In Other News: Painting sells for $26.6 million; Object that hit home still a mystery

Published 4:24 pm Sunday, October 27, 2019

Trump describes al-Baghdadi as ‘whimpering and crying’ before dying in US operation: ‘He died like a coward’

President Donald Trump, announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, described him as dying “in a vicious and violent way, as a coward, running and crying.” “He died like a dog, he died like a coward,” Trump said in a speech to the nation Sunday morning. The ISIS leader’s death came in a successful U.S. military operation in northwest Syria Saturday night that took roughly two hours. The Islamic State leader detonated an explosive vest as U.S. Special Operations Forces stormed his compound in the Idrib Province. Trump said he died whimpering at the back of a dead-end tunnel. He also said the U.S. had al-Baghdadi under surveillance for weeks. — Fox News

He dropped the gun, walked out of the house and put his hands up. Then an officer shot him five times.

Officers yelled at Richard Sanchez to drop his gun — and eventually, he did. He started to walk toward law enforcement, out of a house a relative had fled to call 911 to report Sanchez was intoxicated, making threats and saying irrational things. Police shouted for the 27-year-old man to put his hands up. He did that, too. “Stop!” an officer ordered. Sanchez kept walking, arms still raised. Three seconds and two commands later, the officer opened fire. Body-camera footage now released by police in San Bernardino, California, captures the five shots that killed Sanchez and a woman’s screams as he fell onto the lawn. — The Washington Post

Unidentified object that hit Kentucky man’s home is not from a plane, FAA says

The Federal Aviation Administration says the mysterious object that damaged a Kentucky man’s mobile home earlier in October did not come from an airplane. And Norfolk Southern Railway says its nearby rail lines have nothing to do with the canister-type object that hit the home in Burgin, roughly 75 miles southeast of Louisville. What about the National Guard or the Fort Campbell military base? Could the object have possibly come from one of their units? Nope. All that news — or lack of it — leaves Tommy Woosley still wondering about the origin of the object that damaged a wall and part of his bathroom. — Courier Journal

Masterpiece found in French woman’s kitchen sells for $26.6M

An old painting found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman, who considered it an icon of little importance, has made her a multimillionaire. The work, a masterpiece attributed to the 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue that was discovered earlier this year, sold for $26.6 million Sunday. Dominique Le Coent of Acteon Auction House, who sold the masterpiece to an anonymous buyer near Chantilly, north of Paris, said the sale represented a “world record for a primitive, or a pre-1500 work.” “It’s a painting that was unique, splendid and monumental. Cimabue was the father of the Renaissance. But this sale goes beyond all our dreams,” Le Coent told The Associated Press. — The Associated Press