Family: Gunman had mental issues

Family: Gunman had mental issues

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.

A Kuwait-born man who shot and killed five service members in Tennessee suffered from depression since his early teens and also fought drug and alcohol abuse, spending time in Jordan last year to help him clean himself up, a family spokesman said Sunday.

The representative, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid unwanted publicity, said relatives of 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez believe those personal struggles are at the heart of last week’s killings at a pair of military sites in Chattanooga.

Protesters call for action over death

STONEWALL, Miss.

Hundreds of people gathered at a baseball park in a small Mississippi town to remember a black man who died after a physical encounter with a white police officer and to call for action.

The crowd repeatedly shouted “No justice, no peace!” A local NAACP official suggested they boycott local businesses because of lack of action in the death of 39-year-old Jonathan Sanders.

He died July 8 after crossing paths with 25-year-old part-time officer Kevin Herrington.

Witnesses and lawyers for Sanders’ family say Herrington attacked without provocation. Herrington’s attorney says Sanders had what appeared to be illegal drugs and grabbed the officer’s gun during a struggle.

Rebel attack kills 45

SANAA, Yemen

Shiite rebels and their allies in Yemen randomly shelled a town Sunday outside of Aden after losing control of some of the port city’s neighborhoods, killing at least 45 people and wounding 120, officials said.

The violence highlighted the bloody chaos of the civil war gripping the Arab world’s poorest country, which also has been the target of Saudi-led, U.S.-backed airstrikes since late March.

Remote part of I-10 collapses in Calif.

LOS ANGELES

An elevated section of Interstate 10 has collapsed amid heavy rains in a remote desert area of California, cutting off traffic between California and Arizona and leaving a driver injured.

The California Highway Patrol said a bridge that carries eastbound I-10 across a wash about 50 miles west of the Arizona state line washed away early Sunday evening, forcing them to turn around traffic headed toward Arizona.

The westbound side of the freeway remained intact, but traffic was being stopped while it was checked.

The Riverside County Fire Department said it had to extract a driver who crashed in the collapse. The person was taken to a hospital with moderate injuries.

Leaflets showered over IS territory

BEIRUT

A U.S.-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital of the Islamic State group in Syria, promising those below that “freedom will come” to the region, activists said Sunday.

An anti-Islamic State group called Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the leaflets had drawings showing dead extremists and their flag turned upside down. Four fighters with the main Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, walked down a street in the picture, with two words in Arabic below translated as “Freedom will come.”

The latest leaflet drop comes as YPG fighters have been advancing in northern Syria as close as 30 miles north of Raqqa.

Associated Press