NATION/WORLD
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Hurricane’s death
toll in Puerto Rico
put at nearly 3,000
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
(AP) — Puerto Rico’s gov-
ernor raised the U.S. territo-
ry’s official death toll from
Hurricane Maria from 64
to 2,975 on Tuesday after
an independent study found
that the number of people
who succumbed in the des-
perate, sweltering after-
math had been severely
undercounted.
The new estimate of
nearly 3,000 dead in the six
months after Maria devas-
tated the island in Septem-
ber 2017 and knocked out
the entire electrical grid was
made by researchers with
the Milken Institute School
of Public Health at George
Washington University.
“We never anticipated a
scenario of zero communica-
tion, zero energy, zero high-
way access,” Gov. Ricardo
Rossello told reporters. “I
think the lesson is to antic-
ipate the worst. ... Yes, I
made mistakes. Yes, in hind-
sight, things could’ve been
handled differently.”
Tuesday’s finding is
almost twice the govern-
ment’s previous estimate,
included in a recent report
to Congress, that there were
1,427 more deaths than nor-
mal in the three months after
the storm.
East Oregonian
not swayed by Roy Oliver’s
claim that he feared for his
partner’s life when he fired
into the vehicle as it drove
away from a large house party
in Balch Springs in April
2017. The gunfire killed Jor-
dan Edwards, who was sitting
in the front passenger seat.
Gasps echoed around the
courtroom as the verdict
was read. Edwards’ relatives
sobbed and hugged prose-
cutors, waved their hands
in the air and proclaimed
Ex-Texas cop guilty
of murder for killing
unarmed black teen
DALLAS (AP) — A
white ex-police officer was
convicted of murder Tues-
day for fatally shooting a
black, unarmed 15-year-old
boy while firing into a car
packed with teenagers in
suburban Dallas, marking a
rare guilty verdict in a police
shooting case.
Dallas County jurors were
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“Thank you, Jesus!” after
the jury left.
Oliver and his part-
ner were responding to a
report of underage drink-
ing at the house party. Police
initially said the vehicle
backed up toward officers
“in an aggressive manner,”
but later said that body-
cam video showed the vehi-
cle was moving forward as
officers approached. Oliver
was fired just days after the
shooting.
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