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NYC, DC officials plead for help to find homeless killer: ‘We’re coming for you’
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Officers from New York Metropolis and Washington D.C., on Monday urged these dwelling on the streets to search out shelter amid a collection of shootings and killings which have focused the homeless in each cities in current weeks.
In a joint information briefing in D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams pleaded with the suspected shooter to show himself in to authorities.
“Homelessness shouldn’t be a murder,” Adams mentioned. “This was a cold-blooded assault.”
Authorities in each cities have partnered with federal authorities, together with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), to analyze the crimes. New photographs of the suspect have been launched Monday night, together with a close-up of his face.
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Authorities in New York Metropolis and Washington D.C., are searching for a suspect believed to be concerned within the capturing and killing of homeless folks in each cities in current weeks.
(MPD)
“We all know that our unsheltered residents already face numerous each day risks and it’s unconscionable that anyone would goal this weak inhabitants,” Bowser mentioned.
The latest incidents occurred Saturday in New York. A 38-year-old man was shot within the arm whereas sleeping on the road round 4:30 a.m. and one other died after being shot within the head and neck in a separate capturing, the New York Police Division mentioned.
The suspect “appeared round, made certain nobody was there” earlier than he deliberately “took the lifetime of an harmless individual,” Adams mentioned.
Between each cities, there have been 5 shootings and two homicides.
The primary recognized capturing occurred on March 3 in Washington. Metropolitan cops responded to a name of photographs fired round 4 a.m. and located a person with gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.
On March 8, one other homeless man was shot however survived. The following day, DC firefighters responded to a tent hearth. As soon as the blaze was extinguished, a deceased man was discovered.
An post-mortem revealed he sustained a number of stab and gunshot wounds and the demise was dominated a murder. One other incident involving the demise of a homeless individual in New York was not linked to the string of shootings, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig mentioned.
The circumstances have been forensically linked after MPD Capt. Kevin Kentish of the murder unit was scrolling by means of social media over the weekend and noticed a picture of the suspect launched by the NYPD in reference to the shootings in New York, MPD Chief Robert Contee III mentioned.
Kentish, a local of Queens, New York, reviewed the picture along with his workforce, who have been investigating the murder of the homeless individual killed on March 8. The circumstances have been linked afterward, the chief mentioned.
Investigators imagine one gun is linked to the circumstances. The suspect isn’t believed to be concerned in every other crimes exterior each cities, Contee mentioned.
“We now have a perpetrator who’s cellular and has struck in no less than two main United States cities, NYPD Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell mentioned.
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The Metropolitan Police Division have launched a joint investigation with the New York Police Division for a suspect sought in no less than 5 capturing incidents involving homeless victims in DC and NYC.
(DC Police Division)
Contee was assured the “knot was tightening in” on the suspect.
“Flip your self in and we’re coming for you. That is the underside line. Our attain is way and vast. And we’re coming for you,” he mentioned.
Investigators are usually not certain the place the suspect lives or how and why he traveled to New York. A mixed $70,000 reward is being provided for data resulting in an arrest and conviction of the suspect.
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Taiwan issues travel advisory after China vows to execute independence supporters
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The Taiwanese government warned its citizens not to travel to mainland China on Thursday after Beijing threatened to execute residents who support the island’s independence.
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council spokesman Liang Wen-chieh issued the warning during a routine press conference. The Chinese government announced a new policy targeting “separatists” last week, and said it would pursue the death penalty for “diehard” supporters of Taiwanese independence.
“I want to stress: Democracy is not a crime; it’s autocracy that is the real evil. China has absolutely no right to sanction Taiwan’s people just because of the positions they hold. What’s more, China has no right to go after Taiwan people’s rights across borders,” Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said Wednesday.
“I also want to call on China to face up to the existence of the Republic of China and have exchanges and dialogue with Taiwan’s democratically elected, legitimate government,” he said, using Taiwan’s formal name. “If this is not done, relations between Taiwan and China will only become more and more estranged.”
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The Taiwanese government warned its citizens not to travel to mainland China on Thursday after Beijing threatened to execute residents who support the island’s independence. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
China has long considered Taiwan to be its territory, and Chinese President Xi Jinping has threatened to take the island by force in recent years.
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China’s Taiwan Affairs Office clarified on Wednesday that the threat of execution applies only to a small number of Taiwanese independence “diehards’ evil words and actions.”
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China has long considered Taiwan to be its territory, and Chinese President Xi Jinping has threatened to take the island by force in recent years. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
The move is the latest escalation of tensions between Taipei and Beijing. Recent months have also seen China conduct extensive military drills surrounding the island. China has used the drills as intimidation, typically following events connecting the U.S. and Taiwan.
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China first conducted live-fire drills in 2022 after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. D-Calif., traveled to Taiwan. It was the first time a U.S. speaker visited the island in over 25 years.
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Recent months have also seen China conduct extensive military drills surrounding the island, typically following events connecting the U.S. and Taiwan. (Lin Jian/Xinhua via AP)
Beijing’s execution threat comes just days after the U.S. approved the sale of $360 million in drones, missiles and other equipment to Taiwan.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Serbian police shut down cultural exchange festival with Kosovo
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The festival ban comes a day after the EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell said no progress had been made during talks in Brussels towards implementing an EU-backed agreement towards normalising ties between Belgrade and Pristina.
Serbian police have banned a festival that promotes cultural exchange with Kosovo following a rally by far-right protesters outside the venue.
In a statement, Belgrade police cited security concerns as the reasons for stopping the event from going ahead, saying they wanted to prevent ‘danger to the security of people and property and to public peace and order on a larger scale.’
The police statement also said that the anti-festival protest, which saw several dozen right-wing extremists gather outside the festival venue, waving Serbian flags and banners saying ‘No surrender’, had also been banned.
Several Serbian government officials have sharply criticised the festival in recent days, describing it as anti-Serb.
While the festival has been held alternatively in Serbia and Kosovo for the past decade, this year’s ban in Serbia illustrates a general toughening of the government’s stance toward its critics.
The Mirëdita, dobar dan festival, whose name means ‘hello’ in Albanian and Serbian, is organised by youth groups from Serbia and Kosovo and was due to open on Thursday with a theatre show from Kosovo.
According to the festival’s website the event, which was due to run for two days, aims to ‘enrich regional perspectives and foster cooperation and peacebuilding’.
No progress
The festival ban came a day after the EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell said no progress had been made during talks in Brussels towards implementing an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti had met to discuss an EU-backed plan to normalise ties. However, unresolved issues, including Pristina’s demands that Belgrade hands over the suspected organisers of the Banjska attack, blocked further progress.
Speaking after the meetings, Borrell said that the European Union will continue to exert all its efforts and capacity to normalise relations between Belgrade and Pristina.
“Kosovo was not ready for this, Kosovo was not willing to do this trilateral meeting. Serbia was ready to do it, but you need two to dance tango and we need two to sit around the table in order to continue the dialogue,” Borrell added.
Borrell said on Wednesday ahead of the meeting that a new round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina would “hopefully send a different message and end in a different note.”
Brussels has warned both Belgrade and Pristina that refusal to compromise jeopardises Serbia and Kosovo’s chances of joining the bloc.
Kosovo, a former Serbian province, declared independence in 2008, a move Belgrade does not recognise.
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