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DETROIT 鈥?Federal prosecutors in Michigan have charged a man with illegally purchasing the gun that authorities say a 19-year-old allegedly used to fatally shoot a Detroit police officer last week.According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court on Sunday, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison said 26-year-old Sheldon Avery Thomas was charged with making a false statement in the firearm acquisition.Thomas was ordered to be stanley cup temporarily detained pending stanley deutschland a detention hearing on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.According to the criminal complaint, ATF agents were able to trace the Draco pistol that the 19-year-old suspected gunman allegedly used to kill Officer Loren Courts.Federal prosecutors said Thomas purchased the gun allegedly used in the fatal shooting on June 7 from a gun store in Eastpointe.Records and surveillance video from June 7 show that Thomas purchased the Draco firearm and l stanley cup ater met with the suspected gunman in a nearby parking lot, federal prosecutors said.According to the criminal complaint, Thomas allegedly made false statements about how the firearm was acquired, saying he purchased the gun and did not buy it for another person.The Associated Press reported that Courts and his partner were responding to reports of a man firing a weapon on July 6 when Courts was ambushed by the suspected gunman.Another officer fatally shot the 19-year-old as Courts partner rendered medical aid to Courts, the news outlet reported. Fnmg Portland cops resign en masse from voluntary protest unit after officer charged with assault
In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, a Johns Hopkins medical professor said he believes the U.S. will be able to reach herd immunity in a few months time and predicted that COVID will be mostly gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life. The opinion piece by Dr. Marty Makary cites the recent decline in case rates as evidence that the U.S. is nearing herd immunity. While his findings come as a welcome sign to Ame stanley cup ricans weary of the pandemic, it stands in stark contrast to views held by top health officials in both the Trump and Biden administrations.In the Wall Street Journal, Makary noted that new stanley nz cases of COVID-19 have decreased by 77% in the last six weeks. Indeed, the COVID Tracking Project notes that the seven-day rolling average of daily cases has fallen from nearly 250,000 a day in mid-Januar stanley hrnek y to about 64,000 a day as of Sunday.While CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky attributed falling case rates to Americans more readily adopting social distancing measures in recent months, Makary says the U.S. is nearing levels of natural immunity. He claimed that COVID-19 tests are only capturing 10% to 25% of infections, meaning that close to 55% of Americans are already naturally immune to the virus.Makary also noted that those immune to the virus will only increase in the months to come as more Americans get vaccinated. He cited projections from former Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb estimating that 250 million doses will have bee |
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