Alex

Child Attacked at Beach, Police Begin to Suspect Possible Shark

Another local boy was killed today in what appeared to be a shark attack on Village Beach.

The boy, Alex Kitner, was at the beach with his mother and his friends, and he paddled out onto the ocean on a toy inflatable device.

The beach was at normal occupancy and there were many small children running around playing in the sand.

A man was playing with his dog on the beach, throwing a stick out over the water for him to catch. A woman is reclaiming back in the water, just floating there, relaxing in the Amity beach water.

When Alex’s friends swam out to meet him on his inflatable, there was a flurry of motion and blood that sent the entire beach into a panic.

Mothers and fathers rushed out to grab their kids as the police chief Martin Brody yelled for everyone to get out of the water.

Marion Kitner, Alex’s mother, was reported wandering around the beachfront near the incident, calling out her son’s name. His body has still yet to be recovered.

On the heels of Chrissie Watson, this attack would mark the second of two suspicious deaths possibly linked to sharks today.

Last night, Chrissie Watson, 17, of 23 Sharkstooth St. Amity, was at a beach party were alcohol was involved. There, she met a man identified as Christopher P. Hoggenbottam III, and the two decided to go swimming near the South Beach Shoal buoy.

Upon reaching the beach, Watson was able to get into the water, but after some time Hoggnbottam reported to have passed out on the edge of the beach. “I saw him with a couple of beers,” said Erika Dupervil, a party attendant, when asked about Hogganbottam’s state of intoxication.

When Watson did not return from the water this morning, Hoggenbottam reported the girl missing to Amity Police. After a brief search, police were able to locate a body. There was severe mauling by an “attacker of unknown origin” according to police. Her body has been transported to the coroner’s office for an official autopsy.

The police investigation into whether these incidents are, in fact, shark attacks is still ongoing.

There is a special town meeting planned for tonight at 6 p.m. at the Amity Town Hall, where Chief Brody plans to discuss closing the beaches on July 4, for the safety of all residents and tourists.

Chrissie

Local Teen Dies in Possible Shark Attack

Police have begun the investigation of the tragic death of a local teenage girl on the beach in Amity.

Last night, Chrissie Watson, 17, of 23 Sharkstooth St. Amity, was at a beach party were alcohol was involved. There, she met a man identified as Christopher P. Hoggenbottam III, and the two decided to go swimming near the South Beach Shoal buoy.

“I saw [Watson] leave the party, she ran out and Hoggenbottom followed,” said Erika Dupervil, a party attendant.

Upon reaching the beach, Watson was able to get into the water, but after some time Hoggnbottam reported to have passed out on the edge of the beach. “I saw him with a couple of beers,” said Dupervil, when asked about Hogganbottam’s state of intoxication.

When Watson did not return from the water this morning, Hoggenbottam reported the girl missing to Amity Police. After a brief search, police were able to locate a body. There was severe mauling by an “attacker of unknown origin” according to police. Her body has been transported to the coroner’s office for an official autopsy.

“We have no suspects whatsoever, and we are not looking into any suspects,” said Police Chief Martin S. Brody. Police, however, are continuing to investigate the death of Watson.

 “There is no evidence that this could be a shark attack,” said Brody, saying it was possible that it was a stalker in the dunes or some other wild animal as well.

While shark attack is a possibility, the police assure that the beaches are still safe and that residents and guests are in no danger. The beaches are to remain open, pending further investigation. 

(story for class) Assassination Attempt on Local Cop Fails, Five Dead (story for class)

By: Cameron Johnson

New York - Multiple gunshots were reported in a residential area of New York City, with five dead, including the gunman, Pierre Jeantot.

The action all started when Detective Jimmy Doyle was walking home down 57th avenue, when a sniper opened fire from a nearby rooftop. “It was terrifying,” said Karen Johnson, a resident of the area. “When he started firing, a lady pushing her baby in a carriage just dropped down, I couldn’t tell if she was dead or not.” The woman, Olivia Williams, received three bullets to the chest and was dead before paramedics could arrive on scene.

According to Karen, Doyle ducked behind a tree for cover, and then proceeded to approach the building to apprehend the Jeantot. According to witnesses, he was able to climb to the top of the building as the Jeantot was escaping from the bottom floor. Doyle was seen shortly thereafter, giving chase on foot toward the 35st station of the Elevated train.

The chase continued onto a train car, with the Jeantot getting on the train and Doyle being forced to find an alternative mode of transportation. “A crazy man was walking in the middle of the street, flagging down anyone he could,” said Laura Hess, an onlooker. “He eventually managed to pull over a brown sedan and took off like a madman.”

While Doyle was driving below the train, the hired assassin Jeantot was taking control of the car above. After shooting one of the conductors of the train, made his way to the controls of the car, where Peter Howe was driving the car. Jeantot threatened Howe with a gun, forcing him to continue through the next stop without slowing, denying Doyle entry to the elevated train.

“[Jeantot] was pointing his gun at one of the conductors, and he just kept saying ‘get back,’” said Patty Levesque, a passanger on the train. “The conductor just kept telling him to put the gun down, and that he wasn’t going to get away with it.”

Jeantot shot the conductor, which caused Howe to go into cardiac arrest. Without anyone controlling the car, the train crashed into the 15^th street stations parked train.

“I helped carry Peter out of the car after the crash, that poor man,” said Levesque. “The paramedics tried to revive him, but there was nothing they could do.

Meanwhile, Doyle pursued the train from below, rushing into oncoming traffic, at one point colliding with a vehicle as it pulled out of the driveway. “I was just trying to get to work when this car came out of nowhere and rammed into me,” said Robert Edgerton. “I was nearly thrown from my car; it was pretty intense.”

Doyle did manage to arrive intact to the 15^th street station, and made his way to the entrance, where he was able to spot Jeantot attempting to flee the crashed train. As Jeantot walked down the stairs to street level, Doyle intercepted, and the two stared at each other, both winded and in shock from their chase.

“[Jeantot] tried to turn around and leave, but [Doyle] shouted ‘hold it,’ and when [Jeantot] didn’t listen and tried to flee, he shot him once in the back,” said Sean Moreau passenger on the train.

The families of the victims are holding a candlelight vigil next Thursday, at the park near where the William’s was shot on 57^th avenue. 

Election Call

Daily Show just called it: Barack Obama will be the President of the United States for another four years

Election!!!

This is getting intense. The projections say that Obama is going to most likely get 269 electoral votes, which is a tie. Florida at one point down to 300 votes (for Obama). This is looking like a very very close race.
At this point, Indiana has had an upset, with Richard Mourdock lost to his Democratic opponent, a race that Republicans thought they could easily win at the beginning of this race. A lot of races for senate had hiccups on the republican side about rape that cost them a lot of votes.
10:25 They are now currently tied now that Nevada is projected for Obama. and Maggie Hassan has won the Gubernatorial election in New Hampshire, and both of the House seats went to the Democrats. This could be a big day for the democratic party if they can hold on to Florida, which is looking eerily similar to the 2000 election. If it comes down to it, there could be another Supreme court decision to decide the presidency, and hopefully it does not come down to that again. 

The Castle Law and why its so crazy.

Back when I was taking a legal studies class in high school, we would always make the joke that "everything crazy happened (at least law wise) in Texas." The number of odd Supreme Court decisions we read about from that state baffled me, and most of them involved guns. The crazy thing about them is the number of people who found legal justification to shoot other people, and some how get off scott-free.
However, some of this Texas-crazy has decided to migrate to other parts of the country. In september, a man named Dan Fredenberg decided he was going to try and find his wife, who was having a romantic fling with Brice Harper. When Fredenberg went to enter the garage of Harper's house, Harper shot him three times and left him to bleed out.
While this may look like a straight case for manslaughter, it is in fact under a new law called the Castle Law, allowing homeowners more power to protect themselves in their own homes, but arguably allows them to get away with killing others at the same time.
The idea behind this is absurd, for most places already have a self-defense clause within the law in order to stop innocent people from being convicted of serious crimes. But a blanket protection clause like this one has the propensity to be abused, and in this case Harper was not even charged by the state, so a jury did not even get to look at the case to see if the law applied.

Colleen Lachowicz

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/419924/october-08-2012/koch-brothers---orc-senate-candidate

This makes me a little upset. First off, really? You're going to campaign against someone using World of Warcraft? Colleen Lachowicz, a Democratic Senate candidate from Maine plays World of Warcraft and the Republican party is attacking her for it. The issue I find here is, on a personal level, I find it disturbing that someone can still be considered by some to be unfit for office for, in their free time, playing a video game. That would be the equivalent of the previous generation being unfit to serve for reading too many books. While I am a fan of video games myself, this brings up the age old question of whether or not personal lives should factor into whether or not a candidate is elected. When the activity in question is literally practiced by millions of people around the world, and is equally prolific within the US, it should not even be a question if a non illegal activity should bar someone or make them unfit to serve; it has no bearing what-so-ever.