Sheriff releases bodycam and surveillance video of deadly Walmart shooting involving alleged shoplifter

CNN Newsource on January 23, 2026

By Ivan Taylor

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    MIAMI (WFOR) — The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office has released body camera and surveillance footage showing a deadly confrontation between a deputy and an alleged shoplifter at a Walmart in Southwest Miami-Dade.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies were notified that a man was allegedly shoplifting inside the store. Surveillance video shows the suspect walking through the aisles before exiting the building. Deputies say a deputy attempted to stop him as he left.

The man was later identified as 36-year-old Kennedy Graham.

Body camera video shows Graham running from the deputy as a struggle breaks out. In the footage, the deputy can be heard yelling, “Don’t resist, don’t resist,” as the two wrestle on the ground.

Deputies say the officer called for backup while trying to detain Graham.

Investigators say the video was slowed down to show Graham was armed during the encounter. Surveillance footage from outside the store shows the deputy pinning Graham to the ground and holding him by the neck with his legs as Graham continued to fight back.

At one point, investigators say Graham dropped the gun, then picked it up again and ran. The deputy is then seen pointing his weapon and firing.

Two people were in the parking lot when the shots were fired.

The shooting happened in the parking lot of the store located at 21115 South Dixie Highway on the morning of November 6, 2025.

CBS News Miami spoke with a witness the day of the shooting.

“What I saw was a guy in a white T-shirt running outside of the Walmart parking lot. I heard three shots, then all I saw was the police officer with the gun,” said a woman who did not want to be identified.

Graham was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. No one else was injured.

In November, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz defended the deputy’s actions.

“I will say this, this individual had an extensive criminal past. We are grateful at this time. The circumstances could have gotten so much worse,” she said.

Investigators also displayed the weapon they say Graham was carrying at the time of the shooting.

The deputy involved has not been identified.

In a statement released Thursday, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said:

“We recognize that incidents of this nature raise questions and concerns within our community, and I believe the public has the right to see critical incidents involving law enforcement.”

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Tampa pastor uses Lightning hockey to connect with students

CNN Newsource on January 23, 2026

By Robert Boyd

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    TAMPA, Florida (WFTS) — There’s a weekly tradition at Christ the King School in Tampa, where Father Len gives the students an update on how the Lightning are doing and what’s in store for the games ahead.

“God calls individuals to serve as a priest, and I’m a priest who loves hockey; it is, in my opinio,n the greatest sport ever,” said Father Len.

Father Len has been the pastor at Christ the King Catholic Church for the past 13 years. He said forming a bond through hockey helps to better relate to the students and parishioners.

“With sports, sometimes you lose, and sometimes in life there are things that don’t go our way,” said Father Len.

Every Friday, Father Len speaks to the students during morning assembly, updating them on the team and even starting “let’s go Bolts” chants.

The enthusiasm often carries over into the rest of the school day, with hockey-themed learning activities, as students wear Lightning shirts and jerseys.

“If I can bring any sort of Lightning hockey into the classroom, I will,” said kindergarten teacher Jennifer Buckley. “Being a Tampa Bay Lightning fan, and having Father Len also being a Tampa Bay Lightning fan, it gets the kids that special, unique connection with him, to just bring them a little bit closer to the church.”

Students say they have gained a better understanding of hockey and have become bigger fans of the Lightning because of Father Len.

“It also has some nice connections with Catholicism when you think about it, if you do something wrong in hockey, you go to the penalty box for a couple of minutes, if you do something wrong as a catholic you go to confession,” said Father Len. “To love your neighbor, even if they are the stinking Florida Panthers.”

Inside his office, Father Len has signed hockey sticks alongside a photo of him with the Pope.

“Sometimes the perception of priests is kind of two-dimensional, all we do is pray the rosary and sing religious hymns and so forth, but we are real people who have real interests,” said Father Len.

Tampa Bay 28 asked Father Len if it’s all right to pray for your favorite sports team.

“It is, I’m not sure God is that interested in answering your prayer for a hockey game, but it doesn’t hurt,” said Father Len. “I remember a few years back, they were struggling, and the GM at the time invited me to come down and bless the ice and hope that that might help them win.”

Father Len said he is optimistic that the Lightning will be back in the Stanley Cup Finals soon, and he’ll be ready to debrief the students on the games during his weekly appearance at the morning assembly.

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‘Horrifying’: Milwaukee officials say no heat and water causes dozens to evacuate apartment

CNN Newsource on January 23, 2026

By Andie Bernhardt

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    MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — An entire apartment building in Milwaukee is being forced to temporarily close its doors, leaving dozens of people without a home tonight, Jan. 22.

The Milwaukee Department of Neighborhood Services (DNS) says the people living in the apartment complex near N. 29th St. and W. Wisconsin Ave. have been without water and heat for days in the extremely cold temperatures.

“Overnight it’s very cold, you have to wrap up,” said apartment resident, Robert James.

James says he’s lived in this apartment building for two years now and says for the last almost four months he’s had no heat.

“You know mostly everybody is buying a heater up in here, you know to stay warm,” said James. “You know I see people in the hallway wrapped up in covers and blankets.”

The DNS says two days ago they were informed the building had no heat and water, giving the owners 48 hours to fix it.

“We’ve communicated with them,” said Jeremy McGovern, with the DNS. “We’ve given them 48 hours, but unfortunately those 48 hours expired and now we are dealing with a situation of entering much colder weather than we have right now and it’s just going to get worse.”

Thursday, the DNS shut the building down, causing more than 40 people to leave their homes, which were ruled unlivable.

“What it’s generating is a life safety issue,” said McGovern. “When we have weather like this and we are entering a weekend with worse weather of having residents with no heat and no water.”

The DNS says the building had pipes burst and leak, even finding a car frozen in the garage.

The apartment complex is owned by Berrada Properties, who has had issues in the past, something Milwaukee Alderwoman Sharlen Moore says has not gone unnoticed.

“There’s only so much legally that the City of Milwaukee can do,” said Ald. Moore. “We are still looking at and fighting for other options to hold landlords like Berrada and anyone else accountable for making sure that if you are going to be in the business of housing our residents, we want you to be a responsible landlord. Period, point blank.”

We reached out to Berradas Properties lawyer, Joe Goldberger about the current state of the building and he said he had no comment.

As for how long until residents can get back to their homes, Alderman Moore says it could be a while.

“I reached out to one of the staffers from Berrada,” said Ald. Moore. “They said we ordered the part; I have no idea how long it’s going to take, and so days could be weeks. We have no idea.”

The DNS says the people that were displaced from this apartment are being placed in a hotel temporarily. The DNS says they are worried they could get more calls like this as colder temperatures are on the way.

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Town sets public hearing for moratorium on data centers to address community concerns

CNN Newsource on January 23, 2026

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    CANTON, North Carolina (WLOS) — Town leaders in Canton took the first steps toward a moratorium or temporary ban on data centers and crypto mining.

According to Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers, the town board passed the motion to set the public hearing for the moratorium on data centers, cryptocurrency mining facilities, and server farms.

The town does not have any laws currently on the books regulating the data mining industry, Smathers said.

He said a moratorium would give the town a chance to get feedback from residents and decide on any possible ordinances for that type of development.

“We understand with the mill site there’s a lot of interest, but again our first priority is to protect the citizens, not just in the Canton jurisdiction but in Haywood County,” said Smathers. “There are major worries about what data centers do through energy consumption and especially water and sound,” said Smathers.

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Inspired by Sundance, University of Colorado Boulder students learn how to put on film festivals

CNN Newsource on January 22, 2026

By Sarah Horbacewicz

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    BOULDER, Colorado (KCNC) — In Boulder, University of Colorado students are excited for next year’s Sundance Film Festival, which will be a great learning experience for putting together festivals of their own.

Sundance kicks off its last year in Utah this week, and students are studying hard. CU Boulder Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts Kelly Sears says there’s a waiting list of students eager to get into this classroom.

“I knew there’s a lot of interest in film festivals, but maybe not a lot of understanding about how they function,” explained Sears.

After Sundance announced it would be moving to Boulder next year, Sears signed on to teach a course on similar festivals. She says this is the perfect opportunity for students to learn firsthand.

“We have a front row seat,” Sears said. “I’ve gone to Sundance several times, and I often run into colleagues from other institutions who’ve brought their students there, and I’ve always thought, ‘I wish I could bring CU students to Sundance.'”

That class focuses on more than just Sundance; it also highlights festivals around the world. A long list of guest lecturers signed up to speak to the class, including representatives from the Denver Film Festival, the Boulder International Film Festival, and, of course, Sundance.

Students are also tasked with creating their own festivals by the end of the year.

“They can think about everything from curation, location, funding, audience, community, engagement workshops, whatever they would want in their dream festival,” said Sears.

Some students are diving into the world of cinema for the first time, while others, like Caroline Locke and Annaluna Grandt, are learning how to send their senior films out into the real world.

“I’m very much more creative, centered and driven and so, having someone really give you the tools [for], unfortunately or fortunately, the business practices that you need to know to be successful, it’s really important,” said Grandt.

The students hope to put what they learn into practice when the Sundance Film Festival comes next year.

“I’m hoping that, with the university being here, it’ll really open those doors for students to go to those places,” Grandt said.

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LA Metro advances plans for heavy rail project connecting the San Fernando Valley to the Westside

CNN Newsource on January 22, 2026

By Julie Sharp

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    LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — A decades-long plan for underground heavy rail transit along the Sepulveda Corridor was advanced by the Los Angeles Metro Board of Directors on Thursday, connecting the San Fernando Valley to the Westside.

Applause rang out in the boardroom after the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project was unanimously approved to move forward by board members, essentially laying the groundwork for an alternative to the 405 Freeway.

The route would travel from Van Nuys to Sherman Oaks, under Bel-Air and Beverly Crest, UCLA, and end at Metro’s E Line/Expo Sepulveda Station.

The project aims to lay nearly 13 miles of underground rail and add seven stations at an estimated cost of around $25 billion. Metro officials say the price tag will change as they finalize the project.

“We have tried widening freeways and building over mountains, and we’ve spent billions doing it. The approach has failed,” Los Angeles City Councilmember and Metro Director Katy Yaroslavsky said. “This project represents a fundamentally different strategy.”

The 2016 voter-approved half-cent sales tax, Measure M, will support the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project.

Yaroslavsky called for the agency to focus on the path to delivery and funding, encouraging her colleagues to push for cost reductions, explore new technologies, and construction approaches.

Metro officials said that construction for the project will occur underground, eliminating surface construction and reducing vibration impacts. Tunnels would be below at least 500 feet underground.

The board’s approval on Thursday moves the project forward for further design plans and a final environmental impact report, and additional environmental documentation.

“There’s still a lot to do until we get shovels in the ground, let alone open this thing,” Yaroslavsky said.

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‘No sentence long enough’: Sister speaks at sentencing for brutal murder of her teen brother

CNN Newsource on January 22, 2026

By Emily Ashcraft and Jodi Reynosa

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    SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — The older sister of Ivan Nickolas “Nick” Vetecnik told the man who murdered him that she and her family are serving a life sentence of grief and trauma since the teenager’s brutal death.

She said she was “locked in” on Rowdy Lee Aguilar at his sentencing hearing on Friday and wanted him to “feel every single word.”

“What you destroyed is not replaceable. What you took from him cannot be measured,” Samantha VanTreese said in her victim impact statement.

Aguilar, 22, of Taylorsville, was sentenced to a term of 25 years to life in prison for aggravated murder, a first-degree felony, although he will begin his sentence in a juvenile detention center.

She said two years before her brother’s death, he lost both of his parents.

“We were already a broken family trying to hold onto each other just to survive that pain. And my brother — a 15-year-old child — was trying to rebuild his life,” VanTreese said. “He didn’t deserve to have his future taken on top of everything he had already lost.”

Nick, of Taylorsville, was killed on May 26, 2021. Security video from Aguilar’s home shows he and Nick arrived around 10 a.m. At 1:20 p.m., Aguilar entered his home again alone with his shirt “heavily stained with blood” a statement from the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office said. About 20 minutes later, a business security camera captured Aguilar, then 17, carrying items that looked like garbage bags to the location in a nearby field where bags with dismembered body parts were discovered.

As a sister, VanTreese said she was there for her brother when he needed guidance, but instead of helping him recover from the trauma of losing his parents, his life ended “in the most violent and terrifying way imaginable.”

She described him as a “goofy, soft-hearted, trusting” child who wanted connection and family, and he believed Aguilar cared about him until Aguilar betrayed him.

“There is no sentence long enough, no vocabulary deep enough, to capture what it is like to lose a 15-year-old child, a brother, a boy who still had his whole future in front of him in such a violent, intentional and gruesome way,” she said.

VanTreese said every day she wakes up into the reality that her brother is gone along with the future they imagined together. She said the details of his death — that he was stabbed 26 times in the back of his head and his body was dismembered — live in her mind each day and are part of trauma she carries with her.

“I will never stop wondering if he was scared, if he cried out, if he realized that the person who claimed to be his friend had become the person who decided he didn’t deserve to live,” she said.

VanTreese told Aguilar his prison sentence will not compare to the one her family has.

“I ask that the sentence reflect the truth — that a child’s life was brutally taken, that he deserved protection and that the choices made by the defendant created harm that will last generations,” she said.

VanTreese shared her statement with KSL the day after the sentencing, and said reading the words in the courtroom lifted a weight off her chest.

She said Aguilar’s comments during the sentencing hearing were “huge” to her. During previous hearings he showed no emotion or was laughing, but Friday was different, she said. He cried and apologized for being a monster and snake and told the family that Nick did not do anything to him to provoke his actions.

“Just seeing his raw emotion helped,” VanTreese said, noting that he was crying.

VanTreese said she still doesn’t know why Aguilar killed her brother and probably never will. When his case comes before the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole years from now, she plans to be there.

Aguilar will remain in juvenile detention until he is 25, when he will be transferred to prison, according to the sentence.

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4.7-magnitude earthquake shakes Wasatch Front

CNN Newsource on January 22, 2026

By Logan Stefanich

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    SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — People across the state, from Logan to Provo, likely felt the effects of an earthquake during the Thursday morning commute.

The epicenter of the 4.7-magnitude earthquake was about 25 miles south of Evanston, Wyoming, at 7:49 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey.

People reported household items and furniture shaking, dogs barking and cats cowering.

“I was just sitting at my desk in my living room when all of a sudden I felt my house shaking and sat for a second, confused,” said Madison Olsen, in West Bountiful. “Then I could see my computers and lamp start shaking. I literally stood up, getting ready to run to my kid if I had to, but thankfully it wasn’t too long.”

Ogden resident Sandra Droguett-Collio said she “felt the floor moving.”

“I was so light,” Droguett-Collio said.

Farmington resident Troy Schauerhamer said Thursday’s earthquake is only the second he’s experienced in Utah.

“Definitely a unique experience. Also a little unsettling, because there could be an aftershock or it could get worse,” Schauerhamer said. “You are wondering to yourself if this is really an earthquake, or did something really big just fall off a shelf and shake the house?”

Talissa Meza was at work in the industrial park near the University of Utah campus when the earthquake hit.

“I was at my cubicle, my chair shook a bit and when my monitor moved, I knew it was an earthquake. It’s funny because I stood up to see if anyone knew it was an earthquake, and I saw other heads up, looking confused like me,” Meza said.

There were no reports of any damage caused by the earthquake as of 9:20 a.m. Thursday.

The USGS forecasts a 57% chance of a magnitude 3.0 or higher aftershock occurring in the next seven days. There’s a 19% chance of an aftershock of magnitude 4.0 or higher, and a 3% chance of magnitude 5.0, according to the forecast.

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Utah helped turn a Minnesota skier into an Olympic biathlete

CNN Newsource on January 22, 2026

By Matt Gephardt

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    MIDWAY (KSL) — When the Olympics get underway in a couple of weeks, 25-year-old Luci Anderson will be making her debut.

She has qualified to compete for Team USA in Biathlon, a grueling sport that combines cross-country skiing with rifle marksmanship.

Anderson is from Minneapolis, but as she told KSL, the hills of Utah got her ready to compete at the pinnacle of her sport.

“Honestly, all my favorite ski racing memories are Soldier Hollow,” she said. “And hopefully I can make some more biathlon memories here.”

She said the skiing part was something she’d been doing her whole life. “I got into cross-country skiing when I was about 5 years old,” she said.

Shooting, though, was another story. She said she had never fired a gun before being noticed by U.S. Biathlon when she was a junior in college and skiing for the University of New Hampshire. “I didn’t really grow up in, like, a hunting family. We don’t really own guns. I think we have, like, my grandpa’s military rifle or something. I don’t know,” she said, laughing.

But U.S. Biathlon team officials saw her ski times, brought her to the team’s headquarters in Soldier Hollow, put a rifle in her hands — and bang! Less than two years later, she’s on her way to Italy’s Dolomite Mountains.

Asked if there was a moment where competing went from fun to something where she realized she was elite, she points to a cross-country skiing race at Soldier Hollow. She was in high school and that race qualified her for a trip to Norway as an 18-and-younger athlete. “I got to represent Team USA there,” she said.

That was her first time on Team USA. It will not be the last.

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Former Michigan coach Sherrone Moore’s attorney says “truth will come out”

CNN Newsource on January 22, 2026

By Joseph Buczek

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    DETROIT (WWJ) — Former Michigan coach Sherrone Moore made his first appearance Thursday in a Washtenaw County courtroom since he was arraigned in December in connection with the home invasion and stalking of a staff member with whom he allegedly had an “intimate relationship.”

Moore, 39, appeared before Judge J. Cedric Simpson in District 14A court on Thursday. Moore, who was accompanied to court by his wife and attorney, is charged with third-degree felony home invasion, as well as misdemeanor counts of stalking and of breaking and entering.

During Thursday’s proceedings, Moore’s defense attorney, Ellen Michaels, asked that the probable cause conference be delayed for 30 days to allow for discovery regarding phone records and Title IX documents. Judge Simpson rescheduled Moore’s probable cause conference for March 19.

Moore’s defense team also filed a motion to quash his arrest warrant and dismiss the complaint. Michaels has requested a Franks hearing, saying the arrest warrant was issued “based on false and misleading statements presented as fact.”

Washtenaw County prosecutors have until Feb. 2 to respond to the motion to quash. A motion hearing has been scheduled for Feb. 17.

“Mr. Moore is innocent of these charges,” Michaels said while speaking with reporters Thursday. “We’re confident the truth will come out in court under oath where it belongs.”

Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel fired Moore on Dec. 10, 2025, saying Moore had been “terminated with cause, effective immediately,” adding “this conduct constitutes a clear violation of University policy, and U-M maintains zero tolerance for such behavior.”

Hours after the firing, Moore was booked in the Washtenaw County Jail after Pittsfield Township police responded to the 3000 block of Ann Arbor Saline Road for an alleged assault.

During Moore’s arraignment on Dec. 12, Washtenaw County First Assistant Prosecutor Kati Rezmierski said Moore had an “intimate relationship” with the victim for a “number of years,” and that the victim ended the relationship on Monday.

Prosecutors allege Moore made numerous phone calls and sent messages to the victim from that time period forward, but she did not respond to them. The victim then went to the university and cooperated with an investigation.

After being fired by Michigan, Washtenaw County prosecutors say Moore went to the victim’s apartment, barged his way in, proceeded to a kitchen drawer, and grabbed several butter knives and a pair of kitchen scissors.

Prosecutors allege Moore then threatened his own life, saying, ‘I’m going to kill myself. I’m going to make you watch. My blood is on your hands. You ruined my life.’ Moore made a series of intimidating statements, according to prosecutors, but they say there is no evidence to suggest that he directly threatened the victim with the knives or scissors.

Moore was released on a $25,000 bond shortly after his arraignment.

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