5 dead, 5 injured after Amazon cargo plane overruns runway at Miami International Airport
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Miami — Five people are dead and five people are injured after an Amazon Air cargo plane from Puerto Rico overran a runway at Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a news conference Sunday evening.
The names of the deceased and the injured have not been released.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday it is sending a team, led by NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, to investigate the incident, which took place Sunday afternoon.
Both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Amazon confirmed the incident in separate statements.
“21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico,” the FAA statement said.
“We can confirm that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport today,” Kelly Nantel, a spokesperson for Amazon, said in a statement, adding that it was a “fast-moving situation” and that Amazon was “working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened.”
“Right now, our absolute priority is the safety, well-being, and care of everyone involved. We’re doing everything we can to support those affected,” the statement added.
Preliminary data from Flightradar24 shows the plane was going approximately 128 mph as it went off the runway.
A ground stop at Miami International Airport was lifted around three hours after the incident, with two of the four runways now reopened, according to officials.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Police tape blocks off an area as investigators collect evidence after a man crashed his vehicle after being fatally shot during a confrontation with ICE officers on September 12, 2025, in Franklin Park, Illinois. The Chicago area has seen a surge in ICE activity recently, part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants in the area dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz”. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
(MECHANICVILLE, N.Y.) — Police in an upstate New York town said Thursday that a grandmother is suspected in the deaths of four of her grandchildren, her daughter and herself inside their apartment building.
Officers in Mechanicville, New York, said they discovered the victims’ bodies inside an apartment on Tuesday after neighbors reported not seeing them for days.
The grandmother was identified as Amy Steadman, 64. Police identified the victims as her daughter Sarah Myers, 44, and Myers’ four children: Harper Harmon, 13, Hudson Harmon, 11, Gavin Harmon, 10, and Gracelynn Harmon, 10, according to police.
While the investigation into the deaths and motive is ongoing, Mechanicville Police Department Chief William Rabbitt told reporters Thursday that the evidence so far indicates that Steadman may have been involved.
Rabbitt said that investigators recovered evidence inside the apartment “to indicate intentional poisoning,” including “numerous prescription and over-the-counter medications.”
“Evidence recovered during the investigation, including a handwritten note and other circumstantial evidence, strongly suggests that Amy Steadman was involved in the deaths,” he added.
The chief said there was no evidence that an outside individual was involved.
Toxicology tests are still ongoing, according to Rabbitt.
While the chief declined to provide more details into the ongoing investigation, he noted that one of the children “suffered fatal sharp force injuries.”
Rabbitt said Steadman and Myers and her family all lived in the same apartment complex in Mechanicville, which is roughly 18 miles north of Albany.
The children’s father lives in Utah, the chief said.
A memorial for political activist Charlie Kirk stands on the grounds of Utah Valley University on Sept. 13, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — The family of Charlie Kirk alleges in a newly obtained notice of claim that a “series of stunning failures and reckless decisions” by Utah Valley University led to the conservative activist’s on-campus assassination last year.
Kirk, the co-founder of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, was fatally shot while speaking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025. The gunman fired from the rooftop of a campus building as Kirk was speaking before a crowd of approximately 3,000 people, authorities said.
Utah Valley University was the first stop on Turning Point USA’s nationwide tour of college campuses, dubbed The American Comeback Tour. The event “came against a well-known backdrop of risk,” stated an emailed notice of wrongful death and survivor claims from the Kirk family’s counsel dated Sept. 9 and addressed to the Utah Office of the Attorney General.
The notice, which preserves the family’s statute of limitations so that they can bring a lawsuit over Kirk’s death, cited high-profile incidents as recent examples of political violence — including the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump by a rooftop sniper at a 2024 campaign rally, the 2025 murder of a Minnesota state legislator and her husband at their home and the 2022 hammer attack against Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband.
“Through a series of stunning failures and reckless decisions, the UVU Parties created a foreseeable danger to Charlie,” the notice, which ABC News obtained through the Kirk family’s counsel, alleged. “Those decisions ultimately rendered Mr. Kirk helpless to the rooftop shooter in an assassination that could have been avoided had the UVU Parties only taken reasonable steps to plan and oversee a safe event, steps outlined below that have been standard practice for other universities hosting controversial speakers.”
The notice alleges that the university failed to conduct a “meaningful risk assessment” before approving the outdoor location and did not dedicate enough security resources. Six campus police officers were assigned to the event, university police have said.
The notice further alleges that the university did not take steps that could have prevented Kirk’s death, such as monitoring the event in real time. The notice cited surveillance footage shown during a preliminary hearing in the criminal prosecution of the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, that showed an individual running across the roof of the Losee Center for Student Success to what one police officer called a “sniper’s pad.”
“If such footage had been monitored in real-time, Kirk’s tragic death could have been avoided,” the notice alleged.
The notice alleged that the university ignored a tip it said Turning Point USA passed along regarding the risk of rooftop access on the campus ahead of the event. The student group allegedly texted the Utah Valley University campus police department chief, Jeffrey Long, that “there is student roof access pretty close to where [Charlie Kirk] will be set up at Utah Valley,” according to the notice, which cited the campus’ Sorensen Student Center.
“When a TPUSA official informed Chief Long of the concern and asked ‘if this is true, it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well. If Possible.’ Chief Long responded by saying, ‘I got you covered,'” the notice alleged. “This led TPUSA to reasonably conclude that UVU had a plan to address the identified risk and other similar risks (most obviously the risk from other rooftops) without TPUSA involvement.”
The shooter fired from the roof of the Losee Center, approximately 415 feet from where Kirk was speaking, according to prosecutors in the criminal case.
“The risk of a rooftop shooter should have been especially top-of-mind given the attempted assassination of President Trump, Charlie Kirk’s close friend and political ally, by a rooftop shooter the previous year,” the notice stated.
The notice stated that the prospective defendants in the claim are expected to be the Utah Valley University; the State of Utah; the Utah Valley University Police Department; Chief Long; Astrid Tuminez, who was UVU’s president at the time of the assassination; and possibly others.
ABC News will be reaching out to the parties for comment.
The prospective plaintiffs in the claims include the Kirk estate, his wife, Erika Kirk, and their two young children, according to the notice.
“Charlie Kirk was violently and publicly assassinated while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University (UVU). His murder was entirely preventable and, in fact, would not have happened had the State of Utah and UVU followed through on their stated security promises, which included protecting the rooftops surrounding the quad where Charlie was speaking,” Brett Parkinson, counsel for the Kirk family, said in a statement to ABC News. “Those failures not only robbed Charlie Kirk of his life, but also robbed his family of their husband, father, son, and brother, with impacts that will compound for the rest of their lives. Justice and accountability under the law are key tenets of the American judicial system. This claim preserves the right of Charlie Kirk’s family to pursue accountability for Charlie’s death.”
In the wake of the shooting, Chief Long said he worked with Kirk’s private security team to establish security protocols for the event.
“We worked together. He has his team and they do this all over the country. We all know that. It’s not uncommon for them. They’re very comfortable on campuses. And I was coordinating with his lead security guy,” Long said during a press briefing on Sept. 10, 2025.
Long said six campus police officers were working the event, including some in plainclothes who were monitoring the crowd.
“We train for these things, and you think you have things covered, and these things, unfortunately, they happen,” Long said. “You try to get your bases covered and, unfortunately, today we didn’t. Because of that, we have this tragic incident.”
At the time, a university spokesperson told ABC News that they were unable to answer specific questions about the security plan for the event.
The university spokesperson directed ABC News to a page on the school’s website answering some frequently asked questions about the Charlie Kirk event. Under the question “What security measures were taken?” the website stated, “Kirk’s lead security staff coordinated with UVU Police Chief Jeff Long regarding the security measures.”
The website page also said that Kirk had previously visited the school with Turning Point USA in 2019.
Following the assassination, UVU announced it would initiate a comprehensive independent review of the shooting.
“We believe the findings of the comprehensive, third-party independent review of this targeted act of violence will offer valuable insights on how college campuses improve response and preparedness moving forward,” Tuminez said in a statement on Sept. 22, 2025. “We will integrate the findings into our efforts to strengthen and improve safety practices for UVU and all of Utah higher education.”
Former Olympian David Hearn outside DC Superior Court in Washington, DC, July 9, 2026. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Former U.S. Olympian David Hearn says he is “relieved” after a Washington, D.C. judge permanently dismissed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case against him, ending the possibility that prosecutors could recharge him.
Hearn was indicted this summer and prosecutors alleged that he ripped a piece of the lining from the pool while he was out on a bike ride.
The charges were rolled out in a press conference where U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Hearn “forcefully and violently” vandalized the pool and that they had proof “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
President Donald Trump had insisted the damage to the pool, a key renovation project of his, was the work of vandals, but Pirro later said that evidence surfaced that renovations to the pool had caused the damage. Hearn had faced up to 10 years in prison in connection with the case.
Speaking exclusively to “Good Morning America,” Hearn called Thursday’s ruling “a victory for democracy.”
“I’m relieved,” Hearn said. “If it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody. Anybody in this country.”
Asked what he meant, Hearn said people could be “targeted and unfairly accused of something they didn’t do.”
“Nobody should feel they’re immune from this kind of abuse of power,” he said.
Hearn said he believes Pirro and Trump owe him an apology.
“Do you think the president should apologize to you?” Hearn was asked.
“Yes,” Hearn said.
“Do you think he will?”
“You know, if pigs fly, maybe,” Hearn said.
Just six weeks after Hearn’s arrest, Pirro dropped the charges, President Trump subsequently criticized Pirro over the decision, saying she “choked.”
The Justice Department wanted to preserve the possibility of bringing the case again, but In his ruling Thursday, Judge Todd Edelman dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning Hearn cannot be charged again over the same allegations.
Edelman also addressed Trump’s public comments about the case, writing that despite there being no evidence of a crime, the president’s public pressure created “a risk that Mr. Hearn will be prosecuted nonetheless.”
Hearn said the experience has shaken him and that the past few months have been “difficult” while thanking those who rallied around him during the case.
He and his attorney, Norm Eisen, are also considering whether to pursue legal action against Trump or the administration.
Eisen told ABC News that they are “actively” considering their options and that “nothing is off the table.”
