Por Emma Tucker, CNN

Un creador de contenido en directo conocido por publicar videos controvertidos con insultos racistas se enfrenta a múltiples cargos, incluido el de intento de homicidio, tras un tiroteo ocurrido el miércoles frente a un juzgado de Tennessee, según informaron las autoridades.

El tiroteo ocurrió durante un enfrentamiento entre Dalton Eatherly, conocido en internet como Chud the Builder, y otro hombre, cuya identidad no ha sido revelada por las autoridades, frente al juzgado del condado de Montgomery en Clarksville, según informó la Fiscalía General del distrito de Tennessee. Ambos hombres resultaron heridos de bala y fueron trasladados a hospitales cercanos, donde su estado era estable hasta la tarde del miércoles, según la Oficina del sheriff del condado de Montgomery.

No está claro cómo se produjo el tiroteo ni qué lo provocó.

Además de intento de homicidio, Eatherly, de 28 años, fue acusado de usar un arma de fuego durante la comisión de un delito grave, agresión con agravantes y poner en peligro la vida de otras personas de forma temeraria con un arma mortal, según informó la oficina del sheriff en un comunicado.

Ha sido ingresado en la cárcel del condado de Montgomery y permanecerá detenido hasta su comparecencia ante el juez, añadió la Oficina del sheriff. CNN está investigando si Eatherly cuenta con representación legal.

Eatherly transmitió en directo su conversación con los servicios de emergencia tras el incidente, diciendo: “Tuve que defenderme disparándole”.

Relató que pasó junto al hombre que, entre otros, se reía y lo señalaba. Tras acercarse a ellos, Eatherly dijo que el hombre no identificado le pidió que se alejara antes de volver a hablarle y decirle: “Tengo trastorno de estrés postraumático”.

“Me dijo: ‘Si empiezas a decirme todas esas estupideces de chimpancé, te voy a pegar’, y me pegó, empezó a darme una paliza”, dijo Eatherly en el video. El streamer tiene varios videos en línea en los que se refiere a las personas negras como chimpancés.

“Es lamentable que ocurran incidentes como este en nuestra comunidad”, declaró el sheriff del condado de Montgomery, John Fuson, en un comunicado. “Este tipo de violencia no será tolerada, y nuestra oficina trabajará para garantizar que los responsables rindan cuentas ante la ley con todo el peso de la misma”.

Días antes, el sábado, Eatherly fue expulsado de un restaurante y arrestado al día siguiente en Nashville por cargos de robo de servicios, alteración del orden público y resistencia al arresto, según una declaración jurada. El personal del restaurante le pidió que no hiciera transmisiones en vivo ni causara disturbios dentro del establecimiento, pero lo hizo de todos modos, según consta en la declaración jurada.

Según la declaración jurada, los fiscales de ese caso describieron a Eatherly como una persona que realizaba transmisiones en vivo “y que grababa contenido, incluido contenido con connotaciones racistas”, en las redes sociales.

Cuando el personal del restaurante le pidió que dejara de transmitir en directo, Eatherly se puso “problemático y empezó a hacer comentarios racistas, a gritar y a armar un escándalo”, según la declaración jurada.

Según la declaración jurada, Eatherly supuestamente dijo: “No voy a pagar si me echan”, y luego se negó a pagar su comida, que costaba US$ 371,55.

Unas horas después del incidente, los agentes encontraron a Eatherly caminando por la calle. Cuando le informaron que estaba arrestado e intentaron esposarlo, él se resistió, según consta en la declaración jurada. Posteriormente, fue arrestado sin mayores incidentes.

Más tarde, Eatherly fue puesto en libertad bajo fianza de US$ 5.000, según una orden judicial.

Otros videos que Eatherly publicó en las redes sociales detalla

Por Karina Tsui, CNN

Un juez federal ordenó este miércoles al Gobierno de Trump que devolviera a Estados Unidos a una mujer colombiana que fue deportada a la República Democrática del Congo, incluso después de que el país africano se negara a aceptarla.

El juez Richard J. Leon del Tribunal de Distrito de Estados Unidos para el Distrito de Columbia ordenó el regreso de Adriana María Quiroz Zapata, de 55 años, lo antes posible y pidió a la administración Trump que proporcionara una actualización antes de las 5:00 de la tarde del viernes sobre las medidas tomadas para facilitar su retorno.

Este caso es un ejemplo excepcional de un juez federal que ordena el regreso de un inmigrante deportado bajo la drástica política inmigratoria del presidente Donald Trump, y se produce en un momento en que la administración enfrenta críticas por su política de deportación a “terceros países”, que expulsa a indocumentados a países con los que no tienen ningún vínculo.

Quiroz Zapata fue detenida por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) tras ingresar a Estados Unidos en agosto de 2024, según un documento judicial compartido por su abogada, Lauren O’Neal.

En una entrevista con The New York Times desde la República Democrática del Congo, Quiroz Zapata declaró que huyó de Colombia para escapar de su expareja, un hombre vinculado a la policía nacional colombiana.

Un juez de inmigración estadounidense concedió posteriormente su petición de no ser deportada a Colombia, al considerar que “es muy probable que sufra torturas por parte del Gobierno colombiano o de sus funcionarios que actúan bajo la apariencia de ley, o con su consentimiento”, consta en el documento judicial.

Según el expediente, mientras la administración Trump buscaba un tercer país para deportar a Quiroz Zapata, la República Democrática del Congo se negó formalmente en abril a aceptarla debido a la asistencia médica necesaria que el país no podía garantizarle adecuadamente.

Quiroz Zapata padece diabetes, hiperlipidemia e hipotiroidismo, declaró O’Neal al Times. CNN se ha puesto en contacto con O’Neal para obtener más información sobre sus necesidades médicas.

Dos días después de la negativa de la República Democrática del Congo, Quiroz Zapata fue embarcada el 16 de abril en un vuelo de deportación desde Estados Unidos a la República Democrática del Congo, donde permanece hasta el día de hoy, indica el documento.

“El Gobierno la envió a la RDC de todos modos”, escribió el juez, añadiendo que “enviar a la demandante a la RDC, por lo tanto, probablemente fue ilegal”.

El magistrado afirmó que Quiroz Zapata “probablemente tendrá éxito” en su argumento de que enviarla a la RDC “probablemente viola la Ley de Inmigración y Nacionalidad”.

“No cabe duda de que la demandante cumple con los requisitos para ser considerada víctima de un daño irreparable. Fue enviada a un país que se negó a aceptarla porque no puede brindarle la atención médica necesaria”, escribió el juez. “Como consecuencia, se enfrenta a un riesgo diario de complicaciones médicas, incluso la muerte”.

“Exigir responsabilidades al poder ejecutivo es la única manera de garantizar una supervisión adecuada y poner fin a los abusos de las leyes y regulaciones de inmigración vigentes que la agencia está obligada a cumplir”, señaló O’Neal en un comunicado a CNN.

CNN se ha puesto en contacto con la Embajada del Congo en Washington y con el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional.

En su fallo, el juez citó el caso del inmigrante salvadoreño Kilmar Armando Ábrego García

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN

Vanceburg, Kentucky (CNN) — Joni Pugh feels like she’s stuck in the middle of a bitter family feud between her president and her congressman.

As a loyal Republican, she likes them both – and that is where her predicament begins.

No Republican has infuriated President Donald Trump more than Rep. Thomas Massie, which has placed him in a precarious position heading into Tuesday’s Republican primary in Kentucky. The race is already one of the most expensive primary contests ever, with more than $29 million spent on advertising alone, setting up the biggest political test Massie has ever faced.

Their long-running duel will be settled by voters like Pugh, who has admired Trump for the last decade and Massie for much longer.

“I’m a little more worried than I’ve ever been for him because he’s getting such pushback from Trump,” Pugh said. “I’m not putting Trump down at all because I’m very much a fan of his, but I’m still going to vote for Thomas. He’s a great guy and is very careful about how he wants our taxpayer money to be spent.”

Here in northeastern Kentucky, voters say the campaign seems to be getting nastier by the day, with attack ads featuring AI-generated images flooding television screens, flyers filling up mailboxes and gossip running red-hot about the twists and turns of which side has the upper hand.

“You can’t escape it. It’s everywhere,” Pugh said of the advertising deluge. “That’s what really worries me. I’m afraid he won’t make it this time. I don’t think he’s ever gone through anything like this.”

Massie faces Ed Gallrein, a farmer and former Navy SEAL whom Trump and his allies recruited into the race. Trump paid a visit to Kentucky in March to make his choice clear as he invited Gallrein to the stage.

“Give me somebody with a warm body to beat Massie,” Trump said. “And I got somebody with a warm body, but a big, beautiful brain and a great patriot. He’s unbelievable.”

For months, Massie ran with an air of confidence that his contrarian brand among friends and neighbors in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District would carry him to an eighth term. Blue Massie signs dot the landscape across his district along the Ohio River, which stretches from the eastern suburbs of Louisville to the northern Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati and the outskirts of Appalachia.

But the contest is remarkably close in the final days of the race, GOP strategists and party officials say, with even some longtime allies wondering if the tide has turned.

“The race is 100% Trump vs. Massie,” Shane Noem, chairman of the Kenton County Republican Party, told CNN. “It’s become a pick-a-side moment.”

‘This guy named Thomas Massie’

It’s hard to pinpoint just when exactly the relationship between Trump and Massie first soured. Massie has fought the establishment of both parties since first winning his seat 14 years ago in the tea party era as a fierce deficit hawk.

He has consistently opposed Republican priorities in Congress, including military spending and foreign aid, and defied party leadership on one bill after another. Last year, he was one of two House Republicans to vote against the president’s massive domestic policy and spending cuts package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

“We’ll get 100% of the vote except for this guy named Thomas Massie,” Trump said at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this year, going on to call the congressman a “moron.”

“It’s like they just vote no. They love voting no.”

Massie also helped lead the charge to direct the Justice Department to release its investigative files into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The president ultima

By Mark Morales, CNN

(CNN) — Mark Thomas Ryan arrived at his in-laws’ Phoenix, Maryland, home with a loaded handgun tucked in his pocket.

Hours earlier, local law enforcement had issued a temporary restraining order against him, after his wife alleged Ryan had struck and threatened her the night before, according to court records.

Now, on the home’s enclosed patio, Ryan confronted his father-in-law, a well-respected Maryland attorney named Robert MacMeekin, who had taken in his daughter and grandchildren.

Ryan pulled out the gun and pointed it at MacMeekin, leading to a fierce struggle for the weapon, according to charging documents.

While both sides are poised to argue the intent and culpability of the May 2 shooting at future court dates, what isn’t up for debate is what happened next.

MacMeekin suffered a fatal gunshot wound, charging documents say.

Ryan dropped the gun and took a seat on that very same enclosed patio, waiting for police at about 2:30 p.m. on the Saturday afternoon.

Once in custody, Ryan “confessed to shooting and killing” MacMeekin, telling investigators he was angry that MacMeekin was keeping him from his children, the charging documents say. He also was angry he was subject to a temporary protective order, since he denied ever harming his wife.

In prosecutors’ telling, Ryan, fueled by his anger, intentionally killed his father-in-law, who was remembered by several friends as a principled and loving family man. Ryan’s attorney says the weapon inadvertently discharged during the scuffle.

“The father-in-law was trying to grasp and take the gun,” Ryan’s attorney, Richard Karceski, told CNN. “I don’t think there was any intent on his part to point and shoot the gun at the decedent.”

Karceski also told CNN his client was fearful for his own life.

“He brought (the gun) for protection because he didn’t know what to expect when he got there,” Karceski said.

Bruce Laird, MacMeekin’s friend for the last 27 years, said his friend loved his family, and there was no way MacMeekin would step aside after Ryan pulled the gun from his pocket.

“I think at that moment, (Ryan) was going to kill someone, and it wasn’t going to be (MacMeekin’s) daughter,” Laird said of the showdown between MacMeekin and his son-in-law.

“Bob knew it may have been his time, but he wasn’t going to let him take his daughter and his grandkids,” Laird said. “He fought for his life, and he fought for his daughter’s life.”

Ryan is being held in the Baltimore County Detention Center after a judge denied his request for bail. He is charged with one count of murder in the first degree and a lesser charge for using a firearm in a violent crime, court records show. Ryan has not yet entered a plea.

Meanwhile, loved ones still trying to process the grief and shock of losing MacMeekin in such a violent way are preparing to say goodbye. A funeral is scheduled Thursday in Timonium, Maryland, according to his obituary. He’s slated to be buried at Lake Michigan in July.

Killing followed alleged domestic incident

The deadly incident started on May 1, when Ryan’s wife later said he had hit her and suggested he was going to grab his firearm from his gun safe, according to the charging documents.

Ryan’s wife fled their home in Bel Air, Maryland – some 20 miles outside Baltimore – and went to MacMeekin’s home nearby, where the couple’s two children were already spending the night, the documents say. The next morning, MacMeekin took his daughter to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, where she got a temporary order of protection against Ryan.

Ryan, meanwhile, had been calling and texting his wife throughout the day, the charging documents say. She eventually handed her phone to her father, who spoke with his son-in-law. Ryan wanted his children to come hom

By Karina Tsui, CNN

(CNN) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to return to the US a Colombian woman who was deported to the Democratic Republic of Congo, even after the African country refused to accept her.

Judge Richard J. Leon of the US District Court for DC ordered the return of Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata, 55, as soon as possible and ordered the Trump administration to provide a status update by 5 p.m. Friday on steps taken to facilitate her return.

The case is a rare instance of a federal judge ordering the return of a migrant deported under President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown and comes as the administration faces backlash over its “third country” deportation policy, which deports immigrants to countries they have no ties to.

Quiroz Zapata was first placed into Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after entering the US in August 2024, according to a court document shared by her lawyer, Lauren O’Neal. Quiroz Zapata had told The New York Times in an interview from the DRC that she fled Colombia to escape her former partner, a man tied to the Colombian national police.

A US immigration judge later granted her request not to be deported back to Colombia, finding it “more likely than not she will face torture by, or with the acquiescence of the Colombian government or their officials acting under the color of law,” the court document said.

As the Trump administration sought a third country to deport Quiroz Zapata, the DRC in April formally refused to accept her due to required medical assistance the country could not adequately guarantee, the document says.

Quiroz Zapata has diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypothyroidism, O’Neal told the Times. CNN has reached out to O’Neal for further information on the medical needs.

Two days after the DRC’s refusal, Quiroz Zapata was placed on a removal flight on April 16 from the US to the DRC, where she remains to this day, the document says.

“The Government sent her to the DRC anyway,” the judge wrote, adding that “sending (the) plaintiff to the DRC, therefore, was likely illegal.” The judge said that Quiroz Zapata “is likely to succeed” in her argument that sending her to the DRC “likely violates the Immigration and Nationality Act.”

“There is no question that plaintiff meets the standard for irreparable harm. She has been sent to a country that refused to accept her because they cannot provide sufficient medical care,” the judge wrote. “As a result, she faces a daily risk of medical complications, up to and including death.”

“Holding the executive branch to account is the only way to ensure proper oversight and put an end to the abuses of long-standing immigration law and regulations the agency is bound to abide,” O’Neal said in a statement to CNN.

CNN has reached out to the Congolese Embassy in Washington and the Department of Homeland Security.

In his ruling, the judge cited the case of Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who continues to fight against his deportation in court after being wrongfully deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador last year and then returned to the United States.

The highly-publicized Abrego Garcia case has been a sore spot for the Trump administration. Courts at every level of the federal judiciary said the mistake needed to be corrected, yet officials spent months resisting demands that they bring the father of three back to Maryland. The US government continues to claim Abrego Garcia is a dangerous member of the MS-13 gang – which his family and lawyers deny.