NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 American casualty: The Pentagon on Saturday identified the Navy SEAL who was killed in a military operation in Somalia as Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Kyle Milliken, 38, of Falmouth, Maine. He was killed during an operation Thursday against the extremist group al-Shabab. Milliken is the first American to die in combat in Somalia since 1993. Last month, the U.S. said it was sending dozens of regular troops to Somalia in the largest such deployment there in about two decades.
_2 Teen shot: Two San Diego police officers shot and killed a 15-year-old boy who police said pointed a handgun at them as he stood in front of a high school early Saturday. Police received a call at 3:27 a.m. asking for a welfare check on a juvenile at Torrey Pines High School, said police Lt. Mike Holden. The caller said there was a youth in front of the school who someone should check on, the lieutenant said. Police believe the caller was the boy himself. The two officers arrived and saw the boy. “He pulled out a handgun from his waistband and pointed it at the officers,” Holden said. Both officers fired, striking the boy several times. The teen was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Holden said. The boy’s gun was found to be a BB air pistol. Neither the boy nor the officers were immediately identified.
_3 Loretta Lynn stroke: Country music legend Loretta Lynn remained hospitalized Saturday after having a stroke. Sony Music publicist Maria Malta said nothing changed from information posted on Lynn’s website, which reported the 85-year-old was admitted to a Nashville hospital Thursday night after suffering the stroke at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. Lynn’s website says she is responsive and expected to make a full recovery. Lynn had a string of hits starting in the 1960s with the biographical “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”
_4 Wildfire: About 80 residents of the town of St. George in southern Georgia were under an evacuation order Saturday after a wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp encroached within 3 miles of the community. The area, on the Georgia-Florida line, is also under a dense smoke advisory that extends to Florida near Jacksonville. The wildfire, which was ignited by lightning April 6, has burned more than 150 square miles of public lands.
_5 Condo slayings: Two apparent residents of a Boston luxury condominium were found slain inside the building, and the suspect in their deaths was shot multiple times after exchanging fire with police officers, police said. Officers were called to the Macallen Building on Friday night in response to a report of a man with a gun. Commissioner William Evans said a man, identified as Bampumim Teixeira, of Chelsea, fired on the officers when they confronted him at the door of a penthouse condo and police fired back. Police say the 30-year-old Teixeira suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was hospitalized with non-lifethreatening injuries. The officers were not injured. A man and a woman in their 50s were found dead inside the condo. They were not identified.