An Arkansas man has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of a 3-year-old boy who was fatally shot through the window of his family’s car in an alleged road rage incident on Saturday, reports say.
Gary Holmes, 33, surrendered to police in Little Rock on Thursday in connection with the death of toddler Acen King, Fox reports. The boy was killed as he rode in the car with his grandmother and 1-year-old sibling Saturday evening.
Holmes has been charged with capital murder and two counts of terroristic acts as a result of the incident, NBC News reports.
Gary Holmes, 33, surrendered to police in Little Rock on Thursday in connection with the death of toddler Acen King, Fox reports. The boy was killed as he rode in the car with his grandmother and 1-year-old sibling Saturday evening.
Holmes has been charged with capital murder and two counts of terroristic acts as a result of the incident, NBC News reports.
- 12/23/2016
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
Los Angeles attorney Christy O'Donnell was reading some legal documents last June when something strange happened. "Every third or fourth word, I knew what the letters were but I could not figure out cognitively what the words meant," she tells People. She made an appointment to see her ophthalmologist that same day, only to find out her vision was perfect. So she called her primary care physician and described the symptoms to her. "She said, 'I want you to go to the emergency room immediately,' " says O'Donnell, 46, a former Los Angeles police officer and single mom of a 20-year-old daughter.
- 3/5/2015
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
Not long after Brittany Maynard found out she was terminally ill last January, her mother wrote her a letter. "I told her, 'I will not let this turn me into a bitter old woman,' " Debbie Ziegler tells People in an exclusive interview. "It was the first time in writing that I basically acknowledged to her that I knew what was going to happen and I was going to make her proud," says Ziegler, 56, of Carlsbad, California. "She called me and said, 'Mom, I'm crying,' " says Ziegler. "I said, 'I'm sorry. I didn't want to make you cry.' She said,...
- 1/21/2015
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
If it weren't for Charley and Bella, the house Dan Diaz shared with his late wife Brittany Maynard would feel a lot more empty. "Having them there is comforting," Diaz, 43, tells People exclusively. "It gives me other living beings in the house with me so it's not as lonely." Charley is a 23-month old, 120-lb. Great Dane he and Maynard, got as a puppy in March 2013, while Bella is an 11-year-old, 23-lb. beagle Maynard rescued in southern California when the dog was around 3 years old. Maynard, 29, who was terminally ill with brain cancer, ended her own life Nov. 1 with medication...
- 1/14/2015
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
If it weren't for Charley and Bella, the house Dan Diaz shared with his late wife Brittany Maynard would feel a lot more empty. "Having them there is comforting," Diaz, 43, tells People exclusively. "It gives me other living beings in the house with me so it's not as lonely." Charley is a 23-month old, 120-lb. Great Dane he and Maynard, got as a puppy in March 2013, while Bella is an 11-year-old, 23-lb. beagle Maynard rescued in southern California when the dog was around 3 years old. Maynard, 29, who was terminally ill with brain cancer, ended her own life Nov. 1 with medication...
- 1/14/2015
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
When Brittany Maynard first started having mysterious headaches off and on in the spring of 2013, she went to see a neurologist. "He said, 'You're having migraines,' " Debbie Ziegler, Maynard's mother, told People in an interview Oct. 11, "and sent her home" - without doing an Mri. That initial reaction by her doctor - while heartbreaking - is not that uncommon with brain tumors, experts say. "A young woman with migraine syndrome, you wouldn't think about a malignant brain tumor," Sean Grady, chairman of the neurosurgery department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, tells People. Elizabeth Wilson,...
- 11/5/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan,@nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
When Dan Diaz first met Brittany Maynard in April 2007, he saw at first glance that she was beautiful. But as they got closer, he quickly discovered "what a beautiful person she was on the inside," he told People. "After a while, we realized this person is someone special," he said in a telephone interview in October. "She's just a great person to know; a good person to be around: attractive, energetic and outgoing and just a personality you really get attracted to." Maynard, 29, had terminal brain cancer and ended her own life Saturday by taking medication prescribed to her by...
- 11/4/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
Brittany Maynard, who became the public face of the controversial right-to-die movement over the last few weeks, ended her own life Saturday at her home in Portland, Oregon. She was 29. "Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love. Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me … but would have taken so much more," she wrote on Facebook. "The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers.
- 11/3/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
With two days left before Nov. 1 - the day Brittany Maynard originally said she was planning to end her own life if her suffering became too great - the terminally ill 29-year-old woman has released an emotional video addressing how she's feeling now that it's so close. "So if November 2nd comes along and I've passed, I hope my family is still proud of me and the choices I made," she said Wednesday in the 6-minute video released with Compassion & Choices, an end-of-life choice advocacy organization, and obtained by People. "And if November 2nd comes along and I'm still alive,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
With two days left before Nov. 1 - the day Brittany Maynard originally said she was planning to end her own life if her suffering became too great - the terminally ill 29-year-old woman has released an emotional video addressing how she's feeling now that it's so close. "So if November 2nd comes along and I've passed, I hope my family is still proud of me and the choices I made," she said Wednesday in the 6-minute video released with Compassion & Choices, an end-of-life choice advocacy organization, and obtained by People. "And if November 2nd comes along and I'm still alive,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
After being told she had about six months to live in April, Brittany Maynard, who has terminal brain cancer, has been quietly checking off items on her bucket list. She and her husband, Dan Diaz, travelled to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming; she kayaked up to the glaciers in Alaska with her best friend, then met her mother, Debbie Ziegler, in Juneau, where they took "a spectacular boat trip," Maynard, 29, says in a video posted online on Oct. 6. "Before I pass, I'm hoping to make it to the Grand Canyon 'cause I've never been," she says in the video, which...
- 10/24/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
Brittany Maynard has ice-climbed in Ecuador, kayaked in Patagonia and climbed to the summit of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro. Last week she and her family took on Oregon's Columbia River Gorge, though through less strenuous means. "We had a beautiful day of driving what's called the Fruit Loop out here,” says Maynard, 29. Next up? "She really wants to see the Grand Canyon," says her mother, Debbie Ziegler. "So we're going to try." The Grand Canyon should have been one of dozens more adventures. Instead, a heartbroken Ziegler calls that hoped-for trip her daughter's "last hurrah." Because on Nov. 1, if all goes as planned,...
- 10/17/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan,@nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
Born with the soul of an adventurer and the heart of a warrior, Brittany Maynard has been ice climbing in Ecuador and kayaking in Patagonia and has cared for orphans in Nepal. But there's one place she'd still like to see - the Grand Canyon. "We're going to try," Debbie Ziegler, 56, Maynard's mother, tells People. "It's her last hurrah." Maynard, 29, has terminal brain cancer and has made plans to end her own life with the sedative Secobarbitol on Nov. 1 if her suffering becomes too much to handle. "I don't want to die but I am dying," Maynard tells People in a new interview.
- 10/15/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
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