A capital murder suspect and a convicted drug offender were the subject of a two-day manhunt, after escaping from a Texas jail. They are back in lockup after being cornered in a barn about 20 miles away from the penitentiary. Brian Allen Tucker and John Marlin King were returned to the jail in Sulphur Springs, about 75 miles northeast of Dallas, from where they fled on Tuesday.
A murder suspect being interviewed at the Jackson, Mississippi police headquarters shot a detective on Thursday, and those who came to investigate the gunfire found both men dead, authorities said. The suspect was being questioned on the third floor of the building when the shooting broke, out
Marquinta E. Jacobs has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a civilian employee at Fort Knox, according to the Associated Press A Thursday federal court filing by the FBI said that Jacobs fired a 45-caliber handgun at the victim, "striking him several times," in a parking lot outside the parking lot of the Army Human Resources Command building on the post.
On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King was killed by assassin in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in the state to help support a sanitation workers' strike. The legendary figure had been at the forefront of the civil rights movement, beginning with the Montgomery boycott in 1955, all the while leading a series of nonviolent protests against discrimination.
