In a scene out of horror movie a man narrowly escaped a saw blade as it came barreling towards him outside a store in Oregon.
Video of the incident shows the man entering the store mere seconds before a large saw blade rolls quickly in his direction from across the parking lot.
The man was safely inside the store with the door closed behind him before the blade latched itself into the building’s facade.
“That just stuck in your wall,” the man is heard saying to the shop owner following the incident.
The shop owner and a customer could be seen walking over to the entrance after the saw blade made impact.
Louis Gossett Jr., first Black man to win Oscar for best supporting actor, dies at 87 – CBS News
Watch CBS News
Louis Gossett Jr. made history as the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the drama “An Officer and a Gentleman.” Now, tributes to the actor are pouring in after his death at 87. Michelle Miller reports on his career and legacy.
Be the first to know
Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.
Examining sports gambling’s rise in popularity with teens
03:44
Now Playing
Man receives life-saving transplant after seeing NBC News story
04:25
UP NEXT
Officials say 15-year-old Illinois stabbing victim died protecting others
02:52
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for cryptocurrency fraud
03:04
Disney and DeSantis allies reach settlement in special district fight
01:49
Trump lashes out at judge in hush money case after granting partial gag order
01:08
$1.13 billion Mega Millions ticket sold in New Jersey
01:58
Supreme Court appears skeptical of challenge to abortion pill mifepristone
03:11
Gen Z travelers share flying anxiety amid Boeing incidents
02:46
Boeing CEO and other executives to step down amid ongoing investigations
03:25
Court reduces Trump’s bond in civil fraud case as he attends hush money hearing
03:43
Camembert cheese faces potential threats in production
03:17
Hundreds step out to cut their hair for charity during ‘The Great Cut’
02:33
Dozens of casualties reported after attack on Russian concert hall
02:23
Alabama woman pleads guilty to faking her own kidnapping
01:53
MLB video game introduces female players for the first time
02:33
DOJ announces antitrust lawsuit against Apple over smartphone monopoly allegations
03:37
White House gives Intel nearly $20 billion for chip production
01:55
Federal appeals court appears skeptical over Texas immigration enforcement law
03:22
Federal Reserve decides not to raise interest rates
02:33
Dr. Gary Gibbon was battling lung cancer when he saw an NBC News story on experimental transplants being carried out at Northwestern Medicine. A year later, he credits it with saving his life.March 28, 2024
Examining sports gambling’s rise in popularity with teens
03:44
Now Playing
Man receives life-saving transplant after seeing NBC News story
04:25
UP NEXT
Officials say 15-year-old Illinois stabbing victim died protecting others
02:52
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for cryptocurrency fraud
03:04
Disney and DeSantis allies reach settlement in special district fight
01:49
Trump lashes out at judge in hush money case after granting partial gag order
A California man convicted in the death of his mother was the subject of an “intense manhunt” and arrested in Mexico after walking away from a transitional facility without notice, authorities said this week.
Ike Nicholas Souzer, 20, was behind bars Friday after allegedly violating terms of probation, which mandate both that he inform his probation officer of his whereabouts and stay in the region, according to authorities and court documents.
Though Souzer’s probation was based on a vandalism conviction, the Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer’s office warned the public on March 21, the day after he left a Santa Ana transitional facility: “This individual should be considered extremely dangerous and violent.”
Souzer has a record of violence in his teenage years, including a conviction for voluntary manslaughter in the death of his mother, who was fatally stabbed when he was 13, and a conviction related to an attack on three jail guards when he was 17 or 18.
The DA’s office also noted in a statement Wednesday, when it announced he was in custody, that in late 2022 Souzer was convicted of possession of a weapon — the office said it was a shank — while in custody.
Souzer was found in Playas de Rosarito, a coastal municipality south of Tijuana, the DA’s office said. It credited Mexican authorities, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Border Patrol, and the office’s own fugitive task force for the arrest.
“He set a plan in motion to flee to a foreign country in yet another attempt to escape the consequences of his actions,” Spitzer said in his office’s statement Wednesday.
The public defender’s office, which has been assigned to defend Souzer in the past, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The DA’s office acknowledged that a family member said during his juvenile court prosecution for manslaughter that Souzer was autistic and had a history of outbursts.
The DA’s office said Souzer has a long history of crime and that, when he attacked his mother, he was on home detainment and wearing a GPS monitor for another matter.
The office said Souzer violated probation when he left the supervision of the same transitional organization in 2022, when he was under mandatory GPS monitoring for the weapons conviction. The DA’s task force found Souzer then at a homeless encampment, according to the statement on Wednesday.
Spitzer blamed judges in the county for issuing what he described as lax sentences in cases involving Souzer. The office wanted to try him as an adult in the death of his mother, it said, and it consistently asked for stricter sentences in his subsequent cases.
In those matters, judges allowed time served to be counted and gave Souzer credit for good behavior, according to the DA’s office. The office called out specific judges by name. The California Judges Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The DA’s office also appeared to criticize a nonprofit, Project Kinship, for having “spent years advocating for Souzer’s release from custody.”
The nonprofit organization runs the supervisorial program and transitional facility from which Souzer left in 2022 and on March 20. It said it couldn’t comment on specific cases.
Founder and executive director Steve Kim said by email, “Project Kinship offers services like case management, counseling, and peer mentorship. We help individuals impacted by substance abuse, gangs, and incarceration.”
He said it has had a positive influence on Orange County.
“Personally, I have not yet met an inherently evil person in our work — just lives shattered by trauma and mental health challenges, often leading to a loss of hope,” he said. “Providing support and opportunities makes us all safer.”
Dennis Romero
Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
The family of a severely diabetic man whom authorities said died at the hands of a nurse overseeing his care last year has filed a wrongful death suit against the facility where he lived, alleging it allowed the nurse to berate and bully him, and ultimately cause his death.
Former nursing home nurse Heather Pressdee has already been charged with administering excessive doses of insulin to patients — 17 of whom died.
In total, she allegedly mistreated 22 patients — some diabetic and others not — with the dangerous doses she administered at five different care facilities from 2020 to this year, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.
Now, a new lawsuithas been filed against one of those facilities, Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where Nicholas Cymbol died May 1, 2023.
The suit — filed Wednesday in Butler County, the family’s attorney Rob Peirce said — alleges the center and its operator were negligent, failed to train employees to recognize and report abuse, and failed to remove Pressdee from Cymbol’s care even though she had bullied him and called him a derogatory term.
Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment.
Cymbol’s death
Cymbol, 43, was a resident at Sunnyview. He was a “brittle diabetic,” meaning he often experienced large swings in his blood glucose levels, he had an anoxic brain injury, blindness and neuropathy and thus required around-the-clock care, the complaint said.
Pressdee, who was hired in January 2023, was the manager of the unit where Cymbol lived.
In that role, she was responsible for providing direct care to residents, addressing resident care concerns and conducting internal investigations into staff complaints or abuse.
The complaint alleged Pressdee “routinely insulted, berated, bullied and abused Mr. Cymbol, just as she had done to other residents.”
Staff allegedly knew she “disliked” Cymbol, and she routinely called him derogatory terms in reference to his brain injury within earshot of other Sunnyview staff, the filing said.
Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Butler County, Pa.Google Maps
On several occasions, she allegedly prevented other nurses from feeding or giving water to Cymbol, and had him eat alone when he was taken to the communal dining room.
Pressdee had already been linked to other suspicious resident deaths when she was caring for him, the complaint said.
One one occasion, she told other staff members Cymbol was “going to be the next one to die anyway,” the complaint said.
Despite these red flags, the facility didn’t remove Pressdee from his care, the complaint said.
On April 30, 2023, Cymbol’s nurse recorded his blood sugar level at 167 mg/dL at 6:30 a.m. Just 30 minutes later, at 7 a.m., Pressdee documented his blood sugar had allegedly risen to 380 mg/dL.
Pressdee then injected Cymbol with 60 units of insulin, and his blood sugar plummeted. She then tried to reverse the drop by administering multiple doses of glucagon, the filing said.
The suit said she initially refused to call 911, but paramedics were eventually called after she was confronted by other staffers.
Cymbol was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for hypoglycemia — a condition in which one’s blood sugar level is lower than the standard range — and was discharged and returned to Sunnyview that same evening.
Despite having been hospitalized, Sunnyview nursing staff allegedly failed to monitor his blood sugar and condition.
That evening into the morning of May 1, his condition “gradually declined,” the complaint said.
Shortly after 4 a.m. on May 1, a nurse at Sunnyview who was not Pressdee found him in a “hypoglycemic crisis and foaming at the mouth.”
Cymbol’s sister, Melinda Brown, was called and told to come to the facility. At 4:30 a.m. she received a call from a nurse saying Cymbol had died.
His cause of death was initially identified as myocardial infarction.
At first, Cymbol’s family believed he died of natural causes, the suit said, but it wasn’t until an investigation by the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General that they ultimately learned Pressdee had administered an excessive and lethal dose of insulin to Cymbol, resulting in his death.
The day Cymbol died, Pressdee was terminated by Sunnyview for exhibiting abusive behavior toward residents and staff, according to the complaint.
After Cymbol’s death, she sent a sympathy card to his family saying, “nick was one of a kind,” according to the suit.
Failures at Sunnyview
The suit said the center failed in even hiring Pressdee given her checkered career history, in which she worked at 10 medical facilities from 2018 to December 2022 and was forced to resign or was terminated from each of those jobs due to “abusive tendencies and behavior toward residents and staff.”
While at Sunnyview, she allegedly exhibited “troubling and erratic behavior,” but the facility “consistently failed” to train staff to recognize and report the abuse or neglect of residents. As a result, her abuse was allowed to “pervade throughout the facility,” the complaint said.
The suit said members of the Sunnyview nursing staff began to notice residents whom Pressdee had access to “were passing away unexpectedly and/or under suspicious circumstances, causing the nursing staff to believe Pressdee had involvement in their deaths.”
The suit outlined some of those other suspicious resident deaths.
But the center “completely and repeatedly ignored the concerns of staff and residents pertaining to Pressdee’s treatment of residents.”
Pressdee’s arrest and charges
Weeks after Cymbol’s death and Pressdee’s subsequent termination, the Pennsylvania Department of Health conducted an investigation of the facility, according to the complaint.
Sunnyview Operating LLC and the center terminated or reprimanded staff who provided information to the department regarding resident deaths or Pressdee’s conduct, the complaint said.
On May 24, 2023, an arrest warrant was issued and she was taken into custody in connection with two resident deaths from insulin-induced hypoglycemia at Quality Life Services–Chicora, the lawsuit said.
She admitted to injecting those residents with the intention of killing them and she was subsequently charged with two counts of criminal homicide, counts later upgraded to murder in the first and third degree, the complaint said.
Then, in November, she was charged with 17 additional counts of attempted homicide and 19 counts of neglect of care-dependent persons for deaths at facilities in Butler, Allegheny, Westmoreland and Armstrong counties.
In Cymbol’s case, she was charged with murder and criminal neglect.
The criminal investigation into Pressdee is ongoing.
The November attorney general’s office news release announcing the additional charges does not note charges filed against Sunnyview.
Lawyers representing Pressdee in the criminal case, Phil DiLucente and Jim DePasquale, said they are not involved with the civil lawsuits but added that it’s possible the former nurse “pleads guilty to everything she is charged with” and that a status hearing has been set for May.
If she pleads guilty, “the only issue becomes whether she was negligently hired and or negligently supervised and what the damages are,” the lawyers said.
The new suit, filed by Brown, Cymbol’s sister, as well as the administrator of his estate, seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and demands a jury trial.
“We were hired by the families of Heather Pressdee’s victims to get answers as to how she was permitted to continue working in these facilities, despite her erratic, disturbing, and abusive behavior,” Peirce, an attorney representing Brown, said in a statement Wednesday. “The more our office has investigated, the more questions we have as to why these facilities allowed these tragedies to occur.”
Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.
Gossett’s cousin, Neal L. Gossett, confirmed his death to CBS News. The actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California, the Associated Press reported. No cause of death was revealed.
“It is with our heartfelt regret to confirm our beloved father passed away this morning. We would like to thank everyone for their condolences at this time. Please respect the family’s privacy during this difficult time,” his family said in a statement Friday.
Gossett always thought of his early career as a reverse Cinderella story, with success finding him from an early age and propelling him forward, toward his Academy Award for “An Officer and a Gentleman.”
He earned his first acting credit in his Brooklyn high school’s production of “You Can’t Take It with You” while he was sidelined from the basketball team with an injury.
“I was hooked — and so was my audience,” he wrote in his 2010 memoir “An Actor and a Gentleman.”
His English teacher urged him to go into Manhattan to try out for “Take a Giant Step.” He got the part and made his Broadway debut in 1953 at age 16.
Louis Gossett Jr. poses for a portrait in New York to promote the release of “Roots: The Complete Original Series” on Bu-ray on May 11, 2016.
Amy Sussman/Invision/AP
“I knew too little to be nervous,” Gossett wrote. “In retrospect, I should have been scared to death as I walked onto that stage, but I wasn’t.”
Gossett attended New York University on a basketball and drama scholarship. He was soon acting and singing on TV shows hosted by David Susskind, Ed Sullivan, Red Buttons, Merv Griffin, Jack Paar and Steve Allen. Gossett became friendly with James Dean and studied acting with Marilyn Monroe, Martin Landau and Steve McQueen at an offshoot of the Actors Studio taught by Frank Silvera.
In 1959, Gossett received critical acclaim for his role in the Broadway production of “A Raisin in the Sun” along with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands.
“I’m fortunate to have worked with Sidney Poitier, Diana Sands, Ruby Dee. What a pleasure,” Gossett told CBS News in 2020. “Showed me what was good and what was bad. They taught me about that. And I fell in love. It’s in my bloodstream.”
Gossett went on to become a star on Broadway, replacing Billy Daniels in “Golden Boy” with Sammy Davis Jr. in 1964.
Gossett went to Hollywood for the first time in 1961 to make the film version of “A Raisin in the Sun.” He had bitter memories of that trip, staying in a cockroach-infested motel that was one of the few places to allow Black people.
In 1968, he returned to Hollywood for a major role in “Companions in Nightmare,” NBC’s first made-for-TV movie that starred Melvyn Douglas, Anne Baxter and Patrick O’Neal.
This time, Gossett was booked into the Beverly Hills Hotel and Universal Studios had rented him a convertible. Driving back to the hotel after picking up the car, he was stopped by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s officer who ordered him to turn down the radio and put up the car’s roof before letting him go.
Within minutes, he was stopped by eight sheriff’s officers, who had him lean against the car and made him open the trunk while they called the car rental agency before letting him go.
“Something happened to my system. You know, have to look over and be careful. Because that sensation did damage to me,” Gossett said while recounting the incident in 2020. “So, when they say Black lives matter? All lives matter, because not only did they hurt me, but they hurt themselves.”
After dinner at the hotel, he went for a walk and was stopped a block away by a police officer, who told him he broke a law prohibiting walking around residential Beverly Hills after 9 p.m. Two other officers arrived and Gossett said he was chained to a tree and handcuffed for three hours. He was eventually freed when the original police car returned.
“Now I had come face-to-face with racism, and it was an ugly sight,” he wrote. “But it was not going to destroy me.”
In the late 1990s, Gossett said he was pulled over by police on Pacific Coast Highway while driving his restored 1986 Rolls Royce Corniche II. The officer told him he looked like someone they were searching for, but the officer recognized Gossett and left.
Louis Gossett Jr., poses with the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in “An Officer and a Gentleman.”
/ AP
He founded the Eracism Foundation to help create a world where racism doesn’t exist.
Gossett made a series of guest appearances on such shows as “Bonanza,” “The Rockford Files,” “The Mod Squad,” “McCloud” and a memorable turn with Richard Pryor on “The Partridge Family.”
In August 1969, Gossett had been partying with members of the Mamas and the Papas when they were invited to actor Sharon Tate’s house. He headed home first to shower and change clothes. As he was getting ready to leave, he caught a news flash on TV about Tate’s murder. She and others were killed by Charles Manson’s associates that night.
“There had to be a reason for my escaping this bullet,” he wrote.
Louis Cameron Gossett was born on May 27, 1936, in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York, to Louis Sr., a porter, and Hellen, a nurse. He later added Jr. to his name to honor his father.
Gossett broke through on the small screen as Fiddler in the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries “Roots,” which depicted the atrocities of slavery on TV. The sprawling cast included Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton and John Amos.
Gossett became the third Black Oscar nominee in the supporting actor category in 1983. He told CBS News that at first, he didn’t realize he had won for his performance as the intimidating Marine drill instructor in “An Officer and a Gentleman” opposite Richard Gere and Debra Winger.
“My agent hit me in the chest and said, ‘They mentioned your name!’ And I had to look at him ’cause I thought I was asleep,” said Gossett, who also won a Golden Globe for the role. “And I looked around and there was applause. Not supposed to be possible. So, that’s a piece of history.”
Gossett said that that win allowed him to choose “good parts” in future movies. In 2020, he told CBS News that he considered his long career “a blessing” and would stay in the business as long as he was able.
“As long as I’m here, there is a job to do for the benefit of us all, for what it’s worth,” he said.
Gossett appeared in such TV movies as “The Story of Satchel Paige,” “Backstairs at the White House, “The Josephine Baker Story,” for which he won another Golden Globe, and “Roots Revisited.” He played an obstinate patriarch in the 2023 remake of “The Color Purple.”
Gossett struggled with alcohol and cocaine addiction for years after his Oscar win. He went to rehab, where he was diagnosed with toxic mold syndrome, which he attributed to his house in Malibu.
In 2010, Gossett announced he had prostate cancer, which he said was caught in the early stages. In 2020, he was hospitalized with COVID-19.
He is survived by sons Satie, a producer-director from his second marriage, and Sharron, a chef whom he adopted after seeing the 7-year-old in a TV segment on children in desperate situations. His first cousin is actor Robert Gossett.
Gossett’s first marriage to Hattie Glascoe was annulled. His second, to Christina Mangosing, ended in divorce in 1975 as did his third to actor Cyndi James-Reese in 1992.
A Southern California man convicted of killing his mother as a teenager was captured in Mexico a week after he walked away from a halfway house, violating the conditions of his probation, authorities said.
Ike Nicholas Souzer, 20, was arrested Wednesday in the coastal city of Rosarito by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials after a weeklong manhunt, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said. He is once again in custody in Orange County.
In a news release, the district attorney’s office described Souzer as an “extremely dangerous and violent criminal.”
Souzer had already served his sentence for stabbing his mother to death in 2017, when he was 13. He was subsequently convicted on a vandalism charge and served a short sentence, then released from custody March 20, prosecutors said.
The judge in that case also sentenced Souzer to two years of probation.
Ike Nicholas Souzer.
Orange County District Attorney’s Office
This was the second time Souzer disappeared from a halfway house. In 2022, he was let out of jail and moved to a halfway house in Santa Ana where he removed his electronic monitor and left. He was later captured by police. In his recent escape, Souzer again cut off his electronic monitoring device, CBS Los Angeles reported.
He also escaped a juvenile detention facility in 2019.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Souzer deserved harsher sentences and blamed judges who have handled his cases.
“This is not someone who deserves a break; he has turned every opportunity to turn over a new leaf into a new opportunity to break the law and defy law enforcement. He did not simply walk away and forget to check in with his probation officer,” Spitzer said in the news release. “The second he was out of custody he set a plan in motion to flee to a foreign country in yet another attempt to escape the consequences of his actions.”
Souzer was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of his mother. His defense attorney argued that the killing was in self-defense and said the teen had experienced years of abuse, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Souzer has also been charged with three attacks on correctional officers, possessing a shank in jail, and most recently, drawing graffiti on a freeway underpass, prosecutors said.
Man shot at nearly two dozen times by law enforcement while in a patrol car shares story – CBS News
Watch CBS News
In an exclusive interview, a Florida man who was shot at nearly two dozen times by law enforcement while he was detained in the back of a patrol car shares his story.
Be the first to know
Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
LIHUE, Hawaii — A man who escaped from a Hawaii jail and was struck by a vehicle soon after died Thursday from his injuries, authorities said.
Matthew J. Ornellas Jr. was seriously hurt in a hit-and-run after he fled from Kauai Community Correctional Center just after 1 a.m. last Friday, the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.
He scaled a fence with razor wire, and correctional officers gave chase but lost sight of him when he entered a dense brush area, officials said.
Soon afterward they heard a loud sound from the road and found him lying next to Kuhio Highway, about 100 yards (90 meters) away from the jail. An ambulance transported him to a hospital, where he remained in serious condition and in custody. His condition deteriorated and he was pronounced dead Thursday.
Ornellas, 33, was a minimum-security inmate serving time for a drug conviction, officials said.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said it is continuing to investigate the escape.
Orenellas was hit as he was running north in the southbound lane of Kuhio Highway, Kauai police said. Police are searching for the driver, who left the scene before first responders arrived.
A public defender who represented Ornellas for a probation violation declined previously to comment on the escape.
