Nancy Prado

Las autoridades dieron a conocer más detalles de la balacera del martes pasado por la noche en la que mataron a un joven de 18 años cerca del Complejo Deportivo de Mecca.

Agentes del Sheriff respondieron a un reporte de un tiroteo en la intersección de Coahuilla Street y 6th Street en Mecca.

Cuando los agentes llegaron, encontraron a Angel Rodriguez de Thermal, con varias heridas de bala que le provocaron la muerte, mientras que testigos dijeron que escucharon más de 30 balazos.

Los agentes realizaron una búsqueda del pistolero con la ayuda de un helicóptero, pero no lo encontraron.

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Nancy Prado

Seis personas resultaron heridas en un accidente automovilístico que ocurrió ayer a las 7:30 de la noche en la intersección de la avenida 48 y Dillon Road, cerca de Grapefruit Boulevard, en Indio.Cinco de personas sufrieron heridas leves y fueron trasladadas al hospital en ambulancia, y un niño de 11 años resulto herido de gravedad y se lo llevaron en helicóptero.

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Nancy Prado

Seis personas resultaron heridas en un accidente automovilístico que ocurrió ayer a las 7:30 de la noche en la intersección de la avenida 48 y Dillon Road, cerca de Grapefruit Boulevard, en Indio.Cinco de personas sufrieron heridas leves y fueron trasladadas al hospital en ambulancia, y un niño de 11 años resulto herido de gravedad y se lo llevaron en helicóptero.

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By Eric Levenson, CNN

(CNN) — Savannah Guthrie said she believes her mother may have been abducted for ransom because of her fame, the “Today” show host said in her first interview since her mother’s disappearance nearly two months ago.

Speaking to her NBC colleague and friend Hoda Kotb, Guthrie said her brother first raised the possibility that Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped for ransom.

“I said, ‘What? Why? What?’ It sounds so – how dumb could I be but I just, I didn’t want to believe. I said, ‘Do you think because of me?’” Guthrie said. “He said, ‘I’m sorry sweetie, but yeah maybe.’ But I knew that. I hope not. I mean we still don’t know. Honestly we don’t know anything.

“I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom, and somebody thought, ‘That lady has money, we could make a quick buck.’ I mean that would make sense, but we don’t know, but yeah that’s probably. Which is too much to bear, to think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me.

“I just say, I’m so sorry mommy. I’m so sorry. … If it is me, I’m so sorry,” she said.

The interview comes nearly two months after Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on January 31 in what police believe to be an abduction.

Video from her doorbell camera showed an armed, masked person tampering with the camera at her home that night, and Guthrie’s blood was found on the front porch, according to authorities. Several purported ransom letters demanded millions of dollars in bitcoin for her return, but the family and police did not receive proof of their legitimacy.

The suspect in the video is described as male, about 5-feet-9-inches to 5-feet-10-inches tall and having an average build. His backpack was identified as a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack.

Guthrie and her family have released emotional videos pleading for their mother’s return and asked the public to provide tips on her whereabouts. The family announced a $1 million reward for information leading to her mother’s recovery.

NBC aired a short clip from Guthrie’s interview with Kotb on Wednesday morning.

“Someone needs to do the right thing. We are in agony. We are in agony,” Guthrie said through tears in the clip. “It is unbearable.”

“I wake up every night in the middle of the night, every night, and in the darkness, I imagine her terror. And it is unthinkable, but those thoughts demand to be thought, and I will not hide my face. But she needs to come home now.”

Kotb described the interview as emotional and said Guthrie spoke about the investigation, her faith and how she’s getting through this period.

“There is a desperation and also a steeliness about Savannah,” Kotb said. “She’s hoping that somebody, whoever this person is, will see something and say something.”

Guthrie, 54, is the centerpiece of the “Today” show, one of the most important franchises at NBCUniversal. The network has not yet announced a return date for Guthrie, but a person close to the show said they anticipate Guthrie coming back to Studio 1A sometime in April.

Guthrie and Kotb co-hosted “Today” from 2018 until Kotb’s departure last year.

Officials say the case is still active, with a 20- to 24-person task force dedicated to the investigation. “We’re not giving up,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told KOLD, the CBS affiliate in Tucson, earlier this week.

The Guthrie family maintains close communication with law enforcement, a friend of Savanna

By August Phillips, CNN

(CNN) — Marla Waldman Conn was on a family vacation, relaxing by a pool in Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks, when she got a call from a New York detective. She walked to a private corner, picked up the phone, and heard the words she had been waiting on for decades: “We have a match.” Marla fell to her knees.

That news was in reference to the homicide case of Marla’s mother, Barbara Waldman, who was murdered in her Long Island, New York, home on January 11, 1974. Fifty years later, police had matched crime scene DNA to a man who had lived in Waldman’s Oceanside neighborhood at the same time.

Waldman’s killing languished as a cold case for decades, but her children refused to accept not knowing. They relentlessly pursued answers, and finally found them.

‘We didn’t talk about it’

Marla and her two brothers, Larry and Eric, were just 7, 6 and 5 when their mother died at the age of 31.

It was Eric, the youngest child, who discovered his mother’s body in the family’s house after hopping off the school bus from a day at kindergarten. He says his final memory of his mom is of her lying on the floor upstairs in her rose-covered bathrobe, her hands tied behind her back and a pillowcase stuffed in her mouth. The Nassau County Police homicide squad determined Waldman had been shot in the head.

“I’ve had that image in my head since I found her when I was 5, and I’m going to have it until I die,” Eric said.

Neighbors saw a person walking near the house on the day of the murder, and police produced a sketch of a man in a snorkel coat – a heavy jacket with a fur-trimmed hood. But the sketch wasn’t enough. A suspect couldn’t be identified, and the case went cold, joining the sad ranks of hundreds of thousands of unsolved violent crimes.

After their mother’s death, the Waldman children tried their best to live normal lives. Their father, local dentist Dr. Gerry Waldman, remarried six months later, and the young children accepted his new wife as their stepmom.

“It was tough growing up. We didn’t talk about it,” Eric said. “The pictures came off the walls — one, two, three of my mom in the house, so there was nothing of her.”

But as they got older, the children began thinking more and more about their mother and what happened to her.

“I think we disassociated and basically kept the secret and pretended,” Marla said. “Until I got pregnant, and that’s when I really started questioning my dad: ‘Dad, this isn’t right, I want to know about my mom.’”

‘I’m not letting this go’

There was also family division and gossip surrounding their father, playing into that secrecy. Some neighbors and relatives speculated he might have been involved in his wife’s killing, and his quick move into a second marriage didn’t “look good,” Eric said. But in 2004, as DNA matching techniques evolved, police say he provided detectives a swab with his genetic material. It was then, his children said, that their father was ruled out as a suspect. He died a couple of years later, never knowing who was responsible for his wife’s death.

Marla said she became “a little bit obsessed” over her mother’s case after that. She began watching true crime shows and calling the Nassau County Police Department every year to check in on the case, which she says officers told her could not be reopened without new evidence.

In what she thought might be a big break, Marla recalls her family members “blowing up my phone” in December 2022 when serial killer Richard Cottingham admitted to killing five Long Island women in the late 1960s and early 1970s — the same timeframe and location as her mother’s murder. She and her brother reached out to detectives and the district attorney. It was enough to get their mother’s