Abby Zwerner shot by 6-year-old as she tried to confiscate gun

The first-grade teacher in Virginia who was shot by her 6-year-old student was about to confiscate the gun when the child pulled the trigger.

“She was going to confiscate it — and that’s when he shot,” Brittaney Gregory, whose son was in the class, told the Washington Post.

Abby Zwerner, 25, was shot about 2 p.m. Friday at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va. She was listed in serious but stable condition at Riverside Regional Medical Center, the paper reported.

The teacher has been hailed as a hero for warning the other kids to flee when the shooting erupted.

The 6-year-old has been taken into custody after the shocking incident, which Police Chief Steve Drew said resulted from a fight and was “not an accidental shooting.”

It was unclear what sparked the fight or how the boy managed to get a hold of the weapon.

Abby Zwerner, 25, of Williamsburg, Virginia, was shot intentionally by a student Friday.
Virginia teacher Abby Zwerner, 25,
“She was going to confiscate (the gun) — and that’s when he shot,” said Brittaney Gregory, whose son was in the class, referring to teacher Abby Zwerner, above.

Gregory said that when the teacher told the children to run, they fled to another teacher’s classroom and remained under lockdown.

The mom described Zwerner as her son’s favorite teacher, who would leave notes in his backpack.

“I hope you had a great day,” Gregory said the teacher wrote in one. “I want you to know your smile is contagious,” another said, according to the parent.

Gregory said her son is “still in shock” and has nightmares from the shooting.

“He normally sleeps in his own room but the night of the shooting he came into my room. He was talking in his sleep, saying we got to get out of here,” she told the paper, adding that she plans to take her son to a therapist.

Gregory said she found out about the shooting when a neighbor asked her if she saw a report on TV.

“What school?” she said she asked. “‘Your son’s school. They said it was the first grade,’” the neighbor told her, she said.

“My heart instantly dropped,” Gregory said.

When she arrived at the scene, police said no kids had been hurt.

“Not physically, but this is going to scar him mentally,” she said she thought.

When she was finally reunited with her son, she said “you could tell on his face what he was going through. He was a deer in the headlights.”

Authorities said it wasn’t immediately clear what sparked the argument.
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Meanwhile, another student described the frantic moments after the shooting.

“We were doing math … an announcer came on she was like, ‘Lockdown, I repeat lockdown,’” fifth-grader Novah Jones, who was in another classroom, told CNN.

“I was scared … it was like my first lockdown and I didn’t know what to do, so I just hid under my desk like everybody was,” she said during an interview that included her mother, Kasheba Jones.

As police raced to the scene, Novah informed her mother about the lockdown.

The young student who shot Zwerner was taken into custody.
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“I texted her, ‘Mom, help,’” she said.

“I couldn’t breathe I was in shock,” her mother, Kasheba told CNN.

Novah said she had “flashbacks” found it difficult to sleep that night because she worried that the boy “still had the gun and he was going to come to my house.”

Andrew Block, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said it is unlikely the shooter could be prosecuted even though there is no minimum age for being charged with a crime in Virginia.

“As a practical matter, it would be next to impossible to prosecute a 6-year-old, no matter how serious,” Block, the former director of the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice, told the Washington Post.

He cited the “infancy defense,” in which people under age 7 do not have the ability or mental state to form the intent to commit a crime.

“The bigger barrier, presuming the prosecution could overcome that, is all defendants have to be competent to stand trial,” Block told the outlet.

“That means you have to understand the nature of legal proceedings against you and assist in your own defense. There’s no way a 6-year-old would meet that criteria,” he added.

But Block noted that an adult could face misdemeanor charges if the pistol came from a home where the child lives because under state law, guns must be secured from kids under 14.

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Russia claims deadly attack, but Kyiv denies anyone killed

The Russian military claimed Sunday to have carried out deadly missile strikes on barracks used by Ukrainian troops in retaliation for the deaths of dozens of Russian soldiers in a rocket attack a week ago. Ukrainian officials denied there were any casualties.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its missiles hit two temporary bases housing 1,300 Ukrainian troops in Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, killing 600 of them. Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the strikes were retaliation for Ukraine’s attack in Makiivka, in which at least 89 Russian soldiers died.

Serhii Cherevatyi, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s forces in the east, told The Associated Press that Russian strikes on Kramatorsk damaged only civilian infrastructure, adding: “The armed forces of Ukraine weren’t affected.”

The Donetsk regional administration said seven Russian missiles hit Kramatorsk and two more hit Kostyantynivka, without causing any casualties. It said an educational institution, an industrial facility and garages were damaged in Kramatorsk, and an industrial zone was hit in Kostyantynivka.

Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko said two school buildings and eight apartment houses were hit overnight. Photos he posted showed no indication that it had been an attack on the scale claimed by the Russians or that anyone had been in the buildings when they were struck.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its missiles hit two temporary bases housing 1,300 Ukrainian troops in Kramatorsk.
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“The world saw again these days that Russia lies even when it draws attention to the situation at the front with its own statements,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“Russian shelling of Kherson with incendiary ammunition right after Christmas. The strikes on Kramatorsk and other cities of the Donbas — aimed right at civilian sites and right when Moscow was reporting the supposed ‘silence’ of its army.”

Russia had declared a 36-hour cease-fire timed to coincide with Orthodox Christmas celebrations on Saturday. Ukraine denounced the pause as a ploy.

Ukraine’s attack in Makiivka was one of the deadliest attacks on the Russian forces since the war began.
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Russia said the attack on Kramatorsk was in retaliation for the Ukrainian rockets that destroyed a facility in Makiivka, also in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian soldiers were gathered in the early hours of Jan. 1. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Kremlin’s forces since the war began more than 10 months ago.

Also on Sunday, the Ukrainian military claimed to have hit a residential hall of a medical university in Rubizhne, a town in the Russian-occupied eastern Luhansk region, killing 14 Russian soldiers housed there. The number of wounded was unknown, it said.

Elsewhere in the east, Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said one person was killed in strikes on Bakhmut, and eight others were wounded. The battles for Bakhmut and the nearby town of Soledar remained among the bloodiest on the front, Zelensky said.

In the northeastern Kharkiv region, the town of Merefa was hit during the night, killing one person, and two other settlements in the region were shelled, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners Sunday, swapping 50 on each side, according to Konashenkov, the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, and Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president’s office.

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Gunmen kidnap 32 people from southern Nigeria train station

Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles have abducted more than 30 people from a train station in Nigeria’s southern Edo state, the governor’s office said on Sunday.

The attack is the latest example of the growing insecurity that has spread to nearly every corner of Africa’s most populous country, posing a challenge to the government in advance of a February presidential election.

Police said in a statement that armed herdsmen had attacked Tom Ikimi station at 4 p.m. (1500 GMT) as passengers awaited a train to Warri, an oil hub in nearby Delta state. The station is some 111 km northeast of state capital Benin City and close to the border with Anambra state.

Some people at the station were shot in the attack, police said.

Edo state information commissioner Chris Osa Nehikhare said the kidnappers had taken 32 people, though one had already escaped.

“At the moment, security personnel made up of the military and the police as well as men of the vigilante network and hunters are intensifying search and rescue operations in a reasonable radius to rescue the kidnap victims,” he said. “We are confident that the other victims will be rescued in the coming hours.”

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) had closed the station until further notice and the federal transportation ministry called the kidnappings “utterly barbaric”.

The NRC last month reopened a rail service linking the capital Abuja with northern Kaduna state, months after gunmen blew up the tracks, kidnapped dozens of passengers and killed six people.

The last hostage taken in that March attack was not freed until October.

Insecurity is rampant across Nigeria, with Islamist insurgencies in the northeast, banditry in the northwest, separatists in the southeast and farmer-herdsmen clashes in the central states.

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Prince Harry’s ’60 Minutes’ interview: Best moments

From psychedelic drug trips to wicked stepmothers, Prince Harry continued dishing royal family secrets and scandals Sunday on “60 Minutes.” 

All week, Harry, 38, has been on a hype-heavy promotional tour for his book, “Spare,” which is filled with details such as Harry calling Prince William’s hair loss “alarming,” and Meghan Markle visiting Princess Diana’s grave to ask for “clarity.”

Appearing on the legendary CBS news juggernaut Sunday Night, Harry continued dropping bombshells on interviewer Anderson Cooper, 55.

Here are the biggest blockbuster moments from the tell-all interview, from Harry’s “nasty” fight with Prince William, to blasting stepmother/consort Camilla, and more.

William ignored Harry in school

Prince Harry fired shots at his brother Prince William right out of the gate. Anderson Cooper questioned Harry about how William didn’t talk to him while they attended school together, according to his book.

“At the time it hurt,” said Harry. “I couldn’t make sense of it. I was like, ‘What do you mean? We’re now at the same school. Like, I haven’t seen you for ages, now we get to hang out together.’ He’s like, ‘No, no, no, when we’re at school we don’t know each other.’ And I took that personally.”

Prince Harry on “60 Minutes.”

Icky ‘wet hands’ for Princess Diana

Harry talked about his walk with William to greet mourners outside of Kensington Palace following Princess Diana’s death.

When Cooper asked what he thinks when he watches the video footage now, Harry said, “I think it’s bizarre, because I see William and me smiling. I remember the guilt that I felt… people that we were meeting were showing more emotion than we were showing… I talk about how wet people’s hands were.”

He explained that he couldn’t understand why people’s hands were damp — but it was from wiping their own tears.

“I do remember one of the strangest parts to it was taking flowers from people and then placing those flowers with the rest of them,” Harry said, looking a tad squeamish. “As if I was some sort of middle person for their grief. And that really stood out for me.”

He also said that he cried for the first time when Diana’s coffin went into the ground. “There was never another time,” he said.

Prince Harry on “60 Minutes.”
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He thought Diana wasn’t really dead

Harry went into detail about his mother’s death in a famous 1997 car crash, and his reaction to it. “For a long time, I just refused to accept that she was gone. She would never do this to us, but also part of, maybe this is all part of a plan,” said Harry. “Then that she would call us and that we would go and join her, yeah.”

Harry said that William had “similar thoughts” and he held onto this belief for “years.” But when he was 20, he asked to see the police report about the crash that killed his mother, in order to have “proof.”  

“Proof that she was in the car. Proof that she was injured. And proof that the very paparazzi that chased her into the tunnel were the ones that were taking photographs —photographs of her lying half dead on the back seat of the car,” he said.

Prince Harry.
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He doesn’t have all the answers about Di’s death

When Cooper asked Harry if he feels that he’s gotten all of the answers about what really happened when Princess Diana died in a tunnel in Paris, Harry said, “Truth be known, no. I don’t think I do. And I don’t think my brother does, either.

I don’t think the world does.”

Drinking and drugs

Cooper questioned Harry about his use of pot and cocaine in the past. Harry said he did it in the years following his mother’s death, as a response.

“I resorted to drinking heavily. Because I wanted to numb the feeling, or I wanted to distract myself from how…whatever I was thinking. And I would, you know, resort to drugs as well,” he said.

He also said that he thinks using as psychedelics, Ayahuasca, psilocybin, mushrooms, helped him.

“They cleared away this idea that I had in my head that I needed to cry to prove to my mother that I missed her. When in fact, all she wanted was for me to be happy.”

Although he wasn’t specific about the timeline of his drug use, he said that his destructive behavior changed because of Meghan Markle. “Rather than getting drunk, falling out of clubs, taking drugs, I had now found the love of my life, and I now had the opportunity to start a family with her.”

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2022.
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Camilla the villain

Harry wrote in his book that he and William directly asked Charles not to marry Camilla. In his “60 Minutes” interview, he continued to blast her.

“We didn’t think it was necessary,” he said. “We thought that it was gonna cause more harm than good.”

He also said that her need to rehabilitate her image from a “villain” in the British press made her “dangerous” because of the connections that she was making with the tabolids.

“And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that.”

Harry felt that he was one of these “bodies,” he said, writing in his book, “Camilla sacrified me on her personal P.R. altar.”

Prince Harry with Camilla in 2012.
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Instant mistrust of Meghan Markle

In his book, Harry writes that when he introduced Markle to the Royal family in 2016, his father initially liked her but William was skeptical and called her “an American actress,” disdainfully.

Harry said this distrust started off, “Right from the beginning, before they even had a chance to get to know her.  And the U.K. press jumped on that. And here we are…The fact that she was American, an actress, divorced, Black, biracial with a Black mother. Those were just four of the typical stereotypes that is– becomes a feeding frenzy for the British press.”

The royals read the tabloids

Harry said that part of his family’s mistrust in Markle was because they read the press themselves. “My family read the tabloids, you know? It’s laid out at breakfast when everyone comes together,” he said. “So, whether you walk around saying you believe it or not, it’s still leaving an imprint in your mind. So, if you have that judgment based on a stereotype right at the beginning, it’s very, very hard to get over that.”

Anderson Cooper during his interview with Prince Harry.
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William and Charles were “furious” about Harry’s statement supporting Markle

In 2016, shortly after Harry’s relationship with Meghan became public, he put out a statement condemning what he saw as the racist way the press treated her. But his dad and brother weren’t happy, he said.

“They felt as though it made them look bad. They felt as though they didn’t have a chance or weren’t able to do that for their partners. What Meghan had to go through was similar in some part to what Kate and what Camilla went through, very different circumstances.”

Markle’s race made her situation different, which is family couldn’t understand, he said.

“I went into this incredibly naïve. I had no idea the British press were so bigoted. Hell, I was probably bigoted before the relationship with with Meghan.”

King Charles III, Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince William, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex in 2022.
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The “nasty” physical fight with William

In his book, Harry alleges that his tension with William about Markle led to a physical altercation in 2019. He elaborated to Cooper that Willam shoved him and he landed on a dog bowl, cutting his back.

 “It was at a time where he was being told certain things by people within his office. And at the same time, he was consuming a lot of the tabloid press, a lot of the stories. And he had a few issues, which were based not on reality,” said Harry. “And I was defending my wife. And he was coming for my wife…through the things that he was saying.”

He didn’t specify what William said about Markle. “We moved from one room into the kitchen. And his frustrations were growing, and growing, and growing. He was shouting at me. I was shouting back at him. It wasn’t nice. It wasn’t pleasant at all. And he snapped. And he pushed me to the floor.”

Harry said that William apologized afterwards, but it was a “nasty” experience. “He knocked me over. I landed on the dog bowl. I cut my back.”

William asked Harry not to tell anyone, he said, but Markle noticed the cut on his back.

When Cooper asked Harry if he and William speak or text, Harry said, “Currently, no. But I look forward to us being able to find peace.”

“Spare” comes out Tuesday, Jan. 10.

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Migrants plead with El Paso cops as they’re rounded up for Biden visit: video

Gripping video captures the moment migrants in El Paso pray in vain as cops rounded them up outside a local church shelter ahead of President Biden’s first visit to the Mexican border on Sunday.

“Cover us, Father, in the name of Jesus,” a man is heard praying loudly in Spanish as cops and US customs agents rounded up as many as 150 immigrants in the Texas border city, a report by NBC News shows.

“They come seeking your salvation, sir,” the man says. “They are looking for a better future. They’re respecting the law, sir.

“We respect the law and they’re doing their job,” he says. “But, father, you have the power to protect them… We pray for them, father, in the name of Jesus.”

City police and US Customs and Border Protection officers swept through the Texas city in the days before Biden’s arrival on Sunday, clearing immigrants from a shelter at Sacred Heart Church and outside a local bus station, the outlet reported.

Cops and US customs officers rounded up immigrants in El Paso this week in anticipation of President Joe Biden’s first trip to the Mexican border on Sunday.
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El Paso has taken the brunt of the record number of immigrants crossing into the US in recent weeks, with as many as 2,500 a day flowing into the city in mid-December.

Well-meaning shelters like the one at the church have been forced to turn away many immigrants as they overflow, with the migrants turning to tent cities instead.

The move to round up the migrants came as Biden made his first trip to the beleaguered border on Sunday — for a brief three-hour visit before heading to Mexico.

President Joe Biden made his first visit to the US border since taking office on Sunday, visiting El Paso and a local shelter before heading on to Mexico for a summit.
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In a statement, the federal agency’s El Paso office issued a statement defending the sudden roundup of the migrants.

“CBP, which is responsible for securing the US border between ports of entry, uses a layered approach that includes patrolling the border itself, nearby areas and neighborhoods and conducting checkpoints,” the statement said.

“In response to migrants evading apprehension in the El Paso area, the United States Border Patrol increased the number of agents patrolling the area.”

A record number of immigrants have settled on the streets of El Paso after crossing the US border with Mexico creating a migrant crisis in the Texas border city.
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Meanwhile, the union representing border patrol workers issued a scathing statement, declaring it is “beyond frustrated” with Biden’s lack of action to stem the flow of migrants.

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Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez accused of mishandling daughter’s trust fund

The late Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée is in hot water for allegedly mishandling the trust fund left for the couple’s 10-year-old daughter.

Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez has been spending an exorbitant amount of her daughter’s money on questionable items, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.

The mother of two spent a whopping $17,000 in clothing, $10,000 in entertainment expenses and thousands in “self-case costs,” the outlet reported.

Jenkins-Hernandez spent $12,000 at HomeGoods alone, expense filings state.

Trust attorney David Schwartz began objecting to Jenkins-Hernandez’s reimbursement invoices in September after she asked for $10,000 from the trust to cover the cost of daughter Avielle’s competitive dance lessons.

Jenkins-Hernandez and her daughter Avielle.
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Schwartz, a court-appointed lawyer, denied the request. The annual $150,000 issued to Jenkins-Hernandez to cover Avielle’s daily expenses is enough to cover her dance classes, Schwartz argued.

“Large amounts of money are spent under each category of the Accountings, with little clear identification of how these disbursements benefit Avielle,” the documents state.

“The Trustee understands that providing for Avielle includes expenses related to her household, but the expenditures from her late father’s NFL pension and Social Security benefits merit investigation for their reasonableness, if not correctness.”

Aaron Hernandez left a trust fund for the daughter he shares with Jenkins-Hernandez.
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Schwartz filed a request asking that Jenkins-Hernandez be removed as Avielle’s conservator, but she fired back and demanded that he be removed as the trustee.

According to Jenkins-Hernandez, Schwartz’s reimbursement rejection was keeping Avielle from her hobby.

“There is every reason to question whether and how the Conservator is applying the significant resources that should be available to pay for Avielle’s daily needs, including dance lessons, especially since all of her basic housing security and educational expenses are paid from the Trust,” Schwartz’s legal team said.

Jenkins-Hernandez gave birth to Avielle the year before Hernandez was arrested for the 2013 murder of Odin Llyod, the man dating her sister.

The former NFL player was sentenced to life in prison in 2015, but died by suicide in his cell two years later at the age of 27.

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Cow caught on video in Dubrai, India, shopping mall

Shoppers in India had a cow when one wandered into a shopping mall there.

The bovine was caught on video in Dubrai, in the Indian state of Assam, strutting through the aisles of the men’s section of a clothing store.

In the clip, which has gone viral, customers and employees can be seen moo-ving out of its way.

The cow was seen strutting through the aisles of the men’s section of a clothing store.
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The brazen cash cow must have run out of money, and left the store unharmed.

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Tampa TSA finds ’emotional support’ boa constrictor in luggage

The Transportation Security Administration says that a traveler attempted to bring an “emotional support pet” boa constrictor snake through security.

A spokesperson for the agency tweeted that the incident happened at Tampa International Airport in December when a woman had the snake, named “Bartholomew,” in her carry-on bag. The snake was detected when the bag went through an x-ray machine.

The spokesperson said that TSA contacted the airline, which said that she couldn’t bring the snake aboard the aircraft.

According to the agency, the snake is four feet in length.

“There’s a danger noodle in that bag… Our officers at Tampa International Airport didn’t find this hyssssssterical! Coiled up in a passenger’s carry-on was a 4’ boa constrictor! We really have no adder-ation for discovering any pet going through an x-ray machine,” the TSA said in an Instagram post.

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Miami restaurant shooting leaves 10 injured during French Montana music video filming

Ten people were shot outside of a Miami Gardens restaurant during the filming of a French Montana music video on Thursday night, a report said.

The gunfire erupted in the parking lot of The Licking, a soul food joint off Northwest 27th Avenue and 177th Street, around 8 p.m., WSVN reported, citing police.

Witnesses told the news outlet that French Montana was making a rap video when the chaos unfolded.

Purported video of the shooting’s aftermath shared on social media showed several victims lying on the bloodied pavement as first responders and bystanders tried to assist.

“Apply pressure!” a woman can be heard yelling in the background.

Police confirmed to WSVN that multiple people were injured in the shooting, but did not provide a number of victims. Eyewitnesses said at least 10 people were injured.

Emergency crews are seen assisting one of the victims following the shooting outside The Lick in Miami Gardens on Jan. 5, 2023.
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At least four victims required air rescue and were flown to an area hospital. Other victims drove themselves, police said.

“We’re still working. There’s multiple shots, there’s multiple cases,” Miami Gardens detective Diana Gorgue told press at the scene.

Witness Ced Mogul told WSVN the insanity escalated after someone else in the crowd was robbed of his watch.

More police presence is seen near the area where a shooting took place that injured many during a music video shoot in Miami Gardens on Jan. 5, 2023.

Caution tape outside the scene is visible after the shooting at The Lick in Miami Gardens on Jan. 5, 2023.


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“It was like at least 13, 14, 15 gunshots. It was very rapid, it sounded like an assault rifle,” said Mogul.

“I took off running, and I was looking back, but I was like, ‘You know what? Let me just duck first,’ and then people started asking me, you know, ‘Can you help me?’ When I realized people were asking for help, there was nothing you could do about it when you got shot.”



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Tony Malkin’s New Year’s Eve fireworks sparked New Zealand fire

The fireworks weren’t a blast for neighbors.

A New York City billionaire staged a private New Year’s Eve display that set a hillside ablaze near his New Zealand estate — and nearby residents are reportedly smoking mad.

Empire State Building magnate Tony Malkin set off the extravagant display on his complex in Central Otago, near Queensland, as the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1 — torching more than an acre of grass and sparking a frenzy, the Guardian reported.

“It’s just a joke that an out-of-towner can come in and set off a 14-minute commercial firework display and then burn the hill down,” neighbor Johnny Quinn fumed.

“It basically upset the entire neighborhood. Everyone within the area had to make plans. People changed their holiday plans,” he said.

Malkin, CEO of Empire State Realty Trust, owner of the iconic Manhattan building, set off the fireworks despite a petition from neighbors opposing it, Quinn said.

Neighbors asked Tony Malkin not to set off the private fireworks display.
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The fire burned 1.2 acres of hillside in New Zealand.
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The show went up in flames — and the unilateral move isn’t “the Kiwi way,” said Quinn.

The blaze tore through 1.2 acres of property before firefighters stopped it within feet of buildings owned by Malkin, the outlet reported.

Locals, many of whom opposed the fireworks because they traumatize wildlife and livestock, are demanding a ban on private pyrotechnical displays.

According to one neighbor, the fireworks show went on for 14 minutes.

Malkin has reportedly not apologized to his neighbors for the fire.


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Malkin has yet to apologize to neighbors for the fire, Quinn said.

The billionaire declined to comment through a spokesperson, except to say he and his family are grateful for the “the expert work” of cops and firefighters who responded to the blaze, according to the outlet.

He didn’t return The Post’s request for comment Thursday.

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