King mourned by churchgoers
Hundreds mourned the loss of Coretta Scott King at the Sunday services of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her late husband preached in the 1960s and the civil rights matriarch remained a member until her death.
“Praise God for Coretta Scott King; let the heavens rejoice for the witness of our sister,” the Rev. Raphael Warnock said after a rousing rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” stirred the congregation.
Later in the church’s Heritage Sanctuary, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference/WOMEN also honored the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for her quiet and courageous strength as a leader, wife and mother.
King’s funeral will be held Tuesday at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, where the Kings’ youngest child, Bernice, is a minister.
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark.
Suspect in attacks at gay bar dies
A teenager suspected in a brutal rampage at a Massachusetts gay bar died Sunday from wounds suffered a day earlier in a shootout with Arkansas police after he fatally shot a police officer who had stopped his car and a woman he had picked up in West Virginia, authorities said.
The slain officer, Jim Sell, 63, did not know the 18-year-old he had stopped for a traffic violation in Gassville, Ark., was Jacob D. Robida, who was wanted in the hatchet-and-gun attack Thursday that left three men injured at a New Bedford bar more than 1,200 miles away, investigators said.
Robida shot the officer and then led police on a 20-mile chase before his car crashed in Norfork.
Investigators said the teen then shot his passenger, Jennifer Rena Bailey, 33, in the head and started firing at police.
Robida, who was shot twice in the head, died at Cox-South Hospital in Springfield, Mo., hospital spokesman Randy Berger said.
New york
Bodyguard killed at rap video shoot
A Busta Rhymes video shoot ended with a hail of gunfire that killed the rapper’s bodyguard in Brooklyn early Sunday, feet from some of the biggest names in hip hop – including 50 Cent, DMX and Mary J. Blige, police sources said.
At least a dozen bullets flew after bodyguard Israel Ramirez got into a scuffle during the shoot in a Greenpoint film studio that also drew Missy Elliot and Lloyd Banks, a member of 50 Cent’s G-Unit.
Shortly before the gunfire erupted at 12:25 a.m., video crew members tried to keep hangers-on from making too much noise. That enraged a self-proclaimed ex-convict, who shouted, “You don’t tell me to shut up,” according to witnesses, who said the man sported a G-Unit jacket.
Moments later, as people began to pour outside, Ramirez got into a fight – sparking a barrage of bullets.
CASTAIC, Calif.
Jail in lockdown after race riot
A maximum-security jail was in a lockdown Sunday, a day after a race-related riot left one inmate dead and more than 100 injured.
Investigators were interviewing hundreds of inmates and witnesses to the fighting that erupted between black and Hispanic prisoners Saturday at the North County Correctional Facility, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.
About 1,800 to 2,000 inmates were involved in the rioting that lasted for 30 minutes to an hour.
– Compiled from wire reports