Authorities have identified a 22-year-old passenger who tragically passed away after experiencing a medical emergency during a Southwest Airlines flight destined for Los Angeles. Officials are actively investigating to determine the cause behind his untimely death.

Rain McMillan Walmsey lost his life on August 7 after he became unresponsive on Southwest Flight 958 from Dallas to Los Angeles. The incident led to frantic efforts to revive him before the aircraft arrived at Los Angeles International Airport.

According to newly released records from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, the probe into Walmsey’s death is still ongoing. The precise cause of the young man’s sudden demise has yet to be determined.

The medical examiner has confirmed the identity of Walmsey as a 22-year-old male and recorded his place of death as a “LAX Southwest plane.”

His cause of death was listed as “deferred,” which the medical examiner’s office says means the determination is pending additional investigation. No manner of death has been listed.

Walmsey became unresponsive after experiencing a medical emergency while Flight 958 was en route to Los Angeles, law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles. CPR was administered to Walmsey aboard the aircraft, and paramedics responded when the flight arrived at LAX, according to the outlet. He could not be revived and was pronounced dead at the scene.

It remains unclear what type of medical emergency Walmsey experienced.

Southwest Airlines confirmed to News Media that a “medical incident involving a customer” occurred aboard Flight 958 from Dallas to Los Angeles on Friday but did not provide additional details, instead referring further questions to local authorities.

The incident follows other recent cases involving passengers who suffered fatal medical emergencies aboard commercial flights.

In January 2025, 53-year-old Barbara Dipoli of Kansas died aboard an Air France flight from Paris to Boston, with authorities saying preliminary information pointed to a medical episode during the flight.

In June 2024, 8-year-old Sydney Weston became ill and unresponsive aboard a SkyWest flight before the plane diverted to Peoria, Illinois.

That same month, a 41-year-old American passenger died after suffering a severe medical emergency aboard a Fiji Airways flight bound for San Francisco.

Known for his astonishing plays and dominance in the NBA, Nikola Jokić, the three-time MVP, dreams of wrapping up his career with the Denver Nuggets. While this wish seems straightforward, complications arise as interest from overseas clubs could make his basketball journey more intriguing.

In a surprising turn, ESPN revealed on Monday that Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, the owner of Athens-based Panathinaikos Basketball Club, has thrown a curveball Jokić’s way. He pitched an offer to buy out the Serbian star’s last contract year, aiming to lure him to Europe.

Even though the Nuggets have already brushed off Giannakopoulos’ overture, the Greek tycoon hasn’t given up hope just yet. He remains optimistic about persuading Jokić to sign with Panathinaikos come next summer’s free agency. By attempting this early proposal, Giannakopoulos seeks to involve Denver in negotiations well before Jokić’s free agency status might take center stage.

The Serbian sensation, who impressed with an average triple-double last season—27.7 points, 12.9 rebounds, and 10.7 assists per game—is locked into his current Denver deal for two more seasons, worth $121.8 million. However, Jokić has a player option to opt out after 2027, which could make him an unrestricted free agent and open to future offers from Giannakopoulos without needing Denver’s nod.

As Jokić approaches 31, he stands eligible for a lucrative five-year, $359.5 million extension with Denver in July 2027. Any offer from Giannakopoulos would need to exceed this figure, turning heads and raising stakes if Jokić were to consider such a monumental transition in his basketball career.

Then again, Giannakopoulos has an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion, which suggests he has the funds to compete with what would be a record-breaking NBA contract.

Regardless of Giannakoloulos’ interest, Jokić still only seems interested in staying with the Nuggets, which also means staying in the NBA. But money talks — and Giannakoloulos has money in spades.

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Among the various side effects emerging from weight-loss injections, one stands out for its peculiarity—introducing what’s now being dubbed as ‘Mounjaro feet.’

For some individuals, shedding those unwanted pounds and dropping a dress size come with an unexpected price: the onset of painful foot issues.

Jatender Chaggar, a leading foot health practitioner at the Foot-Map clinic, reports a notable four percent uptick in cases. These patients are experiencing significant ‘foot fat’ depletion as a consequence of using GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

Imagine the cushion of fat on the sole of your foot deflating, akin to letting air out of a tire, which increases stress on the balls of the feet and toes.

While concrete evidence linking GLP-1 medications to direct foot ailments is lacking, the sweeping physical transformations that accompany major weight loss—such as diminished cushioning from fat pads, shifts in muscle tone, and altered pressure distribution—can indeed contribute to discomfort and increased stress on particular foot zones.

So if you’ve lost weight on the shots and are struggling in your mules this summer, that might be why.

This loss of padding can also be exacerbated by hormonal shifts in menopause and reduced collagen from aging. Leading podiatrist Margaret Dabbs warns: ‘As we age, the fat pads in our feet can migrate and become thinner and GLP-1s may potentially reduce soft tissue support further. This natural cushioning normally helps absorb impact when walking and supports the foot structure.’

Which is why many of us – particularly when wearing high heels – find it more tiring being on our feet as we get older.

So, what is the best way to ease Mounjaro or Meno Foot without resigning yourself to a life of slippers? Here’s what our experts advise…

1. Get support

Dabbs says, ‘There is not just one cause of heel or metatarsal pain [a burning or tingling sensation in the ball of the foot], and your first step should be to book an appointment with a podiatrist for a full diagnostic assessment.’ 

Custom orthotics – specially made shoe inserts designed to support the foot and provide shock absorption – are also worth investing in. 

2. Fill your feet

‘The plantar fat pads act as shock absorbers,’ says Dr Manav Bawa, medical director of Time Clinic. ‘So when that cushioning reduces, patients may experience increased pressure in the heel and forefoot, tenderness on hard surfaces, or a sensation that their feet tire more quickly.

‘In some cases, it can even unmask or worsen underlying issues such as metatarsalgia [pain in the ball of the foot] or plantar fasciitis [stabbing pain on the bottom of the heel linked to repetitive strain].’

Dermal filler, such as Juvéderm, can replace cushioning. Often known as a ‘Loub Job’ – a phrase inspired by Christian Louboutin heels – filler is injected into the heel and ball of the foot to improve shock absorption. The results can last six to 12 months, with maintenance treatments once or twice a year.

Filler in the feet must be administered conservatively by an injector with strong anatomical knowledge, says aesthetic doctor Dr Sophie Shotter, ‘because the tissues are thinner and there are important blood vessels and structures that can be at risk if product is placed incorrectly.’

She adds: ‘It’s also important to understand that addressing volume loss doesn’t change the underlying cause, so maintaining a stable weight and wearing supportive footwear is just as important.’

Chaggar recommends supportive running shoes such as the Asics Gel-Kayano 32 ($165) or Metaspeed Sky Tokyo ($270).

3. Keep fit

To ease ‘Mounjaro feet’, Dabbs recommends foot exercises twice a day. These reduce stiffness, improve circulation, maintain joint flexibility and strength. Try ten reps for each foot, which only takes three to five minutes.

• Toe raises/heel raises: Stand with feet hip-width apart. Slowly lift your heels off the ground, balancing on your toes for three seconds, then lower.
• Toe curls: Sit on a chair, place a towel on the floor, and try to scrunch it toward you with your toes. Hold the position for three seconds then relax.
• Ankle circles: Sit or lie down. Lift one foot and slowly rotate the ankle clockwise, then counterclockwise.
• Heel-to-toe walking: Walk in a straight line, placing your heel directly in front of the toes of the other foot each step.
• Resistance band exercises: Loop a resistance band around the ball of your foot. Push your foot away (plantarflexion) or pull it toward you (dorsiflexion).
• Calf stretch/Achilles stretch: Stand facing a wall, one foot behind the other, heel on the ground. Lean forward to stretch the back leg. Hold for five seconds and then alternate.

4. Cream matters

‘Skin on our feet is 15 times thicker than on other parts of the body, which is why foot cream is recommended,’ says Dabbs.

‘Applying it with a short massage helps circulation, bringing nutrients to the area and relieving muscle tension.’

Pedicurist Bastien Gonzalez says fat pads can be plumped with massage.

Try Margaret Dabbs London Miracle Foot Cream, The Body Shop Peppermint Invigorating Foot Cream and Révérence de Bastien Le Baume.

5. Audit your socks

‘When fat pads thin out, the nerves on top of the foot become hypersensitive,’ points out Chaggar.

‘Switch to seamless, moisture-wicking socks to reduce friction and prevent the burning sensations (paresthesia) often triggered by fabric rubbing against the skin.’

Try bamboo ankle socks to help minimize friction and irritation.

ICE has taken action by placing a detainer on an illegal immigrant linked to a shocking event in Nashville where a vehicle rammed into a group of people, leaving four injured.

According to the Nashville police, Felipe Alvarado Hernandez, age 47, was apprehended on June 13. He allegedly drove his pickup truck onto a Nashville sidewalk, striking four pedestrians while attempting to make a left turn. Two victims were left in need of wheelchairs.

Following the incident, Hernandez faced several charges, including leaving the scene of an accident and failing to provide necessary information or aid. Additionally, he was charged for not filing an accident report, violating financial responsibility with injury, and operating a vehicle with a revoked license. His arrest came on July 28, more than a month after the hit-and-run.

A Department of Homeland Security official told News Media that ICE New Orleans has lodged a detainer for Hernandez recently after he was charged.

The official said that one of the victims was still hospitalized at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Burn Unit as of July 29.

“When illegal aliens break our laws and endanger our communities, ICE will work with our law enforcement partners to ensure they face the consequences of their actions. Our officers remain committed to enforcing the law professionally, protecting the public, and upholding the trust placed in us by the American people,” said ERO New Orleans acting Field Office Director Scott Ladwig.

According to DHS, Hernandez entered the country at an unknown date and location. He agreed to leave the country on Jan. 5, 2004, after Michigan’s Roseville Police Department referred him to ICE following an arrest on a retail fraud charge that was later dropped.

License plate reader technology was used on the pickup truck Hernandez was driving in order to get his information.

In a tense courtroom exchange Monday, the defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy interrogated her psychiatrist, challenging the adequacy and precision of the mental health care she received. The investigation aimed to cast doubt on the mental health system’s handling of the Massachusetts mother’s condition in the critical months prior to the tragic deaths of her three young children.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington honed in on Dr. Jennifer Tufts’ reliance on brief, 25-minute virtual consultations, which left little time for substantial talk therapy. Furthermore, Reddington scrutinized the efficiency of her form-filling practices and the assortment of medications she prescribed, despite Clancy expressing side effects and apprehension regarding pharmaceutical treatments.

Reddington painted a picture of Clancy’s mental healthcare as insufficient and mechanized, diverging from what is typically expected within U.S. mental health services. At one juncture, Reddington insinuated that Tufts operated like a checklist-driven “robot,” lacking genuine concern for her patient’s worsening state.

He directly questioned the psychiatrist’s actions, asking, “What did you do? You had a woman who was telling you she felt hopeless,” referring to an appointment approximately two months before the fatal incident.

In response, Dr. Tufts maintained, “I told her that this was something we could address, that there was hope, that there are treatments, that there are different types of programs,” assuring that Clancy knew there were still paths forward and reasons to remain hopeful.

“Did you ever suggest to her that ‘maybe you should come in and see me, rather than on the computer?’” Reddington asked.

“Talking to her over the video didn’t seem like an issue. It didn’t seem like there was something I was missing,” Tufts replied.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.

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Clancy’s camp says she tried everything to get help

Clancy, 35, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. They were found in the basement of the family’s home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts, where their mother was lying in the yard. She had jumped out a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down.

Prosecutors argue that the former labor and delivery nurse was an intentional killer who connived to get her husband out of the house, then strangled the children with exercise bands on Jan. 24, 2023. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham has urged jurors not to view the trial as “a public debate about women’s mental health and how the medical system treats women.”

Clancy’s attorneys don’t dispute that she killed the children. But they say she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill, believing that she heard voices ordering her to take the children’s lives and her own.

The defense contends that she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis, a rare postpregnancy condition that can alter women’s sense of reality. A forensic psychiatrist diagnosed her with those conditions after the killings.

Her attorneys say Clancy did everything she could to seek help: She turned to multiple outpatient providers, tried various drugs they prescribed, called a suicide hotline, went to an emergency room, and approached but wasn’t accepted into a hospital-based, full-day treatment program for women with postpregnancy mental health problems. Clancy then even checked herself into a psychiatric hospital for several days.

Rather than improving, her condition worsened on the ever-remixed cocktail of psychiatric medications, some of them problematic for bipolar patients, her attorneys and family say. Tufts noted that it can be difficult to tell whether such conditions as depression are continuing because of a medicine or despite it.

Psychiatrist says Clancy never indicated she’d harm her kids

Tufts saw Clancy, via video, from September 2022 until the day before the killings. Her diagnosis: generalized anxiety disorder and an adjustment disorder with depressed mood.

The psychiatrist testified that Clancy never told her about manic episodes, a criterion for bipolar diagnoses, nor about hearing voices or having other signs of psychosis.

Clancy at times said she was “close” to feeling suicidal, hopeless or like she was going to die, Tufts recalled. But she said Clancy denied having a plan to take her own life or harm anyone else and never revealed — as the defense says she did to her husband — that she had thoughts about harming the children.

“I would have been very concerned if I had heard that,” Tufts said.

Clancy is suing Tufts and other practitioners in civil court.

“I do not believe that I’ve been negligent,” Tufts testified in the criminal trial Monday as Reddington questioned how much experience she had treating postpregnancy conditions before Clancy came to her. Tufts finished her psychiatric residency training in July 2022 and joined a private practice the month before Clancy’s first appointment.

Nurse-practitioner testifies about treating Clancy

As Tufts left court after two days of testimony, Clancy sat still in her wheelchair with her knitted hands to her face, looking downward at the defense table.

Prosecutors went on to question psychiatric nurse-practitioner and nurse midwife Julie Paul, a pregnancy and postpregnancy specialist whom Clancy consulted briefly in November 2022. Their interactions spanned about 10 days, as Paul was leaving for another job.

Paul testified that Clancy came to her with concerns about medications she’d been using for sleep, and that led to a few reshufflings as Clancy continued reporting various symptoms and seeking new solutions by the day. Trial-and-error switching isn’t unusual in psychiatry, said Paul, who also said Clancy never told her of any thoughts of harming herself or her children or having any hallucinations.

Reddington will have his chance to question Paul on Tuesday.

If convicted of murder, Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

Amid growing concerns over inclusivity and fairness, New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has chosen a former judge, currently embroiled in controversy, to join his Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. Accusations now swirl around this appointment, hinting at a broader issue lurking within an established non-profit organization.

Last month, Milton Tingling was welcomed onto the committee with high hopes, a move underscored by his simultaneous role as the board chair for the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC). However, WHDC finds itself under scrutiny following allegations against its executive director, Zaed Ramadan, over discriminatory practices.

A lawsuit brought forward by Vince Morgan, a former board member, paints a troubling picture of Ramadan’s behavior. The legal complaint highlights alleged incidents of “racist, antisemitic, and otherwise ethnically offensive remarks,” which reportedly reflect a deeper pattern of misconduct within the organization.

The situation seemed to escalate following the tragic events of October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel. According to the lawsuit, days after the incident, Ramadan convened a strategic discussion in Morgan’s office. This meeting included significant figures such as New York State Assemblyman Charles Fall and a Brooklyn imam, as they deliberated on how WHDC could respond to the incident.

The gathering’s imam stirred controversy due to his questionable past. Identified as Siraj Wahhaj, he has previously drawn attention, once listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His earlier calls for “jihad” against New York City in the early 2000s further complicate the current scenario, raising eyebrows about the council’s future direction.

After the meeting about the Oct. 7 attacks, which left 1,200 people dead, “Ramadan informed plaintiff he had become very skilled at using language that would pass the Jewish community standards for rhetoric considered antisemitic, and he devised special code words to use so his anti-Israeli statements and statements about Jews could not be directly described as antisemitic, although the statements were made to highlight Jewish greed and attempt to control and manipulate New York politics,” the lawsuit states.

In another incident, Ramadan — also a board member of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in New York City — also allegedly “spent considerable time describing how [former] Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and his staff conspired against him in the past to prove why he believes the Jews unfairly control New York against the interest of other religion and ethnic groups,” the lawsuit says. Levine is now New York City Comptroller.

Morgan, ex-director of a WHDC housing program providing support to affordable housing co-ops in West Harlem is African American, and says he was uncomfortable with Ramadan’s alleged comments about Jews and other minorities, filing a whistleblower complaint against Ramadan to Tingling in February 2024. He also made recordings of his boss, which have also been supplied to The Post,  later telling the Columbia Spectator: “I started recording him, because I was like, I don’t think people would believe me if I said this, one. Two, all he has to do is deny it.”

Ramadan’s comments also allegedly included making statements about how “Jews stole Palestinian land” and allegedly used “graphic descriptions of rape and violence perpetrated…against Palestinian women and children, including cutting of body parts by Israeli soldiers whom he described as ruthless Jewish oppressors,” according to court papers.

But Tingling is accused of ignoring Morgan’s complaints, and he claims he even “retaliated against him by sending threatening correspondence and undermining his authority within the organization,” in the lawsuit.

Morgan also claims he was also prevented from doing his job advising Housing Development Finance Corporation owners.

“Tingling’s failure to address these antisemitic and racist rantings caused plaintiff untold hardship because he had to continue to listen to these tormenting racists’ language despite his protests,” the court papers state.

Neither Ramadan or Tingling returned The Post’s requests for comment. The West Harlem Development Corporation denied all the allegations brought forward by Morgan in their court filing.

In May 2024, Larry English, former chair of Community Board 9, was appointed to the board and suggested hiring outside counsel to probe Morgan’s complaints, but the motion was dismissed, court papers say.

In other recordings, Ramadan also allegedly called Ross Frommer, the vice president for government and community affairs for Columbia University, which provides tens of millions in funding for the WHDC to aid the local community, “a messy f—ing Zionist Jewish guy who has done nothing in two decades for Washington Heights,” according to court papers.

Tingling, who served on the New York County Supreme Court until he retired in 2014, is the Manhattan County Clerk.

In a statement announcing the18  members of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, including Tingling, Mamdani said: “The Committee will help ensure that our judicial system reflects the city it serves, applies the rule of law universally and does so without favor.”

The panel has already faced criticisms for not representing the Jewish community with any of its appointees.

Morgan was fired in January 2025. In court papers he claimed, “plaintiff’s termination was due in part to his questions regarding abuse of finances and procedures.”