Man accused in church shooting felt 'disrespected'

OGDEN, Utah (AP) -- A man accused of shooting and nearly killing his father-in-law during a crowded Father's Day church service in northern Utah told authorities he pulled the trigger because he felt "disrespected," prosecutors said Monday.

Weber County deputy attorney Dean Saunders told a judge about the alleged motive of Charles "Ricky" Jennings Jr. at a court hearing in Ogden, about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City. He also argued Jennings, 35, should be kept in jail because he might try to "complete the act" of killing James Evans.

Judge Michael Lyons revoked Jennings' bail, which had been set at $105,000, The Salt Lake Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/17yMOom ).

Police say Jennings shot Evans once in the back of the head June 16 during a Catholic Mass in Ogden. The shooting occurred during a quiet part of the service as about 300 people stood in preparation for communion.

Jennings had walked into the church seconds earlier holding hands with his wife, Cheryl Jennings, who is Evans' daughter.

The bullet remarkably missed Evans' brain, entering near his ear and exiting out his cheek. Evans, 66, is expected to survive but faces a long recovery from the damage done to his jaw.

Jennings is charged with attempted murder. No further details about motive were released.

Jennings' attorney, Michael Bouwhuis, fought the move to revoke bail, saying the amount was too much for Jennings to pay anyway.

Bouwhuis also asked the court to order a review of Jennings' competency. He said that after the shooting, Jennings made comments to detectives about being hypnotized that raised concerns. He also said Jennings has brain damage from an accident 10 years ago that might influence his decision-making.

A competency hearing has been set for Sept. 9.

Detectives have said they thought Jennings might have been drinking or on drugs, and they know he and his wife had a history of domestic disputes that might have triggered the shooting.

Court records show Jennings has a criminal record going back to 1996. Over the years, he has pleaded no contest to felony charges of receiving a stolen vehicle and criminal trespassing. He also has pleaded guilty to theft charges and a felony charge of attempting to tamper with a witness or juror.

Jennings' wife stayed inside the church after he fled. There was no indication she knew what her husband was going to do, and authorities don't expect to file any charges against her.

Jennings was apprehended walking near a highway hours after the shooting. Authorities say he had stolen a truck but it ran out of gas.

After his arrest, Jennings acknowledged he was the man who shot James, court documents show. He told detectives he thought he missed. Jennings said he didn't see what happened because he quickly ran out of the church after several members of the congregation came after him.

Authorities said Jennings wouldn't tell them where he got the gun.

Several days after the shooting, the Rev. Erik Richtsteig - who was leading the Father's Day Mass when the shooting occurred - led churchgoers in a special Catholic ceremony, called the Liturgy of Reparation, to cleanse the place of worship.

"The evil done in this church can stop today, if we can forgive," Richtsteig said that June evening.

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22 reported dead in central Chinese earthquake

China Daily via Reuters

A man gives water to an injured woman after an earthquake hit Minxian county in China's Gansu province on Monday.

By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck central China on Monday, reportedly killing at least 54 people and collapsing many homes.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit in Gansu province about 8 miles east of Chabu at 7:45 a.m. Beijing time (7:45 p.m. ET Sunday). The USGS recorded it at 6 miles deep and said it caused shaking in a rural region where the infrastructure isn't seismically resistant.

State news agency Xinhua said the death toll had risen to 54, citing municipal officials. It put the number of people seriously injured at 296. Earlier official statements put the death toll at 22.?

Photos posted on Chinese social media showed roads on the sides of riverbanks that had subsided and farmhouses reduced to piles of red bricks, Reuters reported.

The official China Meteorological Administration warned that heavy rain was possible in southeastern Gansu province Monday night and into Tuesday. It said the rain could hamper rescue efforts and urged residents to be alert to flash flooding in areas damaged by the earthquake.

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About 5,600 residential buildings were damaged, the Beijing-based China Daily newspaper reported Monday afternoon. Some train service was suspended, and hundreds of armed police were mobilized to repair a damaged part of the main highway linking Lanzhou, the provincial capital, to Minxian county, it reported.

Xinhua said the quake was felt in the neighboring cities of Dingxi, Longnan and Tianshui, as well as Lanzhou, more than 100 miles away. About 19,000 people live in the area that was subject to the strongest shaking, it said.

The quake was followed an hour and a half later by a 5.6-magnitude quake at about the same depth,?the USGS reported.

Based on the history of earthquakes of this size in rural China, there could be "significant casualties," the USGS said.

Gansu abuts Sichuan province, where a 6.6 quake in April killed 164 people and injured more than 6,700, China's worst quake in three years.

NBC News' Li Le, Sarah Burke and Alastair Jamieson contributed to this report.

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Superman is coming back and this time with Batman

This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Henry Cavill as Superman in "Man of Steel." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos, File)

This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Henry Cavill as Superman in "Man of Steel." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos, File)

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Superman is coming back and he'll have a caped co-star.

"Man of Steel" director Zack Snyder announced Saturday at San Diego's Comic-Con that he was making another Superman film and that it will include Batman ? the first time the two superheroes will be united on the big screen.

He declined to reveal many details, saying the script is just being written. He then invited an actor onstage to read a passage to hint at the story line.

"I am the man who beat you," read Harry Lennox, before an image of the Superman logo, backed by the Batman symbol, flashed on the screen.

Warner Bros. then confirmed the first-ever pairing in a statement.

Snyder reimagined Superman in his June blockbuster "Man of Steel," starring Henry Cavill and Amy Adams, which has grossed more than $630 million worldwide.

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2016 GOP presidential hopefuls already trading blows

Ask any potential 2016 candidate about their presidential aspirations, and you'll hear the usual non-answers: The next election is a long way off, I'm concentrating on my day job, and, by golly, presidential politics is the last thing on my mind.

The cagey answers are obligatory - anything more forthright would smack of unseemly ambition - but they're also usually rubbish.

Take Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, interviewed Sunday on ABC's "This Week." Cruz, who is believed to be eyeing a presidential run in 2016, was fundraising in Iowa this weekend - a conspicuous and necessary stop for any presidential hopeful. ABC's Jon Karl tried repeatedly to coax something resembling candor out of Cruz, but the freshman Republican declined to take the bait.

Asked if he's running in 2016, Cruz responded: "We are having a national debate about which direction the country should go...And what I am doing now is trying to participate in that national debate. "

"I understand that everyone likes to focus on the politics," he added, but "I'm not focused on the politics."

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Karl seemed to smell something funny. "Is it fair to say you're not?" he asked.

Cruz replied: "I've been in the Senate all of seven months. The last office I was elected to was student council. So this has been a bit of a whirlwind."

But despite his lack of expressed interest in the job, it's clear that Cruz would like to keep the door open. Some have raised questions about whether Cruz, born in Canada to a mother from Delaware, is even eligible to be president, given his foreign birth. In the interview with ABC, Cruz dismissed the doubters.

"My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware," he explained. "She is a U.S. citizen. So I am a U.S. citizen by birth."

And the case is closed, as far as Cruz is concerned. "I'm not going to engage in a legal debate. The facts are clear," he said. "I can tell you where I was born and who my parents were. And then as a legal matter, others can worry about that. I'm not going to engage."

Cruz even managed to sneak in an underhanded dig at another potential GOP hopeful, staking out a platform as an unapologetic conservative that could serve him well in a presidential primary fight come 2016.

He again voiced his opposition to the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform bill, and knocked one of its Republican co-authors, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is also believed to be eyeballing a presidential run in 2016.

"I think [Rubio] believes in the [Senate] bill," Cruz said. But he added, "If the [Senate] bill became law, in another 10, 20 years, we wouldn't have 11 million people here illegally, we'd have 20 or 30 million."

And as Republicans consider 2016, Cruz said, they should seek a candidate who prizes purity over accommodation.

"You know if you look at the last 40 years, a consistent pattern emerges," he explained. "Republicans nominate a candidate for president who runs as a strong conservative, we win. And we nominate a moderate who doesn't run as a conservative, we lose."

Another Republican 2016 hopeful, however, isn't buying Cruz's claim to be a steadfast conservative, and he believes someone like Cruz would lose if nominated.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told CBS News this week that he's "looking at" a run for president to counteract the influence of "isolationists" within the GOP like Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., whose policies he said would be "very damaging" to the Republican Party and to the country.

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On Saturday, King, who has been more frank than most about his presidential designs, again condemned the direction in which Cruz and Paul have steered the GOP's foreign policy conversation, telling ABC that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would eat them alive in the general election if she secures the Democratic nomination.

"I think she's very strong on foreign policy, and I think that if we nominate someone from our isolationist wing of the party, she'll destroy them," he said.

King reserved some sharp elbows for other Republican presidential hopefuls as well. He suggested Rubio demonstrated some "narrowness" in voting against aid for Hurricane Sandy relief, despite hailing from a state commonly ravaged by hurricanes.

"I have some hard feelings after what he did," King said.

And he said he likes Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., but, "as far as defense, Paul hasn't really spoken out on defense."

That's the state of play for 2016 politics within the GOP: Some potential candidates are already trading blows, but they're trying mightily to keep their next move concealed.

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