BULLET HITS PHILADELPHIA SHOP WORKER'S BELT BUCKLE: PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A grocery store employee said Thursday that he is thanking God and his belt buckle for saving him from a stray bullet that smashed through the market's front door.
The bullet lodged in the metal buckle worn by Bienvenido Reynoso, who had only recently started his job at 8 Brothers Supermarket in Philadelphia.
"It saved my life," Reynoso said of the belt. "I keep it for (my) whole life now."
Reynoso, 38, said he was about to wheel a hand truck outside the market in the city's Grays Ferry section when he heard gunshots around 4 p.m. Wednesday. He hit the floor.
Surveillance footage shows a man on a bike firing a gun outside the market. One person outside the store was hit in the abdomen and was hospitalized in critical condition, police said.
At first, Reynoso didn't realize he could have been a second victim.
"When I check my body, I don't see nothing, no blood, nothing," he said in an interview at his home Thursday. "And I said I'm going to be OK."
Then someone noticed a hole at the bottom of Reynoso's shirt. That's when he found the bullet stuck to his belt buckle.
Christian Vinas, 21, was working behind the counter and also dived to the ground when the shooting began. Reynoso had perfect timing in dropping to the floor, he said.
"That has to be God," Vinas said. "Out of all the places you could get hit in the body, you get hit right there. It was truly amazing."
Police arrested a 24-year-old suspect and charged him with attempted murder and aggravated assault.
WARRANT: TEXAS SUSPECT INTERESTED IN CANNIBALISM: HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college told investigators that he had fantasized about cannibalism and necrophilia and about cutting off people's faces and wearing them as masks, according to a court document made public on Thursday.
Dylan Quick also told an investigator that he had researched mass stabbings on his home computer about a week before the attack at Lone Star College in Cypress, according to a search warrant affidavit.
"He stated that he had read numerous books about mass killings and serial killers which are also located at his residence," the affidavit said.
Quick is being held without bond on three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for Tuesday's attack that injured 14 people. Only one person remained hospitalized Thursday, and that person was listed in good condition.
PITT: NERVOUS GRAD TEACHER PHONED IN BOMB THREAT: PITTSBURGH (AP) — A University of Pittsburgh grad student who was nervous about her ability to teach a class instead made two bomb threats so it would be canceled, campus police said.
Online court records don't list an attorney for Nancy Bruni, 34, of New Kensington, who didn't immediately return a call seeking comment on charges of terroristic threats, and threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Pitt police charged the School of Arts & Science grad student earlier this week with phoning in a threat, and then leaving a note about a bomb in a campus restroom on March 20, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Thursday.
Police eventually traced the call to her phone and confronted Bruni last week, when she allegedly confessed to making both threats.
Bruni told police she suffers from anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder and had stopped taking her medications because her health insurance had recently ended. That anxiety led her to search for a way to cancel the class scheduled from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., police said in a criminal complaint.
FLA. GIRL, 2, RUN OVER BY LAWN MOWER: PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man accidentally ran over his 2-year-old daughter with a riding lawn mower in the Tampa Bay area.
Officials say 47-year-old Jeremiah Nugent was cutting grass Wednesday at his Palm Harbor home and about to park the mower in his garage when he thought his wife was alerting him that he was about to drive over something. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says the man responded by putting the mower in reverse, running over his daughter.
The man immediately turned off the mower, and the woman called 911.
Authorities say the child's feet were severed at the ankles. Her left hand was injured but intact. She was taken to Tampa General Hospital, and her condition was unavailable Thursday.
Firefighters say they treated both parents for hysteria.
POLICE ID WOMAN THEY SAY USED SAUCE TO ROB BANK : CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Police have identified a 430-pound woman they say pretended two cans of spaghetti sauce were a bomb when she robbed a southeast Michigan bank.
Police say 53-year-old Ophelia A. Neal faces bank robbery and explosives charges in Saturday's robbery at a Fifth Third Bank branch in Macomb County's Clinton Township. It's about 15 miles north-northeast of Detroit.
WDIV-TV says police are hunting for the parole absconder. The Michigan Department of Corrections say Neal is black, 5-foot-7 and has partially gray hair.
The state says she has fraud, assault and marijuana convictions.
Police say the robber told bank employees she had a bomb in her cloth bag and demanded money. They say she took an undisclosed amount of money and escaped in a car with a man at the wheel.
SCOOTER RIDER DIES AFTER CRASHING INTO JAGUAR: COSTA MESA (AP) — Costa Mesa police say a man has died after his scooter hit a Jaguar driven by a 98-year-old woman.
A police statement says the Jaguar turned in front of the scooter in an intersection Wednesday afternoon.
The vehicles collided and the scooter's rider, a 35-year-old Orange resident, died at a hospital.
The woman wasn't hurt.
Police say alcohol apparently wasn't involved in the accident.
The Jaguar's driver wasn't immediately held but the investigation continues.
