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Police seek assailant in security officer attack
Police seek assailant in security officer attack
Lt. Christopher A. Davis of the Manchester police said that they are seeking the public’s help locating the suspect responsible for assaulting a mall security officer over the week-end.
Davis said that the assault took place around 9 p.m. behind the vacant Hops Restaurant north of the Shoppes at Buckland Hills.
Police said the female security officer was patrolling and stopped to question someone when she was struck with some sort of object. The assailant then fled before police could arrive.
Police do not know why the suspect committed the offense and said that they had no other information about the incident at this time.
Davis said police are investigating the assault and anyone with information is urged to contact police at 860-645-5510.
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Deputy arrested in domestic assault www.privateofficer.com
An off-duty sheriff’s deputy is jailed in Greenville charged with criminal domestic violence.
Greenville police say 38-year-old Kevin John King got violent with a woman he was at a bar with Sunday.
King is a Buncombe County sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina.
According to the report King and the woman started arguing and he tried to drag and force her into his car.
Police say she started to run and he held her down on a curb until a security officer pulled up and ordered him off of the woman.
The security officer says King was still angry and tried to grab the victim and even backed his car into the patrol vehicle before driving off.
King is out of jail on bond today.
The woman only sustained minor injuries
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Armored truck flips, spills cash on Interstate 95 www.privateofficer.com
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Soon after the sudden string of brake lights, a large cloud of dust mushroomed into the air above a relatively clear stretch of Interstate 95 Monday morning.
Shortly after 9 a.m., a Loomis armored truck had veered off the highway just south of the I-195 exits for Catonsville and the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and overturned.
Within seconds, drivers of other vehicles headed north on the interstate had jumped out of their vehicles and run up to the truck.
With the tires still spinning on the upside-down truck, a door was pried open and two men scrambled out, obviously shaken.
One man, who state police identified as passenger Woldeab Gebeyehu, 44, of Alexandria, Va., had a gun in his hand.
The other man, who police identified as driver Charles Cavanaugh, 38, of Fredericksburg, Va., said his chest hurt and lay on the ground.
After holstering his gun, Gebeyehu ran around the back of the truck then stopped in his tracks.
Numerous clear plastic bags filled with stacks of cash or quarters were strewn across the highway and the grass embankment where the truck had come to rest.
Loose quarters littered the roadway.
Gebeyehu, who was eventually taken to St. Agnes Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, rushed into the grass, picked up a bag of cash and carried it back to the truck’s rear, the door of which had come unhinged and was laying on the highway’s shoulder.
“Where’d that guy go?” he said, referring to the driver of another vehicle he thought had apparently contributed to the accident.
“Can you call 911?” he said, holding his left arm up in apparent pain.
State police said a preliminary investigation indicated the accident was caused when Carl Shilling Jr., 44, of East Greenbush, N.Y., attempted to merge his 2008 Chevy Pickup truck and the trailer it was pulling from a center lane into the lane in which the Loomis truck was traveling.
The two trucks hit each other, and the Loomis truck overturned, police said.
Shilling was not injured, police said.
Many witnesses to the crash had called 911, according to a 911 dispatcher, and police and medical teams responded to the scene.
Zainul Jallow, a Columbia resident who said he had been behind the accident when it occurred, walked over to Cavanaugh, still on the ground, and removed his gun and holster, handing it to Gebeyehu.
“I took the gun off him because I didn’t want it to discharge,” said Jallow, who said he had been on his way to work in Baltimore.
On the other side of the truck, Shannon Larabee, the driver of another vehicle behind the accident, knelt on the road next to Cavanaugh, holding his head and asking him about his pain.
Larabee, a Bethesda resident, said she was on her way to pick up a friend at the airport.
With stethoscope in hand, she said she was an EMT and had worked on an ambulance crew for years before starting her current job at the National Institutes of Health.
As emergency responders approached Larabee and Cavanaugh, Larabee offered the information she had.
“He’s having chest pains,” she said. “He’s diabetic and took his medicine this morning.”
After being relieved of her position, Larabee talked to a reporter on the scene.
“So long as you have a patient talking to you, you know you have an airway and breathing, which are the first two things to check for,” she said.
Then, “I just wanted to make sure he was all right until the EMS did get here and I could kind of pass him off.”
Cavanaugh was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma in serious condition, police said.
Larabee said her friend at the airport “will understand” why she was late.
As medical responders took care of Cavanaugh and Gebeyehu, police began talking to witnesses about what they had seen and to each other about securing the money.
Traffic continued to back up on both sides of I-95.
Three northbound lanes were blocked by emergency vehicles while the far right lane and shoulder were covered in quarters.
A police officer on a megaphone ordered drivers who had pulled over on the left side of the southbound lanes to get in their cars and leave.
“Stop taking pictures,” the officer told them.
Danny Pack, risk manager for Loomis, said the company’s “greatest concern is always the health and safety of our employees.”
The company has “taken care of” the money that was spilled on the roadside, with the help of Maryland State Police and is awaiting a report on the crash from state police and on medical updates on its two employees, Pack said.
He said it “would be irresponsible to say anything other than that at this point.”
The company will conduct its own internal investigation of the incident, Pack said.
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Street race kills teacher, daughter in NC www.privateofficer.com
Cynthia Furr was passionate about many things: British literature, motherhood, her faith, even kickboxing.
That’s how friends and colleagues remembered her Sunday, a day after she and her 2-year-old daughter were killed in a car accident police believe was caused by two other drivers racing each other along N.C. 49 in Steele Creek.
Furr, 45, was on her way to sing at a program at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, where she was the longtime choir director. The impact of the crash left sheets of music scattered along the street.
Furr died at the scene. Her daughter, McAllister, died at a hospital.
Steve Price, the surviving husband and father, was not involved in the accident.
Less than a half-mile away, church members had seen the aftermath of the wreck and comforted each other after learning Furr and her daughter had been involved. Neighbors from the RiverPointe subdivision, where the family lived, gathered near the crash site to grieve.
The tributes to Furr and the toddler, known affectionately as Mackie, continued Sunday.
“(Furr) did very much live her faith,” said Nancy Nutter, who had known Furr since they were fourth graders at Steele Creek Elementary. “She was open and caring to her students and the folks she came into contact with. She was always ready and willing to lend an ear, was a very compassionate person and definitely will be missed.”
A graduate of Olympic High School, Furr also earned degrees from Queens University of Charlotte, Winthrop University and the University of South Carolina, where she received a Ph.D in English education.
Furr returned to Olympic to teach English, before joining Winthrop seven years ago. She taught writing and British literature.
Anna Hassell took a class in Shakespeare with Furr in spring of 2007, and said she never missed a session.
“She was such a strong force; a classic, classic woman,” said Hassell, who graduated from Winthrop last year. “She was a mother to me. She was a mentor as a Christian woman, a feminist. I loved the lady so much.”
On Sunday, flowers sat outside Furr’s office, and visitors signed a memory book.
Furr also advised would-be English teachers and taught a kickboxing class at Winthrop and a local gym. A 2005 university profile said she is certified in martial arts.
The family tends cows at a farm in Chester County, where they also have horses. She and her husband had talked of retiring there.
Mackie a dream come true
“This is Mackie’s mama, and you’ve reached the house where Mackie lives.”
That message greets callers to the home of Furr and Price, with a promise that messages will be returned when they “get too dirty or too tired to play.”
Friends said Mackie’s birth was a dream come true for the couple, who took to parenthood quickly. Price is a co-owner of Price Brothers plumbing in Charlotte and met Furr when the two were students at Olympic.
The toddler looked like her father but had many of her mother’s mannerisms, friends said.
Mackie “was a smart kid like her mother,” said Reena Lizardo, a family friend who occasionally watched the toddler.
Mackie was adored by her extended family members and was doted on as the only grandchild in the family. Her grandmother cared for her during the day while Furr worked, Nutter said.
Colleagues at Winthrop recalled seeing the toddler at their faculty meetings.
At church, Mackie often would mimic her mother. One time, when Furr was leading the children’s choir, Mackie knelt on her knees as she did.
Motherhood, said Pastor Bob Jack, gave Furr “a new glow about life.”
Sunday’s church services were dedicated to Furr and Mackie. The choir, which Furr had led for about 20 years, performed music she had been preparing for an Easter program.
Friends said Furr had a wonderful voice, and spread her love of music by directing the choir. She was so inspiring, she could make a rock sing, Jack said.
Funeral services had not been announced Sunday, but tributes to the family flowed freely from friends and colleagues.
“I know that even as we all grieve for her that she would tell us to live our lives,” said John Bird, an English professor at Winthrop. “She lived her life to the fullest every day. That doesn’t console me for this loss, but it does tell me what she would have told – to live my life.”
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Richmond teacher charged with sexual assault of student www.privateofficer.com
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This Saint Paul’s College teacher is out on bond accused of exposing himself and sexually assaulting one of his students.
Police arrested Willie Trusty III Thursday night.
Saint Paul’s College administrators didn’t return our phone calls, and the teacher, Willie Trusty, tells us no comment. But students and police are talking about what allegedly happened in Trusty’s office Thursday.
The young female student went to campus security to report the incident, and from there Lawrenceville Police were called to the college.
It’s inside Russell Hall the incident is alleged to have happened.
“The victim says she went to a classroom at Saint Paul’s College, then went to a office at Saint Paul’s College, and she says at that office an assault occurred,” says Lawrenceville Police Chief Everette Gibson.
The victim tells Chief Gibson and another investigator the assailant is Willie Trusty.
“He is charged with sexual battery and he is also charged with obscene display.”
Trusty is the head of the school’s criminal justice program, and word spread quickly about his arrest.
“I was shocked that because Trusty I don’t feel Trusty is that type of guy. Trusty, I mean, we have class, he’s straight to the point, he teaches us all the basic points in our criminal justice classes and to that, I was just shocked, I was like, not Trusty,” says sophomore Marcus Smith.
We are not showing these students faces to protect their identity.
“Devastation, shock, but not surprised.”
“I can’t believe it. I don’t see him doing that. He’s real friendly and nice, honest person, so I don’t see him doing anything like that.”
CBS 6 talked with an attorney for Saint Paul’s College. They tell us Willie Trusty was asked not to be on campus Friday. Trusty was put on leave at 5pm Friday.
He is due in court next week.
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