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DALLAS — Authorities in Dallas are investigating the bizarre death of a man whom they believe died after being struck by a bullet he fired at a woman Saturday morning.

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According to KDFW, the shooting occurred just after 11:30 am local time, and responding officers found a large amount of blood and a blood trail – but no victims – in front of a Medical District apartment.

A short while later, an area hospital contacted the Dallas Police Department after a man and woman, both suffering gunshot wounds, were found in a vehicle and transported for medical attention, the TV station reported.

Investigators believe that the man, since identified as 26-year-old Byron Redmon, shot the woman in the neck and that, somehow, the bullet exited her neck and struck Redmon in the leg, WFAA reported.

According to police, Redmond died at the hospital, and the woman, who has not been identified publicly, was treated and released the same day, the TV station reported.

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The Stillwater High School community is mourning the death of a 17-year-old student who was one of five people stabbed over the weekend during an attack while tubing on the Apple River in western Wisconsin.

Principal Robert Bach said in an e-mail to families following the death Saturday of incoming senior Isaac Schuman that “we extend our deepest sympathy to the family and everyone impacted directly or indirectly. … During this time of grief, we ask you to keep the family in your thoughts.”

A 52-year-old man from Prior Lake was arrested and remains jailed Monday morning pending charges. The Star Tribune generally does not identify suspects before they are charged.

St. Croix County District Attorney Karl Anderson said that “if charged this morning, he would appear at 1 pm [Monday] for [an] initial appearance.”

The victims and the suspect were all tubing down the river around 3:45 pm, Sheriff Scott Knudson said. The attack happened just upstream from the Hwy. 35/64 bridge in Somerset Township, close to the Minnesota border, and northeast of Stillwater.

“Deputies, as well as citizens, began providing medical care to the victims,” ​​read a Sheriff’s Office statement.

The Apple River has long been a popular summer recreational destination for Twin Cities residents.

The surviving victims were all in stable condition, ranging from serious to critical injuries to their torso or chest, Sunday’s statement from the Sheriff’s Office read. They include two men from Luck, Wis., one 20 and the other 22 years old; a 24-year-old woman from Burnsville, and a 22-year-old man from Elk River. Their identities have yet to be released.

“Thank goodness a witness had taken a photo of him,” Knudson said. “Another witness located him at the exit of the tubing area, where he was taken into custody.”

“We don’t know yet who was connected to who, who knew each other or what precipitated it,” Knudson said. “It’s a tragic day.”

Two victims were flown to a hospital and two were taken by ground ambulance. Schuman was transported to Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, where he was pronounced dead.

In his communication to high school families, Principal Bach added, “The death of a classmate, even for those who didn’t know them well, will impact each student differently, and all reactions need to be addressed with great care and support. We encourage you to talk with your children about this sad news and help them to process their feelings.

“Please let us know how we can continue to help you and your children as we work through this difficult process together.”

The networks of relationships one develops over time, or an individual’s social capital, can impact different facets of life, ranging from education to health care.

In an effort to better understand what types of social capital matters for certain outcomes, a team of researchers conducted two studies assessing 21 billion Facebook friendships.

Results of these analyzes revealed a higher share of friends with higher socioeconomic status (SES) among those with low SES “is among the strongest predictors of upward income mobility identified to date,” authors wrote.

Defining this phenomenon as economic connectedness, researchers showed such friendships outweighed any other social capital measures, such as social cohesion, or cliques within networks, and civic engagement (volunteering), both of which had no strong association with economic mobility.

Notably, the data showed “if children with low-SES parents were to grow up in counties with economic connectedness comparable to that of the average child with high-SES parents, their incomes in adulthood would increase by 20% on average.”

Researchers hypothesize the lack of economic connectedness among certain societies can explain relationships between upward economic mobility and racial segregation, along with poverty rates and inequality.

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The data are compiled into a website that breaks down associations between social capital and outcomes by ZIP code, county, high school and college.

For example, in Sampson County, NC, 23 percent of individuals’ friends are high-income, compared with 57.9 percent of friends in Santa Clara County, Calif. From 2016 to 2020, the median household income in Sampson County was $42,914, according to US census data. In that same window, the median household income in Santa Clara County was $130,890.

Because Facebook friendships were used as a proxy for real-life friendships rather than online networks, the studies did not yield information on the impacts of strictly online social networks.

To be included in the analyses, Facebook users had to have been active on the site at least once in the past 30 days and were on average between the ages 25 and 44. Individuals also had to have at least 100 friends based in the US and have a residential ZIP code listed.

“Many theoretical studies have shown how connections to more educated or affluent individuals can be valuable for transferring information, shaping aspirations and providing mentorship or job referrals,” authors wrote.

In the study, researchers defined SES on average income for individuals’ neighborhoods and any self-reported levels of education attained.

Those with higher SES tended to be friends with other high SES individuals, while “a one percentile point increase in one’s own SES rank is associated with a 0.44 percentile point increase in the SES rank of one’s friends on average.”

Although the study did show areas with higher economic connectedness had positive causal effects on children’s potential upward mobility, researchers cautioned that this connectedness might not be the best or most important measure of general social capital.

Data showed network cohesiveness measures, for example, were more strongly associated with differences in life expectancy among those with low income across US counties.

Additional research is needed to better understand how these social networks might influence political preferences or health behaviors.

Published on Aug. 01, 2022