By STEVEN BEARDSLEY, Scripps Howard News Service

TABARRE, Haiti - Children here traditionally receive gifts for the Christian celebration of Epiphany. When a group of orphans arrived for their celebration this year, they found bodies.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - Mesac Damas has confessed publicly to killing his five children and wife in Naples, Fla., and told the Naples Daily News he wants to die and go to heaven.

"I want death," Damas said from the back seat of the pickup truck transporting him to the Port-au-Prince airport, from where he was extradited to Miami late Tuesday.

A new study suggests that suicide-by-cop, a phenomenon in which a suspect provokes an officer into using deadly force, is far more common than previously thought.
In the March issue of the Journal of Forensic Sciences, researcher Kris Mohandie reports that 36 percent of the more than 700 officer-involved-shootings he studied could be classified as suicide-by-cop.