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Man who hid convicted child killer Diane Downs after prison escape: ‘I should’ve turned her in’

The man who hid convicted child killer Diane Downs after she escaped from prison in 1987 said he “should’ve turned her in” to police.

Wayne Seifer told “20/20” for the upcoming special on Downs that he was addicted to heroin when the single mother turned up at his door.

Downs was sentenced in 1984 to “prison for life plus 50 years for shooting her three children and killing one” in 1983, ABC News reported. Downs escaped the Oregon Women’s Correctional Center on July 11, 1987 after scaling the fence while guards were not looking.

Downs went to a home where Seifer was living with two friends. He recalled the day the convicted felon showed up at his doorstep.

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“So I walk downstairs, still a little bit bleary-eyed, and she [Downs] said, ‘Could I stay?’ And I said ‘Why not?’ and I went back upstairs to sleep,” Seifer told “20/20.”

Seifer said the woman introduced herself later, not as Downs but “as a girl with no clothes on.” He said the two had a sexual relationship while she stayed at the home.

“I was a nervous wreck, you know. I didn’t see a sober minute... My only job was to keep her there; keep her from going out and harming anybody. I should’ve turned her in, but I didn’t,” Seifer said.

Police were able to track down Downs thanks to a piece of paper she left in her cell.

“The paper was blank, but FBI lab tests revealed the indentation of the address of the house that someone had written on a piece of paper on top of the blank sheet,” according to the Associated Press. One of Downs’ fellow inmate gave her the address of the home, “20/20” reported.

Seifer said Downs was going to “grab a BB gun and just go suicide by cop” but he talked her out of it. He said, “she went without a fight.”

Seifer admitted he knew he would get in trouble for hiding Downs.

“When it came my time to burn, I was just going to tell the truth and get it over with,” he said.

After being asked “a million times” why he didn’t contact police and turn the single mother in, Seifer said he “still doesn’t have an answer other than his drug use at the time.”

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Seifer was sentenced to five years probation and six months in a restitution center after “pleading guilty to hindering prosecution.” Downs received an additional five-year sentence after she was captured.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Woman killed by Minneapolis officer ‘yearned to help people’

When Justine Ruszczyk Damond heard someone cry out in the alley behind her home in July 2017, she did what she had spent a lifetime doing: She immediately tried to help.

Damond called 911 not once but twice to report what she thought was a sexual assault. When officers arrived, she ran outside in her bare feet and pajamas, prosecutors say. Moments later, she lay dying of a gunshot fired by the officer who is now on trial in her death.

The 40-year-old life coach and yoga instructor with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Australia "yearned to help people," according to a $50 million lawsuit filed by her family. That lawsuit is on hold while former officer Mohamed Noor stands trial on murder and manslaughter charges.

Originally trained as a veterinary surgeon in Australia, Damond was known as an animal lover. To her friends' children, she was "Auntie Juzzy." She received a veterinary degree from the University of Sydney in 2002 but decided to pursue personal health as a career path, according to the lawsuit, which was filed a little over a year after her death.

Growing up, Damond said on a YouTube video , she saw addiction, depression and cancer in her family. That led to her interest in meditation and yoga. She taught meditation classes and before her death was preparing a curriculum for meditative training, the lawsuit said.

Her fiancé, Don Damond, recalled Tuesday on the witness stand how she put masking tape across the bottom half of a glass door at their Minneapolis home to prevent a rescue dog that "didn't understand what glass was" from crashing into it.

The dog traveled from half a world away to join the family. Justine Damond, who had already taken her fiance's last name professionally, had heard from friends that a woman in Egypt could no longer care for three of her dogs. So she rented a van, drove to Chicago, where the dogs had been flown, and returned with them to Minneapolis, where she cared for them until she could find them new homes, her fiance testified.

Video taken just weeks before her death shows her rescuing ducklings from a storm sewer, gathering up the tiny birds in her skirt and returning them to their mother.

Don Damond testified that he was on a business trip to Las Vagas the night of the shooting. The couple were set to be married a month later in Hawaii. Instead, hundreds of mourners attended a lakeside memorial service at the same time the family had planned to be on a plane to the wedding. An Australian flag was displayed prominently on stage next to her picture.

The couple met in 2012 while at a meditation seminar in Colorado. Don Damond testified that it was love at first sight. He said his bride-to-be "had a gift that people just wanted to be around her."

In January 2015, he proposed and she accepted. The couple originally planned to move to Australia, but Don Damond's son, Zach, was concerned about being half a world away from his father. Justine Damond agreed to move to the Fullton neighborhood of Minneapolis, a low-crime, middle-class area, according to the family's lawsuit.

Just before 11:30 p.m. on July 15, 2017, she called her fiance and described hearing "a woman in distress." She believed the screams were coming from the alley behind their neighbor's house. Don Damond suggested she call police. He said the couple had a sense they had called "the right people."

After she called 911, Don Damond said to himself, "All will be well."

More than eight minutes after her first 911 call, after seeing that no police had arrived, Justine Damond called again to make sure emergency dispatchers had her correct address. She also called her husband-to-be again and said she was still hearing the woman in distress. She then hung up, telling him, "OK, the police are here." It was the last time they spoke.

He has since sold the house, saying that it was "too painful" to stay there.

Prosecutors charge Noor acted recklessly when he fired one shot across his partner and through the open driver's side window of the police SUV, striking Damond in the abdomen and killing her. Defense attorneys argue Noor was defending himself and his partner and that the shooting was "a perfect storm with tragic consequences."

Noor's patrol partner, Matthew Harrity, said he heard a thump that startled him just before the shooting and that the officers "got spooked" when Justine Damond approached them. But prosecutor Patrick Lofton said in his opening statement that Harrity did not describe any noise while at the scene and only mentioned it for the first time days later to investigators. Lofton also said forensic evidence will show that Justine Damond did not touch the squad car before she was shot, raising questions about whether she hit or slapped the SUV.

Crime-scene photos and video played in court Wednesday show Damond's body covered by a white sheet at the base of a driveway near the police squad car.

Just 1 minute and 19 seconds after talking to her fiancé for the last time, she was cradling her abdomen from a gunshot wound, saying "I'm dying."

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Associated Press Writer Amy Forliti contributed to this report.

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Check out the AP's complete coverage of Mohamed Noor's trial.

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Pakistani court orders Musharraf to appear or forfeit rights

Pakistan's top court has ordered the country's former military ruler to appear before a special tribunal hearing a treason case against him or forfeit his rights to a defense.

The Supreme Court said Monday it was giving Gen. Pervez Musharraf a last chance to voluntarily appear before the tribunal. The top court said it acted on a petition by attorney Taufeeq Asif.

Musharraf was indicted in 2014. He left Pakistan for Dubai in 2016 for treatment and has not returned to the country since then. Last month, he was hospitalized in Dubai.

The treason case against Musharraf was brought by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government charging the military ruler with treason for imposing a state of emergency in 2007.

Musharraf toppled Sharif's government in a 1999 bloodless coup.

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Turkish central bank seen holding off easing for longer: Reuters Poll

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FILE PHOTO: Turkey's Central Bank headquarters is seen in Ankara, Turkey in this January 24, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/Files/File Photo

April 5, 2019

By Nevzat Devranoglu

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Economists expect Turkey’s central bank to delay cutting rates until around July, and to ease policy less aggressively than previously thought, a Reuters poll showed on Friday after two weeks of volatility in the country’s financial markets.

The poll’s forecasts for the year-end policy rate ranged from 17.5 percent to 24 percent, with a median of 20.75 percent. The central bank has kept it at 24 percent since September when the Turkish economy was in the midst of a currency crisis the tipped it into recession.

Economists expected the bank to cut rates this year by a median total of 3.25 percentage points, down from a median of 5.00 percentage points in the previous Reuters poll done in late February. Respondents cited stubbornly high inflation, which remains around 20 percent.

The central bank has said it will keep monetary policy tight until inflation shows a convincing improvement. Food prices jumped earlier this year, boosting annual consumer price inflation, despite unorthodox government efforts to bring them down.

A sharp drop in the lira on March 22 set off a week of volatility ahead of local Turkish elections. It prompted the central bank to stop one-week repo auctions since March 25, effectively raising its funding rate by at least 1.5 percentage points, which was seen as a stop-gap tightening of policy.

Ten out of 11 economists in the Reuters poll predicted that the central bank would leave its repo rate unchanged at a policy meeting at the end of April, while one economist expected it to raise its rate to 25.5 percent to match average weighed cost of funding.

“We expect inflation to come down substantially in the second half of 2019 due to the combination of base effects and economic slowdown,” said Nora Neuteboom, economist at ABN Amro, adding that she expects the first rate cut by 1.25 percentage points, or 125 basis points, in July.

“We expect…a total easing of 500 (basis points) throughout the second half of 2019, albeit this is largely dependent on the market reaction to the first rate cut and the future inflation data,” Neuteboom said.

Asked about timing, three economists predicted the first rate cut would come in June while five pointed to July. One economist predicted September, another December, while one expected the central bank to leave rates unchanged throughout this year.

A previous poll showed most of the rate cut expectations focused on a June monetary policy meeting.

The central bank will announce its rate decision on April 25 at 2 p.m. (1100 GMT).

(Writing by Ezgi Erkoyun; Editing by Jonathan Spicer)

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In quest for electric supercars, engineers head to start-ups

FILE PHOTO: Automobili Pininfarina's
FILE PHOTO: Automobili Pininfarina's "Battista" electric hypercar is pictured at the Geneva Motor Show, in Geneva, Switzerland March 5, 2019. REUTERS/Edward Taylor

April 15, 2019

By Edward Taylor

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Rene-Christopher Wollmann, head of Mercedes-AMG’s 2.75 million euros Project One supercar program, has moved to a job at Automobili Pininfarina in a sign that innovation in high end electric sportscars is shifting toward small start-ups.

Wollman’s move, which has not been made public, comes at a time when big carmakers, like Volkswagen and Mercedes, have been blindsided by stricter and costly emissions tests, forcing them to focus resources on mainstream electric models and on cleaning up their combustion engines.

Meanwhile advances in virtual engineering allow even small teams of engineers to develop roadworthy vehicles using software to design, engineer and test prototypes. This dynamic has already helped Tesla and China’s Nio steal a march on much larger rivals in the premium electric sportscar segment.

“Large companies take time to transform. And I am good at hypercars. I just did Project One, and now this opportunity came,” 37-year-old Wollmann told Reuters about his reason for joining Automobili Pininfarina, a Munich-based electric carmaker that launched last year.

Project One, which has a modified Formula One engine, was due to go on sale this year but has been delayed by problems getting road worthiness certification following the introduction of WLTP emissions test standards, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Premium or high-performance electric sports cars are equivalent to the Ferraris and Lamborghinis of the conventional auto world. These so-called supercars can cost anything from about $100,000 up into the millions of dollars and include Tesla’s upcoming Roadster Founder Series, which will sell for over $200,000 and the Rimac Concept Two, priced in the region of $2 million.

The emerging role of start-ups in the development of the premium electric market harks back to an era over a century ago when talented engineers like Gottlieb Daimler and Ferdinand Porsche were able to launch sportscar brands on modest budgets.

Players leading the way include the likes of Automobili Pininfarina, Croatia’s Rimac, China’s Nio and Italian engineering shop Italy’s Maniffatura Automobili Torino (MAT).

But because of the high initial investment needed, with no guarantee of success in a niche market, boutique supercar manufacturers face significant risks if they try to develop more than one vehicle or shift to becoming mainstream carmakers.

400 KM/HOUR

Wollmann was hired because he also helped develop an electric version of the AMG SLS for AMG Mercedes, a skill that will help Automobili Pininfarina, owned by India’s Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, develop its own zero-emissions vehicle.

“I did the first electric hypercar for AMG so this was the perfect fit,” he said.

Since its 2018 launch, Automobili Pininfarina has hired a raft of top-flight German engineers. Christian Jung, Porsche’s chief engineer of E-Mobility systems, and Peter Tutzer, a former technical director at supercar brand Bugatti, are part of the team.

They are designing the “Battista”, an electric supercar with a top speed of at least 300 km an hour (186 mph) and acceleration from 0 to 100 in under two seconds. Around 150 will be built, costing 2 million pounds each, the company said.

“Rene Wollmann came to us because he said it was difficult to realize projects like these at a large company,” Michael Perschke, Automobili Pininfarina’s Chief Executive told Reuters.

Another start-up electric carmaker, Rimac, will provide the Battista’s electric motor and battery pack.

Rimac has built up expertise in high-performance electric vehicle powertrain and battery systems. It already has 500 developers in Croatia and made an electric sportscar capable of speeds of 400 km an hour.

Its expertise led Porsche to take a 10 percent stake in the carmaker last year.

“Powertrains with 700 kilowatts of capacity are a niche product. Porsche focuses on the high volume stuff. They don’t have the capacity to deal with every niche,” 31-year-old company founder Mate Rimac told Reuters.

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There are two ways to make battery-driven vehicles: to use a clean-sheet design like Tesla, or to take a conventional vehicle platform that can also accommodate an electric version.

For now, Daimler and VW have taken the latter approach, building electric cars on the same assembly line as their conventional vehicles, allowing them to scale up production without having to build dedicated electric car factories.

VW has however started development of a fully dedicated electric car, the ID, which is due to hit showrooms next year.

Daimler engineers say the trend towards multi-powertrain platforms is likely to persist thanks to improvements in battery technology which allow even multi-powertrain designs to spawn electric cars with an operating range of over 400 km.

But critics counter that combustion-engined cars have less space for large batteries, resulting in vehicles with a compromised design that have a shorter operating range than cars designed as electric cars from the ground up.

“Eight years later and Tesla still has the better car than the Audi E-Tron, or the Mercedes EQC,” Rimac said. “It is not because the Germans are stupid. It is because they are not ‘all-in’. They work from the basis of the combustion engine toward electrification. I started electric only.”

Start-up carmakers are better able to compete with large established players thanks to advances in virtual engineering and the prevalence of consulting firms that specialize in software and IT systems, like Germany’s Ferchau Engineering and Italy’s Danisi Engineering.

Automobili Pininfarina is testing the effectiveness of its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) virtually, using a driving simulator program provided by Modena-based Danisi, drastically cutting down development and fine-tuning costs.

“You do 80 percent of chassis development this way and reduce development time by six to eight months. The rest is validation and fine tuning,” Automobili Pininfarina’s chief product officer Paolo Dellacha said.

Before joining the start-up carmaker, Dellacha held various testing and engineering roles at Ferrari, Maserati and Alfa Romeo.

Meanwhile Daimler’s AMG Project One, launched in September 2017, with 1,000 horsepower and a top speed exceeding 350 km an hour, will not reach customers until next year.

“There are some details we need to sort out with the vehicles,” AMG spokesman Jochen Uebler said, when asked about the certification problems.

(Reporting by Edward Taylor; Editing by Pravin Char)

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Trump administration slaps new sanctions on Iran

The Trump administration announced Friday that it is slapping new sanctions on more than two dozen Iranian individuals involved in the country’s nuclear and missile research programs, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced Iran’s growing influence.

The Treasury Department said the sanctions target 31 Iranian scientists, technicians and companies affiliated with Iran’s Organization for Defense Innovation and Research, which is known to have been at the forefront of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

“Individuals working for Iran’s proliferation-related programs—including scientists, procurement agents, and technical experts—should be aware of the reputational and financial risk they expose themselves to by working for Iran’s nuclear program,” the State Department said in a statement on Friday.

The administration’s move to impose sanctions is unusual, because they are not focused on what the individuals are currently doing, but rather because of their past work in nuclear weapons development, and the potential that they could attempt to restart the nuclear activities.

The officials targeted continue to work in Iran’s defense sector and are part of a core group of experts who could reinstate the nuclear program. The sanctions cover 14 people, including the head of the organization, and 17 subsidiary operations.

The sanctions freeze assets that those targeted may have in the U.S., and bar any Americans from any transactions with them. Officials said the move will make those targeted “radioactive internationally,” and would make anyone who does business with them subject to further U.S. sanctions.

Iran pledged not to continue work on atomic weapons under the 2015 nuclear deal. The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has said that Iran continues to comply with that agreement, which the U.S. pulled out of last year, calling it fatally flawed.

The Trump administration has re-imposed U.S. sanctions that were eased under the terms of the agreement, and it continuing to impose new ones as part of a pressure campaign to force Iran to agree to renegotiate the agreement.

The announcement came as Pompeo was in Beirut warning Lebanese officials to curb the influence of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement. He says Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and should not be allowed to set policies or wield power despite its presence in Lebanon's parliament and government.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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European officials reject SpaceX complaints over launch subsidies

FILE PHOTO: SpaceX headquarters is shown in Hawthorne, California.
FILE PHOTO: The SpaceX headquarters is shown in Hawthorne, California, U.S. September 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

February 26, 2019

By Andrea Shalal

LAMPOLDSHAUSEN, Germany (Reuters) – European space officials on Tuesday rejected complaints by U.S. rocket builder SpaceX that subsidies are hampering its access to the European market, arguing the much larger U.S. market is virtually closed to Europe’s Ariane satellite launch vehicle.

Daniel Neuenschwander, head of space transportation for the European Space Agency (ESA), said efforts were under way to cut costs and stay competitive in a market increasingly dominated by U.S. and Chinese players, but the playing field was not level.

“It’s a tough competition but we should make sure that it is done in a way that is fair,” Neuenschwander told Reuters at the opening of a new German Aerospace Center rocket test site in Lampoldshausen, near Stuttgart. “I think that you better clean your own house before you start to complain about someone else’s.”

SpaceX told the U.S. Trade Representative in a letter dated Dec. 10 and first reported last week that European subsidies to Arianespace, Europe’s primary space launch provider, created an “imbalanced competitive advantage that threatens fair trade”.

ArianeGroup, a joint venture of Airbus and Safran and majority owner of Arianespace, is developing Ariane 6 rocket at a cost of nearly 4 billion euros ($4.55 billion).

SpaceX urged the U.S. government to seek remedies in upcoming U.S.-European Union Free Trade Agreement talks – an appeal that U.S. officials say they are taking very seriously given the growing importance of the commercial space market.

The SpaceX letter, first reported by France’s Les Echos newspaper last week, flagged another potential conflict between Washington and Brussels, already at odds in the trade arena over car and steel exports.

The European Union had no immediate comment but the German Economy Ministry said the EU viewed aid to ESA as fully allowed under World Trade Organisation rules.

Neuenschwander said European officials were focused on completing the Ariane 6 rocket, due to have its maiden flight in 2020 at 40 percent less cost than the current Ariane 5.

“Buy America” laws prevent Arianespace from competing for U.S. government launches, cutting off a huge market at a time when commercial launches are down sharply. European officials also see hidden aid in the fact that SpaceX gets twice as much for U.S. government launches than it seeks in European tenders.

European officials are pushing Berlin to favor Ariane 6 in a competition with SpaceX to launch a German spy satellite called GEORG, said conservative German lawmaker Alexander Throm.

Thomas Jarzombek, the German government’s aerospace and space policy coordinator, told Throm in a letter in January “it really would not make sense to use public funds to develop a new rocket and then not use it for public purposes.”

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Frances Kerry)

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday said his government must make men aware of the dangers of poor hygiene after expressing dismay over the 1,000 penis amputations that apparently occur in his country each year.

“In Brazil, we have 1,000 penis amputations a year due to a lack of water and soap,” he said while speaking to reporters in Brasilia after visiting the Education Ministry. “We have to find a way to get out of the bottom of this hole.”

The far-right leader called the figure “ridiculous and sad,” Reuters reported. A spokeswoman for the Brazilian urology society told the news agency the number is based on its official data for penis amputations.

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The amputations were conducted out of necessity over untreated infections, along with complications from HIV and various cancers, she said.

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Government dysfunction and an intelligence failure that preceded the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka are traced to simmering divisions between the president and prime minister after a weekslong political crisis that crippled the country last year.

The government has admitted to a “lapse of intelligence” after officials failed to act upon near-specific information received from foreign agencies. Suicide bombers exploded themselves last Sunday in three churches and three luxury hotels, killing 253 people and wounding 400 more. Authorities said eight Muslim militants blew themselves up at their targets while the wife of one of the attackers blasted herself on being rounded up by police.

The carnage has brought forth arguments that worshippers and holidaymakers fell victim to the rivalry and a lack of communication between the country’s two leaders — President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The Cabinet led by Wickremesinghe says neither he nor his ministers were informed of the intelligence received by the defense authorities. Sirisena is the head of state, defense minister, minister in charge of the police and head of the armed forces. He also chairs the National Security Council, which includes the heads of security agencies and departments. Traditionally the prime minister also plays an important role on the council.

According to Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne, Sirisena has not included Wickremesinghe in national security affairs since a dispute between them came into the open in October last year. This is an unusual departure from the protocol, he said.

Senaratne said that Sirisena was overseas when the attacks took place and even after that, the National Security Council refused to meet with Wickremesinghe as he tried to give them instructions.

Sirisena has also said that he was not informed of the intelligence received and vowed to overhaul the leadership of the defense forces.

The top bureaucrat at the Defense Ministry, Hemasiri Fernando, has resigned at Sirisena’s insistence.

“It is a major factor,” said Jehan Perera, the head of local activist group National Peace Council, referring to the alleged lack of coordination between the leaders contributing to the failure to prevent the attacks.

“The primary responsibility has to be taken by the president, he did not give the information and he did not act,” Perera said. “He had the Ministry of Defense, took the police from the prime minister, chaired the National Security Council meetings and did nothing,” Perera said.

Kusal Perera, a journalist and political commentator, says security and intelligence officials should have acted on the information whether or not they received orders from politicians.

“If they (Wickremesinghe and his party) were not invited to the National Security Council, why did not they say in Parliament that they were not responsible for the security of the country any longer,” said Perera, who is not related to Jehan Perera.

“Saying that now is taking political advantage, not taking responsibility,” he said.

Sirisena and Wickremesinghe belong to different political parties but came together for Sirisena’s presidential campaign in 2015. Their relationships broke down and their differences exploded last year when Sirisena suddenly sacked Wickremesinghe as prime minister and appointed in his place former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, whom he defeated in the presidential election. The crisis crippled the country for more than seven weeks to the point of not being able to pass this year’s national budget on time.

A court decision compelled Sirisena to reappoint Wickremesinghe, but the two leaders have been rivals within the same government.

Rajapaksa, who is the minority leader in Parliament, blames the government for weakening intelligence and dropping its guard, which he had maintained to defeat the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels 10 years ago to end the 26-year-old civil war. He also criticized the government for the detention of intelligence officers accused of extrajudicial killings and abductions during the closing days of the war, which he said crippled the security apparatus before the bombings. According to conservative U.N estimates, some 100,000 people were killed in Sri Lanka’s conflict.

Sirisena summoned an all-party conference Thursday to which Wickremesinghe was also invited. At the conference, Sirisena stressed “setting aside all the political beliefs and difference (so that) everybody should collectively commit towards building a peaceful environment within the country,” a statement from his office said.

“It is not a secret that the disagreements between me and the government aggravated over the past two years,” Sirisena told the country’s media executives Friday. “One of the reasons for that is weakening of military intelligence and arresting military officials unnecessarily and my speaking up against it within and outside the government.”

Jehan Perera said that the security threat could prove politically advantageous to Rajapaksa and his family, with a presidential election scheduled at the end of this year. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, a younger brother of Mahinda, was the powerful defense secretary during his brother’s reign and has expressed his interest to join the contest.

“People are saying we want a stronger leader and they are talking about Gotabhaya. It (the blasts) has worked to their benefit,” Perera said.

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A California man who allegedly fatally shot his ex-girlfriend in broad daylight last month before fleeing the country has been returned to the U.S. following his arrest in Mexico on Wednesday, authorities said.

Julio Cesar Rocha, 25, of Montlcair, is accused of shooting his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend Thalia Flores and a second unidentified male victim March 21 around 2:45 p.m. while the two were sitting in a vehicle in the parking lot of a discount store in Chino. Both communities are about 36 miles east of Los Angeles.

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Julio Cesar Rocha, 25, of Montlcair, Calif. was located in Mexico Wednesday and returned to California where he faces murder and attempted murder charges related to the death of his ex-girlfriend, Thalia Flores.

Julio Cesar Rocha, 25, of Montlcair, Calif. was located in Mexico Wednesday and returned to California where he faces murder and attempted murder charges related to the death of his ex-girlfriend, Thalia Flores. (City of Chino Police Department)

Flores died at the scene. The man, whose name was not released, walked to a nearby hospital where he’s recovering from his gunshot wounds.

Rocha allegedly fled the scene and remained at large for more than a month, the Daily Bulletin reported. He was formally arrested at 4:30 p.m. after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport from Mexico, KTLA-TV reported.

The suspect was booked at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on murder and attempted murder charges, the City of Chino Police Department said on Facebook.

Flores ended her seven-year relationship with Rocha just two months before her death and still lived in fear of him until that point, a sister of the victim, Bernice Flores, told the Daily Bulletin.

“He said himself so many times to other people, ‘If I can’t have her, no one will.’ ” Flores said, adding that her sister stayed in the relationship longer that she would have liked in fear that Rocha would hurt her or her family if they broke up.

Rocha was convicted on misdemeanor battery in 2016 and sentenced to 60 days in prison. He was originally charged with misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon, but the charges were lowered in a plea deal, the Daily Bulletin reported.

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Rocha was convicted of misdemeanor resisting or obstructing a peace officer in 2014. A second charge of misdemeanor battery was dropped in a plea deal, and Rocha was ordered to complete a 26-week anger management course, according to San Bernardino County Superior Court records. Rocha was later arrested and sentenced to 10 days behind bars for failing to complete the course.

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Multiple people died Thursday when a semitrailer plowed into stationary traffic that resulted in explosions and flames on a Colorado freeway, authorities said.

The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. in the Denver suburb of Lakewood when a truck driver lost control while traveling east on Interstate 70, according to a preliminary investigation. The collision started a chain reaction and a diesel fuel spill, Lakewood police spokesman Ty Countryman told the Denver Post.

“This is looking to be one of the worst accidents we’ve had here in Lakewood,” he said.

The driver of the runaway truck survived. At least one truck was carrying lumber, another was hauling gravel and the third may have been carrying mattresses, KDVR-TV reported.

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Lakewood police tweeted there were multiple fatalities but did not give a specific number. Six people were taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not released, according to the paper.

Lanes in both directions were closed and expected to remain so into Friday morning.

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President Trump will address members and leaders of the National Rifle Association on Friday at the group’s annual convention in Indiana.

Around 80,000 gun enthusiasts and more than 800 exhibitors are expected to pack the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis for the three-day event, the Indianapolis Star reported. It will mark the third straight year that Trump will deliver the keynote address, where he is expected to champion the rights of gun owners.

“Donald Trump is the most enthusiastic supporter of the Second Amendment to occupy the Oval Office in our lifetimes,” Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), said in a statement. “President Trump’s Supreme Court appointments ensure that the Second Amendment will be respected for generations to come. Our members are excited to hear him speak and thank him for his support for our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.”

“Donald Trump is the most enthusiastic supporter of the Second Amendment to occupy the Oval Office in our lifetimes.”

— Chris Cox, executive director, NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action

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President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Dallas last year. (Associated Press)

President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Dallas last year. (Associated Press)

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence spoke at last year’s convention in Dallas. During his speech, Trump assured gun owners that he would protect their Second Amendment rights, according to the paper.

“Your Second Amendment rights are under siege,” Trump told the cheering audience in Dallas. “But they will never, ever be under siege as long as I am your president.”

Trump has supported some gun control measures in the past. Last year, his administration imposed a ban on bump stocks, attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire in rapid bursts. Although, he most recently threatened to veto two Democratic gun control bills.

This year’s convention comes as the NRA faces outside pressure and internal problems. The group has seen its legislative agenda stall amid a series of mass shootings — including a massacre at a Parkland, Fla., high school in February 2018 that left 17 dead and launched a youth movement against gun violence.

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It’s also grappling with infighting in its ranks, money problems and investigations into whether Russian agents courted officials and funneled money through the group.

“I’ve never seen the NRA this vulnerable,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control measure.

The convention will run through the weekend and conclude Sunday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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