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DENISE LAVOIE
BOSTON (AP) —
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev targeted men, women and children at the marathon because he wanted to terrorize the United States on a day when the eyes of the world would be on Boston, a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday in closing arguments.
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press
A divorced kitchen worker and his seven children were accidentally poisoned by carbon monoxide from a generator they used to keep warm after their electricity was cut off, police said Tuesday.
Princess Anne Police Chief Scott Keller said the Delmarva Power company has been subpoenaed to document exactly when it shut off power to the rental home.
Maryland law bars utilities from terminating electric service for nonpayment of bills from Nov. 1 through March 31 without an affidavit filed to the Public Service Commission.
Rodney Todd, 36, and his two sons and five daughters were last seen alive on March 28.
Delmarva Power spokesman Matt Likovich said the utility is investigating as well.
"I'm just numb. I'm just numb. Like it's a nightmare but it's not," the children's mother, Tyisha Luneice Chambers, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "If I had known he was without electricity, I would have helped."
Police responding to a missing persons report found their bodies Monday after friends, school workers and Todd's supervisor at work had knocked on the door with no answer.
MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press
Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, after his lawyer acknowledged for the first time that his client was at the scene of the killing and saw it happen, but described Hernandez as a kid who simply did not know what to do.
The defense urged jurors to find Hernandez not guilty of murder.
"Did he make all the right decisions? No," lawyer James Sultan said during his closing arguments. "He was a 23-year-old kid who witnessed something, a shocking killing, committed by someone he knew. He didn't know what to do, so he just put one foot in front of the other."
Hernandez is charged in the June 17, 2013, death of Odin Lloyd, who was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee. Lloyd was shot six times and died in an industrial park less than a mile from Hernandez's home. At the time, the star tight end had a $40 million contract with the Patriots.
Sultan pinned the killing on Hernandez's co-defendants, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz. Both men have pleaded not guilty and will be tried later.