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Police: Man shot while waiting for a ride near entrance to Deaverview Apartments

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Police say a man was shot Thursday night while waiting for a ride near the entrance to Deaverview Apartments. (Photo credit: WLOS staff ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) —  There are just a few more details Friday after police say a man was shot Thursday night while waiting for a ride near the entrance to Deaverview Apartments. Thursday night at approximately 10:12 p.m. the Asheville Police Department responded to Crossroads Grocery at 482 Deaverview Road after receiving reports of a man who was shot. Authorities said the call reported a gunshot at Building 8. Upon arrival officers located a man in his 50s suffering from a gunshot wound to his chest. The man was taken to Mission Hospital where he was stabilized. News 13 still does not have more information about his condition at this time. He was conscious and alert when transported. Police say that as the man was getting into a vehicle he heard shots being fired and was struck. He left the area, and the woman driving the vehicle stopped at ...

Son Of Sam: This Summer In 1977, An NYC Serial Killer Is Taken Down By A Parking Ticket

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NEW YORK, NY — In the summer of 1977, New York City was — literally and figuratively — on fire. It was the summer of disco fever, of Studio 54. It was the summer of Yankees mania. It was the summer that catapulted Ed Koch to City Hall. And in mid-July, it turned into the summer of darkness, when an epic, five-borough power outage — deemed an "act of God" by Con Ed — plunged the city into two days of total blackout. Airports shut down. News stations went off the air. Thousands were stuck in underground subway tunnels . Meanwhile, in the streets, the down-and-out — at their breaking point after years of municipal layoffs and a steady surge in violent crime — rioted and looted with abandon. Arsonists reportedly set more than 1,000 fires across the city in a single day. The Bronx, it would later be said, was burning. It was also the Summer of Sam. Want more local news? Sign up here to receive free newsletters and alerts from the New York City Patch . In spring 1977, police con...

Shooting victim in Little Rock named teen gunman before dying, affidavit says

A North Little Rock man fatally shot at a Little Rock apartment complex last month identified his killer in a "dying declaration" to detectives, according to a court affidavit released Thursday . Steven McPherson, 43, reportedly identified Jasper Lamar Singleton in a police photo lineup before he died from his injuries at UAMS Medical Center on July 27. McPherson was shot multiple times in his chest at Big Country Chateau Apartments that night. Authorities searched for Singleton, 19, for weeks before U.S. marshals found and arrested him Wednesday at Rodeway Inn & Suites at 2401 W. 65th St., according to an arrest report. Singleton, who is nicknamed "Fugi," was charged with first-degree murder. He pleaded innocent in the case Thursday morning in Little Rock District Court . [INTERACTIVE: Map details all Little Rock, North Little Rock killings in 2017] Judge Hugh Finkelstein set bail at $500,000. Two people besides McPherson said Singleton was at the apar...

Barcelona attack suspected mastermind was in Brussels

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Abdelbaki Es Satty (pictured) was involved in the deadly ISIS attacks on the Brussels airport and underground in 2016" class="blkBorder img-share" /> Police are now looking into whether Abdelbaki Es Satty (pictured) was involved in the deadly ISIS attacks on the Brussels airport and underground in 2016 The Imam suspected of masterminding the Barcelona terrorist attacks travelled to Belgium three months before the Brussels bombing and was friends with the Madrid train bombers , it has been revealed.  Police are now looking into whether Abdelbaki Es Satty , who is believed to have radicalised members of the terror cell that attacked Barcelona and Cambrils, was involved in the deadly ISIS attacks on the Brussels airport and underground in 2016. Last week, a 12- strong terror cell launched attacks in northern Spain leaving 14 dead and around 130 injured.  Es Satty was reportedly friends with some of those jailed for the Madrid train bombings in 2004, having sp...

The Latest: Young Australian boy missing after van attack

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say o...