Policías de Sacramento acordonan la zona donde un hombre mató a sus hijos y otra persona, este lunes.Rich Pedroncelli (AP)
Un hombre ha matado a su familia este lunes en una iglesia de Sacramento, la capital de California. El ataque ha dejado cinco muertos, entre ellos el atacante, quien se suicidó después de matar a tres de sus hijos y una persona más, quien no ha sido identificada aún, pero se cree que era un trabajador social o un religioso. El homicida se suicidó con el arma en el mismo lugar, un templo católico, de acuerdo a la oficina del sheriff del condado, que ha ofrecido una rueda de prensa esta tarde.
Rodney Grassmann, portavoz de la oficina del alguacil, explicó a los periodistas locales que el incidente no se trató de un tiroteo masivo ni aleatorio, sino que fue un episodio de violencia familiar. Todas las víctimas se conocían entre sí. Este tipo de ataques son los que dejan la mayor cantidad de víctimas de la violencia armada en Estados Unidos, el país con más armas del mundo. El vocero del sheriff confirmó la relación entre las víctimas y el agresor, quien no ha sido identificado. El sexo tampoco fue especificado.
Scott Jones, el sheriff de Sacramento, ha señalado que la madre de las víctimas no estuvo involucrada en el incidente y se encuentra colaborando con las autoridades para hacer más claros los hechos. La mujer contaba con una orden de restricción contra su exmarido, quien se encontraba en el templo para una visita monitoreada con sus hijos. “El tirador entró y mató a quien estaba supervisando la visita, después mató a sus tres hijos y posteriormente volteó el arma contra sí mismo”, dijo Jones. Las autoridades no han informado del tipo o calibre del arma usada.
La policía respondió a las llamadas de emergencia hechas por un empleado de la iglesia que estaba en un piso superior minutos después de las 17.00. Los oficiales acudieron a The Church (la iglesia), ubicada al noreste de la ciudad. Los cuerpos fueron hallados en la zona principal del recinto. En la rueda de prensa no se precisó si en ese momento se desarrollaba algún servicio con más asistentes ni si las víctimas pertenecían a la congregación.
“Otro violento hecho sin sentido en Estados Unidos. Este ocurrió en nuestro patio trasero. En una iglesia con niños en su interior. Es devastador”, dijo Gavin Newsom, el gobernador de California, uno de los estados con las normas más estrictas de regulación de armas y quien lleva las últimas semanas encabezando una pionera campaña para combatir el tráfico y la venta de armamento en la entidad. En 2020, Estados Unidos registró 2.270 menores de edad fallecidos por armas de fuego, la mayor causa de muerte para este sector de la población. Cada año tres millones de niños se exponen a la violencia armada de este país por lesiones o traumas, de acuerdo al centro Giffords, un centro de estudios de regulación del fenómeno.
El mandatario local presentó el pasado 18 de febrero una iniciativa que permite a los habitantes del estado demandar a los fabricantes y distribuidores de armas de asalto y de alto calibre como los rifles calibre .50 y las piezas de ensamblaje conocidas como armas fantasmas.
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Newsom se inspiró en Texas para crear esta norma. Los legisladores republicanos del Estado sureño aprobaron una serie de medidas polémicas que permiten a cualquier ciudadano emprender demandas civiles en contra de cualquiera que practique un aborto. La iniciativa fue avalada por la Suprema Corte. El gobernador progresista dijo que usaría la misma lógica para demandar a los fabricantes de armamento, que son prácticamente inmunes por una serie de normativas aprobadas hace varias décadas. La iniciativa de Newsom pretende poner a prueba ese escudo a los litigios civiles.
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The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast.
But things escalated when Emmilee Risling was charged with arson for igniting a fire in a cemetery. Her family hoped the case would force her into mental health and addiction services. Instead, she was released over the pleas of loved ones and a tribal police chief.
The 33-year-old college graduate — an accomplished traditional dancer with ancestry from three area tribes — was last seen soon after, walking across a bridge near a place marked End of Road, a far corner of the Yurok Reservation where the rutted pavement dissolves into thick woods.
In this aerial image taken from a drone, a pedestrian walks near End of Road on Jan. 19, 2022, where Emmilee Risling was last seen before going missing in October 2021, in Klamath, Calif.
Her disappearance is one of five instances in the past 18 months where Indigenous women have gone missing or been killed in this isolated expanse of Pacific coastline between San Francisco and Oregon, a region where the Yurok, Hupa, Karuk, Tolowa and Wiyot people have coexisted for millennia. Two other women died from what authorities say were overdoses despite relatives’ questions about severe bruises.
The crisis has spurred the Yurok Tribe to issue an emergency declaration and brought increased urgency to efforts to build California’s first database of such cases and regain sovereignty over key services.
“I came to this issue as both a researcher and a learner, but just in this last year, I knew three of the women who have gone missing or were murdered — and we shared so much in common,” said Blythe George, a Yurok tribal member who consults on a project documenting the problem. “You can’t help but see yourself in those people.”
Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O’Rourke visits the last confirmed location on Jan. 19, 2022, where Emmilee Risling was seen before going missing in October 2021, in Klamath, Calif.
The recent cases spotlight an epidemic that is difficult to quantify but has long disproportionately plagued Native Americans.
A 2021 report by a government watchdog found the true number of missing and murdered Indigenous women is unknown due to reporting problems, distrust of law enforcement and jurisdictional conflicts. But Native women face murder rates almost three times those of white women overall — and up to 10 times the national average in certain locations, according to a 2021 summary of the existing research by the National Congress of American Indians. More than 80% have experienced violence.
In this area peppered with illegal marijuana farms and defined by wilderness, almost everyone knows someone who has vanished.
Missing person posters flutter from gas station doors and road signs. Even the tribal police chief isn’t untouched: He took in the daughter of one missing woman, and Emmilee — an enrolled Hoopa Valley tribal member with Yurok and Karuk blood — babysat his children.
In California alone, the Yurok Tribe and the Sovereign Bodies Institute, an Indigenous-run research and advocacy group, uncovered 18 cases of missing or slain Native American women in roughly the past year — a number they consider a vast undercount. An estimated 62% of those cases are not listed in state or federal databases for missing persons.
Hupa citizen Brandice Davis attended school with the daughters of a woman who disappeared in 1991 and now has daughters of her own, ages 9 and 13.
“Here, we’re all related, in a sense,” she said of the place where many families are connected by marriage or community ties.
She cautions her daughters about what it means to be female, Native American and growing up on a reservation: “You’re a statistic. But we have to keep going. We have to show people we’re still here.”
Maile Kane, 13, walks with her grandmother’s dog, Charlie, outside her family’s home on Jan. 20, 2022, in Hoopa, Calif. The girl’s mother, Brandice Davis, said she grew up with Emmilee Risling and worries about the safety of her own daughters.
Like countless cases involving Indigenous women, Emmilee’s disappearance has gotten no attention from the outside world.
But many here see in her story the ugly intersection of generations of trauma inflicted on Native Americans by their white colonizers, the marginalization of Native peoples and tribal law enforcement’s lack of authority over many crimes committed on their land.
Virtually all of the area’s Indigenous residents, including Emmilee, have ancestors who were shipped to boarding schools as children and forced to give up their language and culture as part of a federal assimilation campaign. Further back, Yurok people spent years away from home as indentured servants for colonizers, said Judge Abby Abinanti, the tribe’s chief judge.
The trauma caused by those removals echoes among the Yurok in the form of drug abuse and domestic violence, which trickles down to the youth, she said. About 110 Yurok children are in foster care.
“You say, ‘OK, how did we get to this situation where we’re losing our children?'” said Abinanti. “There were big gaps in knowledge, including parenting, and generationally those play out.”
An analysis of cases by the Yurok and Sovereign Bodies found most of the region’s missing women had either been in foster care themselves or had children taken from them by the state. An analysis of jail bookings also showed Yurok citizens in the two-county region are 11 times more likely to go to jail in a given year — and half those arrested are female, usually for low-level crimes. That’s an arrest rate for Yurok women roughly five times the rate of female incarcerations nationwide, said George, the University of California, Merced sociologist consulting with the tribe.
The Yurok run a tribal wellness court for addiction and operate one of the country’s only state-certified tribal domestic violence perpetrator programs. They also recently hired a tribal prosecutor, another step toward building an Indigenous justice system that would ultimately handle all but the most serious felonies.
The Yurok also are working to reclaim supervision over foster care and hope to transfer their first foster family from state court within months, said Jessica Carter, the Yurok Tribal Court director. A tribal-run guardianship court follows another 50 children who live with relatives.
The long-term plan — mostly funded by grants — is a massive undertaking that will take years to accomplish, but the Yurok see regaining sovereignty over these systems as the only way to end the cycle of loss that’s taken the greatest toll on their women.
“If we are successful, we can use that as a gift to other tribes to say, ‘Here’s the steps we took,'” said Rosemary Deck, the newly hired tribal prosecutor. “‘You can take this as a blueprint and assert your own sovereignty.'”
Mary Risling looks at dancing regalia that had been used by her missing sister Emmilee Risling at their family home on Jan. 21, 2022, in McKinleyville, Calif.
Emmilee was born into a prominent Native family, and a bright future beckoned.
Starting at a young age, she was groomed to one day lead the intricate dances that knit the modern-day people to generations of tradition nearly broken by colonization. Her family, a “dance family,” has the rare distinction of owning enough regalia that it can outfit the brush, jump and flower dances without borrowing a single piece.
At 15, Emmilee paraded down the National Mall with other tribal members at the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The Washington Post published a front-page photo of her in a Karuk dress of dried bear grass, a woven basket cap and a white leather sash adorned with Pileated woodpecker scalps.
In this 2014 photo provided by Gary Risling, Emmilee Risling, right, poses after her graduation from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore., with her great-aunt and adoptive grandmother Viola Risling-Ryerson.
The straight-A student earned a scholarship to the University of Oregon, where she helped lead a prominent Native students’ group. Her success, however, was darkened by the first sign of trouble: an abusive relationship with a Native man whom, her mother believes, she felt she could save through her positive influence.
Later, Emmilee dated another man, became pregnant and returned home to have the baby before finishing her degree.
She then worked with disadvantaged Native families and eventually got accepted into a master’s program. She helped coach her son’s T-ball team and signed him up for swim lessons.
But over time, her family says, they noticed changes.
Emmilee was uncharacteristically tardy for work and grew more combative. She often dropped off her son with family, and she fell in with another abusive boyfriend. Her son was removed from her care when he was 5; a girl born in 2020 was taken away as a newborn as Emmilee’s behavior deteriorated.
Her parents remain bewildered by her rapid decline and think she developed a mental illness — possibly postpartum psychosis — compounded by drugs and the trauma of domestic abuse. At first, she would see a doctor or therapist at her family’s insistence but eventually rebuffed all help.
In this Dec. 2020, photo provided by Mary Risling, missing woman Emmilee Risling is seen holding her infant daughter at a home in California. The 33-year-old college graduate with ancestry from three tribes was last seen more than four months ago on the
After her daughter’s birth, Emmilee spiraled rapidly, “like a light switched,” and she began to let go of the Native identity that had been her defining force, said her sister, Mary.
“That was her life, and when you let that go, when you don’t have your kids … what are you?” she said.
In the months before she vanished, Emmilee was frequently seen walking naked in public, talking to herself. She was picked up many times by sheriff’s deputies and tribal police but never charged.
The only in-patient psychiatric facility within 300 miles (480 kilometers) was always too full to admit her. Once, she was taken to the emergency room and fled barefoot in her hospital gown.
“People tended to look the other way. They didn’t really help her. In less than 24 hours, she was just back on the street, literally on the street,” said Judy Risling, her mother. “There were just no services for her.”
In September, Emmilee was arrested after she was found dancing around a small fire in the Hoopa Valley Reservation cemetery.
Then-Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Chief Bob Kane appeared in a Humboldt County court by video and explained her repeated police contacts and mental health problems. Emmilee mumbled during the hearing then shouted out that she didn’t set the fire.
She was released with an order to appear again in 12 days after her public defender argued she had no criminal convictions and the court couldn’t hold her on the basis of her mental health.
Then, Emmilee disappeared.
“We had predicted that something like this may … happen in the future,” said Kane. “And you know, now we’re here.”
If Emmilee fell through the cracks before she went missing, she has become even more invisible in her absence.
One of the biggest hurdles in Indian Country once a woman is reported missing is unraveling a confusing jumble of federal, state, local and tribal agencies that must coordinate. Poor communication and oversights can result in overlooked evidence or delayed investigations.
The problem is more acute in rural regions like the one where Emmilee disappeared, said Abigail Echo-Hawk, citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and director of the Urban Indian Health Institute in Seattle.
“Particularly in reservations and in village areas, there is a maze of jurisdictions, of policies, of procedures of who investigates what,” she said.
Moreover, many cases aren’t logged in federal missing persons databases, and medical examiners sometimes misclassify Native women as white or Asian, said Gretta Goodwin, of the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s homeland security and justice team.
Recent efforts at the state and federal level seek to address what advocates say have been decades of neglect regarding missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Former President Donald Trump signed a bill that required federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement agencies to create or update their protocols for handling such cases. And in November, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to set up guidelines between the federal government and tribal police that would help track, solve and prevent crimes against all Native Americans.
A number of states, including California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona, are also taking on the crisis with greater funding to tribes, studies of the problem or proposals to create Amber Alert-style notifications.
Emmilee’s case illustrates some of the challenges. She was a citizen of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and was arrested on its reservation, but she is presumed missing on the neighboring Yurok Tribe’s reservation.
The Yurok police are in charge of the missing persons probe, but the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office will decide when to declare the case cold, which could trigger federal help.
The remote terrain where Emmilee was last seen — two hours from the nearest town — created hurdles common on reservations.
A dog walks along End of Road on Jan. 19, 2022, where police received and investigated reports of Emmilee Risling staying before her disappearance in October 2021, on the Yurok Reservation, Calif.
Law enforcement determined there wasn’t enough information to launch a formal search and rescue operation in such a vast, mountainous area. The Yurok police opted to forgo their own search because of liability concerns and a lack of training, said Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O’Rourke.
Instead, Yurok and Hoopa Valley police and sheriff’s deputies plied the rain-swollen Klamath River by boat and drove back roads.
Emmilee’s father, Gary Risling, says the sheriff’s office failed to act on anonymous tips, was slow to follow up on possible sightings and focused more resources on other missing person’s cases, including a wayward hunter and a kayaker lost at sea.
“I don’t want to seem like I’m picking on them, but that effort is sure not put forward when it becomes a missing Indian woman,” he said.
Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal declined interview requests, saying the Yurok are in charge and there are no signs of foul play. O’Rourke said the tips aren’t enough for a search warrant and there’s nothing further the tribal police can do.
The police chief, who knew Emmilee well, says his work is frequently stymied by a broader system that discounts tribal sovereignty.
“The role of police is protect the vulnerable. As tribal police, we’re doing that in a system that’s broken,” he said. “I think that is the reason that Native women get all but dismissed.”
Emmilee’s family, meanwhile, is struggling to shield her children, now 10 and almost 2, from the trauma of their mother’s disappearance — trauma they worry could trigger another generational cycle of loss.
The boy has been having nightmares and recently spoke everyone’s worst fear.
“It’s real difficult when you deal with the grandkids, and the grandkid says, ‘Grandpa, can you take me down the river and can we look for my mama?’ What do you tell him? ‘We’re looking, we’re looking every day,'” said Gary Risling, choking back tears.
“And then he says, ‘What happens if we can’t find her?'”
One of the challenges that new Afghan refugees in California face is a tough rental market. Many are staying in temporary housing for weeks at a time. For VOA, Breshna Tahrik has more from San Diego, California.
Officials in the U.S. state of California have issued a series of recommendations for homeowners to better protect themselves and their communities from devastating wildfires.
The guidelines released Monday include the use of fire-resistant roofing and vents, having a clear area 1.5 meters around the house, using noncombustible materials for the first 15 centimeters of exterior walls and making sure outbuildings are located at least nine meters from the house.
FILE – A firefighter hoses down areas of the Dixie Fire as it jumps Highway 395 south of Janesville, California on August 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Officials said communities also need to have defined evacuation routes that are clear of hazards as well as shelter in place plans.
California routinely deals with wildfires, and state officials said since 2017, the fires have destroyed nearly 50,000 homes.
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said Monday that reducing wildfire risk will help bring down insurance premiums and prompt insurance companies to offer incentives to homeowners to retrofit older buildings to make them safer.
Some information for this report came from The Associated Press.
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A California city voted Tuesday night to require gun owners to carry liability insurance in what’s believed to be the first measure of its kind in the United States.
The San Jose City Council overwhelmingly approved the measure despite opposition from gun owners who said it would violate their Second Amendment rights and promised to sue.
The Silicon Valley city of about 1 million followed a trend of other Democratic-led cities that have sought to rein in violence through stricter rules. But while similar laws have been proposed, San Jose is the first city to pass one, according to Brady United, a national nonprofit that advocates against gun violence.
Council members, including several who had lost friends to gun violence, said it was a step toward dealing with gun violence, which Councilman Sergio Jimenez described as “a scourge on our society.”
Having liability insurance would encourage people in the 55,000 households in San Jose who legally own at least one registered gun to have gun safes, install trigger locks and take gun safety classes, Mayor Sam Liccardo said.
The liability insurance would cover losses or damages resulting from any accidental use of the firearm, including death, injury, and property damage, according to the ordinance. If a gun is stolen or lost, the owner of the firearm would be considered liable until the theft or loss is reported to authorities.
However, gun owners who don’t have insurance won’t lose their guns or face any criminal charges, the mayor said.
The council also voted to require gun owners to pay an estimated $25 fee, which would be collected by a yet-to-be-named nonprofit and doled out to community groups to be used for firearm safety education and training, suicide prevention, domestic violence, and mental health services.
The proposed ordinance is part of a broad gun control plan that Liccardo announced following the May 26 mass shooting at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority rail yard that left nine people dead, including the employee who opened fire on his colleagues and then killed himself.
At an hourslong meeting, critics argued that the fee and liability requirements violated their right to bear arms and would do nothing to stop gun crimes, including the use of untraceable build-it-yourself “ghost guns.”
“You cannot tax a constitutional right. This does nothing to reduce crime,” one speaker said.
The measure didn’t address the massive problem of illegally obtained weapons that are stolen or purchased without background checks.
Liccardo acknowledged those concerns.
“This won’t stop mass shootings and keep bad people from committing violent crime,” the mayor said, but he added that most gun deaths nationally are from suicide, accidental shootings or other causes and that many homicides stem from domestic violence.
Liccardo also said gun violence costs San Jose taxpayers $40 million a year in emergency response services.
Some speakers argued that the law would face costly and lengthy court challenges.
Before the vote, Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, said his group would sue if the proposal took effect, calling it “totally unconstitutional in any configuration.”
However, Liccardo said some attorneys had already offered to defend the city pro bono.
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El senador Robert Kennedy en lo que sería su último mitin. El político fue asesinado minutos después de este acto en el hotel Ambassador.Dick Strobel (AP)
No habrá libertad para Sirhan Sirhan. Gavin Newsom, el gobernador de California, tenía la última palabra sobre el futuro del hombre que mató una noche de junio de 1968 al senador Robert Kennedy. La junta de libertad del Estado había recomendado su salida de prisión en agosto pasado. Pero Newsom ha dicho este jueves que no será así. “Después de décadas en prisión, ha fallado en lidiar con las deficiencias que lo llevaron a asesinar al senador Kennedy… El señor Sirhan carece de la perspicacia que le impediría volver a tomar las mismas peligrosas decisiones del pasado”, argumentó Newsom en su negativa.
Este era un dilema que el gobernador de California sopesó durante casi cinco meses. En sus manos tenía la resolución de lo que hoy ha llamado “uno de los crímenes más notorios de la historia de Estados Unidos”. Él mismo, una estrella del Partido Demócrata, ha dicho públicamente que sigue no solo la estela de la familia Kennedy, sino especialmente la del legislador cuya vida terminó en el hotel Ambassador después de un mitin donde festejaba su triunfo en las primarias rumbo a la nominación presidencial. En su oficina, sobre su escritorio, Newsom tiene una fotografía de Bobby Kennedy junto con su padre, el juez William Newson. Era difícil que diera el brazo a torcer.
La negativa cierra de momento un nuevo capítulo en la historia de Sirhan Sirhan, un inmigrante palestino de 77 años que se encuentra encarcelado al sur de California, en una prisión de San Diego. En agosto, el hombre, que tenía 24 años cuando perpetró el crimen, asumió en una videoconferencia con los responsables del sistema carcelario “la responsabilidad” de llevar el revólver calibre .22 al hotel de la calle Wilshire y de haberlo descargado en contra del hermano menor del presidente John F. Kennedy, quien había sido asesinado en Dallas casi cinco años antes.
Sirhan Sirhan, el asesino de Robert Kennedy, en una imagen de 2016.California Department of Correct (Reuters)
La admisión de culpa, que el gobernador Newsom pone en duda en un largo texto, no era nueva. Tampoco ha sido constante. En los años 80, Sirhan Sirhan confesó en una entrevista que se motivó para el homicidio después de escuchar al aspirante presidencial prometer un apoyo militar a Israel. En los años siguientes fue modificando y matizando su versión. Esto ha hecho que los grupos extremistas en Oriente Medio lo consideren un héroe. Uno de los comisionados que valoraba su puesta en libertad había advertido que su regreso a la sociedad podía convertirse en un símbolo para los palestinos radicales.
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Newsom, un progresista que aspira a la reforma penal, había dado algunas pistas de qué pensaba en este caso. Recordó a los reporteros que lo acompañan en Sacramento que meses después de su llegada al palacio de gobierno decoró los pasillos con fotografías de los honores fúnebres que se llevaron en memoria de Kennedy. “Esto es muy emotivo y crudo para la gente”, dijo en septiembre, después de afirmar que su oficina había sido inundada de llamadas de simpatizantes y detractores. No para pedir o no la liberación del asesino, sino para usar las noticias como catarsis de lo que significó aquel magnicidio de finales de los 60 para el estadounidense común.
“El asesinato no solo cambió el curso de esta nación y le robó al mundo un joven líder muy prometedor, también dejó a once niños sin padre y a su mujer sin esposo”, escribe Newsom en una argumentación publicada en Los Angeles Times. El político cree que el asesino no ha procesado su crimen de forma adecuada, lo que, a su juicio, se percibe en los “cambios de narrativa” en su versión. “Increíblemente, en los 90, Sirhan comenzó a evadir su responsabilidad. Dijo que no recordaba el crimen, después se dijo inocente. En 2016, afirmó que creía que no había cometido el crimen, de acuerdo a lo que había leído en las anotaciones de su abogado. Y el año pasado, Sirhan se puso a sí mismo como víctima, diciendo que había estado en el lugar equivocado en el momento equivocado”, continúa Newsom.
Sirhan, quien fue detenido aquella noche de junio de hace 53 años, recibió primero la pena de muerte. Esta fue convertida después en cadena perpetua. En 1986, gracias a su buena conducta, aspiraba a la libertad condicional, pero esta le fue negada por la junta en 16 ocasiones. Sirhan, quien esperaba ser liberado y abandonar Estados Unidos por Jordania, ha escuchado este jueves el no definitivo.
No es la primera vez que el gobernador rehúye de la controversia en un caso polémico. En diciembre de 2020, negó por cuarta ocasión la libertad condicional de Leslie Van Houten, seguidora del culto de Charles Manson, y quien cumplió 50 años en prisión en 2021. El verano pasado, Newsom también negó el beneficio a Royce Casey, un hombre que lleva 26 años en prisión por el terrible asesinato de una niña de 15 años cometido en San Luis Obispo. Casey se convirtió al cristianismo y ha tenido una conducta modelo desde su llegada a prisión, pero el cambio en su vida no le asegura la libertad mientras Newsom siga siendo gobernador de California. Lo mismo pasará, por el momento, con Sirhan.
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