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Damascus neighborhoods where they enjoy popular support, such as in Hajar Aswad, Tadamon and Qaboun. • ___
Ex-Marine who killed 2, self at NJ supermarket tweeted about killing coworkers in 2009
• OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (AP) -- Unhappy with his life as a Marine stationed in California, Terence Tyler posed a question three years ago on Twitter: "is it normal to want to kill ALL of ur coworkers?" • Struggling with depression, he left the Marines and recently started working at a supermarket in New Jersey. • On Friday morning, Tyler shot two co-workers and himself, police said. The 23-year-old, clad in desert camouflage gear, opened fire at a Pathmark store in Old Bridge Township, authorities said. • Authorities are investigating his motive, but family members said Tyler was discharged from the Marines two years ago after suffering from depression and had never gotten over his mother's death about five years ago. • Authorities said Tyler left his job as an overnight clerk at the Pathmark about 3:30 a.m. He drove off and returned to the store shortly afterward with a handgun and an assault rifle, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said. About a dozen workers were in the closed store, putting new prices into a computer. • ___
Maine agency says sitter also to blame for baby's death; Police focus is on sitter's daughter
• PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Maine's child welfare agency and a mother whose baby was allegedly killed by a 10-year-old girl agree -- the girl's mother also is to blame. • The mother, who was baby sitting the infant when she died July 8 and whose daughter was charged this week with manslaughter, has not said if she plans to appeal the state agency's finding. • Three-month-old Brooklyn Foss-Greenaway ingested medication and was suffocated, her mother Nicole "Nicki" Greenaway of Clinton has said. The baby was staying overnight with the sitter in Fairfield, and Greenaway has said the sitter also should be held responsible. • The 10-year-old was charged in juvenile court and placed in the custody of the (Continued on page 31)
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