New Orleans police release photos of Mother's Day shooting suspect!

 

New Orleans police on Monday released photos that they said show a suspect in the shooting at a Mother's Day parade in which 19 people, including two children, were wounded.

New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas told reporters on Monday that investigators are making significant progress on the investigation, although no one has yet been arrested.

"I can assure whoever did this, we know a lot more about you than you think we do," Serpas said at a press conference. "And my recommendation to you is to collect yourself and turn yourself in."

The image singling out the suspect does not clearly show the face, and police, who released the photographs on YouTube, asked for the public's help in identifying and finding the person. A reward for information that might help find the shooter was increased from $5,000 to $10,000.

Ten men, seven women and a girl and a boy, both 10 years old, were hit when one or more people opened fire at the parade on Sunday.

Serpas said he has not ruled out that the shooting was gang related.

Investigators on Monday were still trying to figure out if there was more than one shooter and more than one weapon, Serpas said.

The photographs, taken from a surveillance video, first show crowds of people in a street, and then the crowd is seen scattering and ducking.

The final image focuses on what appears to be a man in a white shirt leaving the scene on foot as other people are lying on the pavement. The image does not clearly show his face.

Two victims underwent surgery and the children were grazed but in good condition, police said. It was unclear if the victims were marching or watching the parade.

Violent crime in New Orleans ranks above the national average in FBI surveys. A poll of residents in 2010 found crime to be their greatest concern.

Father Stands By 12-Year-Old Son Arrested in Sister Leila Fowler's Stabbing Death!

The father of a 12-year-old boy arrested in the stabbing death of his 8 year old sister, Leila Fowler, said he supports his son and believes he is innocent until evidence proves otherwise.

Barney Fowler told The Associated Press today that his family is standing behind the boy "until they have the proper evidence to show it's my son."

On April 27, Leila's 12-year-old brother, who has not been identified because he is a minor, told Valley Springs, Calif., authorities he found his sister stabbed to death after an intruder broke into their home.

The 12-year-old said he called his parents, who alerted sheriff's deputies. The boy told authorities the intruder, who he described as a tall man with a muscular build, fled the scene. The boy's description launched a 15-day manhunt that included door-to-door searches and divers in a reservoir.

The Calaveras County Sheriff's Office in Northern California announced the arrest of the 12 year old boy late Saturday. He is expected to be charged with homicide.

Neighbors in Valley Springs, Calif., where the family lives, said they feared all along that Leila's brother -- not a mystery man the boy described -- might be responsible for the girl's stabbing death. Community members were both relieved and saddened by the news of the boy's arrest.

Barbara Barron, who lives two doors down from Leila Fowler's home, said she suspected the brother from the beginning and found it unusual that he allegedly called his parents before calling police when he found his sister.

"It made us sadder, because he's just 12 years old," Barron told News men. "The family has lost two children now."

She described the neighborhood as "really quiet" and "very somber."

"Everybody speculates, and everybody said this and that, but I just prayed," Mary Gallagher, a friend of the Fowler grandparents, said. "I prayed it wasn't him."

Neighbors said they had not seen Leila's family since her death, but Leila's grandfather said the family is struggling.

"I don't know what to think. They had been trying to make a case for a while now," grandfather Dennis Fowler said. "It's been really hard on the family."

Several knives were taken from the Fowlers' home to determine if one of them had been used in the murder, The Associated Press reported. In the days after the stabbing, a neighbor, who told police she saw a man flee the home, also recanted her story, the AP reported.

Authorities initially said Leila's brother was not a suspect, but acknowledged they were continuing to talk with him.

"We are continuing to talk to him, which would be normal because he was the last person with the child," Calaveras County Sheriff's Capt. Jim Macedo said at a news conference last month.

Macedo said at the news conference that investigators had collected fingerprints and what they believed to be DNA at the crime scene.

Authorities have not said what led to the arrest the 12-year-old boy on Saturday.

After a tense two weeks, Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz said he hoped the arrest would bring some peace of mind to a community that has been on edge.

"Citizens of Calaveras County, you can sleep a little better tonight," he said.

Private jets used to smuggle cash, fugitives – FG!

Nigeria:


The Federal Government on Sunday said illegal consignments and cash in local and foreign currencies were being smuggled on daily basis in and out of the country aboard private jets.




 It also said some persons that securities agencies had declared wanted were being airlifted out of the country aboard private and chartered jets.

As a result, it insisted that pilots flying such jets must declare the passenger manifest before being allowed to take off.

An aircraft manifest contains the names of all persons aboard the plane, among other things.

The Coordinating Information and Communications Manager for aviation parastatals, Mr. Yakubu Dati, told reporters in Lagos on Sunday that the order for the declaration of passenger manifest was necessary to check the abuse of the use of private and chartered jets.

He said for security reasons, especially the need to arrest those who had constituted security threats to the country, the government would not renege on its decision for pilots of private jets to file their manifests before being given Air Traffic Control clearance.

Dati said security operatives had disclosed that many wanted persons were being smuggled out of the country with private jets.

He also stated that some wanted persons were being sneaked into the country without appropriate checks as many private jets take off from private facilities at airports.

Dati spoke on the heels of the criticism that have trailed the introduction of some new policy measures for the private jet sub-sector in the country.

The government had through the National Civil Aviation Policy, 2013 unveiled two weeks ago directed pilots of private jets to file their manifests before obtaining ATC clearance.

It also said foreign registered private jets could only spend 15 days in the country, just as the policy also barred private jet owners from carrying friends and business associates.

Aviation stakeholders as well as the Action Congress of Nigeria had, however, severely criticised the policy, saying most of its provisions were not obtainable in any other part of the world.

An aviation expert and former Military Commandant, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Group Captain John Ojikutu, said the demand for passengers’ manifest on private aircraft could only be done by the State Security Services.

“The need for passengers’ manifest on private aircraft, if required, can only be the responsibility of the State Security Services, and in the case of private aircraft on international flight, the Nigerian Immigration Service,” Ojikutu said

But Dati insisted that what the government wanted to do was to monitor the operations of unscheduled flights as well as their manifests due to the current security situation in the country.

According to him, charter services by private jets have become a lucrative business in the country and 80 per cent of the private jets have private licences, but carry out commercial operations.

This, he said, constituted safety challenges because aircraft with private licences were not being subjected to compulsory maintenance checks as those with commercial licences were made to do by the regulatory body, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority.

He also regretted that about 80 per cent of the 150 private jets operating in the country were registered overseas; a situation he said exempted them from paying taxes and five per cent charges to the NCAA.

Dati said, “So, when you collate what government agencies lose by the illegal operations of these aircraft, it amounts to over N25bn in a year. And I can authoritatively tell you that it is now a lucrative business that businessmen bring in aircraft to operate as private jets, while they are actually used for commercial purposes.

“So, it makes nonsense of those charter operators who follow the laid down processes and whose business has now been taken away by the illegal private operators.”

Missing 78-yr-old Woman’s Corpse Found In Son’s Wardrobe 10 Years After!

The sleepy Ejemekwuru community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State has been thrown into turmoil over the strange discovery in the home of Dr. Chimezie Osigweh, a retired school principal; when the remains of his 78-year-old mother who was declared missing for a decade was discovered in a wardrobe in his home.

The lid was blown off the scandal by a 22-year-old boy who was searching for his credentials in his father’s closet.

As he opened a wardrobe, he was confronted with the grim sight – the stiff and embalmed body – of his grandmother, who was thought to have been missing since 2003. He tipped off the police, who arrived the scene and threw open the wardrobe to reveal the body of Madam Lucy Osigweh.

Dr. Chimezie Osigweh was arrested after confirming the claim.

According to Mr Musa Katsina, the Commissioner of Police in Imo the woman, Mrs Lucy Osuigwe, was declared missing since 2003.

Katsina told newsmen at the house in Ejemekuru in Oguta Local Government Area on Monday that the embalmed body had been kept in that condition since 2003.

“The corpse of Mrs Lucy Osuigwe, who was declared missing in 2003 was found in a large cupboard inside a shrine in a private room in a circumstance depicting ritual practice.

“The embalmed body, which was kept in that condition for about 10 years is believed to have been placed in the wardrobe by her son, Dr Chimezie Osuigwe, a devotee of the guru maharaji Sect.

“Preliminary assessment of the scene of crime revealed that the woman must have been murdered by the son for ritual purposes,” he said.

The commissioner said that plans were on to arrest other members of the sect who visit Osuigwe’s shrine.

He said the body would be handed over to the forensic team of the command to determine the cause of death.

He also said the suspect would be held for first degree murder until the cause of death was established.

Chris Hadfield: astronaut, troubadour, tweeter – and a true Space Oddity!

There was danger, hard graft, and the usual antics of life in orbit, but for millions of onlookers the latest mission to the International Space Station was about the rise of a new star: a moustached Canadian with a penchant for guitar.

Chris Hadfield, Canada's first commander of the ISS, was due to land early on Tuesday after a five-month mission that raised the 53-year-old former test pilot to celebrity status around the world.

His stint in space marks a shift in the astronaut breed, away from the robotic iciness of Nasa's early crews to the more modern species that openly revels in the wonder of falling round the Earth.

The Soyuz capsule carrying Hadfield and two crewmates, the US astronaut Thomas Marshburn and the Russian Roman Romanenko, was expected to touch down on the Kazakhstan steppes at 3.31am BST.

Hadfield rose to fame after embracing social media, from Facebook to Twitter, with a little technical help from Evan, his 27-year-old son. He sent missives from space, posted breathtaking photos and sang a duet with the Barenaked Ladies.

There was even a joke with his countryman, William Shatner, about signs of life on the blue planet below.

He has shown his Twitter followers how astronauts play Scrabble in space ("easy to lose the little pieces!"), how astronauts cry ("tears don't fall … So grab a hanky") and given them a view of the private SpaceX Dragon capsule that docked with the space station to deliver supplies in March.

But his parting shot from far above the world topped them all. In a video filmed aboard the station, Hadfield donned jeans and a T-shirt to cover the Bowie classic, Space Oddity. The rendition, complete with pensive stares, strummed chords and graceful spins of a floating guitar, went viral – Bowie himself retweeted it, quoting his 1995 song Hallo Spaceboy.

Some jokey conspiracy theories did the rounds and one YouTube user criticised Hadfield's interpretation of the song as being overly literal (arguably correct, but a trifle harsh, considering).

According to the Canadian Space Agency, Hadfield's YouTube videoshave been watched 22m times. In December, at the start of the mission, he had 20,000 Twitter followers. That is now 800,000 and rising. Gone are the days of the reticent astronaut who spoke with the calm detachment the job seemed to demand.

"In the old days, the astronaut corps was almost a silent priesthood. No one knew much about them. And their operations in space were a black box," said Kevin Fong, director of University College London's centre for space medicine. "We've seen a transition, a breaking down of the barriers, between people who experience space and those who want to experience space vicariously."

That Hadfield was different was clear from the start. When Shatner asked if he planned to tweet from space, the real-life commander replied without missing a beat. "Yes, Standard Orbit. And we're detecting signs of life on the surface." The two men have never met, but Shatner, who played Captain James T Kirk in Star Trek, posed with a cut-out of Hadfield to publicise the mission.

On Earth, Hadfield is a member of the all-astrounaut band Max-Q, named after the maximum pressure a spacecraft feels as it tears into orbit. While training for the mission, he began work on a song with Ed Robertson from the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies. In February the track ISS (Is Somebody Singing?) became the first song to be performed simultaneously on Earth and in space.

The daily stream of photos from Hadfield gave a rare insight into life aboard the ISS. On April Fools' Day he posed with two "space grenades" that turned out to be air sampling devices. He did his best to convince the gullible that an alien spacecraft had docked with the ISS the same day, and that its occupant had boarded.

Amid the frivolity were more serious messages. When an ammonia leak threatened the station's power supply last week, Hadfield tweeted details of the plan to fix the problem. As two astronauts embarked on an emergency spacewalk, he noted that they could not whistle, because the air in their suits was held at too low a pressure.

His tweets describing the views from the ISS were a performance for a global audience. California's wine country was "a favourite place on Earth"; Australia's Outback "agonisingly beautiful"; the Greek islands were a picture of "delicate, shattered eggshell". Some comments assured his place on the after-dinner circuit when the time comes to hang up his spacesuit. A picture of the moon rising over a bed of cloud was "a constant reminder to us all of what can be achieved".

Hadfield was born in Sarnia, Ontario, in 1959. A mechanical engineer by training, he joined the military and graduated top of his class in 1988, from a US air force test pilot school. In 1991, the US navy voted him test pilot of the year. He has flown more than 70 different aircraft, among them the supersonic dogfighter, the F/A 18 hornet.

The Canadian astronaut corps recruited Hadfield in 1992, from more than 5,000 applicants. He worked on space shuttle safety, and went on to become Nasa's chief CapCom, the voice of mission control for astronauts in orbit, on 25 space shuttle missions.

This was Hadfield's third trip into space. He flew aboard the shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station in 1995, and to the ISS to install Canada's robotic arm in 2001. The installation took two space walks, which made Hadfield the first Canadian to float freely in space. The Royal Canadian Mint commemorated the feat with gold and silver coins.

The crew was supposed to have a lie-in the morning before their return, but Hadfield woke early. "I am finding it hard to sleep in," he tweeted.

Why I slit my girlfriend’s throat, raped her while she bled to death!

25-year-old bricklayer named Akinloye Anuoluwapo has explained what led to the killing of his 21-year-old girl named Rafiyat Akinyemi.
Akinloye on Tuesday April 30th slit his ex-girlfriend’s throat, then had sex with her as she bled to death in her father’s house at Ogijo in Ogun state.
The girl had dumped him and that was too much for him to take. He went to her house armed with a knife and attacked her.



viewers discretion advised!
On April 29, I missed her call, and in annoyance, she sent me series of annoying text messages, warning me not to call her or come to her house. I had once sent a message to her, appealing that she should not abandon me because I was disowned by my parents because of her, saying that I would commit suicide if she did. In reference to that message, she said I could die for all she cared, saying that my exit would create more enjoyment for the living, including herself.

“I was so disturbed that I could not concentrate at work the following day, April 30. I went back home to take a knife I kept in my box. I went to her house around 8.30a.m. and met her alone. I was thinking I could use the knife to frighten her because we used to quarrel like that and settle it. To my surprise, she stood up and started shouting at me, saying she had warned me not to come to her house again.

“She held me and we started struggling in her parents sitting room. I made up my mind to have sex with her and I was able to penetrate her as we were struggling with each other. It was in the process that the knife pierced her throat. Immediately I saw blood, I was afraid, so I drew the knife out and ran away.

“I called my company’s lawyer and told him. I also called my friend, Gbenga, to go to Rofiat’s house and assess the situation. He told me he saw her where she was lay, dead.

“I lost my peace and could not do anything at work until the police came to arrest me. I know that I have sinned against God and erred against the law of the land. I know that the law cannot spare me, I know that I will die, but I just pray that God will forgive me. I know I will be hanged but I just pray that God will receive my spirit.”

‘My Oga at top’ commandant, Shem Obafaye resumes as NSCDC Oyo State boss!

Nigeria:



The former Lagos State Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Mr. Shem Obafaye, whose popularity soared with the ‘Oga at the top’ lingo, has resumed at his new place of assignment in Oyo State, where he was posted to after the incident.

Shem was replaced by Mr. Adesuyi Clement from the Oyo State Command and will take the latter’s position as the State Commandant of the security agency.

”I am determined to serve in Oyo State and I know God will help me,” Shem stated in a telephone conversation with Vanguard.