A 35-year-old man died early this morning after he was involved in a fight near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, police said.
James Braun was pronounced dead at the hospital from injuries he sustained in the fight at the Disabled American Veterans building, 3455 S. Wilmot Road, south of East Golf Links Road, said Sgt. Chris Widmer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
The fight started inside the building and continued into the parking lot, Widmer said.
Several people attacked the man during the fight.
No arrests have been made, but several people have been detained.
Detectives had to interview at least 15 witnesses.
A San Francisco man has been arrested for suspected drunken driving and gross vehicular manslaughter in the death of his younger sister in a 3 a.m. vehicle crash near the Mendocino Coast, the CHP said.
Ryan J. Wallis, 32, had three passengers in his full-size GMC pickup when he spun across the oncoming lanes of Highway 128 and then off the road about 8 miles inland from the coast, authorities said.
He was traveling at about 60 mph, the CHP said.
The passenger side of the truck spun into a large tree, killing Wallis' sister, Taylor Ann Wilson, 20, of Tucson, the CHP said.
Two other passengers, Logan P. Duffy-Stanley, 31, and Jamie L. Mcavoy, 30, both of Tahoe City, had minor injuries and were released after treatment at the Coast Hospital in Fort Bragg, the CHP said.
Wallis was treated for lacerations to his face before he was arrested for suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, a felony, and felony drunken driving, authorities said.
Wallis was still awaiting booking at the Mendocino County Jail at midday Friday. His bail was $200,000, jail personnel said
Federal prosecutors have charged a man with second-degree murder in the death of a woman near Tuba City on the Navajo reservation.
Steven Begaye had his initial appearance Thursday in U.S. Magistrate Court in Flagstaff.
He’s accused in a criminal complaint of killing the 58-year-old woman by punching her in the stomach, dumping her body at Black Mesa and then using a broken beer bottle to cut her.
Begaye told authorities that he had become angry at the woman because she was making sexual advances toward him.
Authorities haven’t identified the woman. They say she likely was killed in mid-September, but her body wasn’t found until last week.
A medical examiner listed the cause of death as homicidal violence.
PRAGUE--Polish and Slovak authorities on Tuesday canceled their nation's
respective bans on imports and sales of hard alcohol from the Czech Republic,
according to news reports in both countries.
Polish news portal Newsweek.pl and Slovak daily newspaper SME reported that
agriculture ministers in both countries have lifted the ban after Czech
authorities last week determined the source and distributors of alcohol poisoned
with methanol.
At least 25 people have died from the tainted, bootleg alcohol in the Czech
Republic and at least five people suffered the same fate in Poland.
Czech authorities also had a ban on hard-alcohol exports and on the sale of
all liquors and spirits with alcohol content of more than 20%.
The Czechs have arrested dozens of people involved in the illegal bootlegging
operation gone awry and are now gradually implementing new safety measures while
also slowly lifting sales and export bans.
No criminal charges will be filed against the Flagstaff police officer who used his baton, boot and a cable to kill an injured dog in Sunnyside in August.
Officials with the Navajo County Attorney's Office said that there was insufficient evidence to pursue prosecution in the case of the Cpl. John Tewes.
"This includes, but is not limited to, the fact that there is insufficient evidence of a culpable mental state for prosecution," Deputy Navajo County Attorney Michael Tunink wrote in a letter to Flagstaff police Tuesday. "If additional evidence is submitted, I will, of course, review my decision at that time."
Prosecutors have also decided against pursuing charges that Tewes made threatening statements about his ex-wife.
POLICY VIOLATIONS
However, Flagstaff Chief of Police Kevin Treadway said that the criminal charges were only one part of their investigation. He said Tewes violated numerous department policies.
An internal investigation in the case has been completed, but is still waiting on one last piece of information before action is taken. Officials did not specify what information they were waiting for.
The chief will decide what action to take once the internal affairs investigation is finalized.
According to the report by the Coconino County Sheriff's Office, an officer was driving through Sunnyside on Aug. 19 when a loose dog darted out in front of his car at about 2:30 a.m. and was seriously injured. The officer called Tewes for help, and when he showed up, the two decided that the dog should be euthanized.
But Tewes was concerned about using his gun in the neighborhood.
ENDING SUFFERING
Tewes later told investigators he regularly clubbed animals to end their suffering while he was hunting, and he thought he would be able to kill the dog quickly with his baton.
Tewes tried again and again to bludgeon the dog to death, but it didn't die. He then tried to jump on the dog's head and cave in its skull, but that also didn't kill it. Eventually, after some 20 to 30 minutes of trying to kill the dog, he used a hobble, which is like a metal cable, to try to strangle the dog. It took several tries before the dog died.
"Tewes stated that he was thinking that he could not believe the dog wasn't dead yet, and it was the most bizarre thing," the sheriff's office report stated.
He told investigators he didn't ask other officers for advice about other methods because he thought he knew how to do it.
The dog's body was left in between two vehicles behind the police station and later stored in a freezer at the Humane Association. The owners didn't find out what had happened to their dog for five days after the event.
Treadway said it wasn't immediately clear to officials whether the dog owner had been notified or where the dog owner lived. A neighbor had approached Tewes while the dog was alive and pointed out the dog owner's home
A 35-year-old man died early this morning after he was involved in a fight near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, police said.
