In murder-suicide, 5 dead were family

In murder-suicide, 5 dead were family

TUCSON, ARIZ.

A Tucson man gunned down four of his family members, including his 17-year-old niece, before fatally shooting himself in a murder-suicide, police said Wednesday.

Police said Christopher Carrillo, 25, killed his relatives in the family home in a blue-collar neighborhood in Tucson. The others killed were 58-year-old Raul Carrillo, 53-year-old Karen Saari, 32-year-old Erick Carrillo and 17-year-old Isela Rodriguez. Police did not know what led to the shooting and an investigation was ongoing.

Study: Vitamin B3 may lower cancer risk

For the first time, a large study suggests that a vitamin might modestly lower the risk of the most-common types of skin cancer in people with a history of these relatively harmless yet troublesome growths.

In a study in Australia, people who took a specific type of vitamin B3 for a year had a 23 percent lower rate of new skin cancers compared with others who took dummy pills. In absolute terms, it meant that vitamin takers developed fewer than two of these cancers on average versus roughly 2.5 cancers for the others.

The study did not involve melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.

Dad convicted of tossing child off cliff

LOS ANGELES

A father was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder for tossing his 4-year-old daughter off a sea cliff nearly 15 years ago to get revenge against the girl’s mother and avoid custody payments.

Cameron Brown showed no emotion as the verdict in the long-running case was read in Los Angeles Superior Court, while the mother of Lauren Sarene Key breathed heavily and began crying.

Brown, 53, faces a mandatory term of life in prison without parole when sentenced June 19.

Closing arguments given in Boston trial

BOSTON

Prosecutors and defense attorneys Wednesday made their final appeals to the jury that will decide the fate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as jurors began deliberating whether the Boston Marathon bomber should get life in prison or the death penalty.

Jurors got the case late in the day and deliberated for about 45 minutes before going home. They will return to the federal courthouse today to resume their work.The jury must be unanimous in its decision to impose the death penalty. If even a single member votes against death, Tsarnaev will get life in prison.

Gulf leaders to push Obama about Iran

WASHINGTON

Gulf nation leaders joined President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday to warn of the risks of completing a nuclear deal with Iran. Obama was seeking to convince his counterparts of the potential benefits for the region.

But when two days of talks wrap up today, it’s unlikely much will have changed. The Gulf’s skepticism of Iran is deep-seated and extends far beyond its nuclear pursuits. Obama, meanwhile, has invested too much in the Iran negotiations to let Gulf concerns upend his legacy-building bid for a deal.

Shipwreck is found

SYDNEY

Search crews hunting for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in ocean waters off western Australia have discovered an old shipwreck, officials said Wednesday. The unexpected finding came when sonar equipment on board a search vessel scouring the Indian Ocean for the missing jetliner detected of objects nearly 2.5 miles below the surface, according to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the hunt.

Associated Press