San Jose, California
Two people died and multiple others were injured in a stabbing Sunday night at a church in California where homeless people had been brought to shelter from the cold weather, the Associated Press reported.
“Unhoused individuals were brought into the church to get them out of the cold,” the San Jose Police Department said in a tweet.
The stabbing happened at Grace Baptist Church in San Jose, where police said on Twitter no services were taking place. It was unclear how many people were wounded, but some of the injuries were life-threatening, according to AP.
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo initially tweeted a suspect had been arrested, but police later said no arrest could be confirmed. A local media station reported a 22-year-old man was apprehended in the stabbing. Video shown by news outlets near the church showed several ambulances and police cars while police tape and traffic cones cordoning off the road, AP reported.
Bellevue, Nebraska
Authorities arrested a 23-year-old man in an attack at a Nebraska fast food restaurant in which two employees were shot and killed, two were wounded and officers responding to a report of a possible bomb inside a moving truck in the parking lot arrived to find the vehicle on fire, the Associated Press reported.
Robert Carlos Silva, Jr., of Omaha, was booked into Sarpy County jail early Sunday on suspicion of first-degree murder and first-degree arson in Saturday night’s attack at a Sonic Drive-in restaurant in Bellevue. Silva was being held without bond Sunday before making his initial court appearance, according to AP.
Lt. Andy Jashinske said Bellevue police received a call at 9:23 p.m. Saturday about a possible bomb in a U-Haul truck parked outside of the restaurant in the Omaha suburb. A minute later, the call was updated to a possible shooting. Officers who arrived found the moving truck burning and four restaurant employees who had been shot, two taken for treatment and two found dead, AP reported.
The attack came days after Silva was arrested outside of the restaurant after allegedly using some else’s Sonic app account to buy nearly $60 worth of hamburgers and corndogs in four separate purchases at that location. Silva was released from jail last Thursday after posting bail. At the time of that arrest, police seized three firearms from Silva and seized four more after the shooting, although Silva was unarmed during the arrest, according to AP.
Detroit
General Motors will recall about 7 million big pickup trucks and SUVs worldwide to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators, the Associated Press reported.
The announcement came Monday after the U.S. government told the automaker it had to recall 6 million of the vehicles in the U.S. GM said it will not fight the decision, even though it believes the vehicles are safe. It will cost the company an estimated $1.2 billion, about one-third of its net income so far this year, according to AP.
The automaker had petitioned the agency four times since 2016 to avoid recalls, contending the air bag inflator canisters have been safe on the road and in testing. However, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Monday denied the petitions, claiming the inflators still run the risk of exploding. Owners complained to the agency the company was placing profits above safety, AP reported.
Exploding Takata inflators caused the largest series of auto recalls in U.S. history, with at least 63 million inflators recalled. The U.S. government said as of September, more than 11.1 million had not been fixed. About 100 million inflators have been recalled worldwide. Twenty-seven people have been killed worldwide by the exploding inflators, including 18 in the U.S., according to AP.
Boston
The Coast Guard is searching for the four-member crew of a Maine fishing boat which sank off the coast of Massachusetts early Monday, the Associated Press reported.
The 82-foot Emmy Rose went down about 20 mile northeast of Provincetown, Massachusetts. The Coast Guard got the emergency alert around 1:30 a.m. and was on the scene by about 2:30 a.m. The crew did not make any sort of mayday or distress call, and the Coast Guard was alerted when the vessel’s emergency beacon, known as an EPIRB, made contact with the water and sent out tis signal, according to AP.
The Emmy Rose is based in Portland, Maine. The vessel owner reported there were four people aboard, and the vessel’s satellite phone went unanswered. The first Coast Guard crews on the scene discovered debris and an empty life raft, AP reported.
Three Coast Guard vessels and two aircraft are involved in the search, which was being made more difficult by 6-to-8-foot waves and 35 mile-per-hour winds, according to AP.
Niles, Illinois
An 81-year-old former marine from suburban Chicago used his grandfather’s antique Irish walking stick to chase off three burglars and deliver one a thump on the head for his trouble, the Associated Press reported.
Dan and Barbara Donovan said a man in a reflective vest and masks knocked on their door in Niles earlier this month and said he was a utility worker who needed to check their fuse box due to recent fires in the area. Barbara said while they were in the basement with the man, who was looking at their electric circuit panel, she heard squeaking floorboards upstairs realized something wasn’t right, according to AP.
She bounded up the steps, followed by her husband and the so-called utility worker. When the couple reached the main floor, they found two other men inside, one holding a pillowcase from their bedroom. Dan began trying to chase the three men from their house, and that’s when he grabbed his grandfather’s shillelagh — an antique Irish walking stick propped in the corner of the couple’s dining room, AP reported.
Dan struck the man with the pillowcase in the back of the head with a stick. The man held onto the pillowcase as he followed his two cohorts outside, but Dan, who was barefoot, followed using the stick to deliver blows to the windshield and rear window of the men’s SUV before they fled, according to AP.