Fatal Lightning Strikes a Reminder to Be Cautious Man Who Sent Pipe Bombs
STATE | A3 LOCAL | A3 FLORIDA TIME: PRINCIPALS THE EVOLUTION OF SHARE MORE LICENSE PLATES THAN SUCCESS AT TO THE 1990S THEIR SCHOOLS Monday, August 5, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 20 people killed in shooting Gunman kills nine, including Man who at a shopping complex his sister, at an entertainment Saturday in El Paso, Texas district in Dayton, Ohio sent pipe bombs to receive sentence By Larry Neumeister HORROR The Associated Press NEW YORK — The Florida man who created a two-week crisis by mailing 16 packages of inoperative pipe bombs packed with fireworks powder and shards of glass to 13 famous Democrats and CNN is scheduled to learn his pun- ishment Monday. Defense lawyers urge leni- ency, saying Cesar Sayoc, burdened as a child by severe learning disabilities, was living alone in a cramped van and working as a strip club DJ and a pizza deliveryman in West Palm Beach when he became “increasingly obses- sive, paranoid and angry” and believed enemies of President Donald Trump were trying to hurt him and other Trump supporters. Prosecutors say a life sen- tence is “necessary and appropriate” after Sayoc caused “widespread fear and panic” with his boxes in the days before the 2018 midterm elections. None of the pack- ages exploded. His targets included Hill- Sherie Gramlich reacts during a vigil for victims of a mass Mourners gather at a vigil following a mass shooting, Sunday ary Clinton, former Vice shooting that occurred earlier in the day at a shopping complex in Dayton, Ohio.
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