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A makeshift memorial still stands Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in Phoenix, a year after the victim was killed in a shooting, in Phoenix. Aaron Saucedo, the former city bus driver arrested Monday and suspected in a string of nine deadly shootings that spread fear in Phoenix, declared "I'm innocent" in court Tuesday as residents of the terrorized neighborhoods Tuesday expressed both relief over the arrest and frustration that it took so long. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Aaron Saucedo, 23, was arrested Monday in a string of serial killings that terrorized Phoenix neighborhoods in 2016, including a victim shot at this intersection, in the Maryvale section of Phoenix, shown on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. The former city bus driver suspected in a string of nine deadly shootings that spread fear in Phoenix declared "I'm innocent" as residents of the terrorized neighborhoods Tuesday expressed both relief over the arrest and frustration that it took so long. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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This image provided by the U.S. Department of Energy shows a 20-foot by 20-foot hole in the roof of a storage tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash., Tuesday, May 9, 2017. An emergency was declared Tuesday after the partial collapse of the tunnel that contains rail cars full of radioactive waste. (U.S. Department of Energy via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2016 file photo, rescue workers recover a body from the wreckage site of LaMia airplane crash carrying 77 people that slammed into the Colombian mountainside, in La Union, a mountainous area near Medellin, Colombia. Chapecoense, the Brazilian soccer club that was devastated by the air tragedy in Colombia last year, made an emotional return to the scene of the crash on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
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FILE--In this July 9, 2014, file photo, a sign warns of radioactivity near a wind direction flag indicator at the "C" tank farm on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. An emergency has been declared Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation after a portion of a tunnel that contained rail cars full of nuclear waste collapsed. Randy Bradbury, a spokesman for the Washington state Department of Ecology, said officials detected no release of radiation and no workers were injured. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)
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FILE - In this July 9, 2014 file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. An emergency has been declared Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation after a portion of a tunnel that contained rail cars full of nuclear waste collapsed. Randy Bradbury, a spokesman for the Washington state Department of Ecology, said officials detected no release of radiation and no workers were injured. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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FILE – In this June 2, 2016, file photo, attorneys Thomas Kline, left, and Robert Mongeluzzi, right, take part in a news conference in Philadelphia. Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian won't be charged in the May 12, 2015, Amtrak passenger train derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people and injured about 200 others, according to Kline and Mongeluzzi, who represent victims of the crash. KYW-AM first reported Tuesday, May 9, 2017, that the lawyers say Bostian won't be charged. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE – In this May 12, 2015, file photo, emergency personnel work near the wreckage of a New York City-bound Amtrak passenger train following a derailment that killed eight people and injured about 200 others in Philadelphia. Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian won't be charged in the derailment, according to two lawyers for victims of the crash, Tom Kline and Robert Mongeluzzi. KYW-AM first reported Tuesday, May 9, 2017, that the lawyers say Bostian won't be charged. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek, File)
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FILE – In this May 13, 2015, file photo, emergency personnel work near the wreckage of a New York City-bound Amtrak passenger train following a derailment that killed eight people and injured about 200 others in Philadelphia. Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian won't be charged in the May 12, 2015, derailment, according to two lawyers for victims of the crash, Tom Kline and Robert Mongeluzzi. KYW-AM first reported Tuesday, May 9, 2017, that the lawyers say Bostian won't be charged. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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The former Penn State Beta Theta Pi currently sits empty on Burrowes Road after being shut down. A Penn State fraternity pledge died after stumbling and falling several times with toxic levels of alcohol in his body and suffered for hours with severe injuries while his friends failed to summon help, authorities said Friday, May 5, 2017, in announcing criminal charges against the fraternity and 18 of its members.(Abby Drey/Centre Daily Times via AP)
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FILE - In this June 12, 2010, file photo, stranded passengers stand at the Spirit Airlines ticket counter at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ABC News reported on May 9, 2017, that sheriff's deputies were brought in to calm angry passengers at the airport after nine Spirit flights were cancelled on May 8. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2010, file photo, people stand in the rubble of a collapsed building in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince. The Trump administration is hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as it decides whether to allow them to continue participating in a humanitarian program that has shielded tens of thousands from deportation since the 2010 earthquake. The Homeland Security Department has not made a final decision about Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and declined to comment on the pre-decisional process. The Obama administration included Haiti in the program shortly after the January 2010 earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people and devastated schools, hospitals, homes and even entire neighborhoods (AP Photo/Rodrigo And, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010, file photo, Haitian police use sticks to try and keep the crowd in order at a food distribution point in the Cite Soleil neighborhood in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. The Trump administration is hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as it decides whether to allow them to continue participating in a humanitarian program that has shielded tens of thousands from deportation since the 2010 earthquake. The Homeland Security Department has not made a final decision about Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and declined to comment on the pre-decisional process. The Obama administration included Haiti in the program shortly after the January 2010 earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people and devastated schools, hospitals, homes and even entire neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017 photo, a New York Police Emergency Services Unit officer hooks a carabiner onto a rail as he reaches the top of the Brooklyn Bridge during a training exercise, in New York. Training exercises such as the recent climb up a suspension cable to the top of the iconic bridge, protected only by a safety harnesses clipped to a wire, are designed to get team members thinking beyond the risk to their own lives so they can help save someone else’s. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017, photo, Emergency Services Unit officer Quinn secures his safety line as other members of the unit finish ascending the south support cable for the Brooklyn Bridge during a training exercise, in New York. Training exercises such as the recent climb up a suspension cable to the top of the iconic bridge, protected only by a safety harnesses clipped to a wire, are designed to get team members thinking beyond the risk to their own lives so they can help save someone else’s. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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FILE- In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, a small flow of water goes down Oroville Dam's crippled spillway in Oroville, Calif. California is asking the federal government to pay for 75 percent of the hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs to the badly damaged spillways at the nation's tallest dam, a state water agency spokeswoman said Monday, May 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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Alexander West and his defense lawyer Cheryl Coleman listen to the jury's verdict Monday, May 8, 2017, in a fatal boat crash case in Warren County Court in Queensbury, N.Y.. West, on trial for manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and 10 other charges stemming from the death last summer of 8-year-old Charlotte McCue, was found guilty of eight of 12 counts with the weightiest charge being second-degree manslaughter. (Shawn LaChapelle/The Post-Star via AP, Pool)
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Alexander West is handcuffed following the reading of the verdict Monday, May 8, 2017, in the fatal boat crash trial in Warren County Court in Queensbury, NY. West, on trial for manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and 10 other charges stemming from the death last summer of 8-year-old Charlotte McCue, was found guilty of eight of 12 counts with the weightiest charge being second-degree manslaughter. (Shawn LaChapelle/The Post-Star via AP, Pool)
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Firefighters take a break Monday, May 8, 2017, outside a church in St. George, Ga., where officials have issued a mandatory evacuation as a vast wildfire burns at the town's edge. The fire started April 6, 2017, in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near the Georgia-Florida state line and has since burned roughly 210 square miles. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
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A fire truck passes as a plume of smoke rising from a wildfire burning, Monday, May 8, 2017, just outside the town of St. George, Ga. Officials placed the town under a mandatory evacuation after winds pushed the fire out of the neighboring Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, where a lightning strike started the blaze a month earlier. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
