Autopsy Shows D.C. Cops Shot Teen In Back of Head

A new autopsy report shows that a 14-year-old killed last month in a confrontation with D.C. police died of a gunshot wound to the back of his head, according to the Washington Post. The report notes some fishy cuts and bruises from blunt force trauma on the body of DeOnté Rawlings as well. The police version of events is that DeOnté was shot in a running gun battle and he opened fire on the officers. But there's no gun from the scene, according to the teen's family, the Post reported.


African Gold Miners Rescued

More than 2,000 miners evacuated a South African gold mine Thursday after an elevator broke and left the men angry and stranded underground. No one died in the mine incident near Johannesburg more than a mile underground, according to The Associated Press. The workers were brought up in a second smaller elevator, looking dazed and exhausted. "We nearly died down there," one man yelled as he walked past reporters. "I'd rather leave (the job) than die in the mine."


Nailah Franklin Mourned, Suspect Sought

This week friends and family mourned the death of Nailah Franklin, a 28-year-old Chicago pharmaceutical sales representative who went missing and was killed last month. Police found Franklin's body within miles of where her abandoned car had been found, just days earlier. According to the Chicago Tribune, law enforcement has said she was not shot or stabbed. An autopsy did not determine the cause of death, so the case has yet to be ruled a homicide. A man whom Franklin filed a protection order against has not been named a suspect.