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ORONTO—A 17-year-old boy was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder in a mass shooting at a school and home in a remote aboriginal community in western Canada, officials said. The police said the male suspect can’t be named under Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Grant St. Germaine said nine people were shot in the school, including a female teacher’s aide who died at the scene and a male teacher who died in a hospital. He said seven people wounded on Friday’s shooting at the school are hospitalized. Two brot hers, 17-yea r- old Dayne Fountaine and 13-year-old Drayden, were shot and killed in a home before the gunman headed to the grade 7 to 12 La Loche Community School, the police said. The police responded to a call of shots fired at the school shortly after the lunch hour. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commanding Officer Brenda Butterworth-Carr said when officers arrived at the school, they saw the front door had been shot open. They entered the school, spotted the suspect and gave chase before apprehending him. He is due in court next week. The police said on Saturday that they were not aware of a motive and declined to say what type of gun was used. The school is in the remote Dene aboriginal community of La Loche
in Saskatchewan Province. La Loche is a community of less than 3,000, where just about everybody knows everybody else. “This is a significant event for Canada,” St. Germaine said. “It’s a huge impact on the community of La Loche. It’s a part of changing times. We are seeing more violence.” Residents lighted candles and placed flowers at a makeshift memorial outside the school. Shootings at schools or on university campuses are rare in Canada. However, the country’s bloodiest mass shooting occurred on December 6, 1989, at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, when Marc Lepine entered a college classroom at the engineering school, separated the men from the women, told the men to leave and opened fire, killing 14 women before killing himself. The educational assistant killed at the Saskatchewan school was identified as 21-year-old Marie Janvier. Deegan Park, her boyfriend of three years, said he would have given up the rest of his life just to spend another year with her. “I grew up not a good guy, but she turned me right,” Park told The Associated Press. “She was that much of a great person to turn me right from all the wrongdoings I used to do.... She was a fantastic person.” “I loved her, I really did,” said Park, who remembered her smile and how she would blush when she was happy. Kevin Janvier said his daughter was an only child. “I’m just so sad,” he said. AP
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Nicaragua: 13 Costa Ricans killed when tourist boat capsizes
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ANAGUA, Nicaragua—A tourist boat carrying more than 30 people capsized in bad weather off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua on Saturday, killing 13 passengers, authorities said. Mario Berrios, the Nicaraguan navy’s commander for the southern Caribbean region, said the dead were all Costa Rican nationals who were traveling aboard
the Reina del Caribe, Spanish for “Caribbean Queen.” The vessel went down amid rain and strong winds as it was ferrying between the Corn Islands, a
popular tourist destination. Berrios said that, of the 32 passengers on the boat, 25 were Costa Ricans, four were Americans and three were Nicaraguans. He added that most of the 13 dead were women. The other 19 passengers were rescued. “This is a great tragedy, truly painful, because they were our Costa Rican, Central American brothers and sisters who were vacationing in the waters of the Nicaraguan Caribbean,” government spokesman Rosario Murillo told the official media portal El 19 Digital. Berrios said the boat’s
captain and owner was detained because the vessel was not supposed to be sailing during the inclement weather that has been lashing the region for several days. “There was a warning that the weather conditions would be bad, but it appears that was ignored and this tragedy happened,” Berrios said. Authorities had suspended boat launches in the area due to winds reaching 25 knots to 30 knots (29 miles per hour to 35 mph). Nicaraguan authorities were working with their Costa Rican counterparts to repatriate the bodies Sunday. AP
Inmates rappel from roof to escape California jail
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OS ANGELES—An alleged killer and two other inmates escaped from a Southern California maximum-security jail by cutting through half-inch (1.3-centimeter) steel bars and rappelling from the roof by a makeshift rope, authorities said on Saturday as they continued hunting for the men. “It was very well thought out and planned,” Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Hallock said on Saturday at a news conference. The inmates were last seen at 5 a.m. on Friday at the Orange County Central Men’s Jail in Santa Ana, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles. They could have
escaped any time between then and late Friday night. “The inmates cut through half-inch steel bars to facilitate their escape,” Hallock said. They also cut through plumbing tunnels and finally made it to an unguarded area of the roof where they were able to rappel to the ground using some kind of makeshift rope, Hallock said. They were last seen wearing orange jail jumpsuits, he said. The inmates were seen at a 5 a.m. inmate count and were discovered missing at the 8 p.m. count, Hallock said. Before the nighttime count, there was
some kind of disturbance at the jail that may have been part of the escape plan, Hallock said. It slightly delayed the discovery that the men were missing, he said. Some “small pieces of evidence” have been collected and investigators will be looking at surveillance camera footage, Hallock said. Earlier, Hallock said it was the first escape from the 900-inmate facility in 20 years. The inmates include 20-year-old Jonathan Tieu, who had been held on a $1-million bond since October 2013 on charges of murder, attempted murder and shooting at an inhabited dwelling. His case is believed to be gang related.
Hossein Nayeri, 37, had been held without bond since September 2014 on charges of kidnapping, torture, aggravated mayhem and burglary. Nayeri and three other men are accused of kidnapping a California marijuana dispensary owner in 2012. They drove the dispensary owner to a desert spot where they believed he had hidden money and then cut off his penis, authorities said. After the crime, Nayeri fled the US to his native Iran, where he remained for several months. He was arrested in Prague in November 2014, while changing flights from Iran to Spain to visit family. AP