TODAY IN COURT: McKinleyville Shooting Suspect Pleaded Not Guilty to Attempted Murder, Trial Date for Providence Abortion Lawsuit Pushed Out Five Months 7%
By Sage Alexander26%
7/22/2026, 4:22:26 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Availability Heuristic, and Burden of Proof, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 28.1% saturation with 232 hits. Analysis detected 909 faulty-reasoning hits from 826 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 23.6% and a BS Rank of 7% (19,154 of 20,518 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.40% of the article peer group.
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Sheriff’s Office: Suspect in McKinleyville Shooting Tracked Down Thanks to Court-Ordered GPS Ankle Monitor That He Was Wearing At The Time
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An 18-year-old has been charged with attempted murder for a shooting behind McKinleyville High School on Sunday.
Today, Dameon Bradfield pleaded not guilty to all charges levied against him.
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office charged Bradfield with felony assault with a firearm and attempted murder, alongside firearm enhancements that could add decades to a prison sentence if convicted.
He’s also accused of using a firearm in violation of probation, charged as a misdemeanor, according to court records.
Bradfield was arrested after allegedly shooting a 24-year-old in the leg on July 19 around 11:50 a.m., following a verbal altercation.
According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, Bradfield fired four to five rounds at the man, who was later transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Bradfield’s location was traced to an Arcata address using an ankle monitor he was wearing, where he was arrested.
The court appointed attorney Greg Kreis today, who previously represented Bradfield in juvenile matters.
Bradfield remains on a no bail hold.
The preliminary hearing was set for July 29th.
Court records indicate two people sought restraining orders against Bradfield while he was under the age of 18.
One was for allegedly spraying a neighbor and his children, seven and ten, with bear mace.
This request was granted.
The second was for allegedly attempting to run over a 15-year-old and threatening him with a gun.
This request was denied after the petitioner failed to attend a hearing.
Plaintiff in Abortion Care Lawsuit Can’t Block Therapy Records, Trial Pushed Out Five Months
New Abortion Care Lawsuit Filed Against St.
Joseph Hospital by the National Women’s Law Center
The outcome of three lawsuits filed against Providence St.
Joseph Hospital are becoming further enmeshed.
The scheduled trial date for one of the three that allege the hospital denied emergency abortion care was pushed out five months today.
Anna Nusslock, Eureka chiropractor, is the plaintiff for both an individual lawsuit and central in a case brought against the hospital by the state.
They each allege Providence denied her emergency care while she was suffering a life-threatening miscarriage.
In court filings for the individual case, attorneys cited a preference to see the outcome of the lawsuit filed by the state of California before taking the remaining two to trial.
The state attorney general’s office and attorneys for the hospital remain in settlement discussions.
Both parties agreed to move the case forward, and a new trial date was set for May 10, 2027.
A judge also ruled Tuesday the plaintiff can’t block hospital attorneys from accessing therapy records.
The court ruled against a motion to quash therapy subpoenas issued by the hospital’s attorneys, who are seeking two years of notes from a pair of therapists who treated Nusslock.
In a declaration, attorneys for Nusslock point out that she has not objected to eight other third-party subpoenas into her private, personal, medical and mental health history.
It describes prying open the two years of records as “deeply intrusive and largely irrelevant.”
But in his ruling, Judge Timothy Canning wrote that despite strong protections in California surrounding the privileged information shared between a therapist and their patient, an exception exists — the patient-litigant exception.
The lawsuit argues the hospital inflicted emotional distress and Nusslock was diagnosed with PTSD as a result of her experience.
Court documents state the incident also caused her anxiety, grief and depression.
Canning cited case law that found if a patient raises a specific ailment in litigation, they may no longer justifiably seek protection from its exposure, in the interest of fairness.
“The court finds that Plaintiff’s emotional distress claims are not of the 'garden variety' type but are claims Plaintiff specifically and affirmatively asserted in her complaint arising from the wrongdoing alleged,” Judge Canning wrote in the ruling.
He found the medical records are directly relevant to Nusslock’s mental, emotional and physical damages.
Canning ruled the scope is limited to communications directly relevant to the specific condition at issue.
The records won’t be made public without a court order.
Hospital staff allegedly refused to treat Nusslock during a life-threatening miscarriage of twins when she was 15-weeks pregnant, due to a fetal heartbeat policy at the hospital.
She was sent away with a bucket and towels.
The lawsuit alleges Providence violated a law that requires hospitals treat patients in emergencies and the Unruh Civil Rights Act.
Attempts by the hospital to dismiss the ongoing lawsuits were previously unsuccessful.
A separate lawsuit is similarly slowly moving forward, filed by anonymous patient "Jane Roe," who detailed similar and repeated experiences at the hospital.
In this case also, Providence attorneys are seeking Roe's therapy records, as she claimed significant emotional harm as a result.
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