Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
In the news
■ Raphaela Mueller, a Minnesota woman, said she felt “nauseated and I wanted to cry, which I ended up doing” when she first saw a couple in a Marshall, Minn., Walmart wearing red masks emblazoned with swastikas, of which Mueller later posted a video on Facebook.
■ Dale Engle, the former police chief of Davie, Fla., accused of saying a Broward County sheriff’s deputy died of covid-19 because of his “homosexual lifestyle,” announced he is retiring after a three-month investigation into his conduct during which he was placed on administrative leave.
■ L’Jean McKneely,a Baton Rouge police spokesman, said “the sad thing is nobody stayed on the scene” after the deaths of two men shot in neighborhood gunfire where a group was filming a rap video. m Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Kuwait’s 91-year-old ruling emir, landed in Rochester, Minn., after being flown across the world in a U.S. Air Force C-17 flying hospital for medical treatment days after undergoing an unspecified surgery in Kuwait.
■ Eric Breemen, a Colorado man who is facing attempted murder and other charges in the vehicular assault of Lakhwant Singh, the Sikh owner of a Lakewood, Colo., liquor store, is now facing a hate crime charge as well, according to prosecutors.
■ Nicolas Zepeda ,a 29-year-old Chilean man, was ordered jailed in Besancon, France, after he was extradited from his home nation pending an investigation by French authorities into the disappearance four years ago of Zepeda’s ex-girlfriend, a Japanese student, who had been studying in Besancon.
■ Jaron Lemmitt, 18, faces second-degree murder and other charges in the fatal shooting of Jaquan Steed and the wounding of another man during a dispute between two groups at the St. Louis Galleria in Richmond Heights, Mo., according to police documents.
■ Billy Kruger , a French-American man from Brooklyn, was in custody in Toulouse, France, after the death of his wife, Laure Bardina-Kruger, whose body was found with stab wounds in a storm drain in Peyriac-de-Mer, where the couple had been vacationing.
■ Trenell Aisola, a former substitute teacher in Poydras, La., was sentenced to a year of probation after she pleaded guilty to simple battery and disturbing the peace charges for roughing up two boys while she was working at a middle school, according to officials.