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In this photo taken May 19, 2017, Brooke Covington, a member of the Word of Faith Fellowship church in Spindle, N.C., leaves a hearing at Rutherford County Courthouse accompanied by attorney, Joshua Valentine, in Rutherfordton, N.C. Covington and other church members are accused of kidnapping and assaulting Matthew Fenner, a former church member, because he is gay. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
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This May 28, 2017 photo provided by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office in Muncie, Ind., shows Nathaniel Jordan. Police say Jordan punched his girlfriend as she was driving a van carrying him and her four children along an Indiana highway Sunday, May 28, 2017, causing a single-car crash that killed her 6-year-old daughter. Jordan faces preliminary neglect, criminal recklessness and other charges. (Delaware County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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FILE - In a Monday, May 22, 2017 file photo, Michael McCarthy watches as jury selection begins for Commonwealth vs. Michael McCarthy, in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Opening statements in the trial of Michael McCarthy are scheduled Tuesday, May 30, 2017, followed by testimony from the first witnesses. McCarthy is charged with the murder of 2-year-old Bella Bond, whose body washed up on a Boston Harbor island. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool, File)
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FILE – In this Sept. 18, 2013, file photo, U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach, right, and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, front left, examine photographs of suspects indicted as part of a heroin bust, during a news conference in Cleveland. Dettelbach, who served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio from 2009 to 2016, formally announced his Democratic bid for state attorney general Tuesday, May 30, 2017, facing Republican Ohio Auditor of State Dave Yost in the Nov. 7 general election. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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The judges sit in the courtroom during the trial of South Sudanese soldiers accused of an attack during the country's civil war, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Tuesday May 30, 2017. South Sudanese soldiers accused of a horrific attack on foreign aid workers during the country's civil war are facing trial almost a year later. Twelve of the 20 soldiers accused of rape, torture, killing and looting during the attack on the Terrain hotel compound were in court Tuesday. The trial is a test of South Sudan's ability to hold its soldiers accountable. (AP Photo/Bullen Chol).
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FILE – In this May 26, 2015, file photo, U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach, front left, discusses a settlement agreement with the city of Cleveland to overhaul the city's police department under supervision of a federal monitor, during a news conference in Cleveland. Dettelbach, who served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio from 2009 to 2016, formally announced his Democratic bid for state attorney general Tuesday, May 30, 2017, facing Republican Ohio Auditor of State Dave Yost in the Nov. 7 general election. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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FILE – In this Oct. 8, 2015, file photo, U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach speaks at a news conference in Cleveland. Dettelbach, who served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio from 2009 to 2016, formally announced his Democratic bid for state attorney general Tuesday, May 30, 2017, facing Republican Ohio Auditor of State Dave Yost in the Nov. 7 general election. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Lake County, California, Sheriff's Office shows Anthony Hammond at the Lake County Jail in Lakeport, California. Hammond was charged with hate crime and other counts after police in Clearlake, California, say he stabbed a black man with a machete after yelling racial slurs on May 27, 2017. (Lake County, California, Sheriff's Office via AP)
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An investigator removes suitcases Sunday, May 28, 2017, for family members out of a Bogue Chitto, Miss., house where several women and a Lincoln County Sheriff's Deputy were gunned down Saturday. A man who got into an argument with his estranged wife over their children was arrested Sunday in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left several people dead, including his mother-in-law and a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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A vehicle is parked outside a home in Brookhaven, Miss., Sunday, May 28, 2017, where two people were killed on Saturday. A man who got into an argument with his estranged wife and her family over his children was arrested Sunday in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left several people dead, including his mother-in-law and a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Officials remove a body from this Brookhaven, Miss., residence, Sunday, May 28, 2017. A man who got into an argument with his estranged wife over their children was arrested Sunday in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left several people dead, including his mother-in-law and a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Investigators work outside a Bogue Chitto, Miss., house Sunday, May 28, 2017, where several people were fatally killed during a house-to-house shooting rampage Saturday in Lincoln County, Miss. A man was arrested Sunday in the shooting rampage that left several people dead, including a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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An investigator enters a Bogue Chitto, Miss., house Sunday, May 28, 2017, where several people were fatally killed during a house-to-house shooting rampage Saturday in Lincoln County, Miss. A man was arrested Sunday in the shooting rampage that left several people dead at multiple locations, including a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Vehicles are parked outside a Bogue Chitto, Miss., house Sunday, May 28, 2017, where several people were fatally killed during a house-to-house shooting rampage Saturday in Lincoln County, Miss. A man was arrested Sunday in the shooting rampage that left several people dead, including a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Investigators stand outside a Bogue Chitto, Miss., house Sunday, May 28, 2017, where several people were fatally shot during a house-to-house shooting rampage Saturday in Lincoln County, Miss. A man was arrested Sunday in the shooting rampage that left several people dead, including a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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In this image made from a video, crime scene tape lies in front of a home on Monday, May 29, 2017, in Brookhaven, Miss., where a man allegedly shot and killed a teen and an 11-year-old, part of a house-to-house shooting rampage late Saturday night. (AP Photo/Joshua Replogle)
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In this May 12, 2017, photo, a student walks through the front lobby of Woodburn High School in Woodburn, Ore. Teresa Alonso Leon, one of the first people brought to the U.S. illegally to become a lawmaker in America, has been making an impact as the first Latina immigrant member of the Oregon Legislature. “Our Latino students see her as inspirational,” said Victor Vergara, principal of the high school’s Academy of International Studies. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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In this May 18, 2017, photo, Oregon Rep. Teresa Alonso Leon poses for a photo in front of her office in the state Capitol in Salem, Ore. Alonso, one of the first people brought to the U.S. illegally to become a lawmaker in America, has been making an impact as the first Latina immigrant member of the Oregon Legislature. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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In this Aug. 31, 1989, file photo, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega waves to newsmen after a state council meeting, at the presidential palace in Panama City, where they announced the new president of the republic. Panama's ex-dictator Noriega died Monday, May 29, 2017, in a hospital in Panama City. He was 83. (AP Photo/Matias Recart, File)
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FILE – In this Nov. 11, 2016, file photo, former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, center, leaves court during jury deliberations in his murder trial in Cincinnati. Attorneys are expected to start questioning prospective jurors Tuesday, May 30, 2017, for the murder retrial of Tensing, a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)