NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 Teen gun violence: An Associated Press and USA Today Network analysis of Gun Violence Archive data — gathered from media reports and police press releases, and covering a 3½-year period through June of this year — reveals that Wilmington, Del. with a population of 72,000 leads the country in its rate of shootings among young people under 18. Of the 10 cities with the highest rates of teen shootings, most had populations of less than 250,000 people. Among them were Savannah, Ga; Trenton, N.Y.; Syracuse, N.Y.; Fort Myers, Fa.; and Richmond, Va. Chicago was the lone large-population city high on the list. Poverty and a sense of hopelessness in the most violent neighborhoods is a common thread.
_2 Photographer shot: A newspaper photographer from Ohio was shot Monday night by a sheriff ’s deputy who apparently mistook his camera and tripod for a gun, and fired without a warning, the newspaper reported. Andy Grimm, a photographer for the New Carlisle News, left the office to take pictures of lightning when he decided to take photos at a traffic stop with a press pass around his neck, according to the paper’s publisher, Dale Grimm. Clark County Sheriff ’s Deputy Jake Shaw did not give any warnings before he fired, striking Grimm on the side. He is expected to recover.
_3 Baylor lawsuit: Baylor University settled a lawsuit filed by a former student who said she was raped by two football players and alleged the program at the nation’s largest Baptist school in Waco, Texas, fostered a “culture of violence.” The settlement is one of several in recent weeks as the university moves to close out lawsuits filed in the aftermath of an investigation into how the school handled sexual and physical assaults for years. Terms of the settlement filed Tuesday were not released. _4 Emmet Till’s cousin: Simeon Wright, who was with his cousin Emmett Till when the Chicago boy was kidnapped in 1955 after whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, has died. He was 74. Till, who was 14, spent the summer of 1955 visiting relatives in Mississippi and was kidnapped, tortured and killed after whistling at a white woman working at a store in the rural hamlet of Money. His death galvanized the civil rights movement when his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago to show the world her son’s mutilated body. Wright’s cousin, Airickca Gordon-Taylor, said Tuesday that Wright died of cancer Monday at his Chicago-area home. Wright described said he witnessed his cousin whistle at Carolyn Bryant as a group of boys left a market after buying snacks on Aug. 24, 1955. “It scared us half to death,” Wright recalled in 2010. “Some said, ‘Why’d he do it?’ I said, I think he just wanted us to laugh. He wasn’t trying to be fresh. He just wanted to let the boys in Mississippi know, ‘Hey, I’m from Chicago. I can do this. I’m not afraid.’ He had no idea what was going to happen.”