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AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — Austin police, the FBI and several other law enforcement agencies are helping with the search for an ex-law enforcement fugitive, who is the main suspect in a deadly Austin shooting.

According to APD, 41-year-old Stephen Broderick is suspected of shooting and killing three people in northwest Austin on Sunday. He’s a former Travis County Sheriff’s Office detective.

Broderick was initially placed on leave in June 2020 after being charged with sexual assault of a child that month. He bonded out of jail days after his arrest, and resigned from the sheriff’s office, according to a spokeswoman.

Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza said in a statement that his office filed a motion to revoke Broderick’s bond on Sunday. The office is “actively supporting the Austin Police Department and law enforcement who are using all available resources to apprehend” Broderick, according to the statement.

Police spent most of Sunday afternoon searching for Broderick near the scene of the incident, putting a shelter-in-place in effect during the search. Just before 5 p.m., police lifted the shelter in place, though Broderick is still on the loose.

“I’m sad and I’m frustrated,” District 10 Austin City Council Representative Alison Alter said. “We do not have to live like this.”

Alter is feeling a lot of raw emotions after a deadly shooting happened in the area she represents.

“Why is it that an accused sex offender has access to a gun?” Alter asked.

Eighteen different Austin-Travis county agencies responded to the area, looking for Broderick.

“Is he on the run, is he hiding, is he barricaded some place?” former APD detective Anthony Nelson said.

Broderick having law enforcement experience can make finding him difficult, but Nelson said officers are thoroughly trained.

“When you talk about training for scenarios, those scenarios always come up,” he said.

In Nelson’s experience, he said lifting the shelter in place would come once the area was fully searched.

“That’s not going to be lifted just because it’s time. Just because it’s been too long,” Nelson said. “They’re going to lift it when they know.”

Still on edge, another community grieves while the search continues.

“This doesn’t have to happen,” Alter said.

The shooting victims have yet to be identified.

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The teen who shot up an Indianapolis FedEx facility and killed eight people was reportedly part of a bizarre Internet subculture obsessed with “My Little Pony.”

Posts on Brandon Hole’s since-taken-down Facebook page appear to indicate he was a member of the “Bronies” community — a group of mostly adult men who are extreme fans of the kiddie toys and animated television show, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Some members are sexually attracted to the characters, while the group also has allegedly displayed far-right tendencies.

“I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her,” Hole wrote on his Facebook page at 10:19 p.m. Thursday, less than an hour before his rampage began, the outlet reported.

The post included a photo of Applejack, a blond pony that is a main character on the show. 

The name Brony is a mashup between “bro” and “pony” — and the group has a history of extremist tendencies, the outlet said, citing an internal Facebook memo they reviewed that detailed the post. 

“Brony online culture has displayed elements of far-right and white nationalist extremism,” the memo stated.

Facebook stopped short of saying Hole’s pony-love had anything to do with the shooting, writing in the memo there was no clear evidence it motivated the massacre. 

Hole, a former employee of FedEx, opened fire in the facility before turning the gun on himself. 

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His motives remain unclear. 

To read more from the New York Post, click here.

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Wisconsin police have a suspect in custody in the early morning shooting at a Kenosha bar that left three dead, according to cops and news reports.

The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday evening that it had “a person of interest” in the deadly shooting at the Somers House Tavern around 1 a.m.

Police have not identified the suspect, but the arrest follows an hours-long manhunt for the shooter.

The unnamed suspect is being held on one count of first-degree intentional homicide, with additional charges expected to follow, according to the Kenosha News.

Authorities initially said two other victims were wounded in the incident, but Sheriff’s Sgt. David Wright told the outlet that three hurt people had been identified and were hospitalized — and said there may be a fourth.

The three people shot dead have not been identified.

Wright said police conducted “numerous interviews” with bar patrons and reviewed surveillance footage from the scene following the incident.

Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said Sunday that there was a scuffle in the bar and the gunman was kicked out — only to return minutes later with a gun.

“I’m led to believe there was some type of confrontation inside,” the sheriff said. “The management asked that person to leave and then that person came back a short time later and shot people.”

“We believe our suspect knew who he was targeting,” Beth said.

One witness told Kenosha News that there was an exchange of gunfire.

The deadly incident comes after a rash of mass shootings across the US, including the deaths of eight people at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis Thursday.

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Federal and local authorities were searching Sunday evening for a former Travis County deputy suspected of shooting three people in what officials described as a domestic violence incident.

The unidentified victims were two women and a man. Police said a child was safe and in police custody.

Policed asked residents near the Arboretum in Northwest Austin to stay inside for several hours as investigators looked for the suspect, Stephen Nicholas Broderick, 41, of Elgin.

Austin shooting:Police chief IDs suspect as Stephen Broderick in shooting that left 3 dead

Broderick, a former property crimes detective with the Travis County sheriff’s office, resigned in June after being charged with sexual assault of a child.

Before noon, police responded to a 911 call from an address near Great Hills Trail and Rain Creek Parkway and found the victims, who have not been identified. They were pronounced dead at the scene. 

The incident was initially reported as an active shooter situation, prompting the involvement of the FBI in the investigation. However, authorities later said the shooting appeared to have stemmed from a domestic situation. 

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Three people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting at a bar in Kenosha, Wisconsin, early Sunday morning, the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office said. Police said Sunday evening that a person of interest is in custody.

Two people died at the bar and another died after hopping into a car leaving the scene, the sheriff’s office said. Officials said they did not believe it was a random act but rather a targeted situation. The three people who died all knew each other, the sheriff’s office said.  

On Sunday evening, police said there were six confirmed victims — three deceased men and three men who were hospitalized with gunshot wounds — and one more possible unknown gunshot victim. 

Authorities said they believed handguns were used, and more than one was recovered at the scene.

The shooting took place around 1 a.m. at Somers House Tavern, a bar popular with Carthage College students, according to CBS Chicago. The college was put on lockdown early Sunday, but it has since been lifted.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers issued a statement that he and his wife are “thinking of the families and loved ones affected and the entire Kenosha community as they grieve and grapple with yet another tragic incident of gun violence.”

The Kenosha shooting was one of several shootings nationwide this weekend. A man was killed and a woman injured at a shooting at a mall in Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday night. Omaha police said Makhi Woolridge-Jones, 16, was arrested on Sunday in connection to that incident. In a separate incident in Phoenix, several people were injured while running from gunfire at a concert Saturday night, according to CBS affiliate KPHO.

This weekend’s violence comes after a series of deadly shootings as well, including one at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on Thursday that left eight people dead.

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The expulsions will most likely decimate the Czech diplomatic presence in Russia, where the Czechs maintain only several dozen diplomats.

By contrast, the Russian Embassy in Prague, the Czech capital, is believed to be one of the country’s largest in Europe and is used, security experts say, as a staging area for intelligence operations carried out in a number of Western countries.

The 2014 explosions, first in the village of Vlachovice and then, two months later, at a nearby ammunition depot, were never fully explained, though at the time authorities raised the possibility of sabotage. Two workers at the government-owned depot were killed.

The blasts came at a time when Ukrainian forces were desperate for weapons to beat back gains made by Russian-backed separatists, as well as when Russian forces were deepening their involvement in the Syrian civil war.

On Saturday, the Czech prime minister, Andrej Babis, announced that a subsection of Russia’s military intelligence agency known as Unit 29155 was responsible for the explosions.

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If Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, is found guilty in the killing of George Floyd, it could set a new precedent for policing, said Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney representing the families of Floyd and Daunte Wright.

“The outcome that we pray for and Derek Chauvin is for him to be held criminally liable for killing George Floyd, because we believe that could be a precedent,” Crump told ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday. “Finally making America live up to its promise of liberty and justice for all. That means all of us — Black people, Hispanic people, Native people — all of us.

“What I want the president and everybody to add to that line, Martha, is killing unarmed Black people is unacceptable,” he continued. “We have to send that message to the police, because the crux of the matter is this: I was born Black and I am going to die Black, but police do not kill me because I am Black.”

Crump added that congressional action is necessary as the country looks to address the problem of violence toward non-white Americans by police.

“We need to get the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act passed to change the culture and the behavior of policing in America, especially as it relates to marginalized minorities — and especially Black people. Because when a Black person is stopped for a traffic violation, it should not end up in a death sentence,” he said.

Outside the Chauvin trial, Crump — speaking on behalf of the Wright family — said earlier this week that Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who resigned after she said she accidentally pulled out her Taser instead of her gun in an interaction with Wright, saw Wright as “expendable.”

Looking ahead to the verdict in Chauvin’s trail, Raddatz asked, “If he is found not guilty — as the nation braces for that verdict — what would you say to the people of Minneapolis?”

Crump said the country cannot continue to tolerate excessive violence.

“I would say, once again the American legal system has broken our heart and we cannot condone this excessive use of force, America. We cannot condone this inhumanity, America. We cannot condone this evil that we saw on that video with Derek Chauvin, when he kept his knee on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds. And we have to finally have this racial reckoning, America, because if we don’t, then people are gonna continue to have these emotional protests,” he said.

In a separate panel on Sunday, following Crump’s interview, ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams and Channa Lloyd, a civil rights attorney and managing partner at the Cochran Firm, agreed it is highly unlikely Chauvin will be acquitted.

“I think those of us who have been watching this case closely, who have been watching all the expert testimony, watched the video, watched the opening statement, et cetera, would be stunned if there was an all-out acquittal where you find 12 jurors who say that he was not guilty,” Abrams said.

“In this case the prosecution has set out a very tight case, they have covered a lot of the bases, they were very thorough,” Lloyd said. “I don’t feel the defense brought up experts that were able to combat the information that was given by the state’s experts, and in this case I do not feel we’re going to see an acquittal.”

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WASHINGTON – White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday that the Biden administration warned the Russian government to not let jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny die in custody.

“We have communicated to the Russian government that what happens to Mr. Navalny in their custody is their responsibility and they will be held accountable by the international community,” Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program.

“We have communicated that there will be consequences if Mr. Navalny dies,” he added.

Navalny flew to Russia from Berlin earlier this year after spending nearly half a year recovering for a nerve agent poisoning that took place last August. He was arrested at passport control and later sentenced to more than two years in prison.

Last month, the United States sanctioned seven members of the Russian government for the alleged poisoning and subsequent detention of Navalny. The sanctions were the first to target Moscow under Biden’s leadership. The Trump administration did not take action against Russia over the Navalny situation.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote in a separate statement that the sanctions would “send a clear signal” to Russia that the use of chemical weapons and human rights abuses carry hefty consequences.

“Any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable and contravenes international norms,” Blinken wrote.

The Kremlin has repeatedly denied having a role in Navalny’s poisoning.

A spokesman for Navalny said that the Russian opposition leader’s health has deteriorated since his imprisonment. Navalny began a hunger strike in order to force his jailers to provide access to outside medical care for pain in his back and legs. A lawyer for Navalny said he is suffering from two spinal hernias, AP reported.

Read more: U.S. disturbed over imprisoned Kremlin critic Navalny’s deteriorating health

Russian authorities have previously said that they have offered Navalny proper medical care but that he continues to refuse it. The prison has declined to allow a doctor of Navalny’s choice from outside of the facility to administer his treatment.

On Saturday, physician Yaroslav Ashikhmin said that test results he received from Navalny’s family show that the jailed critic has elevated levels of potassium, which can trigger a cardiac arrest. Navalny also has heightened creatinine levels that indicate potential kidney failure.

“Our patient could die at any moment,” Ashikhmin said in a Facebook post.

In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, the Russian ambassador to the U.K. accused Navalny of dramatizing his condition in order to attract attention.

“Of course he will not be allowed to die in prison, but I can say that Mr. Navalny, he behaves like a hooligan, absolutely,” Andrei Kelin said. “His purpose for all of that is to attract attention for him, also by saying that today his left hand is sick and tomorrow his leg is sick and all of that stuff so the journalists pay attention.”

“Navalny has been treated in the hospital which lies not so far from the place where he is serving his sentence and as I understand, he does not complain anymore,” Kelin added.

Last week, the Biden administration slapped Russia with a slew of U.S. sanctions for human rights abuses, sweeping cyberattacks and attempts to influence U.S. elections.

In an address Thursday, Biden said he was prepared to take further actions against Moscow.

“If Russia continues to interfere with our democracy, I’m prepared to take further actions to respond. It is my responsibility as president of the United States to do so,” Biden said from the White House.

“I was clear with President Putin that we could have gone further, but I chose not to do so, I chose to be proportionate,” Biden said of the measures, adding that he did not want to “kick off a cycle of escalation and conflict with Russia.”

Read more: The West waits for Putin’s next move as Russia-Ukraine tensions rise

Biden also said that he proposed in a phone call with Putin that the two meet in person this summer in Europe to discuss a range of pressing issues.

Sullivan told CNN that the Biden-Putin summit was something that was being discussed but would not provide any additional details.

“There isn’t currently a summit on the books, it’s something that we are talking about. That summit would have to take place of course in the right circumstances in a way that could actually move the relationship forward,’ Sullivan said.

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Public records suggest that the gunman behind the FedEx massacre was able to legally obtain two rifles — even after having another gun taken away last year — because he never had a competency hearing. 

Under Indiana’s so-called “red flag law,” authorities are supposed to seek court intervention when they confiscate guns and believe that returning them to a person would constitute a threat, in a bid to keep guns out of the wrong hands. 

The measure is also known as the “Jake Laird Law,” in memory of an Indianapolis cop who was killed by a mentally ill man after his guns were returned to him.

But Brandon Hole — the 19-year-old behind Thursday’s bloodbath at the FedEx facility he used to work at in Indianapolis — was apparently never the subject of such a hearing, even though he had been involved in a weapons case amid mental issues that involved the FBI last year, according to records.

Indianapolis authorities told The Post on Sunday that they are investigating the situation.

“We are looking into this matter and will be in touch with more information as soon as possible,” said a spokesman for the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office.

Brandon Scott Hole shot and killed at least eight people late Thursday night, April 15, 2021, at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
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On March 3, 2020, Hole had a brand-new shotgun taken away from him when his mom called 911 saying he expressed a desire to commit suicide by cop, the Indy Star reported

A police record for the incident states that cops seized a shotgun from a “dangerous person” and that Hole was taken into custody for an immediate mental-health hold, the outlet reported. 

Under the state’s “red flag law,” cops are supposed to file an affidavit with the court when a firearm is taken, explaining why the person who had it is dangerous, according to instructions issued by the Indiana State Police

The gun owner has the right to a hearing no later than 14 days after the seizure if they want to fight their case.

After a hearing, if the court rules that the person is dangerous, law enforcement is allowed to keep the firearm and the gun owner’s license to carry is suspended and he or she is no longer be able to legally own a gun, according to police. 

If the court doesn’t find probable cause, the firearms must be returned within five days. 

Police have said Hole’s shotgun was never returned to him, although there are no public court records to show he ever went before a judge between March 3 last year and the shooting last week. Hole went on to legally buy two rifles, authorities have said.

It is unclear if police ever filed an affidavit with the court like they are required to do or if Hole was ever scheduled for a competency hearing.

Families, coworkers, and government officials raise their cell phone flashlights during a vigil to mourn the eight murdered FedEx Ground employees at Krannert Park on April 17, 2021 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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The COVID-19 pandemic was just starting to disrupt the judicial process around the time he would have been in line for one. 

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Randal Taylor told the New York Times it appears as if authorities didn’t deem Hole subject to the “red flag law,” even though he was called a dangerous person in the police report.

Family members hold a photo of their loved one during a candlelight vigil in Krannert Park in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 17, 2021.
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The chief said he was unsure whether the teen ever had a hearing or how his department maintained possession of his shotgun. 

“I don’t know how we held onto it,” Taylor told the outlet. 

A single bouquet of flower sits in the rocks across the street from the FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 17, 2021 where eight people were shot and killed.
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Emergency personnel work at the scene of a shooting Sunday in Austin. Police said three people were killed.

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Emergency personnel work at the scene of a shooting Sunday in Austin. Police said three people were killed.

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Three people were killed in a shooting in the Great Hills neighborhood of Austin on Sunday, police said.

Austin police said that while the suspect remains at large, the shooting appears to be a “domestic situation” and poses no risk to the general public. However, the police did urge residents to shelter in place.

Interim Austin Police Chief Joe Chacon told reporters the three victims were two women and a man.

“Obviously this is a tragedy. We have people who have lost their lives here,” Chacon said, according to the Austin American-Statesman. “We’ll do our best … to get this person in custody … and hopefully with no more loss of life.”

It was the second shooting with multiple fatalities in the U.S. on Sunday.

Three others died in a shooting overnight Sunday at a college bar in Kenosha, Wis.; two more were injured. Police there described the attack as “targeted and isolated” and have said that they don’t believe that there is an ongoing threat to the community.

The incidents follow several other recent mass shootings in the United States.

A Thursday attack in Indianapolis left eight dead and several others injured. Motive there has yet to be determined. A former FedEx employee is alleged to have killed several people at one of the company’s facilities, four of whom were members of the Sikh faith.

Members of the Indianapolis area Sikh community joined with that city’s mayor and hundreds of other residents at a vigil Saturday to honor the dead and push for gun regulation overhauls.

Other high-profile mass shootings happened in Boulder, Colo., and Atlanta in March. Other shootings with at least four deaths in just the last 30 days occurred in Rock Hill, S.C., Allen, Texas, Orange, Calif., and Essex, Md., according to the Gun Violence Archive.

The United States has a much higher rate of gun violence than most of its global peers.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, a total of at least 19,394 people lost their lives due to gun violence in 2020. Including suicides, that number jumps to 43,550 people.

As of Sunday, the group tallied at least 5,517 non-suicide deaths in 2021, on track for a similar total to 2020.

The country as a whole saw about a 25% increase in non-suicide gun deaths in 2020 over 2019, though some places such as New York saw a much more pronounced increase.

Dr. Sonali Rajan of the Columbia Scientific Union for the Reduction of Gun Violence told NPR in January that one of the things that could have played a role in the increase was a diversion of public health resources due to the pandemic. She said that led to “violence interrupters, social programs and support services not being as readily available.”

Another possible cause: the uptick in gun sales. 2020 marked the best year for gun sales ever.

The rush for firearms began with the first coronavirus lockdowns and continued through the summer’s racial justice protests. At least 20 million guns were sold legally, up from about 12.4 million in 2019.

Experts, though, say that it can be a challenge to isolate any single cause, particularly during the pandemic with mass unemployment and closed schools.

Washington’s capacity for a legislative response to gun violence remains limited. Though Democrats control both chambers of Congress and are broadly in favor of more stringent gun control legislation, their ability to get legislation through the Senate would require cooperation of at least 10 Republican senators to overcome an inevitable filibuster — something that has essentially no chance of happening on a gun bill.

While some Republican lawmakers support limited action on popular reforms including universal background checks for gun purchases, disagreement within the caucus and the party’s perilous primary politics makes compromise legislation vanishingly unlikely.

Earlier this month, President Biden took a number of solo steps aimed at reducing gun violence via executive policy.

Those include a Justice Department effort to “help stop the proliferation” of so-called ghost guns, which can be assembled at home from kits and contain no serial numbers. As NPR reported, Biden wants to require serial numbers on certain parts and require buyers to undergo background checks.

The Justice Department will also issue an annual report on firearms trafficking, updating the last one from more than two decades ago. And the department has been directed to draft rules regulating stabilizing braces that make pistols more stable and accurate.

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KENOSHA, Wis. (WLS) — A person of interest is now in custody in connection to a mass shooting at a Kenosha County, Wisconsin bar early Sunday that left three men dead and at least three others injured, according to police.

The shooting took place around 12:42 a.m. at the Somers House, a bar in the Village of Somers on Sheridan Road, according to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department.

The popular bar is now surrounded in crime tape as officials continue to investigate.

Three of the victims have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds, and police said there could be at least one other possible unknown shooting victim.

“There’s a possibility that one or two, or maybe even more had, minor injuries, some other injuries,” said Sheriff David Beth, Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department.

As of 4 p.m. Sunday, Kenosha officials said “a person of interest has been located and will be criminally charged with (1) count of 1st-degree intentional homicide with additional criminal charges to follow pending further investigation.” They also said there is no threat to the community at this time.

Two of the victims died at the scene. The third victim fled in a car with other people but later died on the way to a hospital.

“At first, there was a fight that broke out between two individuals right next to the bar,” said Heidi Wittwer, who was at the bar at the time of the shooting.

The sheriff said the person responsible may have been told to leave the bar, and then returned to go on the shooting spree.

“One person got removed from the establishment and possibly came back a short time later,” said Sheriff Beth.

Wittwer said the bar was packed with dozens of people when the first round of shots were fired.

“We were told to duck, and then everyone started running and we all just ran very fast,” Twitter said.

Peter Ploskee woke up to the sound of gunshots near his home.

“Next thing you know, I hear a bunch of shots going off. [I] got up, ran out and looked out the window. Just see people running from the bar in every direction,” he said.

The shooter, who is described as a six foot tall man wearing a light-colored hooded sweatshirt, is still on the loose, according to Kenosha officials.

“I didn’t see nobody. Like I said, when I looked out the window, it was just chaos. People running every direction possible, so you know, who’s who? Is that the guy? Is this the guy? People are just running, people screaming,” Ploskee said.

Kenosha officials believe the incident was targeted and that the shooter may have known the victims.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers released a statement regarding the shooting.

“My heart breaks for Kenosha this morning in the wake of a shooting that took three lives and injured at least two others. I want to thank the first responders who reacted quickly and are still working to investigate and find those involved in this senseless tragedy,” Gov. Evers said. “Kathy and I join Wisconsinites in hoping and praying those injured will recover from their injuries. We are thinking of the families and loved ones affected and the entire Kenosha community as they grieve and grapple with yet another tragic incident of gun violence.”

Officials said they are looking for possibly multiple people and multiple weapons. No guns were recovered at the scene, but did mention that a handgun or handguns could have been used, according to the sheriff.

The bar is known as gathering place for the Carthage College community. The campus was on lockdown for a period of time Sunday morning, according to the college website, but the college received a message at 6:20 a.m. from law enforcement that said the lockdown can be lifted.

Sheridan Road is closed near the scene, and officials said the area should be avoided so Kenosha Sheriff’s Department can continue its ongoing investigation.

Anyone with information regarding the incident can contact the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department at 262-605-5100 or anonymously to the Kenosha County Crime Stoppers at 262-656-7333.

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Dr. Jerry Abraham, director of Kedren Vaccines, right, gives a COVID-19 vaccination to Jose Guzman-Wug, 16, while his mom, Adriana Wug, watches at Kedren Health on Thursday, April 15, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA.

Half of all U.S. adults have now received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, marking a major milestone in the country’s largest vaccine campaign.

More than 129 million people ages 18 and older have received at least one shot, or 50.4% of the total adult population, according to the CDC. More than 83 million adults, or 32.5% of the total adult population, are fully vaccinated with one of the three vaccines approved in the U.S.

The milestone comes one day after the global death toll from the virus topped 3 million people, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University, with global deaths averaging about 12,000 each day.

In the U.S., the rate of daily new Covid-19 cases nationwide remains high. The country is reporting about 68,000 new infections each day on average. CDC data shows an average of 3.3 million daily vaccine doses reported administered in the past week.

White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients has said the pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccinations, which occurred after reports of six cases of rare brain blood clots, would not slow down the vaccine campaign since the country has enough supply of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday he thinks the U.S. will likely resume use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine with a warning or restriction attached and anticipates a decision as soon as Friday, when the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel meets to discuss resumption.

“My estimate is that we will continue to use it in some form,” Fauci said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I doubt very seriously if they just cancel it. I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

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  • The US has threatened Russia with sanctions and other consequences if Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in state prison.
  • Last month, Navalny said he was going on a hunger strike in jail until he could see a doctor.
  • Navalny is recovering after being poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Russia.
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Russia will face heavy consequences like sanctions if Alexei Navalny, a top critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, dies in jail, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.

“We have communicated to the Russian government that what happens to Mr. Navalny in their custody is their responsibility and they will be held accountable by the international community,” Sullivan said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“In terms of the specific measures that we would take, we are looking at a variety of different costs that we would impose and I’m not going to telegraph that publicly at this point,” he added. “But we have communicated that there will be consequences if Mr. Navalny dies.”

 

Navalny is serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for missing parole hearings while recovering in Germany after being poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Russia.

Last month, Navalny said he was going on a hunger strike in jail until he’d be allowed to see a doctor.

“The right to invite a specialist for examination and consultation exists for every convict. Even for me, despite the fact that I’m not guilty,” he said on Twitter. “That’s why I am urging that a doctor be allowed to see me, and until that happens, I am going on a hunger strike.”

In a more detailed Instagram post, Navalny said he has been experiencing pain in his back, and has lost sensitivity in parts of his right leg and most of his left leg.

Doctors have been sounding the alarm, urgently requesting to see him. They warned prison officials that if Navalny does not receive proper medical care and treatment right away, he could die any minute.

At least four doctors have so far requested to see him. Navalny’s personal physician, Anastasia Vasilyeva, wrote to prison officials that his potassium levels were dangerously high, Insider’s Sinéad Baker reported, which might lead to devastating heart issues. 

“Our patient can die any minute,” cardiologist Yaroslav Ashikhmin said, adding that “fatal arrhythmia can develop any minute.”

Russian officials have said prison authorities offered Navalny medical care but he declined it because he wanted to see a doctor of his choice.

President Joe Biden this weekend denounced the conditions Navalny is subjected to in the Russian prison, saying it’s “totally inappropriate.” 

“It’s totally, totally unfair,” Biden said.

Navalny allies are planning mass street protests this Wednesday, Reuters reported. The protests, which Russian authorities have cracked down on in the past, will come the same day Putin is slated to give an annual state-of-the-nation speech, Reuters said.

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A gunman who murdered eight people at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis legally purchased the two semi-automatic rifles he used in the attack, months after a shotgun he owned was confiscated by police over concerns around his mental health.

Brandon Hole, 19, who killed himself at the conclusion of the massacre, bought the two assault weapons in July and September 2020, according to Indianapolis metropolitan police chief Randal Taylor, after the shotgun was taken from him in March following a call from his mother concerned at his mental state.

The department said in a tweet that agents from the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives (ATF) had traced the weapons’ purchase.

Hole, a former FedEx employee, was able to “legally purchase a much more powerful weapon than a shotgun,” Taylor said in a statement released Saturday, adding his belief that a red flag law determination had not been made.

In Indiana, authorities have two weeks after seizing a weapon to persuade a judge that person is unstable and should not be permitted to have a gun.

Indianapolis shooting: eight killed at FedEx facility, police say – video

Hole was believed to be suicidal, and was questioned by FBI agents last year after his mother reported her son might commit a “suicide by cop”, leading to the seizure of a pump-action shotgun. But Taylor said he was unsure if a red flag hearing ever took place.

“I don’t know how we held onto it,” Taylor told the New York Times, referring to the shotgun. “But it’s good that we did.”

Hole began firing randomly at people in the parking lot of the FedEx facility late Thursday, killing four, before entering the building, fatally shooting four more people and then turning the gun on himself, Craig McCartt, the deputy police chief, said.

Investigators looking into a motive have established that Hole worked for FedEx as recently as last year. In their own statement on Saturday, Hole’s family apologized for his actions. “We tried to get him the help he needed,” it said.

Officials are trying to determine if hate or racial bias played a role. Four members of the Sikh community were among the victims, and the FedEx facility employs a “significant” number of workers of the religion, Chief Taylor said.

The Marion county coroner’s office identified the dead as Matthew R Alexander, 32; Samaria Blackwell, 19; Amarjeet Johal, 66; Jaswinder Kaur, 64; Jaswinder Singh, 68; Amarjit Sekhon, 48; Karli Smith, 19; and John Weisert, 74.

The shooting is the deadliest incident of violence collectively in the Sikh community in the US since 2012, when a white supremacist burst into a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and shot 10 people, killing seven.

Members of Indianapolis’s tight-knit Sikh community joined with city officials to call for gun reforms at a vigil attended by more than 200 people at a park on Saturday evening. Aasees Kaur, who represented the Sikh Coalition, spoke out alongside the city’s mayor and other elected officials to demand action that would prevent such attacks from happening again.

“We must support one another, not just in grief, but in calling our policymakers and elected officials to make meaningful change,” Kaur said. “The time to act is not later, but now. We are far too many tragedies, too late, in doing so.”

The Indianapolis killings came amid a wave of mass shootings that have plagued the US in recent weeks, at least 45 since the Atlanta spa shootings on 16 March, according to CNN.

President Joe Biden last week announced a half-dozen executive actions to try to address the issue, but said much more was needed.

“Gun violence in this country is an epidemic and it’s an international embarrassment,” Biden said, calling on Washington politicians to pass tighter gun legislation.

“They’ve offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of Congress, but they’ve passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence. Enough prayers. Time for some action.”

Recent efforts to pass gun control legislation have ended in failure. In 2013, former president Barack Obama denounced as “a shameful day” the Senate’s blocking of reforms in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting, and the chamber’s Republican former majority leader Mitch McConnell repeatedly refused to give gun law proposals a hearing.

Two gun bills that cleared the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives last month are unlikely to gain the 60 votes needed to pass in the equally divided Senate.

  • Associated Press contributed to this report

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