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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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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Bacon Festival Holds Pageant, Extravagant Bacon Dishes

Attendees of the Blue Ribbon BaconFestival in Iowa prepared bacon gumbo and chocolate bacon bourbon tarts.

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Thousands of people came together in Urbandale, Iowa for the popular Blue Ribbon BaconFestival celebrating all things connected with the meat, according to the Associated Press. People arrived dressed in creative costumes like Viking hats and makeshift snouts.

The annual event saw more than 10,000 pounds of bacon cooked in every way possible. Visitors could enjoy bacon gumbo, chocolate bacon bourbon tarts, and even Icelandic bacon dishes. Some pieces of bacon were made into deserts by being dipped in chocolate or baked into cupcakes. There was even bacon gelato.

"I love bacon more than I love my job," said Katie Nordquist, who wore a tuxedo T-shirt that resembled bacon for her first visit to the festival. 

The event has attracted a lot of attention having sold about 8,000 tickets to the event in a little over three minutes. The festival also included lectures about bacon eating as well as a bacon queen pageant. A pig was even pardoned by Governor Terry Branstad.

Resident Mike Vogel made his fourth appearance to the festival wearing a complete bacon costume. "I think it's the right time of year when everybody's been cooped up," said the 39-year-old videographer. "It's a good time to get out, have some fun, try some new stuff, have a few beers and enjoy yourselves with everybody else."

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Pope Benedict XVI Resignation Statement

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Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church.

After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.

I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.

For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff.

With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.

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Man Dead in Officer-Involved Shooting

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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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Mesquite Teen Safe and No Longer Missing

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15-year-old Libni Gomez was last seen at 12:45 p.m. Friday.

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Mesquite Police say a 15-year-old girl reported missing Friday afternoon has called her family to say she's with her boyfriend.

Police said at about 12:45 p.m. Friday, 15-year-old Libni Gomez went outside to start the family's van parked on the street in front of their home in the 2800 block of Shelduck Drive.

When her mother and sister came out of the house a few minutes later, she was gone and the keys to the van lying on the ground according to police.

Mesquite officers searched the area but could not locate Gomez.

Mesquite police said Saturday afternoon that Gomez's father said she called and told him she was with her boyfriend and is safe.

Officers verified the information and no longer consider Gomez a missing person.

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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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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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Christopher Dorner's Termination to "Get Fresh Pair of Eyes": LAPD

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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