CRANDON, Wis. — An off-duty sheriff’s deputy who killed six people apparently shot himself three times, with the last shot hitting him in the right side of the head, the state attorney general said Tuesday.
Tyler Peterson, 20, shot himself twice under the chin before firing the third and fatal shot, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said. Peterson also was shot once in the left biceps from a distance.
The six people who died early Sunday at Jordanne Murray’s home were either students or recent graduates of Crandon High School.
Van Hollen said Peterson went to Murray’s home about 2 a.m. and argued with Murray, 18, after accusing her of dating someone else. Murray demanded Peterson leave, and he did, only to return with an AR-15 rifle.
Arkansas: Huckabee suicide joke
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee joked Tuesday that other candidates might be considering suicide because their level of support doesn’t match their fundraising. “If I were some of these guys, I’d have to be sitting in a warm tub of water with razor blades,” Huckabee said in an interview on MSNBC. A national suicide-prevention group later criticized Huckabee.
D.C.: Detainee’s transfer blocked
A federal district judge has ordered the government not to transfer Mohammed Abdul Rahman, a Tunisian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to his home country, over fears that he would be tortured or killed. The move marks the first time a court has prevented U.S. officials from making such a transfer and is the first ruling in favor of an individual detainee’s rights at the detention facility since Congress restricted court oversight of the detainees.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no bold lede-in:Court refuses case against CIA
In a victory for the Bush administration and its use of the “state secrets” defense, the Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear a lawsuit from a German car salesman of Lebanese descent who said he was wrongly abducted, imprisoned and tortured by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity. The Supreme Court dismissed Khaled el-Masri’s appeal in a one-line order, but it might consider the state-secrets rule in a future terrorism case. In late November, the justices are to hear a challenge to the administration’s continuing detention of several hundred men at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no bold lede-in:Terror, irradiation machines link
The U.S. government should replace more than 1,000 irradiation machines used in hospitals and research facilities because terrorists could use the radioactive materials inside to make a “dirty” bomb, a government advisory panel, the Defense Science Board, has concluded. The irradiators contain Cesium-137, one of the most dangerous and long-lasting radioactive materials. They are used for radiation therapy and to sterilize blood and food.
Florida: Boot camp guard defense
A juvenile boot camp supervisor charged with killing a 14-year-old boy testified in Panama City on Tuesday that guards would have stopped hitting the unresponsive teen if he just kept exercising. “At any time he could have walked, got up, finished the run,” guard Charles Helms said. Helms, six other ex-guards and a nurse are on trial for manslaughter. Guards repeatedly hit Martin Lee Anderson after he collapsed while running laps in January 2006. Anderson died the next day.
Michigan: Dems leave primary
Five Democratic candidates have withdrawn from Michigan’s Jan. 15 presidential primary, leaving Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christopher Dodd and a handful of lesser-knowns. Michigan violated Democratic National Committee rules by moving up its primary. The candidates are honoring DNC wishes in skipping the contest.
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