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Harrowing body camera video shows the terrifying moments a California police officer was allegedly kidnapped by an armed robbery suspect and forced to shoot him in the leg as the pair veered down a local roadway. 

The incident unfolded around 5:16 a.m. on Feb. 20, when officers with the Antioch Police Department (APD) were dispatched to the FoodMaxx grocery store on Lone Tree Way regarding reports of an armed robbery involving multiple suspects, authorities said in a statement posted to social media. 

As officers attempted to detain the individuals, one suspect allegedly attempted to flee the scene by ramming his car into an occupied police vehicle, leading to a physical struggle between the suspect and officer. 

“During the altercation, the officer was pulled into the vehicle as the suspect drove forward, striking both a police car and a nearby store,” the APD said.

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Surveillance video released by the department shows the moment a stolen Infiniti smashed through the front doors of the grocery store before two men climbed out of the vehicle and ran into the business. The suspects then allegedly threatened the store clerk with a handgun, police said. 

Within minutes, an Antioch police officer pulled into the parking lot and attempted to block the suspects’ vehicle as another officer approached the passenger side and opened the door. 

“Let me see your hands! Let me see your hands!” an officer is heard shouting.

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The suspect allegedly subsequently accelerated forward at a high rate of speed, trapping the officer inside the vehicle as he sped away. 

“Stop the car! Stop the car!” the trapped officer, identified as Travis Donaldson, can be heard yelling. 

“Get out of the car, bro,” the suspect, later identified as 23-year-old Dominick Desouza, replied.

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Desouza is heard threatening to crash the vehicle as the pair continue to argue. 

“Don’t do it,” Donaldson warns. “It’s not worth it.”

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“I got a family, bro” Desouza replied. 

Donaldson then begins pleading with Desouza to pull over while also giving him an ultimatum.

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“Stop the car, or I will shoot you in the leg,” Donaldson said. 

Body camera video shows Donaldson firing a single shot into Desouza’s leg.

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“Officer Donaldson intentionally shot Desouza in the leg to reduce the likelihood of a fatality to Desouza, himself, and members of the community,” the APD said. 

Despite his injury, Desouza crashed into a parked car inside a residential neighborhood and fled on foot, but was located just minutes later, according to police.

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Desouza was subsequently taken into custody and transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the APD added. Donaldson also only sustained minor injuries from the incident. 

Desouza is charged with kidnapping, robbery, burglary and assault on an officer, according to authorities.

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Fox News Digital’s Adriana James-Rodil contributed to this report. 

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A Chinese hacker accused of stealing COVID-19 research from U.S. institutions in a massive cyberattack has been extradited to American soil. 

FBI Director Kash Patel said the case involving Xu Zewei is a “historic win for our cybersecurity efforts under President Trump, bringing bad actors who target American infrastructure to justice no matter where they try to hide.” 

Patel said Xu, a Chinese national and accused state-sponsored hacker, is “allegedly responsible for a massive cyber intrusion campaign in 2020 and 2021 stealing COVID-19 research from American institutions.” 

“Xu has been extradited to the U.S. out of Italy as of this weekend, and he will now face federal charges,” Patel revealed Tuesday in a post on X.

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“During 2020 and 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Xu and his co-conspirators allegedly targeted and hacked U.S. based universities, immunologists, and virologists conducting COVID-19 research – including key treatment and vaccines – accessing email accounts and more,” Patel said. 

The Justice Department said Xu is facing nine charges, including two counts of wire fraud, two counts of obtaining information by unauthorized access to protected computers and aggravated identity theft. The wire fraud charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each count.

“According to court documents, officers of the PRC’s Ministry of State Security’s (MSS) Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB) directed Xu to conduct this hacking. The MSS and SSSB are PRC intelligence services responsible for PRC’s domestic counterintelligence, non-military foreign intelligence, and aspects of the PRC’s political and domestic security,” the Justice Department said.

“Xu and others reported their activities to officers in the SSSB who were supervising and directing the hacking activities,” the Justice Department added. “For example, on or about Feb. 19, 2020, Xu provided an SSSB officer with confirmation that he had compromised the network of a research university located in the Southern District of Texas. On or about Feb. 22, 2020, the SSSB officer directed Xu to target and access specific email accounts (mailboxes) belonging to virologists and immunologists engaged in COVID-19 research for the university. Xu later confirmed for the SSSB officer that he acquired the contents of the researchers’ mailboxes.”

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Patel said, “Xu was also allegedly a key contractor [in] part of what’s known as HAFNIUM, a group responsible for a massive cyber intrusion campaign (directed by PRC officials) that compromised nearly 13,000 U.S. organizations.”

Patel thanked the FBI’s partners in Italy, mentioning that Prefect Vittorio Pisani of the Italian National Police “worked with us nonstop” in the investigation to bring Xu into custody.

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Fox News Digital has reached out to attorneys representing Xu for comment. 

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An arrest affidavit for a Wellesley, Mass., mother accused of murdering her two children in their upscale suburban home reveals grisly details about the alleged killings.

Janette MacAusland, 49, is accused of killing her two children, Kai, 7, and Ella, 6, in their home last Friday before fleeing to Vermont.

The affidavit reveals MacAusland appeared at her aunt’s home distraught.

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“She was hysterical. I brought her into my house. She had knocked on a window to get my attention and I could see that she had a large cut on her throat,” her aunt said. “After getting her to calm down checked her neck and could see that the blood on her was dried, Janette stated that she tried to kill herself. I asked where her husband was and she said he was at the lake.”

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“I wanted the three of us to go to God together, but it didn’t work,” MacAusland told her aunt, according to the affidavit.

MacAusland’s aunt relayed to police that her niece said she killed Kai and Ella and then tried to kill herself. The affidavit mentions MacAusland told her aunt that she planned to jump off a bridge, but could not do it.

Later, police spoke with MacAusland and asked if her children were OK. In response, she shook her head, according to the affidavit. Then, she revealed a startling detail to police.

“I strangled them and then tried to kill myself,” she told them, adding that the children could be found in her bed in their Massachusetts family home.

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The affidavit says police in Wellesley were called, and confirmed what MacAusland told them.

MacAusland was jailed in Vermont on a fugitive from justice charge and appeared before a judge remotely on Monday afternoon. She was charged in Massachusetts over the weekend with two counts of murder.

In the Monday hearing, she waived her extradition rights, and will be transported back to her home state to face those charges.

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MacAusland’s husband, Samuel MacAusland, filed for divorce in October after nine years of marriage, citing an “irretrievable breakdown of the marriage,” court records show. He was seeking custody of the children, and the couple had

MacAusland’s attorney did not return a request for comment.

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Four men in Louisiana were charged with rape and murder four decades after 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp was found dead, thanks to a podcast and new DNA technology.

Sharp was found dead in a wooded area in Covington, Louisiana on Feb. 12, 1982. The Covington Police Department determined that Sharp was raped and murdered, but officials were unable to make arrests due to a lack of public cooperation and limited physical evidence, making the case go cold for decades until now.

Four Covington men face charges of aggravated rape and second-degree murder in connection with the 1982 killing of Sharp: Perry Wayne Taylor, 64, Darrell Dean Spell, 64, Carlos Cooper, 64, and Billy Williams Jr., 62. The men were arrested on April 21 and 22.

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The Louisiana State Police credited new DNA technology and a podcast for helping make arrests in the murder of Sharp. The podcast generated new leads and information, as well as new witness cooperation.

Police worked with local radio host Charles Dowdy with the Lake 94.7 from the Northshore Media Group in 2025 to produce a podcast called “Who Killed Roxanne,” which generated “new information, leads, and witness cooperation previously unknown to investigators.”

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“These arrests highlight the continued commitment of law enforcement to pursue justice, regardless of how much time has passed. Through advancements in investigative techniques and strong interagency cooperation, cases once thought unsolvable can still be brought to resolution,” the Louisiana State Police said in a statement.

Sharp’s niece, Michele Lappin, told the Associated Press she hopes the arrests will provide closure.

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“We appreciate the hard work and love that has been shown to Roxanne Sharp’s case,” Lappin said. “We hope that with justice will come healing and closure for our family, her loved ones and the community.”

Billy Williams Jr.’s son, Billy Williams III, meanwhile, is adamant that his father didn’t kill Sharp.

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“He thinks they’re putting him in for something he didn’t do,” Williams III said. “He says he would never in his life hurt anyone.”

Taylor and Cooper were already in prison on unrelated charges, according to police.

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Covington Police Department Chief Michael Ferrell said in a statement that his agency never gave up on Sharp’s case.

“The resolution of Roxanne Sharp’s case is a testament to what happens when dedicated law enforcement officers refuse to let a victim be forgotten. For over four decades, the Covington Police Department and Louisiana State Police kept Roxanne’s case alive revisiting evidence, following new leads, and carrying her name forward even when answers seemed out of reach. Cold cases don’t close themselves,” he said.

“They close because people show up, year after year, and refuse to quit. That is exactly what our agencies did, and today, Roxanne and her family finally have the justice they have waited so long for. We are proud of the work done by every investigator who touched this case and deeply grateful for the partnership that made this moment possible.”

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Luigi Mangione’s legal team is urging an end to political violence in the U.S. and distancing the accused assassin from the suspects in a series of similar but unrelated crimes.

“As we have stated before in multiple public court filings, Mr. Mangione does not support violent actions and does not condone past or future political violence,” his attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, told Fox News Digital. “These repeated attempts to connect him to unrelated acts or to insinuate that he condones or supports these acts are irresponsible, dangerous and prejudicial.”

Her comments came in response to a request for comment from Fox News Digital in the wake of the latest attack, over the weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C.

A 31-year-old California teacher named Cole Allen was arrested after allegedly shooting a U.S. Secret Service agent in the chest in a failed attempt to get into the event, attended by President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, the first lady, Cabinet members and prominent media figures.

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Federal prosecutors have accused Allen of attempting to assassinate the president and filed federal firearms charges, alleging he wrote a “manifesto” sent to relatives and his former employer.

“Cole Allen traveled across the country with deadly weapons and a plan to assassinate the President of the United States,” said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for the District of Columbia. “The swift and courageous response of the Secret Service officers prevented unimaginable tragedy. There is no room in this city for political violence.”

Earlier this month, a Texas man named Daniel Moreno-Gama was accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI founder Sam Altman’s California home. The 20-year-old suspect allegedly referenced “Luigi’ing some tech CEOs,” The Wall Street Journal reported previously.

The case prompted San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to warn that “incendiary rhetoric” could have motivated the crime.

Another arson attack suspect, Chamel Abdulkarim, allegedly invoked Mangione on video while prosecutors allege he set a warehouse on fire in Ontario, California.

“Luigi popped that motherf—er,” he said, according to a federal criminal complaint, adding “a lot of people are going to understand.”

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Prosecutors have alleged that the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, led to a broad social impact and may have inspired others to violence — by design.

In an Aug. 27, 2025, filing in federal court, they argued that “the context and execution of [Thompson’s] murder strongly suggest that the defendant intended to influence or provoke broader reactions beyond the immediate killing.”

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“Simply put, the defendant hoped to normalize the use of violence to achieve ideological or political objectives,” prosecutors wrote.

Mangione, who is accused of stalking Thompson from Minnesota to New York before shooting him in the back, allegedly wrote messages on shell casings used in Thompson’s shooting, a detail prosecutors alleged in the Aug. 27 filing was specifically intended to encourage media coverage. He also allegedly wrote journals describing the motivations behind the attack.

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In September 2025, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, 31, was assassinated during a speaking event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Authorities have charged a 22-year-old named Tyler Robinson, who allegedly engraved messages into shell casings.

That same month, a gunman opened fire on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Dallas, Texas. Joshua Jahn, 29, killed a detainee, injured two others and fatally shot himself. Pictures show authorities recovered rounds from the scene, at least one inscribed with the phrase, “ANTI-ICE.”

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Robin Westman, a 23-year-old accused of shooting children through the windows of a Minneapolis Catholic Church in August 2025, also posted videos online showing weapons and magazines covered in anti-Trump and anti-Christian messages.

Mangione’s lawyers have argued that Thompson’s death was not an act of “political violence” to begin with, writing that he was not a public servant, not a politician, and not engaged in politics.

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“The Government has indelibly prejudiced Mr. Mangione by baselessly linking him to unrelated violent events, and left-wing extremist groups, despite there being no connection or affiliation,” his lawyers wrote in a Sept. 23 letter to the judge overseeing his federal case, Margaret Garnett.

They were responding to comments from top White House officials describing Mangione as “left wing” as part of a bid to have the potential death penalty taken off the table before trial.

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“A recent, tragic, high-profile murder has only increased this prejudicial rhetoric. The attempts to connect Mr. Mangione with these incidents and paint him as a ‘left-wing’ violent extremist are false, prejudicial, and part of a greater political narrative that has no place in any criminal case, especially one where the death penalty is at stake.”

His lawyers subsequently won a ruling that removed the chance of capital punishment.

Fox News’ Stepheny Price and Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.