(Reuters) – Law enforcement officials searched on Monday for an escaped prisoner on the loose in northern Alabama following a jailbreak of 12 prisoners, the local sheriff’s office said.
There were scant details about how the 12 inmates managed to escape from Walker County Jail, northwest of Birmingham, but the county sheriff’s office said on Facebook that authorities had recaptured 11 of them, some at a highway truck stop.
They continued to hunt for Brady Kilpatrick, the 24-year-old inmate who was still at large. Kilpatrick had been in jail facing charges of marijuana possession.
Police in the small city of Jasper, where the jail is located, urged downtown residents to stay inside and turn on their outdoor lights. Police from nearby Parrish, Alabama, were also involved in the search.
The dozen escapees, all men aged 18 to 30, were imprisoned on charges including robbery, attempted murder, domestic violence and drug possession.
(Reporting by Chris Michaud and Jonathan Allen; Editing by Scott Malone and Frances Kerry)
LONDON (Reuters) – A man suspected of driving a van at Muslim worshippers leaving a London mosque has been charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder, British police said on Friday.
Darren Osborne, 47, is accused of plowing the rented vehicle into the group in Finsbury Park in the early hours of Monday morning. One man died at the scene and another 11 were injured.
Osborne, a father of four from Cardiff in Wales, was due to appear before magistrates on Friday.
Police have said the van was driven from Cardiff to London on Sunday, before it crashed into a crowd of people who were attending to a man who had fallen ill outside the mosque.
The man later died, and police said the cause of death was his multiple injuries.
Osborne was arrested at the scene after being apprehended by the crowd. The imam of the mosque intervened to protect him before police arrived.
Osborne’s relatives have said they are “devastated for the families” of the victims and that the attack was “sheer madness”.
The incident was the fourth attack in Britain since March described by police as terrorist, and the third to involve a vehicle driven at pedestrians. Previous attacks were blamed on Islamist extremists.
(Reporting by Michael Holden and Alistair Smout; editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Roche)
A Muslim man attempted to murder a French police officer Friday while yelling “Allahu Akbar.”
The London Daily Telegraph said the man has been arrested for theft after he snatched a woman’s purse. He asked his jailers for a glass of water and when the officer opened the prisoner’s cell, the man lunged at the officer and tried to strangle him.
“The doctor who treated him (the officer) said that just a few seconds more and it would have been too late,” Michael Philippart of the SGP FO police union told the publication L’Est Républicain.
The attack is not the only attack on French police by Muslims in the last few weeks.
In Joue-les-Tours, Bertrand Nzohabonayo walked into a police station with a knife and shouted “Allahu Akbar” while he slashed at police.
“He was banging on the fittings [of the door], so the officers opened [the door] to see what he was doing, and he immediately threw himself at my colleagues, stabbing one in the hand, and attacking the second on the neck and face,” Christophe Crepin told France 2 TV.
The attacker said he was doing it for the “children of Palestine.”
Two teenage girls who attempted to kill a third teen girl as a tribute to the fictional character “Slenderman” have been found competent to stand trial.
A spokeswoman for the Waukesha County Circuit Court told CNN that Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier will face trial on charges of attempted murder. The two girls stabbed a classmate 19 times in May and left her body in the woods as a “sacrifice” to the “Slenderman.”
All three were 12 years old at the time of the attack. The victim was able to crawl out of the woods where a cyclist noticed her laying along the road. She spent weeks in the hospital in critical condition.
One of the accused girls told police that Slenderman is the leader of the “Creepypasta” website and the only way for someone to “reach his realm” is to kill someone.
The two girls are being tried as adults and their first preliminary hearing is set for February 18.
