Routh Family Member Speaks

Kevin Cokely & Amanda Guerra, NBC 5 News

Cousin of Eddie Ray Routh wants people to know the state of his cousin before the killings at a gun range in Erath County.

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Just one year apart, Adam Routh says he and his cousin Eddie Ray Routh are as close as brothers.

"I tell you what.. my cousin was just one of the best guys ever," Adam Routh said. "I love that dude. And I'm going to stand by him 100 percent."

The Marine reservist accused of murdering former Navy SEAL and best-selling author Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at an Erath County gun range on February 2. Routh continues to be held on a single count of capital murder and two separate murder complaints. His bond is set at $3 million.

Adam Routh knew his cousin well during childhood. And later, while Adam stayed in Texas, Eddie headed to the military. The US Marine served in both in Iraq and Haiti.

Adam admits when Eddie came back to Texas, he was different.

"I mean, he was still a good guy but there was an emptiness, there was an emptiness there in his eyes," Adam Routh said. "Thinking back and all that and looking back into it.. he was more of an aggressive person."

Family members claim Routh was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Records confirm he spent time at Green Oaks Psychiatric Hospital in Dallas.

"The general public needs to understand they're bringing our boys home after doing things that nobody else could do," Adam Routh said. "They need help most of all."

Adam believes extreme mental suffering and aggression led Routh to allegedly shoot and kill Kyle and Littlefield.

"I want to speak out because what my cousin do [sic] was wrong... I fully agree with that I don't condone it," Routh said. "I will stand by my cousin 100 percent day by day. It's a terrible tragedy and I feel so sorry for the Kyle family and the Littlefield family."

"But there are measures in our government, whenever you send our boys home.. they're not right," Routh said. "You need to put our money into making our boys straight and sane, to come home so they don't do things like this."

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Memorial for Kaufman ADA Mark Hasse

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The investigation into the shooting death of Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse continues, but no arrests have been made.

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Friends, family and former colleagues gathered at the Terrell Performing Arts Center Saturday afternoon for a memorial service honoring a North Texas prosecutor gunned down near the county courthouse where he worked.

57-year-old Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was shot multiple times the morning of Jan. 31 just after he got out of his car to walk to the county courthouse in Kaufman.

After introductions from Kaufman County Criminal District Attorney Mike McLelland, Hasse's brother Paul addressed the audience.

"You honor Mark by being here today and you honor him by the massive effort so many of you are making to find out who did this," said Paul Hasse. "I know that people in the Kaufman County law enforcement community will continue to honor Mark for years to come by continuing to do everything they can to help victims of crime and to work very hard to keep this community safe."

"This is a hard way for us to get to know the Kaufman community but it's just a wonderful place and I do know why he was happy here," said Paul Hasse.

Kaufman County Judge Bruce Wood shared stories from people who worked with Hasse at the Kaufman County Courthouse who described him as a great story teller as well as witty, brilliant,  remarkable, prepared, tough and fearless.

"I can assure everyone here today, and those who are listening, that Mark Hasse was most certainly not one of those men who did nothing -- in fact, he was just exactly the opposite. He triumphed over evil every day of his professional life," said Wood. "The citizens of Kaufman County, the State of Texas and our great country are in a much safer and better place today because of Mark Hasse."

Hasse had been with Kaufman County for three years and was a former assistant Dallas County district attorney.

"I'd rather be in a courtroom trying a case with Mark right now than being in this room," said Marcus Busch, a friend and former law partner who worked with Hasse at the Dallas County District Attorney's Office.

Busch talked about their early years trying cases together, Hasse's love of flying and his near-death experience when his plane crashed in the mid-1990s.

"Mark came back to being a prosecutor and in the process he gave his life for what he believed in, because that was more important to him than anything," said Busch. "This world is a better place because of Mark and so are we."

No arrests have been made in the case, but federal, state and local investigators are working to find his killer.

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Video Shows Ex-LAPD Cop Murder Suspect in Calif.

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Newly released surveillance video showed a wanted homicide suspect tossing several items into a dumpster behind a store in National City, Calif., 48 hours before the alleged crime spree that prompted a manhunt throughout the Southwest.

Former Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner is suspected in a series of attacks over the past week that left three people dead, including a Riverside, California, police officer.

Authorities say Dorner has vowed revenge against several former LAPD colleagues whom he blames for ending his career.

NBC 7 San Diego has obtained surveillance video through sources close to the investigation. The video was taken outside an auto parts store on Main Street in National City at 9:07 a.m. Monday. The store is located directly across the street from the National City police station.

On the video, a Nissan Titan truck pulls up to a dumpster and stops. For four minutes, someone unloads items from the back.

Majid Yahyai is an employee at Platinum Auto Sports.

"He was right on the tape, I mean he went, came back, made a U-turn, stopped," Yahyai said.

A man matching Dorner's description stops near a second dumpster closer to the discreetly mounted security camera.

Wearing jeans and a jacket the man walks over to the passenger door and begins searching through more belongings.

"He was for three, four minutes inside his car looking for things," Yahyai said.

This time he throws away what we now know was a magazine full of bullets with their tips carefully sawed off, a green military belt strap, and a brown camouflage helmet.

The items were discovered within a half hour by an employee.

Police aren't disclosing specifics about the items found in the first dumpster, but it was all a huge find for detectives, who were equally elated to find it was all captured on video.

For those at this shop who were there working as it happened - the encounter is a little too close to home.

"So he missed him by 20 - 30 minutes at most, if he'd of gone 20 minutes earlier probably he would've seen him back here. Scary," Yahyai said.

Yahyai said he and the employee took the items across the street to a police station. They told NBC 7 San Diego they were just happy to help in the investigation.

Saturday was the third full day of a massive multi-agency hunt for Dorner in the San Bernardino mountains, about 80 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, where Dorner's burned-out pickup truck was discovered Thursday.

A scaled-back search party took advantage of a break from stormy weather to search for Dorner using heat-sensing helicopters as vacationing families and weekend skiers frolicked nearby.

A law enforcement officer told The Associated Press authorities found weapons in the truck. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe is ongoing.

Investigators have been examining the truck to determine if it broke down or was set ablaze as a diversion. Police say the truck had a broken axle.

Investigators are trying to determine whether it was already broken when they found it, or whether it was damaged when it was towed away.

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LAPD Reopens Investigation into Dorner's Firing

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Cmdr. Andrew Smith announced on Saturday that the LAPD is reopening the case involving fugitive Christopher Dorner's firing from the force. In an 11,400-word manifesto, Dorner laid out plans for killing law enforcement officers and their families, vowing to stop the attacks "when the department states the truth about my innocence." Jane Yamamoto reports from LAPD Headquarters for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Feb. 9, 2013.

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The Los Angeles Police Department is reopening the case surrounding Christopher Dorner's termination from the force, Cmdr. Andrew Smith announced Saturday during a news conference.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck "is not opening it because of the accusations or because of the musings of someone who is a multiple murderer now," Smith said. "He's doing it because he wants to ensure that the public knows that the Los Angeles Police Department is fair and transparent."

Smith said witnesses will be re-interviewed and the investigation into Dorner's firing will get a "fresh set of eyes." He also issued a plea for Dorner to come forward.

"He can turn himself in and he can be able to get his side of the story out," Smith said.

Dorner is accused of killing an LAPD chief's daughter, her fiancé, and a Riverside police officer in an alleged revenge-motivated shooting rampage.

In a chilling manifesto, Dorner outlined plans to kill law enforcement officers and their families. He said the violence will end when LAPD clears his name.

"The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to stop, nor do i want it. I want my name back, period," he wrote in the document published on his Facebook page. "There is no negotiation."

Dorner used the manifesto to recount his firing and declare his innocence. He was fired from the LAPD in 2008, after reporting another officer for alleged brutality – an accusation that investigators later said was false.

Smith repeatedly said the move to reopen the case was not to appease Dorner. Still, the tone of Saturday's announcement was starkly different from Beck's comments earlier this week in which he dismissed Dorner's manifesto as "the rantings of a killer."

The alleged shooting spree, which began on Feb. 3 with the slayings of Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence, spurred the creation of a joint task force dedicated to the Dorner case, officials announced Saturday.

The FBI, U.S. Marshals, and Irvine, Riverside and Los Angeles police departments comprise the newly created task force.

"This is an extraordinary, unprecedented effort," said Irvine Police Chief David Maggard.

The search for Dorner turned to the Big Bear area Thursday and continued through the weekend after the discovery of the Dorner's burned-out Nissan Titan pickup in the woods south of Big Bear Lake.

As the agency leading the mountain search, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department was noticeably absent when authorities announced the creation of the task force.

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Man Dead in Officer-Involved Shooting in Dallas

Andres Gutierrez, NBC 5 News

A Dallas family tonight claims police used excessive force in a shooting that killed their son overnight. But police said they had no other choice.

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Dallas police say a man who said he wanted to turn himself into police pointed a weapon at officers and officers opened fire killing him.

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A man is dead after a standoff that ended in an officer-involved shooting just after midnight Saturday morning.

Dallas police said they received word that 39-year old Stoney Eugene Rawlinson, a person of interest in a homicide, wanted to turn himself in to police.

According to Dallas police, arrangements were made for the man to meet with uniformed officers in a parking lot in the 6500 block of Skillman Avenue near Abrams Road.

When officers arrived they said the man was sitting inside his car armed with a gun, according to his father, Stoney Eugene Rawlinson Sr., it was a 12-gauge shotgun.

"The officers gave loud verbal commands for the suspect to drop his weapon, Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Demarquis Black said. "The suspect pointed his weapon at the officers, and fearing for their lives they fired their weapons." 

The SWAT Unit was called in since the man was still in the vehicle and officers were unsure of his condition.

After a brief standoff police determined the man was dead inside the car.

Rawlinson's father has strong feelings over the incident.

"He was giving himself up last night and I felt like he was executed last night," he said.

 

According to criminal records, Rawlinson's past included a single conviction in Mesquite for criminal mischief above $20,000 for which he recieved deferred ajudication.

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Man Killed in Officer-Involved Shooting in Fort Worth

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One man is dead after an officer-involved shooting in the 3100 block of N. Pecan Street in Fort Worth Saturday night.

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Fort Worth police are investigating an officer-involved shooting Saturday night that left one man dead.

Police said that at about 10:15 p.m. officers were called to a shooting in the 3100 block of N. Pecan Street north of downtown Fort Worth. A shooting victim was taken to a local hospital, there's no word on the victim's condition.

Minutes later police tracked down a vehicle matching the description on Pecan Street in the shooting not far from the scene.

Officers approached the car on foot and confronted a man in the car, police said the driver sped toward officers. Fort Worth police said, fearing for their safety and believing an officer had been hit by the car, the other officers shot at the car hitting and killing the driver.

All of the officers involved in the shooting have been placed on routine administrative leave pending an internal investigation, according to Fort Worth police.

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Reward and Renewed Search for Ex-Cop Revenge Shooter

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As investigators began their fourth day of searching for fugitive ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner in the snowy mountains around Big Bear Lake, federal and state officials said Sunday they plan to offer a reward for his capture.

Dorner is wanted in the slayings of three people and the ambush-style shooting of two others, all part of a revenge-style rampage that began last Sunday, when he allegedly shot the daughter of a police union lawyer and her fiancé in an Irvine parking garage.

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The FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and numerous local police agencies said they planned to announce details about the reward at a news conference Sunday afternoon.

News of the reward came as the LAPD announced it would re-open its investigation into Dorner's firing from the department in 2008.

In a 11,400 word manifesto published on line, the ex-officer blamed his killing spree on his termination, saying that he would only stop when his name was cleared.

Re-opening the investigation seems to have two purposes: to communicate to members of the public who have responded to Dorner's complaints that the LAPD treated him unfairly, and to send a message to the ex-officer himself.

The department "is not opening it because of the accusations or because of the musings of someone who is a multiple murderer now," Cmdr. Andrew Smith said Saturday. Chief Charlie Beck is "wants to ensure that the public knows that the Los Angeles Police Department is fair and transparent, " Smith said.

Witnesses will be re-interviewed and the investigation into Dorner's firing will get a "fresh set of eyes," Smith said. He also issued a plea for Dorner to come forward.

"He can turn himself in and he can be able to get his side of the story out," Smith said.

Deputies have been combing the ski resort area of Big Bear, where authorities found former LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner's burned-out truck, since Thursday afternoon.

Investigators found weapons inside the truck, suggesting Dorner may have abandoned the truck in an unplanned hurry.

Former LAPD Chief William Bratton told the "Today Show" on Saturday that evidence suggests Dorner's truck may have become stuck in the mud. Previously, it was speculated that the truck may have been intentionally set ablaze as a distraction.

Investigators on Saturday were also trying to determine whether the truck's axle was broken when they found it, or if it was fractured while being towed from the forestry road.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, interviewed outside a prayer breakfast downtown, urged Dorner to turn himself in.

"We will find you," Villaraigosa said. "You've disgraced the public safety -- the police profession -- turn yourself in."

As the search in Big Bear was winding down for the night on Saturday, LAPD announced the department is reopening the case into Dorner's 2008 firing from the force.

In an 11,400-word document published online, Dorner laid out plans to kill law enforcement officers and their families, vowing to stop the attacks when LAPD "states the truth about my innocence."
 

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Amazing Time Lapse of Blizzard 2013

Jose Andrade took this time lapse video in Portland. He shows you 24 hours of Blizzard 2013 in 43 seconds.

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When most of us went to sleep, there was an impressive amount of snow, but we woke up to massive amounts.

A Portland man caught 24-hours of the storm in condensed it a 43-second time lapse video. 

Jose Andrade posted this video on his YouTube channel.

You can see his other videos  here.

 

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Jamie Foxx Joins Trayvon Martin's Parents at "Peace Walk"

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Judge Denies George Zimmerman's Motion to Delay Trial

Judge Debra Nelson denied George Zimmerman's motion to delay his trial in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Attorneys Mark O'Mara and Bernie de la Rionda comment.

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Judge Debra Nelson denied a request by George Zimmerman's defense attorneys to delay the trial until November. Nelson said the trial will begin on June 10. Defense attorney Mark O'Mara and prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda spoke about the case. Outside the courtroom, supporters of Trayvon Martin, including Martin family attorney Natalie Jackson, remembered the Miami Gardens teen on what would have been his 18th birthday.

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Actor Jamie Foxx joined the parents of slain teenager Trayvon Martin on Saturday for a community event in South Florida that drew throngs of people.

The event, called the ""I am Trayvon, Day of Remembrance Peace Walk," was led by Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, at Ives Estates Park in Miami. 

Martin's parents, who wore green shirts with their son's image that read "I am Trayvon," held up a large banner with their son's face on it as they led hundreds of supporters in a march for peace.

"It's just a beautiful feeling just to know that all of these people are out here and honoring, in remembrance of Trayvon," Tracy Martin said.

Foxx, who took the stage to address everyone who attended, said he felt it was necessary to show his support.  "When I first saw this story, I couldn't get over it," Foxx said.

Foxx, who has an 18-year-old daughter, said he was especially touched by the tragedy.

"I'm absolutely committed to all you out there who have young kids," he said. "I hope you never have to go through anything like this."

The star said he hopes to use his voice to keep Trayvon Martin's memory and message alive.

"The thing is with press, and you know how press goes, it will be a hot story at one point. It will be the thing to go to and, all of a sudden, they try to forget about it," Foxx said. "And I said I don't want anybody to forget about this, because they can't forget about the fact that they lost their son."

Foxx added, "And the thing is, we're not asking for anything out of the ordinary. We're asking for justice."

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It has been nearly a year since Trayvon Martin, 17, of Miami Gardens, was killed. He was fatally shot in Sanford in February last year during a confrontation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, 28, authorities say. 

Zimmerman, who says the shooting was self-defense, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Martin's death.

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Saturday, Martin's family was thankful Foxx attended the event.

"We really appreciate you here, and you always got a family here in Miami," Tracy Martin told him.

Foxx closed out the rally by singing a song dedicated to Trayvon Martin.

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