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Woman Found Living in Supermarket Store Sign with Computer and Coffee Maker for a Year, Police Say

Police in Michigan say a woman was recently found living inside a grocery store sign, where she seemingly had been staying for a year.

Contractors were working on the roof of a Family Fare Supermarket in Midland on April 23 when they discovered the woman and her living space, according to the Associated Press and USA Today.

Midland Police Officer Brennon Warren said the department has dubbed her “the Roof Ninja,” MLive.com reported.

“She essentially made it home,” the officer added.

The woman had made herself at home inside the top portion of the triangle-shaped sign, which was accessible through a small door, according to the AP and USA Today.

Warren said there appeared to be “some flooring that was laid down” and “a mini desk” as well as clothing, a Keurig coffee maker, a printer and a computer.

It is unclear how the woman continually accessed the roof. She told officers she had been living there for about a year, MLive.com reported.

“People would see her from time to time and then all of a sudden she would vanish,” Warren said, per USA Today. “No one really knew where she went but no one ever indicated or thought that she would be up on top of the roof.”

The woman reportedly agreed to leave shortly after police confronted her about her living situation. She was advised not to return and was escorted from the property.

Police said they offered her information about services for unhoused individuals, but she declined, per the reports. No charges have been filed.

The woman at the center of the story is reportedly employed, but not at Family Fare. SpartanNash, the parent company of Family Fare, said in a statement that store employees responded “with the utmost compassion and professionalism.”

“Ensuring there is ample safe, affordable housing continues to be a widespread issue nationwide that our community needs to partner in solving,” spokesperson Adrienne Chance said.

SpartanNash did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Source; People

Rapper Shoots Himself in Head While Recording Social Media Video

A teen rapper from Virginia accidentally shot himself in the head on May 15 and the incident was caught on video.

Aspiring rapper Rylo Huncho was found lying dead in his mother’s home in Suffolk, Virginia, and investigators said he died of an “accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound” to the head, the New York Post reported.

While the police would not confirm the rapper’s identity, fans and friends began circulating the video online which showed Huncho playing around with a handgun before a loud pop is heard and he drops out of view of the camera.

Many at first thought the video was staged. But after news broke, it appears to have been confirmed.

The teen’s mother set up a GoFundMe page to help raise money for his final arrangements.

“He was her only son!” the teen’s cousin wrote. “She was a single parent but took care of her son the best she could.”

“It was always her and her son,” the cousin added.

Some, including his cousin, are also still wondering if the rapper intentionally ended his life as some of his posts on social media seemed to hint at despair and violence.

Regardless, the death came as a shock to Huncho’s friends and family.

One friend, Twin Porter, lamented the teen’s death, writing, “And to get a text saying he passed away is heartbreaking and to hear mean things y’all are saying about Railey is so wrong on every level please god gave his mother the strength to deal with the devastating pain she’s in.”

Hip Hop Vibe also added that Huncho’s death “sparked conversations about the responsibilities of social media platforms and the influence they have on young users.”

Source; Breitbart

San Diego Police officer resigns after getting locked in the backseat with female detainee

A San Diego Police Department officer resigned from his post after he accidentally locked himself in the backseat with a woman for more than an hour while he was transporting her to Las Colinas Women’s Detention Center.

In adherence to California Law, San Diego Police released its internal investigation into then-Officer Anthony Hair and the events that took place on Aug. 15, 2023. The investigation resulted in Hair’s resignation the following month.

On the night of Aug. 15, 2023, the two-year police veteran, Hair was one of several officers to help with the arrest of two people suspected of car theft. One of the people arrested was an unidentified woman who also had a bench warrant out for her arrest.

SDPD Officer Hair was asked to take the woman to police headquarters and then to the Las Colinas Detention Center in Santee.

Minutes into the transport, Hair and the woman began to speak. Their conversation was picked up by Hair’s body camera that was attached to his uniform.

Woman: “Are you married?”

Officer Hair: “Why are you asking that?”

Woman: “You’re not too bad. What’s it gonna hurt me if I work the system, you know what I mean? That’s the way I see s—t.”

Hair continued driving towards police headquarters. Minutes later the body camera microphone picked up moans coming from the backseat.

Woman: “Are you single?”

Officer Hair: “Yeah. But you’re not.”

The conversation then turned illicit.

Woman: “I’m down to f— right now.”

Hair: “Don’t say that right now…Don’t say that right now because everything is being recorded right now.”

For the next several minutes, as Hair sped towards Las Colinas, little could be heard between the two. As he approached Las Colinas, Hair asked what the woman was doing in the backseat.

His police cruiser then slowed and Hair turned off his body camera.

According to the GPS tracking system inside Hair’s police cruiser, Hair’s car quickly slowed to seven miles per hour before turning down a dark residential street just blocks away from Las Colinas.

At 1:34 a.m., Hair’s police cruiser stopped.

More than twenty minutes after the police cruiser stopped, Hair called a fellow officer asking if he had a master key for the patrol cars.

In a subsequent interview, the unnamed officer described the conversation to internal affairs investigators.

“I heard and noticed Officer Hair had a panicky voice,” said the officer. “I asked him if he was okay. He said, yes, and then asked if I had my patrol car key with me…I asked why he was asking and what did he need. Officer Hair then asked me If I could go meet him. I asked him his location and he said, near Cottonwood… I asked him why he needed me, and he said he would tell me when I got there. He said he was really embarrassed.”

After some back and forth, Hair finally said that he was locked in the backseat of his police cruiser with a woman that he was transporting to Las Colinas.

At 2:40 a.m., after more than an hour in the backseat with the woman, a supervisor arrived and opened the door.

Throughout the investigation, Hair maintained that he was checking on the woman and the car door accidentally shut on him.

As for his body camera being turned off, Hair told investigators that he knocked the camera off of its clip while getting out of the cruiser.

Investigators later interviewed the woman who said that nothing inappropriate happened in the backseat of the cruiser. The department did test Hair’s clothes for semen and found traces on his belt.

Hair resigned on September 14, 2023, less than a month after the incident.

Source; CBS8

City Defends Cop Who Shot Man’s Blind, Deaf Dog After It Wandered Into Neighbor’s Yard

If you’re a dog lover, or just a person that doesn’t have the mentality of a concentration camp guard, do not click through the link and watch the video. Your blood pressure will spike dangerously high.

City officials in Missouri are defending a police officer’s decision to fatally shoot a man’s blind and deaf Shih Tzu after the small dog escaped from his backyard.

Disturbing body camera footage obtained by ABC 17 News shows the officer repeatedly shooting the small dog, named Teddy, as it stumbled around a woman’s open backyard in Sturgeon, located north of Columbia, on Sunday evening.

“I’m at a loss,” Teddy’s distraught owner, Nicholas Hunter, told HuffPost by phone Friday. “It still hasn’t kicked in, the reality of it.”

A homeowner who lived near Hunter found Teddy in her yard. Fearing he was lost and in distress, she called the city and took photos of him sitting by a water bowl, which were shared on the city’s Facebook page.

Hunter said he rushed to the scene after getting a call from a friend about Teddy’s escape while he was out with friends.

“The dog drank water from a bowl I provided and licked my arm and leg. He was in no way a threat,” the homeowner, who declined to share her name publicly out of fear of retaliation, told HuffPost. She said her interactions with Teddy had been anything but dangerous.

When Hunter confronted the officer about the shooting, he said the officer threatened him with a loose dog citation. In a later conversation, he said the officer told him that his dog was killed not because Teddy was a public threat but because he looked injured or abandoned.

“I thought the dog was hurt so it was the humane thing to do, to put him down,” Hunter said the officer told him, referring to Teddy’s unusual appearance and movements.

“He carried his head sideways and he walked funny because he can’t see or hear. The vet diagnosed him with a neurological issue, which was the cause of him going deaf and blind,” Hunter said of Teddy, who was 5.

In the body camera footage, Hunter is seen emotionally confronting the officer, who defends his actions, saying the city doesn’t have “a humane society” and that he was responding to the situation with limited information.

In a statement Thursday, the city said it is standing by the officer’s actions. Officials have reviewed the dispatch report and body camera footage and believe “the officer acted within his authority” to protect citizens from the dog causing injury to others.

“The dog’s strange behavior appeared consistent with the dispatch report of an injured or possibly sick dog,” the city said, after initially claiming in a separate post that the officer feared it had rabies. It added that it would send its officers to a local county animal control facility for training and education “in hopes that this unfortunate situation does not occur again.”

The police department and mayor did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment Friday.

The woman identifying herself as the homeowner who called for help told HuffPost that she repeatedly told dispatch that the dog did not appear to be aggressive or a threat. If anyone’s a threat, it’s the gun-toting officer, she said.

“The officer should not be allowed to be an officer. He struggles with power,” the homeowner told HuffPost.

In a letter addressed to the city’s mayor on Monday, she demanded that the officer be relieved of his duty.

“I cannot stress enough that this animal was in no way a threat to others!” she stated in the letter, a copy of which was shared with HuffPost. “I was concerned the animal would be hit or wander off without locating its owner.”

The woman, who said she’s had to comfort her 17-year-old daughter who witnessed Teddy’s shooting from a kitchen window, said she later got a brief call from the mayor who confirmed that his had office received her complaint.

“The mayor called me but stated he didn’t have time to talk. Nothing more,” she said.

Hunter said he also filed a complaint and requested a call from the mayor, but as of Friday afternoon, he hasn’t heard from a single city official.

“The goal is just to, at this point, for the city to take responsibility and to take actions so this doesn’t happen again to another family,” he said. “I don’t have kids, so my dogs are my family.”

Source; Yahoo!

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