Prosecutors: Loughner needs more treatment
Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner needs another eight months of mental-health treatment at a federal prison facility in Missouri, prosecutors say.
Authorities also want Loughner to appear in person Wednesday at U.S. District Court in Tucson for a hearing on the extended treatment rather than via video teleconference.
Loughner, 23, has been in Springfield, Mo., since May 27 after being declared mentally unfit to stand trial. His evaluation period at the prison is to end Sept. 26.
Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 charges in the Jan. 8 shooting spree at a Tucson political gathering that killed six and wounded 13 people, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
There was no immediate response Friday from Loughner's attorneys on the request to have him transported to Tucson.
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The body of a man swept down the Santa Cruz River Thursday during a monsoon storm was found Friday afternoon, police said.
Search and rescue personnel found the body in the Santa Cruz River bed south of North Silverbell Road and West El Camino del Cerro, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman.
Authorities have not identified the man, though he is believed to have lost his footing and been swept away in the raging river at West Grant Road during the afternoon storm.
Authorities searched for the man Thursday evening but didn't find him. Search and rescue personnel continued searching Friday and eventually found a body.
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Police ID man killed in drive-by shooting
Police have identified a man shot and killed Thursday as 41-year-old Gilbert Salazar.
Salazar, of Tucson, was talking to people outside a home in the 900 block of East Drexel Road when he was shot by someone who fled in a vehicle, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson police spokeswoman.
At about 8 p.m. officers arrived and found Salazar lying on the sidewalk, Hawke said. Paramedics took Salazar to the hospital where he later died from at least one gunshot wound.
It is unknown how many suspects were involved.
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