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Newsfeed NEW YORK Along-run- ning feud between two men ended in bloodshed when a gunfight broke out at a funeral in Brook- lyn, leaving one of them dead, police said Tuesday. The gunfire Monday night also killed another man and wounded four others — all apparently bystanders — and cre- ated a chaotic scene out- side Emmanuel Church of God in Brooklyn's East Flatbush neighborhood. Witnesses told inves- tigators that the violence erupted after Sharieff Clayton and another man encountered each other at the funeral and got into a dispute stemming from bad blood going back several years. The other man left the church and returned in a silver car with two other men before the shooting be- gan as Clayton and other mourners were leaving the church, police said. An unidentified man in the crowd pulled a gun and returned fire at the car in a shootout that killed Clayton, 40, of the Bronx, and Ronald Murphy. Murphy, 44, of Brooklyn, and the four other people wounded in the crossfire were be- lieved to be bystanders, said New York Police De- partment spokesman Steve Davis. NEW YORK Disputeoutside church leaves 2 dead, 4 injured CENTENNIAL, COLO. Ka- tie Medley, nine months pregnant and crouching between the seats of a movie theater filling with tear gas, gunfire and screams, looked at her husband Caleb's bloody face and told a friend, "He's dead, he's dead." Prodeo Et Patria was 14 that night, and sitting with his parents some- where in the middle of the 421 people watching a midnight Batman pre- miere. He thought the gunfire was a joke until his father ordered him to the floor, where some- one kicked off his glasses in the chaos. His father told him to run and refused to leave his mother, whose arm and foot were shattered by bullets. Hoisting his wife onto his back, they made for an exit to- gether. "That's when I first felt a gunshot hit me," Patria said. They were the among the first of many prose- cution witnesses in the death penalty trial of James Holmes, and their gripping testimony made clear the state's determi- nation to make sure ju- rors know the carnage Holmes caused inside the suburban Denver theater on July 20, 2012. COLORADO Survivors tell gruesome details of theater shooting HONOLULU For the sec- ond time in five months, the Coast Guard sus- pended a search for fish- erman Ron Ingraham. The first time came in December, but Ingraham turned up more than a week later — alive and uninjured, living to tell a tale of eating raw fish to stay alive on a battered boat for 12 days after get- ting caught in a storm. The Coast Guard staged another search for Ingraham after a boat he was aboard ran aground Friday about a mile west of Lanai. The agency had to suspend the search on Monday evening after covering more 4,500 square miles from the air and water. HAWAII Search suspended for man who had previous sea ordeal By Tom Foreman Jr. and Amanda Lee Myers The Associated Press BALTIMORE National Guardsmen took up po- sitions across the city and hundreds of volun- teers swept broken glass and other debris from the streets Tuesday, the morn- ing after riots erupted fol- lowing the funeral of a black man who died in po- lice custody. The streets were largely calm in the morning and into the afternoon, but au- thorities remained on edge against the possibility of an- other outbreak of looting, vandalism and arson. The city was under a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew, all public schools were closed, and the Baltimore Ori- oles canceled their Tues- day night game at Camden Yards. National Guards- men in helmets with face shields surrounded City Hall, standing behind bicy- cle-rack barriers. "We're not going to have another repeat of what hap- pened last night," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan vowed af- ter a visit to a West Balti- more neighborhood where cars were burned and win- dows smashed. "We're go- ing to make sure we get Bal- timore back on track." Hogan said there are "a couple of thousand" Na- tional Guardsmen and po- lice officers in Baltimore, with more on the way. The rioting was the worst such violence in the U.S. since the turbulent pro- tests that broke out over the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year- old who was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer. This is also the first time the National Guard has been called out to quell un- rest in Baltimore since 1968, when some of the same neighborhoods burned for days after the assassina- tion of the Rev. Martin Lu- ther King Jr. At the White House, President Barack Obama called the deaths of several black men around the coun- try at the hands of police "a slow rolling crisis." But he added that there was "no excuse" for the violence in Baltimore, and said the ri- oters should be treated as criminals. "They aren't protest- ing. They aren't making a statement. They're steal- ing," Obama said. As firefighters doused smoldering fires, political leaders and residents called the violence a tragedy for the city and lamented the damage done by the riot- ers to their own neighbor- hoods. The uprising started in West Baltimore on Mon- day afternoon, hours after the funeral for 25-year-old Freddie Gray, whose death has become the latest flash- point in the national de- bate over the police use of deadly force against black men. By midnight, the riot- ing had spread to East Bal- timore and neighborhoods close to downtown and near the baseball stadium. Rioters set police cars and buildings on fire, looted a mall and liquor stores and hurled rocks, bottles and cinderblocks at police in riot gear. Police responded occasionally with pepper spray or cleared the streets by moving in tight forma- tion, shoulder to shoulder. At least 20 officers were hurt, one person was criti- cally injured in a fire, more than 200 adults and 34 juveniles were arrested, and nearly 150 cars were burned, police said. "They just outnumbered us and outflanked us," Balti- more Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said. "We needed to have more re- sources out there." The governor had no im- mediate estimate of the damage. "I understand anger, but what we're seeing isn't anger," Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake lamented. "It's disruption of a community. The same community they say they care about, they're destroy- ing. You can't have it both ways." On Tuesday morning, hundreds of volunteers helped shopkeepers clean up as helmeted officers blocked a stretch of North Avenue in the neighborhood where Gray was arrested. Hardware stores donated trash bags and brooms. With schools closed, Blanca Tapahuasco brought her three sons, ages 2 to 8, from another part of the city to help sweep the brick- and-pavement courtyard outside a looted CVS phar- macy. "We're helping the neigh- borhood build back up," she said. "This is an encourage- ment to them to know the rest of the city is not just looking on and wondering what to do." CVS store manager Hay- wood McMorris said the de- struction didn't make sense: "We work here, man. This is where we stand, and this is where people actually make a living." The violence set off soul- searching among commu- nity leaders and others, with some suggesting the uprising was about more than race or the police de- partment — it was about high unemployment, high crime, poor housing, bro- ken-down schools, and lack of opportunity in Bal- timore's inner-city neigh- borhoods. The city of 622,000 is 63 percent black. The mayor, state's attorney, police chief and City Council president are black, as is 48 percent of the police force. MARYLAND NationalGuardsmentakeuppositions MATTROURKE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Jerrie Mckenny, center le , and her sister, Tia Sexton embrace as people sing the hymn "Amazing Grace" on Tuesday in Baltimore, in the a ermath of rioting following Monday's funeral for Freddie Gray, who died in police custody. Baltimore on edge a er rioting, looting By Mark Sherman The Associated Press WASHINGTON Pivotal Jus- tice Anthony Kennedy, whose vote could decide the same-sex marriage is- sue for the nation, did not tip his hand Tuesday in his- toric arguments at the Su- preme Court. But Kennedy's record on the issue could give encouragement to gay and lesbian couples. As advocates and protest- ers demonstrated outside, the author of the court's three prior gay rights rulings talked about the touchstones of dignity and concern for children in same-sex house- holdsthatdrovehisfavorable earlier opinions. But he also worried about changing the definition of marriage from the union of a man and a woman, a meaning that he said has existed for "millennia-plus time." "It's very difficult for the court to say 'We know bet- ter'" after barely a decade of experience with same- sex marriage in the United States, Kennedy told Mary Bonauto, a lawyer repre- senting same-sex couples. The 78-year-old justice's likely role as a key, perhaps decisive vote was reinforced during arguments that lasted 2½ hours in a rapt courtroom and appeared to divide the court's liberal and conservative justices over whether the Constitu- tion gives same-sex couples the right to marry. Those couples can do so now in 36 states and the District of Columbia, and the court is weighing whether gay and lesbian unions should be al- lowed in all 50 states. "Same-sex couples say, of course, 'We understand the nobility and the sacred- ness of marriage. We know we can't procreate, but we want the other attributes of it in order to show that we, too, have a dignity that can be fulfilled,'" Kennedy said in an exchange with lawyer John Bursch, who was de- fending the state marriage bans Later, Kennedy also seemed concerned about ad- opted children in same-sex households if only one part- ner is considered a parent. "Under your view, it would be very difficult for same-sex couples to adopt those chil- dren," Kennedy said. Tuesday's arguments of- fered the first public indi- cation of where the justices stand in the dispute over whether states can con- tinue defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, or whether the Constitution gives gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. In the court's last look at same-sex marriage in 2013, the justices struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law. Fed- eral courts with few excep- tions have relied on Ken- nedy's opinion in that case to invalidate gay marriage bans in state after state. SUPREME COURT A er historic arguments, court to rule on marriage CLIFF OWEN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Shelly Bailes, 74, le , and her wife Ellen Pontac, 73, both of Davis, kiss in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY Exactly one year after a botched lethal injection, attorneys for other Oklahoma death row inmates were set to ask the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to outlaw a sed- ative used in the procedure — a ruling that could force several states to either find new execution drugs or change the way they put prisoners to death. The lawyer for one of the inmates said midazolam has been a "spectacular failure" as the first of a three-drug combination for lethal injections, even be- yond the 43-minute execu- tion of Clayton Lockett that sparked the lawsuit. Lock- ett writhed on the gurney, moaned and clenched his teeth for several minutes April 29, 2014, before Okla- homa prison officials tried to halt the process. "There have been cases throughout the United States that have been re- ported in which mid- azolam has not sedated the condemned," said Mark Henricksen, who is repre- senting Richard Eugene Glossip in the case. Three months before Lockett's execution, Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire snorted and gasped as he was strapped to the gur- ney and didn't die until 26 minutes into the proce- dure. It was the only time Ohio had used a two-drug combination that included midazolam, and prison of- ficials have since aban- doned it. Officials in Ar- izona have said they are also abandoning the drug and will try to obtain oth- ers for executions. Assistant Federal Public Defender Dale Baich, who represents some death row inmates, said a ruling in favor of the inmates would apply to a handful of states that use midazolam as part of their lethal injec- tion protocol. "Lethal injection as a method of execution would not come to an end, but states would not be able to use midazolam," Baich said. SUPREME COURT Court to consider challenge to execution drug www.expresspros.com RespectingPeople. 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