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Friend: Slain teen said, 'I think I got shot,' then fell
By Eun Kyung Kim, TODAY contributor
Friends who witnessed the random gunning down of a 15-year-old Chicago girl less than a week after she performed at President Obama?s inauguration continue to grapple with the senseless loss of the prep school honors student.
?She was honestly like the happiest person I know and I don't know, like, how to cope with this because it shouldn't have been her,? an emotional Klyn Jones said of her friend, Hadiya Pendleton. ?It shouldn't have been anyone but especially not her.?
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Pendleton was killed Tuesday afternoon in a quiet south-side neighborhood less than a mile from Obama?s Chicago home. She was huddling with Jones and other friends under a canopy to escape the rain when an unidentified gunman came at them, opened fire, and then escaped the scene in a car.
?We were all running because we heard the gunshots and then she stopped and she was like, ?I think I got shot.? And I was like, ?Hadiya, please stop joking,?? Jones said. ?She was like 'No seriously, Klyn, I think I got shot' and she just fell. And then time just like started moving in slow motion.?
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Police say Pendleton, who died shortly later at a hospital, was shot in the back. A teenage boy remains in serious condition. An $11,000 reward has been posted for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the girl's killer.
Pendleton, a sophomore at a selective Chicago prep school, had been in Washington a week earlier to perform in a marching band competition that was part of the inaugural festivities.
?It just hurts,? said her father, Nate Pendleton. ?To know another good one is gone.?
Friends posted pictures of Pendleton and paid tribute to her on a Facebook memorial page created Wednesday that had accumulated more than 15,000 ?likes? in less than 24 hours. One photo posted to the page featured Pendleton?s younger brother being consoled as tears run down his face.?
?VERY HEARTBREAKING! Please keep the family in your prayers tonight," the caption read.
Community members called for a stop to the violence.
"The tears in this family, the pain etched in their face, it's unacceptable to everybody in Chicago,"?said Rev.?Michael Pfleger of Chicago?s St. Sabina Church. ?This is Sandy Hook. This is Connecticut. This is Newtown right here. And we have to be just as outraged."
Police, who believe Pendleton may have been shot with a revolver, say no arrests have been made in the case.
Outrage over Pendleton?s death grew as lawmakers in Washington debate gun control and Chicago struggles to suppress the a rising homicide count and growing gun violence, including six people shot Wednesday night, according to the Chicago Tribune.?
More:?Teen slain after performing at inaugural: 'Happiest day of her life and then she's gone'?
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Green Blog: Lowland Gorillas, Protected in a Green Abyss
The locals said it could not be done. It was 1999, and the hardheaded ecologist J. Michael Fay was determined to tromp across 2,000 miles of the Congo Basin. In a northeastern patch, he ran into a swampy tangle so thick that he struggled to advance by a single mile in under 12 hours.
?He later said it was one of the most difficult things he had ever attempted in his life,? said Paul Telfer, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society?s Congo program. When Dr. Fay, also a staff member at the conservation society, emerged from his journey 455 days later, he referred to that wild forested place as ?the green abyss.?
Now the government of the Republic of Congo has declared the area a national park, ensuring that the green abyss remains just that. Gorillas, it turns out, do not mind the forests? tangle.
In 2008, the Wildlife Conservation Society discovered that an estimated 15,000 western lowland gorillas were living there, which helped spur the government to make a decision to protect the forest. ?The density of gorillas in this area turned out to be surprisingly high,? Dr. Telfer said. ?As big as gorillas are, it?s surprising how nimble they are in these dense understories ? it?s their preferred habitat.?
With this new population taken into account, the northern Republic of Congo now supports an estimated 125,000 gorillas.
After several years of study, consultation and dialogue among various governmental bodies, a 1,765 square-mile patch of land became Ntokou-Pikounda National Park. ?We celebrate and acknowledge the efforts of the Congolese government to protect this extraordinary ecosystem,? said Cristi?n Samper, the president and chief executive of the Wildlife Conservation Society. ?There are three national parks established in this region now, so we?re really looking at a major piece of the Congo rain forest being preserved and managed in a sustainable way.?
Around 25,000 to 30,000 people live in towns and villages surrounding the new park. At meetings with local communities, Dr. Telfer said, many people seemed supportive, but then one village head voiced misgivings about the park limits. ?He stood up, and I thought, ?Oh my, here we go,?? Dr. Telfer recalled. ?But then he said his village had identified a significant population of hippopotamus and he was concerned because the park limits did not include these animals.?
After confirming the hippos? whereabouts, the park?s border was extended. The community hopes that the animals will attract some tourists, which could boost the local economy, Dr. Telfer said.
In addition to protecting gorillas, the park shelters the great apes? forest neighbors, including around 800 elephants and 940 chimpanzees. ?This park is a great victory not just for gorillas but for conservation,? said Jerome Mokoko, the associate director of the Congo program. ?What should not be overlooked is that this park supports wetlands with huge numbers of fish, crocodiles and Congo?s largest and most secure population of hippos.?
Ntokou-Pikounda National Park?s relative inhospitality to humans helps to protect wildlife dwelling by deterring poachers or at least making poaching more challenging. But pressures on great apes remain high on the forest?s eastern border, where some communities reportedly have a preference for gorilla meat.
The threat of the Ebola virus, which occasionally breaks out and decimates gorilla populations, also ranks among conservationists? concerns. ?Clearly, our work is just beginning and we have to continue protecting and studying gorillas and the many other species there,? Dr. Samper said.
For now, however, conservationists are focusing on the positive. ?I tell you, the first time you see a big male gorilla in a tropical forest like that, it?s more humbling and inspirational an experience than you?d ever imagine,? said Dr. Samper, who recently viewed Congolese gorillas in the wild for the first time.
?My first thought was, ?Oh, my god,? and then I was just so happy and proud to be there in their ecosystem and to know that we are working to preserve it,? he said.
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Video: Mount St. Helens' Lava Dome Shoves a Glacier
In the battle between mountains and ice, the cold stuff usually wins. Over time, glaciers can grind down tall peaks like buzz saws.
But at Mount St. Helens in Washington, a swelling lump of lava emerged the victor in a recent rock and ice face-off.
Two stunning time-lapse videos show a bulging dome in the volcano's crater shoving aside a glacier and sending it galloping out of the way. The big push came between 2004 and 2008, when the mountain squeezed out more than 125 million cubic yards (93 million cubic meters) of new lava.
The glacier, called Crater Glacier, started gathering snow and ice in the winter following Mount St. Helens' massive eruption on May 18, 1980. By 2004, it was up to 650 feet (200 m) thick and about 0.4 square miles (1 square kilometer) in size, despite the volcano periodically spewing lava, steam and ash.
Heavy winter snowfall and shading from the high crater cliffs contributed to the glacier's rapid growth, according to a United States Geological Survey report published in 2008. The ice advanced up to 3 feet (1 m) every day. And cold rocks along its border insulated the frozen stream from the thick, pasty lava, the report said.
But in 2004, a new lava dome split Crater Glacier in two, crushing it against the crater walls and doubling the thickness of the ice.
By July 2008, the USGS declared the eruption over, and the new lava dome has been relatively quiet since. The jumbled, fractured ice eventually relaxed, flowing around the dome in a horseshoe shape. Crater Glacier continues to move down the mountain, joined by two smaller glaciers on the steep cliffs nearby.
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Behind serial killer cases, Canada's "forsaken" women
(Reuters) - Sarah de Vries started running away when she was 13, in 1983. She lived in cheap apartments and grim hotels in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia - places that would let a teenager turn tricks. Later, she got hooked on heroin.
Sarah's big sister, Maggie, remembers a bubbly, adorable baby. But life was not always easy. Of mixed race, with some black and aboriginal ancestry, Sarah was targeted by racist bullies, and sometimes felt disconnected from her white adoptive family.
In 1995, she wrote about how many women were missing from her neighborhood, Vancouver's rough Downtown Eastside.
"Am I next? Is he watching me now?" she wrote in a journal her sister published years later, after Sarah, too, disappeared. "Stalking me like a predator and its prey. Waiting, waiting for some perfect spot, time or my stupid mistake."
We know now that the Downtown Eastside was where serial killer Robert Pickton found his victims, picking up sex workers, killing them, and disposing of their bodies on his pig farm.
Investigators charged him with 26 murders, but only six counts went to trial. Found guilty in 2007, Pickton was jailed for life, the toughest sentence possible in Canada, which has no death penalty.
Vancouver police now admit they made mistakes probing the murders, and a public inquiry report released last month, entitled "Forsaken", highlighted a "systemic bias" against the victims, paired with public indifference.
Canada is still wrestling with what the Pickton case means. It prompted questions about the fate of scores of other missing and murdered women, and in the years since Pickton's 2002 arrest, police have set up new task forces to investigate some of the disappearances.
One of these is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Project E-Pana, which was asked to determine whether one or more serial killers has stalked young women along British Columbia's highways.
The impact has been felt as far away as Oregon, where new DNA evidence from one E-Pana case brought the first break in the 1995 cold-case murder of two teenage girls.
But closer to home, activists and victims' families fear that too little has changed, and more killers may be at large.
"COMPELLING INFORMATION"
When Sarah de Vries went missing in 1998, her disappearance was one of many unsolved cases in the Downtown Eastside.
Vancouver police believed there had been an uptick in disappearances, but were unsure why. Some officers recognized a serial killer at work, but others clung to the idea that the women had just moved, and did not want to be found.
A Vancouver police review from 2010 said the case was only clear in hindsight. But it also found that even in 1998 and 1999, police had "compelling information" pointing to Pickton: tales of bloody clothes, a woman's body suspended in his barn.
Pickton agreed to a search in 2000, but it was never done, and he was caught in 2002 only because of a separate weapons probe. DNA linked him to 33 of the Downtown Eastside's more than 60 missing women, including Sarah de Vries.
Activists had raised the alarm about missing women as early as 1991. Susan Davis, an activist and 26-year veteran of Vancouver's sex trade, said the community was already on edge because of the Green River Killer in nearby Washington State, later identified as Gary Ridgway.
Ridgway murdered at least 49 women, many of them sex workers, in the 1980s and 1990s, and was not caught until 2001.
There may be other killers too. Police believe Alaska's confessed serial murderer, Israel Keyes, who committed suicide in December, spent time in Canada. Canadian police are working with U.S. investigators, but have not yet linked him to any cases.
"At first, they get away with just sexually assaulting you, or beating you, or robbing you," said Davis, who believes police indifference set the stage for Pickton's murders. "When they see that they can get away with that, things escalate."
Vancouver police, who say they have made changes since 2002, have apologized: "We could have, and we should have, caught Pickton sooner," Chief Constable Jim Chu said in December.
Pickton's farm was in an area that is under the jurisdiction of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who have said they will study the inquiry report. They declined to comment on the case.
NEWPORT MURDERS
In northern British Columbia, so many women, many of them aboriginal, have gone missing along Highway 16 that their families call it the "Highway of Tears". Those cases, along with disappearances near two other highways in the province, are Project E-Pana's focus. The 18 cases it is dealing with date from 1969 to 2006.
E-Pana solved its first case in the fall, and that led to a breakthrough outside Canada, in the pretty seaside town of Newport, Oregon, where Jennifer Esson and Kara Leas, both 16, were killed in 1995.
The girls had been visiting Esson's boyfriend, and left late in the evening, likely planning to hitchhike home. Almost three weeks later, workers found their bodies north of town.
The case went cold for 17 years, until E-Pana sent Interpol a new DNA profile from a man who they believe killed 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen in central British Columbia in 1974.
That DNA, Interpol found, belonged to Bobby Jack Fowler, a convicted kidnapper who died of lung cancer in an Oregon prison in 2006. Fowler's last arrest was in Newport, and when the Canadian police visited, local authorities took notice.
In September, Oregon authorities named Fowler a suspect in the Leas and Esson murders, and a person of interest in a similar 1992 case. Newport investigator Ron Benson said Fowler may have had other victims in both Canada and the United States.
"It does keep me up nights, wondering why I wasn't there to protect her," said Jennifer Esson's father, Floyd. But Fowler's "good, slow death" has given him some comfort.
Without E-Pana, Newport authorities might never have identified a suspect.
NO ANSWERS ON HIGHWAY OF TEARS
But while E-Pana, which police say they named for an Inuit goddess who cares for the dead, identified Fowler, it has not cracked any of the cases along Highway 16. Gladys Radek, who grew up in northern British Columbia, said she has known about the disappearances since she was a girl. In 2005, her niece, 22-year-old Tamara Chipman, went missing.
"The RCMP have always been in denial that there is a Highway of Tears," she said.
The cases were highlighted in a 2010 report from the Native Women's Association of Canada's Sisters In Spirit, a project that cataloged nearly 600 cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls across Canada.
Among Canada's major provinces, British Columbia had the lowest clearance rate - 49 percent of the murders were unsolved, compared with 39 percent nationally - perhaps because of the Highway of Tears, and Downtown Eastside cases that remain open.
Aboriginal women are disproportionately likely to be murdered in Canada, and they were overrepresented among Pickton's suspected victims.
Wally Oppal, whose inquiry produced the "Forsaken" report, recommended that British Columbia's government replace the patchwork of police jurisdictions in the Vancouver area with a regional force. He said geographic isolation, poor transit and poverty in the north of the province have put women and girls at particular risk.
The matter is urgent, he wrote: "Serial predators are committing violence today; that is an inescapable fact."
Kate Rexe, who directed Sisters In Spirit from 2008 to 2011, said the Pickton trial was a double-edged sword, attracting attention, but creating a faulty perception that all the missing women were in the sex trade.
Rexe can list other Canadian cities where unsolved cases may indicate a serial killer, but she has seen some loss of momentum. "It seemed as though there was a lot of interest for a short period of time in educating police officers, that has since been put on hold, or just cut altogether."
Oppal's mandate centered on Vancouver, not the bigger issue of missing women. But his sweeping 1,400-page account of police failure and public indifference referred repeatedly to a broader crisis, and he exhorted his readers to learn from what happened in Vancouver. He also quoted from Sarah de Vries' journals.
"Will they remember me when I am gone?" she asked. "Or would their lives just carry on?"
(Reporting by Allison Martell in Toronto and Teresa Carson in Newport, Oregon; Editing by Janet Guttsman, Cynthia Johnston and; Peter Galloway)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/behind-serial-killer-cases-canadas-forsaken-women-122417912.html
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1 dead in Arizona office shooting, suspect on loose
PHOENIX (AP) ? Police are hunting for an "armed and dangerous" 70-year-old man suspected in a Phoenix office complex shooting that left one person dead and two wounded.
Arthur Douglas Harmon allegedly opened fire at the end of a mediation session Wednesday morning at a three-story office complex in north-central Phoenix, police said.
One man ? identified by police as 48-year-old Steve Singer ? died hours after the shooting. They said a 43-year-old man was listed in critical condition and a 32-year-old woman suffered non-life threatening injuries.
"We believe the two men were the targets. It was not a random shooting," said Sgt. Tommy Thompson, a Phoenix police spokesman.
Thompson said the gunman arrived at the office building about 10:30 a.m. and got into a dispute with someone, a conflict that escalated to the point where the suspect drew a gun and shot three people.
Police believe Harmon acted alone and fled the scene in a car. Police said he had at least one gun and was considered "armed and dangerous."
Harmon also allegedly shot at someone who tried to follow him after the shooting in an attempt to get his license plate number, according to authorities.
Police didn't immediately release the names of the wounded. But a Phoenix law firm, Osborn Maledon, said one of its lawyers, Mark Hummels, was among the wounded. The firm said Hummels "was representing a client in a mediation" when he was shot.
According to court documents, Harmon was scheduled to go to a law office in the same building where the shooting took place for a settlement conference in a lawsuit he filed last April against Scottsdale-based Fusion Contact Centers LLC, where Singer was the CEO.
The company had hired him to refurbish office cubicles at two call centers in California, but a contract dispute arose.
Fusion said Harmon was paid nearly $30,000 under the $47,000 contract. But the company asked him to repay much of the money when it discovered that the cubicles could not be refurbished, according to the documents.
Harmon argued Fusion hung him out to dry by telling him to remove and store 206 "worthless" work stations after the mix-up was discovered. Harmon said Fusion then told him that the company decided to use a competitor.
Harmon's lawsuit had sought payment for the remainder of the contract, $20,000 in damages and reimbursement for storage fees and legal costs.
Hummels was representing Fusion in the lawsuit.
Pro tempore Judge Ira Schwartz, who scheduled the meeting, didn't immediately return an email seeking comment. A message left Wednesday at the home of Singer also wasn't returned.
As police searched for the shooter, SWAT teams and two armored vehicles surrounded a home about 7 miles north of the shooting scene. Police served a search warrant to enter the house, which county property records show was sold by Harmon to his son last year for $26,000.
For a time, officers used a megaphone to ask Harmon to surrender, believing he might be inside the home.
Lois Ellen, who has lived across the street from the Harmon home for about eight years, said she was startled to see all the police cars in the neighborhood.
She said she never met Arthur Harmon but had seen him walking a dog before.
Ellen said he wasn't very neighborly and the people in the Harmon home "keep to themselves."
The gunfire at the office complex prompted terrified workers to lock the doors to their offices and hide far from the windows. SWAT officers searched the building.
"Everyone was just scared, honestly, just scared," said Navika Sood, assistant director of nursing at First at Home Health Services who along with her co-workers locked the entrances to their office.
Sood said police evacuated the office about 30 minutes after she first heard the popping noises.
Vanessa Brogan, who works in sales support at an insurance business in the three-story complex, said she heard a loud bang that she thought at first was from somebody working in or near the building.
She said others at the business thought they heard multiple loud noises. She said people locked themselves in offices until authorities evacuated the complex that houses insurance, medical and law offices.
Becky Neher, who works for a title company in the building, said the two gunshots she heard sounded like two pieces of metal banging against each other.
Watching from her second-story office, she saw people leaving the building.
"Someone yelled, 'We have a shooter,'" she said. She saw two victims lying on the ground outside the back side of the building. She said health care workers who have offices in the complex came out to help.
Don Jaksa, a software consultant who works in the building, said he was listening to the radio when he suddenly heard "two pops." He said he didn't think they were gunshots.
"My co-worker goes to the range all the time," he said. "He identified it as gunfire."
The shooting took place on the same day that hearings on legislation to address gun violence were convened in Washington, with former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords testifying for stricter gun controls.
A gunman shot Giffords in the head during a shooting rampage in Tucson in January 2011.
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Associated Press writers Paul Davenport, Felicia Fonseca, Terry Tang and Walter Berry contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-1-dead-ariz-shooting-suspect-loose-234833738.html
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