Today’s News Briefs include Israel taking out the top military commander of Hezbollah and Hamas’s leader; Sheriff apologizes for Massey killing; Boy killed on Cancun beach.
Israel kills top Hamas leader
Israel kills top Hezbollah commander connected to death of 12 children
In a Tuesday explosion, Israel killed Hezbollah’s most senior military and political commander and the head of its Strategic Missile Unit. Fuad Shukr “Shukr “directed Hezbollah’s attacks on the State of Israel since Oct. 8, and was the commander responsible for the murder of the 12 children in Majdal Shams in northern Israel on Saturday evening, as well as the killing of numerous Israelis and foreign nationals,” the IDF said. He was also on the U.S. most wanted list for the 1983 bombing of U.S. Marine Corps barracks that killed 241 service personnel. The operation, which was carried out by Israeli jets, took place in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Israel has revealed that the explosion was from a sophisticated bomb placed in the room nearly two months ago and set off remotely as he slept.
Sheriff apologizes for death of Sonya Massey
The AP reports the Illinois sheriff whose deputy shot Sonya Massey, the unarmed Black woman who called 911 for help in her Springfield home, apologized to the community. Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell faced a hostile crowd of more than 500 people at Union Baptist Church in a meeting according to local media reports. “I stand here today before you with arms wide open and I ask for your forgiveness,” an emotional Campbell said. “I ask Ms. Massey and her family for forgiveness. I offer up no excuses. What I do is offer our attempt to do better, to be better.” Former sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson is charged with first-degree murder.
12-year-old killed on Cancun beach
A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed in the resort town of Cancun, Mexico, after gunmen riding jet skis opened fire at a rival drug dealer on a beach Sunday, Mexican authorities said Tuesday. The boy had been lying on a lounge chair on the beach with his family when he was hit by stray bullets, prosecutors said, according to The Associated Press. The child, who was not named publicly, was rushed to a hospital where he later died. Meanwhile, the gunmen fled the scene on jet skis. Territorial disputes between drug dealers have cost the lives of numerous tourists and locals in the resorts along Mexico’s Caribbean coast in recent years.
–Dwight Widaman and news services.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include how Israel killed the head of Hamas in Tehran. It was originally wrongly reported as a missile strike by Iran.