A prosecutor killed himself as police tried to serve him with an arrest warrant alleging he solicited sex with a minor, authorities said. Louis "Bill" Conradt Jr., 56, a chief felony assistant district attorney in Texas, died on Sunday. Police had moved to arrest Conradt following a sting operation aimed at exposing child sex predators set up by a TV news program. Police forced their way into Conradt's home in Terrell, Texas, after hearing a gunshot when he refused to answer the door, a police spokesman said. The officers found Conradt with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Marine pleads guilty
A US Marine admitted in a military court on Monday that his squad deliberately gunned down an Iraqi man in April and then agreed to lie that they had a legitimate reason to kill him. Lance Corporal Tyler Jackson, 23, of Tracy, California, said he agreed to go along with the plan to kill an Iraqi man they believed was a terrorist during a patrol near the village of Hamdania. "Everyone there verbally agreed. Not much more was said," Jackson told a court-martial at the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base north of San Diego. Jackson pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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