Girl who predicted her death on Facebook, dies of wounds

By Jim Forsyth

SAN ANTONIO | Thu 8 December 2011 11: 40 EST are

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - a 12-year-old girl during a stalemate in a Texas food sales office shot was their died wounds late Wednesday night by the mother, officials said Thursday.

Ramie grimmer had a Facebook message "can die 2today" booked on Monday after her mother, Rachelle grimmer, 38, maintainer hostage in the Office of Texas Department of human services in the Rio Grande city Laredo in a quarrel her denial of food stamp benefits taken over.

Rachelle grimmer published the supervisor, but after a seven-hour standoff, police say they shot ramie and ten-year-old son Timothy grimmer, and then killed himself.

Timothy remains in a very critical condition in a hospital in San Antonio after Mary Walker, spokeswoman for child of protective services.

State and local officials Rachelle grimmer of a troubled woman said walking with their children from place of residence, place of residence after moving to Texas from Zanesville, Ohio in March.

At one point the three in a tent on the beach near the city of Corpus Christi lived. Neighbors in Laredo, that no place said that the children were often seen begging for food during the life in a crumbling recreational vehicle to to cook food.

Officials said that Texas child of protective services has been asked to search while they lived on the beach, in the status of children but found that there were no signs of abuse or neglect and closed the case.

Laredo police said that living Grimmers in at least four different places during their short time in the city.

Officials try to determine how a family with such obvious need through the cracks of society safety net, could fall, said Stephanie Goodman, spokeswoman for the Department of human services.

"It's all what we otherwise would have?" she asked. "Maybe we need a better job of public awareness, communication to do a better job." "Assume not simply that everyone knows how desperate is your situation."

Grimmer said she first sought food stamp benefits in July, but State officials were unable to reach them, and the case was finally closed for lack of sufficient information. Goodman, said knowledge, never any advantages received Grimmers from the State, despite their precarious situation.

Private foundations in the Laredo area said that the Grimmers although there are a number of religious and civic organizations in the border town of 236,000, which is never requested, support to the poorest in the nation.

Walker said the surviving child, Timothy, remains in the hospital for some time, and then is expected to be in the custody of a related be released. It is not from the State of custody of the child.

(Editing by Greg McCune)

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Robert Wagner not suspect in Natalie Wood's death: police

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Actress Natalie Wood in undated photo.

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By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES | Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:00pm EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Homicide detectives who have reopened an inquiry into the death Natalie Wood said on Friday that the film star's husband, actor Robert Wagner, was not considered a suspect in the case.

The new investigation was opened into Wood's 1981 drowning off the California coast after a yacht captain said that he lied about the incident three decades ago and now holds Wagner responsible for her death.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Lt. John Corina told reporters at a news conference on Friday that the original finding that Wood's death was an accidental drowning had not changed.

But detectives had reopened the investigation based on new information from several sources "which we felt was substantial enough to make us take another look at this case," Corina said.

Asked by reporters if Wagner, who is now 81, was considered a suspect, Corina responded: "No."

In an interview with NBC's "Today" show, yacht captain Dennis Davern said Wagner fought with Wood, 43, shortly before she went missing from the "Splendour" and Wagner showed little interest in trying to find her.

Wood had spent the night dining and drinking with Wagner, and her "Brainstorm" co-star Christopher Walken.

Her body was found floating in a Catalina Island cove off the coast of California on November 29, 1981. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled her death an accidental drowning, noting that Wood had been drinking and was intoxicated when she died.

Questions over the circumstances surrounding her death have lingered for 30 years.

A spokesman for Wagner has said that the actor's family had not been contacted by the sheriff's officials but "fully supports" the department's efforts.

The family members trust that the sheriff's department "will evaluate whether any new information relating to the death of Natalie Wood Wagner is valid and that it comes from a credible source or sources, other than those simply trying to profit from the 30-year anniversary of her tragic death," spokesman Alan Nierob said in the statement.

The department has asked that anyone with information about Wood's drowning contact sheriff's homicide investigators or an anonymous tip line.

Wood, who was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko to Russian immigrant parents in San Francisco, appeared as a child in such films as the Christmas classic "Miracle on 34th Street" and "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."

She was nominated for a best supporting actress Academy Award as a teenager for her role opposite screen legend James Dean in the classic 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause."

Wood was also nominated twice for best actress Oscars, for parts in the 1961 film "Splendor in the Grass" and "Love with the Proper Stranger" two years later. She never won the award.

(Editing by Greg McCune)

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