Tuesday, September 6 top stories
It is Tuesday, September 6. Here are today’s top stories.
Body found of abducted teacher/jogger
On Friday morning in Memphis, a 34-year-old teacher named Eliza Fletcher was jogging outside at about 4 a.m. when she was kidnapped by a man, who forced her into his SUV before driving off.
Police arrested a suspect, a 38-year-old man named Cleotha Abston, over the weekend and announced this morning that they found the deceased body of Fletcher in an area about 7.5 miles away from where she was kidnapped. Her body was in the back of a vacant duplex apartment.
Fletcher was a kindergarten teacher. She leaves behind a husband and two young children.
Abston served a prison sentence for aggravated kidnapping over 20 years ago. He is now charged with murder and other related charges in connection to Fletcher’s death.
Canadian police searching for stabbing suspect
Two brothers are accused of stabbing at least 28 people, 10 fatally, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Sunday morning.
Police said the stabbings happened at 13 different locations around the James Smith Cree Nation, an Indigenous community, and nearby towns.
The brothers’ names are Damien (31, black shirt) and Myles (30, blue shirt) Sanderson.
Damien’s deceased body was found on Monday afternoon near the stabbing sites. He became the 11th person who died in this case.
Police said Damien’s wounds were not self-inflicted and have not determined a cause of death. It is possible that Myles killed his brother.
Myles is still at large at the time of signing this news. Police believe he is somewhere around the provincial capital of Regina.
News reports said Myles had a history of violence and substance addiction. The stabbings is one of the deadliest mass killings in Canada.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau said he was shocked and devastated and ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff.
Judge sides with Trump by granting special master
On Monday, federal judge Aileen Cannon granted Donald Trump’s request to bring in a special master to review documents the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago home.
It is a victory for Trump’s side, at least for now, because now the FBI / Department of Justice will have to stop investigating the documents until the special master, who will be an outside legal expert, comes in and decides which documents the FBI cannot look at due to attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.
The DOJ said it has already reviewed all documents and separated which ones were privileged.
The judge said she made the decision because the circumstances are “unprecedented” so there needs to be a “brief pause to allow for neutral, third-party review to ensure a just process with adequate safeguards.”
The judge allowed a separate assessment from the U.S. intelligence community to continue. This is to check on the potential risks of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified information. That review can go on.
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Liz Truss becomes UK prime minister
Liz Truss is the new prime minister of the U.K. She met with the Queen today to make it official.
Truss is a member of the Conservative party and will replace Boris Johnson, also a Conservative, after he resigned following several controversies and scandals.
Truss promised that she would take bold action to address rising energy costs and steep inflation.
President Biden tweeted a congratulatory message to PM Truss and said he looks forward to continuing “the special relationship between our countries” and working together to support Ukraine.
Seattle floatplane crash
The U.S. Coast Guard said a floatplane that was flying towards the Seattle area crashed into a bay near Whidbey Island on Sunday. There were nine adults and one child on the plane. Crews worked through the night and this morning to look for them and recovered one body.
Today the U.S. Coast Guard said it would suspend its search because it believes all onboard are deceased.
It is not known what may have caused the plane to crash. The NTSB is investigating.
TikTok influencer killed in skydiving accident
A 21-year-old woman named Tanya Pardazi, who had a large following on TikTok and was a Canadian college student, was killed in a skydiving accident about ten days ago on August 27.
News reports explained that Tanya was attempting her first solo jump after completing a course with Skydive Toronto. The company said Tanya released a main parachute that was “quickly rotating” and it was too low of an altitude to allow the reserve parachute to inflate. She sustained “fatal injuries.”
Many on social media expressed shock and sadness.
That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/06/us/memphis-missing-teacher-tuesday/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/canada-saskatchewan-regina-babde8a6efdb2b54b7bcfc3462cd8604
https://news.sky.com/story/liz-truss-becomes-prime-minister-of-the-uk-12691158
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/06/world/uk-prime-minister
https://www.facebook.com/SkydiveToronto/photos/a.200849696635149/5297545340298867
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/05/plane-crash-mutiny-bay-near-seattle-coast-guard