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RENO NV. Jan 23, 2008

Investigators went door to door Tuesday searching for a 19-year-old college student who they believe was kidnapped from a friend’s home over the weekend.
Brianna Denison was last seen around 4 a.m. Sunday when she went to sleep on her friend’s couch after a night of partying. She slept near an unlocked glass door and used a 2-foot-tall teddy bear as an extra pillow, police said.
When the friend awoke, Denison and the teddy bear were gone. Her purse, cell phone and clothes, including two pairs of shoes, were undisturbed, police said.
“We have not come up with any other clues, any of the items or anything that would lead us to Brianna at this time,” police Lt. Ron Holladay.
Detectives were awaiting test results on whether a stain on the pillow she was using was blood.
The FBI and two investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children joined the search Tuesday. Police aided by helicopters and dogs scoured the neighborhoods near the home.
The search teams planned to concentrate on a park near the home before a snowstorm later Tuesday, police spokesman Steve Frady said.
Family members Monday night pleaded for help and her safe return. They described Denison as caring and responsible.
“It gives us a little bit of fear because that is the type of person Brianna is; she would be contacting us if she could,” her aunt, Lauren Denison, told reporters Monday night.
Denison is a psychology student at Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, Calif., and was back in her hometown of Reno for winter break.
In the hours before her disappearance, Denison had been party-hopping at venues associated with a weekend snowboarding event, including attending a rap concert at the Sands Hotel and Casino.
Investigators want to talk to a man who dropped off a friend of Denison’s at the home that night, police Lt. Robert McDonald said.
The friend had approached the man at the casino for a ride after the concert, but the man did not go inside the home, he said. The man is not a suspect but is being sought for questioning.
Denison’s friend, K.T. Hunter, told the Reno Gazette-Journal that the couch is against the wall of the bedroom where she was sleeping with her dog. She said that she never heard a noise and that the dog never barked.
Hunter said Denison was sober the night she vanished and had planned to pack Monday to go back to Santa Barbara.
Reno police Tuesday also said there doesn’t appear to be a connection between Denison’s disappearance and separate attacks late last year on two female students near the University of Nevada, Reno.

Sniper kills girl at fast food drive through by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

Sniper kills girl in fast food drive -thru by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

DELL RAPIDS, S.D. Jan 23, 2008 —

Police say that a young woman is dead and a suspect is in custody after a shooting at a fast food drive through.
Police say that Brittany Williams, 21, was shot in the head Sunday night with a high-powered rifle from 100 feet away as she sat in her car in the drive-through lane of an unnamed fast-food restaurant, police said.
The shooter was apprehended at the scene after he reportedly drove his car through the crime scene tape and then led police on a foot chase as he clung to his rifle

Kyle Bormann, 19, of Omaha was arrested on suspicion of criminal homicide and use of a gun to commit a felony.
He attended high school in Dell Rapids but transferred during his senior year and graduated in 2006 from Wessington Springs.
Some Dell Rapids residents who knew Bormann were surprised to hear about his arrest. They say he was quiet kid and a good student.
Omaha police said investigators have found nothing to indicate that Bormann knew Williams and right now authorities are baffled at the motive for the shooting and the incident where the alledged shooter came back to the crime scene and caused police to chase him.

Police are continuing their investigation and hope to find the answers to their questions as they look deeper into this senseless crime.

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3 Students shot during drive by shooting incident www.privateofficer.com

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Washington DC Jan 23 2008

Three Ballou Senior High School students were shot near campus in a drive-by attack Tuesday that police believe may have sprung from a dispute between groups from two neighborhoods.
Shots were fired into a crowd of students who were leaving the Southeast Washington school around 3:30 p.m., police said. None of the wounds was considered life-threatening.
Metropolitan police last night were looking for a dark-colored Volvo that some witnesses linked to the shooting, Chief Cathy Lanier said. But she cautioned that others at the chaotic scene thought the shooter was in a small truck.
“There are a couple different stories we are trying to sort out,” said Lanier, who went to Washington Hospital Center and talked with the victims and their parents. “We believe there was some kind of dispute [Monday] or early [Tuesday]. There was an argument between two different groups of kids. We are not sure if any of the three struck were involved.”

Lanier said no suspect had emerged from witness interviews as of late Tuesday.
Two 10th-grade girls were shot in the leg, and an 11th-grade boy was struck in the back. The girls were expected to be released from hospital care Tuesday night.
The school was placed on lockdown right after the shooting.
Situated in the D.C. ward with the highest poverty, teenage pregnancy and dropout rates, Ballou has historically been known more for its crime than its academic successes.
But Michael Petrei’s “Ballou: A Documentary,” last year followed the school’s marching band as they worked for national recognition. In October the marching band was honored by first lady Laura Bush with a private White House screening of the movie.
Tuesday’s shootings come as the Southeast Washington school completed a security plan that was enacted in response to the 2004 murder of 17-year-old James Richardson. The plan called for a temporary influx of nine officers while work crews installed a new alarm and electronic door-locking system.
School officials have been concerned about warring street gangs from neighborhoods where the students live. Teachers told The Examiner that on the second day of school this year, a fight involving several dozen students broke out in the cafeteria and spread to the gym. Police arrested a student that day for carrying a gun.
During the 1999-2000 school year, nine students of Ballou High School were killed in street violence.
Ballou also has struggled academically, failing to meet federal standards five years in a row. It’s one of 27 schools that must be restructured next year, meaning that it could become a charter school or be put under the management of a private organization.

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Security officer finds body of former teacher www.privateofficer.com

Tampa FLA. Jan 23 2008 A former Atlanta Public Schools teacher of the year who was found shot to death Sunday in a Tampa parking lot was remembered as an educator who had a huge impact on his students and colleagues.
Antonio Coleman had taught first and fourth grades at Parkside Elementary School near Grant Park before leaving in December to take a new job with Promethean, a company that makes interactive white boards for the classroom.

He was there for a conference with his new job.
A security guard at a Tampa nightclub discovered Coleman dead in his rental car at about 8 a.m. Sunday, according to Debbie Carter, a spokeswoman for the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Carter said Coleman had been shot in the upper body.
Carter said that while investigators had not determined a motive for the slaying, Coleman was not believed to be the target of the shooting. She said he was apparently just “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Coleman had taught at Parkside for two years, according to principal Danielle Battle. He had also taught at Burgess Elementary School, where he was named Atlanta’s 2004 Elementary Teacher of the Year.
“Antonio was a ‘rare-find’ teacher,” Battle said Tuesday. “He was high-energy, and wanted the most challenging students.”
She said Coleman “was the type of teacher that once you met him, you wouldn’t forget him, because he made that type of impact on you.”
“He was also well-dressed and neat. He was always, always just neat from head to toe — a very fashionable young man,” Battle said. “And he was always smiling and always had something positive to say to a child or to anyone he came in contact with.”
Battle said Coleman taught first grade in 2006-07, “but he had taught fourth grade in the past and he wanted to go back to fourth grade, and those kids absolutely adored Mr. Coleman.”
The principal said Coleman was “so excited” about his new career with Promethean.
“But he knew he was going to miss his children, and the one thing about his new job, he was still going to have an opportunity to be a teacher of teachers and to work with students,” she said. “He was on top of the world with his new job.”
Battle said a crisis team was brought in Tuesday at Parkside, where two of Colemen’s three children are students. She said counselors met with numerous students, teachers and parents who “all wanted to grieve a little more.

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NEWARK NJ Jan 23 2008 — A corrections officer from Lumberton was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison for smuggling tobacco into the federal prison at Fort Dix.
U.S. District Court Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh also ordered Terrence Street to pay a $4,000 fine and to serve three years of supervised release after he gets out of prison, said Greg Reinert, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Cavanaugh allowed Street to remain free on $50,000 bond pending his surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on Feb. 19, Reinert said.
Street, 31, of Eayrestown Road pleaded guilty in September to a charge of corruption in the performance of his official duties. When he pleaded guilty, he admitted that while working as a corrections officer at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix in December 2005, he agreed to sell tobacco products to an inmate who could then sell the products to other inmates, authorities said.Unbeknownst to Street, the inmate was cooperating with law enforcement, authorities said.
Over the next five months, Street smuggled dozens of cartons, pouches and bags of tobacco products into the prison for the cooperating inmate and received thousands of dollars in return, authorities said.
Street also admitted that he agreed to sell another inmate 50 pounds of rolling tobacco in 2006, authorities said.
The second inmate also was cooperating with law enforcement.
Street was suspended from his job after his arrest in May by special agents from the Department of Justice.

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School Security Officer Shoots Student www.privateofficer.com

CHICAGO IL JAN 23 2008

An off-duty Chicago police officer on Tuesday shot a 16-year-old boy who brought a gun to a South Side high school, officials said.About 8:30 a.m., the teen, a student suspended from Phillips High School Academy, 244 E. Pershing Rd., went through a metal detector at the school and triggered an alarm, said Mike Vaughn, a spokesman for Chicago Public Schools. A security officer at the school patted down the youth and discovered a gun, Vaughn said.The boy fled, and that officer and the off-duty officer, who also works security at the school, chased the boy, who still had the gun, Vaughn said.

The off-duty officer shot the teen soon after near a CTA elevated train station in the 300 block of East 43rd Street in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood, officials said. Whether the teen pulled out the gun or pointed it at the officer was being investigated, a law-enforcement source said.The boy was in stable condition at a local hospital, officials said.”There was a gun recovered at the scene,” said Ilana Rosenzweig, chief of the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates shootings involving Chicago police officers. “But all the details on that, what type of [gun] it was, precisely how it got there, that is under investigation.”IPRA investigators reviewed evidence at the scene and are interviewing witnesses.It was also unclear why the suspended boy, a student in a Phillips program for helping students make the transition from 8th to 9th grade, tried to enter the school with a gun.”I’m surprised that he tried to bring it. There’s practically a police station inside the school,” said Oliver Sims, 20, an older brother of a student at the school.Security at Phillips is tight, with students required to pass through a metal detector. Security guards, many of whom are off-duty police officers, also are posted at the entrances and pat students down.Several hours after the shooting, many students said they had received no official word about the incident. Students said that classes were not disrupted, but that there was a noticeably larger police presence both during the day and when classes ended. School officials declined to comment.The law-enforcement source said the teen had five previous misdemeanor arrests and a felony arrest for unlawful use of a weapon. Tryree Parish, 19, a senior, described the student who was shot as troubled but not violent.”He had a lot of problems on his mind, but no one could get to him,” Parish said.Chicago police confirmed the incident, but referred all inquires to the IPRA.

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