More FAKE hate crimes....A 12-year-old girl who claimed that three classmates forcibly cut off her dreadlocks and called her hair “nappy” has now admitted to making up the allegations

More FAKE hate crimes.... when is this bull crap going to stop???
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Family issues apology after 6th-grader recants claims that white classmates cut her dreadlocks

 Erin Donnelly,Yahoo Lifestyle 2 hours 15 minutes ago

A 12-year-old girl who claimed that three classmates forcibly cut off her dreadlocks and called her hair “nappy” has now admitted to making up the allegations, according to a statement issued by her family and school.

The grandparents and guardians of Amari Allen, an African-American sixth-grader at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Va., had filed a police report with the Fairfax County Police Department after she spoke of being harassed and pinned down by three white male classmates during recess on Sept. 23. A representative for the local NAACP chapter also told Yahoo Lifestyle last week that her family would be meeting with an attorney.
“They put their hands on my back, they put their hand around my mouth, and they started to cut my hair,” the girl told WJLA, adding that the boys had allegedly made disparaging comments about her dreadlocks.
But she has since recanted the allegations.
“We can now confirm that the student who accused three of her classmates of assault has acknowledged that the allegations were false,” reads a statement sent to Yahoo Lifestyle on behalf of Stephen Danish, the head of school at Immanuel. “We’re grateful to the Fairfax County Police Department for their diligent work to investigate these allegations.
“While we are relieved to hear the truth and bring the events of the past few days to a close, we also feel tremendous pain for the victims and the hurt on both sides of this conflict. We recognize that we now enter what will be a long season of healing. This ordeal has revealed that we as a school family are not immune from the effects of deep racial wounds in our society. We view this incident as an opportunity to be part of a learning and healing process, and we will continue to support the students and families involved.
“We will also continue teaching what we’ve taught for more than 40 years: that the love of God is for all people, and as His children we should demonstrate that love equally to all people regardless of their background, what they believe or how they behave.”
The statement also included an apology from the Allen family, who expressed remorse for “betraying” the trust of those who supported them
“To those young boys and their parents, we sincerely apologize for the pain and anxiety these allegations have caused,” it reads. “To the administrators and families of Immanuel Christian School, we are sorry for the damage this incident has done to trust within the school family and the undue scorn it has brought to the school.
“To the broader community, who rallied in such passionate support for our daughter, we apologize for betraying your trust.
“We understand there will be consequences, and we’re prepared to take responsibility for them. We know that it will take time to heal, and we hope and pray that the boys, their families, the school and the broader community will be able to forgive us in time.”
The school, where second lady Karen Pence teaches art part-time, did not comment on whether or not Amari would face any formal punishment over the incident.
The Fairfax County NAACP chapter, meanwhile, has issued its own statement acknowledging the latest developments and asking for Amari’s privacy to be respected.
“Amari is not a public figure,” it reads. “She is a young girl who made a mistake, and we are asking everyone, supporters and critics alike, to please respect the family’s privacy at this time.”
The statement also urged the public to avoid using this instance to discount other “racially motivated crimes.”
“Too often in these rare instances of fabricated hate crimes, critics use a broad brush to claim racially motivated crimes are virtually non-existent,” it says. “This is demonstrably wrong. Data from numerous sources, including the Anti-Defamation League, the FBI and the Justice Department, shows bias motivated crimes are on the rise, year over year. The fact is that these type of fabrications are isolated incidents, but the public and media has a tendency to sensationalize falsifications over the thousands of real hate crimes reported every year.”
Update, 2:10 p.m.: This article has been updated to include the NAACP’s respon

For the first time in my life I am ashamed of the complete Government. Every single person.

The women are screaming loud and acting like banshees and the men are too weak to speak up because they are afraid of the women.

You are all an embarrassment.

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Stand by your beliefs and be proud

If they try to shut you up..... yell even louder



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Please do NOT allow anyone to take your voice away. If you want a certain person for President.... damn it let everyone know.

Even if I disagree with you..... I will respect your opinion and you.


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Take the guns from felons and gang members before you TRY to take it from me.

When you clear the neighborhoods of guns.... I'll open my door and offer you something to drink along with a snack. Until then..... Go to HeL....

Not sure i will keep this open for very much longer. NO one reads it so why post right?

I will decide soon. For anyone that has read this blog.. thank you.


Stay strong, stay positive, be nice, and help others.


I think that YOU"RE special.





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(Please read this whole article and tell me what you think).............Couple hide baby's gender to protect them from 'unconscious bias'

Couple hide baby's gender to protect them from 'unconscious bias'

Marie Claire Dorking,Yahoo Style UK 2 hours 57 minutes ago

A British couple are raising their baby gender-neutral to protect them from 'unconscious bias' [Photo: posed by models Getty]

A couple have told how they're raising their baby as gender-neutral because they want to protect the child from "unconscious bias".

Hobbit Humphrey, 38, and Jake England-Johns, 35, appeared on BBC One's ‘Inside Out’ programme last night and told of their decision not to reveal the gender of their baby.

The couple, who are both circus performers and live on a house boat near Bath, have decided to dress their child in both boy’s and girl’s clothing and use gender-neutral pronouns ‘they’ and ‘them’.


Speaking on the programme, the couple said they want their child - whose name was changed to Charlie during the show - to decide their own gender and preferred pronoun when they're older.

"Gender neutral refers to us trying to behave neutrally towards the child, rather than trying to make them neutral,” England-Johns explained.

 

 

The couple have decided to keep their baby's gender hidden [Photo: BBC]

Hobbit Humphrey added: "So much of gender bias is unconscious. When I got pregnant we then were having a discussion about how we were going to mitigate the unconscious bias.


"And we figured that the only way we could do that was just not to tell people.

"To use the they/them pronoun for as long as we can, and create this little bubble for our baby to be who they are.”

The couple are so protective of their child’s gender that the baby was 11 months old before their grandparents found out their gender, while changing the baby’s nappy.Speaking on the programme the baby’s grandmother, Camille, 64, said though it was a struggle at first not knowing how to refer to the baby, as with any learning over time it became embedded and her grandchild became ‘they’.

Discussing the reaction the parents often receive when telling people about their decision to raise their child gender-neutral Mr England-Johns said: "We are quite good now at holding space for people's discomfort in us saying, 'Actually, we don't tell anyone, we're not telling anyone for now’.”

The couple say their child can choose the gender they want to be when they are old enough to understand.

“We’re not trying to make them be anything,” he added. “We just want them to be themselves.”

The couple want their child to decide their gender when they're older [Photo: BBC]

They aren’t the only parents to open up about their decision not to reveal the sex of their child.
Last April parents Kyl and Brent Courtney-Myers revealed that they have also chosen not to reveal the gender of their two-year-old, Zoomer.

Proud advocates of the Gender Creative Parenting movement, the Utah-based family are dedicated to raising a “theyby” and using gender-neutral terms for their toddler.

And earlier this year a parent defended their decision to raise their children as gender-neutral.
Ari Dennis, 30, from Florida, who personally identifies as non-gender-binary, is mother to Hazel, eight, and Sparrow, one.

Appearing on ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’, they spoke of their decision to raise Sparrow as a gender-neutral “they-by”, using the pronouns of “they/them” rather than “she” or “he”.

They told Piers Morgan: “We do not know what Sparrow’s gender is yet and, as regards to their anatomy, we choose to keep that secret except for a small list of caregivers.”

Some celebrities have also opened up about their parenting decisions regarding their child’s gender.
Back in 2017, musician Paloma Faith hit headlines after announcing she would be raising her baby as gender neutral.

She later opened up to Yahoo UK in an exclusive interview where she explained what this meant for her

The singer isn’t raising her child without telling them their gender; instead, she simply wants to ’empower’ her child by not giving them gendered toys or clothing.

“It’s wrong to constrain your child to a gender stereotype,” she explains. “A child just needs to be who they are and not labelled. My nephews always had a pushchair and a doll, growing up, and they’re kind boys with a lot of empathy.”









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NYTimes apologized for article.... Don't always beleive the headline until you research.

I don't think that everyone is so stupid to believe "headlines" and not read more than one single article about the topic. I wish people were smarter, I see it daily.

Times apologizes for tweet, revises Kavanaugh article

 

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday said Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is under assault, following a New York Times story about a sexual misconduct allegation that was revised to reflect that the alleged victim couldn't recall the incident.

The newspaper has also apologized for an offensive tweet that was sent out to promote the weekend article.

The Times reported on an allegation that Kavanaugh exposed himself at a Yale University party as a freshman. That new allegation was included in an article, excerpting an upcoming book about Kavanaugh classmate Deborah Ramirez, who had claimed the future justice pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her at another time at a different Yale party.

In writing about the new allegation, the story did not initially include the detail that the woman supposedly involved in the incident declined to be interviewed, and that her friends say she doesn't recall it. The article was revised to include that information, with an editor's note explaining the revision.

It was not immediately clear why that detail had been left out.

Kavanaugh denied Ramirez's accusation in the past. He declined to comment on the new one, according to a court spokeswoman.

The president has jumped to the defense of his Supreme Court appointee on Twitter, saying "the one who is actually being assaulted is Justice Kavanaugh, assaulted by lies and fake news."

Trump said Kavanaugh should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue.

The newspaper also apologized for a tweet sent out Saturday through the account of its opinion section, where the Kavanaugh piece ran. The tweet said, in part, that "having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken dorm party may seem like harmless fun."

The Times later said that the tweet was "clearly inappropriate and offensive."



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Chicago woman wore ‘Scream’ mask as she repeatedly stabbed female victim: cops ( I'll bet the NRA made her do it. Ban assult knives NOW)

I am NOT making fun light of this crime.That poor woman didn't deserve this.  

Don't let her get away with this crime. 

What the hell is happening to people?

How about " an eye for an eye"?

Make people be afraid to commit ANY crime.

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Chicago woman wore ‘Scream’ mask as she repeatedly stabbed female victim: cops

Fox News

Cops: Chicago woman wore ‘Scream’ mask as she repeatedly stabbed female victim

Chicago woman wore ‘Scream’ mask as she repeatedly stabbed female victim. The attacker repeatedly said ‘God is making me do this’ she as cut her victim 39 times.

A Chicago woman was held without bond Sunday after she allegedly stabbed another woman dozens of times while she wore a “Scream” mask and repeated, “God is making me do this.”

The Chicago Tribune reported that Patricia Calhoun-Murdock allegedly attacked the victim two weeks ago in what a judge called a “truly random” act. She was arrested by U.S. marshals after Chicago police said they determined that she was walking with a stolen Kindle from the 56-year-old victim’s apartment.

The victim remains in critical condition.

Patricia Calhoun-Murdock.

The paper described a harrowing scene inside.  The victim was asleep when she woke up to see the alleged attacker holding a knife and in the mask. The victim begged for her life, but was stabbed at least 39 times, according to the report.

She suffered slits to her throat and her heart was pierced. At one point, the victim tried to play dead, but was told by Calhoun-Murdoch: “I can still hear you breathing.”

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A relative walked in on the scene and called for help. The paper reported that Calhoun-Murdoch allegedly made an admission to police and said she had “mental health concerns.”









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It is a RIOT not a protest.

When ONE fist is used
or when ONE pepper spray used
or when ONE thing is thrown.....

It is a riot NOT a protest.

Don't believe this when you see it- ----------> Homeless Mom Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Using Friend's Address to Enroll Son in School

Homeless Mom Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Using Friend's Address to Enroll Son in School

 

READ this.... HER Words......

“I have no regrets seeking a better education for him, I do regret my participation in this drug case.” Seems we're not getting the entire story here. The last part of her sentence indicates there was a separate issue, drugs. Sounds like that's the biggest reason she received a 5 year sentence.

 

Tanya McDowell makes a statement during her sentencing in Superior Court, in Bridgeport, Conn. March 27th, 2012. McDowell was sentenced to five years in prison and another five years of probation after pleading guilty to drug and larceny charges.

 

READ the truth before passing it on. You look foolish passing around FAKE NEWS.

 

 

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North Carolina woman forced to be sex slave and tortured in front of her children.( He's not a man... he is a MOUSE)

North Carolina woman forced to be sex slave and tortured in front of her children

A North Carolina woman was held as a sex slave and repeatedly beaten and tortured in front of her two children.

The woman -- who remains unnamed -- was allegedly held against her will at two separate hotels in Pineville, North Carolina where police say “she was forced into sexual acts with random men,” according to a statement from the Pineville Police Department.

The suspects, Thomas Antoine Miller and Shakeeta Lasha Adams, then allegedly physically and mentally punished the woman if she did not meet certain financial quotas.


“The punishments range from verbal abuse, to beatings with a belt, being held under water/ice bath in a bathtub while being strangled, and burned/branded with a hot wire coat hanger. This violence was done in front of her two children and they were beaten as well with a belt at times,” read the police statement.

 

 The Pineville Police opened up an “extensive criminal investigation” over a three-week period into human trafficking through interviews, undercover surveillance, and search warrants at area hotels when the victim came forward during the investigation asking for help for her and her two children.

Miller and Adams were arrested for their involvement in the case. Miller, 26, was charged with human trafficking of an adult victim, sexual servitude of an adult victim, assault by strangulation, assault on a child under 12, assault on a female and communicating threats, according to the Charlotte Observer. Adams, 25, was charged with simple assault and is free on bail pending trial.


Police are still concerned that other victims of Miller and Adams could still be out there.
“We want those victims to come forward to us. We also want them to know that there is help out there for them,” the police statement said.

“Our victim in this case and her children had a long road of physical and mental recovery ahead of them. Our victim has been very brave in coming forward and we hope that if there are more victims out there, then they too will be inspired to come forward.”





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U.S.

Former NFL Player Arrested for Staging Fake 'Hate Crime' at His Own Business in Georgia

A former NFL player was arrested Thursday after allegedly staging a fake “hate crime” by damaging property and painting racial slurs at his local business in Georgia.

Gwinnett County Police say Edawn Coughman created a “premeditated plan” to get money from his insurance company.

“It appears as though Edawn conjured a premeditated plan to damage his own property, attempt to make it appear as a hate crime, file a claim with his insurance company and sell off the undamaged appliances and electronics,” police said in a statement.

Photos from law enforcement appear to show racial slurs, a swastika and “MAGA” spray painted in different parts of the establishment.

Coughman, 31, has been charged with false report of a crime, insurance fraud and concealing a license plate and has since been released from jail on bond.

According to the detailed statement by police, officers responded to a report of a burglary on Wednesday at the Create and Bake Restaurant and Coughman’s Creamery. The person who reported the burglary said someone was damaging the businesses, according to the statement, and that the suspect was driving a black Chevrolet Silverado with no license plate.

The statement said officers arrived in the area and found the truck leaving the shopping center, realized the driver was Coughman and later learned that he was the owner of the businesses.

Coughman told police that he noticed that equipment was missing and damaged earlier in the day and did not call 911 but did call his insurance company to report the incident. According to the county’s statement, officers and the lead detective learned during the course of their investigation that the damage to the business did not occur earlier in the day, refuting Coughman’s statement.

Inside the businesses, “the smell of the spray paint was very fresh” and the black paint “appeared wet” when officers touched it, police said. The statement also details that police found “cut wires,” vandalized upholstery and a “damaged video surveillance system.” They also claimed to find pry marks on the business’ back door.

The county’s statement said law enforcement searched the truck on Thursday and found a yellow crow bar and cans of black spray paint.

Coughman never played in a regular-season game with the NFL, but was signed on to eight different teams, according to NBC affiliate WXIA






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What is the big deal about a Hollywood Actress marrying Prince Harry?

She is a nothing.

She will NEVER become a REAL Princess, she is just a Duchess please remember that.

She is trying to change what little girls growing up want to be.

She is trying to change Harry and it is making him "ugly". (not looks)


Why are people saying that she is a ROYAL? She NEVER will be one.

Princess Charlotte  IS a princess...why aren't you so in "Awe" of her?


Such a sad life huh?

And as for Harry.... he has disrespected the Royals ..... just go away with your family and leave the rest alone. You chose the life you have... now go.

Let the Ladies look and act like LADIES
Let the Men look and act like MEN

Let little boys and girls dream of being a Prince or Princess like the ones that they have seen for decades.

Since you two don't want that life....... Goooooooooo !

Usher talks realities of justice system: 'If you are poor, you are guilty until proven innocent'

I'm calling Bullsh!t on this article. How can a NORMAL thinking person think that these statements are true?


I've DELETED the article.... it was STUPID



STOP DOING THE FREAKING CRIME AND YOU WON"T HAVE A PROBLEM.

Fla. Teen Allegedly Stole Parents' Debit Card to Fund Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Them (They don't catch the smart ones)

Fla. Teen Allegedly Stole Parents' Debit Card to Fund Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Them

 

A Florida teenager is facing charges after she allegedly stole her parents’ debit card and used the money she withdrew to pay two different people to kill them in a failed murder-for-hire scheme, say officials.

On Tuesday, Alyssa Hatcher, 17, of Umatilla in Central Florida, was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal solicitation for murder, a Lake County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit shows.

After being taken into custody, she was transported to the Lake County Jail, where she was processed before being turned over to the Department of Juvenile Justice.



Authorities learned of Hatcher’s botched plan when a student at Umatilla High School told a Lake County Sheriff’s resource officer that Hatcher had given her friend “a lot of money” to find someone to kill her parents, the affidavit obtained by PEOPLE claims.

Investigators quickly discovered that Hatcher had allegedly stolen her parents’ debit card and completed two transactions — one for $503.00 and one for $926.40, “later identified as money given to two different individuals to kill her parents,” the affidavit says.

Fla. Teen Allegedly Stole Parents' Debit Card to Fund Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Them

Hatcher’s boyfriend told investigators he’d seen Hatcher early Monday morning at a “known drug house” where she told him she wanted to murder her mom and stepdad, the affidavit says.

During a recorded interview with investigators at her home, Hatcher allegedly admitted to the plot, according to the affidavit.

She allegedly revealed that she used $100 to buy cocaine and gave $400 to a friend to for someone to commit the murders, the document alleges.

She went on to say that “since the act was never carried out, she gave the other $900 to a black male to kill her parents,” the affidavit says.

Upon learning of the allegations against their daughter, her parents, a nurse and a police lieutenant, told authorities they wanted to prosecute for the charges, the affidavit says.

The parents were not identified in the affidavit. Police have not yet identified a motive for the alleged murder-for-hire plot.

Lake County Sheriff’s Sergeant Fred Jones told local station WFTV, “The parents are good people, outstanding citizens. This was just somebody who, for whatever reason, just didn’t want her parents around.”

Confirming that Hatcher’s parents wanted to press charges, Jones told local station WOFL-TV, “When it comes to something like that, I cannot imagine the shock you would be in as a parent knowing that this is my daughter – what my daughter intended to do.”

Saying it was a “sad case,” Jones went on to tell WOFL-TV, “I couldn’t even imagine something like that.”

Hatcher had spent some of her high school career on the cheerleading team, her Instagram account shows.

In June, the teen posted a picture of herself with the caption, “Ruthless.” In another, she wrote, “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”






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He Was Wounded in the El Paso Shooting and Lauded for His Bravery. Now Police Say His Heroic Story Isn't True

(Damn LIARS) 

 (this is the page of sister I think. showing the tour and food etc at white house. 

My God HE LIED. Her hashtag on her page is #     change will    come   )

 

 

 

 

  page is GONE NOW

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From the Washington Examiner: "Grant has a criminal record for theft and evading arrest, according to Texas court documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner. He was sentenced to eight months in prison for car theft in March, after pleading guilty to stealing a silver 2009 Mazda 6. In 2016, he pleaded guilty and was also sentenced to 18 days in jail for stealing TVs from a Sears in Richardson, Texas. He pleaded guilty to evading arrest in Collins County in 2016."

He Was Wounded in the El Paso Shooting and Lauded for His Bravery. Now Police Say His Heroic Story Isn't True.

Last month, still attached to hospital monitors, 50-year-old Christopher Grant told CNN’s Chris Cuomo how he was shot on Aug. 3 inside of a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Now, police are saying parts of his story doesn’t reflect what’s on surveillance footage.

In the CNN interview, Grant described seeing the shooter’s face, hearing people prayed in Spanish for their safety, how a Customs and Border Protection officer saved his life and how he attempted to deter the shooter by throwing bottles of soda at his direction.

Grant was indeed shot twice near his rib cage, according to The El Paso Times, and his sister shared on Facebook that he underwent at least two surgeries. “God Bless the families that lost their loved ones, my heart is breaking for them,” she wrote.

Grant was celebrated for his actions, and covered by media outlets nationwide, including a short mention by TIME.

Grant and his family were invited to The White House so that he could be recognized for his alleged act of heroism. As he and his family arrived to meet the President on Monday, the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) arrested him. While it was first reported by the Washington Examiner. Washington D.C.
police confirmed to TIME that a man named Ernest Christopher Grant was detained on Monday. Mug shots of arrests in Texas under the name of Ernest Christopher Grant match images of Grant taken by CNN and shared on Facebook by Grant’s family.

El Paso Police Department (EPPD) spokesperson Sgt. Enrique Carrillo tells TIME that Grant had a warrant for his arrest and was a “fugitive from justice,” but the warrants were not issued by the EPPD and Carrillo could not provide the agency where the warrants originated.

Grant could not be reached for comment and his sister, who attended the ceremony according to her Facebook profile, did not immediately respond to TIME’s request.

A USSS spokesperson confirmed to TIME that a visitor to The White House was arrested on Monday, but would not release the name per protocol. “It was subsequently determined that while the arrest warrant was still active, the agency that issued the warrant would not extradite, at which time the individual was released from Secret Service custody,” the spokesperson said in a statement. He was not charged.

What’s more, the EPPD says Grant’s story about throwing bottles at the shooter doesn’t align with surveillance footage of the events that day.

“Mr. Grant’s actions were captured on video, but they do not reflect his account to the media outlet [CNN],” Carrillo said. “It contradicts his statements, in fact… [H]e did not take any action towards the shooter.”

Carrillo said surveillance footage shows Grant acting in “a manner of self-preservation, as best as I can describe it, and nothing else.”

“I’m not demeaning his actions,” he added.

Carrillo said there was no prior communication between USSS and EPPD about Grant, so Grant’s arrest was not connected to the EPPD detailing what they say are his false statements to CNN. EPPD added that officials only revealed information on what was found in the surveillance footage after Grant was arrested by USSS and reporters began requesting information.

At the Monday White House ceremony honoring five heroic El Pasoans and six police officers who responded to Dayton, Ohio, mass shooting, Grant’s mother stood in for her son to accept a certificate of Heroic Commendation. There, President Donald Trump praised Grant for the actions he described to CNN.

“Chris grabbed — listen to this — soda bottles and anything else in front of him and began hurling them at the gunman distracting him from the other shoppers and causing the shooters to turn towards Chris and fire at Chris,” President Trump said at the ceremony. “Whereby Chris suffered two very serious gunshot wounds, but he is recovering well and we wish him the best, his family is here.”