California teen killed, adult male injured in stabbing, police say

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A California teen was killed and another injured in a stabbing early Saturday morning, according to a police report. 

Officers with the San Jose Police Department responded to the area of Quimby Road and Caraston Way around 1:36 a.m. Saturday on a report of a stabbing.

An investigation into a San Jose police officer who allegedly traded a meth pipe for information has been ongoing since December.  (San Jose Police Department)

Officers found two males – a 16-year-old and an adult – each suffering from at least one stab wound, police said in a press release. The 16-year-old had a life-threatening injury, and the adult had a non-life-threatening injury, police said. Both were transported to local hospitals, where the male juvenile succumbed to his injury and was pronounced deceased.  UK POLICE ARREST TWO MEN IN CONNECTION WITH MURDER OF 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL, RELEASE THEM ON BAIL The Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office will release the victim’s identity after notifying next of kin, police said.  Neighbors who lived nearby told KTVU they heard loud commotion outside, but didn’t know who was yelling or what it was about.  The motive and circumstances of the stabbing are still being investigated, police said. The stabbing marked the city’s 26th homicide of 2022.  CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact the San Jose Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 408-277-5283. 

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Florida teen, 14, and mom charged with national identify theft

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A Florida teenager who allegedly organized a pyramid scheme and his mother have been charged in connection with nationwide identity theft, authorities said.

Elijah Duett, 14, faces 15 counts of identity theft, obtaining property by fraud, illegal use of credit cards and unlawful use of a 2-way communication device. His mother, Selena Wallace, 38, was arrested on principal charges to each count, along with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.  Duett initially came under investigation in May and was charged with making written threats against a student who didn't pay into a pyramid scheme he was running, authorities said.  Investigators discovered the teen was purchasing a "significant" amount of stolen personal and financial information online. That included social security and credit numbers and the login information to a number of banks and websites, police said.  FLORIDA SCHOOL SHOOTER NIKOLAS CRUZ STRUCK UP FRIENDSHIP WITH SANDY HOOK VICTIM'S MOM

Elijah Duett, 14, and his mother Selena Wallace, 38. face charges in connection with a nationwide identity theft scheme, Florida authorities said.  ( Volusia County Sheriff's Office)

Duett also had detailed instructions and equipment to forge money orders, they said.  Investigators identified at least 17 victims from across the country. Of those, 15 wanted to pursue criminal charges against the teen suspect.  As the investigation progressed, Investigators learned that Wallace told her son that she wished he would use his skills in a legal way before asking him to raise his prices to make more profit, authorities said.  CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

A search of his home yielded 12 laptops, 4 printers, 4 cell phones, several gaming systems and other technology.

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Kiely Rodni: California police 'modifying' search effort next week as few signs of missing teen emerge

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The search for missing 16-year-old Kiely Rodni will be scaled down to a "task force"-based investigation next week, California investigators said Monday, 10 days after the teen vanished under disturbing circumstances.

"We are still looking for any clues, videos, tips, any information to help us to put pieces together and help us to direct where we're going and how we're going to continue to do a search," Capt. Sam Brown, of the Nevada County Sheriff's Office, said during a Monday news briefing. "We are moving into a more limited but continuous search and rescue effort."

He said the massive interagency search effort has put in more than 9,000 man-hours since Rodni was reported missing on Aug. 6.

"Our biggest problem is where do we go, and how do we keep sustaining this?" he added.

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Kiely Rodni was last seen a week ago on Aug. 6 at Prosser Family Campground after midnight. (findkiely.com)

The search started last week in the immediate area of where the girl's phone had last pinged, near the Prosser Creek Reservoir, and has steadily expanded outward. Police have been unable to locate the girl, her SUV or any other signs.

And they say they have still not found anyone who actually saw Rodni leaving the area before she went missing. They are asking for anyone who may have taken photos or videos to share them with investigators.

"I'd like to say that we're putting the pedal down, that we are continuing to work this week, and that after this week we will be modifying things to a task force style," said Lt. Josh Barnhart, of the Placer County Sheriff's Office. "That means our resources will continue to move forward, but in somewhat of a different manner."

MISSING KIELY RODNI: A TIMELINE OF THE 16-YEAR-OLD'S DISAPPEARANCE FROM CAMPGROUND PARTY

Lt. Josh Barnhart of the Placer Co. Sheriff's Office speaks to reporters on Monday, Aug. 15, 10 days into the search for missing Kiely Rodni, 16. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

The FBI has partnered with local detectives to conduct interviews with people at the party and residents who live nearby, and the public has largely been cooperative, Barnhart said.

"I would say for the most part, everyone has been very cooperative," he said.

Detectives have also overcome earlier resistance from at least one parent who allegedly told their children, who had attended the party, not to aid in the investigation.

MISSING KIELY RODNI'S MOTHER SAYS AMBER ALERT ‘SHOULD HAVE BEEN ISSUED IMMEDIATELY,’ WANTS TO STAY ‘POSITIVE’

"Many people have come forward and given us information, but we haven't run into very large roadblocks and people not wanting to give us information," Barnhart said. "I think [that] was probably an isolated incident that we were able to get past."

Kiely Rodni was last seen on Aug. 6 at the Prosser Family Campground in Truckee, California. (findkiely.com)

Rodni, who was last seen at a packed outdoor party with hundreds of other young people just after midnight on Aug. 6, has an outdoorsy upbringing and strong resolve, according to Cassie Hebel, a family friend and spokesperson.

"She has more than the survival skills to make it back," she said Monday. "She was raised in a family where they know how to survive in the outback, in the ‘Back 40’ as I like to say. That is where she was raised."

The party, near the Prosser Family Campground in the Tahoe National Forest, involved between 200 and 300 juveniles and young adults, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. There was suspected use of drugs and alcohol, and Rodni’s friend told Fox News Digital last week the girl was likely too drunk to have attempted driving.

MISSING KIELY RODNI: MASSIVE SEARCH AS FRIENDS REVEAL TEEN'S LAST KNOWN FOOTSTEPS IN POSSIBLE ABDUCTION CASE

Kiely Rodni went missing on Aug. 6 just after midnight, shortly after telling her parents she was coming home. (findkiely.com)

Angela Musallam, a spokesperson for the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, said during a Monday news briefing investigators were not ready to release the photo.
Separately, she told Fox News Digital, it contains no person of interest. She declined to discuss the video further, citing the open comment investigation.

At 16, Rodni had a full driver’s license and a silver 2013 Honda CRV, which is also missing, Hebel said Monday. She graduated high school early and with honors and hoped to study pediatric orthopedics and music in college. Her 17th birthday is next month.

The car has a ram head sticker under the rear windshield wiper, according to police. Hebel said it has no particular significance other than being an identifying characteristic, and it may have been on the car already when Rodni acquired it.

Kiely Rodni's SUV is also missing – a silver 2013 Honda CRV with California license plate 8YUR127. It has a small ram-head sticker on the back window, under her rear wiper blade. (Findkiely.com)

Rodni is described as 5 feet, 7 inches tall and about 118 pounds. She has blonde hair and hazel eyes. She has a tattoo on her ribs of the number "17." She has a nose ring and several other piercings and was wearing three gold necklaces the night she went missing, according to her friends.

She was wearing green Dickies pants, a black studded belt and a black spaghetti-strap bodysuit, according to authorities. And she was seen on video in a pink and white hoodie reading "ODD FUTURE" earlier on Aug. 5. She may have also been in possession of a dark gray hoodie with Lana Del Rey lyrics.

The Placer County Sheriff's Office says Kiely Rodni appeared on video earlier in the night she went missing wearing a pink and white "Odd Future" hoodie. (Placer County Sheriff's Office, FindKiely.com)

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Anyone with information is asked to call the Placer County Sheriff’s Office’s dedicated tip line at 530-581-6320. Callers can remain anonymous. Police are also asking anyone with photos of videos of the party to share them with investigators.

The reward for information leading to Rodni’s whereabouts has climbed to $75,000 after an anonymous donor gave $25,000 to the effort over the

Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.ruiz@fox.com and on Twitter: @mikerreports

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Teen saves herself and her dog by swimming to roof where she waited for several hours during flooding

Clay Nickels and his wife, McKenzie, were woken up at 5 a.m. on Thursday morning to what they thought was someone banging at their door.

When they went to check, it turned out to be rocks from a mudslide hitting the side of their house, Clay told CNN.

Immediately the couple began packing up their important documents and valuables and evacuated to McKenzie’s mother’s house nearby. Clay said McKenzie had a plan in place and packed everything up within five minutes.

The Nickels live in Neon, Kentucky, in Letcher County, a part of the state that was heavily affected by the floods.

After things were under control, Clay says he and his wife went to check on family.

"At one point we looked down the hill and you could see a football field completely underwater,” Clay said, “The bleachers were our guide of telling if the water was receding or not.”

They then went to check on Clay’s grandfather who lives nearby. The couple took life jackets with them, not knowing how deep the water would get. 

After wading in chest-deep water, the two arrived at Clay’s grandfather’s home.

“He was fine, but his house was not, nobody’s was.” Clay said.

He attempted to drive to his father and his other set of grandparents who live in Kite, Kentucky, about 16 miles away. But in order to reach them he spent hours using a chainsaw to cut down trees that were blocking roadways.

“The scariest part was hearing about the multiple fatalities,” Clay said. “People were saying that there were deaths in my father and grandparents’ part of town and I had no way of knowing if it was them.”

Everyone in Clay’s family is okay, but their houses are destroyed.

“My grandparents have 8-10 foot ceilings on their first floor and it was completely full of water,” He said, “Furniture is displaced and destroyed.” Clay and McKenzie’s home only suffered from some a small amount of water leaking inside.

His great-grandfather, who is 93, was able to evacuate his home before the flooding got worse. Clay says he stayed in his car up the hill by himself for some time, waiting for another family member to get him.

“It looks like a war zone here,” he said, “This affected everybody. There’s very few people I know whose house, vehicle or lives have not been altered by this,”

Clay said they’ve been told it’ll take at least a week before power and water is restored, but he believes it will be longer.

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