Ecuador investigates bar shooting that killed 17
The killing took place on Sunday night when individuals fired shots inside of a bar, leaving a further 11 people injured.
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The Independent
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- The Independent
Police watchdog probing death of man in custody
The police watchdog has launched an investigation into the death of a man who was found unresponsive in police custody. Ellis Rocks was detained by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers at the Britannia Hotel in Almond Brook Road, Standish, Wigan, at about 8.35pm on Thursday, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said. Officers had responded to a call reporting that a man was trying to deal drugs at a premises in the town, and an arrest was made on suspicion of a drug offence, and also for an assault in London, GMP said. Information indicates Mr Rocks, 26, was handcuffed and searched by officers at the scene before being transferred to custody, the watchdog added. Mr Rocks remained in custody overnight and an ambulance was called by detention officers at about 2.30am on Friday after he was seen to be unresponsive and lying on the floor of a cell. After paramedics arrived, he was taken to hospital but he suffered a cardiac arrest en route and resuscitation was commenced. Mr Rocks died in hospital at 7.20am on Sunday. After a mandatory referral from GMP, IOPC investigators were deployed in the early hours of Friday and an independent investigation was declared at 10.18am on Sunday. The watchdog has reviewed CCTV from the custody suite and body-worn video footage from officers involved in the arrest, it said. It has also been in touch with the force about receiving initial accounts from the officers. An IOPC spokesperson said: 'This was a tragic incident in which Mr Rocks has sadly died and our thoughts are with his family and loved ones. 'GMP referred this matter to us, and as he was in the custody of police at the time he became unwell, it is important there is a thorough and independent investigation. We will examine all relevant matters including the interaction officers had with Mr Rocks during his detention and what happened after he arrived at the custody suite. 'We have made contact with his family to explain our role and will update them as our inquiries progress.' Assistant Chief Constable Chris Sykes said: 'Our thoughts are with the family of Ellis who have endured the most heartbreaking last few days. What is most important is that they get all the answers to what has led to his death. We will fully co-operate with the IOPC's inquiries. 'Incidents where someone sadly dies following police contact are rare but are nevertheless deeply impactful for that person's loved ones. It is important following a death in our custody that a thorough and independent investigation takes place, and I urge people to not rush to judgment before the full facts are established.'
Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Are Ukrainian's turning on Zelensky?: Multiple casualties reported after civilians 'attack draft officer with bats and metal pipes' in Mykolaiv Oblast
Multiple casualties have been reported after Ukrainian officials alleged that a group of bat and pipe-wielding civilians attacked a draft officer. Officials said the incident took place at 2pm local time in the small village of Buzke in Mykolaiv Oblast. They said that the civilians, who have not yet been identified, were 'armed with bats and metal pipes' and 'damaged a vehicle and inflicted bodily injuries on a soldier.' In response to the attack, the soldier is said to have 'a shot with a non-lethal ammunition device.' The attack left an unspecified number of Ukrainian soldiers and police, as well as civilians injured. Cops are now investigating the incident, and warned dissidents that insulting the 'honour and dignity' of soldiers, as well as threatening violence against them, was punishable by up to five years in prison. It added that bringing harm to soldiers could result in up to 12 years imprisonment. From the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky faced an uphill battle with his countrymen, who resisted the enforced conscription into the country's military. Just two days ago protesters in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia broke into a stadium where roughly 100 men were being held by military enlistment officers. Cops arrested several demonstrators. It comes as a Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at an oil depot in Sochi, the Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic which is 250 miles from the Ukrainian border, authorities said Sunday. Ukraine has regularly hit Russian oil and gas infrastructure in response to attacks on its own territory since Russia began its offensive in February 2022. 'Sochi suffered a drone attack by the Kyiv regime last night,' the governor of Russia's Krasnodar region, Veniamin Kondratiev, said on Telegram. He said drone wreckage hit an 'oil tank, which caused a fire' during the night-time attack. Sochi's mayor, Andrei Proshunin, said there were no victims and that the fire was put out several hours later. Images, broadcast by Russian media but whose authenticity AFP could not verify, showed flames and a thick plumes of black smoke rising from the site. Air traffic was briefly suspended at Sochi airport, Russia's air transport regulator Rosaviatsia said. Ukraine authorities have not commented on the fire. Air strikes on Sochi are relatively rare compared to some other Russian cities. However, Ukrainian drone attacks killed two people there late last month, according to local authorities.
The Guardian
2 hours ago
- The Guardian
Montana shooting victims named as manhunt for suspect continues
Montana's attorney general on Sunday released the names of the four people who were shot to death in a mass murder at a bar two days earlier. The victims were Daniel Edwin Ballie, 59; Nancy Lauretta Kelly, 64; David Allen Leach, 70; and Tony Wayne Palm, 74. All four were residents of Anaconda, Montana, where the quadruple murder took place, a statement from the Montana attorney general, Austin Knudsen, said. Former US army soldier Michael Paul Brown, 45, is suspected of having killed Ballie, Kelly, Leach and Palm at The Owl Bar in Anaconda. Kelly was a bartender, and the others were patrons, Knudsen said at a news conference Sunday. Brown remained at large as of Sunday, with officials warning that he may be armed as well as getting around in a stolen car containing clothes and camping gear. Knudsen alleged that Brown carried out Friday morning's mass murder with a rifle that law enforcement believes was his personal weapon. The attorney general warned residents in the town of just more than 9,000 people that Brown, who lived next door to the bar where he was a regular, could come back to the area. Anaconda is about 75 miles (120km) south-east of Missoula in a valley hemmed in by mountains. 'This is an unstable individual who walked in and murdered four people in cold blood for no reason whatsoever,' Knudsen remarked on Sunday. 'So there absolutely is concern for the public.' Numerous local public events were canceled over the weekend as the search for Brown entered its third day, according to Facebook pages in the area. Robert Wyatt, 70, told the Associated Press that he was neighbors with Leach. The two men lived next door to each other in a public housing complex for elderly people and people with disabilities. 'Everybody is nervous' since Friday, Wyatt said. Leach was deaf and kept mostly to himself, Wyatt said – and he only recalls Leach having a family visit once almost a year ago. But Leach was always happy to help his neighbors with chores like moving furniture. 'If you needed help, Dave would help,' Wyatt said to the AP. 'He was a good neighbor.' Among the areas that investigators have searched for Brown are woods where he hunted and camped while he was a child. Brown served in the Army as an armor crewman from 2001 to 2005 and deployed to Iraq from early 2004 until March 2005, said Lt Col Ruth Castro, an army spokesperson. Brown was in the Montana national guard from 2006 to March 2009, Castro said, and left military service at the rank of sergeant. Brown's niece, Clare Boyle, told the AP that her uncle had spent years struggling with mental illness. Boyle said she and other family members repeatedly sought help. 'This isn't just a drunk/high man going wild,' she said in a Facebook message. 'It's a sick man who doesn't know who he is sometimes and frequently doesn't know where or when he is either.' Knudsen said on Sunday that local law enforcement was familiar with Brown prior to the mass murder. It was widely believed that he knew at least some of the victims, given how close he lived to the bar. Authorities circulated a photograph of Brown from surveillance footage taken shortly after the fatal shootings. He appeared to be barefoot and in minimal clothing. But law enforcement now believes Brown ditched the vehicle he escaped in and stole a different one that had camping gear, shoes and clothes in it – leaving open the possibility that Brown is now clothed. The last time that law enforcement saw Brown was on Friday afternoon, but there was 'some confusion' because there were multiple white vehicles involved, Knudsen said. There is a $7,500 reward for any information that leads to Brown's capture. 'This is still Montana,' Knudsen said. 'Montanans know how to take care of themselves. But please, if you have any sightings, call 911.' Elsewhere in the US on Sunday, authorities in Tennessee were searching for a man wanted in the murders of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found alone and alive in a discarded car seat. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was named as the suspect in that quadruple murder. Two other men had been arrested on allegations that they assisted Drummond, according to investigators. The victims in that case were found dead in Tiptonville, Tennessee, about 40 miles from where the baby was left, officials have said. They were identified as James M Wilson, 21; Adrianna Williams, 20; Cortney Rose, 38; and Braydon Williams, 15. Associated Press contributed reporting
