After their dad died, a family friend set up a GoFundMe account to help. Then she raided it.
Washington Post
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
October 17, 2016
Holder pleaded guilty on Wednesday to felony theft by conversion. She will spend two years in prison and eight on probation.
This cached photo shows Barry Sutton’s daughters as they appeared on a GoFundMe site made by a woman who bilked a town out of nearly $5,000. (Via GoFundMe)
Barry Sutton was working as a civilian contractor when he was killed by a car bomb in Afghanistan last year, but he received a soldier’s homecoming.
Police escorted his casket from the airport to a funeral home in Rome, Ga. People stood on either side of the procession route, waving flags. An honor guard presented colors at his funeral — paying tribute to the former police officer and sheriff’s deputy.
Amid the fanfare, Brandy Holder, a family friend, told people that she wanted to organize something special.
According to his obituary, Barry Dean Sutton had served in the Marines Corps and worked in law enforcement, first with Georgia’s Floyd County Police Department, then with the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office. He was also a school resource officer at Armuchee High School, his alma mater. He was working for DynCorp when he was killed in Kabul at the age of 46, the obituary said.
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U.S. soldier critical after possible road rage shooting in SW Houston
KHOU News
Lauren Talarico
October 17, 2016
HOUSTON – A 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier is fighting for his life after being shot during an apparent road rage shooting in southwest Houston overnight.
According to the Houston Police Department, it happened at 11 p.m. Sunday South Post Oak near East Orem.
Police have identified the victim as Luis Diaz, who was in town on leave. He was shot in the head and is in critical condition.
So far there’s just a possible vehicle description – police are looking for a white box-type vehicle like a Sion. Investigators are really hoping someone knows something because multiple gunshots were fired.
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Marine vet quits his job over 'Semper Fi' tattoo, finds his truer calling at a VA hospital
The Republic
Karina Bland
October 16, 2016
Marine Joseph Leal, a nurse at the VA hospital in Prescott, and Henry Alcott, 93, a vet who lives at the hospital. Both served in the Marines.
(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)
Joseph Leal was in the hallway of the historic veterans hospital in Prescott, on rounds as a registered nurse, when he saw an old man wheeling toward him.
“Good morning!” Leal called. He recognized the patient in the wheelchair as the one everyone called “Pops,” but it was the first time Leal had met him.
Pops rolled to a stop in front of Leal. “Let me see that,” he said. He took Leal’s wrist and turned it over to look at the tattoo on the inside of his forearm.
Pops studied the fierce-looking eagle atop a globe and anchor, the official emblem of the U.S. Marine Corps, with the words “Semper Fi” across the top and “U.S.M.C.” underneath, the letters inked in with scarlet and gold.
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Veteran IRC firefighter commits suicide shortly after PTSD post on Facebook
TC Palm
Lamaur Stancil
October 16, 2016
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The Sheriff's Office said a veteran Indian River County Fire Rescue firefighter killed himself Saturday night.
Indian River County Sheriff's deputies went to a wooded area off State Road 60 west of Interstate 95 about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Eric Flowers said.
David Dangerfield
18 hours ago
PTSD for Firefighters is real. If your love one is experiencing signs get them help quickly. 27 years of deaths and babies dying in your hands is a memory that you will never get rid off. It haunted me daily until now. My love to my crews. Be safe , take care. I love you all.
Dangerfield had driven his pickup to mile marker 13 on State Road 60, about midway between I-95 and Yeehaw Junction, Flowers said. Dangerfield made a 911 call from there and told dispatchers where he could be found, Flowers said.
Deputies drove to the area and located the pickup and found Dangerfield a short distance away in the woods, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Sheriff's Office said.
Emergency Services Director John King sent an email late Saturday night to Dangerfield's co-workers about his death, Assistant Chief Brian Burkeen said.
Dangerfield, who worked at the agency for 27 years, made a post on his Facebook page Saturday about post-traumatic stress disorder, pertaining to firefighters.
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Latest: Navy man arrested after truck fatally crushes 4
Associated Press
October 18, 2016
Witnesses said four people in the booth were crushed by the truck. Eight people on the ground were injured.
SAN DIEGO – The Latest on a car plummeting from the Coronado Bridge onto a park, leaving 4 dead and at least 4 critically injured (all times local):
9:10 p.m.
Police say a member of the U.S. Navy was driving a pickup truck that flew off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and fatally killed four people who were at a festival at a park below.
Authorities say 25-year-old Richard Anthony Sepolio, who suffered major injuries in Saturday's crash, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. He was stationed at a naval base in Coronado Island, across a bay from San Diego.
The California Highway Patrol said Sepolio lost control of a GMC pickup truck with Texas license plates while driving onto the bridge, struck a guardrail and plunged about 60 feet onto a vendor booth set up for a motorcycle festival at Chicano Park.
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