Six people, including two children and the shooter, Bryan Sweatt, were found dead inside a Greenwood County, South Carolina home on Tuesday night. A 911 call was made just moments before the shooting.
30-year-old Menachem Tevel, a rabbi and youth worker at the JEM Center, a Jewish Community Center in Beverly Hills, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of child sex abuse on a warrant from New York City, The Los Angeles Times reported. Tevel was arrested on site where he had been working. His father-in-law is the center's director.
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the Stand-Your-Ground laws in Florida must be amended and reviewed.
Oscar Pistorious, the South African Paralympic champion, faces two additional gun-related charges for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, the prosecution said on Tuesday. The trial is set for March 3, 2014 at the Pretoria High Court.
