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MONDAY January 22, 2018
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Shots fired at Urbana house party according to the report. The offenders proceeded to rob the two witnesses of their personal property. “As the robbery was being committed, several people from the house party came outside, and the offenders began shooting,” wrote Lt. Richard Surles of the Urbana Police Department Criminal Investigations Division. One gunshot entered the house and struck one of the two women. The police declined to provide additional comments. Those with information or video/camera footage of the incident are encouraged to contact the Urbana Police Department at (217) 384-2320. Those wishing to remain anonymous can contact Champaign County Crime Stoppers and leave a tip at (217) 373-8477. KENYON EDMOND THE DAILY ILLINI The investigation is A police car is parked in front of 804 W. Springfield Ave. Early Sunday morning, offenders robbed two attendees and shot two ongoing. estimated fatalities estimated injuries
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Two people suffered gunshot wounds after multiple shots were fired at a house party on the 800 block of West Springfield Avenue Sunday morning. Officers received calls about a shooting around 2:04 a.m., according to an Urbana Police Department press release, and arrived at the location shortly after. A 21-year-old female University student is being treated for a not life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg, and a 23-year-old Champaign woman has a not life-threatening gunshot wound to the back. Upon investigation, officials said at least five offenders attempted to enter the house party, which police estimated to have around 200 people in attendance at the time, but they were denied entry. Two people were witnesses to the denied entry, burszty2@dailyillini.com
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others. The 21-year-old woman who was shot has undergone surgery and is stable, according to a report. The 23-year-old woman’s condition is critical, but stable, as of 10:20 a.m. on Sunday.
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On a clear night, the brightness of a nuclear strike on Chicago would cause permanent retinal damage to anyone looking directly at it, even 150 miles away in Champaign-Urbana. During the Cold War, the amount of nuclear weapons on both sides was so vast that metropolitan areas as small as ChampaignUrbana were thought of as potential targets for the Soviet Union. “I don’t know if there is reason to believe that targeting option has been eliminated.” said Cliff Singer, director of the University Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security, in an email. Now, nearly 30 years after the tense brinksmanship of the Cold War, Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, a core faculty member of the University program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security, points to North Korea as the biggest nuclear threat to the United States. Despite its emaciated economy and small size, North Korea’s nuclear program has managed to cross technological boundaries to emerge as a fullyfledged nuclear power possibly capable of launching a
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nuclear attack against the continental United States. W hile North Korea sees its nuclear program as crucial in deterring a U.S. intervention and preserving its regime, Grosse Perdekamp believes North Korea would be unlikely to attack the U.S.; it would be a move that would almost certainly trigger the destruction of its own state.
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“I don’t think (a nuclear strike) has very much military meaning,” Grosse Perdekamp said. “As much pain and suffering as that is, the United States would easily survive and cut North Korea into pieces.” Though North Korea may not be itching to use its nuclear weapons, amid an atmosphere of increasing brashness and volatility, Frederick Lamb, a profes-
sor researching methods of estimating yields from nuclear detonations, worries a nuclear war caused by accident constitutes a growing risk for the United States. “There were so many occasions during the Cold War where we came within a whisker of all-out nuclear war because of mistake
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will seek the death penalty against Brendt Ch r istensen, according to a news release sent out Friday afternoon, which included the court filing. Christensen is charged w ith the kidnapping resulting in death of visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang on June 9, 2017. The filing holds that the circumstances of the offense of kidnapping resulting in death, as charged in count one of the superseding indictment returned on Oct. 3, 2017, justify a death sentence, provided Christensen is found guilty. Prosecutors alleged that Christensen choked and sexually assaulted a
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Champaign police and University of Illinois Police Department are increasing enforcement of vehicles parking in the middle of a roadway. The announcement came in a news release sent out Fri-
day morning. This effort is a response to more vehicles using the center turn lanes or the middle of a roadway as a fast parking option. The increased frequency is seen on Green Street in the Campustown area, but officers will watch for violators
throughout the city. In Illinois, it is illegal to stop a vehicle in a traffic lane for any reason other than an accident or emergency. Parked vehicles in the center lane can impede the flow of traffic, possibly increasing the potential for motor vehicle acci-
dents and slow emergency responders. Violators may face a $120 ticket for parking in the center roadway, and any unattended vehicle may be towed at the owner’s expense.
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woman in the ChampaignUrbana area in 2013, and that he expressed a “desire to be known as a killer.” A nother indictment returned against Christensen alleges he held Zhang against her will and used a cellular phone and Saturn Astra motor vehicle, which are both instruments of interstate commerce, to commit the kidnapping. In furtherance of the commission of the offense, the kidnapping resulted in the death of Zhang. The death sentence also follows factors that allege Christensen acted with intent against Zhang, and these intentional acts of violence resulted in her death. The government’s notice sets statutory factors that the offense was committed during another crime, being Zhang’s kidnapping, as well as being committed in an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner, involving torture or serious physical abuse. These factors include that Christensen committed the offense after sub-
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