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Man arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up Atlanta airport

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/ABC_BreakingNews_091224.jpg” alt=””></figure>(ATLANTA, Ga.) — A man who allegedly threatened to shoot up the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was arrested after entering a terminal at the airport on Monday, according to authorities.The man’s family alerted police that the suspect had been streaming on social media Monday morning that he was headed to the airport to “shoot it up” and was in possession of a semi-automatic assault rifle, according to Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum.The man — identified by the Atlanta Police Department as Billy Cagle, 49, of Cartersville, Georgia — was taken into custody at the airport, police said. Officers located an AR-15 assault rifle with 27 rounds of ammunition in his pickup truck parked outside the airport, Schierbaum said.The suspect is a felon who has mental health challenges, officials said. He has been charged with terroristic threats and criminal attempt to commit aggravated assaults, among other counts, the police chief said.”Because of the community — in this case, the family — as well as the joint collaboration of law enforcement, a tragedy was indeed averted,” Schierbaum said at a press briefing Monday.The police chief said Cagle arrived at the airport at 9:29 a.m. and, upon entering the south terminal, went to the TSA check-in area and was “scanning that area.” Schierbaum said he believes Cagle was walking back to his truck with the intent to retrieve the weapon when officers encountered him at 9:54 a.m. and he was taken into custody.”I do believe he was likely to use that weapon inside the crowded terminal,” Schierbaum said.The suspect’s family reported the alleged social media threat to Cartersville police, who immediately alerted the Atlanta Police Department at approximately 9:40 a.m., according to Schierbaum.Cartersville Police Capt. Greg Sparacio told reporters Cagle’s family alerted Cartersville police shortly after 9:30 a.m. that the suspect was “en route to somewhere in the Atlanta area” and he “had the intention to do harm to as many people as he could.”Investigators determined what vehicle he was traveling in and provided that information to Atlanta police, he said.A motive remains under investigation, Schierbaum said.Sparacio said their department is “familiar” with Cagle and he has a criminal history, including a prior drug possession arrest, though he did not go into further detail.Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said he is grateful a potential tragedy was averted at the world’s busiest airport.”We’re thankful to God and to good information and good intel and good people for this crisis being averted,” he said during the briefing. Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard spotted earlier this month, mom not cooperating: Sheriff

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/News_MelodeeBuzzard_102025.png” alt=””><figcaption>The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office is searching for Melodee Buzzard. This is the most recent photograph available, which was taken two years ago. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office</figcaption></figure>(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) — California authorities trying to <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-barbara-authorities-search-missing-girl/story?id=126576325″>track down missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard</a> say it appears she was seen earlier this month, but her mother is still not cooperating with investigators.Evidence points to Melodee being with her mom, Ashlee Buzzard, as recently as Oct. 7, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday.Ashlee Buzzard and Melodee may have driven outside of Santa Barbara County and as far as Nebraska, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Authorities said they believe Ashlee Buzzard was driving a rented white Chevrolet Malibu with the license plate 9MNG101.The sheriff’s office said Ashlee Buzzard is not cooperating and hasn’t given authorities any information about Melodee’s whereabouts.”The primary goal of this investigation is to verify the location and welfare of Melodee Buzzard and ensure that she is safe,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.Authorities <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-barbara-authorities-search-missing-girl/story?id=126576325″>announced last week they were looking for Melodee,</a> initially saying she hadn’t been seen since October 2024. The department later said she had been spotted as recently as August 2025, and a sheriff’s spokesperson described her disappearance as “suspicious.” It appears Melodee was homeschooled for at least the last few years, according to the sheriff’s office.As authorities continue their search, the sheriff’s office is asking community members to not conduct their own investigations.”While well-intentioned, these efforts could unintentionally interfere with investigative work already in progress,” the department said.The sheriff’s office urges anyone who has seen Melodee or has had contact with Ashlee Buzzard since Oct. 7 to call the department at 805-681-4150. Tips can be submitted anonymously at 805-681-4171 or <a href=”http://www.sbsheriff.org/home/anonymous-tip”>www.sbsheriff.org/home/anonymous-tip</a>.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Teen killed in apparent lightning strike while hunting deer in Louisiana: Sheriff

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/ABC_BreakingNews_091224%20%281%29.jpg” alt=””><figcaption>David McNew/Getty Images</figcaption></figure>(SHREVEPORT, La.) — A 17-year-old boy was killed over the weekend in an apparent lightning strike while hunting deer in Louisiana, authorities said.Colton Gauge Honeycutt went missing while hunting alone on Saturday in the Bernice area, according to Union Parish Sheriff Dusty Gates.His family members became concerned when he never returned from hunting and went looking for him, according to Gates. He was reported injured and Union Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies, along with the Bernice Fire Department and Pafford EMS, responded around 8:30 p.m. local time, the sheriff’s office said.The first responders were directed to a remote, wooded area, where Honeycutt was located in an elevated deer stand, according to the sheriff’s office.”Investigators believe Honeycutt was killed by a lightning strike when thunderstorms moved through the area, just before sunset Saturday evening,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.The Union Parish Coroner’s Office pronounced the teen dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said.The incident remains under investigation.Gates told ABC News on Monday that his office is still awaiting the autopsy report.”I’ve been doing this for 50 years — first time I’ve seen anything like this,” he told ABC News.Bernice is located nearly 80 miles northeast of Shreveport.The National Weather Service in Shreveport had advised that scattered showers and thunderstorms with “increasing severe potential” were moving across southeast Oklahoma and northeast Texas into Louisiana Saturday afternoon.  Honeycutt’s death marked the 20th lightning fatality in the U.S., and the first in Louisiana, so far this year, according to the National Lightning Safety Council.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Speaker Johnson continues to resist swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Grijalva

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/GETTY_Adelita%20Grijalva_102025.jpg” alt=””><figcaption>Rebecca Noble/Getty Images</figcaption></figure>(WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson is resisting calls to swear in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, saying Monday that he will administer the oath of office to her after the Senate votes to reopen the government.As Democrats decry the almost monthlong delay, Johnson has maintained that he is “following the Pelosi precedent” — when three Republicans who had won special elections during recess waited until the House returned to session before then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi swore them into office.Grijalva won her special election on Sept. 23 — four days after Johnson dismissed lawmakers following House passage of the clean continuing resolution to fund the government. Since the last vote in the House, Republicans have canceled 14 days of legislative business — including four days this week — as the impasse drags on.”Rep. Grijalva won her race in the I think it was the last week of September after we had already gone out of session, so I will administer the oath to her, hope on the first day we come back [to] legislative session,” Johnson said in a news conference Monday. “I’m willing and anxious to do that.”While the question has followed the speaker throughout the shutdown, Johnson has shrugged off the delay, denying that his decision is related to Grijalva’s intent to become the 218 signature on a discharge petition forcing a vote to release the Department of Justice’s full Jeffrey Epstein file.”Instead of doing TikTok videos, she should be serving her constituents. She could be taking their calls. She can be directing them, trying to help them through the crisis that the Democrats have created … by shutting down the government,” Johnson said.Last week, Grijalva rejected Johnson’s assertion that she can still represent her constituents while she waits to be sworn in to office, contending she cannot carry out some basic functions of her office until she is seated.”We have no access to government email, casework systems, and other basic infrastructure. Moreover, we cannot sign any leases for in-district offices to provide constituent services,” Grijalva wrote in a statement to ABC News on Friday. “He is piecemealing the most basic tools of a functioning office — handing me the keys to a car with no engine, no tires, and no fuel. This would all be resolved if he simply did his job, swore me in, and stopped protecting pedophiles. I can’t do my job until he does his.”On Monday, Johnson put the onus on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to give his new members “guidance and direction” on how to begin operating their office.”That call was apparently never made,” Johnson said. “I don’t know if the Democrat leader’s office didn’t inform her of that, but the I found out this morning that the person who runs that office and the chief administrative office is on furlough because they voted to shut the government down, and so that person didn’t reach out affirmatively, but now it’s been sorted out, and I’m told they’re going to her office today.”On ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl pressed Johnson on why the House couldn’t return to do some regular business outside any shutdown-related work.”I refuse to allow us to come back and engage in anything until the government is reopened, when the Democrats do the right thing for the people,” Johnson told Karl.Asked when Johnson would swear in Grijalva, the leader told Karl, “As soon as we get back to legislative session, when Chuck Schumer allows us to turn the lights back on.”Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Coast Guard surges operations on the Rio Grande River

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/News_coastguard_102025.jpg” alt=””><figcaption>Coast Guard crews patrol the Rio Grande near Mission, Texas Oct. 18, 2025. USCG</figcaption></figure>(WASHINGTON) — The United States Coast Guard is deploying more resources to the U.S. southern border on the Rio Grande River, according to the agency.The surge operation, known as “Operation River Wall,” will add more boats on a 260-mile stretch of the river in southeastern Texas that makes up part of the U.S.-Mexico border to ensure operational control of the border, according to USCG.”U.S. Coast Guard is the best in the world at tactical boat operations and maritime interdiction at sea, along our coasts, and in riverine environments,” said Adm. Kevin E. Lunday, acting commandant of the Coast Guard. “Through Operation River Wall, the Coast Guard is controlling the U.S. southern border along the Rio Grande River in eastern Texas.”The move, according to the Coast Guard, also puts more tactical teams and other resources in the area to combat any drug smuggling that occurs.Since the start of the administration, the Coast Guard has “tripled” its presence and patrols along the southern border with several surge operations on the West Coast.The Coast Guard has “diverted aircraft, cutters, small boats and crews under its operational control to the southern border, increasing the illegal alien apprehension rates by 75% with multiple smuggling attempts continuing to occur each night,” according to a news release from March.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Suspect Keon King faces more charges after police find remains of Kada Scott in shallow grave

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/News_phillypd_101525.jpg” alt=””><figcaption>Officials in Philadelphia are searching for Kada Scott, a 23 year old woman who has been missing for nearly a week. Philadelphia Police Department</figcaption></figure>(PHILADELPHIA) — Human remains found Saturday <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/remains-found-amid-search-missing-philadelphia-woman-kada/story?id=126591096″ target=”_blank”>have been confirmed</a> to be 23-year-old Philadelphia woman Kada Scott, who had been missing since Oct. 4, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office confirmed on Monday.The confirmation came during a press conference on Monday morning when the DA’s office announced new charges against Keon King, the suspect in Scott’s disappearance.King, 21, who was previously charged with kidnapping in relation to Scott’s disappearance, is now facing charges including arson causing catastrophe, conspiracy, unauthorized use of an automobile, tampering with evidence, recklessly endangering another person and receipt of stolen property, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced on Monday.Scott’s <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-charged-kidnapping-connection-disappearance-23-year-philadelphia/story?id=126507914″ target=”_blank”>remains were found Saturday morning</a> in a shallow grave on the grounds of an abandoned school are “believed” to belong to Scott.The remains were found in a deeply wooded area behind Ada H. Lewis Middle School, an abandoned school near Awbury Arboretum in Germantown around 10 a.m. on Saturday after police received a “very specific” anonymous tip overnight, First Deputy Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department John Stanford told reporters during a press conference on Saturday evening.Stanford said police were in touch with Scott’s family following the discovery of the remains.Scott was last seen by her mother on Oct. 4 when she was leaving for work at a nearby nursing home, police said earlier this month. King, who remains in custody, was previously charged with kidnapping “for his involvement” in the disappearance of Scott, authorities said.On the evening of Oct. 4, Scott arrived at work, but left prior to her shift’s completion, Philadelphia police Capt. John Craig said during a press conference earlier this month. It was not clear what time Scott left work, but officials said her shift typically was from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.”In the days leading up to her disappearance, Ms. Scott related to her family and friends that an unknown individual or person had been harassing her via phone,” Craig said.Officials said evidence shows Scott was “in communication with an individual” — who they identified as King — and that she appeared to meet with him “very shortly after” she left work on Oct. 4.ABC News’ Megan Forrester and Tommy Foster contributed to this report.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Carbon cost of meat in US: This is how many greenhouse gas emissions are released

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/G_cows_102025.jpg” alt=””><figcaption>A herd of cows housed inside a barn in Hottot-les-Bagues, Normandy, France, on June 13, 2024. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images</figcaption></figure>(NEW YORK) — Researchers have quantified how meat consumption in the U.S. is contributing to the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change.More than 11 million tons of meat is consumed in U.S. cities annually — equating to about 329 million tons of carbon emissions, according to a study published Monday in the scientific journal <a href=”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02450-7″ target=”_blank”>Nature Climate Change</a>.That figure is comparable to emission levels from domestic fossil fuel combustion in the U.S., at about 334 million tons annually, Benjamin P. Goldstein, an assistant professor of environment and sustainability at the University of Michigan and lead author of the paper, told ABC News. In addition, emissions from meat consumption in the U.S. exceed total annual carbon emissions from the U.K., at 305 million tons, and Italy, at 313 million tons, the researchers said.The three most populated cities in the U.S. — New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago — consumed a total of 3.2 million tons of meat per year, according to the paper.While meat and dairy are known to contribute “substantially” to urban greenhouse gas emissions, it has been difficult to trace the impacts due to the complexity of agricultural chains over large rural areas, especially because traditional accounting methods rely on national averages that can obscure important regional differences, the researchers said.Researchers quantified and mapped the greenhouse gas emissions of beef, chicken and pork consumption to calculate the “carbon hoofprint” of 3,531 U.S. cities by implementing a high-resolution model to link meat consumption to the specific rural regions that produce the feed, livestock and processed meat.Americans are consuming 4.6 million tons of chicken, 3.7 million tons of beef and 2.7 million tons of pork annually, the researchers found. But the carbon footprint of the meat consumption depends on where the meat was produced, Goldstein said.This is, in large part, because supply chains in the U.S. can span thousands of miles and encompass hundreds of counties within the country, Goldstein said. Los Angeles alone sources beef from 10 counties, and those beef suppliers rely on livestock from 469 counties, which are fed using crops grown in 828 counties.Researchers embarked on the study because urban sustainability has “by and large” focused on buildings, transportation, water, waste and hard infrastructure within cities, Goldstein said.”When we’re thinking about decarbonizing cities…we also think about all those different complex supply chains that bring products into cities but cause environmental change elsewhere,” Goldstein said.Emissions from meat consumption in the U.S. can be reduced by up to 51% through measures such as reducing food waste and shifting diets from beef to poultry, the researchers suggested.The U.S. Agricultural Census contains information about how much food is being produced at the county level that also includes data such as irrigation and fertilizer, where the crops that animals are being eaten are grown and where the animals are being raised, Goldstein said.By linking that information with data on the number of slaughterhouses, how much they process and where the meat demand is, researchers can look at the environmental impacts across the individual supply chains for beef, poultry and pork to cities, he added.”It shows how urban and rural livelihoods are highly interdependent,” Goldstein said. “We need food in cities. Obviously, it’s mainly grown elsewhere.”Strategies to decarbonize the supply side of meat production, such as integrating trees and livestock grazing, can further reduce the “net hoofprint,” the researchers said.And as far as individual consumption goes, the fundamental advice of focusing on a plant-based diet, and choosing chicken or pork over beef, is still the best way to practice sustainability within eating habits, according to Goldstein.”Thinking about what we have to change is not necessarily how we produce things or the distance and the food miles that travels, but really what we put into our bodies,” he said.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Prosecutors suggest they may move to disqualify Comey’s attorney

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/Getty_JamesComey_102025.jpg” alt=””><figcaption>James Comey, former FBI Director, speaks at the Barnes & Noble Upper West Side on May 19, 2025 in New York City. . (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>(NEW YORK) — Federal prosecutors in James Comey’s <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-fbi-director-james-comey-indicted-days-after/story?id=125935658″>criminal case</a> suggested in a new filing that they may move to disqualify Comey’s lead attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, from continuing to represent the former FBI director over a potential conflict of interest issue. In a filing late Sunday night, prosecutors told U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff that Fitzgerald’s alleged involvement in providing information to the media for Comey after Comey was fired by President Donald Trump in 2017 could “inform a potential conflict and disqualification issue.” They urged Nachmanoff to act quickly to set forth a procedure for all parties on the case to review evidence that is currently under quarantine because it involves communications between Comey and “several attorneys” and could involve privileged communications. Fitzgerald has already raised alarm over the government’s handling of the process and raised pointed questions about why prosecutors didn’t previously determine how they’d handle the potentially privileged communications before moving to indict Comey on charges he made false statements to Congress in 2020. Comey, who has denied the charges, <a href=”https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FPolitics%2Fformer-fbi-director-james-comey-make-1st-court%2Fstory%3Fid%3D126322951&data=05%7C02%7CMarc.E.Nathanson%40abc.com%7Ca1d8d44c0a58460636c808de0fe69897%7C56b731a8a2ac4c32bf6b616810e913c6%7C1%7C0%7C638965680240868315%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wMrj8EVKmcpjiCGKsLmZwSOT%2BL4WzXP%2BKhuwFiaCh9k%3D&reserved=0″>pleaded not guilty</a> earlier this month to one count of false statements and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding related to his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020, amid what critics call Trump’s <a href=”https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FUS%2Flist-individuals-including-lisa-cook-targeted-trump-administration%2Fstory%3Fid%3D124968309&data=05%7C02%7CMarc.E.Nathanson%40abc.com%7Ca1d8d44c0a58460636c808de0fe69897%7C56b731a8a2ac4c32bf6b616810e913c6%7C1%7C0%7C638965680240889586%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=OzB3KgLWzwY2Y1PNWuUxbLgkAkvMv2r8y%2BY1Tc%2BZNEY%3D&reserved=0″>campaign of retribution</a> against his perceived political foes. Vice President JD Vance has said any such prosecutions are “driven by law and not by politics.” The potential push to disqualify Fitzgerald, a close friend of Comey’s with a storied background as a former Justice Department official-turned-high-powered white collar attorney, comes as Fitzgerald has already said he plans to have a court invalidate President Trump’s pick for the prosecutor that brought charges against Comey, Lindsey Halligan. Fitzgerald was expected to make a series of filings Monday outlining his arguments that Halligan was unlawfully appointed as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, just four days before she went to a grand jury and sought Comey’s indictment over what sources say were the <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/prosecutors-memo-new-us-attorney-recommended-plans-charge/story?id=125925246″>objections of career prosecutors</a>.The grand jury ultimately voted to indict Comey on two of three charges sought by Halligan related to Comey’s 2020 congressional testimony regarding the FBI’s <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russia-probe-timeline-moscow-mueller/story?id=57427441″>Russia probe</a> and whether Comey authorized leaks of anonymous information to the media. Fitzgerald was also expected to argue in a filing Monday that the prosecution of Comey was “vindictive” in nature and at the direct urging of President Trump, citing Trump’s extensive history of statements calling for Comey to be jailed. While legal experts argue there’s an extraordinarily high bar for tossing a prosecution based on the argument of malicious prosecution, Comey’s case should be a unique test of the legal standard, given Trump’s ousting of the office’s senior prosecutor who resisted bringing charges and his public call on social media for Attorney General Pam Bondi to <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-allowed-involved-comey-case-indictment-doj/story?id=125935132″>act “now”</a> to prosecute Comey and other political enemies. Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Former sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson faces murder trial in fatal shooting of Sonya Massey

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/N_SeanGrayson_102025.jpg” alt=””><figcaption>Sean Grayson fatally shot Sonya Massey while responding to her 911 call for help. (Sangamon County Sheriff's Office)</figcaption></figure>(PEORIA, Ill.) — Jury selection is set to begin on Monday in the trial of Sean Grayson, the former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy who was charged with first-degree murder in connection to the July 6, 2024, fatal shooting of Sonya Massey.Grayson was <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/illinois-deputy-charged-fatal-shooting-sonya-massey-woman/story?id=112058957″>charged with a total of three counts</a> in connection to Massey’s death – first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct.Grayson’s attorney, Daniel Fultz, declined to comment to ABC News but confirmed that his client has “pleaded not guilty to all charges.”The trial will take place in Peoria, Illinois, after it was moved from Sangamon County to Peoria County due to extensive media publicity.Body camera footage of the incident <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/body-camera-footage-released-illinois-state-police-woman/story?id=112162337″>released by Illinois State Police on July 22, 2024,</a> shows Massey telling Grayson and another responding deputy, “Please, don’t hurt me,” once she answered their knocks on her door.”I don’t want to hurt you, you called us,” Grayson responded.Later in the video, Grayson, who was inside Massey’s home, points to a pot of boiling water on her stove and says, “We don’t need a fire while we’re in here.”Massey then pours the water into the sink and tells the deputy, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” according to the video.Grayson threatens to shoot her and Massey apologizes and ducks down behind a counter, covering her face with what appears to be a red oven mitt, the video shows. As she briefly rises, Grayson shoots her three times in the face, the footage shows.Massey died by homicide due to a gunshot wound to her head, <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/sonya-massey-woman-killed-home-police-died-homicide/story?id=112305250″>according to an autopsy report</a> released on July 26, 2024, Sangamon County coroner Jim Allmon confirmed to ABC News.Grayson <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/sean-grayson-deputy-charged-sonya-massey-killing-fighting/story?id=113149639″>said he feared for his life</a> during his encounter with Massey, according to documents released by the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office in August of 2024.”While on scene, I was in fear Dep. (redacted) and I were going to receive great bodily harm or death. Due to being in fear of our safety and life, I fired my duty weapon,” Grayson wrote in his field case report.Attorney Ben Crump, who represents Massey’s family, said the autopsy confirmed that this was an “unnecessary excessive use of force, completely unnecessary, certainly not justified.”Crump said that Massey had struggled with her mental health.Prosecutors alleged that Grayson discouraged his partner from retrieving the medical kit to render aid to Massey after the shooting because he allegedly thought the injuries were too severe to revive her.The judge in the case ruled during a pre-trial hearing on Sept. 15, 2025, against the defense’s request to exclude body camera footage after Massey was shot, according to WICS, ABC affiliate in Springfield, Illinois.The body camera footage released by Illinois State Police shows the incident from the point of view of Grayson’s partner because Grayson did not turn on his own body camera until after the shooting, according to court documents reviewed by ABC News.A review of the case by Illinois State Police found Grayson was not justified in his use of deadly force. Grayson was fired in July 2024 by the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office after he was indicted in this case.Grayson has been held in the Macon County jail ahead of his trial.Grayson’s attorneys revealed that he was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer and argued for his pretrial release, claiming that he would not receive proper treatment in prison. An appellate court ruled on Nov. 27, 2024, that Grayson could be released on pretrial conditions but the ruling was paused last December after prosecutors appealed the decision to the Illinois Supreme Court.Prosecutors argued, in part, that Grayson acted “impulsively” and cannot be trusted to comply with conditions for pretrial release.Prior to Grayson’s time in public law enforcement, he was discharged from the U.S. Army for unspecified “misconduct (serious offense),” according to documents obtained by ABC News.ABC News also learned that Grayson was charged with two DUI offenses in Macoupin County, Illinois, in August 2015 and July 2016, according to court documents.He pleaded guilty to both charges. He paid over $1,320 in fines and had his vehicle impounded as a result of the 2015 incident. In 2016, Grayson paid over $2,400 in fines, according to court records.Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed new legislation on Aug. 12 inspired by Massey’s death, according to ABC station in Chicago, <a href=”https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-set-sign-police-reform-bill-named-sonya-massey/17510474/”>WLS</a>. The law creates stricter hiring practices for law enforcement agencies by requiring departments to thoroughly investigate a candidate’s history before hiring them.”It means everything to me. Like to see my mom making some change … that means the world to me,” said Massey’s son Malachi Hill Massey.ABC News’ Sabina Ghebremedhin contributed to this report.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Manhunt underway for 4 suspects after heist of ‘priceless’ jewelry at Louvre in Paris

October 20, 2025 by WDNY Radio

(LONDON) — As the alarms sounded at the Louvre Museum on Sunday morning, four suspects took off on two motorbikes, winding their way through central Paris, allegedly carrying with them a haul of “priceless” jewelry once worn by queens and made of sapphire, diamonds and emeralds.

They haven’t yet been found.

About 24 hours after the brazen theft of some of the most recognizable pieces of glittering French heritage, which were taken during daylight hours from the world’s most-visited museum, a manhunt and investigation are in full swing, according to state and law enforcement officials.

“The theft committed at the Louvre is an attack on a heritage that we cherish because it is our history,” President Emmanuel Macron said on social media on Sunday.

He and other French officials vowed that the pieces would be returned and the suspects apprehended.

The museum closed on Sunday morning as police swarmed the area in search of suspects and evidence.

“Following yesterday’s robbery at the Louvre, the museum regrets to inform you that it will remain closed to the public today,” officials said on social media on Monday. “Visitors who have already booked tickets will be refunded.”

7 minutes, in and out, authorities say
The suspects arrive in pairs, with two in a truck and two riding motorbikes, authorities said on Sunday. The truck was equipped with a moving ladder, a “mobile freight elevator” of the type city furniture movers sometimes use, Paris police said.

The suspects allegedly parked the truck on a road that runs along the side of the museum, near the Seine, police said.

They were wearing yellow vests, dressed as construction workers might be, police said. They took the time to secure the area near the truck by placing orange construction cones around it, police said.

They then used the ladder to get up to the second floor, climbing onto a thin balcony with a metal railing outside the museum’s Apollo Gallery, where some of the French crown jewels were kept, according to police.

Once they had used an angle grinder to open the window, they clambered through it, police said. Their entrance triggered the alarm, which was still sounding when they left, the museum said in a statement.

“Inside, they then smashed two display cases, ‘Napoleon jewels’ and ‘French crown jewels,’ using the angle grinder and stole numerous pieces of high-value jewelry,” police said.

When they left through the same window about seven minutes later, they had with them nine pieces of jewerly of “inestimable” value, as France’s interior minister described them on Sunday. Other officials, including Rachida Dati, the culture minister, described them to French media as “priceless.”

According to the French Ministry of Culture, among the items stolen was a diadem, or crown, from the collection of Queen Marie-Amelie and Queen Hortense; an emerald necklace and a pair of emerald earrings from the collection of Marie-Louise, Napoleon’s second wife; and a large bow brooch from Empress Eugenie’s bodice.

The Paris Prosecutor’s Office said the perpetrators tried and failed to set fire to the mobile freight elevator they used in the heist before they fled the scene.

A ‘total’ investigation is underway
Officials at the museum said in a statement that an investigation had been launched into the “organized theft and criminal conspiracy to commit a crime.”

The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, which will oversee the case, tapped a specialized group of detectives, the Brigade for the Suppression of Banditry, which is part of the French National Police, to lead the investigation, according to the Louvre’s statement.

Laure Beccuau, the Paris prosecutor, told a local TV station on Sunday that about 60 investigators were working on the case, showing “total determination” to find those responsible.

As of Monday morning, police had not yet said whether they had any leads on the possible identities of the suspects.

Officials said the suspects appeared to have been professionals. Beccuau on Sunday described it as an organized crime, saying officials hadn’t ruled out possible foreign involvement, but also that investigators were treating it as a domestic case at the moment.

“Everything is being done to apprehend the perpetrators of this unacceptable act as quickly as possible,” Laurent Nunez, the interior minister, said on Sunday.

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