Boy charged in father’s killing, school shooting

Boy charged in father’s killing, school shooting

ANDERSON, S.C.

A 14-year-old South Carolina boy was charged as a juvenile Friday with murder and three counts of attempted murder after authorities say he killed his father and opened fire on students at a school playground, wounding three people.

The boy did not show any emotion as he walked into the courtroom wearing a yellow jumpsuit. He was unrestrained, not wearing handcuffs or leg shackles, as required by state law in most juvenile cases.

As the hearing unfolded, one of the wounded students, 6-year-old Jacob Hall, was on life support and fighting for his life at a hospital about 30 miles away. His family said they were praying for a miracle.

Charlotte police to release full video in black man’s death

CHARLOTTE, N.C.

Police in Charlotte say they will release all of the dashcam and body camera video from the fatal shooting of a black man that sparked riots in the city.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department issued a news release Friday evening saying the department has made arrangements with the family of Keith Lamont Scott to review all the video.

It said the family requested that the video be released earlier Friday, and the department will do so once family members view it next week.

Hurricane Matthew on Caribbean track toward Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica

Hurricane Matthew grew into a powerful Category 5 storm Friday as it crossed the Caribbean Sea on a course that could have it pounding Jamaica within days.

The center of the hurricane was projected to pass just to the east of Jamaica early Monday, but the storm was large enough that it could affect the entire island, and the first effects of the storm may be felt starting today, said Evan Thompson, director of the National Meteorological Service.

Justice removed from bench over gay marriage

MONTGOMERY, Ala.

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from the bench Friday for defying the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, more than a decade after he was ousted for disobeying a federal order to take down a 21/2-ton monument to the Ten Commandments.

The nine-member Alabama Court of the Judiciary suspended Moore for the remainder of his term. Although the court stopped short of outright removing him as they did in 2003, the punishment has the same effect, ending his period as Alabama’s top jurist.

The judiciary court ruled that Moore defied law already clearly settled by the high court’s Obergefell vs. Hodges ruling when he told Alabama’s probate judges six months later that they were still bound by a 2015 state court order to deny marriage licenses to gays and lesbians.

5 soldiers killed in attack on Mexican army convoy

MEXICO CITY

The sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman likely were behind a brazen ambush on a military convoy using grenades and high-powered guns that left five soldiers dead and 10 wounded Friday, officials said.

The attack in Mexico’s northern Sinaloa state left two military vehicles completely burned out and dead soldiers scattered across a highway. It apparently was launched to free a wounded drug suspect being transported in an ambulance guarded by the convoy.

Associated Press