5 people and suspect killed in Denver-area shootings, police say
DENVER — A gunman who went on a deadly shooting rampage through several business districts in and around Denver was targeting at least some of his victims, authorities said Tuesday.
The suspect in Monday’s shootings killed five people, including one who succumbed to her injuries Tuesday, police said.
The gunman also died after exchanging gunfire Monday night with officers in the Denver suburb of Lakewood. Police identified him Tuesday as Lyndon James McCleod, 47.
Two others were wounded, including an officer as police pursued the suspect.
Matt Clark, commander of the Denver Police Department’s Major Crimes Division, said during a news conference that McCleod was on the radar of law enforcement and that he knew some of his victims. Authorities did not say what McCleod had been investigated for in the past, but noted no charges were filed.
The shootings started shortly after 5 p.m. in central Denver along Broadway, where two women were killed and a man was injured, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen said.
A short time later, a man was fatally shot in another location, Pazen said. Gunshots were also fired along another busy street near Denver Health hospital, but no one was injured.
Later, Denver police chased the vehicle believed to have been involved in the shootings and exchanged gunfire with the person inside, but the suspect was able to get away after “disabling” the police car, Pazen said.
The suspect then fled into
Lakewood.
Just before 6 p.m., the Lakewood Police Department received a report of shots fired at a business in the city, said John Romero, a spokesman for that department. A gunshot victim was later found and pronounced dead at the scene.
When officers found the car suspected of being involved, the suspect opened fire and officers shot back.
The suspect ran away and allegedly threatened someone in a business with a gun before going into a Hyatt hotel and shooting a clerk, who was taken to the hospital, Romero said.
The clerk, identified Tuesday as Sarah Steck, has since died.
The suspect also shot and wounded a Lakewood police officer in the abdomen after leaving the hotel, Romero said. The officer shot back, and the suspect was killed.
The wounded officer, whose name has not been released, underwent surgery Monday night. She is expected to make a full recovery.
Family members identified one of the victims Tuesday as Alicia Cardenas, 44, who was killed in the initial shooting.
Sudan mine collapse: Sudanese authorities said at least 38 people were killed Tuesday when a defunct gold mine collapsed in West Kordofan province.
The country’s state-run mining company said in a statement the collapse of the closed, non-functioning mine took place in the village of Fuja 435 miles south of the capital of Khartoum. It said there were also injuries without giving a specific tally.
Local media reported that several shafts collapsed at the Darsaya mine, and that besides the dead at least
Honoring Tutu’s life: eight injured people were taken to a local hospital.
Collapses are common in Sudan’s gold mines, where safety standards are not widely in effect.
Attack in Syria: Firefighters contained a blaze that raged for hours in Syria’s port of Latakia on Tuesday, officials said, hours after Israel launched missiles from the Mediterranean Sea, igniting the fire in the container terminal.
The early morning raid targeted the port that handles most of the imports to Syria, a country ravaged by a decade-old civil war and Western-imposed sanctions.
Syrian officials and state media said Tuesday’s attack caused more damage, and the explosion could be heard miles away.
A military official said Israeli missiles were fired from the sea to the west, hitting the terminal and igniting fires.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from the missile attack, according to the official state news agency SANA.
Myanmar massacre: The humanitarian group Save the Children said Tuesday it has confirmed that two of its staff were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in eastern Myanmar on Christmas Eve in an attack it blamed on the country’s military.
It said the two staff members were caught up in the attack in Kayah state as they were traveling back to their office after conducting humanitarian activities in a nearby community.
The army seized power in February, ousting the elected government and arresting top officials. Its action was met by nonviolent nationwide demonstrations, which security forces quashed with deadly force, killing nearly 1,400 civilians, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.
Save the Children called on the U.N. Security Council
to respond to the army violence with steps including an arms embargo. Brazil flooding: A total of 116 cities in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia were in a state of emergency because of flooding on Tuesday due to heavy rains that have been pounding the region since the end of November.
Cities in at least five other states in Brazil’s north and southeast have also been flooded in recent days.
In Bahia, flooding has affected more than 470,000 people. In at least 50 cities, water surged into homes and businesses, and people were forced to abandon their belongings. Official data from the state government say 34,163 people have been made homeless and almost 43,000 are displaced.
There have been a total of 21 deaths and 358 people injured since the beginning of the month.
This is the heaviest period of rainfall for Bahia in the last 32 years, according to the website of the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts of Natural Disasters, a government agency. North Dakota slayings: A man convicted of killing four people in what authorities say was one of the most gruesome crimes in North Dakota history was sentenced Tuesday to multiple life prison terms without the possibility of parole.
Judge David Reich sentenced Chad Isaak, 47, to consecutive life terms for each of his four murder convictions.
Before learning his fate, Isaak addressed the court, saying, “I can honestly tell you I’m not a murderer, and that’s all I have to say.”
A jury in August found Isaak guilty of killing Robert Fakler, 52; Adam Fuehrer, 42; Bill Cobb, 50; and his wife, Lois Cobb, 45.
The four were shot and stabbed in 2019 at a property management company building in Mandan.