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Sheriff: Inmate killed 2 bailiffs The Associated Press
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said. People inside the building scrambled for cover at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph in the southwestern cor-
ner of Michigan, about 100 miles northeast of Chicago. “Our hearts are torn apart. ... I have known them for over 30 years. It’s a sad day,” Sheriff Paul Bailey said of the bailiffs. The inmate, locked up on several charges, was being moved from a cell for a courtroom appearance when a fight occurred and he was able to disarm an officer, Bailey said. The sheriff did not
say what charges the inmate was facing. He shot a sheriff’s deputy, killed the bailiffs and then shot a civilian in the arm in a public area, the sheriff said. The inmate then was fatally shot “by two other bailiffs who came to render aid, along with several other officers,” Bailey said. “He was trying to escape,” the sheriff said. The injuries suffered by the deputy and the civil-
ian aren’t considered lifethreatening. Authorities had not yet released the names of anyone involved. Bailey also said Monday evening that he didn’t yet have all of the details on the shooting, including whether the inmate was handcuffed at the time. Appearing with Bailey and other law enforcers, Gov. Rick Snyder called it a “terrible day in a wonderful community.”
West Point woman Psychiatric escapee cleared of murder planned bombing The Associated Press
COLUMBUS — A 26-year-old West Point woman will no longer face a capital murder charge in the death of her son. District Attorney Scott Colom told The Commercial Dispatch his office has filed a motion to dismiss the charges after a toxicologist’s analysis revealed that Britannia Smith couldn’t have given her infant child enough cough syrup to fatally poison him. Smith was indicted in April 2014 for capital murder. Colom’s office said the indictment was based on the allegation that she committed felony child abuse when she deliberately gave her child
enough cough syrup containing codeine and guaifenesin to kill him. Colom said his office found there wasn’t enough scientific evidence to support that claim. Though he said the autopsy revealed the child died from being poisoned by those drugs, the amount ingested, coupled with the child exhibiting no other signs of abuse, cast doubt on whether the infant’s death was intentional. Colom said the capital murder charge was the only charge pending against Smith. However, he said his office will review her file to determine if any other charges against Smith should be brought before a grand jury.
BY MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press
SEATTLE — A patient accused of torturing a woman to death before escaping from a troubled Washington state psychiatric hospital earlier this year also had a fascination with the Islamic State group and planned to blow up a state building, newly released documents revealed. Detectives who investigated Anthony Garver’s escape from Western State Hospital south of Seattle also found that he had threatened to kill a federal judge and previously was caught with bomb-making materials. Despite an extensive criminal history and a
pattern of evading authorities, Garver lived in a ground-floor room, where he spent five months loosening his window frame before escaping through it April 6 with another violent patient. It took almost two hours for hospital officials to report the escape to Lakewood police — a delay that concerned officers and detectives working the case, according to police reports acquired by The Associated Press. Garver’s head-start allowed him to hop a bus across the state to Spokane, where he used self-described survivalist skills to hide from authorities for two days.
Watchdogs: Police shootings fuel extremism The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The public backlash against police shootings of black people is helping fuel the growth of black hate groups, some of which advocate retaliatory violence against law enforcement, watchdog groups said Monday. The Southern Poverty Law Center counted 113 groups advocating black separatism, black supremacy or some other extreme, black-centric ideology in the United States in 2014. By the end of 2015, in the aftermath of last year’s killing of a black man by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, the number had grown to 180, an increase of nearly 60 percent in less than a year. The center says the number of Ku Klux Klan groups grew even more during the same period, but experts say much of that change was linked to the splintering of larger groups rather than real growth. No one knows exactly how many people have been drawn to black extremist groups, but there’s no reason to believe the growth of violent ideology is slowing. Last week’s protests of police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota have only spread since a black sniper killed five police officers at a demonstration in Dallas. “It draws people to their ranks, people who are mad about what is going on with law enforcement,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the Alabama-based center’s Intelligence Project, which tracks extrem-
ist organizations. People who join such organizations might not pose the biggest threat anyway, said Oren Segal of the Anti-Defamation League. He agrees that killings by police and the ensuing protests provide fuel for black extremist groups, but believes exact numbers are hard to pin down. “The most dangerous are those who don’t join anything, who get inspired by the militancy or hate, who get influenced by the rhetoric, and act on their own,” said Segal, who directs the ADL’s Center on Extremism. Dallas gunman Micah Xavier Johnson apparently fell into this category: The 25-year-old Army veteran wasn’t known to be an active member of any group, but he was on Facebook, and followed the feeds of the New Black Panther Party and the Black Riders Liberation Party. He also “liked” the African-American Defense League, which formed in 2014 and advocates violence against police and white people in general. The group has gathered more than 870 “likes” on its Facebook page, whose cover photo still showed dozens of military-style weapons days after Johnson killed five white officers. Beirich said the Intelligence Project tracks hate groups through methods including its own research, reports by media and law enforcement, the groups’ own publications, and social media. Some radical black religious organizations also
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have houses of worship or book stores that can be counted, she said. But determining a group’s true size and reach can be difficult, said the ADL’s Segal. For example, he said, the New Black Panther Party is considered a “hard-core hate group” and members have advocated violence against police, yet it typically stages few events where watchdogs can count members, as they do with the KKK or the National Alliance, which are considered white hate groups. Instead, he said, black extremists often join in demonstrations, and sometimes incite others in the crowd. Adding to the difficulty is the fact that some black extremist groups use their advocacy of common so-
cial issues like eradicating poverty or improving education as a doorway to lead people down a path of militancy, he said. “They take legitimate social issues that people care about and infuse them with their brand of hatred,” said Segal. The KKK once did the same thing, billing itself as a group that helped poor Southerners even as members were blamed for racial violence. And similar to black extremists, the KKK reported an increase in followers after officials removed Confederate flags in the South following the shooting that killed nine people last year at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. “(The Klan) took that as a direct attack on one of their symbols,” Beirich said.
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Deaths Ruby Mask
Celebration of life for Ruby Marcele Mask, 91, of Corinth, is set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors Chapel with Bro. Ralph Culp officiating. Burial will be at Forrest Memorial Park. Visitation is from 12 noon until the service. Mrs. Mask died Saturday, July 9, 2016, at Cornerstone Health and Rehab. She was born Nov. 20, 1924, in the Hinkle community. She was a longtime member of East Corinth Baptist Church and a retired sales clerk for Kent’s and Shainburg’s. She is preceded in death by her husband, Leroy Mask; a brother, Ray Marcele; sister Irene Bynum. She is survived by her son, Larry Mask, and his wife, Janie; a brother, James Roy Marcele; grandchildren Todd and Casey Mask; one great-grandchild; two step-grandchildren; and four step-great grandchildren; special friend Vonnie King; and a host of other family and friends. Online guestbook: mcpetersfuneraldirectors. com
Dorothy ‘Dot’ White
Funeral services for Dorothy Leona Grissom White, 90, are set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial at Farmington Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation is Tuesday from 5 until 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. until the service. Ms. White died Sunday, July 10, 2016, at Longwood Nursing Home in Booneville. Born Nov. 20, 1925, she was the retired owner of Kids World Day Care. She worked at White Weaver Pants Factory, The Sewing Basket and Walmart and also sewed for the public. A devout Christian and a member of Central Baptist Church, she was loved by many. Survivors include a brother, Avon Grissom of Corinth; a sister, Irene Mincy of Corinth; a special great-nephews, Trey Grissom; caregivers Peggy Winters and her husband, Russ, Maury Grissom and Linda and Wayne Odle; and a host of nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, William Elbert “Jack” Grissom and Bessie Bonds Grissom; a brother, Leonard Cornelius (Audie); sisters Ethel Cornelius (Mark), Claudie V. Grissom and Lela Mae Grissom; a sister-in-law, Norma Grissom; and a brother-in-law, Roy Mincy. Pallbearers are Maury Grissom Jr., Trey Grissom, Johnny Mincy, Randy Cornelius, Barry Barnett, Wayne Odle and Benson Skelton. Bro. Frank Wilson and Charlie Browning will officiate the service. Online guestbook: magnoliafuneralhome.net
Donald O. King Sr.
Donald O. King Sr., 87, of Corinth, died Monday, July 11, 2016, at MS Care Center. Magnolia Funeral Home will have the arrangements.
John Cox
A memorial service for John Larry Cox, 65, of Corinth, is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories. Visitation is Wednesday from 12:30 p.m. until service time. Mr. Cox died Wednesday, July 6, 2016, at his home. Born Sept. 6, 1950, he was an engineer for a manufacturing company, a musician and a Baptist. Survivors include his sister, Janet Drew Lollar (Larry) of Sevierville, Tenn., and adopted sister Marsha Brown of Corinth. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Rupert Cox and Eller Drew Brown Cox, and a brother, James Randall Cox. Bro. Jerry Wallace will officiate the service.
The Gospel Mirror
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” (James 1: 22-25.) Man is interested in mirrors. Man always has been interested in mirrors. No doubt the savage is interested in his reflection in the water when he drinks from the crystal stream. We are living in an age of mirrors. We have all kinds of mirrors for all kinds of purposes. man was not satisfied with mirrors that show the outside of the body, but we have that mysterious X-ray that explores the insides. The drunkard looks into God’s mirror and sees this: “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, not effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Cor. 6: 9, 10.) A lot of church members ought to get his part of God’s mirror where they could get a square look at themselves! I have been told that there are a few preachers who need to take a squint at this. God says that folks who are guilty of the above shall not inherit the kingdom of God. This I believe and teach. When we look into a mirror and see dirt on our face, we turn from the mirror and wash the dirt off; when we see dirt on our souls, we had better get rid of it before it is eternally too late. We should study obediently - that is, we should approach the study of God’s word with an honest desire to know his will concerning us. We should have the mind that characterized the good man, Cornelius. After he had been instructed to send for Peter, who would tell him what he ought to do, and Peter had arrived, Cornelius said: “Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee or God.” (Acts 10: 33.) A man like that is bound to learn the will of the Lord. He wanted to hear all things that are commanded of God. The doctrines and commandments of men will damn our souls for time and eternity if believed and obeyed. “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” (Matt. 15: 9.) “And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” (Matt. 15: 14.) The doctrine of Christ believed and obeyed will save our souls for time and eternity. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” (Rom. 1: 16.) My reader, are you obeying the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ? Have you come to him by faith, repentance, confession, and baptism? (Matt. 28: 18-20; Mark 16: 15,16; Luke 24: 46,47; Acts 2: 37, 38; 8: 26-39; 22: 16.) Did you rise to walk in newness of life? (Rom. 6: 3-5; Col. 2: 12.) Read Your Bible - Mark 16. Welcome.
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