Paparazzo killed by oncoming traffic while following Justin Bieber

A photographer was struck by oncoming traffic as he walked across a Los Angeles freeway to get back to his car after taking photos of Justin Bieber.

The photographer thought he took shots of Bieber sitting in his parked white Ferrari but the 18-year-old pop star was not in the car at the time of the incident. Bieber was pulled over by California Highway Patrol officers at an off-ramp of Interstate 405.
According to Los Angeles Police spokesman James Stoughton, the photographer spotted Bieber’s Ferrari, parked his car across the street, crossed to get closer to Bieber’s car and took photos of its occupants. Officers told the man twice to return to his car, KTLA reported. As he finally crossed back across the street to leave, the paparazzo was struck by a vehicle. Authorities have not released the man’s name.
“While I was not present nor directly involved with this tragic accident, my thoughts and prayers are with the family of the victim. Hopefully this tragedy will finally inspire meaningful legislation and whatever other necessary steps to protect the lives and safety of celebrities, police officers, innocent public bystanders, and the photographers themselves,” Bieber said in a statement.
Bieber is a favorite target of the paparazzi.

Man dies after collapsing in shopping center during Black Friday Goes unnoticed by other shoppers

Walter Vance, 61, of Logan County, West Virginia, who collapsed and died at Target in South Charleston on Black Friday.

 

Police officers in San Leandro, Calif., collect evidence after a shooting outside a Wal-Mart left one Black Friday shopper critically injured.

A Black Friday shopper who collapsed at a West Virginia shopping center — and later died — went virtually unnoticed by others racing to snatch up early-bird sales.

Walter Vance, 61, of Logan County, W. Va., was shopping for Christmas decorations around 12:15 a.m. at a Target in South Charleston, W. Va., when he got sick and fell to floor, local news station WSAZ reported.

Witnesses said shoppers continued walking around the store, some even stepping over the man's body.

An emergency room nurse who was among those shopping eventually found Vance and began administering CPR. She was assisted by an off-duty paramedic who was also at the store.

An ambulance was called and Vance was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died, the news station reported.

Friends said, Vance, who was the owner of a Aracome Drug Company store in Chapmanville, had heart problems for years and underwent open heart surgery in 2000.

But the way he died outraged friends.

"Where is the good Samaritan side of people?" Vance's co-worker Sue Compton told WSAZ. "How could you not notice someone was in trouble? I just don't understand if people didn't help what their reason was, other than greed because of a sale."

It wasn't the only tragedy to strike on Black Friday.

The shopping day took a chaotic turn for the worse at a Walmart in Porter Ranch, Calif., where a woman pepper sprayed a crowd of shoppers waiting to get their hands on a display of discounted X-box 360 game sets.

The woman eventually surrendered to police.

There were also reports of gun shots fired at a mall in Fayetteville, N.C., and a shooting outside a store in San Leandro, Calif., that left one shopper critically injured, the Associated Press reported.