The Slatest

Slatest PM: Gunman in Custody After Shots Fired at Atlanta-Area Elementary School

The students are reportedly being transported to a designated location to be reunited with their parents.

Screenshot from the local NBC affiliate’s live feed

***Sign up here to receive the Slatest PM in your inbox daily.***

Developing: Associated Press: “A suspect was in custody after gunfire erupted at an Atlanta-area elementary school where dramatic television footage showed young students racing out of the building, being escorted by teachers and police. No one was injured and all students and teachers were accounted for and safe, authorities said. Students were evacuated from Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, a few miles east of Atlanta, and sat outside in a field for a time until school buses came to take them to their waiting parents and other relatives at a nearby Wal-Mart. When the first bus arrived a couple hours later, cheers erupted in the store parking lot. According to WSB-TV’s website, a woman in the school office called to say a gunman asked her to contact the Atlanta station and police. WSB said during the call, shots were heard in the background. …The suspect is a man in his mid-20s and didn’t have an obvious connection to the school, DeKalb County schools Superintendent Michael Thurmond told The Associated Press. He and police said all students and teachers came out safely. WSB-TV assignment editor Lacey Lecroy said she spoke with the woman in the school’s front office who told the station she was alone with the suspect and the man’s gun was visible.”

An Exchange of Fire: 11ALive News: “DeKalb County Police said they responded to a call of shots fired at the Ronald McNair Discovery Learning Academy on 2nd Avenue. DeKalb County Acting School Superintendent Michael Thurmond told 11Alive News that the suspect had fired at least one shot, and that gunfire was returned by officers. Spokesperson Kyle Jones from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office describes the suspect as a white male in his late 20s or early 30s, wearing black clothes, and armed with an AK-47 assault rifle. County officials said there was no indication of any motive.”

It’s Tuesday, welcome to the Slatest PM. Follow your afternoon host on Twitter at@JoshVoorhees and the whole team at @Slatest.

The Slatest: Sorry, Internet: Russian Sprinters Say Their Kiss Was a Celebration, Not a Protest

Ted Cruz, Still Canadian: Reuters: “Senator Ted Cruz, who recently discovered that he is likely a Canadian, must win security clearance from Canada’s spy agency, fill in a four-page form and then wait up to eight months to sever his ties to America’s northern neighbor. … Cruz would be in rare company if he goes ahead, as efforts to give up Canadian citizenship are rare. The website of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the go-to site for questions about nationality, offers far more information about becoming Canadian than about renouncing citizenship. … A person giving up citizenship must be Canadian, prove they are or will become a citizen of another country, not live in Canada and not be a security threat. They must also explain in writing why they don’t want to be a Canadian any more. A non-refundable C$100 ($96) fee is payable in advance.”

The Slatest: Maine’s Governor (Allegedly) Told GOP Donors that President Obama “Hates White People”

Dzhokhar’s Wounds: ABC News: “Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received multiple life-threatening injuries, including a gunshot to the face before his capture, doctors revealed in grisly detail in newly unsealed court documents. ‘He has multiple gunshot wounds, the most severe of which appears to have entered through the left side inside of his mouth and exited the left face, lower face,’ Dr. Stephen Ray Odom, a trauma surgeon, told a court convened inside Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where the 20-year-old suspect was being treated three days after his arrest. Odom described the shot to the suspected bomber’s face as a ‘high-powered injury’ that damaged his skull, vertebrae, ear, throat and mouth, according to court documents unsealed Monday. Tsarnaev also received ‘multiple gunshot wounds’ to his arms and legs.”

Future Tense: Elena Kagan Admits Supreme Court Justices Haven’t Figured Out Email Yet

Latest From Cairo: CBS News: “Egypt on Tuesday announced the arrest of the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a time when it is struggling to keep up its street protests against the ouster President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh crackdown by authorities. CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata reports that the Brotherhood’s spiritual guide, Mohammed Badie, was arrested following a tip off that he was hiding in an apartment at the eastern Cairo district of Nasr City, close to the location of the six-week sit-in protest by supporters of Morsi. The encampment was cleared by security forces last Wednesday, along with another protest site in Giza, in a raid that killed hundreds of people.”

The World: Mapping Egypt’s Week of Chaos

Manning’s Fate: Associated Press: “A military judge said she’ll announce on Wednesday the sentence for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who gave reams of classified information to WikiLeaks. Army Col. Denise Lind said Tuesday she was still deliberating but she was confident she would have a sentence by Wednesday morning [at 10 a.m.]. … Manning faces up to 90 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and State Department diplomatic cables in 2010 while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. He also leaked video of an U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad in which at least nine people were killed, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver. Prosecutors have asked for at least a 60-year prison term. … The defense has suggested a prison term of no more than 25 years, so that Manning, 25, could rebuild his life.”

Future Tense: DOJ Seeks Supreme Court Approval for Warrantless Cellphone Searches

RIP, Leonard Elmore: New York Times: “Elmore Leonard, the prolific crime novelist whose louche characters, deadpan dialogue and immaculate prose style in novels like Get Shorty, Freaky Deaky and Glitz established him as a modern master of American genre writing, died on Tuesday at his home in Bloomfield Township, Mich. He was 87. … To his admiring peers, Mr. Leonard did more than merely validate the popular crime thriller; he stripped the form of its worn-out affectations, reinventing it for a new generation and elevating it to a higher literary shelf.”

More From Slate: The Dumbest of Elmore Leonard’s Many, Many Dumb Criminals; Elmore Leonard’s Rules for Writing Are Full of Exceptions; Why Elmore Leonard’s Novels Make Great Movies.

A Friendly In Name: NBC News: “A rare soccer game between neighboring arch-rivals Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday may have been dubbed the ‘Friendship Match’ but there was no love lost between the countries both on and off the field. Afghanistan may be ranked only 139th in the world by FIFA with Pakistan even lower on the list at 167th, but the game was still the hottest ticket in Kabul. Security concerns had prevented Afghanistan’s national team from playing a home game for a decade. A sellout crowd of 6,000 watched Afghanistan win 3-0.”

A Few More Quick Hits From Slate

That’s all for today. See you back here tomorrow. Until then, tell your friends to subscribe or simply forward the newsletter on and let them make up their own minds.