An Atlanta DJ was arrested last week by East Point police and now faces charges of murder in an alleged conspiracy to have his wife killed.
Andre Jason Pugh, known professionally as DJ Awesome, was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Saturday. He is charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit first degree burglary.
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — The ex-husband of an American woman killed in the United Arab Emirates said he was shocked by her fatal stabbing, but said he still feels safe there.”I’m totally horrified by what happened,” Paul Ryan said.”One just needs to look at the video, the images of that bathroom, and it knocks you out. It knocks you out,” he said. “I still hope my children have not seen that, those beautiful children, I have to make sure … I protect them as best I can.”A veiled woman attacked Ibolya Ryan, 47, on Monday in a restroom of a high-end mall in Abu Dhabi.She was killed with a sharp object during a fight in the women’s restroom, local authorities said.Police later arrested a female Emirati national of Yemeni descent, whom they described as a suspect.Paul Ryan arrived in Abu Dhabi last week to be reunited with his 11-year-old twin boys. He said he plans to move them to the United States, where they used to live. He and his 13-year-old daughter, who currently live in Vienna, Austria, will join them.
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CNN — Three people were dead Tuesday morning after a shooting at a UPS facility in Inglenook, Alabama, said Capt. Jerry Wiley of the Birmingham Police Department.A Birmingham police officer responding to a report of an active shooter found three people dead, including the gunman from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.Police said there were no other suspects.Few details were available; the investigation was just beginning.Wiley said the motive was not known.The FBI in Birmingham had no immediate comment.Police: Florida felon who killed 7 relatives wasn’t allowed to have gun
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A man was killed in an early morning shooting Sunday at a luxury apartment complex in Midtown Atlanta, according to police and news reports.Brandon Michael Gibson, 21, was shot multiple times at SkyHouse apartments on West Peachtree Street near 12th Street, according to Channel 2 Action News. He was shot in the hallway of the fourth floor, Channel 2 reports.The shooting happened around 3:30 a.m. inside an apartment at 1080 W. Peachtree St., acording to Atlanta police spokesman Kim Jones.
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Hong Kong CNN — The new school year in China began Monday with a horrifying attack.A man stabbed to death three children at a primary school in central China and then committed suicide by jumping off a building, state media reported.The attacker broke into Dongfang Primary School in Hubei province around 10:20 a.m., Xinhua news agency said, citing the local government.Wielding a knife, the man stabbed eight students and a teacher before he took his own life, the report said.Three of the students died, and the six other victims have been hospitalized, Xinhua reported. Two of the students are seriously hurt, it said.Monday was the first day back at school after the summer vacation for most students in China.The report only gave the man’s surname of Chen. It said police are investigating the case.
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A man has been charged with murder after confessing he shot a Dothan woman to death in Florida earlier this week. Robert Francis Schulze, 57, was arrested Wednesday afternoon—two days after ex-girlfriend Charlotte McCall Branton’s body was found inside a Jacksonville apartment she was vacating to move back to Dothan. She lived here until a few years ago but had moved away.Jacksonville Sheriff Assistant Chief Chris Butler, during a press conference, said Shulze reported finding the body when he went to the apartment. He first denied involvement but “we were able to discount his time line and whereabouts.” Butler said Branton is believed to have been dead several hours before Shulze called officers. She had been shot one time.
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St. Louis CNN — Thousands of mourners are attending the funeral of slain teenager Michael Brown at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis.Michael Brown’s mother, Leslie McSpadden, wiped away tears as she stood at the coffin that holds her son’s body.The sanctuary, which holds 2,500 people, is filled to capacity, and an overflow auditorium is also full. Hundreds are still lined up outside in the city’s sweltering heat.Retired mail carrier Hilliard Phillips, who once delivered on the street where Brown was killed, was among the mourners. He said there’s power in numbers, and he hoped the outpouring of support for Brown and his family would spur society to take a look at itself.”You can’t really overnight change the behavior of a person, but sometimes they can be coerced in a sweet way. … I would hope they could see people coming together in a solemn way to show their respect to someone,” he said.
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A man was shot and killed Saturday evening in what police believe was a targeted attack.The victim, 41, as shot at least once in the chest at the Easy Money payday loan location on McFarland Boulevard. Investigators say that he was a customer at the business.“There is nothing to indicate that this was a robbery,” Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit commander Sgt. Dale Phillips said. “The person came here with intentions of shooting this individual.”Based on witness statements and evidence collected at the scene, investigators obtained a warrant to charge Eric Omar Petty with murder. He was found at a home in the 900 block of 13th Street East and taken into custody at 5:40 a.m., Phillips said.There were several witnesses inside the business who were speaki
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CNN — A night of revelry and music turned deadly in Northern California, where a man was fatally shot at a Wiz Khalifa concert, police said Saturday.Authorities first got calls about gunshots at the Shoreline Amphitheatre shortly after 11 p.m. Friday 2 a.m. Saturday ET, the Mountain View, California, Police Department said.They arrived to find a 38-year-old man shot multiple times. The man was transported to a hospital and died from his injuries, according to police.The person who killed him remains at large, and authorities are appealing for the public’s help to acquire related video or information. Police say the apparent murder weapon was a black pistol with a large magazine.Wiz Khalifa, the rapper behind platinum hits “Black and Yellow” and “Roll Up,” is the headliner for the Under the Influence of Music Tour that rolled into Mountain View on Friday.
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CNN — The body of a missing pregnant wife of a Marine based in California was found over the weekend and her former neighbor was arrested in connection with her death, police in San Bernardino County said.Erin Corwin, 19 and three months pregnant, had been missing since June 28 after she said she was going to Joshua Tree National Park to scout trails. On Saturday, searchers found her body about 140 feet down a mine shaft but weren’t able to recover and identify it until the next day, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said.An autopsy determined Corwin had been killed, the sheriff’s department said, without elaborating how she died.On Sunday night, authorities in Anchorage, Alaska, arrested Christopher Lee, who police say had been having an affair with Corwin.
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Gone But Not Forgotten 