Posts

Showing posts matching the search for hold Friday afternoon

Witnesses at Shadowbrook Apartments recount arrest of wanted felon

Image
Witnesses at Shadowbrook Apartments ... REDDING, Calif. - People were back to their usual activities at the Shadowbrook Apartments Saturday after their daily routines were put on hold Friday afternoon . Redding police and S.W.A.T. teams camped outside the complex for almost eight hours after learning wanted felon Michael Felsch was staying in one of the apartments. Christy Fox was painting her daughter's room when she got a call from her son, asking if she was safe. "I was like what are you talking about? So he told me to come down and look and S.W.A.T. was here, and there was like four or five different cop cars and they actually had their guns drawn, and I was kind of scared cause I didn't know which unit they were trying to go in or out of," Fox said. Fox said she saw police handcuff the woman who told them Felsch was armed inside her apartment. "I was terrified, because I'm a single mom who lives here alone with her three girls. So thank God it was ju...

Recap of key events in Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind case

2:30 p.m. Norberta LaFontaine-Greywind sends her 16-year-old son to the upstairs apartment to get his sister, who was to drive him to work. Her brother knocks on the door, but no one answers. He hears what he thinks is a sewing machine running in the apartment. Savanna's father, Joe Greywind, then knocks on the upstairs apartment door . A woman answers the door and says Savanna will be a bit longer. 2:40 p.m. Norberta LaFontaine-Greywind drives her son to work. She returns to the apartment building about 3:15 p.m. and, assuming her daughter is in her room, does some laundry. About 4:30 p.m. Norberta LaFontaine-Greywind knocks on the upstairs apartment door and is told that her daughter has left. Savanna's mother then calls Fargo police to report her daughter missing. Family and friends immediately begin searching for her. Sunday, Aug. 20 Family members begin making and posting signs asking for the public's help in finding Savanna LaFontaine -Greywind. Wednesday, Aug. ...

Littoral Madness: On Kathy Acker

Image
Chris Kraus remembers the late writer, in life and in death. Kaucyila Brooke, Untitled #94 from Kathy Acker’s Clothes , 1998/2005, color photograph. From the cover of After Kathy Acker . Like everything in the past, everyone remembers it differently, and some of the people involved hardly remember at all. We’re talking about something that happened more than seventeen years ago . But on January 23, 1998, which was a Friday, friends of the late writer Kathy Acker drove from San Francisco to Fort Funston, about twenty-five minutes away, to scatter her ashes. She’d died two months earlier at an alternative clinic in Tijuana, where she received palliative care for late-stage, metastasized cancer. The ash scattering—like the wake at Bob Glück’s house on December 13 and the memorial reading at Slim’s Bar where Michelle Handelman was booed off the stage for no reason she can recall—devolved into a kind of black comedy, the way these things often do. I remember Cookie Mueller at Jackie Cur...