Lisbeth and Peter Gasser, the parents of the gold medal favorite Anna Gasser from Austria, take opposite approaches.
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Mr. Gasser followed the man to a service station, where Mr. Gasser "confronted him and began to strike him with a closed fist several times," the police said.
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The person who filed the report says Gasser was driving a red Isuzu in Jefferson Parish, LA -- the same area where McKnight was shot -- when Gasser cut him off.
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Gasser is currently in jail ... facing a manslaughter charge.
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Gasser fired three shots, striking and killing McKnight, he said.
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Normand said Gasser, 54, was released from custody Thursday night.
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There are also shortages of fuel and electricity, Gasser said.
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I think now the progression is magnified by Anna [Gasser].
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If convicted of 2nd degree murder, Gasser faces life in prison.
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But authorities didn't indict Gasser until some weeks after the shooting.
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If convicted on the murder charge, Gasser faces life in prison.
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Gasser converted a 24-yard field goal to open the second half.
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Charging Mr. Gasser Thursday would have compromised the ability to prosecute him.
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Mr. Gasser did not have a lawyer at the time, he said.
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Gasser was arrested Monday night and is being held on a $500,000 bond.
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Normand said Gasser stayed on the scene and surrendered his gun to authorities.
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Then Normand defended his decision to free Gasser the night of the shooting.
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"It is understandable that we have to do something about it," Gasser said.
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Austrian favourite Anna Gasser was among those who failed to complete either run.
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Gasser admitted to shooting McKnight 3 times during an altercation on Dec. 1st.
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But even if he wasn't, she added, Gasser was not justified in firing.
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Eventually, Mr. Gasser was indicted on a second-degree murder charge last week.
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If convicted, Mr. Gasser, 54, would face life in prison with no parole.
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Though the authorities said Mr. Gasser had admitted to the shooting on Dec.
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The man turned out to be Mr. Gasser, and a "verbal altercation" ensued.
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Cops say Gasser stayed at the scene of the shooting until cops arrived.
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Gasser claimed self-defense, saying McKnight had lunged at him, but investigators argued the lack of gunpowder residue on McKnight's body suggested the former NFL player had not been as close to Gasser as he had claimed to law enforcement.
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McKnight, driving his stepfather's Audi Q20143, cut off Gasser, who gave chase, Normand said.
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TMZ Sports broke the story -- Gasser was released early Friday morning without being charged.
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During the argument, Gasser grabbed his gun from the center console area, Normand said.
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Gasser, who never asked for a lawyer, gave more than 10 hours of interviews.
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McKnight, driving his stepfather's Audi Q7, cut off Gasser, who gave chase, Normand said.
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Mr. Gasser was charged after investigators conducted more than 160 interviews and spoke to Mr. Gasser for more than 12 hours, Sheriff Newell Normand of Jefferson Parish said on Tuesday in an expletive-laden news conference in which he defended the authorities' actions.
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Gasser was "hemmed in" by other cars and had no "avenue for retreat," Normand said.
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"Equivalence decisions are never only technical, they are most of all... political," Gasser told CityWeek.
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Five days after the shooting, authorities announced they had arrested and charged Gasser with manslaughter.
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Gasser said deciding to go with something different for her third run had been key.
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After cheering on Gasser, the cyclists will continue through South Korea before flying to Japan.
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Gasser has been locked up in jail ever since he was charged on Dec. 5.
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Gasser shot McKnight multiple times at a busy highway intersection in Terrytown around 3 p.m.
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Singapore and Switzerland have many similarities according to Gasser, which makes them ideal fintech hubs.
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McKnight was shot by 54-year-old Ronald Gasser, according to the local police sheriff.
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Ronald Gasser, 56, had been charged with second-degree murder, which carries a life sentence.
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Mr. Gasser told investigators he became irate and had a "verbal altercation" with Mr. McKnight.
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Supporters and Mr. McKnight's former teammates were outraged after the police initially freed Mr. Gasser.
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Ronald Gasser, 54, has been in police custody since four days after the December 1 shooting.
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His priority, says Mr Gasser, is to protect the integrity of Switzerland as a financial centre.
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Gasser waited for police to arrive, cooperated, and confessed to murdering the former local football star.
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A witness told the Times-Picayune that McKnight was trying to apologize when Gasser opened fire.
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Mr. Gasser became irate and engaged in a "verbal altercation" with Mr. McKnight, the sheriff said.
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Mr. Gasser said he became irate and engaged in a "verbal altercation" with the football player.
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After some arguing back and forth, Gasser pulled out a gun and shot and killed McKnight.
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Sheriff Normand disputed several rumors that had spread on social media, including that Mr. Gasser had stood over Mr. McKnight as he fired the gun, that a video has been recovered and that a witness had said Mr. McKnight apologized to Mr. Gasser before the shooting.
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Qualification for the big air final took place on Monday with Austrian Anna Gasser leading the standings.
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Northwestern seemed to set the tone early after an Akron long snap eluded senior punter Nick Gasser.
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In explaining why Gasser was allowed to leave, Normand said authorities need to talk to more witnesses.
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Normand also says they have no proof McKnight was trying to apologize to Gasser during the incident.
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Gasser has maintained he shot McKnight in self-defense in the middle of a road rage incident.
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Normand told reporters the suspect, Ronald Gasser, stayed on the scene and surrendered his weapon to authorities.
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Gasser has a history of road rage, according to a statement from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.
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A reader, Annelise Gasser of Quebec, asked how a tiny South American nation acquired such diplomatic significance.
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Gasser is facing up to 40 years in prison for shooting and killing McKnight in Dec. 2016.
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Gasser pursued McKnight and the men argued while driving until they reached an intersection in Terrytown, Normand said.
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Gasser remained at the scene, handed over his weapon to authorities and admitted to shooting McKnight, Normand said.
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Ronald Gasser appeared in a Louisiana courtroom -- along with his mother and sister -- where he entered the plea.
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"She's my girl, so of course I worry, but I never let her see it," Lisbeth Gasser said.
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The sheriff said at the news conference that Mr. Gasser had fired three rounds from inside his vehicle.
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At a news conference, local N.A.A.C.P. officials criticized the authorities for releasing Mr. Gasser, pledging to demonstrate peacefully.
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Switzerland's Dimitri Isler joined his compatriot Gasser, the man who edged out Kushnir, in qualifying for the final.
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A reader, Annelise Gasser of Quebec, asked how a small South American nation had acquired such diplomatic significance.
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It's not yet clear if McKnight ever reached into the car or physically threatened Gasser in any way.
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However, Gasser said there was little prospect in the foreseeable future for any concrete agreement between Britain and neutral Switzerland, which is not part of the 28-member EU. "The British say they are not doing anything before their relationship with the EU is clarified," Gasser was quoted as saying.
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Davison is simply more skilled offensively and+/- one standard deviation from Gasser defensively depending on how he pans out.
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In taxonomising the responses music elicits, Mr Gasser identifies the peak high as "frisson", characterised by "thrills and chills".
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Normand began his news conference by telling reporters that Gasser had been charged with manslaughter and was in jail.
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Cops detained Gasser and questioned him after the shooting but he was released without charges hours after the incident.
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Gasser remains in custody in Jefferson Parish on one count of manslaughter, on $500,000 bond, according to jail records.
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Gasser competed in slopestyle at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, four years ago, and fell twice, finishing 10th.
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McMorris and Gasser will be challenged by a strong American team, including Chris Corning, 18, and Ryan Stassel, 25.
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" When I asked Peter Gasser how he remained calm during big air competitions, a family friend blurted out, "Tranquilizers!
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And the sheriff said there was no indication McKnight tried to use the firearm during his encounter with Gasser.
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Another aspect to both the Zimmerman and Gasser cases is "stand your ground" laws in Florida and Louisiana, respectively.
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" It could maybe explain why Gasser was released despite admitting to shooting and killing another person in the middle of the street in broad daylight, but given the fact that Gasser is white and his victim is black, it was hard to accept Normand's claim that the whole thing wasn't "about race.
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Sheriff: Time led to arrest Normand said releasing Gasser last week helped investigators put together the case they have now.
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Court records show Gasser failed to show for his arraignment in September 2006 and later paid a fine for contempt.
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The bumper sticker was apparently a hoax, since the Sheriff says Gasser answered and started arguing with the other driver.
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Shute cited the lack of gun powder on McKnight's body as evidence that McKnight had not been close to Gasser.
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The man, Ronald Gasser, 9113, was released overnight, hours after Mr. McKnight was shot three times about 2:45 p.m.
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Mr. Gasser is the owner of a telecommunications firm and a real estate business, according to The New Orleans Advocate.
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On Friday some social media users and McKnight's former Jets teammates expressed bafflement and anger after Mr. Gasser was released.
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Mr. Gasser told the police he had feared Mr. McKnight, but witnesses disputed elements of his account, Sheriff Normand said.
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Authorities say Ronald Gasser, 20143, shot McKnight during a 2016 road-rage incident in the New Orleans suburb of Terrytown.
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Law enforcement says Gasser is currently detained and being questioned about why he shot the 28-year-old football star.
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As we previously reported, the shooter, Ronald Gasser, -- a 54-year-old white male -- was released from custody after questioning.
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At a Terrytown intersection, Gasser got in front of McKnight, who pulled along the passenger side of Gasser's Infiniti G37 sedan.
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The victim called 911, and according to the Sheriff ... Gasser was cited for simple battery, but the charge was eventually dismissed.
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"Gasser has been riding so good and she's really inspiring me with a lot of the stuff she's doing," said Anderson.
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Gasser said the slopestyle should have been postponed and that Anderson was the only one who wanted it to go ahead.
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In a fiery and combative news conference on Tuesday morning, Sheriff Normand told reporters why they had released Gasser last week.
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Gasser's release ignited protests, and the authorities were accused of letting Gasser go because he is white and McKnight was black.
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Gasser thought that Mr. McKnight had thrown the gauntlet down," Shute told jurors, later adding: "He followed him off the exit.
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But he said physical evidence had proved that Gasser lied when he told the police that McKnight had lunged at him.
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Mr. Gasser then pulled out a handgun from between his seat and the console and shot Mr. McKnight, Sheriff Normand said.
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" Moe Reed Jr., a lawyer, said of Mr. Gasser on Friday, "There is nothing that could've happened yesterday at 3 p.m.
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Gasser was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 30 years for shooting and killing McKnight during a 2016 road rage incident.
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The witness says Gasser then took the gun and put it inside of his car while waiting for police to arrive.
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He's asking the court for the earliest available hearing ... so he can show a judge why Gasser should get out of jail.
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Ronald Gasser was found guilty after a jury in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, deliberated for more than seven hours, the Times-Picayune reported.
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Switzerland is not manipulating its currency, Jorg Gasser, the country's state secretary for international financial matters, told CNBC's "Street Signs " on Tuesday.
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Assistant District Attorney Seth Shute told reporters Gasser faced a possible prison term of up to 40 years when he is sentenced.
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Gasser fired all 3 shots from the driver's seat of his car and struck McKnight -- who was standing at his passenger door.
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Gasser qualified in first place for the slopestyle final in Sochi only to fall during both runs and finish in tenth place.
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A suspect, Ronald Gasser, 20133, was taken into custody at the scene and was being questioned by detectives, the sheriff's office said.
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Sheriff Normand says Gasser has insisted he was fearing for his life -- and that's why he pulled his weapon during the altercation.
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Gasser pulled a gun from between his seat and console and fired three shots through his passenger window at McKnight, the sheriff said.
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The charge came after a man reported Gasser followed him into a gas station parking lot, got out and punched him several times.
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Ronald Gasser believes he's being held on a trumped-up charge -- the manslaughter of Joe McKnight -- and his attorney's demanding his release, ASAP.
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Human beings really can feel the groove, Mr Gasser writes; "individually and communally" they have a unique ability to lock into a beat.
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Alleged prior incident In 63, a misdemeanor charge stemming from an alleged road rage incident involving Gasser was dismissed, the sheriff's office said.
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Court records show Gasser failed to show for his arraignment in September 2006 and early in October he paid a fine for contempt.
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Gasser had been charged with second-degree murder, meaning that he acted with specific intent to kill but not with premeditation or planning.
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Ronald Gasser, the man suspected of killing former NFL and college football star Joe McKnight, was arrested on Monday and charged with manslaughter.
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"The fighting is putting enormous pressure on civilians," said Marianne Gasser, the head of the ICRC delegation to Syria, who is in Aleppo.
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McKnight -- who played for the Jets and Chiefs from 2010-2014 -- was gunned down by Gasser during a road-rage incident on Dec.
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" Yet Anna Gasser said that every time she called home at an unexpected moment, her mother was quick to say, "Are you O.K.?
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TMZ Sports broke the story ... Gasser was released from police custody in the middle of the night and not charged with a crime.
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"It is going to hurt everyone for the short term," said Ron Gasser, vice president at Mammoth Exploration, a west Texas shale producer.
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Sheriff Newell Normand says they interviewed Ronald Gasser for more than 10 hours and spoke with more than 160 witnesses in the case.
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The Naval officer told Gasser to put his gun away because it was not in his best interest to shoot a Naval officer.
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If convicted, Ronald Gasser, 55, will receive a mandatory life sentence, according to a news release from Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick Jr. Gasser allegedly admitted to fatally shooting McKnight — who played three seasons with the New York Jets and one with the Kansas City Chiefs — in what authorities describe as a road rage incident in New Orleans last Dec. 5.
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Since I'm socially required to compare a white basketball player to only other white basketball players, Davison is essentially a more talented Josh Gasser.
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Jörg Gasser, the state secretary for international finance, has little doubt that, if and when the bitcoin bubble bursts, investors will ask for regulation.
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The witness also said that Gasser then stood over McKnight, said "I told you don't you fuck with me," and then shot him again.
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I don't know how it can be legitimately argued that Gasser feared for his safety, let alone life, when he was in his car.
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Sometimes they'll get back on an actual basketball court just to embrace the delightful sensation that a gasser can have on the human body.
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The authorities had been deluged with criticism and insults for releasing Ronald Gasser, above, after what appeared to be an episode of road rage.
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"The fighting appears likely to cause much more suffering in the days and weeks ahead," said Marianne Gasser, ICRC's head of delegation in Syria.
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Investigators at a later date found Mr. Gasser and he was issued a misdemeanor summons for simple battery, which was dismissed, the office said.
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Mr. Gasser then pulled out a handgun from between his seat and the console and shot Mr. McKnight three times, according to the sheriff.
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Gasser will be looking to rebound from disappointment in Sochi four years ago when she fell twice in the slopestyle final, having qualified in first.
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Anderson and Gasser will first go head-to-head at the X Games, with the slopestyle on Friday and the big air competition on Saturday.
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Mr Gasser rose from playing the piano in American malls to featuring in Steve Miller's backing band; he has a PhD in musicology from Stanford.
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Mr Gasser extols the artistry of Taylor Swift beside that of Cheb Mami, an Algerian singer; he advises hip-hop fans to check out Haydn.
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McKnight was shot and killed on December 1 by 54-year-old Ronald Gasser ... but could not be buried sooner because of the coroner's investigation.
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The university released two emails Mr. Wadsworth had sent to Dr. Drake and Michael J. Gasser, the board chairman, about an hour after the Aug.
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Mr. Gasser, who had followed him, "confronted him and began to strike him with a closed fist several times," the office said in a statement.
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Investigators conducted more than 160 interviews and spoke to Mr. Gasser for more than 12 hours, Sheriff Normand said at a news conference in December.
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The case is "still maturing," the sheriff said, and it's possible evidence could surface that would prompt investigators to elevate or downgrade the charges against Gasser.
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McKnight cut off Michael Gasser on the Crescent City Connection that crosses the Mississippi River, between New Orleans and Terrytown, Jefferson County Sheriff Newell Normand said.
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Gasser says he did NOTHING that he would consider "aggressive" to provoke McKnight -- and says it was Joe who was screaming and yelling like a maniac.
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"The scenes we witnessed in Madaya were truly heartbreaking," said Marianne Gasser, the most senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria.
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According to Normand, a witness came forward immediately after the incident, claiming that Gasser had invoked the name of President-elect Donald Trump during the shooting.
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McKnight, who most recently played for the Canadian Football League's Saskatchewan Roughriders, was allegedly trying to apologize to Gasser when he was shot more than once.
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The article focuses on top Olympic athletes, including figure skater Nathan Chen, snowboarder Anna Gasser, short track speed skater J.R. Celski, and hockey goalie Alex Rigsby.
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Ronald Gasser, 56, was just sentenced to 83 years behind bars ... less than 2 months after he was found guilty of manslaughter in a Louisiana courtroom.
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Officials say the two were arguing and McKnight was shot while standing at the passenger window of Gasser's car while Gasser was in the driver's seat.
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Now WDSU, the local NBC affiliate, reports that Gasser was arrested and charged with manslaughter on Monday, according to court records,and is in police custody.
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The book is by Kirsten Guenther; music by Nolan Gasser; and lyrics by Mindi Dickstein; Jack Cummings III, artistic director of the Transport Group, is directing.
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In a statement released before the news conference, the sheriff's office said that Mr. Gasser had handed over a semiautomatic handgun to officers at the scene.
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Local N.A.A.C.P. leaders, former football teammates of Mr. McKnight and social media users expressed anger over officials' decision to free Mr. Gasser initially without charging him.
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Zimmerman, like Gasser, was also let go without a formal arrest at first, which is what drew national attention to the shooting in the first place.
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The man who shot and killed Joe McKnight is a 54-year-old white male named Ronald Gasser ... the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office tells TMZ Sports.
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Suspect, city history In 2006, Gasser was involved in a road rage incident and was charged with a misdemeanor, but it was dismissed, the sheriff's office said.
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It turns out that its late owner built high performance engines for drag and stock cars, and the 'gasser' style Corvette is a reflection of his trade.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Anna Gasser stood at the top of the big air ramp on Thursday, caught in two minds ahead of her crucial final run.
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Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said in a news conference Friday that Gasser was released due to state statutes allowing a suspect's release during an active investigation.
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Marianne Gasser, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria, said Wednesday that the situation is set to deteriorate unless a ceasefire is introduced.
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A grand jury indicted Ronald Gasser Jr. on Thursday in the fatal shooting of the former N.F.L. player Joe McKnight, handing down a second-degree murder charge.
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The charge is more severe than the one that Mr. Gasser had initially faced in December, when critics complained that racial bias may have affected the investigation.
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Mr. Gasser was initially charged with manslaughter over what the authorities described as a "road rage" confrontation in Terrytown, La., about five miles southeast of New Orleans.
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Ronald Gasser, 55, was arrested on December 5 and booked for manslaughter ... following a road rage incident that led to the death of the former USC star.
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And if Gasser didn't have the ability to retreat, he could argue a simple self-defense standard, not a "stand your ground" standard, to justify his actions.
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And if Gasser didn't have the ability to retreat, he can argue a simple self-defense standard, not a "stand your ground" standard, to justify his actions.
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They believe after Gasser shot McKnight following a verbal altercation -- he got out of the car to see McKnight's body ... and was approached by a military officer.
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Gasser agreed to be interviewed for 12 hours without an attorney and consented to a search of his home for which investigators never could have obtained probable cause.
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McKnight's stepfather's gun was in the Audi, Normand said Tuesday, but there is no evidence suggesting McKnight told Gasser he had a gun or threatened to retrieve it.
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McKnight exited his vehicle and Gasser pulled a gun from between his seat and console and fired three shots through his passenger window at McKnight, the sheriff said.
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Ronald Gasser, who admitted to shooting McKnight and was subsequently released from custody, was yelling at Joe Mcknight, who was apologizing, and then shot him more than once.
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In fact, Normand also said that the shell casings were all found inside Gasser's car—that Gasser shot McKnight from his car and McKnight was in the street.
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He also said that they have nearly 12 hours of interviews with Gasser — 10 hours when he was not under arrest and two additional hours of "custodial" interview.
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According to Gasser, he feared for his life when McKnight made an aggressive movement, or lunged in such a way as to attempt to get inside his vehicle.
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"We will try to introduce the regulatory system that enables the market to grow without being hindered," Jorg Gasser, Switzerland state secretary for international financial matters told CNBC.
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Prosecutors later recounted a painstaking effort to hold Gasser responsible, including an extensive search for witnesses and physical evidence that eventually led to the second-degree murder charge.
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Ronald Gasser, 56, learned his fate today in a Louisiana courtroom ... not far from where he gunned down McKnight during a road-rage incident on December 1, 2016.
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Gasser, who finished 15th in the slopestyle event last week, put down a 96.00 with the final run of the day to snatch gold away from American Jamie Anderson.
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The charge came after a man reported to police that Gasser followed him in his pickup, got out and punched him several times in a gas station parking lot.
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But prosecutors said physical evidence, including the lack of gunpowder residue on McKnight's body, disputed Gasser's account and showed the two men were farther apart than Gasser has asserted.
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Gasser was originally charged with 2nd-degree murder, but the jury elected for the lesser charge of manslaughter after more than 7 hours of deliberation back on Jan. 26.
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Then, Normand released Gasser later that evening with no charges pending, and did not really have any explanation why, despite a rambling 25-minute press conference the next day.
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"I think we're starting to see much more robustness for this concept," said Gasser Hanter, Shell's country chairman, in reference to the concept of Egypt as an emerging hub.
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Instead, it deals with the restrictions and limitations of physical bodies, grouping together the work of five artists: Mathis Gasser, Stuart Middleton, Ebecho Muslimova, Anna Uddenberg, and Issy Wood.
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Some folklorists align the current clown scare with other stories of "phantom attackers," like the Phantom Slasher of Taipei from the 1950s or the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Ill.
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Defense attorneys had claimed that Gasser feared for his life when he fired from his driver's seat at McKnight, 28, who was standing at his open passenger-side window.
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The decision to release Mr. Gasser, who is white, infuriated supporters and former teammates of Mr. McKnight, who was black, and they took to social media to express outrage.
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Sheriff Newell Normand of Jefferson Parish said the confrontation began after Mr. McKnight and another driver, Ronald Gasser, cut each other off and zipped in front of each other.
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Sheriff Normand said the confrontation began after both drivers were driving erratically, cutting each other off and zipping in front of each other, according to Mr. Gasser and witnesses.
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Gasser had been indicted on a second-degree murder charge but the jury returned a lesser verdict Friday night after roughly eight hours of deliberations, CNN affiliate WGNO reported.
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When Gasser was released just a day after the shooting, there was a swift outcry on social media — with many people drawing comparisons to Trayvon Martin's death in 2012.
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Last December Switzerland's stock exchange was only given temporary equivalence access, angering the Alpine state, whose minister for international finance, Joerg Gasser, cautioned Britain about going down the same road.
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The shooting sparked protests in Jefferson Parish after deputies decided to release and not immediately charge Gasser, who had admitted to shooting McKnight and turned his firearm over to authorities.
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Jefferson Parish then-sheriff Newell Norman said at the time that "relative statutes" and "forward-leaning laws" that favored people standing their ground allowed authorities to not immediately charge Gasser.
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Normand said that Gasser came to a stop and McKnight pulled up, and the two men sat in their respective vehicles and yelled at each other out of their windows.
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The father and step-mother of Swiss freestyle skier Mischa Gasser left their home in Olten, 70 kms west of Zurich, in February last year to cycle across the world.
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Ten years ago, Gasser was arrested for simple battery after he punched a man who accused him of driving recklessly, according to a statement from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.
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According to Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand, Ronald Gasser shot and killed former NFL running back Joe McKnight, firing three shots into McKnight's body from his car last Thursday afternoon.
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Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks: Former finance ministry official Joerg Gasser will become chief executive of the Swiss Bankers Association as of May.
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Now, after further investigation by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office in collaboration with the D.A., a grand jury has hit Gasser with the more serious charge of 2nd degree murder.
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Denial that case not about race Normand reiterated his assertion from last week that the case has nothing to do with race despite Gasser, 54, being white and McKnight, 28, black.
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The person says he saw a number on Gasser's car inviting people to call and report unsafe driving acts by the driver -- so he did -- but Gasser picked up the phone.
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Austrian Anna Gasser, who told reporters after the event that the wind conditions made the event "a lottery", was another favorite who struggled and failed to land either of her runs.
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In closing arguments, Seth Shute, an assistant district attorney, alluded to witness testimony that McKnight had wove in and out of traffic, cutting off Gasser and others off at high speed.
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The sheriff's office on Friday night released details of a previous assault charge against Mr. Gasser stemming from an episode that happened at the same intersection as the shooting on Thursday.
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The man saw a phone number on the truck to call if it was being operated unsafely and when he called the number, Mr. Gasser said he was the one driving.
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Gasser got into a 'verbal altercation' with another driver, then followed the driver into a service station and 'began to strike him with a closed fist,' according to the sheriff's office.
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In a meeting this month with representatives from U.S. regulators, the Federal Reserve and the banking sector, Joerg Gasser pointed out the significance of UBS and Credit Suisse to the banking system.
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World No. 1 Anna Gasser, 26, of Austria is the first woman to get a perfect score of 100, which she received last March at the world championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Anna Gasser of Austria won the first Olympic snowboarding big air gold medal on Thursday with a combined score of 185.00 from her two best runs.
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At last year's Final Four in Indianapolis, Josh Gasser and Coach Bo Ryan of Wisconsin and Kentucky Coach John Calipari suggested that the N.C.A.A. should provide family travel stipends for every round.
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We spoke with neighbors who live near Ronald Gasser in Gretna, Louisiana who tell us there is one car parked across the street from his home and another car patrolling the area.
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"For the past two weeks, we have seen an increasingly worrying spike in military operations that correlates with high levels of civilian casualties," said Marianne Gasser, head of the ICRC's delegation in Syria.
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Ronald Gasser, the man who shot and killed football star Joe McKnight, had an eerily similar road rage incident 10 years ago ... on the same street corner where he opened fire this week.
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However, in the docs Gasser paints a picture of a man in full steroid rage -- saying McKnight was "violent and erratic" following an intense chase through the streets of Louisiana on Dec. 1.
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Ronald Gasser did NOT stand over Joe McKnight's body and fire shots while screaming, "I told you not to f**k with me" ... so says Sheriff Normand of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Dept.
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" Head of Delegation in Syria for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Marianna Gasser, said in a statement on Wednesday: "Wounded victims are dying only because they cannot be treated in time.
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Gasser had won the first gold medal in Olympic big air competition, and more important, this entire field of athletes had finally been able to reveal the progress and depth of women's snowboarding.
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Urs Gasser is executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the principal investigator of the Center's Youth and Media project, and a professor at Harvard Law School.
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When they stopped next to each other at a red light, Mr. McKnight approached Mr. Gasser, who pulled a handgun from between his seat and the console and shot him, Sheriff Normand said.
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Police initially released the shooter, Ronald Gasser, from custody, sparking a massive uproar on social media that this was yet another case of a white man getting away with killing a black man.
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Undaunted, in "Why You Like It" Nolan Gasser attempts to explain the ineffable ways music produces sensations in listeners' brains: its power to move people to tears, evoke awe and induce involuntary toe-tapping.
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We spoke with a rep who tells us 54-year-old Ronald Gasser -- a white male -- was questioned and released "sometime overnight" after officials believed they had no reason to hold him any longer.
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Readers are able to meet world-class Olympic competitors — the figure skater Nathan Chen, the big-air snowboarder Anna Gasser, the short-track speed skater J.R. Celski and the hockey goalie Alex Rigsby — midperformance.
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Update, December 2 - 10:30 AM ET The Times-Picayune is reporting that Ronald Gasser, who police identified as the man who shot and killed McKnight, was released from custody overnight without being charged. [NOLA]
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Ronald Gasser, 54, was released overnight, public information officer Colonel John Fortunato said, adding that the investigation into the incident remains ongoing and that any witnesses or those with information should contact the sheriff's office.
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TMZ Sports has obtained a photo of Ronald Gasser moments after he shot Joe McKnight ... and the witness who took the photo says he WAS yelling at McKnight's body after the fatal shots were fired.
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Several athletes, including Austrian Anna Gasser and Norway's Silje Norendal, complained after the final that the extreme wind and hard snow made conditions too dangerous to compete and said they had requested the event be postponed.
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Platforms not only have strong incentives to spot bad actors, but good information to identify them and the means to sanction in response, notes Urs Gasser of the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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Gasser would have faced the possibility of a life sentence for a second-degree murder conviction, but instead he faces up to 40 years in prison because of the jury's decision to convict on the lesser offense.
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If you have a recent iPhone and the Times mobile app, you can see 3D models of figure skater Nathan Chen, speedskater J.R. Celski, ice hockey goalie Alex Rigsby, and snowboarder Anna Gasser overlaid on the real world.
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Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter Gasser was taken into custody following the shooting, which happened in broad daylight at a red light.
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Needing to beat the score of 121.72, set by Mischa Gasser of Switzerland, to qualify in the top six of the second round, the Sochi gold medalist fell just short, scoring 121.27 to miss out by 0.45 points.
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But Gasser, who appeared to legally own the gun he used, might have been unable to retreat even if he wanted to, because other cars may have been blocking his way on the road when he shot McKnight.
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Approximately 3,000 people and more than 40 wounded were brought out of eastern Aleppo during the first two evacuations on Thursday, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria, Marianne Gasser, said in a statement.
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ITG fired its previous CEO, Bob Gasser, in August after agreeing to pay $20.3 million to regulators to settle charges it ran a secret trading desk that profited off of confidential customer information within its "dark pool" in 2010.
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The Sheriff says when the motorist pulled off to fill up at a gas station in Terrytown -- at the same intersection where McKnight was shot -- Gasser pulled up, got out of his truck and punched the driver several times.
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Gasser, who did not take the witness stand in his own defense, told investigators that he shot McKnight from the driver's seat of his car as the former NFL player stood at Gasser's open passenger-side window on Dec.
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The stadium was so quiet for this last and deciding jump, I sensed everyone could hear the rapid fire of my camera as Gasser flew past me, flipping twice and spinning three times on her cab double cork 226.
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American Jamie Anderson laid down the best first run to retain the title she won in Sochi four years ago but pre-event favorite Anna Gasser, who failed to land either of her runs, said the final should have been postponed.
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"These patients and civilians had been trapped in the area for days because of heavy clashes nearby and as the front line kept drawing closer," said the head of the ICRC delegation in Syria, Marianne Gasser, who is in the city.
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According to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff says the incident went down February 20, 2006 -- when another driver thought Gasser was driving erratically in his red pick-up truck, and called a phone number on Gasser's bumper to report unsafe driving.
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These include Jeffrey Vallance's comedic chicken in a coffin, Blinky, Liz Craft's ornate and candy-colored deathbed sculpture, and Jim Shaw's ballet "The Whole," an expression of his pseudo-religion Oism, as well as works by Mathis Gasser and Fabian Marti.
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"We don't want to fall into the gap of not having our bilateral relationship cleared and clarified with the UK once it exits the European Union," Swiss State Secretary for International Finance, Joerg Gasser, said at the City Week banking conference.
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The deadly confrontation between Gasser and McKnight, 28, occurred at a traffic intersection in the New Orleans suburb of Terrytown, where the two men stopped their vehicles after shouting vulgarities at each other and driving erratically for about 5 miles.
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"The temperatures are extremely low and, without an adequate supply of food, water and shelter, displaced people are trying to survive in very precarious conditions," the head of the ICRC in Syria, Marianne Gasser, said in a statement from Aleppo.
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"There can be no justification for these appalling acts of violence deliberately targeting hospitals and clinics, which are prohibited under International Humanitarian Law," Marianne Gasser, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria, said in the statement.
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Ronald Gasser, who admitted to the police that he had shot and killed the former N.F.L. player Joe McKnight in Louisiana, was arrested on Monday and charged with manslaughter — four days after the authorities faced widespread criticism for initially freeing him.
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"The fighting appears likely to cause much more suffering in the days and weeks ahead, and our teams need to be allowed to enter Eastern Ghouta to aid the wounded," said Marianne Gasser, head of the ICRC delegation in Syria.
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It's installed between a drawing by the same artist of fleshy, red-tinged tourists squeezed behind a fence, and a painting by Mathis Gasser called Nobuo Takahashi, a depiction of a crazed character from a manga by Minetaro Mochizuki called Dragon Head.
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By the third and final round, I had a strong feeling that the Austrian Anna Gasser — the reigning world champion and favorite whom I'd followed for an entire year for one of our Olympic preview interactive graphics — would land somewhere on the podium.
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In Louisiana, the authorities invoked the state's own version of the laws to defend the pace of their investigation into the shooting death of the former N.F.L. player Joe McKnight and their treatment of the suspect, Ronald Gasser Jr., who was freed initially.
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And many people are worried that Louisiana's similar "stand your ground" law will let Ronald Gasser, who killed McKnight, go free as well, even though it's not yet clear if the law will play a role at all in Gasser's trial for manslaughter.
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Two snowboarders demonstrate uncommon feats on the page: Anna Gasser brings her backside double-cork 1080 to snowboarding big air, a new Olympic event; and Chloe Kim, just 17, is alone on the list of women who have landed consecutive 1080s in halfpipe competition.
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The extra time allowed investigators to dispel bogus witness statements, including accounts that Gasser shot through McKnight's windshield, pulled McKnight out of his Audi, shot McKnight while he was on the ground, used the N-word and boasted that he had voted for President-elect Donald Trump.
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McKnight, 28, who played for the New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, and Ronald Gasser apparently became involved in an Thursday afternoon incident on the Crescent City Connection, formerly known as the Greater New Orleans Bridge, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said at a news conference.
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"One advantage of (Britain's) withdrawal is that hopefully we will have a good partner outside of the EU with similar focus when it comes to open markets and regulation," Joerg Gasser, head of the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters, said in the NZZ interview published on Friday.
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"The crazy part about what I'm doing is I get injured so much and still — every time I'm laying down there, all I want is to get back on my feet, which I think a lot of people think is crazy," said the women's favorite Anna Gasser of Austria.
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"These assets will be declared and the person has the chance either to repatriate the assets to Switzerland, or he will be taxed and he keeps his money in Liechtenstein," said Joerg Gasser, head of the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters, a branch of the finance ministry.
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The verdict capped six days of testimony and 7-1/2 hours of deliberation by a Jefferson Parish jury in the trial of Ronald Gasser, 56, who admitted to shooting McKnight but said he acted in self-defense, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the news website NOLA.com.
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The delayed arrest and lesser initial charge had angered critics, who said that Mr. Gasser, the owner of a telecommunications firm and a real estate business, may have been afforded more leeway because he is white, or that the authorities were less invested in swift justice for a black man's death.
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"I emphasised to the officials the importance of the Swiss financial centre for the global financial architecture and the systemic relevance of both big Swiss banks and their international importance for financial stability," Gasser, head of the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters, a branch of the finance ministry, told Reuters on Thursday.
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Rev. Al Sharpton just UNLOADED on the Sheriff in the Joe McKnight shooting investigation -- saying the guy's I.Q. needs to be questioned after dropping the n-bomb on live TV. Sharpton ripped into Sheriff Newell Normand -- basically giving a "How dare you" admonishment for not arresting Ronald Gasser right away ... and then having the balls to say the n-word during Tuesday's news conference.
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His recent readings and exhibitions include MoMA PS1 Greater New York (2015), Dia Art Foundation (33), solo exhibition of works on paper at Picture Room, NYC (2015 & 2017), a solo exhibition of paintings at Bureau Gasser, NYC (2017), Maison de la Poesie, Paris (2014), Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles (2014); the Public Theater, Tenth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature (2014); Oxfam/IBID Gallery, London (2014); Performa Biennial 13, NYC (2014); and the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, NYC (2016).
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