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Clarence Darriel Coe, is accused of abducting Shaniya Davis.

Gabriel Falcon
AC360° Writer

A man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl in Fayetteville, North Carolina, authorities said today. The suspect, Clarence Darriel Coe, is accused of abducting Shaniya Davis, who was last seen inside her family’s mobile home on Tuesday.

Coe, 30, who was arrested early this morning, has a criminal record, said Lt. David Sportsman of the Fayetteville Police Department. He will be arraigned on one count of kidnapping this afternoon at the Cumberland County Detention Center.

Shaniya Davis, 5, was last seen by her mother on Tuesday morning.

“During the course of the investigation, detectives were able to link Coe with taking her,” Sportsman told CNN. “Whether others were involved in it is possible. We are looking at everything and following up on multiple leads.” Sportsman added that the Amber Alert remains in effect and that authorities remain hopeful that Shaniya is alive.

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Members of the Charles Manson's murderous family have been described as model prisoners who accept responsibility for their crimes. Yet many of their parole bids continue to be rejected. See "Then and Now" photos of key figures in the Manson 'family'.

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Shaniya Davis, 5, was last seen by her mother at approximately 5:30 a.m. this morning.

Gabriel Falcon
AC360° Writer

An Amber Alert has been issued for a 5-year-old girl who vanished from her mother’s home early this morning, authorities in Fayetteville, N.C. announced today.

Shaniya Davis was last seen by her mother at approximately 5:30am, said Lt. David Sportsman of the Fayetteville Police Department. “I don’t have any information at this point that would indicate any foul play,” Sportsman told CNN. “But we’re not ruling that out and the investigation continues.”

Shaniya lives with her mother in a trailer park that is adjacent to a wooded area and off a main road.

An extensive grid search was conducted throughout the day. “Right now we’re in the process of replacing some of our staffing so we are putting fresh eyes, fresh people out there to go over and make sure we covered every possible area,” Sportsman said.

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Mishan Afsari
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“What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!”
-Victor Hugo, author of 'Les Miserables'

It seems so complicated – killing by lethal injection. Strapping an inmate to a gurney, sticking on heart monitors, inserting needles in veins, connecting intravenous drip tubes.

And then the wait: drip drip drip. First saline – harmless. Then sodium thiopental – puts one to sleep. Then a paralytic agent – stops the breath. And last, potassium chloride – stops the heart. Drip.

All this, versus one bullet.

It only took one bullet to kill each of the 10 victims when John Muhammad and his young accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the D.C. Beltway for three weeks in October 2002.

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Tammy Lewis Engel, the owner of the day care center.

Gabriel Falcon
AC360° Writer

The owner of an Indiana day care center has been arrested for allegedly using methamphetamine inside the facility, authorities in Evansville said Monday.

The owner, Tammy Lewis Engel, 43, was charged with methamphetamine possession, marijuana possession, and drug paraphernalia possession.

A second suspect, Gene Michael Hoover, 32, was charged with dealing methamphetamine out of the day care center. He was also accused of methamphetamine possession and child neglect.

Gene Michael Hoover was charged with dealing methamphetamine out of the day care center.

According to the Evansville Police Department, patrol officers responded Sunday evening to reports of drug use at Your Day Care, a licensed child care center operating within Engel's home.

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His shooting spree left at least 10 dead and millions terrified of bullets coming from an unseen sniper.

But Mildred Muhammad believes she was the ultimate target of her ex-husband, John Allan Muhammad, the man dubbed the "D.C. Sniper."

And for some time, Muhammad said she felt extreme guilt for the victims that were gunned down in grocery store parking lots and gas stations. The youngest was a 13-year-old boy who was shot while walking to his Maryland school.

Muhammad spoke about the guilt she felt after the killing spree on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Monday night, the day before her ex-husband was scheduled to be executed.

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Program Note: Tune in tonight for a special AC360° report on the DC sniper case. 10 p.m. ET

John Allen Muhammad was convicted in an October 2002 sniper-style shooting.

Jeanne Meserve
CNN Homeland Security Correspondent

The hour I spent with John Allen Muhammad was, without a doubt, bizarre.

I had written to Muhammad in prison after his conviction. To my surprise he agreed to a meeting – but without cameras.

His attorney, alerted to the situation by the jail, appeared and tried to stop Muhammad from talking to me. Muhammad not only wouldn't take his advice, he asked the guards to remove the attorney, leaving Muhammad and me alone to talk face-to-face.

Muhammad was in shackles and handcuffs. I was nervous at the outset of our session, but never scared – though perhaps I should have been. At one point Muhammad rose from his chair and started to circle around behind me. The guards outside the room immediately entered and barked at him to sit back down.

Muhammad told me he was not going to die for crimes he did not commit, but beyond that would say nothing about the beltway sniper spree or his relationship with his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo.

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David Tramell McFarland, 20, is charged with capital murder.

Gabriel Falcon
AC360° Writer

The Houston Police Department is searching for a man accused of killing three people. The suspect in the triple homicide, David Tramell McFarland, 20, is considered a fugitive, said Homicide Detective Sgt. Eli Sisneros. Authorities believe McFarland has not fled the city.

According to investigators, McFarland, and another suspect, identified as Jonathan Ross Nickerson, 18, shot the victims to death last month during the course of a robbery. Sisneros said the bodies of a 30-year-old man, 26-year-old man, and 16-year-old teenage boy, were discovered by patrol officers on October 24 after getting reports of a suspicious vehicle.

When the officers arrived to investigate, they found a white Dodge truck with its engine running. Sisneros said one victim was lying on the ground next to the truck. The other two victims were inside the vehicle.

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Editor's Note: We’ve spent some time recently exploring the problem of bystander apathy and the battle against the “stop snitching” culture. While we continue to hold community leaders accountable for keeping us safe, we took a moment to talk to two of our safety experts about some of the most basic ways individuals matter.

A 15-year-old girl was gang raped on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California.

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AC360°'s Alyssa Caplan asked Phil Messina, President of  Modern Warrior Inc., and Lou Palumbo, Retired Law Enforcement Agent & Director of Elite Intelligence and Protection Agency, for their thoughts on the topic.

We all saw the disturbing story play out this summer of two police officers following their intuition leading to the release of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard. We’ve also recently seen a catastrophic failure of human behavior in the sickening gang rape that took place a few weekends ago at Richmond High. Everyday, in every corner of the country, people’s worlds collide in big and small ways. What are some simple steps the average citizen can take to be a "Good Samaritan?"

LOU: Be vigilant; be aware or mindful of your environment and those in it. Be prepared with a plan to react to an incident, for example, understanding the need to call 911 immediately, employ the practice of yelling “FIRE”…..it always attracts attention. Remember to use your cell phone to help identify those involved in an incident.

PHIL: SPEAK UP! Be a great observer, notice details. If you’re on the fence about what to do, ask yourself, “If not me, then who; if not now, then when?” Learn how to protect yourself and in doing so, you learn how to protect others and from there on in, the choice is yours. We have a saying at Modern Warrior: “Your Survival Begins And Ends WithYou.” It’s the first thing we tell the students who come to our school. It comes down to making a choice – are you going to put your destiny in the hands of others or are you going to keep it in your own?

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A 15-year-old girl was gang raped on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California

Ron Avi Astor
Special to CNN

The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar questions: "Why are our kids so messed up?" "Why didn't these students try to stop the crime?" "What's happening in our schools?"

These are fair questions, and commentators in the media have provided familiar answers. The purported rape is another sad example of today's self-absorbed and uncaring youth. It was the media's glorification of violence that caused it. The horrific act shows how sociopathic brains develop. But it seems as if the majority of commentators have settled on the idea that the Richmond students did nothing because of the "bystander effect": The more people involved in a criminal incident, the less likely any one of them will intervene to do something about it.

Unfortunately, this "What's wrong with our children?" approach leads to a dead end, because it results in a sweeping moral condemnation of the schools, families and students in this community. These perpetrators committed a heinous act that should be widely condemned. But a discussion that focuses exclusively on the immorality of these deviant young men does not provide solutions that prevent gang rape from happening.

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