NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 _ Kenosha shootings: A 17yearold from Illinois who is charged with killing two people during a protest in Wisconsin and whose case has become a rallying cry for some conservatives posted $ 2 million bail Friday and was released from custody. Kyle Rittenhouse is accused of fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounding Gaige Grosskreutz during a demonstration Aug. 25 that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. Rittenhouse told police that he was attacked while he was guarding a business and that he fired in selfdefense. He faces multiple charges, including intentional homicide.
2 _ Federal execution: Orlando Hall got stiffed on a drug deal and went to a Texas apartment looking for the two brothers who took his money. They weren’t home, but their 16yearold sister was. Late Thursday, Hall, 49, was put to death in Terre Haute, Ind., for abducting and killing the teenager, Lisa Rene, in 1994. His was the eighth federal execution this year since the Trump administration revived a process that had been used just three times in the past 56 years. A judge’s stay over concerns about the execution drug gave Hall a reprieve, but for less than six hours. After the Supreme Court overturned the stay, he was put to death just before midnight.
3 _ Fugitive arrested: A man wanted on homicide charges in connection with the recent discovery of the skeletal remains of three people in a remote Colorado town was arrested Thursday at a motel in Gallup, N. M., authorities said. Adre Jordan Baroz, 26, was arrested a day after authorities said they were searching for him in connection with the discovery last week of the remains of three people in Lasauses near the New Mexico line, about 270 miles northeast of Gallup. The authorities have not said how they connected Baroz to the remains.
4 _ Guards charged: Two former state prison guards in Sacramento were charged Thursday with trying to cover up an attack by one officer that caused the death of an inmate. A federal grand jury indicted Arturo Pacheco, 38, for deprivation of rights under color of law and falsifying records. Ashley Marie Aurich, 31, also was charged with falsifying records. Pacheco and Aurich were escorting a 65yearold inmate on Sept. 15, 2016, when the man stopped walking. Pacheco bent down behind the man and pulled his legs out from under him, the indictment alleged. The inmate, whose hands were cuffed behind him, struck his head on the concrete and later died. Pacheco and Aurich then allegedly made false reports on the incident.
5 _ Wayward owl: A small owl that was found dehydrated and hungry in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is eating its way back to good health and is to be released back into the wild Saturday. The male sawwhet owl was dubbed Rockefeller after it was found Monday by a worker setting up the towering holiday tree in Manhattan. The Norway spruce was cut down 170 miles northwest in upstate New York and brought to Manhattan on Saturday. The bird was taken to a wildlife center in the Hudson Valley, where it dined on mice during recovery.