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| abb | Aug 10 2013, 04:48 AM Post #1 |
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Death certificate says man shot by Durham police was fleeing; chief says certificate is wrong Published: August 9, 2013 Updated 9 hours ago By Mark Schultz — mschultz@newsobserver.com DURHAM — The death certificate for a suspect fatally shot by a Durham police officer says he was killed while fleeing, but the chief says it’s wrong. Jose Ocampo, 33, died from a gunshot wound to the head, according to the certificate signed by Dr. Yang Shi, a fourth-year resident in the Duke University School of Medicine. Shi, who is from China Medical University according to the Duke Pathology website, wrote that Ocampo was “shot by officer while fleeding (sic),” according to the death certificate. Police Chief Jose Lopez has declined to be interviewed about the July 27 incident since he told The Herald-Sun that Officer R.S. Mbuthia shot Ocampo in the chest after Ocampo failed to put his hands up in the air and took a knife out of his pocket. In a statement Friday night, Lopez said the certificate is incorrect when it says Ocampo, who was a suspect in a non-fatal stabbing earlier that day, was fleeing when he was killed outside his home at 806 Park Ave. in Old East Durham. “We have been in communication with the medical examiner’s office and we were informed that there was a mistake written on the death certificate,” he said in the statement. “We understand that it will be corrected on the autopsy report.“ Lopez did not dispute the listed cause of death: “gunshot wound to the head.” The shooting of Ocampo, a native of Honduras, has drawn criticism. Witnesses told a private investigator that Ocampo did not understand the officers shouting at him in English and was offering the knife handle side out to police when he was shot four times. The director of the Civil Litigation Clinic at N.C. Central University has called for an outside investigation. In an email Wednesday night Shi referred questions about the death certificate to attending physicians. Chief Medical Examiner Deborah Radisch did the autopsy on Ocampo, but she was out of the office Thursday and not due back this week, according to the office. On Wednesday, Scott Holmes, director of the NCCU clinic said the death certificate raises more questions about the case. If the information that Ocampo was fleeing came from law enforcement, “that’s really problematic,” Holmes said Wednesday, “because what that means is there are now two contradictory versions within the city police’s version” of what happened the morning Ocampo was killed. “Because it can’t be both self-defense and fleeing,” Holmes said. In addition to the Police Department’s internal review, the State Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the shooting, which is standard procedure in an officer-involved shooting. The SBI will give its report to interim District Attorney Leon Stanback, who said he doesn’t know how long that will take or how much he will release. “I’ll have to decide that when I get it,” the former judge said, “but I can’t see any reason why I wouldn’t make it public, or at least the results.” Mbuthia has been put on paid administrative leave, which is also standard procedure. Staff writer Jim Wise contributed to this story. Schultz: 919-932-2003 Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/09/3095876/death-certificate-says-man-shot.html#storylink=cpy |
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| abb | Aug 10 2013, 04:50 AM Post #2 |
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http://www.journalnow.com/sports/colleges/basketball/article_53a538d2-0161-11e3-bf57-0019bb30f31a.html ar Hairston drove issued 12 tickets The Associated Press | Posted: Friday, August 9, 2013 10:05 pm A rental car driven by P.J. Hairston , the suspended North Carolina basketball player, had 12 campus parking citations over a two-month period, according to records released by the university Friday. Hairston was charged in May with speeding while driving the 2012 Camaro. There were no citations for vehicles registered to Hairston, and it's unclear if he had the rental car at the time of the violations. The vehicle was rented to Haydn Patrick "Fats" Thomas , a felon facing pending drug charges, or to Catinia Farrington , who was sharing Thomas’ home address, at the time of each citation. The violations run from April 1 to May 28, according to records released by the school in response to a public-records request by The Associated Press. Three of the citations were issued while the car was parked near the Smith Center and Hairston's dorm. American Traffic Solutions, an Arizona company that handles unpaid parking violations for Hertz and other rental agencies, paid UNC $265 in a check dated May 30 to cover seven violations for the Camaro. Charles Territo , a spokesman for American Traffic Solutions, said Friday that the company then billed $685 — which included administrative fees and a fine — to Thomas' credit card listed on rental records. |
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| abb | Aug 10 2013, 04:51 AM Post #3 |
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http://www.wralsportsfan.com/rental-tied-to-unc-player-gets-12-parking-tickets/12761143/ Rental tied to UNC player gets 12 parking tickets Posted: Yesterday at 8:49 p.m. A rental car driven by suspended North Carolina basketball player P.J. Hairston also had a dozen campus parking citations over a two-month period, according to records released by the university Friday. Hairston was charged in May with speeding while driving the 2012 Camaro, which has a Virginia license plate. There were no citations for vehicles registered to Hairston and it's unclear if he was in possession of the rental car at the time of the parking violations. The vehicle was rented from Hertz by a felon facing pending drug charges, or a woman sharing the felon's home address, at the time of each citation. The violations run from April 1 to May 28, according to records released by the school in response to a public records request by The Associated Press. Ten of them were issued while the car was rented from March 25 to April 15 under the name of Haydn Patrick "Fats" Thomas, whose name also appeared on rental records for the 2013 SUV that Hairston was driving on the night of his June arrest on a misdemeanor drug charge that was later dismissed. The final two parking citations were issued while the car was rented from April 25 to June 17 under the name of Catinia Farrington, who shares Thomas' Durham address. Hairston was charged May 13 with driving 54 mph in a 45-mph zone in Durham in the car. Three of the citations were issued while the Camaro was parked near the Smith Center and Hairston's dorm. American Traffic Solutions, an Arizona-based company that handles unpaid parking violations for Hertz and other rental agencies, paid UNC $265 in a check dated May 30 to cover seven violations for the Camaro. Charles Territo, a spokesman for American Traffic Solutions, said Friday evening that the company then billed $685 - which included administrative fees and a fine - on June 18 to Thomas' credit card listed on rental records for the vehicle. "Our goal is to ensure the Hertz Corporation isn't penalized for a violation received by one of its renters," Territo said. Three citations were listed only as warnings without financial penalty. Two of the most recent violations for parking without a valid permit, carrying $40 fines, remain unpaid, according to the UNC Department of Public Safety's online database. Territo said payment on those tickets is pending. In addition, a 2009 Porsche Cayenne registered to Farrington was twice cited for campus parking violations, once on April 19 and once on July 1, according to school records. Hairston, 20, was suspended indefinitely from the team July 28, hours after state police pulled him over for driving 93 mph in a 65 mph zone - his third run-in with authorities since May. He was cited for speeding, and careless and reckless driving while driving a 2008 Acura owned by a friend, Randi Lee Furr. Hairston was the Tar Heels leading scorer, averaging 14.6 points for the season. He announced in April that he would return for his junior season instead of entering the NBA draft. |
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