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NATION
DEAN SENSUII Associated Press
Debris is scattered after Super Typhoon Yutu hit the U.S.
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Thursday,
Oct. 25, in Garapan, Saipan.
Super Typhoon
Yutu devastates
island territory
Police: White man kills 2 black
customers at grocery store
TIMOTHY D. EASLEY I Associated Press
Employees wait outside the entrance of a Kroger grocery following a shooting that left two
people dead and a suspect in custody, Wednesday, Oct. 24, in Jeffersontown, Ky.
BY CALEB JONES AND
JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Associated Press
HONOLULU - Resi
dents of the Northern Mari
ana Islands braced Friday
for months without electric
ity or running water after
the strongest storm to hit
any part of the United States
this year devastated the U.S.
territory, killing one person,
officials said.
Even after Super Typhoon
Yutu had moved away from
the Pacific islands, emer
gency management officials
warned residents to stay
indoors because downed
power lines blocked road
ways and winds were still
strong enough to make driv
ing dangerous.
A 44-year-old woman tak
ing shelter in an abandoned
building died when it col
lapsed in the storm, a post
on the governor’s office
Facebook page said. Offi
cials couldn’t immediately
be reached for additional
details.
The territory will need
significant help to recover
from the storm that injured
several people, said Grego
rio Kilili Camacho Sablan,
the territory’s delegate to
Congress. He said Thursday
that there were reports of
injuries and that people were
waiting to be treated at a hos
pital on the territory’s largest
and most populated island,
Saipan.
He could not provide fur
ther details or official esti
mates of casualties.
“There’s a lot of damage
and destruction,” Sablan said
in a telephone interview with
The Associated Press from
Saipan. “It’s like a small war
just passed through.”
The islands’ emergency
management agency was
“deploying resources to
clear our roadways so first
responders can begin assist
ing residents who have lost
their homes and for those
who need transport to seek
medical attention or trans
portation to the nearest shel
ter,” spokeswoman Nadine
Deleon Guerrero said in a
statement.
Sablan said he has not
been able to reach officials
on the islands of Tinian and
Rota because phones and
power are out. “It’s going to
take weeks probably to get
electricity back to every
body,” he said.
BY DYLAN LOVAN
Associated Press
JEFFERSONTOWN,
Ky. — A white man with a
history of violence fatally
shot two African-American
customers at a Kroger gro
cery store and was swiftly
arrested as he tried to flee,
authorities said Thursday.
The Courier Journal of
Louisville reported that the
suspect made a racial com
ment to a man he encoun
tered on his way out.
The FBI announced that
it “is evaluating the evi
dence to determine if there
were any violations of fed
eral law.”
An arrest report says
Gregory Alan Bush walked
into the store outside Louis
ville, pulled a gun from his
waist and shot a man in the
back of the head, then kept
shooting him multiple times
“as he was down on the
floor. ’’The report says Bush
then reholstered his gun,
walked outside and killed
a woman in the parking lot.
Bystander video shows
a white man in a distinc
tive neon-yellow shirt try
ing to drive away while an
officer chases after him on
foot. Many more officers
converged on the scene
and made the arrest on
Wednesday afternoon.
Bush, 51, was jailed on $5
million bond Thursday on
two counts of murder and
10 counts of felony wanton
endangerment.
Jeffersontown Police
Chief Sam Rogers said in
an initial news conference
at the scene that “we have
no idea” what motivated
the shootings.
Ed Harrell was quoted
by the Courier Journal as
saying he was waiting on his
wife in the parking lot when
he heard gunshots and
grabbed his revolver. As
he crouched down, he said
he saw the gunman walk
“nonchalantly” by with a
gun by his side. He said he
called out to ask what was
going on, and the gunman
replied: “Don’t shoot me. I
won’t shoot you. Whites don’t
shoot whites.”
The local coroner’s office
identified the victims as
Maurice Stallard, 69, and
Vicki Lee Jones, 67. Stallard
is father of Kellie Watson,
the chief racial equity officer
for Louisville Mayor Greg
Fischer.
The mayor shared his out
rage Thursday over what he
called an “epidemic of gun
violence” that “hit close to
home.”
“Somehow, a few have
become so beholden to poli
tics that they place a higher
value on that than on the
lives of our fellow Ameri
cans,” said Fischer, a Demo
crat running for re-election.
“People getting shot at a
grocery store, a school, out
side a church. Can’t we all
agree that that is unaccept
able?” Fischer said at a news
conference.
Bush’s criminal record
shows he threatened his ex-
wife and punched a deputy
sheriff during a family court
hearing years ago.
An arrest record from
May 2009 says Bush became
“irate” and shouted obsceni
ties and threats at his ex-
wife. When deputies tried
to subdue him, he fought off
attempts to handcuff him and
he punched a deputy twice.
He was charged with several
counts, including assault,
resisting arrest and disor
derly conduct. Bush also was
marked as a “suicide risk” on
the arrest sheet, which noted
that his ex-wife had a protec
tive order against him.
In a 2003 incident, Bush
was charged with menacing
for following a 15-year-old
into a movie theater bath
room and putting his hands
around her waist. Bush told
the girl he “thought we were
family” and the girl pushed
him away, according to the
arrest record.
Bush’s attack on customers
caused chaos at the Kroger.
Eric Deacon, who iden
tified himself as an emer
gency medical technician,
told The Associated Press
that he was in the store’s
self-checkout lane when he
heard the first shot, in the
pharmacy area.
He said a man came
around the corner and “the
look on his face, he looked
like he just didn’t care.”
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