In Other News: Idaho woman accidentally grabs mountain lion during attempt to break up ‘dog fight’; Massachusetts high court upholds woman’s conviction for texts encouraging boyfriend’s suicide

Published 3:18 pm Wednesday, February 6, 2019

By Staff Reports

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Massachusetts high court upholds woman’s conviction for texts encouraging boyfriend’s suicide

The Massachusetts Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction of a woman who encouraged her boyfriend’s suicide through text messages. Michelle Carter will have to serve 15 months behind bars for the 2017 conviction that held her responsible for the July 2014 suicide of Conrad Roy III, 18. “The evidence against the defendant proved that, by her wanton or reckless conduct, she caused the victim’s death by suicide,” according to the high court opinion. — NBC News

Confusion and anger after security guard holding suspect was shot by police, video shows

As Jemel Roberson lay motionless in the parking lot of a suburban Chicago bar, patrons stood feet away wailing and yelling at a group of law enforcement officers. More than a dozen videos released by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office this week show the commotion after Roberson was shot by a police officer — who Midlothian Police Chief Daniel Delaney identified last month as Ian Covey — outside Manny’s Blue Room Lounge in November. One bystander calls police racist, while another tells them to go home. “Your man shot my man. The police shot security. That’s what happened,” a distraught security guard tells officers in the parking lot. — CNN

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For decades he didn’t give up trying to ID a boy and his killer. The obsession paid off just before this detective retired

For years Maj. Tim Horne had a box under his desk he’d bump his leg into almost every day. He didn’t move the box, because it was in his “damn way” on purpose. The box was stuffed full of information about a cold case of the worst kind, the killing of a child, and he just had to solve it. The investigator for the sheriff’s department in Orange County, North Carolina, put off his retirement for months, until last week, hoping he could get final answers in the 1998 killing of a 10-year-old boy. — CNN

Idaho woman accidentally grabs mountain lion during attempt to break up ‘dog fight’

An Idaho woman was shocked to discover she was holding onto a male mountain lion when she yanked the creature off her dog last week. The woman, who has not been identified, believed she was breaking up a “dog fight” between her pup and another pet outside her Mackay home when she suddenly realized she was actually grabbing a wild animal. After realizing what she had in her hand, the shocked woman — who suffered scratches during the attack — called her husband for backup. — Fox News