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NY top cop: Police had "no choice" but to shoot

Aug 24, 4:23PM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

New York City police officers talk at the scene of a shooting near the Empire State Building Aug. 24, 2012, in New York City.

New York City police officers talk at the scene of a shooting near the Empire State Building, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York City.

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(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - According to New York City's police commissioner, the officers who fired on a man who had just shot and killed a former co-worker near the Empire State Building had "absolutely no choice" but to open fire.

Pictures: Shooting near Empire State Building

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M.E. explains suicide ruling in Chavis Carter case

Aug 22, 3:13PM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

Chavis Carter

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(CBS) The pathologist who performed the autopsy on Chavis Carter, the 21-year-old who allegedly shot himself while handcuffed in the back of an Arkansas police car, says that the first thing he asked himself when Carter's body was brought in was, "Could this have occurred the way they are telling me?"

PICTURES: Ark. police say handcuffed man shot self
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Autopsy rules Chavis Carter death a suicide

Aug 20, 2:02PM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

Chavis Carter

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(CBS) JONESBORO, Ark. - An Arkansas medical examiner has ruled that Chavis Carter, the 21-year-old man killed by a gunshot wound to the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car, committed suicide.

PICTURES: Ark. police say handcuffed man shot self

Toxicology findings show Carter tested positive for methamphetamine, anti-anxiety medication and other drugs.

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Cops release dashboard video in Chavis Carter case

Aug 17, 3:22PM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

Chavis Carter

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(CBS/AP) JONESBORO, Ark. - Police in Arkansas have released dashboard camera video from the night Chavis Carter, 21, died from a gunshot wound to the head while handcuffed in the back seat of a patrol car on July 28.

PICTURES: Ark. police say handcuffed man shot self

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Lawyer: George Zimmerman "has to live as a hermit"

Aug 13, 3:22PM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

George Zimmerman attends a court bond hearing in Sanford, Fla., June 29, 2012.

George Zimmerman attends a court bond hearing in Sanford, Fla., June 29, 2012.

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(CBS) NEW YORK - George Zimmerman's attorney told reporters Monday that his client was "not doing well" and that he will appeal the decision by Judge Kenneth J. Lester, Jr. to stay on the Trayvon Martin case.

Pictures: Trayvon Martin shooting

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48 Hours Preview: Catching a poker-faced killer

Aug 3, 4:39PM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

Ernie Scherer

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(CBS) Ernest and Charlene Scherer had been dead a week before police discovered the couple's brutally beaten and slashed bodies in their California home. It was a chaotic crime scene, with bloody footprints in the kitchen and housewares strewn about, and to Detective Sergeant Scott Dudek something seemed off. The "mess" was too ordered, the footprints too perfectly placed. And then he met the couple's son - and all the strange details started to make sense.

Watch now: "48 Hours Mystery": The Country Club Murders

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Shooting sprees in 2012: Crimesider reports

Jul 30, 10:27AM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

Family members of the 12 victims of the mass shooting at Century 16 movie theater attend a prayer vigil at the Aurora Municipal Center July 22, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado.

/ Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post

(CBS) On Friday morning, a gunman allegedly opened fire at the Empire State Building, shooting multiple people before being shot and killed by police.

Pictures: Shooting sprees in 2012

The shooting occurred less than three weeks after a massacre at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and just over a month after the year's deadliest shooting, when James Holmes allegedly opened fire in movie theater in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 an injuring 58.

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Does naming a shooting suspect glorify his crime?

Jul 24, 4:34PM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

Victims of the July 20, 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colo. Clockwise from top left: Gordon Cowden, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, Alexander Teves, Micayla Medek, Rebecca Wingo, Jesse Childress, John Larimer, A.J. Boik, Matt McQuinn, Jonathan Blunk, Jessica Ghawi and Alex Sullivan.

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(CBS) As soon as America knew the name of the man who allegedly opened fire in a Colorado movie theater Friday, the brother of Jessica Ghawi, one of the victims of the massacre, asked us to forget it.

Pictures: 12 dead, dozens wounded in shooting at Batman movie

"I don't want to media to be saturated with the shooter's name," Jordan Ghawi told Anderson Cooper.

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James Holmes appears in court for the first time

Jul 23, 11:45AM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

James Holmes

Colorado mass shooting suspect James Holmes appears in an Arapahoe County, Colo. court, Monday, July 23, 2012.

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(CBS/AP) AURORA, Colo. - James Holmes, the man suspected of opening fire in a Colorado movie theater early Friday morning, made his first court appearance today. He was ordered held without bond.

Pictures: 12 dead, dozens wounded in shooting at Batman movie

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Cops: Colo. gunman shot 71 with multiple weapons

Jul 20, 2:59PM by Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates talks to media at the Aurora Mall where as many as 14 people were killed and many injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012.

/ Ed Andrieski
(CBS) - James Holmes, the man suspected of opening fire in a crowded movie theater early Friday, wore tactical gear and carried at least three different weapons, including an assault rifle, said Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates Friday.

Pictures: 12 dead, dozens wounded in shooting at Batman movie

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