Wake-Up Call: 4 Dead In OK Medical Building Shooting

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Four people were killed in a shooting at a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Wednesday, by a gunman who then apparently took his own life. The incident took place shortly before 5 p.m. at a medical building on the Saint Francis Hospital campus. It was at an orthopedic clinic in the building where police found the shooter and several victims. The gunman was reportedly carrying a rifle and a handgun, and Police Captain Richard Meulenberg said multiple people were also wounded, calling it a "catastrophic scene." Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said it was unclear what led to the attack.

➤CALIFORNIA 16-YEAR-OLD ARRESTED AFTER TIP HE WAS RECRUITING OTHERS FOR SCHOOL SHOOTING: A 16-year-old California boy was arrested earlier this week after police got a tip that he was allegedly recruiting students to take part in a mass shooting at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, authorities said yesterday. Police said they got the tip on May 21st and searched the teen's home after getting a warrant, finding parts to explosives and assault rifles, as well as knives and electronic items that could be used to make weapons. The 16-year-old turned himself in Monday, and was arrested on suspicion of possessing destructive device materials and threatening to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury.

➤UVALDE SCHOOL POLICE CHIEF SAYS COOPERATING WITH INVESTIGATORS: The school district police chief in Uvalde, Texas, said Wednesday that he's cooperating with the probe into last week's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School and the response, telling CNN that he's talking daily with Texas Department of Public Safety Investigators. That contradicts claims from state law enforcement that Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo had stopped cooperating. Arredondo has been the focus of attention after it was learned that he was reportedly in charge at the scene of the shooting and delayed sending officers in after the gunman, believing the active shooter incident had turned into a hostage situation. Meanwhile, funerals began this week for the 19 children and two teachers killed in the attack. A joint service was held yesterday for teacher Irma Garcia and her husband, Joe Garcia, who died of a heart attack two days later. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona attended.

Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief who was the incident commander during the school shooting, declines to answer CNN reporter Shimon Prokupecz’s questions in his first public comments in a week regarding the response to the massacre. https://t.co/qIaiKYRdqW pic.twitter.com/G4GapSrvbg

— CNN (@CNN) June 1, 2022

➤BUFFALO MASS SHOOTER INDICTED ON TERRORISM, HATE CRIME CHARGES: The 18-year-old man accused in the racist mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket that left 10 people dead, all of them Black, was indicted by a grand jury yesterday on state domestic terrorism and hate crime charges. Payton Gendron, who is white, is set to be arraigned on the new indictment today, which comes on top of a previous murder charge. He's also been charged with attempted murder of three people who were wounded. Gendron allegedly drove three hours from his home to a Black neighborhood in Buffalo with the intent of killing Black people. He posted an online rant detailing his white supremacist views.

As the new weapons shipments were announced, a Russian missile hit rail lines in the western Lviv region, a key conduit for supplies of Western weapons and other supplies, officials said. https://t.co/V5oR4s2g6R

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 2, 2022

➤RAIL LINES IN WESTERN UKRAINE HIT BY MISSILE, RUSSIA CONTROLS 80 PERCENT OF KEY EASTERN CITY: Rail lines in the Lviv region of western Ukraine that are important for the delivery of Western weapons, fuel, and other supplies were hit by a Russian missile yesterday, according to Ukrainian officials. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, said the Beskidy railway tunnel in the Carpathian Mountains was hit. However, the head of the country's railways said the tunnel was spared, while damage to the railroad was still being assessed.

Meanwhile, the governor of the eastern region of Luhansk said that Russian forces now control 80 percent of the Sievierodonetsk, a key city in Russia's attempt to take control of the Donbas, made up of the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Governor Serhiy Haidai said the Russian forces were advancing in the city in street battles with Ukrainian troops, while noting that the Ukrainian fighters were able to push the Russians back in some districts. Haidai said that the only other city in Luhansk that the Russians haven't captured is Lysychansk, and that it's likely to be their next target.

President Biden has raised new questions about when he learned about the baby formula shortage and whether he could have acted sooner. https://t.co/luvmU0oyVR

— ABC News (@ABC) June 2, 2022

➤STUDENT LOAN DEBT WIPED OUT FOR FORMER CORINTHIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS: The administration announced yesterday that the federal student loan debt of former students at the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain will be automatically canceled. Hundreds of thousands of people are affected by the decision. The chain was founded in 1995 and collapsed 20 years later in 2015 amid widespread findings of fraud. The action will erase $5.8 billion in debt for more than 560,000 borrowers. Corinthian at one time was one of the nation's largest for-profit college companies, with more than 100 campuses across the country. It shut down after it was found that scores of campuses were falsifying data on the success of their graduates, and they also falsely told students their course credits could be transferred to other colleges.

➤FUTURE CAREER PROPOSECT UNCERTAIN FOR DEPP AND HEARD: Now that the weeks-long Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial is finally over, with Depp winning more than $10 million in his defamation claim against his ex-wife over her op-ed claiming she was a domestic abuse victim, and Heard being awarded $2 million in her counter-suit, the future career prospects for both actors are uncertain, AP reported, citing legal and entertainment experts who said both had their reputations damaged by what came out during the televised trial. Former entertainment lawyer Matthew Belloni, who writes about the business of Hollywood, told AP, "Both of them will work again, but I think it will be a while before a major studio will consider them 'safe' enough to bet on. The personal baggage that was revealed in this trial was just too icky for a studio to want to deal with." Meanwhile, L.A. crisis management and communications expert Eric Rose called the trial a "classic murder-suicide," explaining, "From a reputation-management perspective, there can be no winners. They’ve bloodied each other up. It becomes more difficult now for studios to hire either actor because you’re potentially alienating a large segment of your audience who may not like the fact that you have retained either Johnny or Amber for a specific project because feelings are so strong now."

➤JUDGE TO GRANT ATTEMPTED REAGAN ASSASSIN HINCKLEY FULL FREEDOM: A federal judge said yesterday that John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in an assassination attempt, is, quote, "no longer a danger to himself or others," and will be freed from any court oversight as planned. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman freed Hinckley in September from all remaining restrictions, but said his order wouldn’t take effect until June 15th. Yesterday's final hearing was intended to ensure Hinckley, who's now 67, was continuing to do well in the Virginia community where he's lived for years. A jury found Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity in Reagan's shooting, and he was confined to a mental hospital for more than two decades. He began getting some freedoms starting in 2013, and the judge said yesterday that Hinckley has shown no signs of active mental illness since the mid-1980s. The Reagan Foundation issued a statement yesterday opposing the lifting of Hinckley's restrictions, saying it was, quote, "both saddened and concerned that John Hinckley Jr. will soon be unconditionally released and intends to pursue a music career," stating he "apparently seeks to make a profit from his infamy."
 

💕STUDY: LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT MAY BE REAL, BIOLOGICALLY:  Do you believe in love at first sight? A new study from Israel have investigated the way skin sweat and movements change during speed dating, with interesting results. The Hebrew University Study of Jerusalem found that couples who were interested in one another romantically appeared to be "biologically in sync" within two minutes. Interested couples also mirrored one another's movements.

🏒RANGERS DOWN LIGHTNING IN GAME 1 OF EASTERN CONF. FINALS: The New York Rangers downed the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning 6-2 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals last night in New York. Filip Chytil scored two of the Rangers' goals. Game 2 is Friday night, also in New York.

🎾SWIATEK, CILIC ADVANCE TO FRENCH OPEN SEMIFINALS: Top-ranked woman's player Iga Swiatek won her French Open quarterfinals match against 11th-seeded American Jessica Pegula in straight sets yesterday to advance to the semifinals. Number 20 Daria Kasatkina also won her quarterfinal against 29th-seeded Veronika Kudermetova. On the men's side, Number 20 Marin Cilic upset seventh-seeded Andrey Rublev in a more than four-hour match to advance to the semifinals. Number 8 Casper Rudd won his quarterfinal over unseeded Holger Rune.

🏀NBA FINALS BETWEEN BOSTON AND GOLDEN STATE STARTS TONIGHT: The Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors will face off in Game 1 as the NBA Finals begin tonight in San Francisco at 9 p.m. ET. Boston is making its first appearance in the Finals since 2010 and is trying to win its first championship since 2008. Golden State is appearing in the Finals for the sixth time in the last eight years, and won in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

🏈🏌BRADY AND RODGERS BEAT MAHOMES AND ALLEN IN 'THE MATCH' GOLF EXHIBITION: In an NFL quarterbacks battle Wednesday, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers beat Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen in Capital One's "The Match" golf exhibit. Rodgers made a putt on the final hole to give him and Brady at 1-up win in the 12-hole exhibition at Wynn Las Vegas. The event raised money for the charitable organization Feeding America.

➤RAIN HEADED FOR SO.FLORIDA: National Weather Service in Miami said South Florida should expect heavy rainfall and squally conditions by the end of the week as what is forecast to become at least a tropical depression moves toward the northeast.