| AFD Rules Arson For NAACP Headquarters Fire
The two-story house next door to the headquarters is a total loss after it caught fire around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. The building is at 1706 E. 12th St. Flames from the building jumped over to damage the Mount Carmel Masonic Lodge, which houses the offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Austin fire investigators have no suspects in the arson. "I see a lot of the other sisters and brothers that are coming out, and it's just a support thing," said Marlah Neal, a neighbor. It is eye opening for Neal to stare at a structure that is nothing now. "I don't think it was toward the NAACP building, but I clearly think it was toward what's going on here," Neal said. "I'm mad!" Neal is upset with the suspect or suspects who investigators said torched the building.
Illinois gunman's deadly rampage baffles many who knew him; police had ...
If there is such a thing as a profile of a mass murderer, Steven Kazmierczak didn't fit it: outstanding student, engaging, polite and industrious, with what looked like a bright future in the criminal justice field. And yet on Thursday, the 27-year-old Kazmierczak, who had ties to Florida, armed himself with three handguns and a brand-new pump-action shotgun he had carried onto campus in a guitar case. He stepped from behind a screen on the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a geology class, killing five students before committing suicide. University Police Chief Donald Grady said, without giving details, that Kazmierczak had become erratic in the past two weeks after he had stopped taking his medication. But that seemed to come as news to many of those who knew him, and the attack itself was positively baffling.
Resident reports bullets hit house on Levin Street in Alexandria
Alexandria police were slated to collect bullets from an air conditioner at a Levin Street residence today where the bullets reportedly lodged during a shooting incident Monday. The Levin Street resident called police about 7 p.m. Monday to report someone had shot at her house. .
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