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Police: Illinois shooting suspect kills 2 coworkers,
himself SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The 48-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting two coworkers and critically wounding another at a central Illinois warehouse Friday died after apparently shooting himself, the city’s police chief said.
Springfield police believe Michael L. Collins fatally shot himself Friday after shooting and killing two coworkers at the Bunn-O-Matic facility shortly after 11 a.m. Collins, of Springfield, also critically injured another woman, police said.
Collins, the two other men and the woman all arrived for work at about 7 a.m. Friday in the welding area of the facility, Springfield Police Chief Kenny Winslow told reporters Friday evening. They all worked in the same area, he said.
Winslow said the sheriff of nearby Morgan County called his office later Friday to say Collins’ body had been found in the suspect’s car. Two handguns were found in the car. No other suspects were being sought.
Winslow released Collins’ name earlier Friday but later said he would not repeat it. The names of the victims were not released, neither was the name of the female co-worker who was in critical condition at a hospital.
8 more suspects arrested in Scottsdale mall destruction SCOTTSDALE — Police in Scottsdale say they’ve arrested eight more people connected to the destruction and burglary of several stores at a high-end mall in the city’s downtown last month.
Police arrested 27-yearold Brittany Mantz, 20-yearold Alex Benjamin Grangroth,
19-year-old Devion Gardner-Jones, 21-year-old Joshua Michael Bosch and 23-year-old Shavanta Dominique Winfree. Three minors were also arrested but their identities were not released.
The incident on May 30 started off as a peaceful protest but ended with some people smashing windows, destroying stores and stealing merchandise from Scottsdale Fashion Square. The mall was closed for about 10 days while repairs were made.
The incident made national news and led to Gov.
Doug Ducey instituting a temporary curfew as protests over police brutality flared around the country and the Phoenix area. The curfew has since expired.
The suspects face varying charges of trafficking stolen property, rioting, burglary and unlawful assembly.
Scottsdale police say they’ve arrested 44 people altogether for their roles that night, and an investigation is ongoing.
Brazen ambush of Mexico City chief blamed on Jalisco
cartel
MEXICO CITY — Dozens of gunmen believed tied to the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel deployed for a complex, multipoint dawn ambush meant to kill Mexico City’s police chief, unleashing one of the most brazen attacks in Mexico since the equally ruthless Zetas carved a path of terror across the country nearly a decade ago.
The attackers used grenades and a .50-caliber sniper rifle to assault the chief’s armored vehicle early Friday and killed two of the his bodyguards and a woman driving by. Police chief Omar García Harfuch was shot in the shoulder, collar bone and the knee but was reported out of danger.
He called the attack “cowardly” and blamed it on the Jalisco cartel, which has established a nearly national presence, from the whitesand beaches of Cancun to Mexico City and the country’s most important ports, as well as in key border cities traditionally controlled by other cartels.
Police officers who converged on the scene on the capital’s iconic Paseo de la Reforma boulevard in the upscale Lomas neighborhood rounded up a dozen of the shooters, who were hauled off for questioning, authorities said.
Later Friday, capital police arrested an alleged head of Jalisco New Generation hitmen, suggesting he could have been the mastermind of the attack, said a Mexico City police official who was not authorized to be quoted by name.
The official said police arrested José Armando Briseño on the east side of the city. Nicknamed “Cow,” he is allegedly the gang’s chief of hitmen in the city of Tonalá in Jalisco.
The attack on the police chief was meticulously planned and involved a total of 28 gunmen hired three weeks before, said Ulises Lara, the spokesman for the Mexico City prosecutors office. Three separate possible ambush points were set up on major thoroughfares, including one — which wasn’t used — in the heart of Mexico City, one block from the Independence Monument.