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Wrong woman killed in botched murder-for-hire
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say the wrong person was killed last Sunday in a botched murder-for-hire plot set up by a scorned woman. Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson told news outlets that Ishnar Marie Lopez, 35, was upset that a “man she loved” was in a relationship with another woman. So she hired Alexis Ramos, 35, and his girlfriend, Glorianmarie Quinones Montes, 22, to kill the woman.
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Video shows man before being shot by Texas deputy
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HOUSTON (AP) — Cellphone video of a sheriff’s deputy fatally shooting an unarmed black man shows the man wandering in a Houston street with his pants around his ankles and continuing to approach the deputy as the officer tells him to stop. The video, obtained by the Houston Chronicle from a civilian witness , does not show the actual shooting because a car passes in front of the cellphone camera as the Harris County deputy fires a single shot. A spokesman for the sheriff’s office says the man had an object in his hand, but no weapon was recovered at the scene.
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