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DEATH BY ZOOM I

father was killed by his son during a Zoom video chat with 20 other participants on 21 May. Dwight Powers, 72, was stabbed to death and nearly decapitated by his son, Thomas Scully-Powers, 32, who then jumped out of a window and fled their home in Amityville, Long Island. He was found within an hour and charged with second-degree-murder after chat guests, having seen Mr

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