AUBURN, Mass. – The man accused of killing a Massachusetts police officer during an early morning traffic stop was later shot to death after exchanging gunfire with police and wounding a state trooper, officials said.
The suspect, identified as 35-year-old Jorge Zambrano, burst out of a bedroom closet and opened fire on officers Sunday evening as they approached him inside a duplex apartment in Oxford, investigators said at a news conference. Oxford is about seven miles south of Auburn, where the police officer was fatally shot hours earlier.
Zambrano, who authorities said had a criminal history, was taken to a hospital, where he died.
The injured trooper suffered a gunshot wound to his left shoulder and was scheduled to undergo surgery late Sunday night. He is an 18-year veteran and former U.S. Navy Seal. His name wasn’t released.
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s prime minister hailed “big successes” Monday by government troops after launching an offensive to retake Fallujah from Islamic State militants, but the operation promises to be one of the toughest challenges yet for the country’s struggling security forces.
Troops recaptured some agricultural areas in Garma, a district along the northeastern edge of Fallujah, under intensified Iraqi airstrikes and heavy artillery, said Col. Mahmoud al-Mardhi, who leads Shiite militia forces in the operation.
The U.S.-led coalition carried out two airstrikes, the Pentagon said, part of an aerial campaign that has seen an average of two bombings a day over the past week in the city about 40 miles west of Baghdad.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi toured the Fallujah front line dressed in the all- black fatigues of Iraq’s elite counterterrorism forces, saying the troops had achieved “more than what was planned for,” and “big successes,” but he did not elaborate.
INDIANAPOLIS – A judge on Indiana’s Court of Appeals pointedly questioned an attorney for the state Monday on whether there was evidence a woman found guilty of neglect and feticide in a self-induced abortion knew she had given birth to a live child.
Judge Nancy Vaidik noted during the hearing on Purvi Patel’s bid to have the charges thrown out that no evidence was presented at trial that the 35-year-old northern Indiana woman knew she had delivered a live child. Such evidence would help support her conviction on a charge of neglect of a dependent resulting in death.
Patel’s appeal contends prosecutors failed to prove she knew she had delivered a live baby or that she could have done anything to save his life. It argues that summoning medical help would have been “futile,” citing a forensic pathologist’s testimony that the infant likely would have died within about a minute.
Patel, of Granger, was arrested in July 2013 after she sought treatment at a local hospital for profuse bleeding after delivering a 1½-pound infant boy and putting his body in a trash bin behind her family’s restaurant. Court records show Patel purchased abortion-inducing drugs online through a pharmacy in Hong Kong, took those drugs and delivered a premature baby in her home bathroom. Patel lived with her parents and grandparents, and she feared her family would discover she had been impregnated by a married man, according to court documents.
Associated Press
