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A judge ordered a prison sentence of eight to 20 years Monday for a man in a shooting whose case raised separation of powers questions and who was previously sent to prison for a pet shop fire.

Kirk Bills, 38, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and discharging a gun from or within a structure or vehicle via an Alford plea, meaning he admitted only that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him.

Bills was accused of shooting a 37-year-old man in March 2020 outside an apartment on the 800 block of North Major Avenue. Three men approached the victim and two fired guns, causing him to lose an eye and suffer internal organ damage. Police said at the time that the shooting appeared to be retaliation for an attempted break-in.

In December 2020, attorney Dayvid Figler, who then represented Bills, argued then-Chief Deputy District Attorney Nicole Cannizzaro, who was also Senate majority leader, had stacked charges against Bills after legislative attempts to “curb prosecutorial abuses” failed. Figler said it was a violation of the separation of powers doctrine for Cannizzaro to work on the case.

District Judge Tierra Jones ruled in September 2022 that there was no separation of powers issue with Cannizzaro prosecuting the case.

“This was an attempted execution,” said Chief Deputy District Attorney Nicholas Portz.

The prosecutor said the case involved two different shootings in the span of about 40 minutes: one at a cemetery where people were visiting graves and the one in Henderson.

“There were women and children who were shot at during the course of this particular event,” he said of the cemetery shooting. “Fortunately, no one was struck.”

Bills shot the Henderson victim, Robert Ortiz, in front of his children, Portz said, then put his gun to the back of Ortiz’s head and pulled the trigger again.

“Because (Ortiz) turned his head, the bullet went through his head, but he lost his eye instead of his life that day,” Portz said.

Bills fled to Minnesota after the shootings, where he was arrested after robbing someone at gun point, according to the prosecutor.

Defense attorney Michael Miceli said Bills used an Alford plea because he wouldn’t admit he was part of the cemetery shooting and was not sure if he or another suspect hit the Henderson victim.

The preppy Princeton murder suspect accused of fratricide ripped out his little brother’s eyeball after beating and slashing him to death in the family’s luxury apartment Saturday night — and police believe he ate it, a law enforcement source told The Post.

Officers also found a bloody knife, fork and plate near victim Joseph Hertgen’s body, the source said — which has led cops to believe accused killer Matthew Hertgen, 31, consumed the missing organ.

Matthew Hertgen also set the family cat on fire during his twisted rampage, sources said — several months after posting a chilling poem to Facebook that included lines about “knives sharpening” and “blood oozing out of his eyes.”

The apocalyptic verses proved eerily prophetic, as police say Hertgen used a blade and a golf club to kill 26-year-old Joseph around 11:15 p.m. Saturday.

Afterward, Hertgen called the cops to report a body and a fire inside the upscale Michelle Mews apartment complex off Witherspoon Street, where units go for up to $2 million.

When officers arrived, they discovered Joseph’s bloody corpse and quickly pinned the crime on his sibling.

They also uncovered the grisly body of the torched cat, sources said.

“It was gruesome,” one police source told The Post. “It was way overboard.”

Another high-ranking Garden State cop said the “brutality of the homicide — and in an Ivy League town — shocked most detectives.”

The ghastly details of Hertgen’s alleged cannibalism are the latest twist in the sorrowful story of an all-American family shattered by unimaginable violence.

“It’s incredibly tragic,” a high-ranking police source said. “Matthew Hertgen came from what appeared to be a perfect, all-American family. No one could have predicted something like this would happen.”

Authorities have charged Hertgen with murder and other offenses, and he faces life in prison if convicted.

Both brothers were high school soccer stars at Toms River North High School and played in college —Matthew at elite Wesleyan University and Joseph at the University of Michigan.

COPS have found "human remains" in the hunt for the body of a mum-of-three killed more than a decade ago.

Rania Alayed, 25, was murdered by Ahmed Al-Khatib in June 2013 after she was lured to his brother's flat in Salford, Greater Manchester.

Al-Khatib was 34 when he was jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years in June 2014 after being convicted of murder.

Rania's remains were thought to be buried in a copse near the A19 at Thirsk, North Yorkshire, but have never been found.

Police were carrying out searches near the A19 after "receiving new information" in a new bid to find her final resting place.

Now the force has said they have discovered human remains, which they believe are Rania's.

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Tragic Rania Alayed, 25, died at the hands of her evil husband Ahmed Al-Khatib, 35, for becoming "too Westernised".He snapped after she sought help from lawyers in a desperate bid to escape her unhappy marriage.She fled the family home and enrolled at a college making new friends and started a relationship with a man she met on the internet.But she vanished in June 2013 and her body has never been found.Al-Khatib, who was convicted of her murder and sentenced to 20 years behind bars, has never revealed where he buried her.But in a dramatic development officers from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have begun to dig at the roadside on the A19 in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.A digger was seen lifting swathes of turf as a team of officers - including a cadaver dog - began the painstaking search on an embankment as cars and lorries hurtled past.GMP said it was acting on "new information" and concentrating its efforts on the outskirts of the picturesque market town.A spokeswoman said: "We are carrying out a detailed search in relation to recovering the body of Rania Alayed.

A MARRIED teacher and mother of four is accused of sexually assaulting at least one and up to 10 boys after showing them her stripper pole and sex toys and plying them with drugs.

When she was previously arrested, for sending students inappropriate messages, Brittany Fortinberry from Martinsville, Indiana, reportedly blamed it on her 150-pound weight loss.

The 31-year-old former substitute teacher has been charged with three counts: sexual misconduct with a minor, dissemination of matter harmful to a minor, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

According to court documents obtained by WRTV, she allegedly assaulted at least one school child in August 2024 at Eminence High School but the victim said the true figure could be as many as 10.

The mother of four sons was reported to cops by the grandmother of a 16-year-old boy who claimed that when he was 15, Fortinberry assaulted him.

When the teenager was questioned by investigators, he allegedly told them that up to 10 other students may also be victims.

The child's grandmother told police that Fortinberry had sent him graphic images and messages and plied him with drugs during a trip with the teacher.

Fortinberry allegedly told the boy she would kill herself if he spoke to anyone about the abuse.

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A mother, 37, and her two-year-old daughter have died from injuries sustained in Thursday's car attack in the German city of Munich, police say.

At least 37 people were injured after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a trade union rally.

The driver was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, police said, identified in local media as Farhad N. He was arrested at the scene and prosecutors say he has admitted to carrying out the attack. He appeared to have a religious motivation, officials said.

The mother and child were among those taken to hospital with serious injuries after the attack.

"Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother," police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger told news agency AFP on Saturday.

The car ramming has brought security issues back into focus the week before federal elections are held in Germany.

A man jailed for raping his wife after she accused him in a dying statement has been freed by a judge, on the grounds husbands in India cannot be prosecuted for marital rape.

The 40 year-old man was convicted of charges of rape, “unnatural” sex, and culpable homicide not amounting to murder for his wife's death, and jailed for 10 years in 2019.

He had been arrested two years earlier after his wife, a minor, made a dying declaration saying that she was forced to have sex with him and suffered injuries as a result. She was admitted to hospital and died the same day, according to the legal media outlet Live Law.

However, the Chhattisgarh High Court has now overturned that conviction citing the country’s laws on forced sexual acts within marriage, and ordered his immediate release from prison.

The single judge bench of justice Narendra Kumar Vyas said that "if the age of wife is not below age of 15 years then any sexual intercourse or sexual act by the husband with his wife cannot be termed as rape under the circumstances, as such absence of consent of wife for unnatural act loses its importance". This appears to be at odds with a landmark Supreme Court ruling in October 2017 that raised the age of marital rape from 15 to 18.

The defence also argued before the high court that there was no legally admissible evidence against the accused and the conviction was based only on the woman's dying declaration.

The counsel further disputed her cause of death, contending that the original trial “overlooked statements from two witnesses who testified the woman had suffered from piles since her first childbirth which caused bleeding and abdominal pain”, the Times of India reported.

A Bronx father of four was gunned down outside his own home early Sunday morning in a deadly dispute over a parking spot — with his girlfriend also “badly beaten” in the melee, police and relatives said.

Trevor Hughes, 49, was shot shortly before 2 a.m. after getting into a heated exchange with 46-year-old ex-con Lavar Davis, whose car was allegedly blocking a driveway where the hard-working dad paid to park next to his Fowler Avenue home.

“It was all over a parking space,” Hughes’ brother told The Post Monday. “He took all the steps that you’re supposed to take when you want a car removed from blocking your driveway. A patrol car came, and all they had to do was ticket the vehicle.

“Ticket the vehicle, get it towed, and that’s it. All he wanted to do was get inside so he could get four hours of sleep Then he had to be up again to DJ for a brunch.”

Prosecutors said Monday that Davis fled the crime scene but cops caught up with him at his girlfriend’s apartment.

“When police officers went to find the defendant there he barricaded himself in the apartment and refused to come out voluntarily, requiring the police to send in the Emergency Services Unit to get him out,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Lawrence Rozenblum said at Davis’ arraignment.

Migrants deported from the US, and even “dangerous” American citizens convicted of heinous crimes could be headed to a notorious hellhole prison in El Salvador, where inmates live in over-crowded cells and rival gang members fight to the death over food and water.

The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has been hailed as the Central American nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but human rights groups says the 15,000 inmates face inhumane treatment — and up to a third are believed to be innocent.

After a meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in San Salvador Monday, Rubio announced that the mega prison could begin accepting inmates from the US.

“We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants set to be deported from the US.

He added: “And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re US citizens or legal residents.”

The murder of a US Border Patrol agent near the Canadian border appears to be linked to a radical leftist trans militant cult accused of killings across the country.

Around a week before the Jan. 20 attack, federal law enforcement had been surveilling German national Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt and University of Washington student Teresa “Milo” Consuelo Youngblut.

Staff at a Lyndonville, Vermont motel alerted authorities about seeing the duo with a firearm and black tactical clothing.

When law enforcement visited them, the pair claimed to be looking at property in the area and promptly checked out of the motel on Jan. 14, according to court documents.

Then, on Inauguration Day, Border Patrol agent David Maland stopped their car in Coventry, Vermont.

Youngblut allegedly shot at Maland, who was killed, and border agents returned fire, killing Bauckholt. Youngblut is in custody.

Authorities now say the guns used by Youngblut and Bauckholt are owned by a person of interest in other murders — and connected to a mysterious cult of transgender “geniuses” who follow a trans leader named Jack LaSota, also known by the alias “Ziz.”

Bauckholt was a biological male who identified as trans and used feminine pronouns. He was an award-winning youth math genius from Freiburg, Germany, who later graduated from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Around 2021, he was hired as a quantitative trader at Tower Research Capital in New York. It is believed Baukholt was in the US on an H-1B visa. The Department of Justice says he was armed in the car and tried to aim his firearm before being shot dead.

Youngblut, who is accused of firing the surprise shots that killed Air Force veteran Maland, was injured by returning fire.

Youngblut is a biological female who identifies as trans and lists having neo-pronouns as “xe/xem/xyrs” on social media. Youngblut was a University of Washington student studying computer science.

Youngblut graduated from the prestigious and woke north Seattle private institution Lakeside School, where Bill Gates also attended.

Youngblut’s family had reported her missing to Seattle Police in May 2024. Her family said she was in a controlling relationship and cut off contact, according to the police report. Her social media account on BlueSky shows she followed some Antifa-aligned far-left accounts.

In November 2024, Youngblut filed a marriage application with a 22-year-old fellow Lakeside alumnus named Maximilian Bentley Snyder.

Last week, Snyder, an “any pronouns” computer science whiz from a wealthy Seattle family, was arrested in Vallejo, Calif., for the murder of an elderly key witness set to testify in an upcoming attempted murder trial against alleged members of the trans extremist group.

The arrest has revealed previously hidden close associations between Youngblut, Bauckholt and a cult linked now to four killings.

That group, the “Zizians,” are highly-educated trans vegan “rationalists” who hold fringe, esoteric ideological beliefs about transhumanism and animal rights.

Their leader, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, is a biological male who identifies as a woman. He also used the name Andrea Phelps, and is accused of influencing followers to kill. LaSota’s archived prolific blog writings ramble about the use of violence and radical anarchist tactics to achieve various ends.

LaSota has a warrant for an arrest in Delaware County, Pa. after skipping out on court hearings on an open criminal case. His supporters say he died in 2022, but that appears to be based on a fake online obituary to try to escape the law.

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A Jan. 27 motion by federal prosecutors to deny Youngblut bail strongly suggests links with the group.

“Her [Youngblut] associations with other individuals suspected of violent acts also warrants caution,” prosecutor Matthew Lasher wrote in a court filing.

“The individual who purchased the firearms the defendant and Bauckholt possessed on January 20, 2025, is a person of interest in a dual-homicide investigation in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.”

That person of interest is bioinformatics researcher Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, according to the ATF.

Zajko is the trans nonbinary adult child of Rita and Richard Zajko, an elderly couple found killed in mysterious and unsolved circumstances in Delaware County in early 2023. Zajko’s past archived blog posts show close associations with “Ziz.”

According to public records in reporting by Vermont news site vtdigger, Zajko had purchased a plot of land in rural Vermont close to where the deadly shootout occurred. Members of the “Ziz” group are known to live in communes in box trucks.

Zajko has not been charged with any crime.

A dispute over a former Bay-area “Ziz” commune is at the center of the murder case against Snyder, the Seattle man who applied for a marriage license with Youngblut.

In November 2022, 82-year-old Curtis Lind narrowly survived an assassination attempt by three members of the “Ziz” group who were squatting on his property in Solano County, Calif.

They impaled him with a sword and repeatedly stabbed him. Lind shot two of the assailants, killing Amir “Emma” Borhanian. He lost an eye in the attack and spent a month in the hospital.

Two other alleged members of the cult, Suri Dao and Alexander “Somni” Leatham, both transgender, have a trial in April for the attempted murder of Lind, causing the death of their comrade and other felonies. Both of them have tried to escape from custody and face other charges.

An Indiana man who was pardoned by President Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was shot dead by a deputy during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.

Matthew Huttle was killed in an altercation with a Jasper County sheriff’s deputy who pulled him over on Indiana State Road 14 near the Pulaski County line and attempted to arrest the 42-year-old, state police said.

“An altercation took place between the suspect and the officer, which resulted in the officer firing his weapon and fatally wounding the suspect,” state police said in a news release.

Huttle allegedly had a gun on him inside the car, according to authorities.

The slain suspect, who was from the city of Hobart, was granted a pardon from the president last week that wiped away a misdemeanor charge tied to his involvement in the Capitol riot.

He was sentenced to six months behind bars in 2023 after he pleaded guilty to entering a restricted building. He was released from jail in July 2024, according to the Washington Post.

He was among around 1,500 January 6 defendants who received clemency from Trump.

In 2021, Huttle traveled with his uncle to attend Trump’s speech to supporters leading up to the chaos at the Capitol, where he was inside the building for 16 minutes and recorded it on video.

His defense attorney at the time said in a court filing he went to the rally because he thought it would be a historic moment and he had nothing better to do after getting out of jail for a driving offense.

A man who had recently brought his family back to Pakistan from the United States on Wednesday confessed to shooting dead his teenage daughter, motivated by his disapproval of her TikTok content, Pakistani police said.

The shooting happened on a street in the southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday. The suspect, Anwar ul-Haq, initially said that unidentified gunmen shot and killed his American-born, 15-year-old daughter before he confessed to the crime, police official Babar Baloch said.

“Our investigation so far has found that the family had an objection to her dressing, lifestyle, and social gathering,” another police investigator, Zohaib Mohsin, said. “We have her phone. It is locked,” he told Reuters. “We are probing all aspects, including honour killing.”

The family had recently returned to Balochistan province in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, a nation with conservative social norms, having lived in the United States for about 25 years, Baloch said.

The suspect has U.S. citizenship, the officer said. He said Haq had told him his daughter began creating “objectionable” content on the social media platform TikTok when she lived in the United States.

He told police that she continued to share videos on the platform after returning to Pakistan. Baloch said the main suspect’s brother-in-law had also been arrested in connection with the killing.

Police said they had charged Haq with the murder. They did not offer proof of Haq’s U.S. citizenship except for the suspect’s own testimony and declined to say whether the U.S. embassy had been informed of the incident.

The Afghan killer may have had far more victims if it wasn’t for the intervention of two brave individuals, a 41-year-old man, but also one of the daycare workers, who put up a heroic fight to stop the brutal stabbing attack.

The incident, in Bavaria’s Aschaffenburg, involved a 28-year-old Afghan man, with the Main-Echo reporting that he had been watching the group of children in the Schöntal Park for a while, resulting in the daycare workers getting a “bad feeling” and moving the children away.

However, the Afghan man ran after them, and as they tried to leave the park, he caught up with them as the children were being loaded into a car. He sprung on the children, aged between one and three, and began to rapidly stab the children.

That is when a daycare worker, aged 59, attempted to pull the man away from the children, who was described as being in a “bloody frenzy.” Armed with a kitchen knife, he stabbed a 2-year-old boy to death.

The woman suffered a broken arm in the struggle to stop the man. Another passerby, a 41-year-old man, stepped in to save the children, but was stabbed to death. Another girl in the group and a 71-year-old man, who also went to help, suffered serious stab wounds, but are expected to live.

As Remix News reported earlier today, the man should have already been removed from the country due to violent offenses.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser are once again under fire for a major security failure that has resulted in tragic deaths due to criminal foreigners.

Remix News released a graphic detailing the boilerplate responses Faeser delivers now weeks at a time due to the various attacks seen across the country.

The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) has identified the four suspects in the deadly explosion at Tarwekamp in The Hague last month after a deliberate blast targeting a bridal fashion store caused catastrophic destruction resulting in the death of six people and leaving four others seriously injured.

In a statement on Friday, the OM named Afghan-born 33-year-old Moshtag B. as the main suspect, who is believed to have been aided and abetted by Ilyas (23), Mourad (29), and Adil (33).

De Telegraaf newspaper reported the men as being from Rotterdam, Roosendaal, and Oosterhout. No further details about the identities of the men or their migration background were disclosed.

Reporting restrictions surrounding the suspects were lifted on Friday.

According to the OM, Moshtag B. initiated the attack targeting the bridal fashion store. The suspect allegedly knew the store owner and sought help from his three accomplices. Together, they prepared and executed the arson and explosion on Dec. 7, and the three accomplices were reportedly offered €500 each to torch the premises.

The blast left six people dead, four others seriously injured, and displaced dozens of residents who are still unable to return home and are unlikely to be able to do so for months due to the extensive structural damage inflicted.

The suspects had reportedly planned to carry out the attack earlier, on the night of Dec. 1. However, their plans were thwarted when police stopped their van in a parking lot in Oosterhout at 2:15 a.m. The vehicle’s suspicious behavior prompted officers to conduct a search, during which they found heavy fireworks and jerry cans filled with gasoline.

The men were arrested on suspicion of preparatory acts for arson, and the items, along with their van and phones, were confiscated. The suspects, however, were released after questioning while authorities continued analyzing the evidence that enabled the attack a week later.

A total of 37 criminal complaints have been filed with authorities in relation to the attack, including declarations from residents, relatives, and local business owners who have suffered loss