The Fresno County coroner’s office ruled the death of a middle school student who got into a fistfight with a classmate a homicide. Michael Anthony Mobley, 13, died of “head trauma due to blunt impact,” coroner Loralee Cervantes said. There was no secondary cause of death, she said. The Ahwahnee Middle School seventh-grader was fighting
A district police chief in Tijuana was shot to death a day after surviving an attempt on his life, Mexican media reported. The body of Hector Gaxiola was found beside that of his brother in a vacant lot. Both had been shot several times. Seventeen Tijuana police officers have been killed so far this year,
When the robbers shoved a note at him, store clerk Simon Khalil threw it back. That’s when they shot him. The 35-year-old Syrian immigrant died hours later at California Hospital after being shot at point-blank range by an assailant wielding a black handgun. After throwing the note back at [the robbers], Khalil walked around the
Panamanian authorities are investigating five people in connection with the distribution of contaminated cough medicine that killed 26 people, the state prosecutor’s office said. The government-made cough syrup contained diethylene glycol, an industrial solvent commonly used in brake fluid. The deaths and scores of illnesses, occurred mainly in the capital. –L.A. Times, 10/20/2006
SUDDEN DEATH: Train!
A Bakersfield teenager was killed by a train when she stopped to help a friend who had tripped on the tracks, sheriff’s officials said. Brittany Loise Juilfs, 15, and five friends were trying to beat the train when one of the teenagers fell, according to the Kern County coroner’s office. She was in the eastern
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