Details: Shot six-year-old – for a basketball
A six-year-old girl and her father were shot outside their home in Gastonia, North Carolina on Tuesday night.
Their neighbor — Robert Louis Singletary, 24 — was arrested Thursday in Florida after being wanted.
Eyewitnesses states to NBC that he fired the ball after playing children caused a basketball to roll onto his lot.
The police have not confirmed the motive, but the 24-year-old is now suspected of attempted murder.
The six-year-old survived with minor gunshot wounds to the cheek. Her father is still being treated in hospital.
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Shooting in southern Stockholm
On Thursday evening, the police had a major operation after a shooting in Hökarängen in southern Stockholm.
– The witnesses have heard a shot and we have found an empty casing, says Ola Österling at the police’s regional command center.
No injuries have been reported following the shooting and no one has been arrested.
– Around ten young men under the age of 20 have been seen leaving the crime scene, says Ola Österling.
A preliminary investigation into serious weapons crime has been initiated.
Ice cream truck has flipped off the road
A blue ice cream truck from Hemglass has overturned off road 172 at Dalaberg in Uddevalla, reports Gothenburg Post.
According to the emergency services, the driver got out of the vehicle unharmed.
Airport gold coup – 750 million gone
Toronto Pearson International Airport. Photo: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy
A league in Toronto is believed to have caught a gold rush, according to information provided to Canadian police.
This after around 1 ton of gold disappeared without a trace from the country’s largest airport, Pearson.
According to the Toronto Sun, the thieves came across gold worth more than SEK 750 million.
– We are still trying to get accurate information about the robbery, says a police officer to Bloomberg.
Information: The Wagner group wanted to buy weapons from China
The Russian privately-owned army Wagner group allegedly tried to buy weapons and ammunition from China, reports say Financial Times.
It appears in documents from the rewritten “Pentagon leak”.
On the other hand, Wagner has had a cold hand from Beijing. The contact should have taken place at the beginning of 2023 and China is said not to have delivered any weapons.
Officially, China has repeatedly denied that it has any plans whatsoever to provide Russia with weapons support in the war in Ukraine.
Last week there were reports that the Wagner group has contacted the NATO country Turkey about an arms deal. Even then they must have received a no.
One to hospital after fire
One person has been taken to hospital after a fire broke out in a villa on Tjörn north of Gothenburg.
According to Göteborgs-Posten, the emergency services were able to locate the fire, which started for an unknown reason, to a bedroom.
The emergency services were on the scene and were able to quickly extinguish the fire.
The extent of the injury is unknown.
Woman sentenced – called Zelenskyj beautiful
Should not be seen as attractive in Russia. Photo: Michal Dyjuk/AP
A 70-year-old Russian woman is sentenced to a fine after, among other things, she called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi beautiful.
This is reported by the Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta who writes that the trial lasted less than five minutes.
According to the newspaper, the woman is now required to pay 40,000 rubles, which corresponds to around 5,000 kroner.
It was during a vacation in the city of Nalchik in Russia that the woman got into a discussion about the Ukrainian president with a waitress at a restaurant. The 70-year-old must then have expressed that she experienced Zelenskyj as funny, beautiful and joking.
According to Russian authorities, several people have reported the woman and claimed that she expresses support for Ukraine in the war with Russia. Which the woman firmly denies.
Man abused and robbed by youths
The police are investigating a suspected gang assault against a man in his 50s in Angered in Gothenburg.
According to information, the perpetrators are a group of young people.
When the suspected young people attacked, they also allegedly stole the 50-year-old’s mobile phone and electric scooter.
The alarm came in just before 8pm on Thursday evening and according to the man, the young people left on the stolen electric scooter.
To Göteborgs-Posten, the police state that the man suffered injuries to his face, but that he did not want to seek medical care.
– We are looking for the young people in the area, but so far we have no leads, says Jens Andersson of the police to the newspaper.
Criminal charges against Alec Baldwin are dropped
Alec Baldwin. Photo: John Angelillo/UPI
The criminal charges against Alec Baldwin, 65, are dropped, reports ABC News.
The actor was charged with holding a gun that fired and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Director Joel Souza was also injured.
The incident occurred in connection with the filming of the film “Rust” in October 2021.
Baldwin was suspected of two counts of “involuntary manslaughter”.
Alert about powder letters – the police are investigating illegal threats
The police have been alerted to an address in Norrköping due to a suspected dangerous object that arrived via letter with powder to a person.
The police are investigating the incident of illegal threats. No person shall be physically harmed and the contents of the letter are deemed harmless.
Several arson fires near Motala
The police were alerted to several locations outside Motala. Three abandoned houses have been set on fire and several ground fires have been discovered.
– There are a little too many fires in the same area in a short, very short time for us not to suspect any connection, says Johnny Gustavsson at the police.
The police also cannot see any natural causes for the fires.
There is no information that anyone is injured.
– We are interested in all observations made by the public in the area, says Johnny Gustavsson.
The “Women’s Prison” actor dead
Maxine Klibingaitis in “Neighbours”.
Actor Maxine Klibingaitis has died, reports say Daily Mail. She was 58 years old.
The Australian became known for his roles in the TV series “Women’s Prison” and “Neighbours”.
Pro-Russian hacker attack on Europe’s air traffic control
The cyber attack started on Thursday against Eurocontrol. The organization coordinates Europe’s air traffic control, it writes wall street journal.
– Since April 19, Eurocontrol’s website has been under attack from pro-Russian hackers. The attack creates disturbances on our website and accessibility on the web. There is no impact on European aviation, a Eurocontrol spokesperson told the paper.
Villa caught fire – extinguishing in progress
Emergency services and police are on the scene at a house fire in Rättvik municipality.
– There are several people who call in and say they see smoke and flames, says Gabriel Henning, press spokesperson at the Bergslagen police region.
According to the police, the villa is on fire and extinguishing work is underway.
Residents were outside the house when the emergency services arrived.
– It is a person who has been checked by an ambulance. No one has been taken to hospital at the moment, says Gabriel Henning.
Man beaten after car crash
Two people have been arrested on suspicion of assault in Ale municipality.
According to the police, the men allegedly assaulted a man in his 20s after a car crash.
The 20-year-old was taken to hospital for treatment. The extent of the damage is unclear.
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