EXAMINATION TIME: 15 MINUTES
Canada hostage situation ends peacefully
Edmonton gunman surrenders, hostages freed Wed Oct 21, 11:45 pm in Alberta – A man who barricaded himself with eight hostages inside the Edmonton Workers' Compensation building has surrendered, 10 hours after the drama began. Edmonton police spokesman Dean Parthenis said the man surrendered Wednesday night without incident and that all hostages were unharmed. Police Insp. Terry Rocchio said the eight hostages were released throughout the day.
The gunman, described as a disgruntled client, had charged into the Workers' Compensation Building in downtown Edmonton armed with a rifle about 8:45 a.m. (1445 GMT) Wednesday morning, and quickly took a number of hostages in an office on the eighth floor.Rocchio would not release the gunman's name or age. He said the man wanted a chance to tell his story to the media. Rocchio said a single police negotiator convinced the man to let the hostages go one by one throughout the day, with the last one being set free just half an hour before the gunman gave himself up. About 700 people work in the building on a normal day.
Emergency police dispatchers received a call from the building shortly after the man charged in and quickly brought in tactical officers and negotiators. Don Bellerose, a neighbor in the assisted-living facility where the hostage taker apparently lived, said the man sent a text message to one of the nurses at the facility saying he was going to settle a score with the Workers' Compensation Board on Wednesday morning. He identified the hostage-taker as Pat and estimated his age at about 35.
Bellerose said he believed the gunman was working in the concrete industry when he was injured on the job. He was cut off from benefits and had threatened to jump off a bridge into the North Saskatchewan River about three months ago. Bellerose said the bridge was shut down for three hours. He also said the man's wife was taking him to court to get custody of their children. Workers' Compensation Board President and CEO Guy Kerr said in a statement that their focus and priority now and in the coming days will on their employees and helping them to cope with the traumatic experience. He also thanked police. In 1993, an armed man claiming unfair treatment from Alberta's Workers' Compensation Board took three hostages before eventually surrounding. Another man killed himself in the parking lot of a Calgary WCB building two years earlier. The death led to a public inquiry and a government apology.
QUESTIONS
Q1. Who is the Workers' Compensation Board President and CEO mentioned in the passage?
Guy Keer
Q2. What Edmonton police spokesman Dean Parthenis say on Wednesday night did ?
Hostages were unharmed
Q3. According to the passage where was the gunman was working?
Concrete industry
Q4. How many hostage wee there? And how many were injured?
Eight hostages were there. nobody injured
Q5.What Emergency police dispatchers receive?
Telephone call from building
Q6. Who convinced the man to let the hostages go one by one?
single police negotiator
Q7.What as the gunman described as?
Pat and estimated his age of 35
Q8.What did the gunman do three months ago?
Jump off a bridge into the North Saskatchewan River
Q9.What incident took place in the Workers’ Compensation Board building two years ago?
A Man Killed himself
Q10.Where exactly was the hostages kept?
Edmonton Workers' Compensation building
UN.CIVPOL SAT EXAMINATION TIME 15 MINUTES
5 students arrested for fighting at Chicago school
Thu Oct 22, 8:49 pm ET CHICAGO – Five students have been arrested for fighting at a Chicago high school less than a month after an honor student was killed in a brutal beating recorded in a cell phone video camera. Police say four Christian Fenger Academy High School students are charged with reckless conduct and one is charged with aggravated assault. All are male juveniles. Police did not know where they were being held late Thursday. Tensions between students at the school are blamed for the death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert. He was beaten to death with wooden boards during a street brawl after school on Sept. 24.Three teens have been charged with the slaying.
In another incident which took place in LOS ANGELES – A San Diego attorney was charged with murder Thursday for allegedly killing his girlfriend's daughter 20 years ago so the mother could take custody of her granddaughters. Eric Fagan, who has written a book about Internet dating, was charged with premeditated murder and attempted murder a day after being arrested at his home in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista. Fagan, who's being held on $2 million bail, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday.
The San Bernardino County district attorney's office said Fagan, 74, fatally shot Cathy Lynn Paternoster, then 32, and wounded her boyfriend Carl Fuerst, then 41, on an October evening in 1989. They said he waited outside the couple's Spring Valley Lake home and fired at the victims after they arrived home and got out of their van. Authorities alleged that Fagan killed Paternoster so her mother, Betty Paternoster, could obtain custody of her granddaughters. Fagan was named a person of interest in the 1989 killing, but detectives couldn't gather enough evidence to charge anyone with the crime.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Frank Montanez said a cold case team picked up the case in April 2008, hoping they could build on the previous criminal investigation. He said recent interviews provided circumstantial evidence that implicated Fagan.” It wasn't that we found the smoking gun or a DNA hit or anything like that," Montanez said. "We served some search warrants and interviewed people. Over time relationships change and sometimes people are willing to come forward with information that helps our case.” Montanez said revealing further details could jeopardize the case. Fagan’s law office in San Diego declined to comment on the case. Fagan, a civil attorney, is the author of "Cast Your Net: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Your Soul mate on the Internet
QUESTIONS FIRST.
Q1. How many students died in the shooting?
Q2. What were student charged with?
Q3. Why was a San Diego attorney charged with murder?
Q4. What did Sheriff’s Sgt. Frank Montanez say about the case?
Q5. How many female students were involved in the brutal killings in the school?
Q6. What are the names of the person who was shot and the person who shot her?
Q7.What did the police say about the shooting s in a Chicago high school?
Q8. How old was the victim and what is his name?
Q9.What incident took place in 1989 according to the passage?
Q10.Which two incidents’ are reported in the passage?
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