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Woman stabbed at Art Basel Miami, gallery visitors confuse crime for modern art
Published time: 7 Dec, 2015 11:29
A
woman was stabbed at a Miami art gallery after accusing her attacker of
following her around and repeatedly bumping into her. But although the
victim was left bloody and fearing for her life, visitors didn't bat an
eyelid, assuming it was a performance.
The
victim, 33-year-old Shin Seo Young, said the Friday night altercation
at the Miami Beach Convention Center began after she accused her
attacker, 24-year-old college student Siyuan Zhao, of following her
around the Art Basel gallery and bumping into her numerous times.
Following
the short confrontation, Zhao stabbed Young in the shoulder and neck
with an X-Acto knife, according to The Miami Herald.
"I had to kill her and two more," and "I had to watch her bleed!" Zhao said, according to her arrest report. She also confessed to the stabbing during questioning, according to police.
A
16-year-old Pennsylvania boy was charged Wednesday evening with two
dozen felony counts after 20 students and a security guard were stabbed
or slashed at a suburban Pittsburgh high school.
The
boy, identified as Alex Hribal, a sophomore at Franklin Senior Regional
High School in Murrysville, was held without bail on four counts of
attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault and a misdemeanor
count of carrying a prohibited weapon.
At
least four people remained in intensive care with life-threatening
injuries after the rampage Wednesday morning at Franklin Senior Regional
High School in the town of Murrysville.
Hribal was remanded to juvenile detention pending a preliminary hearing April 30 in Westmoreland County Magisterial Court.
Prosecutors
told Judge Charles R. Conway that Hribal "randomly and
indiscriminately" wielded his knives in a hallway at the school and
indicated that "he wanted to die."
They said it was unclear whether he was competent to stand trial.
Attorneys
for Hribal — who sat head-down in court in a hospital gown, bearing
numerous bandages and stitches with his hands and feet shackled — asked
for a psychiatric evaluation.
School Stabbing Spree: 20 Hurt in Pittsburgh-Area Bloodbath
By Erin McClam
A
student flashing two knives went on a stabbing rampage through the
classrooms and halls of a high school outside Pittsburgh on Wednesday
morning, authorities said. At least 19 students and a security guard
were hurt, some with life-threatening injuries.
The
suspect, a 16-year-old sophomore, was in custody and being questioned
by police, authorities said. His motive was unclear, said Dan Stevens, a
Westmoreland County emergency management spokesman.
The first photo of the suspect emerged several hours after the mayhem. NBC News is blurring the face of the teen in the photo, from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, because of his age. He had not been charged or identified.
Guy Wathen / Tribune-Review
A
suspect in the Franklin Regional High School stabbings leaves the
Murrysville Police Station on Wednesday. Image blurred to protect
identity.
The
student was “flashing two knives around” as he moved through the
classrooms and a first-floor hallway, said Thomas Seefeld, the
Murrysville police chief. A principal tackled the stabber, he said. The
security guard suffered a stomach wound.
The
attack happened at Franklin Regional High School, in the suburb of
Murrysville, just after doors opened for the day. A student described panic in the halls.
Published: 18:24 EST, 9 April 2014 | Updated: 18:27 EST, 9 April 2014
MURRYSVILLE,
Pa. (AP) — Flailing away with two kitchen knives, a 16-year-old boy
with a "blank expression" stabbed and slashed 21 students and a security
guard in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school
Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him. At
least five students were critically wounded, including a boy whose
liver was pierced by a knife thrust that narrowly missed his heart and
aorta, doctors said. The
rampage — which came after decades in which U.S. schools geared much of
their emergency planning toward mass shootings, not stabbings — set off
a screaming stampede, left blood on the floor and walls, and brought
teachers rushing to help the victims.
A
man and woman walk away from Franklin Regional High School after more
then a dozen students were stabbed by a knife wielding suspect at the
school on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near
Pittsburgh. The suspect, a male student, was taken into custody and is
being questioned. (AP Photo/Tribune Review, Brian F. Henry) PITTSBURGH
OUT
Police shed little light on the motive. The
suspect, Alex Hribal, was taken into custody and treated for a minor
hand wound, then was brought into court in shackles and a hospital gown
and charged with four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of
aggravated assault. Authorities said he would be prosecuted as an adult. The
attack unfolded in the morning just minutes before the start of classes
at 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School, in an
upper-middle-class area 15 miles east of Pittsburgh. It was over in
about five minutes, during which the boy ran wildly down about 200 feet
of hallway, slashing away with knives about 8 to 10 inches long, police
said. Nate
Moore, 15, said he saw the boy tackle and stab a freshman. He said he
going to try to break it up when the boy got up and slashed his face,
opening a wound that required 11 stitches. "It
was really fast. It felt like he hit me with a wet rag because I felt
the blood splash on my face. It spurted up on my forehead," he said. The
attacker "had the same expression on his face that he has every day,
which was the freakiest part," Moore said. "He wasn't saying anything.
He didn't have any anger on his face. It was just a blank expression." Assistant
Principal Sam King finally tackled the boy and disarmed him, and a
Murrysville police officer who is regularly assigned to the school
handcuffed him, police said. Doctors said they expect all the victims to survive, despite deep abdominal puncture wounds in some cases. King's
son told The Associated Press that his father was treated at a
hospital, though authorities have said he did not suffer any knife
wounds. "He
says he's OK. He's a tough cookie and sometimes hides things, but I
believe he's OK," Zack King said. He added: "I'm proud of him." "There
are a number of heroes in this day. Many of them are students," Gov.
Tom Corbett said in a visit to the stricken town. "Students who stayed
with their friends and didn't leave their friends." He also commended cafeteria workers, teachers and teacher's aides who put themselves at risk to help during the attack. As
for what set off the attack, Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld
said investigators were looking into reports of a threatening phone call
between the suspect and another student the night before. Seefeld
didn't specify whether the suspect received or made the call. The
FBI joined the investigation and went to the boy's house, where
authorities said they planned to confiscate and search his computer. While
several bloody stabbing rampages at schools in China have made
headlines in the past few years, schools in the U.S. have concentrated
their emergency preparations on shooting rampages. Nevertheless,
there have been at least two major stabbing attacks at U.S. schools
over the past year, one at a community college in Texas last April that
wounded at least 14 people, and another, also in Texas, that killed a
17-year-old student and injured three others at a high school in
September. On
Wednesday, Mia Meixner, 16, said the rampage touched off a "stampede of
kids" yelling, "Run! Get out of here! Someone has a knife!" The boy had a "blank look," she said. "He was just kind of looking like he always does, not smiling, not scowling or frowning." Meixner
and Moore called the attacker a shy boy who largely kept to himself,
but they said he was not an outcast and they had no reason to think he
might be violent. "He
was never mean to anyone, and I never saw people be mean to him,"
Meixner said. "I never saw him with a particular group of friends." Michael
Float, 18, said he had just gotten to school when he saw "blood all
over the floor" and smeared on the wall near the main entrance. Then he
saw a wounded student. "He
had his shirt pulled up and he was screaming, 'Help! Help!'" Float
said. "He had a stab wound right at the top right of his stomach, blood
pouring down." Float said he saw a teacher applying pressure to the wound of another student. The security guard was wounded after intervening early in the melee, police said. He was treated and released. About
five minutes elapsed between the time the campus police officer
summoned help over the radio at 7:13 a.m. and the boy was disarmed, the
police chief said. Someone,
possibly a student, pulled a fire alarm during the attack, Seefeld
said. Although that created chaos, the police chief said, it emptied out
the school more quickly, and "that was a good thing that that was
done." Also,
a girl with "an amazing amount of composure" applied pressure to a
schoolmate's wounds and probably kept the victim from bleeding to death,
said Dr. Mark Rubino at Forbes Regional Medical Center. Public
safety and school officials said an emergency plan worked as well as
could be expected. The district conducted an emergency exercise three
months ago and a full-scale drill about a year ago. "We haven't lost a life, and I think that's what we have to keep in mind," said county public safety spokesman Dan Stevens. ___ Associated
Press writers Mike Rubinkam in Allentown and Jesse Washington in
Murrysville, Pa., and AP news researchers Judith Ausuebel and Barbara
Sambriski contributed to this report.
A
police officer guards the entrance Heritage Elementary School as
students are dismissed after more than a dozen students were stabbed by a
knife wielding suspect at nearby Franklin Regional High School on
Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. The
suspect, a male student, was taken into custody and is being questioned.
(AP Photo/Tribune Review, Sean Stipp) PITTSBURGH OUT
Students
walk past a row of buses as they leave the campus of the Franklin
Regional School District after more then a dozen students were stabbed
by a knife wielding suspect at nearby Franklin Regional High School on
Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. The
suspect, a male student, was taken into custody and is being questioned.
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Students
are escorted from the campus of the Franklin Regional School District
after more then a dozen students were stabbed by a knife wielding
suspect at nearby Franklin Regional High School on Wednesday, April 9,
2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. The suspect, a male student,
was taken into custody and is being questioned. (AP Photo/Gene J.
Puskar)
Westmoreland
County emergency management spokesman Dan Stevens, left, looks on as
Franklin Regional School District Superintendent Gennaro Piraino pauses
while addressing the media during a news conference outside of Franklin
Regional High School on Wednesday, April 9, 2014.on Wednesday, April 9,
2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. More than a dozen students
were stabbed by a knife wielding suspect at the school. The suspect, a
male student, was taken into custody and is being questioned. (AP
Photo/Tribune Review, Brian F. Henry) PITTSBURGH OUT
A
parent holds hands with a Franklin Regional High School while picking
up the student after more than a dozen students were stabbed by a knife
wielding suspect at the school on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in
Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. The suspect, a male student, was
taken into custody and is being questioned. (AP Photo/Tribune Review,
Sean Stipp) PITTSBURGH OUT
An
Iraq war veteran who was grappling with mental health issues opened
fire at Fort Hood, Tex., in an attack that left four people dead and 16
wounded Wednesday afternoon, according to preliminary law enforcement
and military reports. The gunfire sent tremors of fear across a
sprawling Army post still reeling from one of the worst mass shootings
in U.S. history.
Many basic details about the shooting remained
unclear in the chaotic hours after the first calls for help around 4
p.m., but senior U.S. law enforcement officials said the incident did
not appear to be linked to any foreign terrorist organizations. The
shooter was among those who died, the officials said.
The
officials identified the shooter as Army Spec. Ivan Lopez, 34, a
military truck driver, who was dressed in his standard-issue green
camouflage uniform. Lopez opened fire in two locations on the vast
central Texas post, inside a building housing the 1st Medical Brigade
and in a facility belonging to the 49th Transportation Battalion.
Police
spent Wednesday night searching his apartment in Killeen, the city that
abuts the Army facility. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the commander of Fort
Hood, said the soldier, whom he did not identify by name, served four
months in Iraq in 2011.
Milley said the shooter “had behavioral
health and mental health issues.” He said the soldier, who self-reported
a traumatic brain injury and was taking anti-depressants, had been
under examination to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress
disorder. “We are digging deep into his background,” Milley said.
Milley
said the soldier opened fire with a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson
semiautomatic pistol that was purchased recently but was not authorized
to be brought on the post. He was eventually confronted by a female
military police officer. He put his hands up but then pulled out a gun
from under his jacket. “She engaged,” Milley said, and then the soldier
put the gun to his head and shot himself.
The shooting was the
third major gun attack at a U.S. military installation in five years,
leaving the nation grappling with the prospect of yet more flag-draped
funerals for troops killed on the homefront. A government contractor
went on a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard in September,
leaving 12 people dead. In 2009, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan opened fire on
a group of soldiers at Fort Hood preparing to deploy to Iraq and
Afghanistan, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30.
Doctors
at the Scott & White hospital in Temple, Tex., said Wednesday that
they have treated eight of the wounded and that one more was on the way.
Three of the patients were in critical condition in the ICU, and five
were in serious condition. Seven of them were male, and one was female.
Their injuries ranged from mild to life-threatening, a majority of them
caused by single-gunshot wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen.
President
Obama said he was “heartbroken that something like this might have
happened again.” Speaking during a fundraising trip to Chicago, he
pledged “to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.”
A shooting at the Fort Hood military installation in Texas left at least four people dead, including the gunman, and more than a dozen were injured, according to authorities.
The gunman, identified by multiple government sources as Army Specialist Ivan Lopez, took his own life, officials said.
Lopez,
33, of Kileen, Tex., was wearing an Army uniform at the time of the
shooting, Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Homeland
Security Committee, told reporters.
Four
people were taken to Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Tex.,
and another two are being brought there, said Glen Couchman, the
facility’s chief medical officer. Their injuries that “range from stable
to quite critical,” he said.
The installation was locked down for
much of the afternoon and into the evening after the shooting before
being lifted shortly before 9 p.m. local time.
Speaking in Chicago, President Obama said his administration was following the shooting closely.
“I want to just assure all of us we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” he said. “We’re heartbroken something like this might have happened again.”
The base was the site of a shooting in 2009 that ultimately killed 13 people and wounded another 32, the worst mass murder at a military installation in U.S. history. Nidal Hasan was sentenced to death last year for the shooting after being found guilty of premeditated and attempted premeditated murder.
SHOOTING SITUATION STILL ACTIVE, Multiple Gunned Down
FORT
HOOD (April 2, 2014) At least one person is dead after a shooting late
Wednesday afternoon on Fort Hood, a post spokesman confirmed.
Others were injured in the shooting, but the spokesman didn't say how many.
The gunman is still at large and the spokesman said the incident is being treated as an active-shooter situation.
Warning sirens sounded late Wednesday afternoon at Fort Hood because of the incident.
A
man who said he was a witness told News 10 that about 20 shots were
fired in a post motor pool in the area of Motor Pool Road and Tank
Destroyer Boulevard.
He said at least three people were hit.
He said the three victims were taken to a hospital.
The post was on lockdown as a result of the shooting, which occurred at around 4:25 p.m.
People on post were told to stay indoors.
A message that scrolled across the top of the post's website said, "Shelter in place immediately. This is not a test."
The
1st Calvary Division, which is based at Fort Hood, sent a Twitter alert
telling people on base to close doors and stay away from windows.
Texas
A&M Central Texas in Killeen canceled evening and night classes
Wednesday at Fort Hood and at its Fairway building because of the
situation on post.
First responders from surrounding communities were headed to the post.
Bell County sheriff's deputies and Department Public Safety troopers were also responding, sheriff's Lt. Donnie Adams said.
Media were being directed to the post's Visitor's Center.
On
Nov. 5, 2009, Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at Fort
Hood's Soldier Readiness Center, killing 12 soldiers and one civilian
and wounding 29 others before two Fort Hood civilian police officers
shot him.
The Washington
Navy Yard gunman who killed 12 people last year conned Veterans Affairs
doctors into believing he had no mental health issues before the
shootings.
WASHINGTON —
The gunman who killed 12 people in last year's rampage at Washington's
Navy Yard lied so convincingly to Veterans Affairs doctors before the
shootings that they concluded he had no mental health issues despite
serious problems and encounters with police during the same period,
according to a review by The Associated Press of his confidential
medical files.
Gunman's doc. before rampage: 'No problem there'
Just weeks before the shootings, a doctor treating him for insomnia
noted that the patient worked for the Defense Department but wrote
hauntingly "no problem there."
The AP obtained more than 100 pages
of treatment and disability claims evaluation records for Aaron Alexis,
spanning more than two years. They show Alexis complaining of minor
physical ailments, including foot and knee injuries, slight hearing loss
and later insomnia, but resolutely denying any mental health issues. He
directly denied having suicidal or homicidal thoughts when government
doctors asked him about it just three weeks before the shootings.
In
a bizarre incident in Newport, R.I., Alexis told police on Aug. 7 that
disembodied voices were harassing him at his hotel using a microwave
machine to prevent him from sleeping. After police reported the incident
to the Navy, his employer, a defense contracting company, pulled his
access to classified material for two days after his mental health
problems became evident but restored it quickly and never told Navy
officials it had done so.
Just 16 days later, after Alexis told a
VA emergency room doctor in Providence that he couldn't sleep, the
doctor wrote that his speech and thoughts seemed "clear and focused" and
noted that he "denies flashbacks, denies recent stress." Related: 12 killed by lone gunman in Navy Yard rampage
The
medical records said Alexis, 34, was found sleeping in the VA waiting
room in Providence on Aug. 23 while waiting to see a doctor. During that
visit he was prescribed 50 milligrams of trazodone, an antidepressant
and anti-anxiety medication that in such low doses can be used to treat
insomnia.
"Denies any pain except discomfort rt (right) temple," a
nurse wrote on Aug. 23. "Pt (patient) taking no medications including
any otc (over-the-counter) medications."
An attending doctor
provided additional details, saying Alexis suffered from fatigue after
sleeping only two or three hours every night over the past three weeks.
"Speech
and thoughts clear and focused. Denies flashbacks. Denies recent
stress. Denies drugs, cocaine, heroin, caffeine product, depression,
anxiety, chest pain, sob (shortness of breath), nightmares. He denies
taking nap during the day. Denies SI (suicidal ideation) or HI
(homicidal ideation)," the doctor wrote.
"He works in the Defense Department, no problem there," the doctor added.
The
medical records showed that Alexis answered "no" when asked, "Do you
have anything that could be considered a weapon?" The VA told the AP
that was a standard question it asks veterans whom it treats in a triage
setting.
Five days later, on Aug. 28, Alexis visited a VA medical
facility in Washington, again complaining of sleeplessness: "Patient
presents to ER with c/o (case of) awakening each morning about 4 a.m.
like clockwork and he cannot figure out why this is happening."
He
answered "no" when asked whether he was having feelings of hopelessness
for the present and the future. Another doctor that night described the
examination as "unremarkable." The VA gave him 10 more tablets of
trazodone and sent him home just before 9 p.m.
Doctors found 'no problem' with Navy Yard shooter weeks before rampage
Published time: January 31, 2014 21:31
Veteran Affairs doctors were so sure the Washington,
DC, Navy Yard gunman was clear of mental issues they declared there was
“no problem” with him just weeks before his shooting spree killed 12
people.
According to a new report by the Associated Press, medical
records for the 34-year-old gunman Aaron Alexis showed him
complaining of insomnia multiple times, as well as physical
problems such as hearing loss and foot injuries. Three weeks
before his violent outburst, Alexis adamantly denied harboring
any suicidal or homicidal thoughts.
In early August, Alexis told police that disembodied voices were
using a microwave in his hotel room to keep him awake. The
defense contractor employing Alexis revoked his ability to access
classified material after this came to their attention, but
reinstated his access soon afterwards and declined to inform the
Navy of its actions.
Just over two weeks later, Alexis was treated by a VA doctor for
insomnia and given an antidepressant to help him sleep. The
medical staff did not find anything of significant concern.
“Speech and thoughts clear and focused. Denies flashbacks.
Denies recent stress. Denies drugs, cocaine, heroin, caffeine
product, depression, anxiety, chest pain, [shortness of breath],
nightmares. He denies taking nap during the day. Denies [suicidal
ideation] or [homicidal ideation]," the doctor wrote,
according to the AP.
By TAMI ABDOLLAH and JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press
A baggage handler arrested after dry ice bombs exploded at Los Angeles
International Airport planted the devices as a prank, police said
Wednesday.
The motive was disclosed a day after the arrest of Dicarlo Bennett, a
28-year-old employee for the ground handling company Servisair.
"I think we can safely say he is not a terrorist or an organized crime
boss. He did this for his own amusement," said Los Angeles police Deputy
Chief Michael Downing, who heads the department's counter-terrorism and
special operations bureau.
No one was hurt on Sunday when two plastic bottles packed with dry ice
exploded in an employee bathroom and on the airport's tarmac. An
unexploded device was found Monday night.
As a result of the incident, airport officials plan to meet with law
enforcement authorities to examine potential security enhancements at
one of the nation's busiest airports.
The meeting also will explore the handling and transport of dry ice and
other hazardous materials and possible improvements to those procedures.
Arif Alikhan, deputy executive director for Homeland Security and Law
Enforcement at Los Angeles World Airports, said such meetings are
routine after problems.
"We'll look at all layers of security existing at the airport, including
technology, physical infrastructure, the partnership of tenants,
awareness of employees to potential hazardous items like dry ice,"
Alikhan said.
Workers at the airport must pass a criminal background check before they
can get a security badge for access to restricted areas, LAX
spokeswoman Nancy Castles said.
On Tuesday, police arrested Bennett, who was booked for possession of a
destructive device near an aircraft and held on $1 million bail.
Keith Srakocic / AP 
Guy Wathen / Tribune-Review
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