Paramedic shot, suspect found dead with second body

Paramedic shot, suspect found dead with second body

dallas

A gunman opened fire on emergency responders treating a gunshot victim in a Dallas street Monday, critically injuring a paramedic and prompting police to lock down the area until the suspect – and another person – were found dead in a local home, authorities said.

Police believe the shooting started as a dispute between the suspect and the gunshot victim, who were neighbors. A police officer who responded to the late-morning shooting in a largely residential area east of downtown was injured and treated at the scene.

The gunman fled before holing up in a house where investigators believe he fatally shot another person before killing himself. A police robot found the two bodies after authorities barricaded entrances to the community for several hours to allow officers to scour the neighborhood, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said.

Pool-party gunman called ex during deadly rampage

san diego

A gunman distraught over a recent breakup calmly reclined in a pool chair as he shot strangers at a birthday party and phoned his ex-girlfriend so she could hear the gunfire and screams of terror, San Diego police said Monday.

Before police fatally shot him, Peter Selis killed one woman and wounded six other people in a rampage that turned a birthday party into bedlam as shots echoed among upscale apartment towers, people ran for their lives and the wounded lay bleeding by the pool.

All but one of the victims were black and Latino and Selis was white, but police don’t think race played a factor.

Selis, 49, was despondent and depressed over a recent breakup, though family and friends interviewed by police had no hint of any sinister plot.

Rights group: Syria used suspected nerve agents in 4 attacks

UNITED NATIONS

New evidence indicates that the Syrian government used suspected nerve agents in four chemical weapons attacks since December as part of a broader pattern of chemical weapons use, a human-rights group said Monday.

Human Rights Watch said in a report that the “widespread and systematic” attacks on civilians using chemical weapons could constitute crimes against humanity.

“The government’s recent use of nerve agents is a deadly escalation – and part of a clear pattern,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “In the last six months, the government has used warplanes, helicopters and ground forces to deliver chlorine and sarin in Damascus, Hama, Idlib and Aleppo.”

This also shows “that serious use of chemical weapons is becoming a central part of its military strategy,” he said during a news conference to present the report.

Police probe how man got nailed to tree

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

Police in Albuquerque say a man has been found alive with his hands nailed to a tree in a forest.

They say officers received a call about 8:30 a.m. Monday about an injured man on the east bank of the Rio Grande.

Police say they found a man standing in front of a tree with his hands next to his shoulders and each of his hands had one nail through it.

The Albuquerque Journal reports the nails were about 3 inches long and the man wasn’t bleeding when officers found him.

Police removed the man from the tree and took him to a hospital.

His name hasn’t been released.

Associated Press