Police officer shot victim in the back, court papers say

British man, 18, arrested in hack of Sony, Microsoft

An 18-year-old British man was arrested yesterday in connection with a hacking attack that temporarily shut down the computer networks for Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation 4 video-game consoles on Christmas Day.

The man, who was not identified, was arrested in northern England for potentially providing false information to U.S. law-enforcement agencies, according to British police, who were working on the case with the FBI. He was arrested on charges of unauthorized access to computer material, according to the British police.

The attack against the computer networks run by Microsoft and Sony, for which the hacker activist group known as Lizard Squad had claimed responsibility, led to gamers worldwide complaining because they could not access their accounts.

Woman to be committed after plea in exorcism deaths

AMaryland woman will be committed to a psychiatric hospital after pleading guilty yesterday to charges of killing two children during what she said was an exorcism, according to a prosecution official.

Monifa Sanford pleaded guilty to two counts of firstdegree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder under a plea agreement, according to the state’s attorney’s office in Montgomery County. As part of the deal, the defense and prosecution agreed that Sanford was not criminally responsible.

Sanford was one of two women charged in the attack last January.

Zakieya Avery, 28, the mother of the two children killed, told investigators that she and Sanford believed that evil spirits had possessed the children and that an exorcism was needed to drive the demons out.

Norell Harris, 1, and Zyana Harris, 2, were stabbed repeatedly at their home in Germantown, about 30 miles northwest of Washington, where Sanford also lived.

Hospital investigating after teenage boy posed as doctor

A teenage boy who had been posing as a doctor at a Florida hospital and nearby doctor’s office for about a month was caught after a concerned patient turned him in, police said yesterday.

Security guards at St. Mary’s Medical Center told West Palm Beach police that the boy was known at the hospital as a doctor and had been seen entering a secured area, according to a police incident report.

The boy, whose name and age were not released by police, had never seen patients at the

A policeman charged with murder in the shooting death of a man last year in a rural Colorado community shot the victim in the back when he posed no threat to the officer, court papers unsealed yesterday showed.

James Ashby, 31, is charged with second-degree murder in the October killing of Jack Jacquez, 27, in the small farming town of Rocky Ford, about 135 miles southeast of Denver.

Details about the shooting emerged after Ashby was bound over for trial by Otero County District Judge Mark MacDonnell after a preliminary hearing on Thursday.

Ashby was fired from the police department after his arrest in November. He is free on a $150,000 bond and is set to be arraigned on Feb. 12.