By R.C.
Fri, Jul 5, 2019 9:26 a.m.Three people were stabbed Thursday night at Chicago's Navy Pier and more than a dozen others were injured after being trampled when someone set off firecrackers, according to police.
 | Three people were stabbed Thursday night at Chicago's Navy Pier and more than a dozen others were injured after being trampled when someone set off firecrackers, according to police. ktla.com |
R.C.: It's because Chicagoans are so attuned to the sound of gunfire that the sound of fire crackers startled them.
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I guessed correctly on this one--MacKenzie Lueck's remains found north of SLC.
(my post on NSU a while back).
"Would Ajayi be so stupid as to kill someone and bury her in his backyard,burning her along the way?Possible,but not likely--being a military vet(turned out he wasn't)
Would a friend of Ajayi's(or Ajayi himself),who killed Lueck,panic and attempt some burning and digging in the backyard,decide that wasn't the answer and take her somewhere else to be hidden?
My guess."
(CNN) — The body of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck has been found in a canyon north of Salt Lake City, police said Friday.
Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown said in a news conference that he was "relieved and grief-stricken" to report that Lueck's body was recovered Wednesday in Logan Canyon, about 90 miles north of Salt Lake City. Investigators were subsequently able to forensically confirm it was Lueck, Brown said.
The 23-year-old was last seen in the early morning hours of June 17 when she was dropped off at a park in North Salt Lake City. There, police have said, she met another individual and vanished.
Last Friday police arrested 31-year-old Ayoola Ajayi in connection to Lueck's death and at the time said he was expected to be charged with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, obstruction of justice and desecration of a body. He's currently being held without bail.
Related Article: Prosecutors in the Mackenzie Lueck case have been granted an extension to file charges
Police said at that time they had searched Ajayi's home and property. Neighbors told police they saw Ajayi using gasoline to burn something in his backyard on June 17 and 18, Brown said last week.
A subsequent search of the burn area yielded "several charred items that were consistent with personal items of Mackenzie Lueck," Brown said.
Police also discovered charred material that was determined to be female human tissue consistent with Lueck's DNA profile, he said.
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, who earlier this week was granted an extension to file charges against Ajayi, said at Friday's news conference that his office would move forward with formally filing charges in the "early part of next week."
The investigation, Gill stressed, remains ongoing.
A suspect would typically only be allowed to be held in custody for 72 hours before charges are filed or they must be released. Because of the extension, Gill told CNN, his office has until Wednesday at 5 p.m. local time.
--GR Anonymous
Gang signs exchanged. Stabbings. Fireworks. False rumor. Stampede.
(Chicago Tribune-July 5,2019)With three days left in the Fourth of July weekend, Chicago has already recorded at least 35 people shot, five of them fatally.
Within minutes early Friday, a woman was killed in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side, a man was shot dead in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side and five people were wounded in front of an apartment complex in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side. The day before, four people were shot — one fatally — on a street corner in Humboldt Park on the West Side.
Though there was an unfounded report of gunfire at the Navy Pier fireworks Thursday night, a fight between reputed gang members left three people stabbed and more than a dozen other people injured as panicked crowds fled.
Some of the worst gun violence in Chicago has occurred over Fourth of July weekends. In 2017, when the holiday fell on a Tuesday, more than 100 people were shot and at least 15 of them died. In 2014, when the Fourth was on a Friday, at least 82 people were shot and 14 of them died.
As it has in the past, the Chicago Police Department boosted the number of officers on the street, this year by 1,500. It also seized guns from people with expired firearm owner’s identification cards and worked with community leaders to shut liquor stores.
GRA:Right on pace.
--GRA
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