March 21 top stories
It is March 21. Here are today’s top stories.
DailyMail: Trump to be indicted tomorrow
As of this afternoon, Donald Trump has not been indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, like what Trump predicted over the weekend. But there is a lot of buzzes in the news and in New York City.
Today DailyMail.com reported that according to its sources, Trump is expected to be indicted tomorrow in the Stormy Daniels hush money payment scheme. The report said the Secret Service will make plans for Trump to surrender and appear in a New York court next week. This would include an arraignment, fingerprinting, and a mug shot.
CNN reported that NYPD officers were ordered to be in uniform and prepared for deployment in a heightened security environment. Trump is currently in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Two teens killed in sledding accident on halfpipe
Two teenagers from Illinois who visited a ski resort in Colorado during their spring break were tragically killed after they went sledding down a halfpipe at nighttime after the ski resort was closed off. This happened at the Copper Mountain Ski Resort.
A sheriff’s office said the teenagers rode tandem down the halfpipe, went airborne off a large snowbank at the bottom, then came down hard on the hard ice below, causing blunt force trauma. The teenagers, who were 17 and 18, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The boys were students at Prairie Central High School. The school said they would provide support to students and staff in the grieving and healing process.
College student who pushed wheelchair is charged
Carson Briere, the college student who was caught on camera pushing an unoccupied wheelchair down the stairs of a bar in Erie, Pennsylvania, was charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. He was suspended from his college hockey team.
The wheelchair belonged to a woman who had to be carried downstairs to use the restroom. Video of the incident sparked outrage on social media.
Carson’s father is the interim general manager of the NHL team Philadelphia Flyers.
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7 Virginia deputies, 3 others charged in death of Irvo Otieno
On March 6, a 28-year-old man named Irvo Otieno died after at least nine people piled on top of him while he was in police custody at a state hospital in Virginia. Otieno died of asphyxiation.
Now ten people are charged with second-degree murder, including seven Virginia deputies and three hospital employees.
A video showing the incident was recently revealed. Otieno was in handcuffs and leg irons when he was swarmed. He was pinned for almost 11 minutes.
The New York Times explained that Otieno struggled with mental health for a long time. On March 3, he was put in police custody after he walked to a neighbor’s lawn and picked up solar-powered lights. The neighbor called the police. He was taken to a hospital for an evaluation but he allegedly assaulted officers and was taken to jail.
Three days later he was taken to the state hospital where he died. Otieno’s mother said she feels that his son was treated like a dog, worse than a dog. The family has retained renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
Gwyneth Paltrow in ski crash trial
Gwyneth Paltrow, the Oscar-winning actress, is on trial in Utah over a lawsuit from a retired optometrist who accused her of skiing out of control and crashing into him in 2016, causing him to sustain a brain injury and four broken ribs. The retired man’s name is Terry Sanderson and he is seeking damages of $300,000.
Paltrow has counter-sued, saying Sanderson hit her. The trial is expected to last for eight days.
Dentist charged with poisoning wife to death
A dentist in Colorado was charged with murdering his wife by putting arsenic and cyanide in her protein shakes. His name is James Toliver Craig and his wife’s name was Angela Craig.
The Aurora Police Department said they believe that James wanted to kill his wife so he could be with a woman he was having an affair with.
Last week James drove Angela to a hospital after she was suffering from severe headaches and dizziness. She was later declared medically brain dead. Police said they started an investigation after they found out from James’ colleagues that he ordered dangerous chemicals that weren’t necessary for his dental practice.
Police said they found out that James had previously poisoned his wife about five years ago. Police charged James with first-degree murder and said it was a “heinous, complex and calculated murder.”
That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/20/us/colorado-illinois-teens-killed-sledding-accident/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/20/entertainment/xxxtentacion-murderthree-men-convicted/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/20/irvo-otieno-video-virginia-deputies/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/us/irvo-otieno-virginia-police-video.html