A boy who was 11-years-old when he allegedly murdered his father’s pregnant fiancee with a shotgun has a “very limited” likelihood of being rehabilitated through the juvenile court system, a psychiatrist hired by state prosecutors said.

A judge will now weigh that in deciding whether Jordan Brown, now 12, will be tried as an adult or have his case moved to juvenile court.

Lawrence County Judge Dominick Motto gave both sides a week to submit written arguments. Motto must rule within 20 days, otherwise Brown will remain in adult court by default.

CBS News

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Two people were shot at a Walmart in Commerce on Sunday, police Chief Kerry Crews confirmed. Commerce city officials say that one person died and that an off-duty law-enforcement officer was injured and taken via CareFlite to East Texas Medical Center in Tyler.

The suspect was shot and killed, the Commerce police department has confirmed.

Police were not releasing the name of the shooter or the injured officer.

Source – DallasNews.com

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Thursday morning, employees at a Best Buy in South Brunswick walked into the store to find a pile of debris, a hole in the roof, and a bunch of missing laptops.

Theft, to be sure — but how did the plunderers avoid the spider web of alarms? According to Police Sgt. James Ryan, the thieves managed to climb a gas pipe to scale the building, and used some type of suction device to lift a hole in the roof.
Ryan speculates that they then lowered themselves through the hole into the store, managing somehow to keep themselves ten feet above the floor at all times, evading the store’s motion sensors.

They even kept behind store banners throughout the operation, thus shielding their faces from security cameras. Upon swiping $26,000 worth of Apple laptops, they scurried out the same way they’d come in.

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A Huntsville, Alabama middle school teacher was arrested and charged with drug trafficking after being caught with more than 20 pounds of marijuana, police say.

Ronald Smith, 35, an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Westlawn Middle School, was arrested Thursday night and placed on administrative leave by the Huntsville school system Friday morning, police and school officials said.

The Huntsville-Madison County Strategic Counterdrug Team, or STAC, recovered 20 pounds of marijuana, two guns and more than $5,000 in cash during the bust.

Suspended with pay? What am I missing here? 20 pounds of marijuana, 2 guns and $5000 in cash…
WHAT? Clearly he is the best social studies teacher in America, right?

Source – AL.com

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A retired New Orleans police lieutenant pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to cover up a deadly police-involved shooting in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The plea in U.S. District Court by Michael Lohman, 42, is part of an investigation by federal agents into several police shootings of civilians in the chaotic days immediately following Katrina. Lohman faces up to five years in prison at his sentencing May 26.

Seven officers were charged with murder or attempted murder in the Sept. 4, 2005, shootings, six days after Katrina made landfall and then battered the region. The charges were later dismissed.

The incident happened when a group of police and other law enforcement officers in a large Budget rental truck confronted six people crossing the Danziger Bridge in eastern New Orleans.

Full report – USA Today

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