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The lengthy investigation from last year’s shooting in Lake Geneva has concluded with five being charged with attempted homicide.
The story started back on January 6, 2024, when the house on the 1000 block of Bonnie Brae was the target of a home invasion. This home was once again targeted on February 12, 2024, and a victim was shot. The victim did make a full recovery. Here we are almost a year later, and the investigation has made the arrest of five with many different charges including attempted homicide charges, use of a dangerous weapon, harboring and aiding a felon, obstructing an officer, use of a stolen vehicle, and bail jumping.
The alleged shooter is Steven P. Kalous 17 years old from Genoa City was aided by his girlfriend Stephany Y. Marquez Rocha. 19 years old from Burlington, his cousin Nallely R. Gonzalez Luna 17 years old from Genoa City, and two of his aunts from Genoa City Amanda J. Pleshek 32 years old, and Stacy G. Gomez 37 years old.
The Bonnie Brae Lane shooting occurred on February 12, 2024. A stolen vehicle was used in the crime and was recovered. The victim sustained gunshot wounds, was transported and treated, and thankfully made a full recovery. The police department’s assessment indicates that this was a targeted attack, and the investigation includes the home invasion incident on January 6, 2024, which occurred at the same residence as the shooting on February 12th. This was not a random attack. Since the shooting, the police have conducted numerous interviews, served multiple warrants, and worked with other departments which has been instrumental in the progress of this case. The investigation is still ongoing, but the Lake Geneva Police Department is pleased with the progress and is very grateful for all the support and help provided throughout the process.
On Sunday President Trump imposed a tariff of 25% to increase to 50 % in a week, as Colombia refused to allow two U.S. military planes to land on its soil loaded with immigrants.
The U.S. is also withdrawing its personnel from the country and threatening to punish Colombian officials and their supporters. The following letter is transcribed from the original sent by the President of Colombia and is published in the GSR as if there’s to be a war then all wars become rapidly felt and take a heavy toll on locals everywhere in the country.
Trump,
I don’t really like traveling to the US. It’s a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.
I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my own country.
I don’t like your oil, you’re going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I’m not nor is any Colombian.
So, I you know someone who is stubborn, that’s me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law. I resisted torture and I will resist you. I don’t want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can’t accompany me, I’ll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world, and you didn’t understand that this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendia, of which I am one, perhaps the last.
You will kill me, but I will survive my people, which is before yours in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.
You don’t like our freedom, okay. I don’t shake hands with white slavers. I shale with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.
They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.
Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.
Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country fof beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give your sweetness.
FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.
I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feeds the world.
Gustavo Petro. President of Colombia
