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Ian Patterson fell about 170 feet from the rafters at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. He was a tech sergeant in the U.S. Air Force with 15 years of service. The drop happened during a fast-rope demonstration before the University of Texas at San Antonio played Navy on October 17.

Patterson worked as a Tactical Air Control Party instructor. He belonged to the 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2, at Joint Base San Antonio. Four airmen took part in the show that day. It was part of the stadium’s Salute to Armed Forces and Veterans event. Crowds filled the stands as the men started their descent.

Video from the scene showed Patterson lose control on the way down. He hit the field hard. Medical crews ran to him right away. They treated him on the turf then took him to a hospital. He died later from the injuries.

He came from Fort Stewart, Georgia. In 2022 the Air Force named him Special Warfare Enlisted Instructor of the Year at the top level. His awards included the Air and Space Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters. He also held Army Commendation, Air and Space Achievement, and Army Achievement medals.

Brig. Gen. Scott C. Mills of the 57th Wing spoke about the loss. He said the unit felt it hard. The focus now stays on helping Patterson’s family and the airmen who knew him.

The football game went on after a short delay. Officials from the American Conference sent condolences to the family and the wing. An Air Force investigation continues. No final word has come out on exactly why the fall happened.

The Alamodome sits at 100 Montana Street in downtown San Antonio. That is where the demonstration took place in front of thousands of fans.

Parents in Clarkston woke up to worrying news on Monday. Threatening messages had gone out to schools all over Scotland. Williamwood High School sits right in the middle of this. The school is on Eaglesham Road in East Renfrewshire.

Police Scotland said the messages reached a number of schools across the country. Some of the notes talked about explosive devices inside buildings. Officers treated every one of them as a hoax from the start. Still they kept looking into where the notes came from.

East Renfrewshire Council spoke up fast. Many of its primary and secondary schools got the same malicious threat that morning. Staff followed the rules right away. They called the police. The council said schools stayed open and ran as usual. No one found any real device at Williamwood or anywhere else nearby.

Kids and teachers still felt the weight of it. Even a fake threat can rattle people. Families checked their phones all day waiting for word from the school. Some parents drove over just to see for themselves that everything looked normal outside the gates.

In other parts of Scotland the day looked different. Edinburgh schools had staff on site for training during the break. A few of those places cleared people out as a precaution. South Lanarkshire saw some kids moved to a nearby church while parents came to collect them. Clarkston stayed quieter.

Police kept the investigation going through the afternoon. They said the messages were not credible. The Scottish Government noted the same thing. They pointed to police work covering schools in Scotland and other spots in the UK.

Williamwood High School itself never put out a special lockdown notice that anyone could confirm. The council line stayed steady. Schools operated as normal. Parents who want updates should stick to messages from the school or the council. The school phone number is 0141 577 2500 if anyone needs to call.

By evening the story had settled into the same pattern. Fake threats. Real worry. Police still digging. Kids back in class the next day if the schedule called for it.

Jalen Hurts will sit out the rest of the 2026 NFL season. Doctors found blood clots in both his lungs. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback is 28 years old. This news hits hard because his father died the same way from a pulmonary embolism.

Hurts talked about it with TMZ. He said a clot started in his dad’s leg. It broke off and went to the lung. The only sign was mild leg pain the night before. His father died suddenly. Hurts called it extremely serious.

The Eagles and his agent Nicole Lynn confirmed the details on Monday, October 19. Hurts has deep vein thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary emboli. That means clots in both lungs. Doctors first found a clot in his left calf after the team trip to London. A later ultrasound showed the clot had moved. The team ruled him out for the Carolina game and put him on injured reserve on Saturday, October 17.

Hurts is stable now. He will take blood thinners. He cannot play contact sports while on the medicine. Doctors say his outlook is good. They expect a full recovery with no lasting problems. He can stay around the team and keep conditioning as the treatment allows. He will not play again this year.

A pulmonary embolism blocks an artery in the lungs. Clots often start in the legs and travel through the blood. These conditions can turn dangerous fast. They need quick medical checks. Hurts pointed out how easy it is to miss mild symptoms at first.

The Eagles stand at 2-4 after the loss to Carolina. Backup Tanner McKee will start at quarterback. The team faces more injury issues as the season goes on. Philadelphia sits in southeastern Pennsylvania. The Eagles play home games at Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia.

This case shows why players and families watch for leg pain or other quiet signs. Hurts remains involved with the squad while he heals.

Devin Grant, 27, is the woman police say killed her mother before wrecking her car Thursday morning. The crash happened on eastbound Kellogg near the K-96 interchange in Wichita. Her orange Nissan Kicks left the road and hit concrete bridge supports hard. Crews pulled her out but she was already gone. She was alone in the SUV.

Deputies looking into the wreck found a note inside the vehicle. It pointed them to a house in the 200 block of North Mathewson Street. They called Wichita police for a welfare check right away. Officers went in and found Patricia Grant, 52, dead from multiple stab wounds. Two cats lay dead in the home too.

Police believe Devin stabbed her mother first. Then she left the house and drove off. The crash came later that morning around 9:34 a.m. Firefighters and EMS tried to save her at the scene but could not. Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office handles the crash side. Wichita police work the killing at the house.

No one has said why this happened. Detectives keep digging into the timeline. They want to know the exact order of events that morning. The agencies share what they find as the case stays open. More details may come out later.

Patricia lived at that Mathewson Street address. Neighbors saw nothing unusual the night before according to early reports. The note is key evidence tying the crash to the deaths inside the home. It suggested a family member had been killed there.

Devin drove at high speed before the vehicle left the roadway. The impact with the bridge supports trapped her. Rescue workers had to cut her free. She died right there on Kellogg. The whole thing started as a single-car wreck and turned into a double death investigation.

Authorities call it an apparent murder-suicide. They have not named any other suspects. The probe continues with both departments working together. Wichita sits in Sedgwick County in south-central Kansas. That is where all this unfolded Thursday.

Lisa Dunbar was 55 and lived in Perkins. She got in her car early Saturday morning and headed west on State Highway 33. It was about 7:35 a.m. The stretch of road sits between Coyle and Perkins near Range Road.

An eastbound car came toward her. The other driver was a 28-year-old woman from Tulsa. She had been passing other cars heading the same way. Both drivers pulled hard to the north. Their vehicles hit near the north edge of the highway.

Lisa did not make it. The crash took her life right there. The Tulsa woman got hurt but lived through it. No one else sat in either car that morning.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers reached the scene quick. They looked over the wreck and the road. Both people had their seatbelts on. The patrol still works to figure out exactly why the swerves happened.

Folks who knew Lisa now face the empty spot she left. A regular Saturday drive turned into the end of her road. The highway stays busy most days with people going about their business.

Troopers keep digging into the details. Information can shift as they learn more. For now the facts stay clear on what unfolded that morning in Payne County.

The crash leaves one family without their 55-year-old. The other driver deals with injuries from the same moment on State Highway 33.

Tyler Symanski was just 19 years old when police found him on the sidewalk outside a house on State Avenue Northeast in Massillon early Sunday. He had a stab wound to his chest. It was a little before 6 a.m. on October 18 when officers got the call about an unresponsive person.

Responders worked hard right there on the scene to keep him alive. They got him to Aultman Hospital fast. He was pronounced dead at 6:28 a.m. That left his family and friends reeling from a loss that hit without warning.

Police say Tyler got into some kind of argument or fight inside the home at 316 State Ave. NE before the stabbing. He ended up outside with that chest wound. Detectives are still sorting out exactly what went down inside.

No one has been arrested yet as of Monday. Investigators are talking to people who might know something and looking over the evidence. They say it looks like an isolated thing with no danger to the rest of the community.

At 19, Tyler had years ahead of him. Friends and family now face the tough job of dealing with how sudden it all was. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office is handling the autopsy to learn more about the injury.

Massillon police keep working the case. They want to figure out the full story of the altercation that turned deadly. Questions linger about what sparked it all.

People who knew Tyler remember a young guy whose life stopped short. The investigation continues while those close to him try to make sense of the empty space he left.

Nevaeh Angel Hurdley was just 20 years old when she got behind the wheel of that 2001 Toyota on Sunday. She was driving south on U.S. 421 near the Silas Creek Parkway exit in Winston-Salem. Brianna Dawn McCall, 22, sat in the passenger seat. A third person, Jared Wayne McCall, 24, rode along too.

The car was moving fast. Real fast. Hurdley lost control. The Toyota slammed into the median guardrail. Then it crossed over and hit more guardrail and trees on the right side. The whole thing flipped. All three people flew out of the vehicle.

None of them had on a seat belt. Police said that right away. Hurdley and McCall died right there on the roadside. Jared McCall went to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

Officers got the call just before 2:55 that afternoon. They found the overturned Toyota off the southbound lanes. The Winston-Salem Police Traffic Enforcement Unit is looking into everything. They have not said much more about why the car was going so fast.

Winston-Salem sits in Forsyth County in the Piedmont Triad. That stretch of U.S. 421 sees plenty of traffic every day. On this quiet Sunday it turned deadly for two young women who never made it home.

Hurdley was the one driving. McCall was her passenger. Both were thrown clear when the car rolled. The lack of seat belts left them with no chance once the vehicle left the road.

Investigators are still working the case. No other details have come out yet about what happened in the moments before Hurdley lost control. The road reopened later that night after the scene was cleared.

Jared McCall is recovering. The two women are gone. A fast trip on a familiar highway ended in the worst way possible for a small group of friends or family out on a Sunday afternoon.

Keith Walton was just nine years old when a Sunday drive turned deadly on State Road 57. The boy from Monroe City sat in a 2017 Dodge minivan headed south near County Road 700 South in Daviess County. Around 2:46 p.m. on October 18, a northbound 2022 Chevrolet lost control and slammed into them.

Emergency crews got Keith out and airlifted him to Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. Doctors worked hard but could not save him. He died from his injuries that same day.

The crash left a quiet hole in a small Indiana town. Keith had years of birthdays, ball games, and simple summer days still ahead. One ordinary afternoon ended all of that.

Police said the Chevrolet driver was 25-year-old Jacob Sisco of Washington. Officers arrested him after chemical tests. He faces charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated resulting in death and serious bodily injury.

Investigators are still looking into every detail of the wreck. The road remains a reminder of how fast things can go wrong when someone gets behind the wheel impaired.

Friends and neighbors in Monroe City talk about the kid who never got the chance to grow up. They remember a boy who should have had more time.

Keith Walton’s short life ended on a rural stretch of highway in Daviess County. The silence that followed hits hard for everyone who knew him.

Nevaeh Angel Hurdley was just 20 years old when her life ended on a Sunday afternoon. She was behind the wheel of a 2001 Toyota on US-421 southbound in Winston-Salem. Her friend Brianna Dawn McCall, 22, sat with her. Neither made it home.

The crash hit just before the Silas Creek Parkway exit. Police say the car was going fast. Hurdley lost control. The Toyota smashed into the median guardrail. It shot off to the right, hit another guardrail and some trees, then rolled over hard.

Both women were thrown from the car. So was the third person inside. Emergency crews got there quick, but Hurdley and McCall were already gone. They died right there on the side of the road.

Jared Wayne McCall, 24, got thrown out too. He went to a local hospital. His injuries were not life-threatening. That is the word from Winston-Salem police.

None of the three had seatbelts on. That detail came out early in the check by the traffic unit. The car was an older Toyota, and speed played a big part according to the first look at the scene.

Investigators are still piecing together what happened right before the car spun out. They want to know more about the moments leading up to the loss of control. The traffic unit has the case now.

Anyone who saw the crash or knows something can call Winston-Salem police at 336-773-7700. The probe is not done yet. Two young women are gone, and their families are left with the sudden hole that opened up on that stretch of road.

Jarmon Mattix, 36, died Sunday night after a fight at a softball game turned into gunfire. It happened at the Fall Creek Sports Complex in northeast Harris County near Humble. Deputies got the call around 9:24 p.m. about a weapons disturbance on Wyatt Shores Drive near Freedom Point Lane.

When they pulled up, Mattix lay in the parking lot with gunshot wounds. He was already unresponsive. Medics could not save him. He was pronounced dead right there.

Three other people got hit too. One man and two women took non-life-threatening wounds. Crews rushed them to a nearby hospital. All three are expected to pull through.

It started as an argument during the softball game. Two groups of players got into it. The dispute moved to the parking lot and turned physical. Then someone pulled a gun and shots rang out.

Mattix leaves behind family and friends who now face a sudden empty space. At 36, his life stopped cold in that lot after what should have been a regular night of ball.

Harris County Sheriff’s Office homicide detectives are still digging into it. They have identified people they believe were involved and are talking to them. A weapon turned up at the scene. Witnesses gave statements, and investigators are checking for any cameras that might show the moments before the shots.

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office will look at the evidence and decide on charges. No one has been charged yet. Anyone who saw something can call the Homicide Unit at 713-274-9100 or tip Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.