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Two teenage boys will now be tried as adults after being charged with the murder of a photographer in Ohio. On Sept. 2, Victoria Schafer was out taking senior pictures for a group of high school students at Hocking Hills State Park. That s when the photographer and mother of four was struck by a 6-foot-long, 74-pound log that fell from the edge of a cliff without warning. It killed her instantly. Students and other witnesses immediately called 911, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan. A tree branch fell on her! a person could be heard saying on the 911 c stanley cup all. I think she s dead, there s no pulse, another said. At the time, authorities began investigating whether the tree section was dislodged on purpose. Last month, they determined two 16-year-old boys, Jaden Churchheus and Jordan Buckley, did push the log intentionally. But one of the boys attorneys argues his client had no idea the log would kill someone. Ohio law states someone can be charged with murder in the second degr stanley cup ee if they do something intentionally that leads to a death ndash; even if the death itself is not premeditated. As the case moves out of juvenile court, CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman said a grand jury will determine whether or not intentionally pushing that log stanley cup merits the murder charges in addition to felonious assault and involuntary manslaughter charges. I think that the grand jury under these circumstances will come back with one charge or Avkh Google Maps renames Senate building to McCain Senate Office Building
WICHITA, Kan. mdash; The Kansas police officer who fired the shot that killed a man during a hoax emergency call will not face criminal charges, a prosecutor announced Thursday. District Attorney Marc Bennett said there was reasonable conc af1 ern at the time that Andrew Finch may have been armed with a weapon.The unarmed 28-year-old Wichita man was shot Dec. 28 by police responding to a California man s fake calls about a killing and kidnapping at Finch s home. The person who called said he shot his father in the head and was holding his mother and little brother at gunpoint in a closet in the house.The shooting drew national attention to a practice called SWATting, in which a person makes up a false report to get emergency responders to descend on an address. The officer who fired the shot, identified only as officer number one, was stationed across the street, and fired believing Finch was reaching for a weapon when he moved his arm, Bennett said. This shooting should not have happened, Bennett said. But this officer s decision was made in the context of the false call. To charge officer num stanley cup ber one would require evidence, not 20/20 hindsight, that it was unreasonable for him to believe in that moment that the man who came to the door posed a risk to the officers near the house. stanley cup Kansas SWATting suspect expresses regret from ja |
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