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Convict Fell Through the Cracks Colo. suspect took off ankle bracelet days before killing Denver The ex-convict suspected in the killing of Colorado’s prison chief slipped off his electronic monitoring bracelet and escaped before anyone noticed he was missing — all after he was mistakenly released from prison four years early. A corrections computer system recorded that Evan Spencer Ebel’s bracelet stopped working on March 14, according to documents released Tuesday. Officers learned he had fled on March 19,
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From Model Parolee to Killer? Evan Spencer Ebel, who died after a March 21 shootout with Texas deputies, had been a model parolee until his electronic monitoring bracelet stopped working. His father provided him housing and a job, but on March 14 a “tamper alert” showed the bracelet had stopped working. Two days later, corrections officials called Ebel and told him to come in to repair the bracelet. He did not show up. On March 17, Nathan Leon, a father of three and Domino’s delivery man, was shot to death. Ebel is suspected in the killing. It was not until March 18 that parole officers spoke to Ebel’s father, who told them he feared his son had fled. On March 19, Tom Clements was shot. Ebel is suspected in that killing too. (AP)
the day Tom Clements, the director of Colorado’s department of corrections, was fatally shot. The detail is the latest example of how Ebel fell through the
cracks of the criminal justice system in the years before his January release. On Monday, court officials acknowledged that a clerical error allowed Ebel to leave prison four
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years early because his most recent felony conviction was incorrectly recorded on his record. “We have to do better,” said Tim Hand, director of the Department of Corrections’ parole division. Ebel, who died in a shootout with Texas deputies on March 21, had been flagged as a high-risk parolee and went straight from solitary confinement back out onto the streets in late January. Parole officials said Ebel complied with all the terms of his parole until his bracelet broke. “We had an individual who was calling in every day, who was employed, who showed no indication that he would do the kind of things that we now know” he did, Hand said. NICHOL AS RICCARDI (AP)
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CDC: Rabies Not a Threat To 3 Organ Recipients The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that three people who received organs from a rabies-infected donor in 2011 have all completed post-exposure rabies treatment and are out of harm’s way. A Maryland man who received a kidney from the donor died of rabies in February, about 18 months after his transplant operation. (AP) CHARLESTON, W.VA.
Carbon Monoxide Killed ‘Buckwild’ Star, 2 Others Officials in West Virginia said Tuesday that autopsies confirmed “Buckwild” cast member Shain Gandee, 21, and two others died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning inside an SUV. The Kanawha Gandee C o u n t y S h e r i f f ’s Department said the vehicle was stuck in a mud pit and that the gas might have flooded the cabin because of the clogged exhaust. (AP) WASHINGTON
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Schools across the nation should train selected staff members to carry weapons and should each have at least one armed security officer to make students safer and allow a quicker response to an attack, the director of a National Rifle Association-sponsored study said Tuesday. Republican former Rep. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas made the remarks as a task force he headed released its report, which also maps out a 40- to 60-hour training program for school staff members who are qualified and can pass background checks. “The presence of an armed security personnel in a school adds a layer of security and diminishes the response time that is beneficial to the overall security,” Hutchinson said. (AP)
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MANHATTAN IS SEEN FROM ONE WORLD OBSERVATORY on the 102nd floor of One World Trade Center at the ground zero site in New York City on Tuesday. One World Observatory will open to the public in 2015 and will include a preshow theater, multiple spaces that allow for panoramas of the New York City region and numerous dining options. When the building, formerly called the Freedom Tower, is completed, it will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 1,776 feet.
The point the Dow Jones Industrial average closed at Tuesday — touching another record high after reports on auto sales and factory orders provided the latest evidence that the U.S. economy is strengthening. The Standard & Poor’s 500 rose eight points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,570. (AP)
The Associated Press has dropped the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its stylebook, a victory for immigrant advocates who argue that the term is biased. AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll said the move is part of a broader shift away from labeling people and toward labeling behavior. (THE WASHINGTON POST) NEWINGTON, CONN.
Customers Pack Stores After Deal on Gun Laws Customers packed gun stores Tuesday across Connecticut, concerned about a bipartisan gun-control agreement reached Monday by state lawmakers that will ban the sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines and more than 100 new types of guns. The General Assembly is to vote Wednesday on a wideranging bill that addresses the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. (AP)