Autopsy Tuesday In Gabby Petito Case + Virginia School Shooting

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Sept. 21, the last full day of summer. Here’s a fun fact about that: The full harvest moon typically is associated with fall, but it rises on the last evening of summer this year.

Patch is following major developments in the disappearance of Gabby Petito. Authorities on Monday searched the Florida home of her boyfriend Brian Laundrie’s parents after remains believed to be Petito’s were found in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park.

Here are some of the other stories we’re following:

• A Houston police officer was killed and another was hospitalized with gunshot wounds after they were shot while serving an arrest warrant, via Houston Patch.
• The latest on the Newport News, Virginia, school shooting, via Newport News, Virginia, Patch.
• Pfizer-BioNTech says its COVID-19 vaccine is safe for children, via Across America Patch.

Autopsy Tuesday In Petito Case

An autopsy is scheduledTuesday to determine if the human remains found over the weekend in Grand Teton National Park are those of 22-year-old Gabby Petito. She was reported missing after she didn’t come home to Florida with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, after a cross-country trip to national parks in the West.

Authorities swarmed the home of Laundrie’s parents in North Port, Florida, on Monday, and suspended the search for Laundrie in a 25,000-acre nature preserve his parents said he might have headed to with only a hiking backpack. Police are following up on leads that he may have been sighted near Mobile, Alabama. » The Latest: Authorities Search Home Of Brian Laundrie For Clues Into The Disappearance of Gabby Petito, via Sarasota, Florida, Patch

It’s Not A School For Strippers, But …

You know there’s a national school bus driver shortage when students are shuttled on a party bus complete with a stripper pole and neon lights.

That’s what happened in Boston, where an advanced-placement language and composition teacher hired a party bus after the original bus to shuttle the students fell through. “This is not a drill,” the teacher tweeted. » Bus Shortage Leaves 11th Graders Using A Party Bus With A Stripper Pole, via Boston Patch

TikTok’’s ‘Devious Licks’

Students in a Pennsylvania school district have fair warning that police could be called if they pull another stunt like stealing, damaging and destroying soap dispensers as part of the “devious licks” TikTok challenge that encourages students nationwide to trash their school bathrooms.

Meanwhile, TikTok has banned content related to the “devious licks” trend. » TikTok Challenge Inspires Damage, Theft At Pennsylvania Schools, via Newtown, Pennsylvania, Patch.

‘Deeply Troubling Failures’: A new report is out on the 2019 death of a Guatemalan boy in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody, from ProPublica via Across America Patch.

Can We Get An Encore On This? Passengers spontaneously burst into song, chanting “na na hey hey goodbye,” lyrics in Steam’s 1969 hit, via Miami Patch.

Today In History: On Sept. 21, 1840, William Henry Fox Talbot made a discovery that revolutionized photography with the finding that gallic acid can be used to develop a latent image on paper.

Quotable

“Suzie had the biggest heart anyone could have. So many people said her heart was too big for this world.”

— Kellie Hanna in a tribute to her sister, Suzie, who died in the floodwaters of Tropical Storm Ida, via Bridgewater, New Jersey, Patch

Around ‘The Patch’

• Serial Rape Suspect Arrested, via Mission Viejo Patch
• Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty To Sex Charges In New Indictment, via Beverly Hills, California, Patch
• Coast Guard Rescues 6 Boaters After New Jersey Crash, via Manasquan-Belmare, New Jersey, Patch
• Wife Of Firefighter Who Died Of COVID Also Succumbs To Disease, via Huntersville, North Carolina, Patch
• Are Cloth Masks Effective Against The Delta Variant: Ask Kaiser Health News And PolitiFact, via Across America Patch
• 75 Dogs Killed In Fire At Texas Pet Resort, via Round Rock, Texas, Patch

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