Investigators say they have arrested 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, in connection with the bombings in New York and New Jersey after a shootout with police Monday in Linden, New Jersey.

A gunman and at least one other person were killed Sunday, authorities said, as many shots were fired in a Houston neighborhood where police had urged people to remain in their homes.

The ousted leader of a small American Indian tribe in California wore a bulletproof vest to her first court appearance on charges she killed four people and tried to murder two others at a meeting.