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(HOUSTON) — A man wielding a shotgun allegedly killed three of his neighbors after setting fire early Sunday to multiple units at a Houston rental complex, including one he was recently evicted from, apparently to lure the victims into an ambush, police said.

The suspect, described as a Black man in his 40s, was shot to death outside the burning residences by a police officer who arrived at the scene as Houston firefighters came under fire and were forced to retreat, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said at a news conference on Sunday.

“This suspect, unfortunately, and very sadly, very evilly, set fire to several residences, laid (in) wait for those residents to come out and fired upon them,” Finner said.

The episode unfolded just after 1 a.m. Sunday in a southwest Houston neighborhood.

Finner said the suspect, whose name was not immediately released, was recently informed he was being evicted from his room. But Finner said a motive is still under investigation.

“He’s been a longtime resident here and that may have been a trigger point for him. I don’t know, but that’s part of the investigation,” Finner said.

The chief said multiple 911 calls were made beginning around 1:07 a.m. reporting a fire and a shooting.

Fire crews arrived at the scene before police and encountered gunshots, causing them to retreat, said Assistant Chief Michael Mire of the Houston Fire Department.

“As our firefighters came in the crossfire and they retreated, they still focused their attention on possible victims inside the structure. There were two that they were able to pull out,” Mire said.

Finner said a seven-year veteran of the Houston police force arrived at the scene after firefighters came under fire. Finner said the officer saw the armed suspect in a prone position in a parking lot across the street from the blaze and fatally shot him.

“Our officer arrived and took action, and for that, I’m very proud of him,” Finner said.

The officer, whose name was not immediately released, has been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an investigation, he said.

Finner said investigators found a shotgun with a spent shell lying next to the alleged gunman’s body. He said it remains under investigation whether the man fired at the officer before he was shot dead.

Finner said two white men, both in their 60s, were fatally shot and perished at the scene. A third gunshot victim he described as a Black male in his 40s was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

He said a man in his 40s or 50 was shot in the arm and another survivor was injured running away from the scene.

The landlord of the multi-unit rental complex where the fiery ambush occurred told ABC station KTRK-TV in Houston that the suspect had lived in the complex since 2013, but did not pay rent. The landlord, who asked that his name not be published, confirmed the suspect was evicted and had turned in his keys on Saturday.

Among the victims killed in the episode was the property manager of the rental complex, according to the landlord.

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(PHILADELPHIA) — One year after 8-year-old Fanta Bility was fatally shot by police while leaving a football game in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, her family is grieving her loss and fighting for justice.

“I miss my baby,” Fanta’s mother, Tenneh Kromah, told ABC Philadelphia station WPVI-TV. “Me and Fanta were so close. The other kids, they used to say ‘you love Fanta too much.’ I would say yes.”

Kromah held back tears as she reflected on her love for her daughter. She said that coping with Fanta’s loss — the youngest of her six children — has been “very difficult” over the past year.

The 8-year-old was a “very friendly” girl, her mother said, who loved fashion and enjoyed recording videos on TikTok.

Fanta was shot while exiting a football game with her family at Academy Park High School on Aug. 27, 2021, when officers Brian Devaney, Devon Smith and Sean Dolan fired their weapons toward the crowd after two teens opened fire in a personal dispute close to the high school, according to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer.

The three officers were each charged on Jan. 18 with 12 criminal counts of manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

“We have now concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that it was, in fact, shots from the officers that struck and killed Fanta Bility and injured three others,” Stollsteimer said in a January press release announcing the charges.

“This is a terrible tragedy that was caused by armed and violent criminals who turned a high school football game into a crime scene in which an innocent child lost her life and others were seriously injured,” Raymond Driscoll, Steven Patton and Charles Gibbs, the lawyers for the three officers, said in a joint statement after the charges were announced. “These three officers ran to the sound of gunshots and risked their own lives to protect that community. These three good men are innocent, and remain heartbroken for all who have suffered because of this senseless violence.”

The Sharon Hill Borough Council voted on Jan. 21 in favor of terminating the three officers from their positions at the Sharon Hill Police Department.

ABC News reached out to the attorneys representing the three former officers, but requests for comment were not immediately returned.

Family, friends and community members held a rally on Saturday in Sharon Hill to call for justice on the one-year anniversary of Fanta’s death.

Her family shared a photo with WPVI that was taken of Fanta the day she was fatally shot. They said the 8-year-old was napping and initially wanted to stay home but eventually decided to accompany members of her family to the football game to support her sister, who was a cheerleader.

As they cope with her death, there are no photos of Fanta in the family’s living room.

Abu Bility, Fanta’s uncle, told WPVI that videos are now too painful for her mother to watch.

“Whenever she sees Fanta’s photo… it kind of refreshes her memory that it just happened,” he said.

Fanta’s family expressed outrage last month over the release of a heavily redacted report about their daughter’s shooting in Sharon Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia.

The highly anticipated report, which outlines the findings of an independent investigation into the police policies and procedures related to the shooting, was released by the Sharon Hill Borough Council, but many of its findings and recommendations were redacted.

Bruce Castor, the attorney for Fanta’s family, told ABC News in a statement on July 31 that the redacted report is “unacceptable” and “an insult to the memory of Fanta.”

“The heavily edited report raises more questions in the minds of the family and the public than it answers,” Castor said.

“The world will eventually learn how Sharon Hill Borough officials failed to make certain its police trained under realistic scenarios and understood fully when deadly force is permitted under the law and when it is not,” he added.

Courtney Richardson, the Sharon Hill Borough solicitor, defended withholding the information, telling ABC News in a statement on July 31 that the Sharon Hill Borough Council redacted information to protect the ongoing investigation.

“Council has only redacted conclusions and recommendations of Special Counsel in the interest of justice, considering the active litigation in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,” Richardson said.

The redacted report is the conclusion of that nine-month investigation and comes after attorneys for the three officers filed a motion to drop the voluntary and involuntary manslaughter charges against the officers, according to WPVI.

When asked about the motion to dismiss the charges, Castor told ABC News on July 31 that the family wants the DA’s office to “do its best to obtain convictions holding the police officers criminally accountable for their actions.”

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(NEW YORK) — For the second time in a little over a month, multiple people were shot, one fatally, at one of New York City’s most popular summer destinations — the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn, authorities said.

The latest shooting occurred Saturday night and left a man dead from a bullet to the back, and four other people wounded, according to the New York City Police Department.

The shooting happened at 11:57 p.m. on the boardwalk at West 29th Street near the Coney Island Houses — a city public housing complex, authorities said. The incident occurred next to a playground and several blocks southeast of the Luna Park amusement park.

No arrests were immediately reported and police said a motive for the shooting was under investigation. It remained unclear if any of the people shot were targeted.

Bystanders told ABC New York City station WABC they heard several shots ring out and initially mistook them for fireworks.

“I heard about seven shots, one after the other,” one witness told WABC. “It was very quick. I was like, someone is having a celebration of some sorts probably. I didn’t see any fireworks though. So, I was like, it might be gunfire, but I wish it was the fireworks.”

Police said a 42-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, was shot in the back and taken to New York University Langone Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The gunfire also left a 49-year-old woman hospitalized with a bullet wound to the leg and a 34-year-old woman shot in the foot, police said. A 46-year-old man and another man, whose age was not immediately released, were both shot in the leg, according to police.

The episode comes a little over a month since a shooting on the Coney Island boardwalk left five people wounded, one critically. That shooting unfolded around 2 a.m. on July 10 at West 21st Street, just southeast of the iconic former Parachute Jump Tower, a historic landmark. Police said one person pulled a gun and shot two women and three men who were among a large crowd gathered for a pop-up party.

No arrests were announced in the July boardwalk shooting, which remains under investigation.

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(UVALDE, Texas) — March For Our Lives held a rally in front of the state capitol in Austin Saturday with parents who lost their children in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, families and survivors from a 2018 shooting at Santa Fe High School, and youth activists, to demand action on gun safety from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

“Three months since the horrifying and preventable tragedy at Robb Elementary School, Governor Abbott still hasn’t taken action to keep kids safe and prevent gun violence. With kids across Texas going back to school in the coming weeks, Abbott’s inaction is unconscionable,” March For Our Lives said in a statement Friday.

Victims and families of those killed in shootings demanded Abbott call a special session to raise the minimum age to purchase an assault weapon in Texas from 18 to 21.

“These weapons belong in the military, they belong in the war, not in the classroom,” said Maggie Mireles, the sister of elementary school teacher Eva Mireles, who was killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde.

Many speakers, including Mireles, called for Texans to vote Abbott out of office.

Mireles said when her family met with Abbott they asked him to change gun laws. “He said he would be hard at work to do that and that has not happened,” she said.

The crowd could be heard chanting “vote him out,” referring to Abbott, and “raise the age,” between speakers.

Speakers included parents of children killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School, families of teachers killed, and families and survivors from mass shootings across the country.

“It is time to stop using mental issues as an excuse for these mass shootings. When in reality it’s making easy access for teens to purchase ARs,” said Belinda Arriola, whose granddaughter Amory Garza was killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting in May.

Arriola criticized Abbott for his lack of action on gun control and called on him to call a special session to raise the age limit for assault weapon purchases, saying it should have been done three months ago.

“You disgracefully, disrespectfully uttered these words: ‘the tragedy in Uvalde could have been worse.’ No governor, the tragedy in Uvalde should have never happened in the first place,”Arriola said.

Families impacted by the Santa Fe High School shooting in 2018 also gathered, echoing promises of change made by lawmakers that were never fulfilled.

“We were promised a lot of things. We asked for a lot of things and nothing ever changed,” a speaker whose son was killed in the Santa Fe shooting and was only identified as Rosie said. “Greg Abbott, I am asking you to do something. You sat us at a round table, you promised a bunch of things to us and you failed us.”

Rosie added, “We’re never going to stop a school shooting, we cannot fool ourselves that that we can do that. But we can make it harder. And we need the people that empower to make it harder.”

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(SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif.) — A man is lucky to be alive after he fell about 100 feet off of a cliff edge when it reportedly crumbled beneath him as he walked on it.

The incident occurred at around dawn when the unnamed man was walking along cliffs in Moss Beach in San Mateo County, California — approximately 22 miles south of San Francisco — and the cliff edge gave way beneath his feet causing him to fall an estimated 100 feet, according to CAL FIRE San Mateo.

But at 8:30 a.m., a woman who was walking nearby heard the man’s calls for help and was able to alert authorities.

Coastside Fire subsequently arrived and were able to pull the man to safety within 22 minutes of their arrival, CAL FIRE San Mateo said in a tweet along with a short video of the miraculous rescue.

CLIFF RESCUE: The cliff crumbled beneath a man who was walking at dawn in Moss Beach. He fell est. 100 feet & yelled for help. At 8:30am a woman nearby heard his calls. Coastside Fire pulled him to safety within 22 minutes of their arrival. Avoid cliff edges as they are unstable. pic.twitter.com/OCz7W84dra

— CAL FIRE CZU (@CALFIRECZU) August 26, 2022

In the video, about a dozen officers can be seen pulling a series of ropes anchored by a fire engine as the victim, who is accompanied by another officer, are hoisted up the side of the cliff. As they approach the top of the cliff, the unidentified man who fell can be heard communicating with authorities about his condition but appears unsteady on his feet as he is pulled to safety. Authorities did not disclose his current condition.

While the man appeared to be okay at the end of the rescue, CAL FIRE San Mateo had one piece of advice following the incident: “Avoid cliff edges as they are unstable.”

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(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — NASA on Monday will send an unmanned space capsule into the moon’s orbit, marking the initial launch in an ambitious plan to establish a long term presence on the moon for scientific discovery and economic development.

The space capsule, called Artemis 1, will travel for roughly 40 days — reaching as close as 60 miles from the moon, and then 40,000 miles above the moon when orbiting over its dark side — before landing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.

Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, the White House said on Friday. At least 100,000 people will also watch on the beaches along Cape Canaveral as the shuttle takes off, Florida tourism officials estimated.

If the launch proves successful, NASA will send a crew to the moon’s orbit on Artemis 2 in 2024. Eventually, the Artemis expedition as a whole could lead to the first crewed space trip to Mars, NASA says.

Here’s everything you need to know about the launch on Monday:

When is the launch?

A two-hour launch window begins on Monday at 8:33 a.m. ET, meaning the launch could take place anytime over the ensuing two-hour period. But the launch may not take place on Monday morning, as NASA abides by a strict set of weather criteria that determine whether a flight can proceed.

Meteorologists with the U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 45 predicted a 70% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch window on Monday morning, according to a NASA blog post on Thursday.

The launch will be postponed, for instance, if the temperature at both 132.5 feet and 257.5 feet exceeds 94.5 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 consecutive minutes. NASA imposes additional weather restrictions, some of which depend on wind and humidity conditions.

If the launch does not take place on Monday, a second two-hour launch wind will begin on Friday, Sept. 2 at 12:38 a.m. ET. If NASA postpones the second launch, a third two-hour window will begin on Monday Sept. 5 at 5:12 p.m. ET.

How do you watch the launch?

ABC News will broadcast the launch live on Monday. Coverage will start at about 8:30 a.m. ET, just as the time window begins. ABC News may not broadcast from the launch if the take off is postponed before the time window starts.

In addition, NASA will broadcast the launch on its website . Eager viewers can watch an ongoing livestream of the launch site on YouTube.

What will the launch event entail?

NASA’s live broadcast of the launch will include celebrity appearances by Jack Black, Chris Evans, and Keke Palmer, as well as a special performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Josh Groban and Herbie Hancock.

The event will also feature a performance of “America the Beautiful” by The Philadelphia Orchestra and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

When is the shuttle coming back?

If the capsule takes off on Monday morning, the mission will last for 42 days, after which the capsule will splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Oct. 10 at 11:53 a.m. ET.

If the capsule takes off during the second launch window, on Sept. 2, the mission will last 39 days with a splashdown in the Pacific on Oct. 11; while a launch during the third window, on Sept. 5, would last 42 days and end on Oct. 17.

What’s next for the Artemis expedition?

On the whole, the Artemis expedition includes four missions, each of which will cost roughly $4.1 billion. In all, the project will cost up to $93 billion by 2025, according to an audit from the NASA Office of the Inspector General.

If Artemis 1 is successful, Artemis 2 will take four astronauts near the moon in 2024. After that, Artemis 3 will take a crewed shuttle for a moon landing. Finally, Artemis 4 will fly to a space station near the moon.

NASA hopes that the Artemis expedition will enable a crewed trip to Mars in the ensuing years.

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(TULSA, Okla.) — Descendants of the 1921 Tula Race Massacre are being urged to avoid submitting DNA samples to the city’s investigation project amid privacy concerns which would delay efforts to identify remains found in a mass grave many believe is linked to the tragedy.

Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood was an affluent area known as “Black Wall Street” and was home to 1,200 Black residents and hundreds of Black-owned businesses in the early 1900s. A confrontation between groups of white and Black residents following the arrest of a young Black man named Dick Rowland, who was accused of assaulting a white girl, ended with 35 city blocks being burned to the ground on the evening of May 31, 1921.

Historians believe as many as 300 people were killed as white mobs destroyed homes, businesses, churches, schools, hospitals and other buildings. More than 100 years later, many of the massacre victims’ bodies have never been found.

Experts discovered a mass grave at Oaklawn Cemetery in October 2020. Archaeologists exhumed 19 burials and identified 14 individuals to be used for DNA analysis. Descendants and relatives of massacre victims are being asked to submit their own DNA to help identify the bodies.

The city of Tulsa is working with Utah-based lab Intermountain Forensics to examine the remains. Scientists have been able to extract DNA from two of the 14 individuals so far.

Mayor G.T. Bynum apologized for the Tulsa’s role in the 1921 massacre in May 2021 and his spokesperson Michelle Brooks told ABC News his office is working with the lab to determine if the samples they have will be good enough to take more DNA from or if they will need to re-exhume the bodies.

Justice for Greenwood, a group working to secure reparations on behalf of survivors and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has cautioned against submitting DNA. They hosted a public town hall Thursday to discuss concerns and answer questions over the DNA testing.

“The city is trying to encourage descendants to feel a sense of buy-in by donating their DNA,” said Eric Miller, an attorney with Justice for Greenwood, during the town hall.

Miller and other members of the group are concerned descendants could be opening themselves or their relatives up to potential criminal prosecution by providing DNA.

“This is information that doesn’t just impact an individual, but impacts whole families. You give your DNA up and you’re dragging your whole family and perhaps your whole community into this mess,” Miller said.

UC Davis law professor Elizabeth Joh, who has written extensively and teaches courses on criminal law and procedure, policing, and surveillance, spoke during the meeting. “What Tulsa does is going to be followed by other communities. States are only beginning to start to look at this issue,” Joh said at the townhall.

Intermountain Forensics Executive Director Deborah Dilley told ABC News she was surprised by the pushback. “We had at least two conversations with Justice for Greenwood,” Dilley said. “They asked a lot of questions about how genetic databases work. But they didn’t ask specifically about our project and how our methodology was on that.”

The lab is asking descendants to upload their DNA profiles to GEDmatch, a genetic genealogy research site. GEDmatch is free and open to the public and match results vary based on which DNA test was used, but typically include the name, email, and degree of relatedness shared between relatives. A “PRO” version of GEDmatch is available to law enforcement agencies working to find DNA matches in criminal cases.

Dilley says anyone participating in the project can choose the level of confidentiality they want. Researchers at Intermountain Forensics will be able to see any genetic matches but will not have access to any raw data or individual genetic profiles.

“We wanted to make sure that everybody understood the different categories,” said Dilley. “And we have some people who said ‘Nope, I want to be absolutely private’ and so we will process those separately.”

Miller says the current privacy options are not enough.

“There’s a high bar of trust to be overcome here and the city has done nothing to assure us of the privacy and security of that information. There’s so many things they could have done,” Miller told ABC News. “When the 9/11 Commission did DNA matching to identify the remains of people killed in the terrorist attack, it created a secure DNA database that was not generally accessible.”

Tulsa officials say the GEDmatch database was the best choice for this project.

“GEDmatch is one of the only two databases that allow comparisons to unidentified human remains. Of those two, GEDmatch is the only one which allows users to opt out of law enforcement searches involving crime scene DNA,” Tulsa Communications Director Michelle Brooks told ABC News.

A spokesperson for GEDmatch says law enforcement is not allowed to use the consumer version of the site per the Terms of Service, but conceded that it could happen.

“We cannot prevent users from choosing to circumvent the Terms of Service,” Brett Williams wrote in an email to ABC News. “However, these violations would almost certainly be discovered during court proceedings by the defense councils in their discovery process.”

Greg Robinson is a member of the city’s Mass Graves Public Oversight Committee and spoke during the town hall.

“Process matters, it matters deeply,” Robinson said at the townhall. “It’s not simply what we’re doing, it’s the way we go about it that will give the confidence that’s needed for us to move forward. How are we supposed to trust that we can actually move toward justice and reparation then reconciliation if we can’t do the investigation part right?”

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(FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.) — At least one person has been shot in what police say was a targeted shooting at the Washington County Fair in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The incident occurred at approximately 10:30 p.m. when Fayetteville Police Officers responded to a report of a shooting at the annual Washington County Fair that is taking place this year From August 23 to 27.

“Upon the officers arrival they located one victim, and immediately began to render first aid,” said the Fayetteville Police Department in a statement published on social media. “The victim was then transported to a local medical facility.”

Local media was initially reporting that several other injuries were reported due to a stampede following the shooting but authorities have not yet confirmed this.

The Fayetteville Police Department said that their initial investigation has led them to believe that this was a targeted incident and not a random act of violence but did not elaborate further.

Authorities did confirm, however, that the suspect involved in the shooting was able to flee the scene of the crime and is currently on the loose. It is not clear if police know the identity of the suspect or not.

Officers are currently on the scene and investigating the incident and their investigation is ongoing.

The Washington County Fair was founded in 1857 and is the largest and most established county fair in Arkansas, according to the Washington County Fair Association.

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(NEW YORK) — Air travel complaints were up nearly 35% in June compared to the month before, according to a report from the Department of Transportation released Friday. Nearly one-third of those complaints were about airline cancellations, delays and other schedule changes.

DOT data shows that 583,584 flights were operated in June, which is down about 1% from flights operated during May. Airlines reported that 73.5% of scheduled flights were on time in June of 2022, which is actually higher than the pre-pandemic on-time data which was 73.3% in June of 2019.

The data showed that 3.1% of airlines’ domestic flights were canceled which is almost double the 1.6% of flights canceled in June 2021.

Some airlines had fewer scheduling problems than others, according to the data.

The most on-time airlines in June were Alaska Airlines, with nearly 79% of flights arriving on time, Delta Air Lines and Hawaiian Airlines. The airlines with the lowest on-time arrivals were Allegiant Air, with only 59% of flights arriving on time, JetBlue Airways and Frontier Airlines.

Hawaiian Airlines had the lowest rate of canceled flights, with only .1% of flights canceled. Alaska Airlines and Frontier Airlines also had a low rate of cancellations, with .7% and 1.1% canceled respectively.

American Airlines reported the highest rate of canceled flights in June, with the carrier canceling 4.4% of scheduled flights, according to the data. Delta Air Lines and United Airlines also had a higher rate of cancellations, with 3.9% and 3.5% of flights canceled respectively.

About a quarter of the complaints regarded refunds from airlines. DOT said that their office has investigated 10 airlines for failing to refund “extreme delays,” and hints that there are ongoing investigations into more airlines.

“Many passengers who were initially denied refunds have since received the required refunds,” the report said. “The Department has taken and will take enforcement action against noncompliant airlines and ticket agents as necessary. [Office of Aviation Consumer Protection] recently concluded its investigation of 10 airlines and is pursuing enforcement action against them for extreme delays in providing refunds for flights the airlines canceled or significantly changed.”

The report added, “The Office is also actively investigating the refund practices of additional airlines flying to, from, or within the United States.”

The data also showed small increases in mishandled baggage, wheelchairs and scooters in June, compared to the previous month.

This report comes after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sent a letter to air carriers last week, calling on them to shape up ahead of the Labor Day travel weekend.

“In the first six months of 2022, roughly 24% of the domestic flights of U.S. airlines have been delayed and 3.2% have been canceled,” Buttigieg said in the letter. “As you know, these aren’t just numbers, these are missed birthday parties, graduations, time with loved ones and important meetings.” 

ABC News’ Sam Sweeney contributed to this report.

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(FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.) — A woman was attacked by a man without pants on while she was on a popular trail in Fairfax County Virginia, according to Fairfax County Police.

Officers responded to reports that a man grabbed a woman on the Washington and Old Dominion Trail at 8:12 a.m. Friday, police said in a statement Friday.

The victim was walking east on the trail between Town Center Parkway and the Fairfax County Parkway, near mile marker 18.5, when a man approached her from behind and grabbed her around the waist, police said. She broke free from the man and saw him running toward the 12100 block of Sunset Hills Road with no pants on, according to police.

Officers and the K9 unit searched the area but the man was not found, police said.

Detectives from the Major Crimes Bureau Sex Crimes Squad have assumed the investigation and have canvassed the area looking for surveillance footage near the trail, police said.

Detectives believe the man also may have exposed himself between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. Aug. 3, Aug. 15 and Aug. 18 on the trail near the Fairfax County Parkway, police said.

The man is described as a white or Hispanic man between 5 foot 5 inches to 5 foot 8 inches tall. He is between the ages of 30 and 40 years old, has an athletic build and was wearing a dark-colored head band and a yellow exercise vest, according to police.

Anonymous tipsters are eligible for cash rewards of $100 to $1,000 dollars, police said.

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