AUTHORITY VIOLENCE
9/5/10
Questions
raised after 5 police killings in 1 week
Five people have died this week in violent confrontations
with police in the Puget Sound region - and some people
now are asking why there isn't a less deadly way of dealing
with aggressive suspects.
Meanwhile, investigators were still looking into a sixth
incident on Friday night in which police opened fire
on a man armed with a gun in West Seattle - but he survived.
The week started off with a Seattle police officer killing
a man at a busy street corner near downtown. John T.
Williams was shot several times when he ignored the officer's
repeated orders to drop a knife he was holding. ...the
rest of the story at the link
8/13/10
SC's
state police chief: Deputy's baton beating of inmate
caught on video disturbing South Carolina's top
cop said Tuesday that video footage of a now-fired
deputy beating a handcuffed inmate with a baton hard
enough to break the prisoner's leg is disturbing and
raises questions about how force is used. South Carolina's
top cop said Tuesday that video footage of a now-fired
deputy beating a handcuffed inmate with a baton hard
enough to break the prisoner's leg is disturbing and
raises questions about how force is used.
5/16/10
Detroit
police say 7-year-old shot in home search
DETROIT – A sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot
and killed when an officer's gun went off while Detroit
police were searching a duplex for a suspect in the
slaying of a teenager, a police official said.Assistant
Chief Ralph Godbee said at a news conference Sunday
that Aiyana Jones was hit in the neck by a single
bullet and died at a hospital. Police said the girl
was sleeping on a couch when she was shot.
"This is any parent's worst nightmare. It also
is any police officer's
worst nightmare," Godbee said.
Westminster
police officer and corrections officer held in kidnap,
rape of woman An off-duty Westminster police detective,
Det. Anthony Nicholas Orban, was arrested on suspicion
of kidnapping a woman at Ontario Mills Mall and raping
her at gunpoint, police said Monday.
Taser
Nation When I was a young editorial writer at The
Washington Times back in the early 1990s,
I had the good luck to work in the same office asSam
Francis. Sam had a talent for making devastating
observations in pithy, everyman language that contrasted
with the egghead-speak of so many faux intellectuals.
One such was his term, "anarcho-tyranny." Simply
put, it's the growing tendency of the government to
harshly treat ordinary (and typically non-violent)
citizens over even the most minor infractions while
at the same time treating violent predators - real
criminals - with disinterest and often minimal punishment
relative to their deeds.
The growing use of shock
therapy - Tasers - on motorists who've committed
minor traffic infractions such as failing to wear a seat
belt or who grumble under their breath while being issued
speeding tickets is Exhibit A.
Argue with a cop - indeed, do anything other than submit
immediately to his any and every command - and
you risk being shot through with 50,000 volts of "non-lethal" (but
sometimes not) Attitude Adjuster. It's happening all
around the country, to people who likely never saw it
coming or even conceived that such a thing could happen
to them. People who work, pay
taxes and never so much as pocketed a Hershey
bar at the drugstore. Middle-aged hausfraus. Moms with
their kids in the car. College kids. Retirees.
You
and me, in other words.
some
archived stories pro and con from Dallas
2/13/10
Man
sodomized with Taser will receive six-figure settlement The
City of Boise wants to make it clear that they are
not admitting guilt in the case of a man sodomized
by Boise police with a Taser gun.But they are also
dishing out an estimated $150,000 to Gerald Amidon
to prevent this matter from going to court.In some
circles, this is called “hush money.”
2/6/10
Judge
seals video in racially-charged Taser ‘homicide’ A
potentially explosive video showing the death of a
Louisiana man after being Tasered nine times in 14
minutes will be kept from the public for at least another
five months, after a judge ordered the tape sealed.Former
Winnfield police officer Scott Nugent has been charged
with manslaughter and malfeasance over the death of
Baron "Scooter" Pikes on January 17, 2008.
Pikes was handcuffed during each of the Taserings.
Winnfield police say Pikes was resisting arrest on
an outstanding warrant, (doesn't this qualify as a
'hate crime'?)
1/27/10
2
LAPD Metro Division officers arrested in off-duty assault Two
off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officers were
arrested for allegedly attacking and pistol-whipping
a man in Whittier on Tuesday night.
In a separate incident, an off-duty Los Angeles County
sheriff's deputy got into a fight in Highland Park and
suffered wounds, while her foe was shot by a relative
of the deputy, authorities said.
LAPD Officer Brandon Valdez, 29, and LAPD Officer Patrick
Fitzgerald, 38, were arrested Tuesday night by Whittier
police on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after
the victim was hospitalized with head trauma. The elite
LAPD Metro Division officers, who have been with the
department since 2002, were immediately placed on administrative
leave.
Update...suspect shot and killed.
WANTED:
Maurice Clemmons.....'This guy should have never been
on the street' Police are looking for this man
for the cold blooded, planned murder of four Lakewood
police officers Greg Richards, 42, Tina Griswold, 40,
Ronald Owens, 37, and Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39. The
four were killed when a gunman opened fire on them
at a Parkland, Wash. coffee store on Sunday, Nov. 29,
2009. The manhunt came as authorities in two states
took heat for the fact that Clemmons was allowed to
walk the streets despite a teenage crime spree in Arkansas
that landed him a 95-year prison sentence. He was released
in 2000 after then-Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted his
sentence.
Police
Misconduct News Watch 11-19-09
Fire
Chief Shot By Cop In Ark. Court Over Tickets It was
just too much, having to return to court twice on the same
day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief
Don Payne didn't hesitate to tell the judge what he thought
of the police and their speed traps.
The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in
court.
FBI
probe of Burbank police focusing on alleged excessive
force involving 12 officers The FBI investigation
into the Burbank
Police Department is focusing on allegations of
excessive force by officers, court documents obtained
by The Times show.Federal investigators have told
the Burbank officials to turn over reports involving
12 current and former officers, according to a federal
grand jury subpoena obtained by The Times.The subpoena
specifies information related to "use of force,
defensive tactics, Tasers, pepper spray, or the rules
and ramifications pertaining to the use of excessive
force or a violation of civil/constitutional rights."
Unarmed
man in speedos shot dead by police An unarmed man
wearing only swimming trunks was shot dead by a plainclothes
police officer who had confronted him for driving erratically.
Tyler Heilman, 24, had just arrived home in Kasota,
Minnesota, after a day's swimming with friends when
he was accosted by Todd Waldron, a sheriff's deputy,
who had been following him in an unmarked car.According
to the friends, the two men got into an argument and
ended up wrestling on the ground.As Mr Heilman got
up, he finally saw the police badge on Mr Waldron's
belt, said Kris Hoehn.
California
Police Officer admits to sexual assault while on duty A
former California police officer accused of sexually
assaulting a motorist during a traffic stop pleaded
guilty in federal court, federal prosecutors said Friday.Feliciano
Sanchez, 34, admitted in court Thursday that while
on duty on May 16, 2007, he pulled over a female driver
in a traffic stop and forced her to perform oral sex
on him, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney
Thomas O’Brien, who heads the office for the
Central District.
7/21/09
Cops
tasered 3 kids, threatened one with sodomy A shelter
for adolescents in southern Illinois is suing the local
sheriff’s office for what it describes as an unprovoked
attack by two police officers on four children, three of
whom were tasered, and one of whom was threatened with
sodomy by a sheriff’s deputy.
USA
Patriot Act Defines Chemotherapy Pushers, CPS Aggressors
as Terrorists
New
Jersey police officer pounds man on tape
6/4/09
Dallas
ISD hall monitor held in road-rage case A Dallas
Independent School District hall monitor is accused
of waving a gun and threatening a woman in a road-rage
incident Thursday morning. Bobby Strogen, 47, is being
held on suspicion of aggravated assault in the Dallas
County jail
5
Ala. officers fired for beating caught on tape BIRMINGHAM,
Ala. – Five Birmingham
police officers were fired Wednesday for beating
an unconscious suspect ejected from a car after a chase,
an attack captured on a patrol car videotape that didn't
surface publicly for a year. Police Chief A.C. Roper
said the officers, who were not identified, were seasoned
veterans but acted in a "shameful" manner
.4/20/09
Epidemic
Of Police Brutality Sweeps America An epidemic
of violence is sweeping the country. Police are being
trained that the general public are the enemy and that
they can engage in outright brutality without recourse.
Taser deaths are skyrocketing because the police have
been ordered to use "pain compliance", otherwise
known as torture, to subdue and oppress the citizenry.
It is time for police to remember that their duty is
to protect the general public from criminals and not
act as enforcers for a tyrannical police state.
GVSU
student, Derek Copp, shot in chest by police for smoking
marijuana: Executing children for the War on Drugs.
ALLENDALE -- Apartment neighbors of Grand Valley State
University student Derek Copp say they cannot fathom
what prompted police to shoot him late Wednesday in
a drug-related raid.
Ohio
ex-cop convicted in lover's death CANTON, Ohio
- A former police officer who tearfully told jurors
he accidentally killed his pregnant lover was convicted
Friday of murdering her and their unborn child 2/15/08 |
FAMILY and other VIOLENCE
9/4/10
Jonathan
Hock Sexually Assaults Passed Out Girlfriend on Live-Streaming
Video
Caught
on Tape: Nanny Brutally Abuses 11-Month-Old Baby
A Florida dad installed a hidden camera in his home after
noticing his 11-month-old child had a black eye and suspected
the nanny. As you can see from this video, the nanny
apparently went to the Hermann Goering School of Babysitting...
9/3/10
Acid-throwing
woman sought in Wash.
Police in Vancouver, Wash., are on the hunt for a woman
who threw acid in the face of another woman outside a
local Starbucks coffee shop on Monday.
Bethany Storro, 28, told reporters Thursday she was
getting something out of the trunk of her car when a
woman holding a cup came up to her and asked: "Hey
pretty girl, do you want to drink this?"
The woman then splashed the contents of the cup — believed
to be hydrochloric or sulfuric acid — on her, causing
her to stumble in pain and fall to the ground screaming.
The other woman ran off.(an unexpected paycheck and new
sunglasses, saved her sight)
8/29/10
Arizona
police say gunman kills 5, then self LAKE HAVASU CITY,
Ariz. – Police say five people were killed by a man
who entered a home in an Arizona
community and started shooting, then fled with his
two children.Police say the alleged gunman was discovered
dead early Sunday in California of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound. The two young children were found safe with relatives.
8/25/10
Police:
NY cabbie is asked if he's Muslim, stabbed NEW YORK – A
drunken passenger riding in a New
York City taxi cab attacked the driver after asking
him if he was Muslim, police said Wednesday.The driver
told police that when he answered yes, Michael Enright
pulled out a folding hand tool, reached into the front
seat and slashed him.
(Michael Enright has been arrested for a 'hate crime',
rightly so!)
8/23/10
27
arrested in Arizona rival biker shootout CHINO
VALLEY, Ariz. – Arizona authorities say
27 people have been booked on charges ranging from attempted
murder to participation in a criminal street gang after
shootings involving members of rival
motorcycle gangs, the Vagos and Hells Angels.
Detectives estimate at least 50 rounds were fired Saturday
during the shootings in the small community of Chino
Valley, north of Prescott
8/14/10
8
shot outside Buffalo, NY, restaurant; 4 killed BUFFALO,
N.Y. – A shooting outside a restaurant in downtown
Buffalo early Saturday left four people dead and four
wounded, police said. The victims were leaving a large
party inside the City Grill bar and restaurant about
2:30 a.m. when gunfire erupted, police and witnesses
said. Police were investigating witness
reports that an argument may have broken out inside.
Investigators did not know how many shooters there
were.
8/13/10
Father
charged in near-fatal beating of 2-year-old son Miami,
Florida (CNN) -- The father of a 2-year-old
Florida boy has admitted to the near-fatal beating of his
son while teaching the child how to box, officials said
Wednesday.
Lee Willie Dejesus, 23, of Homestead was arrested Tuesday
and charged with aggravated child abuse and child neglect,
according to the criminal complaint against him.
Speeding
motorcyclist taunts state trooper trapped in crashed
car A state trooper rolled his car multiple times
while chasing two reckless motorcyclists, one of whom
returned to the scene just to rub salt into the wounds
of the trooper. Injured and bleeding, the trooper,
who was trapped inside his car, managed to call 911
on his cell phone. The trooper was pulled out of his
car by emergency crews and taken to Harborview Medical
Center with serious injuries, including a head injury.
He has been identified as 46-year-old Brian Salyer
of Spanaway. He is a 22-year veteran of the force.
8/12/10
Hollywood
mother, accused of slashing 3-year-old's throat, was
due in court HOLLYWOOD — Mirtha Arias
was under orders to appear in a Pennsylvania courtroom
Thursday, responding to claims she had failed to share
custody of her 3-year-old son with the boy's father.
Instead, police said, Arias sliced her son's throat
with a box cutter and then tried to kill herself the
same way at their Hollywood apartment. The child, Sebastian
Capriotti, was in critical but stable condition late
Thursday, and was able to tell police how his mother
attacked him, said Lt. Scott Pardon, Hollywood police
spokesman.
8/3/10
Woman
says Conn. shooter complained of race bias (AP)
MANCHESTER, Conn. – A woman who knows the driver
who fatally shot at least eight co-workers and himself
at a Connecticut beer distribution company says he
had complained of racial harassment at work.
Joanne Hannah says her daughter dated Omar Thornton
for the past eight years. She says her daughter had no
indication he planned anything violent Tuesday morning
after he was asked to resign from Hartford Distributors
and refused.
Nine
killed in Conn. workplace shooting An employee
who was asked to resign from his job instead goes on
a rampage in Hartford
6/21/10
Quarrel
leads to two shooting deaths on I-64 June 20, 2010
-- Police investigate a shooting Sunday afternoon along
Interstate 55/64/70 in East St. Louis. Police say a
25-year-old East St. Louis man shot his girlfriend
before fatally shooting himself. (Joel Currier/P-D)
(while people watched helplessly in their cars as traffic
was snarled, Tommy Hill shot his girl friend, Ashley
Oliver and then shot himself, another pointless tragedy)
6/15/10
Slavery
Still Exists in America For the past 10 years,
the State Department has issued annual reports on human
trafficking worldwide, ranking most of the world’s
countries on a scale of 1 to 3. But one major country
was always left out: the United States. This year,
in a sign of the Obama administration’s more
humble approach to foreign affairs, the U.S. has subjected
itself to some of the same scrutiny it applies to other
countries. The report, which comes out Monday, makes
it clear that almost 150 years after the passage of
the 13th Amendment, slavery still exists in America....Michelles
indept story at the link
Shot
Tot Hid for Hours After Dad Killed Mom (Newser) – A
gravely wounded 3-year-old boy hid in a garbage can
for 12 hours after his father fatally shot his mom,
then killed himself, according to law enforcement authorities.
Police followed a trail of blood to the trash can where
they found the boy bleeding from 3 gunshot wounds to
his shoulder, stomach and chest. His parents lay dead
on lawn chairs outside the Anaheim home, and his uninjured
5-year-old brother was hiding elsewhere in the house.
The older boy told police he could hear his baby brother "screaming
and hollering," but didn't know where he was.
6/4/10
Young
woman's death ruled a homicide Yreka, Calif. — The
death of 24-year old Kelly Noelle Jorgenson is being
ruled a homicide following an autopsy report released
Thursday, June 3.The autopsy determined that Jorgenson's
death resulted from intracranial hemorrhage due to
homicidal assault, according to a report from the Siskiyou
County Sheriff's Office.(mt shasta news)
5/16/10
20-year-old
Santa Clara man fatally shot in Tropicana parking lot
in San Jose A 20-year-old Santa Clara man (whose
identity has not been released yet) was shot and killed
Sunday morning in the parking lot of the Tropicana
Shopping Center at Story and King roads in East San
Jose.
Witnesses told police the shooter came from a vehicle
that was driving slowly through the parking lot just
before 3 a.m. When police arrived, the victim was dead,
according to San Jose police spokesman Dirk Parsons.The
man had been walking with a few other people at the time,
he said.
4/5/10
Armenian
Gangs Blamed For "Blood Bath" at L.A. Restaurant NORTH
HOLLYWOOD -- Police suspect Armenian gangsters are
responsible for the assassination-style attack that
killed four men and wounded two others inside a North
Hollywood cafe.
The suspect was believed to be a man of Armenian descent,
about 30 years old, according to media reports about
eyewitnesses who spoke to police.
Saturday's mass shooting, described by police as a 'blood
bath,' occurred about 4:30 p.m. in the Hot Spot Cafe,
11651 Riverside Drive. Police said the victims appeared
to have been targeted and that the shooting may be related
to Armenian gangs.
3/28/10
Adam
Walsh murder revisited: The case against Jeffrey
Dahmer A Miami Herald investigation into the
murder of Adam Walsh has found that in naming Ottis
Toole as Adam's killer, authorities overlooked evidence
and witnesses pointing toward Jeffrey Dahmer.
One of the witnesses was Janice Santamassino and remembers
it well, but when she reported it to the police and
others, they didn't follow up at all.
There were many other witnesses that
the police didn't follow up on....one has to wonder
at either the 'ineptness' of the police in Florida,
or the deliberate ignoring of evidence in order to
convict a homeless man, leaving Dahmer to kill again
and again!
3/20/10
Tea
party protesters use racial epithet against Georgia's
John LewisWASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside
the U.S. Capitol , angry over the proposed
health care bill, shouted "nigger" Saturday
at U.S. Rep. John Lewis ,
a Georgia congressman and civil
rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during
an Alabama march in the 1960s.
The protesters also shouted obscenities at other members
of the Congressional Black
Caucus , lawmakers said.
"They were shouting, sort of harassing," Lewis
said. "But, it's okay, I've faced this before. It
reminded me of the 60s. It was a lot of downright hate
and anger and people being downright mean."
Shooting
unsettles Utah neighborhood In the Salt Lake City
suburb of Bluffdale, two neighbors on the lookout for
troublemakers find themselves in a standoff, with guns.
Now one is paralyzed and the other is facing trial.
2/25/10
Dad
Confesses to Tossing Infant Daughter into River SAYREVILLE,
N.J. -- A New Jersey man pleaded not guilty Thursday after
police say he told them he threw his 3-month-old daughter
off a bridge, as searchers and relatives held out hope
that the infant might still be found alive.
Rodney
Alcala 'Guilty' in Samsoe Murder, 4 Others KTLA
News / A 66-year-old former photographer was convicted
Thursday of killing a Huntington Beach girl and four
other women more than 30 years ago. Rodney Alcala had
already been convicted and sentenced to death twice
for the murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. Both convictions
were overturned on appeal due to technicalities. This
is Alcala's first conviction for the four additional
murders.
2/15/10
Relatives
wonder how Ala. prof in slaying hired Grieving
relatives of three professors gunned down at a university
faculty meeting questioned why their accused colleague
was hired despite a dispute with a former boss who
received a pipe bomb and the shooting death of her
brother.
2/13/10
Accused
Alabama prof shot, killed brother in 1986 The professor
accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty
meeting was a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, inventor
and mother whose life had been marred by a violent
episode in her distant past.
More than two decades ago, police said Amy Bishop fatally
shot her teenage brother at their Massachusetts home
in what officers at the time logged as an accident — though
authorities said Saturday that records of the shooting
are missing.
2/12/10
Prof.
in custody in fatal shooting on Ala. campus Authorities
say a woman opened fire during a faculty meeting at
the University of Alabama's
Huntsville campus, killing three biology professors
and injuring three other school employees.
University spokesman Ray Garner said the shooter was
caught outside the building without incident, and no
students were harmed in the shooting Friday.
Several students identified the woman who was being taken
into custody as Amy Bishop, an instructor and researcher
at the university. She was taken Friday night in handcuffs
from a police precinct to
the county jail and could be heard saying, "It didn't
happen. There's no way .... they are still alive."
Sister
of Pa. woman who was tortured, killed says handicap,
kindness made her vulnerable Joy Burkholder says
her sister Jennifer Daugherty trusted everyone. Burkholder
spoke Friday at a news conference alongside Westmoreland
County authorities about Daugherty's killing. The 30-year-old
woman's body was found in a garbage can Thursday. Police
charged six people who they say fed the woman vegetable
oil, spices, detergent, urine and medications before
she was killed. (What kind of sick people do we
have in this world that could do this....obviously
today.....way too many!)
1/29/10
Father
Accused of Killing 2-Year-Old Son A father is accused
of stabbing to death his own son at a Covina home.A
relative called Covina police Tuesday night to report
28-year-old Alex Trujillo was acting strange. When
police arrived at his house, one officer spotted Trujillo through
a window and he appeared to be stabbing himself.Police
kicked open the door and restrained him after a brief
struggle.Then they spotted his wounded son. The boy
died after being rushed to a hospital.
1/20/10
Murder
over loud Denver party yields 45-year prison term A
20-year-old man who fatally shot a neighbor, after
the victim asked him and others to quiet down a party,
has been sentenced to 45 years in prison.Ruben Sotelo-Sianez,
of Denver, received a sentence Tuesday that was three
years short of the maximum in Colorado for second-degree
murder, according to a media release from the Denver
District Attorney's Office.
Former
Texas minister convicted of killing wifeA former
Texas minister was convicted late Wednesday of slipping
his wife sleeping pills,
smothering her to death with a pillow and faking her
suicide note so he could be with his mistress.Jurors
deliberated more than seven hours before convicting Matt
Baker, 38, of murder in his wife's 2006 death,
which initially was ruled a suicide.
1/18/10 Rapes
of elderly women terrify central Texas towns YOAKUM,
Texas – With a serial
rapist on the loose, Cassandra McGinty
has developed a new routine when she arrives home:
search room to room, a handgun or stun gun drawn.
The predator has been assaulting older women in central
Texas over the past year, terrifying residents and frustrating
investigators who have only a vague description of the
suspect.
Pepper spray has
been flying off the shelves in the towns where the attacks
have occurred, and McGinty said her landlord in Marquez
handed out stun guns as
Christmas gifts. Nearly 200 miles away in Yoakum, elderly
volunteers at the local museum have been locking its
doors during business hours.
"I used to think I was too old for anybody to mess
with," said McGinty, 55. "I can't say that
anymore."
Beginning with the rape of a 65-year-old woman in Yoakum last
January, authorities have linked eight sexual assaults
or attempted sexual assaults to the suspect, who has
been dubbed the "Twilight Rapist" because most
of the attacks occurred around dawn. They also believe
he robbed or attempted to rob four other women.
The victims have all been women, ranging in age from
65 to 91. One rape victim played piano at her church
on Sundays. An 81-year-old woman scared off an intruder
with a gun, firing several rounds for good measure. A
66-year-old woman was attacked twice, despite having
moved across town following the first assault.
12/30/09
Calif.
deputies say man savagely kills dog, runs naked in tennis
club, pours coffee on head A man savagely killed a
dog, ran naked through a tennis club and poured hot coffee
on his head before he was finally arrested early Wednesday,
Orange County sheriff's deputies said.
Bayron Reyes Lopez, 26, of San Clemente, was hospitalized
after being captured at the tennis club where he worked
as a maintenance man, sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino
said
12/22/09
Pictured:
The baby-faced teenage girl who stabbed driver six
times with an ICE PICK in dispute over parking spot Caitlen
Watkins, 18, of Springfield, Missouri, was yesterday
charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal
action.Watkins was a passenger in a vehicle when she
confronted a driver on Sunday in a shopping centre
car park, according to court documents.
12/15/09
Mom
sentenced for putting son in boiling water A 22-year-old
North Carolina woman who put her toddler in boiling water
and burned his foot with a cigarette has been sentenced
to prison.
12/5/09
Police
search for Wis. father linked to 4 slayings Wisconsin
authorities on Saturday searched for a father who they
say is linked to the deaths of his two young daughters
and their mothers. The man has been charged in two
of the slayings and police have warned that he is armed
and dangerous.
Tyrone Adair, 38, of Middleton, was charged Friday with
first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of his
33-year-old girlfriend, Tracy Judd, and their 23-month-old
daughter, Deja Adair. Judd's older daughter told detectives
Adair called her Thursday to say her mother and Deja
would not be home because they had been in a bad accident
Mom
pleads no contest in quadriplegic girl's death A Flint
woman accused of starving her adopted quadriplegic daughter
to death and stashing the body in a storage unit pleaded
no contest Friday to involuntary
manslaughter.
Lorrie Thomas' plea came four days before she was to
go to trial on second-degree murder and other charges.
Ind.
teen charged, his parents grieve slain son Showing
no emotion and with his parents a few blocks from the
courthouse, an Indiana teenager pleaded not guilty
to killing his 10-year-old brother. His mother and
father were greeting mourners who came to pay respects
to their slain younger son.
Andrew Conley, 17, was charged as an adult in Ohio
Circuit Court with murdering his brother,
Conner Conley,
a decision that the boys' parents supported, said Dearborn-Ohio
County Prosecutor Aaron Negangard. In front
of a few of his friends, the teen answered only basic
questions during Friday's hearing. His attorney, Gary
Sorge, entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, and
left the courthouse without talking to reporters.
11/30/09
Ore.
woman, shot from back seat, still struggling A Coos
County woman, Ashley Kendall, seriously wounded by her
husband who was hiding the back seat of her vehicle is
fighting off a bacterial infection and faces more surgery.
She is in critical condition after her estranged husband,
Travis kendall slipped into the back seat of her car and
shot her. He then killed himself.
11/27/09
4
relatives shot dead at Fla. Thanksgiving party Police
were searching Friday for a man suspected in the Thanksgiving
shooting deaths of his twin sisters, aunt and a 6-year-old
cousin during a family celebration.One of the sisters,
Lisa Knight, 33, was pregnant, said Jupiter Police
spokeswoman Sally Collins-Ortiz. She did not say how
far along the woman was in her pregnancy.
Jupiter Police Sgt. Scott Pascarella said officers
were looking for Paul Michael Merhige, 35, of Miami.
Merhige is a cousin of the 6-year-old victim, Makayla
Sitton, and has no criminal record, police said.
11/6/09
Stepfather
convicted in death of 'Baby Grace' A Southeast
Texas man was convicted Friday of capital murder in
the 2007 beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter
whose battered body was found in a container floating
in Galveston Bay.
10/31/09
Up
to 6 Bodies Found at Ohio Home A convicted rapist
who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new
rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city
neighborhood, after police found as many as six bodies
at his home. Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said
Anthony Sowell was walking down the street on the east
side of Cleveland when authorities spotted him and
took him into custody.
10/28/09
Girl
gang-raped outside California high school as onlookers
laughed A 15-year-old girl was gang raped by up
to 10 teenagers outside a California high school homecoming
dance as others laughed and took photographs. In a
crime that has shocked America up to two dozen passers-by
were said to have seen the crime happening and failed
to report it as the girl was subjected to an ordeal
lasting two-and-a-half hours.
10/8/09
Gun-toting
soccer mom, husband found shot dead A soccer mom
who gained national attention when she openly carried
a loaded gun to her 5-year-old daughter's game was
shot dead Wednesday along with her husband in what
appeared to be a murder-suicide, police said.Meleanie
Hain and Scott Hain were pronounced dead Wednesday
night at their home in Lebanon, about 80 miles west
of Philadelphia. Children said 'daddy shot mommy'.
10/1/09
2
sons arrested in Morgan Hill on suspicion of abuse
of mom bitten by ferrets Brian Carter, 41, and
Jon Carter, 50, who are their mother's primary caregivers,
were booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on felony
charges of elderly abuse likely to produce great bodily
harm, according to police.
8/16/09
Police:
Anger Over Breakup Reason For 2 DeathsPolice Say 24-Year
Old Shot 2 in the Head After Breaking Up With Girlfriend
Chicago: 3
Wounded in Uptown Shooting Three people were shot
early Sunday while driving through an alley in the
North Side Uptown neighborhood.
8/14/09
Boy
left beaten and starving in locked closet; 2 arrested A
woman and her 16-year-old male roommate were arrested
after authorities said they found her 5-year-old son
locked in a closet, emaciated, battered and bruised.
Desiree Gonzalez, 31, and the unidentified roommate
were taken into custody Tuesday after San Bernardino
County sheriff's deputies received an anonymous call
saying a child was being held hostage and denied food
and water. They also were told that he was being burned
and beaten.
8/4/09
Silent
gunman's Pa. health club shooting kills 4 An armed
man strolled to the back of an exercise class at a health
club in suburban Pittsburgh on Tuesday night and then pulled
out two guns and started spraying bullets, leaving four
people dead, including himself, and injuring at least 10
others, authorities said.
7/24/09
4
Ariz. boys accused of raping 8-year-old girl Officers
responding to a report of hysterical screams found
an 8-year-old girl partially clothed and four boys,
barely in their teens, running from an empty shed.
The boys, ages 9 to 14, face charges ranging from sexual
assault to kidnapping, police said Thursday. Authorities
in Phoenix say it's one of the most horrific cases
they've ever seen.All five children are refugees from
the West African nation of Liberia.(and to make
the matters worse, the parents are from a culture that
blames the girl and has rejected her now, so she can't
go home..these people need a big lesson in compassion
and to examine their culture belief systems)
7/23/09
3
Kids Found Starved in Texas Hotel Bathroom DALLAS — Three
children were kept in a hotel bathroom for about a
year and were "horribly emaciated" when police
found them earlier this month, authorities said. One
claimed to have been repeatedly sexually assaulted. The
children's mother, 30-year-old Abneris Santiago, is
charged with injury to a child. Her 37-year-old live-in
boyfriend, Alfred Santiago, is charged with aggravated
sexual assault and continuous sexual abuse.
7/20/09
Lawsuit:
Drunk Sweet 16 Party Crashers Molested Girls, Beat Up Guest It
was supposed to be a pretty cheerleader's dream Sweet 16
party. But the $50,000 celebration turned sour
when thugs attending a wedding at the same catering hall
in the borough of Queens crashed the affair, molested teenage
girls and walloped the guest of honor's cousin, a new lawsuit
alleges.
7/18/09
6
slain in Tenn., Ala.; suspect in custody Five people
were found slain in two homes in southern Tennessee Saturday,
some of whom were related, and a sixth person at a Huntsville,
Ala., business, said authorities who have a suspect in
custody. Tennessee Bureau of
Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said in an
e-mail that 30-year-old Jacob Shaffer, of Huntsville, was
being questioned but no charges have been filed. She said
he was sitting on the front
porch of one of the homes in Lincoln County when
deputies arrived and that he was being held by local authoritie
7/12/09
Motive
probed in slaying of Fla. pair with 16 kids Investigators
are looking at business ties among other leads for a motive
in the slaying of a wealthy Florida couple who adopted
12 children with developmental
disabilities and other problems, authorities said
Monday.There may be multiple motives and more arrests are
possible after three men were jailed Sunday, two of them
on murder charges, in the shooting deaths of Byrd and Melanie
Billings at their sprawling home near Pensacola, Escambia
County Sheriff David Morgan said.
6/10/09 Wilmington
man stabs wife, two daughters A Wilmington man
stabbed his wife and two stepdaughters Sunday when
they returned home from church, police said Monday.
William Zelazduez, 44, was arrested about 8:30 p.m.
at his home in the 1000 block of East O Street, Los
Angeles police Officer Norma Eisenman said. Zelazduez
was home drinking while his family was at church. When
they returned, he stabbed his wife for unknown reasons,
and the stepdaughters when they intervened, Eisenman
said.
Teen
gets 100 years for child sex abuse A teenager who
has profound mental disabilities was sentenced to 100
years in prison after pleading guilty to charges in
a sex abuse case involving his 6-year-old neighbor.Aaron
Hart, 18, of Paris, was arrested and charged after
a neighbor found him fondling her stepson in September.
The teen pleaded guilty to five counts, including aggravated
sexual assault and indecency by contact, and a jury
decided his punishment.
6/5/09Pa.
mom charged with beating infant with crib part A
western Pennsylvania woman is in jail on charges she
fatally beat her 3-month-old son with a piece of a
crib she was assembling last August.Uniontown police
say 25-year-old Lori Beth Workman fractured her baby's
skull and inflicted other injuries when she became
upset that he wouldn't stop crying. Police say she
told them she concealed the beating from her husband
because she was afraid he'd get mad at her.
5/22/09Ga.
father gets 100 years for poisoning kids' soup A
Georgia man is sentenced to 100 years in prison for
poisoning his children to extort money from Campbell's
Soup Co.William Cunningham was
sentenced Thursday after a jury found him guilty on
seven counts of aggravated assault for forcing the
children in 2006 to eat soup laced with prescription
drugs and lighter
fluid.His 3-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter
were hospitalized twice. A family member said the youngsters
may suffer lifelong respiratory
problems from lung damage caused by the lighter
fluid.
Shootings
erupt in West Palm Beach after Easter Sunday suspect
released WEST PALM BEACH - Authorities are looking
for whoever shot two people in a drive-by shooting
near Fifth Street and Division Avenue over the weekend,
police said. Police suspect the shooting, which happened
about 5 a.m., was related to a drive-by shooting on
Easter Sunday that left a 15-month-old boy and a 34-year-old
man wounded.
4/19/09Md.
Father Kills Wife, Kids Before Taking Own Life An
accountant for a railroad operator killed his wife and
their three children before fatally shooting himself
in a northwest Maryland home, leaving a gruesome scene
that was discovered Saturday by the youngsters' grandfather,
authorities said.
4/17/09MA
woman accused of killing unborn child, daughterOhio
dad who shock-collared kids gets 16 years David
Liskany of Jamestown had pleaded guilty to charges
of felonious assault and attempted felonious assault.The
judge said Liskany punished the children in 2006 and
2007 by putting them in cold showers, holding them
underwater and using the shock collar, which is commonly
used to train dogs
.1/31/09
DNA
tests confirm remains are Caylee Anthony Skeletal remains found
in the woods are the Florida 3-year-old who has been
missing since June, but they don't reveal any clues
about how she was killed, a county
medical examiner said Friday. A utility worker
stumbled upon the remains last week, less than a half-mile
from where the girl lived. DNA tests confirm that the
remains match Caylee Anthony's genetic profile, said
the medical examiner, Dr.
Jan Garavaglia.
6
dead, 2 wounded in Wash. state shooting spree ALGER,
Wash. - A shooting rampage Tuesday afternoon in northwest
Washington has left six people dead, including a sheriff's
deputy, the State Patrol said. A suspect in the shootings
has surrendered.
Two people were wounded during the violence in Skagit
County, including a state
trooper who reportedly was grazed in the arm by
a bullet.A man was arrested after turning himself in
at the Skagit County sheriff's
office in Mount Vernon,
Trooper Keith Leary said.
Son
Dismembered Dad After Being Raped CORTEZ,
Colo. -- A 20-year-old man accused of killing
and dismembering his father told police that after
his father raped him, he shot his father, skinned and
decapitated him and then fed his flesh to coyotes,
according to court documents obtained by the
Cortez
Journal.Teen
Accused In 'Mortal Kombat' Killing Makes Court AppearanceGREELEY,
Colo. -- The teenaged girl accused of killing
her 7-year-old step-sister appeared in court in Weld
County Wednesday. Heather Maria Trujillo, 16, and her
boyfriend, Lamar Roberts, 17, have been charged as
adults with felony child abuse resulting in death in
connection with the Dec. 6 death of Zoe Garcia. Trujillo
told Johnstown Police that she and Roberts were imitating
the Mortal Kombat video game when they began attacking
Garcia. An arrest affidavit said the two kicked, karate-chopped
and body-slammed slammed Zoe while imitating the video
game
Man
opens fire outside California church LOS
ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A man with a
rifle opened fire near a church Saturday morning in
the San Fernando Valley and wounded three people, Los
Angeles police said.
Fernando Diaz Jr., 33, was arrested on suspicion of attempted
murder, said Los Angeles Police Officer Ana Aguirre.
He was held in Van Nuys jail in lieu of $1.5 million
bail."I don't really have too much to say about
that. It's a personal thing between me and the church," Diaz
said to The Associated Press before being taken to jail.
Disabled
pregnant woman used as target practice ALTON,
Illinois (AP) -- Banished to the basement,
the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another
baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and
a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.
Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator
upstairs, where housemates used her for target practice
with BBs, burned her with a glue gun and doused her
with scalding liquid that peeled away her skin.They
torched what few clothes she had, so she walked around
naked. They often pummeled her with an aluminum bat
or metal handle.Dixon -- six months pregnant -- died
after weeks of abuse. Police have charged two adults,
three teenagers and a 12-year-old boy with murder in
the case that has repulsed many in this Mississippi
River town.
3/22/08
Dad
gets 20-plus years in prison in tot's killing PHILADELPHIA,
Pennsylvania (AP) -- A man who killed his 17-month-old
daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox was sentenced to
more than two decades in prison. Prosecutors said Tyrone
Spellman, 27, killed Alayiah Turman in September 2006
with at least five blows to the head when she pulled
down his Xbox console. The force of the blows cracked
the toddler's skull several times.
3/15/08 Dad
accused of forcing girl to kill pet cat MUNCIE,
Indiana (AP) -- A man was jailed Thursday
on charges that he forced his 7-year-old daughter to
kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand
and making her stab the pet.Danield J. Collins, 39,
told his children during a visit to his home Sunday
that he wanted them to "learn how to kill" and
gave his 11-year-old son a knife to do it, according
to an affidavit filed in the case.The boy tried to
save the cat by hiding it under a sofa bed and putting
ketchup on a knife when Collins went to the bathroom.
But when the father realized that the cat was not dead,
he forced his daughter to hold the knife and then held
her hand tightly as he drove the knife into the animal,
Muncie police Detective Jami Brown said.
3/15/08 Family
Massacre Casts Pall Over Town EMORY, Texas — Penny
Caffey played piano in a gospel band and her husband
studied to be an ordained minister. They were asleep
when police say their teenage daughter's boyfriend
crept into their bedroom around 4 a.m. and started
shooting.
3/8/08 Louisiana
Mother Says Revenge-Seeking Woman Tortured, Killed
Her Baby
BOGALUSA, La. — A mother whose 6-week-old
baby died after being burned, beaten and drugged says
she thinks the motive was revenge, a Bogalusa newspaper
reports.The child's mother, Lindsey Daigle, 19, told
The Daily News she believes Amy Leighanne Thomas, 22,
harmed the baby after finding out that Daigle had tattled
on Thomas for taking something from a co-worker's locker.
3/8/08 Pennsylvania
Hair Stylist Shoots Client Unhappy With Cut
She thought she was getting a bad haircut, but police
in southwestern Pennsylvania say when Lauren Newton complained,
she got a bullet in the back. Newton's hairstylist is
now facing charges of aggravated assault and reckless
endangerment.
3/8/08 Acid
poured on slain soldiers TACOMA, Wash. - A Fort
Lewis soldier killed a married couple — both
fellow soldiers — and poured acid on their bodies
in an attempt to dispose of them, a prosecutor said
Monday.Spc. Ivette Gonzalez Davila also is accused
of taking the couple's 6-month-old girl. The 22-year-old
was ordered held without bond for investigation of
aggravated first-degree murder and kidnapping.
3/3/08 6
dead, including 2 children, in Memphis MEMPHIS,
Tenn. - Police found the bodies of six people, including
two children, as well as three critically wounded children
in a Memphis home
on Monday in a case authorities were treating as a
multiple homicide.
3/3/08 Police:
Dead student victim of serial rapist
2/17/088
wounded in Los Angeles street shooting LOS ANGELES
- A gunman fired into a crowd of children and adults
at a South Los Angeles bus stop just after schools
let out Wednesday, wounding eight, authorities said.
2/27/08 Man
randomly stabs two in theater during horror film |
