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Teen Shooting Suspect Makes Faces in Court
KATU-TV, Portland, OR ^ | 05/02/07 | Melica Johnson
Posted on 05/02/2007 4:32:55 PM PDT by Inspectorette
LINCOLN CITY, Ore. - A 17-year-old accused of shooting a classmate in the face at a popular outlet mall on the Oregon coast made his first court appearance on Tuesday and there are now clues as to what may have sparked the crime.
Hector Canales-Robles made faces and danced in his chair while in court. He faces adult, Measure 11 charges in connection with the shooting of 18-year-old Ty Pedersen,who was shot twice in the face on Saturday.
Pedersen had to be flown to a Portland hospital where he is currently undergoing treatment.
According to the allegations laid out in court documents, Canales-Robles was working at a clothing store at the Tanger Outlet Mall in Lincoln City when he took a break to commit the crime, going so far as to wear an all-black outfit and putting a nylon over his face.
Information in the court documents also reveal a possible motive in the crime that shocked Lincoln City - police say the victim once dated the suspect’s girlfriend.
Canales-Robles and Pedersen are both upper classmen at Lincoln City’s Taft High School where rumors of the love connection and possible motive are circulating.
Still, most students say Canales-Robles is a nice guy and is incapable of such a crime.
However, students are overwhelmingly in agreement that if he is found guilty, he should face the toughest sentence possible.
Even the school’s principal supports the District Attorney’s decision to try Canales-Robles as an adult. “I’m of the opinion that at his age, right and wrong is a notion he understands,” said Steve Kilduff.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put an “immigration hold” on Canales-Robles following his arrest.
A spokeswoman for the agency told KATU News he is an “immigration violator,” but she could not specify whether he was in the country legally or not. He could have been in the country legally but violated his immigration status somehow.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=33024
Five Enemy Fighters Killed, Four Captured in Afghanistan
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2007 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed five enemy fighters and detained four others in Afghanistan during the past three days, military officials reported.
Afghan and coalition forces captured a man this morning while raiding a house in the Tani district of Khowst province. Inside the house, combined forces netted AK-47 assault rifles and military-style load-bearing vests.
Credible evidence led the forces to the detainee, a suspected operative in the Haqqani network, responsible for facilitating suicide bombing attacks in the province, military officials said.
“Facilitators like this are simply cowards, exploiting impressionable people for their own purposes,” said Army Maj. Christopher Belcher, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokesman.
No shots were fired, and no one was injured during the operation.
While manning a checkpoint 50 miles northeast of Qalat yesterday, Afghan border police and coalition forces engaged three vehicles approaching at high speeds that refused to slow down after appropriate warnings.
Once stopped, eight men exited the vehicles and began firing at the checkpoint. Combined forces returned fire, killing five. The three others managed to escape during the firefight. There were no Afghan civilians in the vehicles, and there were no injuries to Afghan or coalition forces.
“Enemy insurgents are attempting to slip through established security checkpoints to conduct illegal and terrorist activities,” Belcher said. “With the assistance of the Afghan people, Afghan boarder police and coalition forces will be able to put a stop to all insurgent activity in the area.”
Afghan national police and coalition forces detained three well-known improvised explosive device facilitators April 30 during a combat operation targeting a Taliban IED cell northwest of Khowst city in the Saberi district of Khowst province. Combined forces mounted an air assault into Zambar village and nabbed Haji Nazir, Nazir Khan and another individual known only as Latif, in three separate compounds.
The three suspects are believed to be mid-level Taliban leaders involved in Taliban fighter recruiting and financing, and they are the alleged masterminds behind an IED cell operating in the Sabari district, military officials said.
No shots were fired during the successful mission and there were no injuries to any Afghan civilians reported.
“The information gained from these three individuals will assist us in detaining other key Taliban leaders,” Belcher said. “We will continue to pursue and interdict Taliban leaders who threaten the people of Afghanistan.
“Taliban leaders have two choices,” he continued. “Stop fighting and reconcile with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, or face elimination by Afghan national security and coalition forces.”
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 82 news releases.)