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By Steve Maugeri

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    MIAMI (WFOR) — CBS News Miami spoke with a pastor who was by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Deputy Devin Jaramillo’s side during his final moments.

When people hear gunshots, they typically run for cover. But when Pastor Damon Phillips heard them right across from his church, he ran toward the danger and found Deputy Jaramillo with multiple gunshot wounds.

“When I got over there, he was on the floor,” Phillips said. “He kept sounding real loud, ‘He got my gun. I don’t have my radio. Please call 911.'”

Pastor Phillips started giving the deputy CPR while consoling him.

“He wasn’t able to talk. He was just lifting his hand in the air — grasping for air,” Phillips said. “I told him, ‘Stay with us, stay with us.’ I told the paramedics, ‘Hurry up.'”

Phillips said he was praying for the deputy, hoping paramedics could make it in time. But Deputy Jaramillo later died at the hospital.

“I was just praying to the Lord, ‘Please save him. Officer, stay with us, Stay with us,” Phillips said. “During that time, the last moments of his life, I spent some time praying for him; that is what happened.”

Even though the deputy didn’t make it, Phillips knows he made every effort he could.

“It was just the right thing to do — to help out and save a life,” Phillips said.

A good Samaritan, in every sense of the word.

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By Mike Hellgren, Andrew Adeolu

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    TOWSON, Maryland (WJZ) — An assault inside Towson Town Center led to the arrest of four juveniles Saturday night and attempted murder charges against one of the teens, who allegedly used a screwdriver in a stabbing.

Baltimore County police said those arrested are between 14 and 17 years old. Three of the teens were released to their parents, according to police.

Police responded to the mall around 8 p.m. Saturday for a reported stabbing.

According to the dispatch audio WJZ Investigates reviewed, it happened outside a shoe store on Towson Town Center’s second floor.

Officers later arrested four teenagers at Dulaney Valley Road and Fairmount Avenue.

Authorities described the incident as an assault and robbery and said they later recovered stolen items.

The teenager charged with attempted murder is being prosecuted as an adult.

Most shoppers WJZ spoke to said they continue to feel safe at the mall, but expressed dismay and sadness at the violence.

“I think it’s a tragedy that people feel like they have to resort to violence if they have a dispute with somebody,” said one longtime shopper who declined to give her name.

“They just need more stuff to do. I don’t know what you can do to resolve a situation. You don’t have to resort to violence,” said Jeremiah Weddy. “It’s just so crazy. Why would you go into the mall and do that?”

Isabel, who declined to give her last name, called the violence “heartbreaking.”

“All you can do is like pray for the families of everyone and really hope that everyone can turn their lives around from such a violent incident,” she said.

Saturday night’s violence follows other high-profile incidents in recent years involving groups of unruly juveniles.

Last month, a woman was critically injured during a domestic-related stabbing in the parking lot of Towson Town Center.

Towson Town Center has implemented a curfew after 4 pm on Friday and Saturday in the mall — unless those 17 and younger are accompanied by an adult.

You can read more about the mall’s parental guidance policy here.

After a steep increase in 2024, crime is now trending down in Towson, according to police data.

In 2023, there were 515 victims of assault in Towson, with the most cases being reported in December.

In 2024, there were 537 victims of assaults in Towson, and so far in 2025, there have been 379 victims of reported assaults in the 21286 area code.

Theft offenses account for the most reported crimes in Towson, with 729 victims so far in 2025.

However, juvenile crime has been a topic of discussion in the Baltimore area over the last couple of years.

Between 2023 and 2024, juvenile crime arrests increased by 146% in Baltimore, according to State’s Attorney Ivan Bates.

This time last year, Bates stopped by WJZ to discuss his effort to hold young offenders accountable.

“We have more of a checks and balances of what’s going on with DJS,” Bates said. “We are having more communication and dialogue on how to hold young people accountable.”

Last month, in October, three teens were arrested in Baltimore for their role in 14 burglaries across the city.

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By Mike Hellgren, Andrew Adeolu

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    TOWSON, Maryland (WJZ) — An assault inside Towson Town Center led to the arrest of four juveniles Saturday night and attempted murder charges against one of the teens, who allegedly used a screwdriver in a stabbing.

Baltimore County police said those arrested are between 14 and 17 years old. Three of the teens were released to their parents, according to police.

Police responded to the mall around 8 p.m. Saturday for a reported stabbing.

According to the dispatch audio WJZ Investigates reviewed, it happened outside a shoe store on Towson Town Center’s second floor.

Officers later arrested four teenagers at Dulaney Valley Road and Fairmount Avenue.

Authorities described the incident as an assault and robbery and said they later recovered stolen items.

The teenager charged with attempted murder is being prosecuted as an adult.

Most shoppers WJZ spoke to said they continue to feel safe at the mall, but expressed dismay and sadness at the violence.

“I think it’s a tragedy that people feel like they have to resort to violence if they have a dispute with somebody,” said one longtime shopper who declined to give her name.

“They just need more stuff to do. I don’t know what you can do to resolve a situation. You don’t have to resort to violence,” said Jeremiah Weddy. “It’s just so crazy. Why would you go into the mall and do that?”

Isabel, who declined to give her last name, called the violence “heartbreaking.”

“All you can do is like pray for the families of everyone and really hope that everyone can turn their lives around from such a violent incident,” she said.

Saturday night’s violence follows other high-profile incidents in recent years involving groups of unruly juveniles.

Last month, a woman was critically injured during a domestic-related stabbing in the parking lot of Towson Town Center.

Towson Town Center has implemented a curfew after 4 pm on Friday and Saturday in the mall — unless those 17 and younger are accompanied by an adult.

You can read more about the mall’s parental guidance policy here.

After a steep increase in 2024, crime is now trending down in Towson, according to police data.

In 2023, there were 515 victims of assault in Towson, with the most cases being reported in December.

In 2024, there were 537 victims of assaults in Towson, and so far in 2025, there have been 379 victims of reported assaults in the 21286 area code.

Theft offenses account for the most reported crimes in Towson, with 729 victims so far in 2025.

However, juvenile crime has been a topic of discussion in the Baltimore area over the last couple of years.

Between 2023 and 2024, juvenile crime arrests increased by 146% in Baltimore, according to State’s Attorney Ivan Bates.

This time last year, Bates stopped by WJZ to discuss his effort to hold young offenders accountable.

“We have more of a checks and balances of what’s going on with DJS,” Bates said. “We are having more communication and dialogue on how to hold young people accountable.”

Last month, in October, three teens were arrested in Baltimore for their role in 14 burglaries across the city.

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By Riley Rourke, Mike Sullivan

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    PLYMOUTH, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A blade broke off of a wind turbine and landed in a cranberry bog in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Friday.

It happened in the area of Head of the Bay Road near the Bourne town line just before 2 p.m. The Plymouth Fire Department said that a neighbor had notified them about the incident after noticing that one of the blades was missing.

Video from WBZ-TV’s helicopter showed the blade lying on the ground in a cranberry bog, surrounded by debris. The blade is around 75 to 100 feet long, according to officials. The part of the turbine that holds the blade in place appears to be charred at the top of the tower.

“Thankfully, no one was hurt, and the turbine automatically shut itself down as designed,” Fire Chief Neil Foley said in a press release.

Kerri Costello lives in a house just a few hundred feet away. “All of a sudden I heard like a huge boom, like an explosion type of boom,” she said Friday night. “I don’t think I’ll sleep though, no I’m not going to sleep.”

She is thankful no one, including herself or kids were injured. “Couldn’t help but thinking if that was turned a little bit more, it just went over there, I was literally sitting in my room in the window right there, my kids’ rooms are in the one right next to it, what if god forbid it ever went through,” she said.

“Our biggest fear” David Daylor lives nearby and says he felt his house shake when the blade fell. “I heard this rumble, and I actually kind of felt it in my house. It felt like a mini earthquake,” Daylor said.

He said neighbors texted him and told him it was one of the turbine blades. “I almost didn’t believe it, I’m like no impossible, that’s our biggest fear is safety with these turbines,” Daylor said. “And sure enough I looked across and it was missing off the turbine.”

Daylor said the community was worried that something like this would happen when the turbines were installed roughly a decade ago.

“We brought up the safety concerns of just this, a turbine failure, what happens, we’ve all seen the videos online. I was honestly hoping I’d never see this here, but yet look behind us,” Daylor said.

Residents said they were told that the turbines wouldn’t need maintenance for 25 years after installation.

“All these turbines were built at the same time commissioned at the same time, they obviously all might have the same failure now, are we talking weeks, days, hours?” Daylor said. “We don’t know.”

There are several other wind turbines in the area, but they appeared to be functioning normally.

Fire officials cleared the scene Friday night saying there is no danger to the public. The company that operates the turbines is investigating what caused the blade to come off and are working to bring in contractors to clean up the debris.

This is the latest trouble with a wind turbine in the Bay State. Last year, a blade broke off a turbine in Nantucket Sound with sharp fiber glass debris washing up on local beaches.

WBZ-TV’s Aaron Parseghian contributed to this report.

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By Amanda Boettcher

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    CLEARWATER, Florida (WFTS) — Video shows a man being rescued by good Samaritans in Clearwater after his car caught fire.

Clearwater Fire and Rescue said a call came in at 2:34 p.m. Friday where a black Porsche was on fire in the eastbound lanes.

Video of the incident, provided by Clearwater Fire Rescue, shows two citizens pulling a man from a burning car, while other citizens use fire extinguishers to contain the fire before firefighters arrived.

Clearwater Fire said a 74-year-old man was taken to Morton Plant Hospital as a precaution.

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By Karl Goodmanson

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    WOODFIN, North Carolina (WLOS) — Local Woodfin business owner Nathan Master has his sights on reinvigorating a somewhat forgotten sport.

Shooting cans off a fence post with a slingshot was common to many people’s childhoods, and that sense of nostalgia is what SimpleShot is trying to tap into.

“I saw a smile come to your face, and you might have moved your eyes up and to the left with a bit of reminiscence of what joy and what fun it was,” Nathan said. “When you’re just out in the backyard with a buddy, seeing who can hit the can first, is that sense of camaraderie and competition. It just brings about one word we have for it, it’s joy.”

Tapping into that Joy and wanting to share it was one of the reasons Nathan first started making slingshots.

“In 2012, I formed SimpleShot with the goal to provide everyone in the world with top-quality modern slingshots.” Nathan said.”So you know, slingshots are as simple as they get. They literally grow on trees, a Y fork, and some rubber bands, and you can have a shootable slingshot. What makes our slingshots different is we do take the time to incorporate ergonomics into the handle frame.”

It’s the customization that has helped set SimpleShot slingshots apart, whether it’s bulking out the grip or adding extra weight.

“So what’s important with any shooting sport is repeatability,” Nathan said. “We don’t make slingshots for shooting rocks; these are not toys, they are precision shooting tools. Not everybody grips the same, so we’ve got a wide variety of slingshots for different types and styles of grip, as well as different styles of shooting. So sling slingshots are something that can be a one-size-fits-all, but that’s boring. We want to make slingshots that suit the abilities and the needs of as many customers as we can possibly find.”

But Nathan is not only a slingshot maker, he is also pretty handy with one, to the point that he competes internationally.

“I competed all over the world. I’ve been to China, to England, to Italy.

We have tournaments all over the U.S., and SimpleShot does their best to sponsor all of these tournaments and make sure people know about them and are skilled enough to go and compete in a meaningful way.

And we’re hoping to send our first U.S. team to the World Cup in Spain next October,” Nathan said.

Not only are SimpleShot sponsoring tournaments to help grow the sport, but they have also petitioned the Olympic committee to include slingshooting in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles as a demonstration sport.

But at its essence, it wasn’t the thrill of competition that got Nathan motivated to make slingshots.

The primary reason that I started SimpleShot is the joy that I derived personally from shooting a slingshot, from intentionally hitting the mark over and over with something that’s so quiet and so affordable and so innocuous. And every day when we finish our workday, we know the work we have done is going to result in smiles. It’s pure and simple joy.” Nathan said.

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By James Taylor

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    SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — Thousands of people were downtown Friday night for the Kings game and the opening weekend of the ice skating rink. Many got their first look at the new glow shining from the overhead lights along K Street.

A six-block-long stretch between the Golden 1 Center and the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center is now shining with more than 6,000 new LEDs.

“It is going to feel unlike any other part of the city,” said Scott Ford, deputy director of the Downtown Sacramento Partnership. “It is going to be vibrant, lit up.”

Ford said the lights are computer-controlled and can glow nearly any color.

“There are limitless possibilities, and it’s always going to be a changing personality and very unique to K Street,” Ford said.

During Kings games, the lights will display a rotating purple hue, and if the Kings win, they change to a special victory pattern.

The lights are mounted on more than three dozen poles, each with 168 bright diodes.

Julie Audell’s family came downtown to go ice skating, and they liked the lights so much that they decided to take their family Christmas photo there.

“When we got here, we said, ‘Oh, we should do it in front of these lights. They’re so pretty,’ ” she said.

The downtown partnership says the lights also help provide extra security and they create brighter conditions for bicyclists and pedestrians who use K Street at night.

“It’s about creating a clean, safe, welcoming space because people fundamentally are drawn to that,” Ford said. “We really want this to be a healthy, vibrant, active part of California’s capital city.”

The colorful LED light show remains active until 2 a.m., when the lights turn bright white to signal that the bars are restaurants are closing.

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