The family of 14-year-old Zytina Mason-Brown, a Washington, D.C., girl whose death police first believed may have been caused by an accidental self-inflicted gunshot, says a recent arrest has brought some relief after months of pushing back on the idea that she shot herself.

A 17-year-old male suspect has been arrested in connection with Mason-Brown’s fatal shooting. Investigators say the teenager was inside the apartment at the time she was shot and killed.

“I’m feeling — I don’t want to say happy because it’s not a joyous occasion, I just wish we didn’t have to go through this — but I’m feeling satisfied that D.C. police did apprehend the suspect,” Mason-Brown’s grandmother, Michelle Brown, told FOX5 DC. “And they did their job on this one.”

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The arrest marks a major turn in a case that Mason-Brown’s family questioned from the beginning.

Mason-Brown, an eighth grader who dreamed of becoming a beautician and real estate agent, was killed May 21, 2025, inside an apartment at the Benning Courts Pentacle complex in the 1700 block of Benning Road Northeast, across from Hechinger Mall.

Police initially characterized the shooting as an accident, saying Mason-Brown had apparently shot herself while recording a video for social media.

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Her family did not believe that account.

Months after the shooting, the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner officially ruled Mason-Brown’s death a homicide in August 2025.

“We knew that Zytina did not kill herself,” her aunt Dawna Cooke told FOX5DC. “And I really want to thank the Metropolitan Police Department for fighting so hard to come to the conclusion and get the suspect in custody.”

Details about the 17-year-old suspect’s identity and upcoming court appearances have not been made public because of juvenile privacy laws.

In the crush of September’s publishing season, houses often do everything they can to make a major book stand out. But the writer behind one of the month’s most closely watched releases is taking an unusually ambitious route.

On Sept. 29, Knopf is set to publish “Man in the Mirror,” the new book from MS NOW political analyst Anand Giridharadas. The work examines the 2023 New York City subway chokehold case involving Jordan Neely and Daniel Penny, a fatal encounter that sparked fierce national debate.

Before the book arrives, however, Giridharadas will debut a YouTube investigative series on Sept. 8 that also explores Neely’s death and Penny’s 2024 manslaughter acquittal, this time through a visual storytelling lens. The project represents an uncommon crossover for a prestige publisher such as Knopf, which generally protects the book-release window rather than pairing it with a docuseries covering the same subject.

Still, the strategy reflects a shift in publishing, as more houses grow comfortable using companion YouTube projects and digital video to generate momentum for a book instead of viewing them as competition for readers.

What makes this rollout especially notable is the near-simultaneous release of a full docuseries. Page Six Hollywood has an exclusive first look at the trailer for the weekly series, hosted by best-selling author Giridharadas, known for “The Persuaders,” alongside The New York Times’ Emma Goldberg . Each episode will begin with a single piece of evidence — including items such as an interrogation tape, a death certificate or a Pinterest board — unfolding on camera.

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Giridharadas spent two and a half years on the case that riveted the social media sphere, melding his original reporting into a nuanced narrative about two people who became tragic symbols for the right and left in a polarized world ready to post without waiting for context. That phenomenon has only accelerated since Neely’s death and is on full display right now with the Lindsay Clancy trial.

The series was developed through Collective Media as part of its inaugural Next Gen News accelerator, a program designed to bring working journalists to YouTube. Collective Media offers reporters tools including production, distribution, audience growth, monetization, platform strategy and business support across YouTube, podcasts, newsletters, social, and live events.

Giridharadas, whose bestsellers include “Winners Take All,” “The True American” and “India Calling,” spent more than a decade as a foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times. His newsletter The.Ink is one of the most-read political Substacks in the U.S.

Knopf will release “Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City” a week after it drops Ari Emanuel’s memoir “Roll the Calls.”

Disturbing social media video captured the chaotic moments in New York City when a woman armed with two large knives rushed toward police officers after allegedly carrying out a random double stabbing in Times Square that left one person dead.

Authorities identified the woman as Pamela Cisneros Lopez, 49, of Queens, who was fatally shot by police on Monday afternoon after she charged at officers while holding the two kitchen knives.

In the footage, officers can be seen deploying a Taser as Lopez brandished the blades, but the stun device failed to stop her as she continued moving toward them.

Moments later, two gunshots were heard and Lopez collapsed to the pavement. Officers quickly moved in, placed her in handcuffs and began providing first aid at the scene.

Police said the violent encounter unfolded after Lopez pulled two knives from a shopping bag and stabbed a 68-year-old man who had been waiting with his wife to cross the street in Times Square.

The man was stabbed in the abdomen, officials said. Lopez is then said to have stabbed a 32-year-old woman in the abdomen who died from her injuries.

At a press conference alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed the death while saying the man was in a stable condition. 

Tisch said that Lopez had told officers during a brief standoff: ‘I’m not dropping anything, I would rather kill both of you.’

Tisch told reporters: ‘This was an extraordinarily dangerous situation unfolding in the heart of Times Square, the crossroads of the world.

‘At any given moment, there are 1000s of New Yorkers, commuters, tourists, families, workers moving through these streets.’ 

She added that Lopez has a ‘documented mental health history’ with the department which included two incidents in 2018 and 2019 but she was never arrested. 

Police have yet to confirm whether the victims were tourists visiting the city, or are residents. 

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Both Tisch and Mayor Mamdani praised the officers, saying more people could have been hurt or killed if not for their actions. 

The incident had initially been reported as a knifepoint robbery, but officers believe the emotionally-disturbed woman had no clear motive for the attack, ABC 7 reports.

A witness at the scene said he recorded the moment with his smart glasses and that Lopez was allegedly armed with two knives. 

They told PIX11: ‘She ran down, the cops went by, they surrounded her, talked to her for like five minutes.’ 

Witness Linda Ruiz also shared what she saw in the moments before police arrived on scene.

‘I saw a guy bleeding profusely from his right leg,’ she told the Daily News. ‘He was gushing blood, saying “I need help. Help me.”‘ 

‘I went to get a cop on the corner and there was another lady on the floor,’ Ruiz continued. ‘She was stabbed in the back or in the chest, I couldn’t tell.

‘There was a lot of blood,’ Ruiz noted. ‘She wasn’t conscious. The police were trying to resuscitate her, but she wasn’t moving. It was horrible.’ 

Nearby, Hassan Abdallah, who works at a fruit cart stand on 41st Street and Seventh Avenue, said he watched as a woman tended to the male stabbing victim, who appeared to be her husband. 

‘I heard a lady screaming and then people were running like crazy,’ he recounted. ‘I went outside [the cart]. I saw an old guy, like 60, Asian. He was standing, holding his back. He got stabbed.

‘His wife was trying to stop the bleeding. She was using a book or some paper, then someone gave her a scarf. I gave him a paper towel. His wife told him to lay on the floor.’

Police are investigating. Tisch said there was no evidence suggesting it was a terrorist attack.

Two men whose bodies were recovered after floodwaters tore through the Grand Canyon had been photographed together during the same outing before the tragedy, according to their families.

Texas chiropractor John Giusti, 46, and martial artist Brent Rosenkranz, 42, were identified by their relatives as the victims whose remains were found, family liaison Hannah Barricks told The Associated Press. Barricks said a third member of their group, 53-year-old Timothy Smith, also joined the trip and was still missing as of late Monday.

The three men were all connected to Granbury, Texas, and had set out for what their families described as “several days of hiking, camping, fishing and exploring together,” the AP reported. In a joint statement shared Monday through Barricks, the families said the men last spoke with loved ones on Thursday and reached their campsite Friday at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

The deadly flash flooding struck Saturday, Aug. 29, along Bright Angel Creek, a waterway that feeds into the Colorado River near Phantom Ranch. The remote area, known for its historic dormitories, canteen and campground, is a well-traveled resting point for river rafters and hikers making the demanding journey from one rim of the Grand Canyon to the other.

Incident Cmdr. Dave Black said searchers used night vision and other equipment to find people who needed rescuing during the deluge. By sunset Saturday, 45 people were rescued, and 37 more were evacuated Sunday.

Rangers referred to the park’s permit system and checked vehicle license plates to track the number of missing people.

“As of right now, they have no reason to believe, from the tips we’ve been through so far, that there’s anybody besides the one” missing person, Black said during a news conference Monday evening.

Hiker Daniel Evans told the AP that it rained several times before the worst 30-minute downpour Saturday afternoon. He had been planning to rest through the hot day and spend the night near the hard-hit Bright Angel Campground area.

Earlier, rangers told him it looked to be safe. Then, as the rain poured, they told him it was time to go. He said he thought of Nepal and the massive floods and landslides that poured down mountain valleys last week.

“The entire time it was raining — the entire time I’m going through all this and packing — I’m just keeping my eyes upstream, just praying that a wall of water isn’t coming toward us,” Evans said.

Janet Giusti, the wife of John Giusti, wrote on a fundraising page that “John was living out a lifetime dream exploring the majesty of the Grand Canyon when tragedy struck.”

“Beyond his practice, he was a man of electric energy and boundless passion — an avid runner, an enthusiast of fast cars, and a massive fan of comic books and legendary heroes,” she added. “Yet out of all the titles he carried, his absolute favorite was being a devoted father to his three beautiful girls.”

Rosenkranz had posted selfies from the Grand Canyon before the flooding, tagging Giusti and sharing his excitement about the grueling adventure ahead.

“Just arrived at the Grand Canyon. Will be hiking over 31 miles next four days with vertical change of over a mile,” Rosenkranz wrote. “Carrying a 40 lb backpack. This should be an adventure!”

Tina Newberry, whose daughter co-owns the ATA Glen Rose martial arts location, said Giusti had been exploring the canyon with fellow “ATA fathers” Rosenkranz and Smith when disaster struck.

The devastated daughter of New York grandmother Alisa Goods has described what surveillance footage revealed about her mother’s final moments before she was later discovered dead at the bottom of an embankment.

Goods, 63, fell down an embankment near Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Aug. 8. Her body was not found until 12 days later, when a homeless man spotted her remains.

Her daughter, Kristen Goods, has now shared details of what she saw after reviewing video recorded shortly before the mother of five went over the edge.

“She kind of looked like she had a heat exhaustion look to her and that she sat down and she then threw her bag that she was carrying over that embankment and proceeded to take herself over the embankment,” Kristen told NBC affiliate KSNV on Monday.

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“We were a little bit taken aback by that,” she added.

Video showed Goods “falling down an embankment, getting back up and then collapsing,” Las Vegas cops said, after she left a longtime pal’s apartment to run an errand.

But Kristen Goods said it was out of character for the mom to walk alone in the heat as she continues to demand answers about the circumstances that led up to her mom’s death.

Goods’ cause of death hasn’t been released, but her daughter said she was found with a fanny pack.

Former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta says two senior diplomats recently told him they see echoes of 1930s Germany in Donald Trump’s second administration.

Acosta, 55, made the claim during a Saturday livestream in which he and economist Justin Wolfers had been discussing the United States’ intensifying trade dispute with Canada.

After Wolfers left the broadcast, Acosta continued speaking on his own and shifted into a broader reflection on America’s relationships with its allies.

“Some of the loveliest people you could meet are outside of the borders of the United States, and are living in places, um, and in countries that we consider to be close friends of the United States, close friends of America,” he said.

Acosta then introduced the anecdote, saying the exchange took place at “a diplomatic function.”

‘I had an ambassador to one of our allies, in Europe, come up to me and say, “What’s happening right now, Jim, reminds me of Germany in the 1930s,”‘ he said.

An ambassador who represents ‘another US ally’ and was also present nodded in agreement, Acosta claimed.  

‘Yep. Yep,’ he credited that person as saying.  

‘They were both saying the same thing – and you know, it is funny to see the memes talking about getting made fun of. You know – [President Trump] stepping on a rake and acting like a fool on the world’s stage. 

‘But it is having real-world consequences.’

Acosta left CNN last year after a lineup shuffle that would have seen his morning show moved to midnight. He said he would refuse ‘to bow down to a tyrant’ on-air, at the time. Trump was sworn into office days earlier.    

‘It is having lasting consequences on our relationships with our friends around the world,’ he continued on Saturday, speaking on his web program, The Jim Acosta Show.

He brought up how Canada is one of the US’s closest allies, and how America’s neighbor to the north ‘were with us shoulder to shoulder after 9/11.’

‘They’ve been with us shoulder to shoulder on D-Day, on – in so many other cases, when America’s back was against the wall, when the fate of the world was on the line,’ the journalist-turned-political commentator continued.  

‘Canadians have been there for the United States, the Canadians have been there for humanity, for democracy. For freedom, around the world.’

Acosta went on to play a clip of Trump signing an executive order to change Lake Ontario’s name to ‘Lake America.’

‘Siri show me a sellout,’ Acosta wrote in a subsequent X post that noted how Google already recognized the name change. 

Trump told reporters while signing the executive order in the Oval Office: ‘Lake of America was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time.’

A map emblazoned with the tagline ‘Making the Great Lakes Even Greater’ was propped up behind him. 

The move came after trade talks between the two countries collapsed this week, and as Trump enacted 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods. Canada responded with similar tariffs on some US products.

 Trump already renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America last year.

‘Now all we need is an ocean,’ he joked Thursday.