The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) announced two people were arrested after a U.S. Park Police (USPP) officer was shot Monday night in southeast Washington, D.C.
Darren Foster, 21, of southeast D.C., was arrested Monday shortly after the shooting Monday.
Asheile Foster, 22, of southeast D.C., was arrested Tuesday.
Both suspects are charged with assault on a federal police officer with a gun, according to the police department.
The shooting happened at about 7:30 p.m. Monday while the officer was investigating a USPP incident in an unmarked Tesla vehicle, FOX 5 D.C. reported.
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Two suspects have been arrested after a U.S. Park Police officer was shot Monday night in southeast Washington, D.C.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Two armed men allegedly approached the officer’s car and fired multiple shots, hitting him in the upper body.
The officer was able to drive away, before being taken by USPP’s aviation unit to a local hospital for treatment.
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The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the shooting.(Getty Images/Fox News Digital)
U.S. Park Police confirmed the officer suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, and he has since been discharged from the hospital.
FOX 5 reported MPD has information suggesting the suspects knew the person inside the Tesla was an officer, though no motive has been released.
The officer was reportedly in an unmarked Tesla at the time of the shooting.(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
Authorities raided a home near the shooting location Tuesday afternoon, entering with guns drawn, according to the outlet. A K-9 unit also responded.
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The case is being investigated by detectives from the MPD’s NIBIN Investigations Unit, which includes agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives along with USPP detectives.
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A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is facing murder charges after allegedly gunning down a man in Maryland this week.
27-year-old Dayton Webber, of La Plata, allegedly shot and killed a passenger in his vehicle following an argument on the evening of Sunday, March 22, according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office.
Two individuals flagged down La Plata police officers around 10:25 p.m., telling officers they were passengers riding in the backseat of Webber’s vehicle, authorities said.
The witnesses said Webber fatally shot the front-seat passenger, identified as 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells, twice in the head during an argument, according to court documents obtained by FOX 5.
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Dayton Webber is charged with first-degree murder, along with additional related charges, after he allegedly shot and killed a passenger in his car in La Plata, Maryland on Sunday, March 22, 2026, according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office.(Charles County Sheriff’s Office)
A preliminary investigation revealed Webber allegedly pulled the vehicle over and asked the passengers to help remove Wells from the vehicle, but the group of friends “refused, got out of the car, and left the scene,” according to authorities.
Webber then fled the area with Wells still in the car, authorities said.
Officers began canvassing various locations in an attempt to locate Webber.
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Dayton Webber runs to steal third base at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.(Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)
Approximately two hours later, a Charlotte Hall resident called 911 to report a body in a yard, according to authorities.
Officers responded and located Wells, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Webber’s vehicle was later found roughly two and a half hours away in Charlottesville, Virginia, authorities said.
Detectives subsequently located Webber seeking medical treatment at a nearby hospital and Albemarle County officers placed him under arrest following his release from care.
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Dayton Webber steals third base at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on Sunday, August. 21, 2016. (Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)
Following his extradition to Charles County, Webber is expected to be charged with first-degree murder, along with additional related charges, authorities said.
Officials have not yet elaborated on how Webber was able to operate a vehicle or fire a weapon.
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”It’s early in the investigation, but there’s no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the shooting and that he acted alone,” Diane Richardson of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, according to FOX 5.
Both of Webber’s arms and legs were removed when he was just 10 months old after he contracted a bacterial infection that only had a 3% chance of survival, according to a 2024 ESPN video profile.
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He previously made headlines as a professional athlete for the American Cornhole League, where he was referred to as “an unstoppable cornhole player” in a 2023 video posted to the league’s YouTube channel.
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“That’s one of the great things about our sport, how accessible it is, and how we like to say anyone can play, anyone can win, because if you want to put your mind to it, you want to put the time into practice, you can become competitive,” ACL commissioner Stacey Moore told Fox News Digital earlier this month.
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The Charles County Sheriff’s Office and Webber’s attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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A New Jersey man allegedly broke into a home through a bathroom window and tried to sexually assault a girl as she slept early Saturday before he was subdued by the resident inside.
Jermin Fordyce, 36, is charged with first-degree counts of home invasion, burglary and attempted aggravated sexual assault, as well as second-degree aggravated assault, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said.
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A police officer patrols the street in Vail, Colorado.( Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
Hackensack police officers responded to a home around 3:40 a.m. for a home invasion burglary. Once at the scene, they found Fordyce, who had been subdued by the residents inside the home after they found him inside one of the bedrooms, police said.
Fordyce entered the home through a bathroom window and entered the bedroom of the girl who was sleeping, officials said. Police described the victim only as a “resident.” NJ.com reported the victim was a girl.
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Hackensack police cruisers parked on a street. Hackensack police arrested a man accused of breaking into a home through a bathroom window and trying to sexually assault a girl before being taken down by a resident. (Hackensack Police Department )
Once inside the room, Fordyce took off his pants and climbed on top of the girl as she was sleeping and attempted to sexually assault her, police said.
He allegedly strangled her during the assault, authorities said.
One of the other residents awoke to the sounds of a struggle coming from the girl’s room and took down Fordyce.
A man with handcuffs on (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
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Fordyce remains in police custody pending a court hearing.
What began as a grim discovery inside a Southern California apartment has exploded into a coast-to-coast case — one Murrieta police say is “unusual” for their community, with investigators alleging a murder-for-hire plot tied to a victim’s ex-girlfriend and three other suspects.
Officers with the Murrieta Police Department were called to The Arbors at California Oaks apartments just after 9 a.m. on Jan. 13, 2026. Inside one of the units, they found a man dead. From the start, investigators treated the case as a homicide.
The victim was later identified by family as 30-year-old Aaron “AJ” Parr — a son, brother and father whose loss has left loved ones reeling.
Just over two weeks later, police arrested Ignacia Perkins, the victim’s ex-girlfriend, along with James Petri, who authorities described as an acquaintance of Perkins.
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But the case quickly grew beyond California.
As detectives dug through physical and digital evidence, they began working with law enforcement agencies across the country, ultimately identifying two more suspects believed to be involved.
On March 18, authorities arrested Jerry Wheeler, 34, in Brookhaven, Georgia, and Kenneth Maxwell, 39, in Midfield, Alabama. Both men are now awaiting extradition to California.
Police say the case centers on an alleged murder carried out for financial gain, along with a broader conspiracy to make it happen.
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Authorities in Murrieta are investigating an alleged murder-for-hire plot in what they describe as an unusual case for the area.(Murrieta Police Department Facebook)
Wheeler and Maxwell each face charges including murder, conspiracy to commit murder and a special circumstance allegation that the killing was done for financial gain, police said.
The arrests were carried out with help from multiple agencies, including Brookhaven Police and North Metro SWAT in Georgia, as well as FBI teams in Alabama.
Murrieta is generally considered a relatively safe city, with a crime rate about 2.2 times lower than the national average, according to City-Data.
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Aaron “AJ” Parr, the victim in a Murrieta, California homicide tied to an alleged murder-for-hire plot, is seen in an undated photo.(Lexi Parr Facebook)
For Parr’s family, the arrests have brought a complicated mix of grief and relief.
“The world kept moving, but ours stopped the day we lost you,” a woman identifying herself as Parr’s sister wrote in a social media post weeks after his death. “Not a moment goes by that you aren’t on our minds… in our tears, and in our prayers.”
She said the arrests have offered “a small sense of relief” as the case moves forward, though the pain remains.
“There is no celebration in it, because nothing will ever bring you back,” she wrote.
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A fundraiser created for the family describes Parr as a beloved son and brother, and says his parents are “salt-of-the-earth people” who have spent their lives serving others. The funds are intended to help cover funeral costs and other unexpected expenses following his death.
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Authorities say the latest arrests mark a major turning point in the case, effectively wrapping up the active phase of the investigation as detectives shift focus toward preparing for a potential trial.
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Investigators have not released details about how the alleged plot unfolded or the specific roles each suspect may have played, citing the ongoing nature of the case.
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This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the fragmenting comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was taken over the course of three consecutive days – November. 8, 9, and 10 last year (Picture: NASA/Cover Media)
NASA astronomers struck it lucky after the Hubble Space Telescope observed a comet in the act of disintegrating completely by chance.
The event was one that scientists believed they were unlikely to witness in real time.
And it was even more extraordinary as researchers had intended to observe a different comet, but were forced to change plans due to technical constraints.
The findings were published on Wednesday in the journal Icarus.
‘Sometimes the best science happens by accident,’ John Noonan, a research professor in the Department of Physics at Auburn University in Alabama, said.
‘This comet got observed because our original comet was not viewable due to some new technical constraints after we won our proposal. We had to find a new target – and right when we observed it, it happened to break apart, which is the slimmest of slim chances.”
The object, known as Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), can be seen progressively breaking apart in a sequence of images taken between November 8 and 10 last year.
Initially appearing as four bright objects, the largest fragment then splits further, with pieces drifting away from one another.
This diagram shows the path the comet took as it swung past the Sun and began its journey out of the solar system (Picture: NASA/Cover Media)
Noonan, a co-investigator on the study, said he did not realise the significance immediately.
‘While I was taking an initial look at the data, I saw that there were four comets in those images when we only proposed to look at one,’ he said. ‘So we knew this was something really, really special.’
Scientists have long attempted to capture such an event using Hubble, but the unpredictability of comet break-ups has made this difficult.
‘The irony is now we’re just studying a regular comet and it crumbles in front of our eyes,’ said principal investigator Dennis Bodewits, also of Auburn University.
‘Comets are leftovers of the era of solar system formation, so they’re made of “old stuff”—the primordial materials that made our solar system.
‘But they are not pristine – they’ve been heated; they’ve been irradiated by the Sun and by cosmic rays.
‘So, when looking at a comet’s composition, the question we always have is, “Is this a primitive property or is this due to evolution?’”
‘By cracking open a comet, you can see the ancient material that has not been processed.’
Hubble observed the comet splitting into at least four pieces, each surrounded by a glowing cloud of gas and dust known as a coma. While ground-based telescopes saw only faint bright patches, Hubble’s high resolution allowed scientists to distinguish individual fragments clearly.
The observations were made shortly after the comet passed its closest point to the Sun – known as perihelion – when heating and stress are at their greatest. Scientists believe the comet began breaking up about eight days before Hubble captured the images.
However, the team has identified a puzzling delay between the break-up and the brightening detected from Earth.
A series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the fragmenting comet (Picture: NASA/Cover Media)
One theory is that a layer of dust must first form over newly exposed ice before being blown away. Another possibility is that heat builds up beneath the surface before ejecting material into space.
‘Never before has Hubble caught a fragmenting comet this close to when it actually fell apart. Most of the time, it’s a few weeks to a month later. And in this case, we were able to see it just days after,’ said Noonan.
‘This is telling us something very important about the physics of what’s happening at the comet’s surface. We may be seeing the timescale it takes to form a substantial dust layer that can then be ejected by the gas.’
Early observations suggest the comet is chemically unusual, with significantly lower levels of carbon than typically seen. Further analysis using Hubble’s instruments is expected to reveal more about its composition and, potentially, the origins of the solar system.
Now reduced to a cluster of fragments about 250 million miles from Earth, the comet is travelling through the constellation Pisces and is expected to leave the solar system permanently.
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Ambassador John Bolton spoke to Metro about the ongoing war in Iran (Picture: The Washington Post)
A former senior aide to Donald Trump has told Metro that the President is in a ‘vulnerable position’ with his war in Iran – and doesn’t know how to get out of it.
Since the US launched joint strikes in Iran with Israel more than two weeks ago, the oil industry has been thrown into chaos, neighbouring countries have been struck with missiles, and 13 US soldiers have been killed.
At the time, Trump said his reasons for the strikes on February 28 were he believed Iran was going to attack the US first – something that his own officials have since told Congress that there was no intelligence suggesting this.
Trump also said he hoped to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, something Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has also said, adding: ‘We didn’t start this war… but under President Trump, we’re finishing it.’
When the conflict began, only 41% of Americans approved of the intervention – far lower than support for any other US conflict in decades.
Now, John Robert Bolton, Trump’s former national security advisor from 2018 to 2019, told Metro that there is a strong case for regime change in Iran, but Trump hasn’t made this clear to the American public – something which could come back to haunt him.
He said: ‘You’ve always got to be prudent, but when a country is seeking weapons of mass destruction—chemical, biological, or nuclear—and engaging in international terrorism while repressing its own people, it is a problem,’ he warned.
‘If you wait too long to deal with it, as we did with North Korea, it becomes a bigger problem. It goes to what Churchill said regarding appeasement: “This just confirms the unteachability of mankind.”
‘You go through this over and over again; you don’t strike when it’s easy, you wait until it’s too late, and then you pay the price.’
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Trump has ‘failed to make the case’ to the American public (Picture: AFP)
Having served under Trump for two years in his first administration, former US ambassador to the United Nations Bolton said the President needed to convince America why going after Iran would be to their benefit – but so far, he hasn’t.
‘Trump didn’t make it clear to the public, to Congress, or to the Allies. It’s not too late, but it’s getting close,’ he said.
‘By failing to make the case, he has put himself in a vulnerable position. He knows he’s in a difficult place, and he doesn’t know how to get out of it,’ Bolton added.
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Ambassador Bolton argued this is a ‘preventative war’ (Picture: AFP)
Ambassador Bolton told Metro that while Iran was not considered an ‘imminent threat’, its nuclear programme was getting ‘too close for comfort’.
‘People say this is a “war of choice.” It is. It’s a preventive war to prevent the need to do something else in much more dangerous circumstances,’ he explained.
Referring to the US’ Iraq War in 2003, he added: ‘By the late 1990s, Saddam didn’t have centrifuges spinning, but he had kept together approximately 3,000 scientists and technicians who could rebuild the program.
‘That was the point: they have the knowledge. Iran may not have centrifuges spinning today, but they know how to put them back together.’
When a country is ‘seeking weapons of mass destruction and engaging in international terrorism while suppressing its own people’, it’s a problem, he added.
‘The lesson to us is: don’t be so patient. If a proliferator has enough patience and gets nuclear weapons, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to take its program out without grave risk,’ Bolton said.
‘If the US had attacked Iran 20 years ago, it would have spared the region ‘a lot of pain and suffering’.
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Iran’s opposition movement could prove key to Trump’s aim of ‘regime change’ (Picture: AFP)
The opposition movement in Iran is extremely widespread, but not organised, Ambassador Bolton points out.
Still, working with dissidents inside the country could prove vital for Trump’s goals of regime change in the country.
‘Dissatisfaction with the regime has never been higher. It is weaker than at any point since it took power in 1979,’ Ambassador Bolton argued.
‘People age 30 and under—who make up two-thirds of the population—know they could have a different life. They can see it across the Gulf; they can see it on the internet when the government lets the internet operate.’
After the 2022 murder of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman in Iran who was beaten and killed by police because she refused to wear the hijab, anti-government protests surged.
The murder of Amini prompted the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ movement, which Bolton said is significant, because: ‘Once you challenge the Ayatollahs’ legitimacy, in effect, you are challenging the state.’
Knock-on effects cripple the Middle East
Gulf states are still suffering from missile and drone attacks after Tehran threatened to widen its campaign as the war in the Middle East entered its third week.
Iranian strikes have killed at least a dozen civilians in Gulf states, most of them migrant workers.
Yesterday, President Trump said he hoped allies would send warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Arab Gulf neighbours during the war, but it has said it was targeting US assets, even as hits or attempts were reported on civilian ones such as airports and oil fields.
As global anxiety soars over oil prices and supplies, Trump said on Saturday that he hopes China, France, Japan, the UK, South Korea and others send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz ‘open and safe’.
But Iran’s joint military command has reiterated its threat to attack US-linked ‘oil, economic and energy infrastructures’ in the region if the Islamic Republic’s oil infrastructure is hit.
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Hillary Clinton gave her hours-long testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein congressional hearing, where the questions turned to UFOs and conspiracy theories.
The former First Lady and Secretary of State was questioned by the House Oversight Committee about Epstein’s activities and what knowledge she had.
Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential race to Donald Trump, said that she didn’t remember ever meeting the late convicted paedophile and financier and that she had no information to share.
In a statement, Clinton said: ‘I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island, homes or offices.’
Hillary Clinton told after the closed-door hearing that she had to ‘repetitively’ say she ‘did not know Epstein’ (Picture: EPA)
Clinton said some of the questions during her seven-hour hearing got ‘unusual.’
She said: ‘It got quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories.’
Pizzagate refers to the conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 election, falsely claiming that a pizza restaurant in Washington DC was a front for a paedophile ring run by Clinton, and that the police had discovered a child sex crime ring linked to Democrats.
Clinton, who appeared calm despite the long testimony, told reporters after it: ‘We returned to answer questions repetitively, literally over and over again.
Bill Clinton has appeared in the Epstein files, including undated images showing her in a pool with Ghislaine Maxwell. The documents and images in the Epstein files do not suggest any wrongdoing (Picture: AP)
‘I don’t know how many times I had to say that I never knew Jeffrey Epstein, I never went to his island, I never went to his homes, I never went to his offices.
‘So it’s on the record numerous times.
Clinton took aim at Trump in her testimony, accusing the Republican-led panel of trying to shift attention away from the president’s links to Epstein.
She accused Trump’s administration of ‘gutting’ a government department focusing on international sex trafficking.
She was quizzed for seven hours behind closed doors at the hearing in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons reside.
Her husband, former US president Bill Clinton, will give his deposition later today.
The Clintons had initially refused to testify, saying the hearings were politically motivated, but agreed to do so later.
James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said: ‘No one is accusing the Clintons of any wrongdoing.
‘We just have a lot of questions.’
Other high-profile people invited to the hearing include Epstein’s associate and girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence in a US prison for sex trafficking of girls, refused to answer questions, invoking her right to remain silent under the Fifth Amendment.
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Now the same force has released images of two men holding snowballs – one quite large in fairness- after an icy brawl broke out in the city’s iconic Washington Park on Monday.
An NYPD spokesman said: ‘Wanted for ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER: On 2/23/26 at approximately 4.20pm two uniformed police officers were inside Washington Square Park when two individuals intentionally struck the officers multiple times with snow and ice causing injury to their head, neck, and face.’
Video shows the moment police officers are pelted with the ice by the crowd of laughing youths.
New York Police put out appeal to find men who threw snowballs at them
The officers, growing visibly frustrated, shoved at least two people to the ground as snowballs continued to fly at the annual Sidetalk’s snowball fight.
At one point, a person runs up behind an officer and mushes some snow onto his head before sprinting off. At one point an officer is seen to whip out his taser.
One of the officers can be seen rubbing his red eye toward the end of the video.
They are then forced to walk back through another volley of snowballs from skateboarders trying to take cover behind a cafe entrance.
Police become the targets during Sidetalk’s snowball fight in Washington Square Park. (Pictures: Derek French/SOPA Images/Shutterstock)
In a statement, the New York Police Department said multiple uniformed officers were struck in the face with snowballs and were ‘removed by EMS in stable condition’ to a nearby hospital.
Jessica Tisch, the city’s police commissioner, called the behaviour disgraceful and said the department is investigating.
Several political figures in the city were quick to denounce the dustup, with many of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s critics seizing on the incident as evidence that respect for law enforcement has declined under the new mayor.
But Mamdani, in a post on X on Tuesday, wrote, ‘Officers, like all city workers, have been out in a historic blizzard, keeping New Yorkers safe and cars moving. Treat them with respect.
‘If anyone’s catching a snowball, it’s me.’
Two NYPD officers were hospitalised (Picture: Derek French/SOPA Images/Shutterstock)
Police unions were also left fuming over the injuries and demanded justice.
‘Unacceptable and outrageous — this is the environment that NYC police officers are up against. Our police officers are being treated for their injuries, but the case CANNOT end there. T
‘The individuals involved must be identified, arrested and charged with assault on a police officer. And all of our city leaders must speak up to condemn this despicable attack,’ the Police Benevolent Association said in a statement.
‘What we saw in Washington Square Park today was not harmless fun – it was a deliberate, outrageous, and dangerous attack on uniformed police officers.’
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