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Shareef Allman, the man suspected of killing three and wounding seven in a shooting spree in Cupertino, Calif., has been shot and killed by police, the San Jose Mercury News reports.

Apple Inc. is unveiling a new, more powerful version of its wildly popular smartphone - more than a year after it launched the iPhone 4. Last week, Apple Inc. e-mailed invitations to a media event at its headquarters in Cupertino on Tuesday morning. The invite says "let's talk iPhone," implying the secretive company intends to show off the latest version of the device.

With an iPhone event scheduled for Tuesday at Apple‘s Cupertino, California campus looming, spy shots that appear to be snapped inside a Brazilian factory and an update to Apple’s iTunes software seemed to confirm an Apple update to the slablike iPhone 4. Less certain: a thin, wide-bodied handset with a teardrop shape. Case designs for a teardrop-shaped handset have already begun appearing on blogs, and, briefly, on the web-site of handset case supplier Casemate.

Apple has confirmed that it is holding an iPhone event next Tuesday, sending invitations to members of the tech press. The invites read, “Let’s Talk iPhone.” The event will start at 10 a.m. Pacific time and will take place at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.