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Salman Rushdie stabbed at New York lecture; suspect arrested

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Author Salman Rushdie, whose work prompted death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was allegedly stabbed on Friday as he prepared to give a lecture in western New York. At a news conference on Friday night, authorities revealed that the 75-year-old novelist had been stabbed multiple times, including once in the neck and once in the stomach. According to his representative, he is currently on a ventilator and will most certainly lose an eye.

New York State Police Major Eugene J. Staniszewski told reporters that the suspect was 24 year old Hadi Matar from Fairview, New Jersey. Officials claimed that he, like everyone else in the stadium, had a valid ticket to enter the premises.

A state trooper on duty at the event arrested Matar, he said.

The investigation into the attack has led authorities to conclude that he acted alone.

Agent for the novelist Salman Rushdie claimed on Friday night that Rushdie is currently on a ventilator and unable to communicate. According to him, Rushdie will most certainly lose one eye, and that the nerves in his arm were “severed” and the liver was “stabbed and injured.”

A man attacked Rushdie as he was being introduced to the crowd at the Chautauqua Institution, and a correspondent for the Associated Press was there to see it. The man was restrained as Rushdie was either pushed to or fell to the floor.

A small group of people instantly approached Rushdie and held up his legs, allegedly to direct more blood to his heart. An audience doctor reportedly assisted in treating Rushdie before emergency medical services arrived.

An agent for Rushdie announced on Friday that the author was undergoing surgery.

According to Staniszewski, the suspect also physically assaulted and slightly injured another speaker in the face. According to Staniszewski, he was transported to the hospital but is now free.

An online video purportedly showing the aftermath of the attack spread quickly.

Many people in the audience were shocked by the incident and had to leave the venue.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul tweeted after the attack, “Our thoughts are with Salman & his loved ones following this horrific event,” 

According to the Chautauqua Institution, Rushdie was there to talk about “the United States as shelter for authors and other artists in exile and as a place for freedom of creative expression.”

The tweet appeared to show Rushdie being loaded into a medical chopper.

Since 1988, “The Satanic Verses,” by Salman Rushdie, has been illegal in Iran because many Muslims view it as blasphemous. A fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s murder was issued by Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini a year later.

Khomeini’s proclamation is no longer supported by the Iranian government, although anti-Rushdie prejudice persists. The reward for Rushdie’s execution was increased in 2012 from $2.8 million to $3.3 million by a semi-official Iranian religious group.

Rushdie at the time brushed off this threat, claiming there was “no indication” of anyone being motivated by the incentive. The following year, Rushdie wrote “Joseph Anton,” a memoir detailing his time spent hiding from the fatwa.

After 12 people were murdered at the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015, Rushdie spoke out, arguing that free speech must be total or else it is not free.

The three-word phrase “Freedom is Indivisible,” used by both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela, “says it all,” he remarked. “When you cut freedom in half, it’s no longer freedom. Disliking Charlie Hebdo is perfectly acceptable. Although your distaste for them is irrelevant to their First Amendment rights to free speech.”

Jake Sullivan, the nation’s top security adviser, issued a statement Friday night calling the incident “appalling”

Sullivan expressed the hopes of the entire Biden-Harris administration for a rapid recovery. We appreciate the rapid action of law police and the efforts of those who helped Mr. Rushdie immediately following the incident.

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People, if you come here and like how we put the news down, it's one of our goals to help one to think about their actions in hopes of making the right decision. That's why we have this statement on our website "It should be the goal of every human to leave the world better in which it came". If that is thought about with each action or reaction then maybe one would make the right decision when faced with a life equation. It's true, no one is perfect, but we can make our way in life close to that as possible if we make the right decision. Hurting people is not the way to do that. In self-defense understood. With that in mind, how was the perpetrator of the attack doing that? He wasn't. Unless there is something that we don't know. At face value, he seems to have adopted an ideology that added to a problem very long ago. Now he created a problem for somebody else because he purchased that problem. Doesn't appear that he even needed a receipt. Now he has a target on him, for somebody to do what he did to Salman Rushdie, to him. PORK INDEED!

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DOZENS REQUIRE CPR AFTER CROWD SURGE IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA… At Itaewon Gathering

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Dozens of unresponsive victims requiring CPR at what appeared to have been a large gathering in South Korea on Saturday have raised death toll estimates to several.

Pictures and videos of dozens of people lying on the streets of the trendy Seoul area of Itaewon are currently making the rounds online, with many of them receiving chest compressions from passersby and emergency personnel.

It's clear from the reaction that the scenario is extremely chaotic, and the visuals are unsettling because many of the people in them don't appear to be conscious.

Ground reports indicate that over a hundred people were hurt, with many reportedly suffering cardiac arrest. Photos show police placing tarps over what appear to be dead bodies, suggesting a high death toll, although the New York Times reports only 2 confirmed deaths.

There are so many people here because this is one of the largest Halloween parties in Seoul; word is that tens of thousands of people have crammed into the narrow alleys, which may have caused the stampede.

It has been speculated, but not proven, that the crush occurred when a celebrity was spotted in Itaewon and everyone rushed to the scene's only bar to catch a glimpse of them.

Yoon Suk Yeol, president of South Korea, has already sent emergency services to the city of Seoul, and the mayor is returning from an overseas trip to assess the damage and receive a briefing.

The story is currently evolving…

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Four teens were killed in an accident after doing “The KIA Challenge” on TikTok.

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In Buffalo, New York, four adolescents were killed in a car incident early Monday.

Marcus Webster (19), Swazine Swindle (17), Kevin Payne (16), and Ahjanae Harper (14), according to the New York Post.

Kia, the destroyed vehicle, was reported stolen on Sunday night, according to Buffalo police. Police think the youngsters took the vehicle to take part in “The Kia Challenge,” a viral challenge on the video-sharing platform TikTok in which users are shown how to hot-wire a Kia, a South Korean automobile, using only a screwdriver and a USB connection.

According to WIVB, “five of the six occupants, were ejected.”

The unidentified 16-year-old driver of the stolen vehicle was reportedly one of two people who survived the crash and received treatment at Erie County Medical Center. According to the source, the driver has been arrested and charged with criminal possession of stolen property and illegal use of a vehicle.

While he awaits his court date today (Friday, October 28), police have freed him on bond.

A 14-year-old girl was the other lucky survivor; she was taken to the hospital and treated in intensive care before being released.

Having recently received a newborn girl on what would have been Harper’s 15th birthday, her family has started a GoFundMe to raise $15,000.

A resident of the area said of her in a TIKTOK video, “SHE WAS A YOUNG MOTHER,

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Nashira Anderson, Swindle’s sister, said her sibling’s favorite activities included basketball and jokes.

Webster will be remembered by his family and friends as a dedicated worker who struggled to keep up with both employment and school.

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The Buffalo Public School District said, “We certainly send our deepest condolences and sympathies to all the families and everyone impacted by this unfortunate and horrific tragedy,”

WGRZ reports that Kia issued a statement on the matter on Thursday.

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Police arrested alledged serial killer in Stockton, Calif.

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California, STOCKTON — Suspect in the shooting deaths of six men and the injury of a woman in Northern California was apprehended early Saturday morning as he drove around Stockton with a revolver, authorities said.

Five of the shootings took occurred in this city in the Central Valley, and police began following leads on the culprit around 2 a.m., according to Police Chief Stanley McFadden’s press conference.

Stockton resident Wesley Brownlee, 43, “was out hunting,” according to McFadden. Brownlee wore a mask and all black clothing.

He then stated, “We are sure we stopped another killing.”

For some time, it was unclear if Brownlee was represented by counsel. On Tuesday, he is scheduled to be formally charged with murder.

The black and gray weapon the guy was reportedly carrying was seen on police camera. A semiautomatic handgun made of what looked like plastic and rubber.

Between July 8 and September 27, five men were ambushed and shot dead in Stockton, and police had been seeking for a man in black who had been seen at multiple murder scenes. A car was parked, and four people were walking.

A man was killed in Oakland, 70 miles distant, in April 2021, and a week later, a homeless lady was injured in Stockton; police suspect the same individual was responsible for both attacks.

Ballistics testing and surveillance footage, according to investigators, proved the crimes were related.

A moment of silence was observed at the press conference in honor of the victims.

On April 10, 2021, Juan Vasquez Serrano, 39, was shot and murdered in Oakland; on April 16, 2021, Natasha LaTour, 46, was shot but survived in Stockton. Five men were slain in Stockton this year: 35-year-old Paul Yaw on July 8; 43-year-old Salvador Debudey Jr. on August 11; 21-year-old Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez on August 30; 52-year-old Juan Cruz on September 21; and 54-year-old Lawrence Lopez Sr. on September 27.

Brownlee has a criminal background, according to the police, and he is thought to have lived in other places in the Stockton area.

Hundreds of leads poured in when authorities announced the manhunt, and investigators were able to track down and keep a close eye on Brownlee’s residence.

With the help of information from the public and Stockton Crime Stoppers, police were able to narrow in on a likely culprit, as McFadden explained. “Our agents kept tabs on him as he drove around. We observed his behavior and realized he was on a killing spree first thing this morning.”

McFadden further mentioned that Brownlee was held because he had been seen going to parks and other dimly lit areas, stopping to look around, and then continuing on.

They were looking into the attacks to see if they could determine a reason for them. The police reported that some of the victims were homeless but not all. No one was hurt, and the one woman who made it out alive claimed her attacker was silent.

The police chief acknowledged the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Marshals Service, and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.

Investigators in the area have teamed up with their counterparts in Chicago to look into the possibility of a connection between these slayings and two homicides that occurred in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood in 2018. A man in black with a peculiar walk was spotted on surveillance footage, according to the authorities.

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