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MOSCOW — Seeking to calm growing fears of an economic meltdown, the Russian government on Wednesday introduced a package of measures to reduce pressures on banks and urged the public to stay calm.
It seemed to work, at least temporarily. By Wednesday evening, amid indications of a government intervention in the currency markets, the ruble had recovered more than 11 percent of the previous day’s losses.
Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev met with the leaders of Russian business, energy exporters like Rosneft and Gazprom, and others, pledging government support for business and the ruble.
And President Vladimir V. Putin is on deck, scheduled to hold a nationally televised news conference on Thursday in which he is expected to address the recent financial turmoil.
“The Central Bank and the government have worked out a package of measures to stabilize the situation,” Mr. Medvedev said, according to a government transcript. “We will act in a coordinated way here. What we are seeing today is mostly playing on emotions.”
It was a notable turnaround from the previous evening, when Russians with rubles in hand fanned out to foreign currency exchanges and electronics stores, looking to beat looming price increases.
Opponents of Mr. Putin lined up to declare that his title as a guarantor of economic stability had been proved false.
The Russian authorities “are finally beginning to join up the dots, and think collectively, to try and reassure markets,” said Timothy Ash, head of emerging-market research at Standard Bank, in an investors’ note on Wednesday afternoon.
Public opinion in support of measures had reached a fever pitch as the ruble plummeted to 80 to the dollar on Tuesday.
“This is a very dangerous situation; we are separated from a fully fledged run on the banks by just a few days,” Vedomosti, the country’s leading business broadsheet, wrote in an editorial on Wednesday morning. “If the currency market is not reassured right now, the banking system will require large external support.”
The economic turmoil has nurtured a dark humor. Ivan Urgant, a 36-year-old comedian akin to Jimmy Fallon, spoofed recent advertisements for the Google mobile operating system on his late-night show with a skit called “O.K., Ruble.”
“Better not to go anywhere,” the robotic voice in his telephone responds when he asks where to ring in the New Year. When he asks what the exchange rate for the ruble will be tomorrow, the phone suggests watching a video of kittens playing.
There were other signs that the government was making entreaties to Russia’s business community. On Wednesday evening, Russian prosecutors unexpectedly freed Vladimir P. Yevtushenkov, the oligarch owner of the Sistema conglomerate, from house arrest during an investigation of what critics dismiss as trumped-up charges of embezzlement. The accusations and seizure of Bashneft, an oil producer that he acquired in 2009, had been seen as a significant blow to property rights in Russia.
He was not freed, however, before Bashneft was nationalized.
The announcement drew parallels to Mr. Putin’s unexpected pardoning a year ago of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the jailed Russian oligarch considered the country’s most famous political prisoner, at his annual news conference.
With Mr. Putin set to speak tomorrow, his spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said on national television Wednesday that there was cause for some optimism for the Russian economy.
“In 2008, if you remember, Putin came out and said, ‘It is a crisis, I am assuming responsibility, everything will turn out right,’ ” Mr. Peskov said. “Did it turn out right? It did. Let’s hope for the best this time, too.”
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin tried to play down Russia’s dire economic straits in his annual news conference on Thursday, attributing the troubles to declining oil prices that, following a short period of economic turbulence, were bound to recover along with global demand.
“We are going through a trying period, difficult times at the moment,” Mr. Putin said at the three-hour get together with 1,200 reporters from Russia and around the world. “I would not call the situation a crisis. You may call it whatever you want.”
Russia’s oil and gas-dependent economy crashed this week, with the ruble testing historic lows of 80 to the dollar before rallying to closer to 60, still down about 40 percent on the year. Analysts said the panic reflected not just the oil price drop but investors’ distrust of the government’s ability to cope with the crisis or to promote economic growth through something other than the extraction of natural resources.
“Economically, socially and politically, the country will have to go through severe economic tests in the years to come,” said Dmitri Trenin, the head of the Carnegie Moscow Center. “Not having a working, realistic, credible model for economic development, not just muddling through, will become critical.”
Addressing these concerns, a relaxed, at times even jovial Mr. Putin repeated several times that he thought the Central Bank of Russia and the government overall were doing the right things to halt the ruble’s nose-dive, if acting slightly late. The president did not present any new policies or a specific plan to address the mushrooming problems.
“I believe that the central bank and the government are taking adequate measures,” he said.
Mr. Putin described the problems as mainly rooted in external factors — the approximately 50 percent drop in oil prices this year along with Western sanctions imposed over Ukraine — and acknowledged that it might take up to two years for the country to emerge.
That assumes the slump in oil prices is traceable to slow global growth, particularly in China. However, energy strategists have pointed to surging North American production and increasing substitution of other fuels in response to climate change as factors that might dampen oil prices indefinitely.
The president, sitting on a small stage in an amphitheater in a Moscow hotel, seemed to be relying on his high popularity in Russia to carry the day, noting that Russia had emerged from the 2008 financial crisis relatively unscathed under his leadership. But it remained an open question whether that would be enough to convince Russians, who are facing a sharp recession next year.
Currently, Russians are worried about the ruble collapse and inflation, expected to reach 10 percent by the end of the year and to climb even higher early next year. They have flooded car dealerships, appliance stores and malls to spend savings before their rubles lose any more value.
The popular discount Swedish furniture chain Ikea has been mobbed for the past week, and on Thursday the company announced that it was suspending all sales of kitchen furniture and appliances for two days to catch up with the orders. It also chain announced that it was gradually adjusting prices — a common step by importers trying to keep up with the lower value of the ruble. Russia depends on imports for some 30 percent of its consumer goods.
In keeping with the themes of his presidency, Mr. Putin blamed the West for many of the problems, saying it has historically conspired to to tear down Russia every time it seems to gain strength. On this occasion, he found a new, vivid image, saying that the West was trying to restrain the Russian bear by using NATO to come up to the very borders of Russia.
The West wants the bear to sit around eating honey and berries, not chasing around the forest after piglets, Mr. Putin said, suggesting that its adversaries wanted to turn it into a stuffed animal.
“They won’t leave it alone, because they will always seek to chain it,” he said. “Once they manage to chain it, they will rip out the teeth and claws.” The teeth and claws in this case are nuclear deterrence, he said.
Mr. Putin conceded that Russia had contributed to a recent rise in global tension through long-range military surveillance flights across Europe and along the edges of North America. He said Russia had abandoned such flights for too long while the United States continued such surveillance, so now the “only thing we have done is to protect our interests in a tougher way.”
Mr. Putin said that perhaps 25 percent of the economic problems were caused by sanctions, but conceded that Russia had not done enough to diversify an economy in which energy resources constitute 60 percent of the country’s exports.
Even while Mr. Putin was speaking the European Union imposed an array of new sanctions involving investment, services and trade on Crimea, including banning investments and barring cruise ships from stopping. In Moscow, the Russian foreign ministry issued a statement calling the decision “confrontational.”
During his news conference, Mr. Putin said any economic problems linked to Russia regaining Crimea should not be thought of as punishment but as the price that had to be paid to defend Russia’s sovereignty.
Much of the concern over the Russian economy is rooted in its strained economic relations with the West, prompted by Moscow’s March annexation of Crimea and the subsequent destabilization of neighboring Ukraine.
Russian corporations owe some $650 billion to Western banks, but sanctions have severed any refinancing for that. The country holds some $419 billion in foreign reserves, Mr. Putin noted, though some analysts say that as much as half of that is tied up in other obligations, like pensions.
Mr. Putin stressed that Russia wanted to solve the crisis in Ukraine, and said he thought that President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine did, too, but that some nationalists there did not. In response to a question from a Ukrainian reporter about how many Russian soldiers had been dispatched into eastern Ukraine and how many died there, Mr. Putin again called Russian fighting there volunteers.
He said they were not mercenaries because they were not being paid for the work, and blamed Kiev for the conflict. He did not respond to a question about the number of Russians killed.
Russia has toned down its rhetoric on the Ukraine crisis in the past month, and some of its most incendiary language, like “junta” and “Novorossia,” a blanket term used for the separatist territories, are no longer used on state-run television news. Mr. Putin also notably omitted those terms, which he had used in other public appearances, on Thursday.
Some 1,200 journalists attended the news conference, both from within Russia and around the world. Most of the Russians tried to attract Mr. Putin’s attention by holding signs indicating the name of their region or as the conference wound down shouting out his name.
Several journalists asked why the state media had been unleashed to attack government critics as fifth columnists, to which Mr. Putin said it was sometimes hard to tell where “the opposition ends and the fifth column starts.”
In response to a question about the legality of burning down the homes in Chechnya of those linked to recent terrorist attacks, without any trial, Mr. Putin said such practices would follow the law.
But he used the answer to refer to the release of the C.I.A. torture report in the United States, saying, “Torture was legalized, how could you explain that?”
At least one reporter asked a question about his personal life, and Mr. Putin answered by saying that recently a European dignitary had asked him whether he had any love in his love.
Mr. Putin said he had assured the unidentified visitor that indeed he did, that he saw his former wife periodically as well as his two grown daughters, although the children not as much as he would like.
“Everything is fine,” he said.
Correction: December 18, 2014
An earlier version of this article misstated the value of Russia’s foreign exchange reserves. They are about $400 billion, not $400 million.
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By ALICIA PARLAPIANO
President Obama on Wednesday announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba and a series of actions aimed at easing travel and trade restrictions rooted in a 1963 law. Related Article
The anniversaries of the deaths of great men are a time to reflect on their legacy and achievements, and those of Andrei Sakharov, who died 25 years ago on Sunday, are particularly compelling — and sad — in light of the road Russia has traveled since.
Dr. Sakharov, the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and champion of human rights, is too important be officially dismissed from the pantheon of Russian heroes even though President Vladimir Putin and his supporters have not hesitated to bully institutions that try to carry on Dr. Sakharov’s work, such as Memorial, the human rights organization, or the Sakharov Center, both of which are under pressure to register as “foreign agents” because they receive foreign funds.
On Friday, a monument to Dr. Sakharov was unveiled in the neighborhood in Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, where he lived in “internal exile” for almost seven years. At the dedication by the head of the city administration, Oleg Kondrashov, said, “Somebody correctly noted that his civic position was highly controversial,” leaving unclear who that might have been, before proceeding to pay tribute to the “moral orientation” Dr. Sakharov provided.
The truth is that Dr. Sakharov and the movement he represented are little remembered in Russia. There has been precious little investigation or contrition over the crimes of the Soviet Union, and the legacy of the dissidents of his generation is tarnished by memories of the chaotic first post-Soviet years, when many of the erstwhile rebels proved to be poor politicians or hopeless utopianists.
Sergei Kovalev, a former political prisoner and close friend of Dr. Sakharov, said in an email exchange that the young would have a hard time recalling where they heard the name “Sakharov,” while the “Crimea is ours” majority, as he dubbed the nationalist admirers of President Putin, despise anyone who might contradict their hero.
But then the standing of a prophet in his own country is nearly always shaky. Before his death, Dr. Sakharov, as a member of the Soviet Parliament, was a constant thorn in the side of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, with his insistent demands for more and faster reform. And there is no question that were he still alive today, he would be a relentless critic of President Putin over Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, gay rights and many other things.
“He was a person who felt on his own skin the misfortune of others,” Mr. Kovalev said. “This compelled him to devote all his strength and time to endless protests, understanding full well that they were both futile and critical. He lived by the formula, do what must be done and what will be will be.
“He was not the ‘conscience of Russia,’ but a citizen of the world. Conscience for him did not tolerate modifiers, least of all national ones.”
Dr. Sakharov’s own words are probably his best epitaph: “What I’ve done and what I am are not the result of any miracle but the natural consequences of what life has made me.” It would be good if Russian life today was making more like him.
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WASHINGTON — He was, in many ways, a perfect spy — a man so important to Cuba’s intelligence apparatus that the information he gave to the Central Intelligence Agency paid dividends long after Cuban authorities arrested him and threw him in prison for nearly two decades.
Rolando Sarraff Trujillo has now been released from prison and flown out of Cuba as part of a swap for three Cuban spies imprisoned in the United States that President Obama announced Wednesday in a televised speech. Mr. Obama did not give Mr. Sarraff’s name, but several current American officials identified him and a former official discussed some of the information he gave to the C.I.A. while burrowed deep inside Cuba’s Directorate of Intelligence.
Mr. Sarraff’s story is a chapter in a spy vs. spy drama between the United States and Cuba that played on long after the end of the Cold War, decades after Cuba ceased to be a serious threat to the United States. The story — at this point — remains just a sketchy outline, with Mr. Sarraff hidden from public view and his work for the C.I.A. still classified.
Chris Simmons, who was the chief of a Cuban counterintelligence unit for the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1996 to 2004, said that Mr. Sarraff had worked in the cryptology section of Cuba’s Directorate of Intelligence and was an expert on the codes used by Cuban spies in the United States to communicate with Havana. Mr. Sarraff’s family said that he studied journalism at the University of Havana and had the rank of first lieutenant at the intelligence directorate.
It is not clear when Mr. Sarraff, now 51, began working for the C.I.A. But, according to Mr. Simmons, once he did, he passed encryption information to the C.I.A that led to the arrest of a number of Cuban agents operating in the United States.
In his speech Wednesday, President Obama referred to Mr. Sarraff as “one of the most important intelligence agents that the United States has ever had in Cuba,” someone who “provided America with the information that allowed us to arrest the network of Cuban agents that included the men transferred to Cuba today, as well as other spies in the United States.”
Hours later, the director of National Intelligence, the head of the United States intelligence community, issued a statement saying the information from Mr. Sarraff — the statement did not name him — had helped the government arrest and convict several Cuban spies inside the United States. The convictions included a senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency named Ana Belén Montes; a former Department of State official, Walter Kendall Myers, and his wife, Gwendolyn Myers; and members of the Red Avispa network, or Wasp Network, in Florida.
Jerry Komisar, who ran C.I.A. clandestine operations in Cuba during the 1990s, said that “there were a number of people in the Cuban government who were valuable to the U.S., just as there were a number of people in the U.S. government who were helpful to the Cubans.”
Mr. Simmons said that Cuba’s spy service regularly communicated with its agents in America using encrypted messages sent over shortwave radio. After Mr. Sarraff helped the United States crack the codes, he said, the F.B.I. was able to arrest Cuban spies years after Mr. Sarraffwas discovered and put in prison in Cuba.
“When Roly was providing information, he was giving us insights about where there were weaknesses in the Cuban encryption system,” said Mr. Simmons.
Cuban authorities arrested Mr. Sarraff in November 1995. According to members of his family, he went to work one day and never came home. Cuban officials told the family for more than a week that Mr. Sarraff was on a job in the country’s interior and would be back soon.
According to Mr. Simmons, “had it not been for his parents being senior officials in the Cuban government, they would have executed him.”
He was tried in 1996 for espionage, revealing state secrets and other acts against state security. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
“He is always maintained his innocence” said his sister, Vilma Sarraff, by telephone from Spain. She said that Mr. Sarraff’s daughter was 7 years old when he was arrested.
Multiple news accounts in recent years have identified Mr. Sarraff as a former Cuban intelligence officer who had been imprisoned. The accounts named him as a possible candidate to be released if the United States and Cuba were ever to agree to a spy swap.
He was mentioned briefly in a January 2008 State Department cable sent from an American official in Cuba to various agencies in Washington, including the C.I.A. In the cable, part of the trove of documents made public by WikiLeaks, his name is on a list of political prisoners put together by a human rights group in Cuba.
In 2011, a man identifying himself as Mr. Sarraff’s brother wrote a blog post saying that Mr. Sarraff had been in prison for 16 years. In the post, he recalled when his brother was arrested and that his parents were told that Mr. Sarraff was “accused of being a confessed C.I.A. agent.”
But if Mr. Sarraff had in fact collaborated with American intelligence agencies to help snare Cuban agents living in the United States, as the presidents of both countries suggested on Wednesday, it was certainly not something he ever discussed with his family, she said.
“If what they are saying is true, fine, he paid that debt with 20 years in prison,” she said.
Ms. Sarraff said her brother was in solitary confinement for 18 years. An avid painter and poet, he was not permitted any painting supplies or other distractions. He was also denied parole, Ms. Sarraff said.
Ms. Sarraff said her brother had been calling his family regularly from prison, but that they had not heard from him in several days. She said her family had been told Mr. Sarraff had been released from prison, but had not heard directly that he was part of a prisoner exchange.
She said she had no idea where he was.
“They did not say where they had taken him,” she said, becoming irate.
“How is it possible that they take my brother out of the country without telling his parents? My parents are at the point where my father is likely to have a heart attack!”
With Wednesday’s exchange of imprisoned spies and the leaders of the United States and Cuba talking in a substantive way for the first time in more than 50 years, some people who were part of the spy games between the two countries now wonder just how much it was worth it.
Mr. Komisar, the former C.I.A. officer, said that in retrospect there was little need for American intelligence services to devote so much attention to Cuba. He said it was a country with a decrepit military that he said posed no strategic threat to the United States since the Soviet Union pulled its missiles off the island in 1962.
He also said that after decades of cloak-and-dagger activities between the two countries, “at the end of the day I would call it a draw.”
“You have to ask yourself, ‘to what end?'” he said.
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WASHINGTON — The recent failure to reach a nuclear accord with Iran was apparently a one-day story, rapidly eclipsed by Ferguson, Eric Garner, and sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby. As a recovering politician — an escapee from the Congressional asylum — I know how hard it can be to break out of the news cycle. Some stories have legs. Some don’t.
The news media long ago decided on the marquee headlines for 2014: the Islamic State, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ukraine, Ebola. Underreported stories compete for whatever oxygen’s left. And with even the Iranian nuclear talks struggling to hold the spotlight for long, broader nuclear security issues have dropped off the public radar entirely. That’s dangerous in the extreme. With loose nukes in Pakistan, loose material worldwide, and nuclear fumbling here at home, we have to have our eye on every proliferation risk. No one wants a mushroom cloud on tomorrow’s front page; to counter these threats, we must multitask more effectively.
In 2011 in The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg and Marc Ambinder wrote just about the most frightening sentence I’ve ever read: “In a country that is home to the harshest variants of Muslim fundamentalism, and to the headquarters of the organizations that espouse these extremist ideologies,” they wrote, “nuclear bombs capable of destroying entire cities are transported in delivery vans on congested and dangerous roads.” That’s right: Pakistan uses delivery vans, as secure as the ones you and I might use to move furniture, to move its nuclear arsenal. This in a country where the Taliban routinely assaults hardened facilities with great success, where Al Qaeda feels entirely at home, and where the Islamic State was recently embraced by six senior Taliban commanders.
In addition to the risk that nuclear material or weapons might fall into terrorist hands, there’s always the very real possibility that Pakistan will transfer a tactical nuke or worse to another state. Saudi Arabia, the BBC reported in 2013, feels confident that it will be able to acquire a weapon from Pakistan should Iran go nuclear — one more piece of evidence that even in discussions of Iran’s nuclear program, an Iran-only focus is dangerously myopic. And remember, the Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan was instrumental in getting Iran’s program off the ground in the first place.
While the progress made worldwide since President Obama acted as host to the first Nuclear Security Summit in 2010 is impressive, don’t forget that participating countries vowed to secure weapons-grade materials by this year. No such luck — and when it comes to radioactive materials, every pound counts. Meanwhile, Russia has suspended longstanding and successful cooperation with the United States in securing Russian nuclear sites; its president, Vladimir V. Putin, plans to skip out on the next nuclear security summit too, his absence another casualty of the Ukraine crisis. On nukes, the trend line for political will worldwide is not encouraging.
Nuclear security — in any context but the ongoing negotiations with Iran — has been thrown onto the pile of forgotten causes. One reason, probably, is the poor example set by our own nuclear forces. As a pair of scathing Pentagon studies recently found, we have 60-year-old missile silos with blast doors that don’t close. We have crews servicing intercontinental ballistic missiles with one wrench — one! — able to join warheads with their missiles, a wrench they share with one another via FedEx. Professionalism this is not.
The president has backed a serious, comprehensive, and vastly expensive effort to modernize American nuclear forces. Besides the price tag, there’s a big problem: The overhaul will take three decades. As a former member of Congress who knows what election cycles can do to sound budget thinking, I have a hard time trusting in our government’s ability to follow through on a 30-year plan. While President Obama deserves a great deal of praise for his longstanding and continuing work on nonproliferation, his administration has a hard time multitasking. Congress, with toxic partisanship raging and an incredibly full plate for the months ahead, is unlikely to be helpful.
By March at the very latest, when a broad-strokes political agreement on Iran’s nuclear program is due, Washington’s attention will turn back to nonproliferation. But that’s risky. Terrorism via weapons of mass destruction, Pakistan’s irresponsibility, Russia’s temper tantrums, the future of our own nuclear arsenal — all of these concerns should be on the table and in the media spotlight now. The dates baked into extended negotiations with Iran should be occasions for a broader conversation. A gap in committed attention and long-term thinking leaves the work of nuclear security dangerously unfinished.
The age of the atom is far from over. On nukes, let’s learn to walk and chew gum.
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PENNSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Marine suspected of killing his ex-wife and five of her relatives was found dead in the woods near his suburban Philadelphia home Tuesday after a day-and-a-half manhunt that closed schools and left people on edge.
Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said on her official Facebook page that police found Bradley William Stone’s body. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Stone, a 35-year-old Iraq War veteran locked in a custody dispute so bitter that his ex-wife feared for her life, went on a 90-minute shooting rampage before daybreak Monday at three homes a few miles apart, authorities said.
The killing spree set off the second major manhunt to transfix Pennsylvania in recent months. Eric Frein spent 48 days at large in the Poconos after the September ambush slaying of a state trooper.
As the manhunt dragged on — with SWAT teams making their way through neighborhoods and the Philadelphia police sending in a heat-sensing helicopter — at least five schools within a few miles of Stone’s Pennsburg home closed. Veterans’ hospitals and other places tightened security.
The rampage unfolded in the towns of Harleysville, Lansdale and Souderton.
Stone’s former wife, 33-year-old Nicole Stone, was found dead in her apartment after a neighbor saw Stone fleeing around 5 a.m. with their two young daughters, authorities said. The girls were later found safe with Stone’s neighbors.
Police went to two other homes and discovered five more people dead: Nicole Stone’s mother, grandmother, sister, brother-in-law and 14-year-old niece. A 17-year-old nephew was wounded in the head, and Ferman said he was in “very serious” condition.
Stone and his ex-wife had fighting over their children’s custody since she filed for divorce in 2009. He filed an emergency motion this month, although the resulting Dec. 9 ruling remained sealed in court files.
Neighbors said Nicole Stone lived in such fear of her ex-husband that she would sometimes ask her apartment complex’s maintenance staff to go in and check her place first because she was afraid he might be lying in wait.
“He would call and just harass her and threaten her,” said neighbor Michele Brewser. “She shouldn’t have had to live in terror.”
“She would tell anybody who would listen that he was going to kill her and that she was really afraid for her life,” said Evan Weron, another neighbor in Harleysville.
Stone was probably wearing military fatigues and may have shaved off his facial hair, the district attorney said. She added that he sometimes used a cane or walker.
Stone was in the Marines from 2002 through 2008. The former sergeant’s occupational specialty was listed as “artillery meteorological man.”
Stone told a 2011 child support hearing that Veterans Affairs deemed him permanently disabled and that he was collecting benefits from the agency, according to court documents.
The VA had no comment Tuesday. A longtime friend, Matthew Schafte, said he was not aware of any injuries Stone may have suffered as a Marine.
Stone had faced several driving-under-the-influence charges, one of which was handled in veterans’ court and led to a three- to 23-month sentence.
He remarried last year, according to his Facebook page and court records, and has an infant son. Neither his wife nor the son was injured. Nicole Stone became engaged over the summer, neighbors said.
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Dale reported from Harleysville. Associated Press writer Kathy Matheson contributed from Souderton and Harleysville.
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Bradley William Stone was identified as the man who allegedly shot and killed six people at homes in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Monday, the Associated Press reported. Three others were seriously injured. Stone, 35, is still at large, the AP said. He is described as having a red/auburn beard and is 5'10" tall weighing 195 pounds, WPVI added.
All of the victims involved in the fatal shooting had a "familial relationship" to him, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said. His first victim was his ex-wife, with whom he'd been reportedly fighting for custody of their children. The kids were taken from their home by the suspect but then found near the apartment where their mother was shot, WPVI said.
Stone was a former military man, a neighbor told the AP. Known to use a cane to walk around, he was reportedly wearing military fatigues during the shooting spree.
The DA said Stone is “armed and dangerous,” according to WPVI. “Anyone with information about Stone's whereabouts is asked to call 911 immediately. Do not approach him. Police are conducting an extensive search in and around Pennsburg, at both known and outdoor locations where Stone may be located,” the DA added.
As police searched for Stone, they reportedly tried to get him out of a home in Pennsburg. “Bradley, this is the police department!" an officer reportedly shouted, according to the AP. "Come to the front door with your hands up. You're under arrest."
Several shots were heard at the Pennsburg home, where police believe Stone is hiding, WPVI tweeted. SWAT teams reportedly shot tear gas into the basement, WPVI reporter Mike Neilon added.
The shooting remains under investigation.
This is a developing story.
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A GENERATION FROM NOW, people will still talk about the way Bradley William Stone went about butchering his ex-wife and her family, leaving a trail of blood and gore across Montgomery County as he moved from house to house, town to town, ambushing them in the middle of the night like a demon from hell.
But no matter how many times the story is revisited, no one will ever be able to answer the question that gnaws at the soul of anyone who discovers all of this heartache and horror: Why?
Any hope of making sense of the Monday morning massacre that claimed the lives of Nicole Stone and five of her relatives was snuffed out yesterday afternoon, when investigators found the killer's body in the woods in Pennsburg, about a half-mile from his house.
Brad Stone, 35, committed suicide, apparently hacking away at himself in his final moments with a knife, District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said.
The discovery of his body brought an end to a manhunt that had left the area increasingly on edge as authorities struggled to pinpoint Stone's whereabouts.
Those who were friendly with Stone and his ex-wife, meanwhile, were left with the impossible task of trying to reconcile the guy they thought they knew - a father who adored his two daughters - with the cold-blooded killer whose fury made national headlines.
Military veterans who served with Stone in the Marines recoiled at media reports that seemed to link the bloodshed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that Stone was supposedly saddled with from a tour in Iraq.
"A lot of us come home with it, but you can't blame what happened there on PTSD," said a veteran who once worked alongside Stone. "It really is the person you are underneath that will decide if you do something like this."
'See the tension'
At Back to School Night, Girl Scout functions, evening pickups at after-school recreation, Brad Stone appeared to be the ever-present father, "doting" on his little 8- and 5-year-old girls, often dressed in a suit and tie, said Gwen Hemmig, 57, whose granddaughters attend the same Souderton-area elementary school as Stone's children.
"He was just always there. Always helping with craft projects and always smiling. You could tell he was very proud of the girls," said Hemmig, who saw him recently at a Girl Scout "songfest" held at the local high school.
"At the songfest, he's in a lot of the pictures with the girls," Hemmig said. "He was always very sweet and pleasant . . . He seemed to be a sweetheart."
Stone and his ex-wife, Nicole, seemed to share a deep love for their kids, and a palpable dislike for each other, Hemmig said.
"A lot of times he and Nikki were both there - on opposite sides of the room," she said. "You could see the tension between them when they would be in the same room together."
Stone brought his new wife, Jen, to this year's Back to School Night, Hemmig said.
Aside from their ongoing custody dispute, Stone and his ex-wife had evidently moved on with their lives, with Nicole recently getting engaged and Stone remarrying in September 2013. His Facebook page features a wedding photo in which Stone clasps his wife's face in a kiss.
"The smile still hasn't gone from my face," he posted beneath the photo on Sept. 16, 2013.
"I love you so much Mr. Stone," replied Jen Stone. The two had an infant son.
Yesterday, Jen Stone's co-workers at Field Marketing Solutions, where she is a media analyst, declined to comment, other than to say that it's "a difficult time."
Jen Stone did not return a phone call from the Daily News.
'A substandard Marine'
Underneath the cheery face that Stone put on in front of others lurked a more troubled man.
He'd been on probation for the last year, having pleaded guilty for the second time to driving under the influence of intoxicants, according to court records.
Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler said Stone had received psychiatric treatment at the Lenape Valley Foundation in Doylestown Hospital. What he was treated for was unclear.
Doylestown briefly served as a focal point in the hunt for Stone after a resident claimed late Monday that a man in camouflage had tried to rob him of his car keys at knifepoint. That lead fizzled.
Ferman said Stone was denied emergency custody of his children last week but had not, to her knowledge, been diagnosed with PTSD.
Stone was discharged at the rank of sergeant from the Marine Corps Reserve in 2011, military officials said, and spent less than three months in Iraq in 2008. His military occupational specialty was listed as "artillery meteorological man."
A Marine veteran who was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment - the same unit as Stone - recalled Stone in less-than-flattering terms.
"He wasn't what you would call a good Marine," said the vet, who recently came home from deployment in Afghanistan, and didn't want his name used because he didn't have permission from the military to talk about Stone.
"I thought of him as a substandard Marine," he said. "He physically didn't meet our standards, and he was more interested in having the title of being a Marine than in doing the work it required."
The veteran said Stone's tour in Iraq didn't last long because he convinced superiors that he had asthma and needed to go home.
"Everyone keeps reporting that he had PTSD, but that really puts a bad taste in the mouths of former Marines who were overseas and actually served their time," he said.
He and Stone didn't serve in Iraq at the same time, he said, but worked together for about six months at the regiment's Philadelphia-based headquarters.
"There was always something off about him. He was always arguing with his wife on the phone," he said.
Eric Zillmer, a professor of neuropsychology at Drexel University who authored a book on military psychology, said it was doubtful that Stone's killing spree could be blamed on PTSD.
"It is stressful to go to war, no question, but a lot of people who go to war don't develop PTSD," he said. "Or, if they do, they don't go on a rampage and kill six people."
'Mommy, no!'
The first hint of the nightmare came at 4:25 a.m. Monday in the form of a 9-1-1 call from the Lansdale home of Nicole Stone's mother, Joanne Gilbert, and grandmother, Patricia Hill.
The caller hung up without saying anything. Police went to investigate and found Gilbert, 57, on a bed, and Hill, 75, on the floor, both with blood pooled around their heads, according to an affidavit released by authorities.
Gilbert's throat had been slashed, while Hill had been shot in the right eye.
A half-hour later, police in Lower Salford Township got a 9-1-1 call from the Pheasant Run Apartments, where Nicole Stone lived.
According to the affidavit, a neighbor, Ashley Deane, heard glass breaking and then a loud bang in Stone's apartment, followed by three or four gunshots.
Deane heard Stone's little girls cry out: "Mommy, mommy, no! I want my mom!"
Deane looked outside in time to see Brad Stone loading his kids into a green Ford as he uttered these chilling words about his ex-wife: "She's hurt, we have to go. She's hurt." Stone later dropped his daughters off unharmed at a neighbor's house in Pennsburg.
Nicole Stone was found dead in her bedroom, with two gunshot wounds to her face. Her ex-husband's .40-caliber Heckler & Koch handgun was on her bed.
Investigators realized the three killings were related, and turned their attention to the Souderton home of Nicole Stone's sister, Patricia Flick, her husband, Aaron Flick, and their two teenage children, Nina and Anthony.
About 7:45 a.m., police entered the Flicks' house and found a horrific scene that had apparently been the starting point of Stone's rampage three hours earlier.
Nina, 14, was found dead of blunt-force trauma and lacerations to her face and skull in her bedroom. Patricia and Aaron were also dead in their bedroom; Patricia had been shot in the face.
Anthony, 17, remarkably survived a gruesome assault - a gaping skull fracture to the back of his head, numerous lacerations to his arms and several missing fingertips. He was listed yesterday in serious condition at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Ferman said it appeared the teen's injuries came as a result of trying to fight off Stone.
All day Monday, heavily armed cops in tactical gear staked out spots where they mistakenly believed Stone had holed up - first, the Flicks' home in Souderton, and then Stone's own house in Pennsburg.
Officers still stood guard outside the Stones' two-story, brick twin on 4th Street yesterday. Police had knocked down the front door and bashed the garage door to bits Monday, when they thought Stone may be hiding out inside.
Yesterday, passers-by could gaze inside unimpeded. Off a front porch with matching rocking chairs, the living room appeared ready for holiday revelry. A half-decorated Christmas tree stood in the corner, beside a chewed-up rawhide bone in a dog bed and a packed bookcase.
By an alley beside a neatly landscaped backyard, the garage suggested the family's pack-rat tendencies: Bicycles, wagons, patio furniture and a green US Marine Corp. box lay in a jumble inside. A child-sized plastic slide and basketball hoop stood on the patio.
Many tried to make sense of Brad Stone's crimes, and even sympathized with him, figuring deep-rooted mental problems were to blame for the massacre.
SWAT and K-9 cops began sweeping the area again in the afternoon yesterday, leading them to find Stone's body shortly before 2 p.m. in a wooded area not far from his home. Ferman said it appeared that Stone died of "self inflicted cutting wounds" to the center part of his body.
Hundreds gathered last night at a vigil for the victims inside Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Souderton.
"Many will ask, where was God?" said the Rev. Heeralal "Mukesh" Cheedie.
Some in the crowd left the church, exhaling in the vestibule as if they'd been holding their breaths, and headed back out into the mist outside.
-Staff writer Vinny Vella contributed to this report.
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Marquel Dugas(Photo: Multnomah County Jail)
2nd arrest in shooting near N. Portland school
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland police said they arrested second man in connection with Friday's shooting outside an alternative high school.
Marquel Dugas, 18, was arrested Saturday on a probation violation. Police believe he was one of three men involved in the shooting near Rosemary Anderson High School, according to Sgt. Pete Simpson.
Investigators are still looking for one more man in connection with the shooting, Simpson said Sunday.
Police earlier on Saturday arrested Lonzo Murphy, 22, in connection with the shooting. Authorities stopped a vehicle around 1:30 a.m. at North Interstate Avenue and Going Street and arrested Murphy. A handgun was found in the vehicle.
Police said Murphy, who has gang ties, is a "person of interest" in the case. It's unclear if the gun found in the vehicle was used in the shooting.
Lonzo Murphy(Photo: Multnomah County Jail)
Police were searching an apartment about half an hour later as part of the investigation. The apartment is about five blocks east of the shooting near Rosemary Anderson High School.
Murphy's charges in connection with the shooting have not been released. He was booked into the Multnomah County Jail early Saturday morning on a parole violation, police said.
Police say more charges are pending.
The shooting was reported just before 12:15 p.m. outside the school, located at 717 North Killingsworth Court.
Taylor Zimmers, 16, was shot in the chest and side. She was critically injured, but police said Monday that Zimmers was upgraded to fair condition in a Portland hospital.
Two men, 20-year-old David Jackson-Liday and 17-year-old Labraye Franklin, were seriously injured.
Liday's condition was upgraded to good on Monday and Franklin was released from the hospital on Saturday, police said.
A bullet also grazed the foot of 17-year-old Olyvia Batson. She was treated at the scene.
The victims were all affiliated with the school, either as high school students or in job training, according to Portland Police Sgt. Pete Simpson.
Jackson-Liday is a known gang member, Simpson said. His relationship to Murphy is unclear.
One arrested, 2 sought in shooting near school
Rosemary Anderson is a small alternative high school that has around 200 students. Its students are at-risk and have either been expelled or dropped out of public school, according to the school's website. Many students are homeless. Others also attend the school for job training purposes or to get their GED.
Police said they will have extra patrols near Rosemary Anderson High School, Jefferson High School and Portland Community College on Monday.
Police say they still need help from the public. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Detective Brad Clifton at 503-823-2087 or Detective Todd Gradwahl at 503-823-2056.
Police at the scene. (Photo: Mark Hanrahan, KGW)
Police at the scene. (Photo: Mark Hanrahan, KGW)
Police responded to a shooting at Rosemary Anderson High School. (Photo: Mark Hanrahan, KGW News)
Paramedics at the scene. (Photo: Kyle Iboshi, KGW News)
Police responded to a shooting at Rosemary Anderson High School on Friday afternoon. (Photo: KGW)
Police responded to a shooting at Rosemary Anderson High School on Friday afternoon. (Photo: KGW)
Police responded to a shooting at Rosemary Anderson High School on Friday afternoon. (Photo: KGW)
Police responded to a shooting at Rosemary Anderson High School on Friday afternoon. (Photo: KGW)
Police responded to a shooting at Rosemary Anderson High School on Friday afternoon. (Photo: KGW)
Police responded to a shooting at Rosemary Anderson High School on Friday afternoon. (Photo: KGW)
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Lonzo D. Murphy and Marquel Dugas, who Portland police say they've tied to last week's shooting outside Rosemary Anderson High School, remained in custody Monday on parole and probation violations, but haven't been formally charged in the shooting.
Their past convictions and failure to follow court orders practically foreshadowed that the two would be back behind bars again, officials wrote in court records.
Lonzo Deshawn Murphy, 22Multnomah County Sheriff's Office
Gang enforcement detectives are investigating whether Friday's lunchtime shooting that wounded four Rosemary Anderson students followed a dispute over a drug debt.
Police Sgt. Pete Simpson has said investigators believe the shooting was gang-related because it involved gang members or gang associates.
Police early Saturday arrested Murphy, 22, on a parole violation for second-degree robbery and third-degree assault. He was stopped in a car at a North Portland intersection and a handgun was seized from the car.
In late 2012, a Multnomah County pretrial sentence officer wrote that Murphy's criminal history reflected violent and repeat offenses. A risk assessment gave him a "72 percent failure rate'' for abiding by court conditions outside of custody based on repeated citations for failing to appear in court, an unstable home environment, history of drug abuse and his criminal record.
Murphy's arrest marked at least his 10th in Oregon and Washington since 2006, according to court documents. He has convictions in three states, including Nevada.
In June 2013, he pleaded no contest to second-degree robbery and third-degree assault charges in Multnomah County and was sentenced to 20 months in prison, followed by three years of post-prison supervision. He got credit for time served and was released from prison on Aug. 20. Murphy and two others had walked up to a stranger on Oct. 13, 2012, demanded methadone pills from him and when the man didn't turn over pills, Murphy punched him in the face and stole the pills and other belongings, according to court documents.
Marquel Dugas, 18Multnomah County Sheriff's Office
In 2012, Murphy told court officials that he'd been in the gang environment his entire life and is a Lincoln Park Blood gang member. While in custody in 2012 pending charges of disorderly conduct and interfering with police, he was placed on "constant lockdown'' at the Justice Center jail in downtown Portland for "aggressive behavior, nonstop loud behavior and slanderous name-calling,'' according to court documents.
In another case, he was accused of throwing a silver knife toward an police officer. Murphy later explained to police that he got mad when three young men accused him of being associated with another gang, the Unthank Park hustlers, and called him a derogatory name. "When asked if he would rather go to jail or receive a citation from the female officer, he shouted profanities and stated women had no business being police officers,'' Multnomah County pretrial release services officer Michale Sacomanto wrote on Nov. 20, 2012.
Murphy has three other convictions in Oregon, for second-degree disorderly conduct, harassment and criminal trespass from December 2012. In Washington state, he's been convicted of second-degree robbery, fourth-degree assault, disorderly conduct, intimidating a witness and interfering with a domestic violence report between June 2006 and January 2011.
In Nevada, he has been arrested on allegations of possession of marijuana and minor loitering in a gaming establishment, according to court documents.
In March, Marquel Dugas, then 17, was sentenced in Multnomah County to three years of probation for third-degree robbery and third-degree assault stemming from a strong-arm robbery he committed at age 16. He and others stole headphones from a stranger who was walking in the area of Southeast 102nd and Ash Street on Oct. 13, 2013. The man was struck in the head and ribs multiple times.
By that time, Dugas had already racked up many contacts with police. He was designated by the Police Bureau as a Blood gang member, according to court documents.
Court records indicated he had no stable home, a history of running away and last was enrolled at Helensview High School. During the summer of 2013, he was on community monitoring through the county's juvenile department for a third-degree assault case. He was ordered to comply with electronic monitoring and live with his mother.
"Within about 5 weeks of being released to live at his mother's on electronic monitoring pending the assault 3, he ran away, cut off the bracelet, stopped going to school and was on the run until his arrest'' in the headphones case, pretrial sentence officer Chelsea Fonda wrote in court papers. "His recent inability to comply with the juvenile department and electronic monitoring, runaway history and his family's inability to communicate with each other about his whereabouts are huge indicators that he will not be successful if released into the community at this time.''
Portland police have not charged either Murphy or Dugas, now 18, in the shooting outside Rosemary Anderson.
Dugas was arrested by Multnomah County probation officers at 2:50 p.m. Saturday at Southeast 154th and Division Street. He's being held at the downtown jail on a probation violation.
Holding Murphy and Dugas only on parole or probation violations gives police time to do more investigation, figure out who allegedly played what role in the shooting, get results from forensic tests on the seized gun and find a third suspect. It also provides police with more time to question the defendants, if they agree to talk, without an attorney.
Dugas, who also goes by the name Marquel Diamond Dugas, will have to be arraigned within 36 hours of his probation violation arrest. He's scheduled to be arraigned on the probation violation at 9:15 a.m Tuesday.
Murphy, who already served his prison sentence and was on post-prison supervision, can remain in jail no more than 15 days before a sanction is imposed for violating supervision, or a hearing is held to impose a sanction, according to state law.
Two of the students wounded remain hospitalized. Taylor Michelle Zimmers, 16, who was shot in the chest, has been upgraded from serious condition to fair condition. David Joshua Jackson-Lyday, 20, has been upgraded from fair condition to good condition, police said.
Police have identified Jackson-Lyday as a designated gang member. He's on probation after pleading guilty in March 2013 to resisting arrest, menacing and unlawful possession of a firearm. As part of his probation, he was ordered to attend school full-time, possess no weapons or ammunition and when not in school, stay away from the Albina area, from Interstate 5 to Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and from Stanton Street to Rosa Parks Boulevard.
LaBraye Franklin, the 17-year-old who was shot in the back and released from the hospital Saturday, thanked friends for their support, in messages he posted on his Facebook page that day. He's on probation for a third-degree robbery conviction after pleading guilty in March 2013 to stealing a man's iPad and punching him in the face.
About two hours before Friday's shooting, Franklin also posted a photo of himself outside Rosemary Anderson High School, right at the corner of North Borthwick and Killingsworth Court where he was later shot.
"Thank yo to all the people that prayed for me,'' he wrote Saturday.
"Man it's crazy because life can go at any moment you never know who can really wona see you die I juss hope that I stay to see old age n take care of my momma.''
--Maxine Bernstein
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EAGLEVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - An Iraq War veteran sought in the killing of six family members in Pennsylvania was found dead on Tuesday of "self-inflicted cutting wounds" following a two-day manhunt, authorities said.
Suspect Bradley William Stone, 35, of Pennsburg was being sought in the deaths on Monday of his ex-wife, her mother, grandmother, sister and two other family members, including his 14-year-old niece. His 17-year-old nephew was seriously wounded.
Stone's body was found on Tuesday afternoon in a wooded area in New Hanover Township, about a half mile (0.8 km) from his home in Pennsburg, about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Philadelphia, County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told a news conference.
An autopsy would determine the official cause of death and how long Stone had been dead, she said.
"Based upon what we found at the scene, we believe that he died of self-inflicted cutting wounds in the center part of his body," she said.
Citing sources, WPVI-TV reported Stone killed himself with a sword and that a sword had been used in the slayings.
Stone's nephew suffered significant cuts to his hands and head and was hospitalized in stable condition.
"It certainly appears to us they were defensive in nature and that he was fighting off his attacker," Ferman said.
Stone and his ex-wife, Nicole, 33, filed for divorce in 2009 and had an ongoing custody battle over their daughters, aged 8 and 5, Ferman said.
Stone asked a court on Dec. 5 to grant him emergency custody but was denied, Ferman said.
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The killing spree "certainly from a timing perspective seems to be related," Ferman said.
Local media reported Stone suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, but Ferman said to her knowledge he had not been diagnosed with PTSD.
Stone enlisted with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 2002, was deployed to Iraq and was honorably discharged at the rank of sergeant in 2011, according to a military spokesman.
Most of the victims suffered gunshot wounds and a .40-caliber handgun belonging to Stone was found at one of the crime scenes, according to a police affidavit filed in court on Tuesday. Several victims also had deep lacerations, and the throat of at least one victim had been cut open, the affidavit said.
Stone's daughters were unharmed. He had taken them from his ex-wife's house and left them with a neighbor soon after the attacks on Monday, Ferman said. His current wife and infant child also were safe.
The killings set off Pennsylvania's second recent high-profile manhunt after a seven-week chase to capture survivalist Eric Frein, accused of killing a state trooper in September.
(Writing by Ellen Wulfhorst; Additional reporting by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Eric Beech, Bill Trott and Eric Walsh)
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