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Guatemala Declares State of Emergency to Address Gang Violence

The country has seen a surge of unrest in recent days, including uprisings at prisons and the killing of police officers, which the authorities have blamed on gangs.

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Guatemalan riot police officers guard the entrance to the men’s Preventive Detention Center in Guatemala City on Sunday.
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Ohio man, 83, convicted of killing Uber driver faces sentencing

William Brock fatally shot Lo-Letha Toland-Hall in 2024 after wrongly assuming she was involved in plot to rob him

An 83-year-old Ohio man faces sentencing on Tuesday after being convicted of murder in the shooting of an Uber driver who he wrongly thought was trying to rob him.

William J Brock fatally shot the driver after wrongly assuming she was in on a plot involving scam phone calls that deceived them both to get $12,000 in supposed bond money for a relative, authorities said.

Associated Press contributed

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