Obituaries

Vigilante parent Ellie Nesler, 57, of cancer. Hardly mother of the year material, she went to a courtroom and shot to death a man being tried for the molestation of her son. Unfortunately, she put other people's lives in danger as well.

And then this:

But her story did not end there. Nesler spent the last 10 years struggling with the complicated power of fame and infamy, battling cancer and drugs, earning money from her tale, losing it all, and seeing her son fall into his own spiral of violence, ending with his imprisonment for murder.

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Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, 70, of complications from a heart attack.
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