Fourth inmate dies in Okla. prison clash
Three inmates were stabbed to death during an attack or fight at an Oklahoma prison and a fourth died of his injuries overnight, an official said Sunday.
The violence erupted around 4 p.m. Saturday at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, a community between the state’s two largest cities, Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
A preliminary investigation determined that the stabbings apparently happened in quick succession while the inmates at a medium-security wing of the prison were being let out of their cells into the exercise yard, said Terri Watkins, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. She said investigators were still investigating.
Suspect in shooting at Union Station ID’d
WASHINGTON – Police identified a man fatally shot by a security officer at Washington’s Union Station after an apparent domestic dispute Friday, and the man’s family mourned his death even as they raised questions Sunday about the security guard’s actions that led to his death.
District of Columbia police said the dead suspect was 57-year-old William Thomas Wilson Jr. of southeast Washington. Wilson was shot by a security officer Friday, and investigators said he had stabbed and wounded a woman. Wilson was chased and fatally shot after police said he pointed his knife at a security guard and lunged forward.
Union Station is home to Amtrak’s headquarters. About 90,000 people pass through the station each day.
Biker shootout leads to scrutiny in Waco
WACO, Texas – Bikers and public watchdogs have criticized authorities in Waco for how they’ve handled the investigation of a biker shooting in May, citing the mass arrests in which people were held for days or weeks on $1 million bonds without sufficient evidence to support such actions four months after the shootings.
The biker shootout left nine people dead and led to the mass-arrest of 177 people.
No formal charges have been made, and it remains unclear whose bullets struck the dead and injured or when cases will be presented to a grand jury.
The violence erupted May 17 before a meeting of a coalition of motorcycle clubs. Police have said two rival biker gangs got into a confrontation that turned deadly.
UN peace talks start badly in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen – Yemen’s internationally recognized president will not participate in UN-brokered talks later this week with Shiite rebels who control the capital and much of the country’s north, his office said Sunday.
The statement said there would be no talks with the rebels, known as Houthis, unless they accept a UN resolution that obliges them to withdraw from areas they seized and surrender weapons taken from state institutions.
The announcement came as President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government, currently in self-exile in Saudi Arabia, is making preparations to return to the port city of Aden at the end of this month following the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, two senior Yemeni government officials told The Associated Press.
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