MONDAY, APRIL 6 This week of convicted terrorists, deadly weather, and history-altering, justice-enabling, absolutely horrifying cell-phone video kicks off with the saga of Fredric Brandt, the 65-year-old "dermatologist to the stars!" whose pioneering Botox treatments and other dermatological wizardry made him a revered source for such notable skin-havers as Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow—until yesterday, when Brandt was found dead in his Miami home after committing suicide. Hogging the spotlight as news of Brandt's death spread: reports that Brandt was "devastated" by comparisons to a dermatologist character on the newish Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, played by Martin Short in a distinctly Fredric Brandt–like wig. "The show definitely deeply hurt him," said Brandt's publicist, Jacquie Trachtenberg, to the Hollywood Reporter. "He was being made fun of because of the way he looks... But the show was not the reason for his depression, and it was not the reason he would take his own life." Trachtenberg's assertions are backed up by suicide experts, who agree any single-factor theory of suicide is usually bunk. "The risk of looking just at the precipitating event is that it does not help us to understand what leads people to take their lives," said Dr. Jill Harkavy-Friedman to New York magazine. "Your distressor is the thing that we see, but it doesn't mean it's the cause." Instead, Harkavy-Friedman suggested, society should focus on the big, prevalent, always-and-forever risk factors for suicide: depression, substance abuse, and family history. As for the departed Brandt: "In all ways, Dr. Brandt was a tremendous presence in the beauty industry," read a statement released by his agency. "He loved singing show tunes and creating raps while he worked, keeping his patients happy and laughing while they were being injected with needles. It was impossible to walk out of his office without a smile on your face, feeling rejuvenated inside and out."

TUESDAY, APRIL 7 In exponentially worse news, the week continued in South Carolina, with a crucial twist in a saga set in motion last Saturday, when 50-year-old North Charleston resident Walter Scott was pulled over for a broken taillight on his Mercedes and wound up fatally shot by 33-year-old police officer Michael Slager. As ThinkProgress reminded us, initial reports on the latest fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer told a story of a traffic stop gone seriously wrong: "On Saturday the police released a statement alleging that Scott had attempted to gain control of a Taser from Slager and that he was shot in a struggle over the weapon."

Yesterday, Slager doubled down on this story, releasing a statement reiterating his belief that he followed protocol and "felt threatened" before resorting to deadly force. But all of Slager's testimony was upended by a cell-phone video, shot by a bystander, which clearly showed Walter Scott running in the opposite direction from Slager, who failed to offer a verbal warning before fatally shooting Scott in the back. "The video also shows that in the aftermath, Slager puts handcuffs on Scott," reported NPR today. "After Scott was fatally shot, the video appears to capture Slager planting an object next to Scott," noted ThinkProgress. Could this planted object be the Taser that Slager claimed was wielded by Scott? Time will tell, but today Slager was arrested on charges of first-degree murder. Hero of today: Feidin Santana, the 23-year-old Dominican immigrant who, as New York put it, "recorded the last moments of Walter Scott's life—and completely invalidated the description of his death as previously described by the North Charleston police officer who shot him." As Santana told NBC News, "I felt that my life, with this information, might be in danger. I thought about erasing the video and just getting out of the community, you know, Charleston, and living someplace else." But as he told Matt Lauer, "I recorded the video so that maybe he can feel that someone is there. There were just the three of us in that moment. I couldn't tell what was going to happen, so I just wanted him to know that he's not by himself."

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 Speaking of justice for American tragedies, the week continued in Boston, where today Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty of using weapons of mass destruction resulting in death, guilty of bombing a place of public use, and guilty of 28 other charges, 17 of which could get him executed by the state.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9 Speaking of American destruction, today brought a deadly tornado to Northern Illinois, where homes were ripped from their foundations, roughly a dozen people were injured, and two people were killed.

FRIDAY, APRIL 10 In lighter but still less-than-good news, the week continued with the time-delayed self-desecration of an American star: Jon Hamm, the television actor whose legacy of moistening America's underpants as the handsome shitbag Don Draper on AMC's Mad Men is forever complicated by this week's discovery of Hamm's past life as a violent frat bro. As the Associated Press reported, Hamm's bad acts went down in 1990 at the University of Texas at Austin, where Hamm was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity—until the frat was permanently disbanded after a Hamm-involved hazing incident led to criminal charges. Details on the alleged hazing come from court documents unearthed this week by Star magazine: According to a 1991 lawsuit filed by a former Sigma Nu pledge, frat brother Hamm became furious when the pledge failed to properly recite something he was supposed to recite properly, inspiring Hamm and his frat brothers to hit the pledge 30 times with a paddle, after which Hamm allegedly set the pledge's jeans on fire, pushed his face in dirt, and "hooked the claw of a hammer underneath [the pledge's] genitals and led him by the hammer around the room." "Criminal records show Hamm, now 44, was charged with hazing and received deferred adjudication," reported the Associated Press. "A separate charge of assault was dismissed." Dear everyone whose sense of morality requires them to cease jacking or jilling off to Jon Hamm–based mental porn: May we suggest proceeding directly to Cary Grant?

SATURDAY, APRIL 11 Nothing happened today, unless you count the woman who accidentally dropped her 2-year-old son into the cheetah pen at the Cleveland Zoo. Happy facts from Reuters: The wild predator cats ignored the fresh-dropped boy, who emerged unhurt. "The zoo says Cleveland Metroparks plans to seek child endangering charges against the mother," reported the Associated Press.

SUNDAY, APRIL 12 The week ended with the unsurprising but wonderful news that Hillary Clinton is running for president, laying the foundation for what Last Days prays will be the first female leader of the free world, following a campaign that should play out like a real-life, DC-based The Good Wife.

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