29-year-old musician Ali Akbar Muhammadi Rafi committed suicide after shooting to death three former members of his former indie band Yellow Dogs in the Brooklyn apartment where they lived and practiced, the New York Police Department said
A seven-member jury acquitted 42-year-old Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski on charges that he groped a woman outside a Virginia bar, CBS News reported. The jury deliberated for about an hour after hearing closing arguments on Wednesday. A 23-year-old woman testified that Krusinski grabbed buttocks outside the Crystal City bar.
James 'Whitey' Bulger, the convicted Boston gangster, listened to the families of his victims "who were shot, stabbed or strangled by accomplices in the treacherous Winter Hill Gang," CNN reported. The 84-year-old, who faces life in prison, did not display any emotion, as he declined to address the court or the families
Israeli soldier Private Eden Atias was killed on Wednesday after being stabbed in the neck in a bus in Afula, a northern city. While rushed to a nearby hospital, he later died of his wounds, Ynet News reported. Hussein Jawadra, the 16-year-old assailant from Jenin who had been residing in Israel illegal, turned himself over to security forces.
