By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent was shot and wounded while trying to rescue a 9-year-old girl from a kidnapper in a Louisiana hotel Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. The agent was struck in the leg and will survive. The 24-year-old kidnapping suspect, however, died after a member of the FBI task force shot…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The 19-year-old man who killed himself after shooting an FBI agent was wanted for Denver-area bank robberies, the Denver Post reports. The man, Jesus Emmanuel Avila, was known as the “Longhorn Bandit” and was wanted in about a half dozen Denver-area robberies. At the time of the shooting, FBI agents were…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI warned Garland police that one of the two gunmen who would open fire outside a cartoon contest to draw Prophet Muhammad in Texas may be targeting the event just hours before the shooting, The New York Times reports. “We developed information just hours before the event that Simpson might…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the gunmen behind the shooting at a Texas cartoon contest that featured images of Prophet Muhammad strongly hinted on Twitter that he was about to get violent about 20 minutes before opening fire, the Chicago Tribune reports. “May Allah accept us as mujahideen,” or holy warriors, he tweeted. One…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating what prompted two men to open fire outside a contest for Prophet Mohamed cartoons in a Dallas suburb. The man were fatally shot by police, Sunday night, CNN reports. Garland Police said the men approached the Culwell Event Center in North Garland and opened fire. A security…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of an FBI police officer outside his home in Stafford County, Virginia on Monday morning. Details were still unclear this morning but the Washington Post reports that a Prince George County man was charged with first-degree murder soon after the shooting. The officer’s identity has…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A white sheriff’s reserve deputy who killed a black man in Tulsa, Okla., did not commit civil rights violations, the FBI has found following an investigation. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Tulsa County sheriff’s office held a news conference to announce the FBI findings. “They found no wrongdoing,” Sheriff…
By Scott Lemieux The Week He probably would have gotten away with it. That’s the sobering reality of the video of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager shooting Walter L. Scott as he ran away, not posing the slightest threat to the officer. The utter indifference to human life evident in the video, shot by…
