged with “gun-related” offenses and with resisting arrest.What had seemed like an attack on the parade itself turned out to be a far more common act of American violence: a dispute that ended in gunfire, and in this case, left one person dead and 22 people injured, about half of them younger than 16.The shooting on Wednesday sent thousands of fans fleeing from around the stage that was the center of the Super Bowl celebration.Christopher Smith for The New York TimesThe shooting was news around the world because of when and where it unfolded. But in many respects, the circumstances were all too familiar in a country where guns and gun violence are pervasiveGun Homicides in the United States by Age GroupThe gun homicide rate for children of middle and high school age is rising.

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      Kansas City Hospital Was Treating 11 Children After Super Bowl Parade Shooting

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      The victims of the shooting at a celebration for the Kansas City Chiefs on Wednesday included some of the team’s youngest fans.Eleven children, ages 6 to 15 years, were treated for injuries at Children’s Mercy, a hospital in Kansas City, Mo., said Stephanie Meyer, a senior vice president and chief nursing officer at the hospital.Nine of the children had gunshot wounds, she said, while the others had “incidental injuries.” None were in critical condition, and all were expected to recover.“The one word I would use to describe what we saw, and how they felt when they came to us,” she said of the children, “was fear.”A 12th victim was being treated at the hospital, as well — a mother who had refused to be separated from her child in the wake of the shooting. More

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      NYPD Officer Fatally Shoots Man in Queens Apartment, Officials Say

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      New York police officials said the man had pointed an “imitation gun” that seemed to be a real firearm at officers.A New York City police officer on Monday fatally shot a man in a Queens apartment who officials said had pointed an “imitation gun” at officers who were responding to a 911 call reporting that shots had been fired at the building.The man, whom the police did not immediately identify, refused officers’ commands to drop what appeared to them to be a real firearm, Jeffrey B. Maddrey, the Police Department’s chief of department, said at a news conference.“It appears to be an imitation gun,” he said.Chief Maddrey did not say whether the officers had worn and activated body cameras during the shooting, although the circumstances he described suggested they should have under Police Department guidelines. One of the officers fired “multiple shots,” he said, and hit the man at least once.The shooting occurred shortly after 10:30 a.m. in a fourth-floor apartment at the Ocean Bay Apartments public housing complex in the Arverne section of the Rockaway peninsula, Chief Maddrey said.Two uniformed officers responding to the 911 call came to the address, then went to the apartment based on an initial investigation, Chief Maddrey said. He did not say who made the call.Lamont Davis, a porter, said he had been sweeping outside the building where the shooting occurred when two police officers appeared and asked whether he had heard anything unusual. He said he told them no. They told him they were responding to a report of gunfire, Mr. Davis said.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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      Ex-Doctor Charged With Manslaughter in New York Woman’s Suicide

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      The police provided few details about the death, making it unclear whether it would be covered by the medical aid in dying laws that some states have but that New York does not.A former doctor from Arizona is facing a manslaughter charge in New York for his role in the suicide of a woman who died in a Hudson Valley motel room in November, according to his lawyer and law enforcement officials.The former doctor, Stephen P. Miller, 85, is charged with second-degree manslaughter under a provision of New York State law that makes it a crime for one person to intentionally cause or aid in the suicide of another.Mr. Miller, of Tucson, also faces two assault counts. He pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Ulster County Court on Friday and was being held at the Ulster County Jail on Monday in lieu of $500,000 cash bail or a $1 million bond.Mr. Miller’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, said the woman who died in the motel room had contacted his client through a national organization that advocates the legalization of medical aid in dying so that terminally ill patients have some control over how their lives end.Ten states, including New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., allow some form of such aid. A bill that would legalize medical aid in dying in New York has repeatedly failed to win lawmakers’ approval in recent years.Law enforcement officials disclosed few details about the suicide Mr. Miller is charged in, making it unclear whether it would be covered under such legislation.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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      NJ Man Pleads Guilty to 2022 Hate Crime Spree Targeting Orthodox Jews

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      Over several hours, the man drove a car into four men whose clothes identified them as Orthodox Jews, and stabbed one of them, federal prosecutors said.A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal hate crime charges for a rampage in 2022 in which he used a stolen vehicle and another car to try to kill four Jewish men in and around Lakewood, N.J., home to one of the most populous communities of Orthodox Jews in the United States.The man, Dion Marsh, 29, pleaded guilty to five federal hate crime charges and one charge of carjacking. Last week, Mr. Marsh pleaded guilty in Ocean County Superior Court in New Jersey to a single state charge of terrorism.Mr. Marsh began his spree on the afternoon of April 8, 2022, when he attempted to carjack a vehicle driven by a man who was wearing traditional clothes that made him visibly identifiable as Jewish, according to a statement by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey. That driver locked his doors and drove away, but not before Mr. Marsh managed to reach his hand inside an open window. The car traveled a block before Mr. Marsh let go, according to the prosecutor’s office.Minutes later, Mr. Marsh pulled a Jewish man from another car and physically assaulted him before driving away in his car, according to a news release from the office of Philip R. Sellinger, the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.For the next seven hours, prosecutors said, Mr. Marsh used the stolen car and another vehicle to terrorize Lakewood and the nearby community of Jackson Township, striking four men who were all wearing clothes that identified them as Orthodox Jews.After ramming one man with the stolen car, Mr. Marsh got out and stabbed him in the chest with a knife, prosecutors said. Other victims had broken bones and internal injuries from the attacks. All the victims survived.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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      Alec Baldwin Pleads Not Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter

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      Mr. Baldwin was indicted by a grand jury months after the dismissal of an earlier criminal charge against him in the death of a cinematographer on the set of “Rust.”Alec Baldwin pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday, following a grand jury indictment that revived the criminal case against him for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021.From the beginning, Mr. Baldwin has denied responsibility for the death of the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, saying that he had no reason to believe there were live rounds on set that day, and that there were crew members responsible for ensuring the gun was safe.The prosecution of the actor, 65, has seen some dramatic twists over the past year: The original criminal case, brought by the local district attorney’s office, fell apart. After the initial charge was dismissed last year by a new team of special prosecutors, Kari T. Morrissey and Jason J. Lewis, they decided to bring the case to a grand jury in New Mexico.Mr. Baldwin’s lawyers have called the prosecution “misguided” and, in a court filing, pushed for urgency in the court proceedings to “minimize public vilification and suspicion” against Mr. Baldwin and “avoid the hazards of proving his innocence that often arise after lengthy delays in prosecution.”Mr. Baldwin entered the not guilty plea in a court filing in which he also waived a virtual court appearance that had been scheduled for Thursday. Mr. Baldwin’s conditions of release included typical constraints including restrictions on possessing weapons and avoiding contact with anyone who might testify in the case, but some were more novel: The actor can have contact with potential witnesses only if they are discussing their involvement in the “Rust” movie, which the production finished filming last year.After Mr. Baldwin was charged for the first time one year ago, SAG-AFTRA, the union representing film, television and radio workers, came to his defense, rebutting the original prosecution team’s contention that as an actor he was responsible for ensuring that the gun he was using on the set was safe to handle.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?  More

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      Arkansas Authorities Capture Second Escaped Inmate

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      Jatonia Bryant, 23, had been held at a jail in Pine Bluff, Ark., on a capital murder charge before he and another inmate fled last week, the authorities said. The other escapee was caught Thursday.The authorities in Arkansas on Monday captured a capital murder suspect who had escaped from a local jail with another inmate, ending a weeklong manhunt.Officers conducting surveillance in Pine Bluff, Ark., just after 11 a.m. saw the suspect, Jatonia Bryant, 23, walking down a street wearing clothes that matched a description that had been provided to the law enforcement authorities and arrested him “without incident,” the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.Mr. Bryant, who is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a man last year, and Noah Roush, 22, were discovered missing on Jan. 22 from the W.C. “Dub” Brassell Adult Detention Center in Pine Bluff, roughly 40 miles southeast of Little Rock, after a daring escape that involved bursting through holes they had made in the facility’s ceiling and roof, according to the sheriff’s office.On Thursday, officers caught Mr. Roush near an abandoned home in Pine Bluff where he had reportedly been seen. Mr. Roush had been held at the jail on burglary and theft charges.Mr. Bryant had remained at large, though the authorities expressed confidence last week that he was hiding out somewhere in the city of nearly 40,000 people.Escape charges were pending against both men on Monday, the authorities said.“Our investigators will continue to work bringing criminal charges against all the people who assisted Roush and Bryant in evading apprehension,” read the sheriff’s news release.Jatonia Bryant following his arrest on Monday morning in Pine Bluff, Ark.Captain Yohance Brunson/Jefferson County Sheriff’s OfficeThe authorities also revealed on Monday that Mr. Bryant and Mr. Roush had fled about 36 hours before jail staff members noticed that they were gone because they had earlier failed to take an accurate head count.The Jefferson County sheriff, Lafayette Woods Jr., also suggested that flaws in the design and structure of the jail had allowed the pair to break free, saying that the episode would serve as a “catalyst for further capital improvements” to the jail.Last week, Maj. John Bean, a sheriff’s office spokesman, said that surveillance footage showed the two men had worked together to make a hole in the ceiling above a shower stall and escape.Sheriff Woods added that the facility, which opened in 2007 with 310 beds to alleviate overcrowded jails in the county, faced staffing shortages and was down to 20 guards from a previous high of 48. More

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      Woman Charged With Hiding Corpse Over Body Parts Found in Refrigerator

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      Heather Stines told the police the head, arms and legs belonged to a man her husband had killed in September, according to court records.A Brooklyn woman was charged this week with concealing a human corpse after the police found a head and other body parts in garbage bags stuffed in her refrigerator, officials said on Friday.The remains were discovered by officers responding to a tip from someone who said they had seen what looked like a human head in a black bag in the refrigerator at the apartment of the woman, Heather Stines, according to court records.Ms. Stines was alone at the apartment, in the East Flatbush section, when the officers arrived just after 7 p.m. Monday, court records show. The refrigerator was taped shut at the time, Joseph E. Kenny, the Police Department’s chief of detectives, told reporters on Tuesday. Ms. Stines pleaded with the officers not to open it, according to a police report.After the grisly discovery, Ms. Stines told the officers the body parts had been in the refrigerator for several months and belonged to a man her husband had killed during a dispute in September, according to the police report. She told the police she had not witnessed the killing, the report says.The police identified the victim as Kawsheen Gelzer, records show. The New York City medical examiner’s office had not announced a cause of death as of Friday.Ms. Stines was evaluated at a hospital after being taken into custody on Monday, Chief Kenny said. She had open warrants related to shoplifting and bail-jumping charges, court records show. She pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court late Thursday night, according to a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.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?  More