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Witness: Haynes paid $172K to buy into schemes
BY CLAIRE TAYLOR Staff writer
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By ROSS D. FRANKLIN
Sisters Clara Hetland, 4, from left, Haddie Hetland, 9, and Audra Hetland 6, of Surprise, Ariz., spend time Thursday at a makeshift memorial at Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix after the shooting death at a Utah college on Wednesday of Charlie Kirk, the co-founder and CEO of the organization.
Authorities seek help in search for shooter FBI releases photos of person of interest, offers $100K reward in Charlie Kirk’s death
BY ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, JESSE BEDAYN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press
OREM, Utah — The shooter who assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk and then vanished off a roof and into the woods remained at large more than 24 hours later Thursday as federal investigators appealed for the public’s help by releasing a pair of photos of the person believed responsible. Investigators obtained clues including a palm print, a Kirk shoe impression and a high-powered hunting rifle found in a wooded area along the path the shooter fled. But they had yet to name a suspect or cite a motive in the killing they were treating as the latest act of political violence to convulse the United States across the ideological spectrum. The photos of a person in a hat, sunglasses and a long-sleeve black shirt,
as well as a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, suggested that law enforcement thought tips from the public might be needed to crack the case. Two people who were taken into custody shortly after Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University were later released, forcing officials to chase new leads on a separate person of interest they pursued Thursday. One clue was a Mauser .30-caliber, bolt-action rifle found in a towel in the woods. A spent cartridge was recovered from the chamber, and three other rounds were loaded in the magazine, according to information circulated among law enforcement and described to The Associated Press. The weapon and ammunition were being analyzed by law enforcement at a federal lab. The attack, carried out in a broad daylight as Kirk spoke about social issues from a university courtyard, was captured on grisly videos that spread on social media.
A Lafayette assistant district attorney on trial in federal court for bribery involving the District Attorney’s Office overheard a co-conspirator talking about a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries kickback scheme and bought into that deal, too, according to witness testimony. Dusty Guidry, who pleaded guilty in March 2023 to three felony counts in a plea deal Guidry with federal prosecutors, testified Thursday morning in the trial of co-conspirator Gary Haynes, an assistant district attorney in the 15th Judicial District. Haynes and Guidry were hired by District Attorney Don Landry shortly after he Haynes took office in January 2021. At the time, Guidry said, he also worked in the pretrial diversion program for Hillar Moore, district attorney in the 19th Judicial District in East Baton Rouge Parish, where he was involved in a similar kickback scheme. Guidry wasn’t charged in connection with that scheme, according to his plea deal.
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Fishing dispute flares between state, feds BY JOSIE ABUGOV Staff writer
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is searching for this person of interest in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. A $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest is being ä See KIRK, page 5A offered.
The federal government’s move to end the commercial amberjack season in the Gulf has reignited a long-standing dispute with Louisiana over the management of popular fish species. Following the federal closure, Gov. Jeff Landry wrote on social media Tuesday that recreational amberjack fishing would stay open through the end of October, even if the national fisheries agency closes the season. Louisiana argues, as it has done with other species, that amberjack numbers off Louisiana are plentiful, and that the state’s own data is more reliable than the federal government’s. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries division announced in late August that commercial amberjack season would close Sept. 2 in federal waters, an action necessary to protect an overfished population, according to the federal agency.
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