Autopsy shows high impact injury
Gray’s autopsy reveals he died from a high impact injury which broke his spine.
The injury, similar to those suffered in shallow-water diving, was most likely caused when the van suddenly decelerated.
James Horner dies in plane crash age 61
Horner dies when the single-engine plane he is piloting crashes in Cuyama, California, north of Santa Barbara. The crash starts a one-acre brush fire. Agency statement:
It is with the deepest regret and sorrow that we mourn the tragic passing of our dear colleague, long-time client and great friend, composer James Horner. Our thoughts and prayers are with James’ family at this difficult time, and also with the millions of people around the world who loved his music. A shining light has been extinguished, which can never be replaced. It has been an honor and a privilege to have worked with James since the inception of our agency. For more than three decades, his unique creative genius made an indelible imprint on each of our lives and on those of the entire Hollywood community. There is not a person in our GSA family who wasn’t touched by the power and reach of his music, and who isn’t diminished by his loss.
Disrupt SF appearance annnouncement
TechCrunch announces that Carter will participate in a live on-stage interview at Disrupt SF 2015 on September 21st-23rd at San Francisco’s Pier 70. It will be Carter’s second appearance at the conference.
Buys $33 million Miami mansion
Collins purchases a 12,000 square feet mansion on a 1.21-acre lot on Biscayne Bay, Miami, for $33 million, from private equity firm owner Mark Gainor who paid $13.9million for the property in 2005. The house was previously owned by Jennifer Lopez. It has seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a koi fish pond, an outdoor kitchen, boat dock, and a large swimming pool. Agent:
He was really looking for a big piece of land.
Donates $5m for undocumented immigrant scolarships
Zuckerberg and Chan donate $5 million to the “I’m In” campaign launched by TheDream.us, a national college scholarship fund for undocumented immigrants. The fund targets students who came to the U.S. as children and received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status, an immigration policy started by President Obama that gives them exemption from deportation and allows them to work. The funds will go to 400 students over the next five years. Zuckerberg:
America was founded as a nation of immigrants. We ought to welcome smart and hardworking young people from every nation, and to help everyone in our society achieve their full potential.
Nine killed at prayer meeting
A gunman kills six women and three men, at a bible study group at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Victims include Reverend Clementa Pinckney, the church’s pastor, who was a Democratic member of the State Senate. The gunman arrives at the church and asks for the pastor, the Rev. Pinckney, and sits among parishioners during a Bible study meeting. At the conclusion of Bible study , the gunman opens fire on the gathering, wounding several people, including the pastor. A survivor says the gunman reloads five different times and that her son was trying to “talk him out of doing the act of killing people,” but he does not listen. The shooter says to the group:
You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.
Eight people are killed inside the church and one more dies at the hospital soon after the incident. Three people survive. Police are still searching for the suspected shooter – a clean-shaven white male about 21 years of age. He is reportedly wearing a grey sweatshirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots.
Resigns NAACP post
Dolezal gives up her post as president of the N.A.A.C.P. chapter in Spokane, Wash. Officials at the N.A.A.C.P. chapter in Spokane, and at the Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where she had previously worked, say she had also represented herself to them as being partly of black descent. It was a claim she also made in news media interviews and in an application to the City of Spokane for a seat on the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission, to which Mayor David A. Conton appointed her.
John Carroll dies at 73
Carroll dies at his home in Lexington, Kentucky, from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a severely debilitating and rare neurological condition. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, three stepchildren, three sisters and nine grandchildren. The funeral will be held June 22.
Son born
Cumberbatch and Hunter welcome their first child, a boy. Rep:
Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter are delighted to announce the arrival of their beautiful son. We would kindly ask everyone to respect the family’s privacy during these next few precious weeks
Breaks leg falling off stage, returns to concert
Two songs into their set at the Ullevi stadium, in Gothenburg, Sweden, Grohl misses a ramp and falls of the stage and breaks his leg.
I think I just broke my leg…I’m going to go to hospital. I’m going to fix my leg. And then I’m going to come back. You have my promise right now that the Foo Fighters – we’re going to come back and finish the show.
The band continue playing cover versions whilst Grohl seeks medical attention. Grohl then reappears after an hour and continues playing for a further two-and-a-half hours while seated, with a medic holding his leg up.
Ornette Coleman dies at 85
Coleman dies in Manhattan. Family members state the cause is cardiac arrest. He is survived by his son Denardo Coleman, who is a prominent jazz drummer often recording with his father and serving as his father’s manager.
Netflix purchases rights, Pitt to star
Netflix purchases the rights to produce a feature film based on Hastings book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War In Afghanistan. Pitt will star as the military general in the satirical comedy. The film will be released in 2016.
Randi Howard killed age 65
Howard is killed at his home in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in a gunfight with a bounty hunter, who shoots and kills the singer while trying to apprehend him on DUI drug and firearm possession charges, and a missed a court date. He is killed in The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting. Howard was 65 years old.
Christopher Lee dies age 93
Lee dies age 93 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. He was hospitalized for respiratory problems and suffered heart failure.
Emma Aronson dies age 17
Ambulances are sent to a private home where Aronson is found dead by the pool after her heart stops. Her parents told authorities that their daughter had a heart condition for which she underwent surgery when she was four years old. After racing her friends said she collapsed and efforts to revive her were not successful. She is survived by her parents, a younger brother and a younger sister. Mom:
She was racing in the pool against the boys and of course, she wanted to beat them. And most of the time she did. She got to the edge and said, in a very small voice, I’m so tired, and then that was it. She was very athletic, she was very competitive, a big prankster. Emma wanted to save lives, and she’s just doing it earlier than many had hoped. She is doing that through transplant. We know that she will help at least 50 people.
Four senior staffers leave
Carson loses four senior staff members leaving his campaign disorganized and andcreating problems at all levels. A campaign aide says Carson’s campaign chairman, national finance chairman, deputy campaign manager and general counsel have resigned since Carson formally launched his bid. They have not been replaced. Carson’s lawyer:
Every campaign goes through growing pains as it puts together a leadership team that has to work together and live together through the trying times of a presidential election.
NYT op-ed
Snowden writes an op-ed for the New York Times on the second anniversary of the release of his disclosures:
Two years on, the difference is profound. In a single month, the N.S.A.’s invasive call-tracking program was declared unlawful by the courts and disowned by Congress. After a White House-appointed oversight board investigation found that this program had not stopped a single terrorist attack, even the president who once defended its propriety and criticized its disclosure has now ordered it terminated. This is the power of an informed public.
At the turning of the millennium, few imagined that citizens of developed democracies would soon be required to defend the concept of an open society against their own leaders…Yet the balance of power is beginning to shift. We are witnessing the emergence of a post-terror generation, one that rejects a worldview defined by a singular tragedy. For the first time since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, we see the outline of a politics that turns away from reaction and fear in favor of resilience and reason. With each court victory, with every change in the law, we demonstrate facts are more convincing than fear. As a society, we rediscover that the value of a right is not in what it hides, but in what it protects.
Second pregnancy
Kardashian says she is expecting her second child with West. The couple confirms their pregnancy with NBC News, saying their baby is due at the end of the year.
I just got the blood test back, and I am pregnant!
Beau Biden dies at 46
Beau Biden dies of brain cancer nearly two years after he was first diagnosed. Joe Biden was at his son’s side when he died:
It is with broken hearts that Hallie, Hunter, Ashley, Jill and I announce the passing of our husband, brother and son, Beau, after he battled brain cancer with the same integrity, courage and strength he demonstrated every day of his life. The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words. We know that Beau’s spirit will live on in all of us-especially through his brave wife, Hallie, and two remarkable children….More than his professional accomplishments, Beau measured himself as a husband, father, son and brothe. His absolute honor made him a role model for our family. Beau embodied my father’s saying that a parent knows success when his child turns out better than he did.
Grayson Bazyl born
Miller and Guess welcome Grayson Lee Bazyl, their second baby boy, weighing in at eight pounds, fourteen ounces and 21 inches long.
I felt very prepared for labor this time around. I was a little anxious as to when it would happen, though. Having a toddler at home, you have more to organize to make sure everything is taken care of while you’re gone at the hospital.