NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Police shooting: Authorities are investigating after a suburban St. Louis police officer fatally shot an armed man near a shopping mall. A Richmond Heights officer saw a shopper — identified as Terry Tillman, 23 — inside the St. Louis Galleria on Saturday carrying a gun, said St. Louis County police. Concealed carry is legal in Missouri, but weapons are prohibited inside the mall. The officer told the man of the mall’s policy, and the man ran. The officer chased him to a parking garage, where the man was shot. Police say a weapon was recovered but released no other details. The officer was not identified but was described as a 23year veteran.
2 Festival injuries: More than two dozen people suffered minor injuries when a stage barricade collapsed during a performance at a Seattle music festival. Fire Department spokesman David Cuerpo said about 25 people were evaluated for injuries after the 4foothigh steel barricade collapsed Saturday night at the Seattle Center, which is playing host to the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. Electronic music artist Jai Wolf was performing at the time. Cuerpo said a crowd was pressed against the barrier, causing it to fall.
3 Terror plot: A 19yearold New York City man accused of plotting a knife attack on behalf of the Islamic State group told undercover agents he wanted to record the bloodshed on video in hopes of inspiring others to commit attacks, federal prosecutors said. Awais Chudhary was arrested last week as he tried to pick up a tactical knife and other material that he had ordered online as his plot escalated from the planning stage to the verge of being carried out, prosecutors said. Chudhary, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan and living in Queens, was arraigned Friday and order jailed without bail on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization.
4 Comic injured: Actorcomedian Kevin Hart was injured early Sunday in the crash of a vintage muscle car in the hills above Malibu. Hart, 40, was a passenger in a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda that went off Mulholland Highway and rolled down an embankment around 12:45 a.m., a California Highway Patrol collision report said. Hart and the driver, Jared Black, 28, both suffered “major back injuries” and were taken to hospitals, the report said. The driver was not under the influence of alcohol, it said.
5 Opioids lawsuits: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is suing to halt upcoming trials seen as test cases for forcing drugmakers to pay for societal damage inflicted by the opioid epidemic. Yost, a Republican, says attempts to force drugmakers to pay should come in a single state action to allow equal distribution of money across Ohio. Yost argues that allowing counties to go to trial individually could lead to inconsistent damage awards and some counties receiving nothing if they lose in court. The attorney general filed his case Friday in Cincinnati. The trials are scheduled to open in October.