DETROIT (AP) — Four employees at a tax preparation office on Detroit’s east side have been wounded in a shooting after a dispute over a refund check.
Police say the alleged gunman has been arrested. And a woman involved in the dispute has turned herself into police.
The shooting was reported shortly after 3:30 p.m. Friday at Tax City Tax Service.
Deputy Police Chief Rodney Johnson said the woman being sought became upset when her tax refund wasn’t ready yet.
Johnson says the woman scuffled with a security guard. He says the man with her pulled a gun and started shooting.
The security guard was wounded, as were three other employees in the office.
Amid unusually tight security, Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law goes on trial Monday in New York on charges that he conspired to kill Americans — the highest-ranking al Qaeda figure tried on U.S. soil since Sept. 11.
People attending the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith will pass through a metal detector before entering the courtroom.
Prosecutors will try to prove to an anonymous jury that Abu Ghaith, as a spokesman for the terrorist network, tried to rally others to kill Americans.
Prosecutors have said that they plan to show jurors a picture of Abu Ghaith seated with bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders on Sept. 12, 2001, as they talked about the attacks.
They also plan to show the jury videos in which Abu Ghaith promised further and more devastating attacks.
“The Americans must know that the storm of airplanes will not stop, God willing, and there are thousands of young people who are as keen about death as Americans are about life,” Abu Ghaith said in a speech Oct. 9, 2001.
The defense is offering some surprises, including an assertion last week that some of the government’s evidence relates to a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with a similar name to Abu Ghaith, not to the defendant. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Friday called the mistaken identity claim “utterly meritless.”
Abu Ghaith is married to bin Laden’s eldest daughter, Fatima. He has said that he was trying to fly from Turkey to Kuwait last year when his flight landed instead in Jordan, where he was handcuffed and turned over to the United States. He faces life in prison if convicted.
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Sulaiman Abu Ghaith appears in an image taken from an undated video address.
The U. S. Supreme Court appears likely to side with a Florida killer who is challenging the state's standard for deciding which inmates are mentally disabled and cannot be executed.
During oral arguments Monday, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is often a swing vote, suggested he thinks Freddie Lee Hall's appeal has merit as he grilled state lawyers about their rigid I.Q. cutoff, the Associated Press reported.
The high court ruled in 2002 that mentally disabled convicts cannot be put to death, but determining who fits that description is up to the states.
Florida's policy says any prisoner with an I.Q. higher than 70 is eligible for the death penalty — even though medical professionals say the test itself had a margin of error of five points.
"Your rule prevents us from getting a better understanding of whether the IQ score is accurate or not," Kennedy told the state lawyers.
Justice Antonin Scalia, however, said Hall's crimes — abducting and killing a pregnant woman and then murdering a sheriff's deputy — suggest his mental capacity is not below the threshold.
A ruling is expected by the end of June.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in the case of Freddie Lee Hall about Florida's method of determining if an inmate is mentally disabled and exempt from the death penalty.
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