Police: Suspect in shooting Michigan suicide - Palm Beach Post

By TOM COYNE

The Associated Press

Last updated: 7: 11 a.m. Friday, July 8, 2011

Posted: 3 pm, Friday, July 8, 2011

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan - hours after the shooting stopped, ended by a car chase and a gunman wanted for having killed seven people took three hostages, authorities in Michigan always hoped that the suspect could abandon without another death.

Grand Rapids police attempted to speak of a restless Rodrick Shonte Dantzler giving until late Thursday. They said that his thoughts seemed to switch between the assignment and asking officers to shoot him.

"He was talking about coming out, giving himself," said the head of the Police Kevin Belk. "He decided at the last moment to fire the gun."

The ex-forçats of 34 years of Grand Rapids killed himself with a single blow on the head, putting an end to the standoff with its hostages safe and sound. But the authorities say Dantzler left behind a pair of bloody crime scenes - the result of an unexplained rampage in which he killed his daughter, a friend and five other people, including a second child which the police could not immediately identify.

"It is absurd to try to rationalize what were the intentions," said Belk. "You just cannot come up with a logical explanation, why a person takes the lives of seven people."

The names of the dead are not released immediately. Autopsies were planned for Friday.

The archives show that Dantzler is out of State prison in 2005, after serving time for assault less than murder. A spokesman for the prison system said that dantzler had not been under the supervision of the State since then.

Police began by a 911 call early Thursday afternoon from someone saying that a man had admitted killing three people, said Belk. Police went to the home of Dantzler, but it was step here and officials he could not find.

It was not long before that the authorities received a call from a woman who said that his family had been shot. Just then a call on someone found four victims shot to another House.

Agents are soon three bodies in a House on Plainfield Avenue. An hour later, they discovered four others across the city in a style ranch on a cul-de-sac called the Brynell Court House.

Two of the dead were children.

Kyle Gietzen lives with his wife a few blocks from the House where the three bodies were found. He was nearby and five to six officers tried to break in the front door, while others went to the door from behind. He said that he did not know what happened later.

"I had no idea of the person had been shot," he said. "I just thought that it was a sting to drug or something." It's awful. »

Another neighbour, Sandra Powney, lives in front of one of the houses and stated that she saw Dantzler in the ranch house, where a couple has lived for more than 20 years with two adult daughters. Powney has said that she had been at home all day and had not realized that someone had been killed until the arrival of the police to the dead end in the afternoon.

"For some time we could not come outside," she said. "They do not know if there was someone still inside of the House".

Lisa Schenden lives with her husband and their children two blocks of the House where four people were killed. It said that the owners were a couple whose daughter had a daughter with the suspect. She has not heard the shooting, but she saw the suspect and his daughter to the home player earlier in the day.

"Just last night, my kids went to swim there, and I went with them," she said.

While police were investigating seven homicide, Belk said police received a report of a "rage in the" shooting.

Dantzler had apparently shot a man through the rear window of the vehicle he was driving. Police spotted him and began a pursuit which included Dantzler crashing on a vehicle patrol in the city and Exchange fire with officers, during which female bystander was shot in the shoulder.

Danztler led a sport utility vehicle North of downtown and Interstate 96, across a grassy median and position on the wrong side of the road, then more than a dozen cars squad continued. Belk said it crashed the vehicle while driving down an embankment in a wooded road, which is remained closed area hours later.

"I look in my rearview mirror and see this big SUV white coming up behind me," said Carrie Colacchio, who lives a little more of a mile away where Dantzler takes no later than its three hostages. "The only way out was to push the Accelerator".

Colacchio said that it could not step turn off the road or slow or go in any other way, and it reached about 85 mph.

"I almost me am struck," she said. "I had to ride on the sidewalk."

Official: White House to lift the ban on the condolences of the military suicide - CNN

Army Spc. Chancellor Keesling, is shown here with his father Gregg Keesling, committed suicide in Iraq in 2009.Official: move applies to the families of deployed service members who commit suicideDecision will help end "stigma" of the toll of the mental health of the wars, official said statementSenators, a deceased soldier family had asked the President to reverse the policyArmy report showed a steady increase in 2004-2009 army and Navy suicide rates

(CNN) - Obama administration reversed a policy of the White House do not send letters of condolences to the relatives of service members who commit suicide, a senior administration official confirmed in a statement to CNN.

The move comes nearly six weeks after a group of Senators - 10 Democrats and a Republican, asked the President Barack Obama change what they called an "insensitive" policy that date back several jurisdictions and has been the subject of attack by some military families.

In the statement Tuesday, the White House official said a review had been completed, and the President will send letters of condolences to the families of service members who commit suicide while that deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and other combat operations.

"The President strongly believes that we need to de-stigmatize mental health of war costs to prevent these tragic deaths, and change this policy is part of this process," said an official statement.

"Unfortunately, perpetuating a policy that denies the letters of condolences to the families soldiers who die by suicide only serves to strengthen this stigma eclipsing the contributions of the life of a person with the unfortunate nature of his death." It is simply unacceptable that the United States to send the message to these families that somehow their beings expensive of those sacrifices are less important. »

CNN for the first time in 2009 on the Chancellor Keesling of Spc. family army, which committed suicide while he was serving in Iraq.

The family has created a wall of tribute to Keesling in their house in Indiana. With his uniform and the flag of his funeral service, a space was left to the letter of condolence of the Commander in Chief.

Upset when they learned that a suicide did not deserve a letter from the President, father of Keesling, Gregg, wrote to the President and the Chief of staff asked the policy be changed. He argued that the suicide of his son was the result of what he has been exposed to during the war and that he deserved to be regarded as caused by the battle.

Report of the U.S. Army 2010 suicide prevention

According to an army report last year, the annual suicide rate in the body of the marine and army - two branches more participated in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan operations - increased steadily between 2004 and 2009, more than 20 per 100,000. During this time the rate of these two branches exceeded the average civil national, adjusted by age, while the rate of suicide for the Air Force and Navy has remained below the average national.

In 2001, the rate of suicide among the Marines, as the Air Force and Navy, was about half the rate of civil, and the army, while it is higher than the other three branches, was still lower than the rate of the civil, according to the report of the army.Adam Levine's CNN have contributed to this report.

Suicide bombings kill dozens in southeastern Iran (Haaretz)

Two suicide bombers blow themselves close to a mosque in southeastern Iran Wednesday, killing dozens of people a Shiite mourning ceremony related media.

The attack took place outside of imam Hussein mosque in the town of port Chahbahar, border with Pakistan, IRNA reported, official news agency citing Mohammad Yaghoub Jedgal legislature.

The attack appeared to target a group or faithful prepares to celebrate Ashura, which commemorates the death of seventh century the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed Hussein, one of the most famous saints of Shiite islam.

The Iran area houses a group of Sunni armed militants, Jundullah or soldiers of God led sporadic attacks against the alleged discrimination against the Sunni minority majority Shiite Iran area.

One of the assailants were detonated a bomb outside the mosque and one struck in to a crowd of faithful TV signaled state.

Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi confirmed the attack but said details will appear later on Wednesday.

In July, two explosions in the same province Sistan-Baluchestan, killed at least 27 people. Jundullah said that the attack was revenge for the execution of its leader, Abdulmalik Rigi in June.

Iranian officials claim Jundullah, which operates bases in Pakistan, enjoys the support of Western powers, including the United States. Washington denies any link to the Group and in November, added State Department Jundullah at the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Two weeks ago an Iranian nuclear scientists was killed and another
wounded in separate but identical to Tehran bomb attacks.

Service television said Fars bombs were attached to cars of the victims, both by assassins on motorcycles, accused of agents United States and Israel to be behind the murder.

The Iran saw a string of blasts in recent months, including an explosion at a military training in October which killed and injured several military.

Several armed groups hostile to the rule of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been active in Iran, including Kurdish separatists in the Northwest, Baluchi activists in the Southeast and some Arab in the Southwest.

Safety stand near a car damaged by a bomb planted in the still image made video Tehran on November 29, 2010