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Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by admin on Sept 7, 2007, 10:02am

I'd like to try something and I'm curious how quickly this thread would grow. We have an incredible range of geographic locations among the members of this board. I'm asking you to scan your local news web sites and simply post the name and location of people who were murdered in your community this week.

Regardless of your stance on the issue of capital punishment, the number of murders occurring on a daily basis across the world is staggering and sobering.

You can post the date of the murder in the body of the post and a link to the news article if you like, or any additional information including a photo if available. Please include simply their name, age (if available) and location in the subject line.

Use a separate post for each case.

Please respect the intent of this thread and do not use this thread to make a political statement about the war. Please do not list soldiers killed in battle here.

Death row inmates are not murder victims and do not belong here.

Edited to add: We should post just the basic info about the case in the thread, rather than a complete news article. I don't want to duplicate what already occurs in the News Articles forums. Let's just include a synopsis of what is known about the murder at this time, and a link to the article for those who want further details.

Sharon White, 49, Houston, Texas
Post by admin on Sept 7, 2007, 10:04am

Sharon was murdered on September 6, 2007 by her estranged husband in a murder-suicide. The couple's 12-yr-old son was present when his mom was killed.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5115917.html

Reggie Hicks, 71, Humboldt, TN
Post by deadelvis on Sept 7, 2007, 10:15am

Reggie Hicks, 71, robbed and murdered. 2 teens age 17 and 18 have been charged.

http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7029379&nav=menu59_2

Scott Highfill, Willard Reid, Robert Barckley - FL
Post by riverton79 on Sept 7, 2007, 10:56am

LEHIGH ACRES, FLORIDA: Officials with the Lee County Sheriff's Office have released the names of the three men they say were murdered in Lehigh Acres. The three men were found Sunday in a Hyundai Elantra which was hidden in some bushes near the corner of 44th Street SW and Ruth Lane.

The men have been identified as:

44-year-old Scott Highfill of 4899 Esplanade Street in Bonita Springs
55-year-old Willard Reid Graham of 4901 Esplanade Street in Bonita Springs
35-year-old Robert Barckley of 3615 Cartwright Court in Bonita Springs

http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=14438&z=3&p=

Jackson Wingo, 15 months old, Dallas TX
Post by lemondrop on Sept 7, 2007, 11:18am

Jackson Wingo, 15 months old, murdered August 30th (just posted today).

Mother is arrested in his murder.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/....h.ae4d28ce.html

Dedricke Henderson, 27, Dallas TX
Post by lemondrop on Sept 7, 2007, 11:22am

Dedricke Henderson, 27. Shot to death.

Rolquell Arnold, 19, Atlanta GA
Post by allison on Sept 7, 2007, 11:29am

Gunfire at a home known for having loud and violent parties left bystander Rolquell Arnold, 19, dead, said Officer Eric Schwartz, a spokesman for Atlanta police. Two others who were shot —- Marion Orr, 18, and Anthony Stokes, 20 —- were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. Orr is in critical condition and Stokes was treated and released.

Witnesses said over 50 shots were fired and likened the violence to the "OK Corral."

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2007/09/03/teen0903.html

Tony Moore, 39, Athens, Texas
Post by pdp0143 on Sept 7, 2007, 11:32am

9/6/07-Athens

Just three days after a violent East Texas murder, an Athens man is behind bars charged with capital murder. Early Thursday morning, police arrested Edward Smalley, 51, at a home near Houston. Smalley is accused of brutally attacking and killing Tony Moore, 39, at the victim's Athens home on Monday. During the arrest, police say they also found Moore's stolen 2003 Jaguar and seized it as evidence. Besides that, police still do not know why the murder took place.

http://tinyurl.com/2n8jsu

Betsy Mary Smith, 22, Spotsylvania VA
Post by admin on Sept 7, 2007, 2:39pm

A teenager was charged on Tuesday with killing and raping his sister and beating his niece with a sledgehammer in a crime the sheriff called one of the most brutal he's ever seen.

Walter Smith Jr., 16, was charged with the first-degree murder and rape of his 22-year-old sister, Betsy Mary Smith, and aggravated assault against his two year-old niece, Andrea Costello.

Based on Walter Smith's accounts, police said Betsy Smith was beaten with a sledgehammer and stabbed before being raped. When Costello began crying, she was struck in the head with a sledgehammer. Betsy Smith, Costello and a 1-year-old boy were then locked inside the room.

http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1238307

The killer's mother is already making excuses for him....

Jerrod Deshun Scales, 25, The Colony TX
Post by janet on Sept 7, 2007, 3:30pm

Jerrod Deshun Scales, 25 murdered

The Colony police arrested a 35-year-old man linked to the fatal shooting of Jerrod Deshun Scales, 25, whose decomposing body was found in the suspect's house Thursday. Police Chief Joseph T. Clark said he expected to formally charge Paul J. Krajcovic, 35, with murder. Mr. Krajcovic was arrested Friday afternoon at a Tex-Mex restaurant in Lewisville. Mr. Scales died from a gunshot wound to the head, the medical examiner's office ruled. Chief Clark said the shooting appears drug-related. The shooting likely took place several days ago, he said.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dw.....af050b6e.html#

Jane L. Lemoine, 56, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 7, 2007, 9:32pm

A woman who was the manager of a self-storage facility was murdered during an armed robbery of the business. Jane L. Lemoine was interviewing a prospective employee when the robbers accosted her. They forced the interviewee on the floor and shot the manager to death before leaving. The robbers got away with a small amount of cash and the office telephones. They also stole the minivan belonging to the woman who came to interview for a job.

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/k....g.aeb4081f.html

UPDATE: Houston police have charged two men in the fatal shooting of a 53-year-old woman who was killed last week during the robbery of a storage facility in northeast Houston. Charles Scott, 26, and Vernon M. Scott, 24, are charged with capital murder in the 262nd State District Court. Both men, thought to be brothers, are still at large.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5133519.html

Unnamed woman, Edmonds OR
Post by grandma on Sept 7, 2007, 9:51pm

Edmonds police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman whose body was found this morning next to a building in the 21700 block of Highway 99.

Investigators were unable to determine the woman's age because of the condition of the remains, said Sgt. Don Anderson. There was no obvious trauma to the body.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003873957_webedmonds07m.html

Hasson Johnson, 37, Los Angeles CA
Post by bigmama on Sept 8, 2007, 2:07am

Hasson Johnson, 37- was shot and killed the evening of Labor Day on the street in South Los Angeles. 2 male Hispanic suspects ran away from scene.

http://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/news_view/36286

Dr. James Dewalt, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 8, 2007, 8:08am

Houston police have charged a woman with her husband's murder. Police said she stabbed her husband multiple times. He died at their home on City Park Central. A man who was stabbed to death is identified as a professor at the University of Houston. Police say Dr. James Dewalt's wife, Kristen, fatally stabbed him while at their southeast Houston apartment yesterday morning. Police aren't releasing any details about what led up to the stabbing. Meanwhile on the UH campus, students are shocked to hear the news about a professor who had just started teaching this semester.

Denise Guillotte, 33, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 8, 2007, 8:09am

A homeless man walking in the 4100 block of Broadway noticed an object lying on the Sims Bayou embankment Thursday night. When he went down to check it out, he realized it was a homeless woman who he'd seen in the area. Houston police are questioning the woman's supposed boyfriend, but no charges have been filed. The victim was 33 years old. Homeless people living under the same bridge on the other side of the bayou told investigators they heard Denise Guillotte and her boyfriend arguing about 10 a.m. Thursday morning. Guillotte had suffered stab wounds to her right arm and chest.

Unnamed man, 25, Austin TX
Post by kay on Sept 9, 2007, 6:22am

A 25-year-old man was shot to death in a Southeast Austin apartment complex early Saturday morning after a dispute over drugs, police said. Humberto Zuniga, 21, is suspected of shooting the man after Zuniga thought the man had stolen drugs from him, said Laura Albrecht, an Austin police spokeswoman. The victim's name was not released, pending notification of his family.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/ne....JD38RpnsGxKyFql!-207860746&UrAuth=`NXNUOcN]UbTTUWUXUVUZT[UTUWU\U_UZUbU[UcTYWYWZV&urcm=y

Lola Marie Basham, 83, Ft. Smith, AR
Post by kma367 on Sept 9, 2007, 11:01am

Prosecuting Attorney Gunner Delay said he didn’t hesitate to charge an 83-year-old man with murder in the slashing death of his wife. Autry Basham of Mansfield was charged Thursday in Sebastian County Circuit Court with first-degree murder in the Aug. 27 death of Lola Marie Basham, also 83. Authorities believe the death was an attempted murder/suicide.

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/200825/

Elvin Gamble, 42, Little Rock AR
Post by kma367 on Sept 9, 2007, 11:04am

Tuesday, Davis’ worst fears were confirmed when Little Rock Police Sgt. Willie Davis, Gamble’s stepbrother, found her son’s body under a tarp behind a house at 510 E. Charles Bussey Ave.

The man accused of killing Elvin Gamble, Calvin Perry III, appeared in court Friday on a charge of first-degree murder. He was being held in the Pulaski County jail in lieu of a $ 500, 000 bond.

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/200824/

Unnamed man, Ft Worth TX
Post by janet on Sept 9, 2007, 4:27pm

One person was killed and two others injured in a home invasion in east Fort Worth early Sunday. The incident happened when two men, wearing ski masks and armed with a shotgun and a pistol, broke into the home in the 2500 block of Tierney Road. Authorities said they weren't sure if the house was randomly targeted or if the victims knew the gunmen, the report said. The pair pistol-whipped a man and a woman, and a third person was shot, the report said. The shooting victim, identified only as a male, was transported to John Peter Smith hospital, where he died. Police are still looking for the suspects.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/229326.html

Roger Covault, 71; Robert Harris, 53 - Dayton, OH
Post by phatkat on Sept 9, 2007, 5:22pm

A chiropractor friend of mine works around the corner from this store. He knew the owner very well and had just seen him that morning to schedule an appointment for him.

DAYTON — Generous and kind were just two of the words grief-stricken neighbors of the Covault Market and Coin Laundry, 3705 Wayne Ave., used to described owner Roger Covault.

Covault, 71, and an employee, Robert T. Harris, 53, were gunned down in an apparent robbery.

Two men arrested in the double slaying, identified as Brandon Phillips, 18, of 1820 Coventry Road, and Michael Purdue, 20, of 1926 Suman Ave., were being held in the Montgomery County Jail pending the filing of formal charges.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content....tinginside.html

Dragan Sekuljica, Woolongong, Australia
Post by cyclone on Sept 10, 2007, 5:26am

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22393884-29277,00.html

Dragan Sekuljica was shot dead at the north Wollongong Novotel hotel's nightclub on Saturday morning. Witnesses said Mr Sekuljica was chased into the Splashes nightclub by a man wearing a balaclava, who shot him in the head. A security guard was also shot before the man fled on foot. Wollongong Chief Inspector Joe Mura said police were investigating several possible angles, and were not ruling out drugs as a possible factor in the killing.

Arlie Jones, 48 Abel Marquez, 32 Scott Gardner, 30
Post by admin on Sept 10, 2007, 3:45pm

Odessa TX
A gunman shot and killed two police officers and critically injured a third while the officers were responding to a report of a domestic dispute at the man's house. After the shootings Saturday night, the suspected gunman, 58-year-old Larry White, held police in a four-hour standoff until he surrendered around 10 p.m. Killed were Cpls. Arlie Jones, 48, and John "Scott" Gardner, 30. Cpl. Abel Marquez, 32, who was shot in the face with buckshot, remained hospitalized in Lubbock in critical condition. UPDATE: Abel Marquez later died from his injuries.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296252,00.html

Christina Wollenzien, 28. Sheboygan WI
Post by stormyweather on Sept 10, 2007, 7:37pm

This wasn't in my area but I saw this on Yahoo. It happened in Wisconsin.

A gunman in camouflage killed a former co-worker inside a Wisconsin factory early Monday, then committed suicide in the sprawling building. Police identified the shooter as Shadow Yang, 40, and the victim as Christina Wollenzien, 28. Both lived in Sheboygan. Wollenzien was an assembly line worker in Rockline Industries' coffee filter division and had worked in the same area as Yang until about a year ago, a company official said. She was on the job Monday when she was shot to death around 4:30 a.m., police Lt. Michael Williams said. Her attacker fired one shot, hitting her in the abdomen; then, when she tried to get away, he shot her in the head.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_o....jTz8oThFrBG2ocA

Open the link to read the entire article.

Irene Franco, 26, Irving TX
Post by janet on Sept 10, 2007, 8:05pm

Irving police have released the name of a Mineral Wells woman who was found dead Sunday in an Irving motel room. Irene Franco, 26, was identified by police after they contacted her family. Meanwhile, officers continued looking for Franco's 3-year-old son, Daniel Orona, and her common-law husband, Ernesto Orona, 29. "We just need to lay eyes on that boy and that man," Tull said. "I hate to say it, that (the father) is a person of interest, but he is." Investigators need to talk to him, Tull said, to "piece together" what happened to the boy's mother. The woman's body was found by a cleaning crew about 12:30 p.m. Sunday at a Motel 6 in the 2600 block of the freeway, also called Airport Freeway, Tull said. "Initial indications are that she had been strangled," Tull said.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/230233.html

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man accused of murdering his common-law wife, Irving police said Tuesday. Police were searching for Ernesto Orona, 29, of Mineral Wells and his 3-year-old son, Daniel. The family was last heard from Saturday evening. The body of Irene Franco, 26, of Mineral Wells was found Sunday at the motel in the 2600 block of West Airport Freeway. She appeared to have been strangled, police said.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/....n.c3a22e6c.html
(added by Lotus Flower)

Barbara Santos, 26. Bayshore NY
Post by tozzie on Sept 10, 2007, 9:13pm

NORTH BAY SHORE, N.Y. A pregnant woman stabbed another pregnant woman to death after a brawl at the homeless shelter where they were living, police said.

Shantelle Scruggs, 21, was arraigned Saturday on manslaughter charges in the killing of Barbara Santos, 26. Both women were eight months pregnant and lived at the Project ReDirect homeless shelter with about 20 other people.
http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_251170529.html

Unnamed man, Austin TX
Post by kay on Sept 11, 2007, 6:05am

Austin police are investigating a homicide in the 7000 block of Decker Lane in Northeast Austin near Walter E. Long Municipal Park. Officers were in the Huntington Meadows apartment complex at around 1:41 a.m. this morning when they heard an altercation in another part of the complex. They went to where the altercation was and found a Hispanic man with injuries from the fight. Officers called EMS paramedics and the man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was not released pending identification and notification of his family members. Police ask that anyone who may have more information about the incident call the Homicide Tip Line at 477-3588.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/s....ernig ht_h.html

Anternette Thomas, 19 and unborn baby, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 11, 2007, 11:13am

A 19-year-old pregnant woman was fatally shot in the head in a southwest Houston apartment early this morning. Homicide detectives are questioning a man described as the woman's boyfriend and another male associate of the couple. Anternette Thomas was reported to have been in the bathroom of her apartment when she was shot. Detectives were called to the scene at about 1 a.m. She was seven months pregnant.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5124726.html

Jaime Espinoza, 40, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 11, 2007, 11:32am

A northwest Harris County woman told investigators that she fatally shot her husband out of fear for her own safety. When deputies arrived just after midnight at the couple's home, Angela Espinosa, 34, told them that she had been a victim of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, Jaime Espinosa, 40. Detectives later said they haven't uncovered any past domestic abuse incidents connected to the couple. Angela Espinosa told detectives that she shot her husband while he was asleep. The pistol, a 5-shot .38 caliber revolver, lay on the kitchen table when deputies arrived at the scene. The couple's three daughters, 11, 13 and 15, were asleep inside the home when Jaime Espinosa was slain. Angela Espinosa was charged today with murder. She remains in custody at the Harris County Jail with bail set at $50,000.

Alma Rico, 31, Irving TX
Post by lemondrop on Sept 11, 2007, 12:06pm

The body of Alma Rico, 31, of Irving, was discovered Saturday in the 3200 block of West Country Club Drive. Police had responded to a report of a man threatening another with a knife. Omar Loredo, 21, who had been stabbed, led police to Ms. Rico's body. Mr. Loredo and Ms. Rico were co-workers, said David Tull, Irving police spokesman. Oscar Valadez Oscar Valadez, 29, was arrested late Monday in Freestone County on an accusation of murder, police said. Jose Valadez, 38, of Grapevine was also charged with murder in the death of his estranged wife. Ms. Rico and Jose Valadez were going through a divorce and have three children, ages 5, 6 and 14, police said.

Hanna Mack, 6, Navarro Mills TX
Post by lemondrop on Sept 11, 2007, 12:18pm

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The body of Hanna Mack was discovered at her home near Navarro Mills Lake. The child's mother, Dana Mack, found the little girl just before 7:00 in the morning. A law enforcement source tells CBS 11 News that Hanna was sexually assaulted before she was left hanging inside the garage. The 6-year-old girl had reportedly just started first grade at Blooming Grove Elementary. She was the youngest of three sisters. Neighbor Nikki Watson describes Hanna as a "beautiful little girl. Just happy every time I've seen her; just jumping around as happy as can be, always smiling, gorgeous little baby." UPDATE: Authorities named the live-in boyfriend of the mother of a 6-year-old girl found hanged and sexually assaulted as the primary suspect on Thursday. Kevin Wayne Anders was arrested late Wednesday on charges of unlawful possession of child pornography after an analysis of computer files revealed pornography and is being held on a $100,000 bond.

More...
http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_253191522.html

Rachel Williams, 91, Victoria, Australia
Post by cyclone on Sept 11, 2007, 11:27pm

A 91-year-old Victorian woman brutally bashed last month in her home by an intruder has died in hospital. Rachel Williams was readmitted to Frankston Hospital, south of Melbourne, on Monday but died around 3.30pm (AEST) yesterday, police have said. On August 13, Ms Williams woke to find an intruder standing over her bed in the home she had been living in for 60 years. The intruder bashed her in the head several times and then ran away. She was left severely bruised by the attack and had to be treated in hospital.

http://tinyurl.com/29wxwj

Source www.news.com.au

Samuel Cook, 36, Lufkin, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Sept 12, 2007, 3:15pm

09/11/07 - Lufkin
Angelina County Murder Investigation

An East Texas man was gunned down early this morning outside of Lufkin.

Authorities say someone called police after seeing an injured man waving for help on Sundale Street off Highway 69 North around 12:30 am.

When Angelina County Sheriff's Department deputies arrived, they found 36-year-old Samuel Cook dead on the side of the road.

http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=7059766

Curtis Glover, 23, Huntington, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Sept 12, 2007, 3:21pm

09/10/07 - East Texas

Weekend Murder

An East Texas man is dead after suffering a gunshot wound to the head. Twenty-three year old Curtis Glover was transported just after midnight Friday night to Memorial Hospital in Lufkin where he later died.

http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=7050681

Xavier Butler, 27, Jacksonville, FL
Post by kma367 on Sept 12, 2007, 6:30pm

Jacksonville Police are searching for a killer tonight. Someone shot three men, in the parking lot of a hotel. One of the people drawn to the shooting by the sound of bullets was a soldier, who recently returned from Iraq. "With seeing people laying down there it brought back memories for me back in february when I lost six soldiers, seven soldiers actually," said Todd Miller. But this scene was a long way from the war in Iraq. It happened in a Jacksonville hotel parking lot. Although the shooting brought back painful memories, Todd Miller didn't let it keep him from helping out three men shot while sitting in a car outside of room 133. "The people that were there did not know how to do CPR so I jumped in and helped give mouth to mouth while the other guy was pumping, we worked on him for about five or ten minutes," said Miller. That man died, two others were taken to the hospital, one was in very critical condition. Witnesses told Jacksonville Police the shooter drove off in a blue Chevy Impala or Caprice. Investigators now say that man is 27 year old Xavier Butler. What they don't know is what prompted the shooting. "We're not even sure whether the victims knew the suspect, they're all local from here in jacksonville," said Lt. Martin Cass with Jacksonville Police.

http://www.fox16.com/news/local/story.as....f8fe206&rss=315

Martha Vega, 50, Queens, NY
Post by tozzie on Sept 12, 2007, 9:37pm

Martha Vega was 50 years old and hard-working, was found dead in her Ridgewood, Queens basement apartment. And that the medical examiner confirmed Tuesday afternoon that Vega was killed, her skull was crushed by a horrible blow to the head, and she was strangled.
http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_254183810.html

Brandon Glenn Brazel, 32, Willis TX
Post by admin on Sept 13, 2007, 7:00pm

Willis police are trying to determine a motive in the slaying of a man found shot in a car in supermarket parking Wednesday. The body of Brandon Glenn Brazel, 32, was found about 10:20 p.m. at the Kroger supermarket parking lot at 12466 Interstate 45. Police were sent to the location to investigate the report of a shooting victim and found Brazel, of Willis, in the driver's seat of a blue Ford Mustang. He had been shot several times.

Deborah Mulqueen, 51, Dallas TX
Post by janet on Sept 13, 2007, 7:21pm

DALLAS -- Police identified the bodies of a man and a woman who were found dead inside a north Dallas apartment Wednesday morning in an apparent murder-suicide. Deborah Mulqueen, 51, and her son, Richard McFarland, 29, were located in a bedroom several hours after police received reports of shots fired in the apartment. Police said McFarland shot his mother and then himself in the head with an automatic weapon. McFarland’s brother made the 911 call shortly after 7 a.m. after he was able to run out of the ground floor apartment. The call came in as a disturbance with shots fired.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/232509.html

Greggory Connolly, Longview, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Sept 13, 2007, 7:34pm

Thursday, September 13, 2007

The Longview Police Department was dispatched to a shooting and suspected homicide at the Express Inn on Estes Parkway about 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Sgt. Carlos Samples of the Longview Police Department confirmed the death of Greggory Connolly. Details of the shooting and of Connolly were not immediately available Wednesday evening. Samples said two suspects visited the victim at the Express Inn. Arguing was heard, followed by a gunshot, Samples said.

http://tinyurl.com/2oj4xd

Quintarick Wilson, 18, Arlington TX
Post by janet on Sept 16, 2007, 8:32am

ARLINGTON — What started out as a birthday/homecoming party in an east Arlington suburban neighborhood late Friday ended with a promising young athlete dead and three other teens wounded. Quintarick Wilson, 18, was shot in the chest while in the back yard of a house in the 3000 block of Prairie Hill Lane, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s Web site. He was taken to Medical Center of Arlington and pronounced dead about 12:45 a.m. Saturday.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/237159.html

Unnamed woman, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 16, 2007, 8:01pm

A northwest Harris County man fatally shot a woman believed to be his mother early today before killing himself, police said. Their bodies were discovered about 5 a.m. when a Houston police SWAT team forced its way into a home on Royalbrook near Willancy. A police standoff began shortly after 2 a.m. when a Harris County Sheriff's Office deputy went to the home to investigate a 911 hang-up call. When no one answered at the door, the deputy turned to leave. At that point, someone inside the house shot him, police said. He called for help. Other units, including a SWAT team, arrived. After that shooting, the man called a friend and said he shot his mother, officers said. The friend called authorities. The man who fatally shot himself and the woman in the house have not been identified, but police believe she is his mother. The deputy has not been identified. He was taken by Lifeflight to Memorial Hermann Hospital. He was shot in the leg. A bullet also grazed his abdomen, police said.

Unnamed woman, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 16, 2007, 8:04pm

A woman was charged with murder Saturday in the stabbing death of her ex-girlfriend's new lover in southwest Houston. Shirley Ann Jefferson, 24, confessed to her ex-girlfriend that she'd stabbed the woman Friday evening at the Bayou West Condominium Community in the 9800 block of Clear Creek. The victim, whose name was withheld pending notification of family, had recently started dating Jefferson's ex-girlfriend. All three women lived at the complex. The stabbing took place at a neighbor's apartment, where the victim had gone to use the phone around 5 p.m. Friday. "A few minutes later, while she was on the phone in a bedroom, (Jefferson) walked in and started stabbing her," said Sgt. J.C. Padilla of Houston Police Department's homicide division. Jefferson stabbed the victim multiple times before leaving the apartment. "It was a pretty bloody scene," said officer A. Ibarra, Padilla's partner. The victim was treated by paramedics at the scene before being transported to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Shortly after the stabbing, Jefferson's ex-girlfriend "saw the police and ambulance and was told what had happened," Padilla said. "Later, she went and talked to the suspect and the suspect confessed to her and told her she loved her." Jefferson was taken into custody at the complex after a witness identified her to officers, he said. She is being held in a Harris County jail, where her bail is set at $50,000. Neighbor Ashley Mitchell, 15, said she saw Jefferson "acting crazy" in the parking lot shortly after the stabbing. "She was yelling and screaming and she took her pants off," Mitchell said. "I think she had something in her hand, but I couldn't see what it was. As soon as she heard the sirens coming, she took off."

Unnamed man, 30, Seattle WA
Post by grandma on Sept 16, 2007, 8:17pm

King County sheriff's detectives are investigating the stabbing death of a 30-year-old Seattle man in Skyway on Saturday.

Deputies arrived just after 10 p.m. in the 12000 block of 70th Avenue South after a report of a stabbing, according to the King County sheriff's office. The man, who was taken to Harborview Medical Center, later died from his injuries.

The suspect and the victim knew each other, according to the King County sheriff's office.

Source: Fox News

Agnews: Chare, 30; Raeqwon, 10; Harold Sublet, 9
Post by lemondrop on Sept 17, 2007, 8:33am

09/17/07-Dallas

DALLAS — A woman and two boys were found stabbed to death at a Dallas home and two teenage girls were found bound and gagged in a closet, police said. The suspect remained at large Sunday. A capital murder warrant was issued Saturday for Robert Sparks, 33, who is believed to be related to the victims, said Lt. Vernon Hale, a police spokesman. The girls were taken to a hospital and believed to be in good condition, police said. They did not release their names or the nature of their injuries. "They have been through an extremely traumatic experience," Hale said. Authorities identified the victims as Chare Agnew, 30; Raeqwon Agnew, 10; and Harold Sublet, 9. Hale told The Dallas Morning News the woman was believed to be the mother of all four children. Sparks has previously been arrested in Dallas County on suspicion of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, assault and evading arrest, according to county records.

Unnamed boy, 7 - Atlanta GA
Post by allison on Sept 18, 2007, 10:38am

7 year old boy killed and 15 year old sister injured in a home invasion, thought to be linked to his mother's role as a witness in a 2006 home-invasion robbery trial scheduled to start today.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/d....ge_tab_new stab

Ani Rose, 36 - Atlanta GA
Post by allison on Sept 18, 2007, 10:39am

Ani Rose, 36, stabbed to death by her estranged husband while their 2 children (ages 9 and 14) hid in a bedroom

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2007/09/18/stab0918.html

Terrence Lott, 48 and Rosetta Walker, 36 - Atlanta
Post by allison on Sept 18, 2007, 10:40am

DeKalb County police late Monday were looking for a 34-year-old man wanted for killing his ex-wife and his girlfriend's stepfather early Monday. Police believe that Julian Walker first killed Terrence Lott, 48, inside a home on Wellborn Trace near Lithonia about 4:30 a.m. and a short time later went to a home on South Eiffel Court, several miles away and shot and killed his ex-wife, Rosetta Walker, 36. Dionte Westbrook, 20, who identified himself as Rosetta Walker's son, said a 3-year-old half-brother who is Julian Walker's son was in the house with the mother and told a relative: "Daddy killed Mommy."

Walker is believed to be driving a beige, 1994 GMC Sierra 1500 extended cab pickup with Georgia tag ADG 7118, according to police. The truck has a chrome tool box on the back, and a dented left fender. According to state Department of Corrections records, Walker was sentenced to two years for a 2000 false imprisonment conviction in Cobb County and five years for a 1997 marijuana possession case, also in Cobb. He was released from Walker State Prison in July 2003.

Anan Liu - New Zealand
Post by cyclone on Sept 19, 2007, 1:47am

In a neighbouring Country, but there are no one who lives in NZ on the board

New Zealand police have found a body believed to be that of Anan Liu - the mother of a toddler abandoned at a Melbourne train station - in the boot of her husband's car. Police said the body of an Asian woman was found at 1pm today in the boot of a car belonging to Nai Xin Xue, 54. The car had been parked outside the couple's Auckland home for two days before it was moved by police last night. The toddler, Qian Xun, was abandoned by her father on Saturday. Mr Xue then fled to the United States alone. The girl was named Pumpkin after Pumpkin Patch, the brand of clothes she was wearing when she was found.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pumpkin....881566515.html.

Ariania Green, 3 - Haltom City, TX
Post by janet on Sept 19, 2007, 3:25pm

Youngest of 3 girls burned in fire set by mother dies
By MARK AGEE

HALTOM CITY -- Ariania Green, one of three sisters who police say were set on fire by their mother, died Tuesday evening at a Dallas hospital from her injuries.

She was 3 years old, and the youngest of the family. She had suffered burns over 90 percent of her body, according to court documents.

Alysha Green, 29, is accused of herding her three daughters into a closet, dousing herself and her daughters with gasoline and then setting them on fire. She now faces a charge of capital murder, in addition to two counts of injury to a child with serious bodily harm

http://www.star-telegram.com/crime_courts/story/239700.html

Jenessa Olmeda, 3 mos - Bergen Co, NJ
Post by jamie on Sept 19, 2007, 10:27pm

N.J. police: Father brutally kills infant

The father of a 3-month-old girl has been charged with murder after fatally smashing his daughter's head against an iron stair railing as her mother looked on. The attack occurred without warning Saturday night after the father, Peter Olmeda, 29, of Cliffside Park, asked his girlfriend if he could hold the baby one last time before he left her family's home for the night. Witnesses told authorities Olmeda grabbed the baby by her ankles and swung her into the railing, then threw her to the ground and ran off. Jenessa Olmeda was pronounced dead at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck. Bystanders tackled Peter Olmeda as frantic relatives called 911 and tried to revive the child. A judge ordered him held on $1 million bail. The child's mother, Stephanie Avans, 26, who was described as "very distraught" by what she witnessed, also was taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center, where she was admitted for psychological evaluation.

Nathaniel Rusk, 50, Longview, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Sept 21, 2007, 2:41am

Man Dies, Woman Wounded By Shots Fired Into Bedroom Window Of Longview Home

LONGVIEW - Shots fired into the bedroom window of a Longview home killed a 50-year-old man and wounded a 25-year-old woman.

Longview Police Department officers said the shooting happened at around 10 p.m. Wednesday night at home in the 800 block of West Nelson Street.

When police arrived on scene, they found Nathaniel Rusk, 50, of Longview, dead in his bedroom. He, along with Tori Hope Langdon, 25, of Diana, had been shot.

http://tinyurl.com/3cxhjb

Ten people murdered in Detroit since Saturday
Post by onetwobomb on Sept 21, 2007, 2:54pm

DETROIT -- Police responding to reports of shots being fired last night found a grisly scene in which four people were shot to death and a fifth was clinging to life.

The murders bring the death toll in the city to 10 since Saturday, Detroit Police said.

Killed in the Monday night attack on the 19000 block of Runyon Street near State Fair Street were a 25-year-old woman and three men aged 33, 20 and 22 years old, Detroit Police said.

The surviving victim, a 30-year-old woman was taken to an area hospital where she was listed in critical condition, police said.

Police believe three men in dark clothing committed the shootings inside the home, but did not have better descriptions of the men.

A large amount of what investigators believe is marijuana was found in the home, police said. The drugs could be a motive for the shooting, police said.

On Monday a 43-year-old man and his 18-year-old son were found shot to death in a home at 14874 Tuller, police said.

Four people were shot Sunday on Walton Street as they played cards on the porch of a home, Detroit Police said. A man with a shotgun opened fire and killed one of the men and sent the other three to an area hospital with injuries. One man was in critical and the other two in temporary serious condition, police said.

Also Sunday, a man was fatally shot while on the 9300 block of Livernois, Detroit Police said.

On Saturday a man was fatally shot at a coney island on Holbrook and another man killed in an unrelated shooting at East Seven Mile Road and Schoenherr Street, Detroit Police said.

Those with information should call (800) SPEAK-UP. The confidential hot line pays cash for tips, police said.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709180411

The house where the quadruple murder took place is right across the street from my dad's friend's house who he drops off after work, so this week my dad got some crime scene photos of the house. On the news I heard something about the same 3 people also killed the 43 year old man and his 18 year old son. Let's hope they are caught or killed by police before they kill again.

Shawn Cooper, 25 Bryan, Tx
Post by wildcherry25 on Sept 22, 2007, 6:03am

(September 20, 2007)--A Bryan woman was behind bars Thursday, charged in the death of her husband, a dialysis patient whose catheter had been cut.

Bryan police were called to the home of Shawn and Dorian Cooper on Timberline in North Bryan.

When authorities arrived, they discovered Shawn Cooper’s catheter had been cut.

The 25-year-old was on life support in the days that followed, but eventually died.

Hospital officials told authorities they had noted suspicious details regarding the death.

Bryan Police launched an investigation.

Thursday, authorities say they received new information on the death, although they would not elaborate.

Based on that information, Bryan Police asked for and received a direct indictment Thursday naming Dorian Cooper, 23.

She was arrested Thursday afternoon and charged with murder.

As of late Thursday afternoon, no bond had been set, and Cooper remained in Brazos County Jail.

16 and 21 yr old brothers - Ft Worth, TX
Post by janet on Sept 22, 2007, 2:51pm

2 die in overnight shooting
Star-Telegram

Fort Worth police are investigating an apparent double homicide after two men were found shot to death early Saturday.

Police were called to a home in the 4200 block of Wayside Avenue about 2:15 a.m. after neighbors reported hearing gunfire.

Two men, 16- and 21-year-old brothers, were found shot to death in the front yard, police said.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/243880.html

Frederick Ogletree, 41 - Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 22, 2007, 7:09pm

A man was shot and killed in northeast Houston early this morning during what authorities said was an argument over money. Frederick Ogletree, 41, died after sustaining a gunshot wound around 2:35 a.m. The incident began when Ogletree was standing on the street and was approached by the gunman, who was on a bicycle. During a confrontation about a debt, the gunman shot Ogletree once in the chest, killing him. The gunman fled the scene.

Unnamed man, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 22, 2007, 7:49pm

A man was found dead on a south Houston sidewalk early this morning with several gunshot wounds. Residents in the area told police they heard gunfire around 3:30 a.m. and saw the body about two hours later.

Unnamed man, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 22, 2007, 7:56pm

A man who was shot was dumped outside of Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital early Thursday morning. The person was dead, and police do not know who dropped him off.

Unnamed man, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 22, 2007, 7:57pm

9/17/07 - Police said a man walking in a group on Beechnut at Jorine shot another man and killed him. The man who was shot died at the hospital. Houston police are interviewing witnesses.

Unnamed man, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 22, 2007, 7:58pm

Police found the body of man who had been shot to death in a ditch just south of downtown. His SUV was nearby, and there were several bullet holes in the driver's side window. Inside the vehicle, officers found a large amount of cash and some drugs. Police are looking for several men who fled the scene.

Niveah Gallegos, 3 - Denver CO
Post by arizonavet on Sept 24, 2007, 10:59pm

Graphic & excellent idea Charlene....
I'm temporarily living/working in the Denver area....so....

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Tot's body believed found

09/24/2007 06:20 PM MDT
Denver police officers scouring the city for a missing 3-year-old girl found what they believe is her body this afternoon in the area of 10th Avenue and Perry Street..

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6985082

Vernice Hall, 12, Minneapolis, MN
Post by poppy on Sept 25, 2007, 6:18am

Young Vernice has not died, but she is fighting. I thought that she deserved mention due to the violent nature of this crime. It's sad to say, but the crime and crminals in this part of Minneapolis is becoming more violent and much younger

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1443350.html

Geraldine Kennedy - Weatherford, TX
Post by janet on Sept 25, 2007, 4:04pm

The Parker County Sheriff’s office is investigating the deaths of an elderly Weatherford couple as a possible murder/suicide. Family members discovered the bodies of Wiliam Harry Kennedy, 79, and Geraldine Kennedy, 84, Monday night when they forced their way in to the couple’s home because they were concerned about their welfare.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/246549.html

The son of an elderly couple found dead in their Weatherford home Monday night said his father had undergone several heart operations and suffered from depression and anxiety. William Harry Kennedy, 79, and Geraldine Kennedy, 84, were found with gunshot wounds to the head Monday night. They were lying in their bed. Geraldine Kennedy's death was ruled a homicide, and William Kennedy's was ruled a suicide by the Tarrant County medical examiner's office. The couple's son, Bill Kennedy Jr., 54, said that his parents were married 58 years and that his mother took care of her husband after his operations. "For the past six months, he really spiraled downward," Kennedy said of his father, a retired American Airlines maintenance supervisor.

http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/247540.html

Female body found Carrollton, TX
Post by janet on Sept 25, 2007, 4:09pm

A burned female body was found in Carrollton on Tuesday, and police were asking the public for its help in identifying the person. The body was discovered about 11 a.m. in the 3200 block of Keller Springs Road. The person appeared to be in her teens or early 20s and was about 5 feet, 6 inches tall. The cause of death was unknown.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dw.....10c4bb20f.html

Diego Noyola, 19, Redland, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Sept 26, 2007, 2:18am

Tyler Man Arrested In Homicide Case

LUFKIN — What was initially believed to be a simple vehicle accident turned into Angelina County’s fourth homicide of the year when deputies discovered a dead man in the back seat of a car — a man with two bullet entrances in his chest. The suspect, a Tyler man, remains jailed on charges of murder.

http://tinyurl.com/3dh4vt

River Phoenix Williams, 2, Texarkana, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Sept 28, 2007, 4:32am

Couple indicted in child’s death

Bowie County officials acted quickly to bring about two capital murder indictments in connection with the recent beating death of a 2-year-old girl.

http://tinyurl.com/3avjnb

Adrian Flakes, 19, Houston TX
Post by admin on Sept 29, 2007, 10:06pm

Police are investigating a fatal shooting at a southwest Houston apartment complex this morning. Witnesses said they saw one man fire several shots as he chased another man down the sidewalk. The victim ran another few feet before collapsing, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators have taken a suspect into custody for questioning.

John Lewis Reynero, 24 - Austin TX
Post by kay on Oct 1, 2007, 10:46am

Austin police investigate fatal stabbing;

Police are investigating a fatal stabbing that occurred early Sunday in Southeast Austin. At 3 a.m., police responded to a call that a man had been stabbed during an altercation in the 2300 block of Blue Meadow Drive. The victim, 24-year-old John Lewis Reynero, was taken to Brackenridge Hospital with life-threatening injuries; he underwent surgery but died at 7 a.m. Police are investigating what prompted the altercation and are searching for a 5-feet-5-inch Hispanic male, age 18 to 19, in connection with the stabbing. This is Austin's 25th slaying this year.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/10/01/1001roundup.html

Cesess Hill, 2; Jonelle Cintron, 4 - Cleveland OH
Post by stormyweather on Oct 1, 2007, 7:52pm

Cleveland girls pulled from bathtub die

CLEVELAND - A 2-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister were apparently drowned in a bathtub Monday, and their mother was arrested. A man who said he is the girls' father told investigators the woman called him at work and said their children "are at peace." "Both my daughters are laying here dead! Why? Why are my daughters dead?" a weeping Cintron screamed during a 911 call.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002/ap_o....cr_dRZ9CQRG2ocA

Taylor Bradford, Memphis, Tennessee
Post by kma367 on Oct 1, 2007, 9:12pm

A University of Memphis football player was fatally shot on campus in what police believe was a targeted attack, and classes were canceled Monday as a precaution.

Taylor Bradford, 21, apparently was shot near a university housing complex about 9:45 p.m. Sunday and then crashed a car he was driving into a tree a short distance away on campus, officials said.

Witnesses told police they saw more than one person leaving the scene who could have been involved.

http://www.wmctv.com/global/story.asp?s=7149837

Levares Key, 8 - Orlando, FL
Post by stormyweather on Oct 4, 2007, 10:50am

Boy kills brother over dessert

ORLANDO, Fla. - A 13-year-old choked and beat his 8-year-old brother to death because the younger boy ate a dessert and the older one worried he would be blamed, authorities said Wednesday.

Demetrius Key was arrested on first-degree murder. The boys' mother, Tangela Key, told police she was visiting a cousin nearby and left him in charge of Levares Key and other younger siblings Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071004/ap_o....BJjo6BOAuxG2ocA

James Jordan, 24, Rusk, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Oct 13, 2007, 3:16pm

A man died Aug. 19 after a family reunion turned violent.
Tempers flared, guns were drawn and two men were injured.
James Keon Jordan, 24, of Tyler, was killed. After almost two months of investigation, Jordan's alleged killer was named by law enforcement.

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20071013/NEWS01/710130314

Layla R. Banks, 21 - Stamford, CT
Post by stormyweather on Oct 14, 2007, 2:15pm

A woman was killed early Saturday in a hotel hallway shortly after leaving a raucous party in one of the guest rooms. Layla R. Banks, 21, of Greenwich had been repeatedly stabbed and slashed before her body was discovered just after 6 a.m. Saturday in a service hallway near the Sheraton Stamford Hotel's main lobby. Investigators believe the attack was not random.

http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/1086817.php?contentType=4&contentId=1038442

unnamed man, 21, Arlington TX
Post by janet on Oct 17, 2007, 7:32pm

An Arlington man was fatally shot and another was injured in an apparent robbery early Sunday. A 21-year-old man was found lying in the parking lot of the Brandon Oaks Apartments, in the 1400 block of Wiscasset Drive, at 3:30 a.m. He has been identified, but police declined to release his name until his family is notified. A 25-year-old was found beaten and unconscious in a white Chevrolet Suburban. He was taken to Medical Center of Arlington, treated and released. Police said the two men had parked their Suburban at the apartment complex when two black men approached and beat the 25-year-old before shooting the other man, police said. Police believe robbery was the motive, because some personal items were taken.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/268520.html

Dean Shillingsworth, 2 - Sydney, Australia
Post by kita2 on Oct 22, 2007, 6:27pm

Dean Shillingsworth's 2 year old body was found in a suitcase, dumped in a Sydney duck pond this week. Dean was living with his grandmother after she was granted custody, he was visiting his mother for the holidays.

His mother has been charged with his murder.

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http://abc.net.au/news/photos/2007/10/22/2066736.htm

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by royd on Oct 24, 2007, 12:23pm

What a chilling series of reminders of the violence and horror that can all too easily visit any one of us.

Makaki Overturf, 2 - Tool, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Oct 28, 2007, 12:42am

Man Faces Capital Murder In Death Of Two-Year-Old

TOOL — A 47-year-old Tool man faces a capital murder charge in the death of his girlfriend’s two-year-old grandson. Police took Michael Lyndon Whitman into custody at his girlfriend’s home late Thursday night. He remains in the Henderson County Jail on bonds totaling $500,000. The child appeared to have bruises, contusions and ligature marks on his body. According to information from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Whitman has previous arrests for injury to a child and fleeing a police officer.

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20071027/NEWS01/71026016

http://www.cedarcreekpilot.com/local/local_story_305165447.html

Officer Chuck Cassidy, 54 - Philadelphia PA
Post by stormyweather on Nov 4, 2007, 7:27pm

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Philadelphia Police Officer Chuck Cassidy has died from the wounds he suffered in a shooting when he walked in during a robbery at a Dunkin’ Donuts. Officer Cassidy, 54, a married father of three, died at Albert Einstein Medical Center. Hundreds of officers lined up at his bedside to pay respects. Cassidy, a respected 25-year veteran, walked into the doughnut shop after a witness told him "something" was happening inside. The gunman, alerted to the officer by a bell on the shop's door, turned to see Cassidy with his gun drawn. The killer took two steps toward Cassidy before firing one shot into his head from about five feet away.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20071102_Police_Press_Manhunt.html

Ken Proctor, 66 - Brisbane, Australia
Post by cyclone on Nov 5, 2007, 12:05am

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/11/01/1193619005485.html

KEN PROCTOR and his mates should have been at Sylvania Bowls Club last night sinking a schooner or two. He might have talked proudly of his new grand-daughter, born only a month ago. But the 66-year-old's chair was empty last night following his death, apparently after the most trivial dispute imaginable - over the watering of his lawn. He was hosing his large front lawn just after 5pm on Wednesday when Todd Munter, walking past Mr Proctor's brick two-storey house on Formosa Street, Sylvania, allegedly accused him of violating water restrictions. Even though Mr Proctor was in the clear - hand-held hose watering is permitted on Wednesdays and Sundays before 10am and after 4pm - Munter persisted, the two argued and, police allege, Mr Proctor turned the hose on the 36-year-old. That was when Munter took a spat over water use far beyond the pale, viciously attacking Mr Proctor, police say. He punched Mr Proctor, then pushed him over and kicked him while he lay on the ground, police allege. At some point during the attack Mr Proctor suffered what ambulance officers called a massive cardiac arrest. Mr Proctor, the father to a son and daughter, retired in 2002 to his large house, where he lived with his wife, Lynn, his daughter and her husband. Only a month ago he had become a grandfather when his daughter gave birth to a girl.

Homero Hernandez, 37, Marshall, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Nov 15, 2007, 2:18am

Suspect identified
Police seek public's help in locating murder suspect

By SANDRA CASON, Marshall News Messenger

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Law enforcement officers have issued a capital murder warrant for the arrest of an illegal immigrant believed to have been involved in the death of local restaurateur Homero Hernandez, 37.

Hernandez was found dead in his 3906 Forest Trail home shortly before midnight Sunday.
http://tinyurl.com/2rv7vn

Juana Herrera - Ft Worth, TX
Post by janet on Nov 15, 2007, 11:09pm

Posted on Thu, Nov. 15, 2007
Man arrested in death of mother, who was beaten with rock

By DEANNA BOYD
dboyd@star-telegram.com
FORT WORTH -- A 24-year-old man who told police that he has unexplained anger issues beat his 75-year-old mother to death with a rock outside her Fort Worth home late Wednesday.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/v-print/story/304435.html

Pamela Fincher, 37, Wills Point, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Nov 18, 2007, 3:56am

Daughter, Teen's Friend Charged With Murder
By CINDY MALLETTE
Staff Writer

WILLS POINT - Van Zandt County officials charged two Wills Point teenagers with murder Friday in connection with the shooting death of the mother of one of the teens.

Christopher Burt, 19, and a 16-year-old girl were detained at Wills Point High School after coming to school in a truck that matched one stolen from the victim, said Sheriff Pat Burnett.

Burnett said Pamela K. Fincher, 37, was found in her in Wills Point home in the Rolling Oaks subdivision Thursday night. She had been shot.

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20071117/NEWS01/711170326

Cynthia White, 55 - Columbia MO
Post by ginger on Nov 25, 2007, 3:30pm

A 55-year-old hotel manager died after being shot in the head during a robbery at Comfort Inn. Cynthia L. White was working overnight as general manager of the hotel at 2904 Clark Lane. She fell dead in her office, just steps away from the front desk. Columbia police officers responded to the hotel at 6:14 a.m. after guests reported they had repeatedly called the front desk and no one answered. Officers discovered White’s body and found that an undisclosed amount of money was missing from the cash register. The same hotel was targeted in a similar robbery Nov. 16. Then, a black man in his early to mid-20s entered the hotel, which then was called Fairfield Inn, about 2:20 a.m. and said his car had broken down, police said. He asked a 50-year-old female clerk whether he could wait in the lobby until someone came to pick him up. After 20 minutes, he brandished a small-caliber handgun and stole the clerk’s 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix. Police have not apprehended the man.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Nov/20071125News002.asp

Stephen Holmes - Sydney Australia
Post by cyclone on Nov 27, 2007, 5:23pm

One for the Recidivist killers archive

Fourteen years ago, Stanley Francis Maguire shot and killed John Vickers's father. Now Mr Vickers, a father himself, cannot believe it has happened to someone else. Maguire, 59, has been on the run for three days after allegedly shooting dead his neighbour, Stephen Holmes, after the father of four told him to be quiet. The man he had killed was John Thomas Vickers, who, like Mr Holmes, was a miner. Yesterday, Mr Vickers's distressed son, John - now 31 - told the Herald it should not have been allowed to happen twice. Mr Holmes's four daughters will suffer the pain he has lived with for 14 years. "They're going to feel worse knowing that the justice system let this bloke out after eight years and he did it again," said Mr Vickers, a father of two. In March 26, 1993, Maguire ran over Mr Vickers with an F100 truck in the car park at Doyalson RSL, on the Central Coast, and then shot him while he was on the ground. Maguire was charged with murder, but in 1994 a jury convicted him of manslaughter after debate over whether the gun fired accidentally. He was released from prison in 2002, and his parole ended two years.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/27/1196036893214.html

Robin York, 37, Tyler, Texas
Post by pdp0143 on Dec 7, 2007, 4:30am

Estranged Couple Discovered Dead

A man going through a divorce drove to his estranged wife’s home Thursday and shot her dead before turning the gun on himself.
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20071206/NEWS01/71206015/0/RSS01

Vanessa Garces, 21 - Copper Canyon, TX
Post by janet on Dec 7, 2007, 3:03pm

A 26-year-old man is being held in Denton County Jail on a murder charge after he rammed his ex-girlfriend’s car, and then shot and killed her. Patrick Thomas Dyson of Hickory Creek was arrested early Wednesday after a 3 1/2 hour-long standoff near his mother’s home. Bail was set at $500,000. Authorities believe Dyson shot Vanessa Garces, 21, several times as she returned to her gated Copper Canyon home Tuesday night. Dyson then drove nine miles east to the site of his mother’s home in Hickory Creek, where the Denton County SWAT team surrounded him.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dw....5.6d5d8343.html

Melvin Mitchell, 56, Longview, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Dec 12, 2007, 3:28am

Pawn Shop Robbery Leaves Assistant Manager Dead
By MALENA OGLES
Staff Writer

LONGVIEW- A handwritten sign on the front door of the Cash America building Monday, told customers they would not be open. Co-workers were mourning the loss of a longtime employee, and police were searching for his killer.

Assistant manager Melvin Brad Mitchell, 56, was robbed and shot shortly before 9 a.m. under the store's awning while on his way to make a bank deposit, according to a report by the Longview Police Department.
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20071211/NEWS01/712110322

Brenda Ingram 45, Piedmont, Alabama
Post by jbpro on Dec 12, 2007, 7:00pm

17-year-old girl charged in mother's slaying
By Lisa Rogers, Times Staff Writer
Published December 12, 2007

A 17-year-old Piedmont girl has been charged with the slaying of her mother, according to a news release from the Piedmont Police Department.

Lindsey Danielle Morgan was charged as an adult with murder in the death of her mother, Brenda Ingram, Piedmont police Capt. Steven Tidwell said.

Ingram, 45, was stabbed several times. Her body was discovered about 6 a.m. Tuesday by Piedmont police officers who responded to a 911 call from Ingram’s residence on Katoma Creek Road.

Calhoun County Coroner Pat Brown pronounced Ingram dead at the scene.

The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences assisted in the investigation, Tidwell said.

The Calhoun County District Attorney’s office will prosecute Morgan as an adult. She is being held in the Calhoun County Jail on a $50,000 bond.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by ichick on Dec 15, 2007, 9:31am

16-year old muslim girl killed allegedly by her father. She refused to wear a headscarf.

http://www.thestar.com/article/284824

24 year old man, unnamed, Ft Worth TX
Post by janet on Dec 16, 2007, 7:51am

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/363029.html
Posted on Sun, Dec. 16, 2007
Mexican national held in slaying of 24-year-old man

By DIANE SMITH
Star-Telegram staff writer
A 27-year-old Mexican national was in police custody Saturday night, hours after a 24-year-old man was fatally stabbed, police reported.
Officers found the victim about 3 a.m. Saturday in the front yard of a house in the 1300 block of West Fogg Street, said Lt. Dean Sullivan, a police spokesman.
The victim had been stabbed during an argument with an acquaintance, investigators learned. The man died at John Peter Smith Hospital, Sullivan said.
Witnesses helped officers locate the suspect, and police and members of the Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team set up surveillance near a house while homicide detectives obtained a warrant, Sullivan said.
"The suspect was observed loading a van with a suitcase and bags," Sullivan said. "It appeared he was in the process of fleeing."
The suspect, who was not carrying a driver's license and is not a U.S. citizen, remained in custody Saturday facing a murder charge, Sullivan said. Police didn't release the name of the victim or the suspect.

Chare Agnew, 30 & 2 sons - Dallas
Post by janet on Dec 16, 2007, 8:07am

Cops: 3 Found Killed in Dallas Home, 2 More Found Gagged in Closet
Sunday , September 16, 2007

DALLAS —
A woman and two boys were found stabbed to death at a Dallas home and two teenage girls were found bound and gagged in a closet, police said. The suspect remained at large Sunday.

A capital murder warrant was issued Saturday for Robert Sparks, 33, who is believed to be related to the victims, said Lt. Vernon Hale, a police spokesman.

The girls were taken to a hospital and believed to be in good condition, police said. They did not release their names or the nature of their injuries. "They have been through an extremely traumatic experience," Hale said.

Authorities identified the victims as Chare Agnew, 30; Raeqwon Agnew, 10; and Harold Sublet, 9.

Hale told The Dallas Morning News the woman was believed to be the mother of all four children.

Sparks has previously been arrested in Dallas County on suspicion of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, assault and evading arrest, according to county records.

http://tinyurl.com/3a75z2

Joe Vasquez, Fort Worth TX
Post by janet on Dec 21, 2007, 12:02pm

Brothers charged with murder of man in alley
By DEANNA BOYD
dboyd@star-telegram.com

FORT WORTH — Two brothers were charged Friday with murder in connection with the Dec. 9 fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man in a north Fort Worth alley.

Gabriel Cedillo, 22, and Rigoberto Cedillo, 25, are accused of fatally shooting Joe Vasquez as he and another man sat inside his pickup in an alley near Northwest 28th Street and Kearney Avenue. The pickup’s passenger, 31-year-old Abelardo Avila, also suffered a gunshot wound to the head but survived.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/373469.html

Marco Young, 23, Tulsa,OK.
Post by dclxvi on Dec 24, 2007, 10:37am

Marco Young, 23, of Tulsa died at OSU Medical Center from a gunshot wound to the head about 7:30 p.m., police Det. Demita Kinard said.

This occurred on 23 Dec., 2007.

http://newsok.com/article/3184688/1198476744

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by cyclone on Jan 3, 2008, 8:02pm

50-year-old woman and her 14-year-old son have been charged over the gruesome murder of a 61-year-old western Sydney man.

The body of John Raymond McCann, a social worker from Doonside, was found by his daughter on New Year's Day.

He had been hacked to death, and police officers later seized knives, tomahawks and other sharp items from Mr McCann's house

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/two-....8950019938.html

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by cyclone on Jan 3, 2008, 8:03pm

THE family of a man bashed to death during a Christmas Day game of beach cricket called triple-0 six times but still had to drive the dying man to hospital themselves because neither the police nor ambulances arrived in time.

Combined with three other direct calls to Geraldton police station, north of Perth, which raised concerns about the escalating violence at Sunset Beach that night, the family of William Rowe made a total of nine calls asking for police or medical assistance.

It is understood the quality of information in some of the calls may have been affected because the callers were under duress.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/trip....8949986464.html

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by cyclone on Jan 3, 2008, 8:04pm

father and his teenage daughter have been found dead in their home in Sydney's north west in what police believe is a murder-suicide.

The bodies of the 13-year-old girl and the 53-year-old man were found at a home in Stevens Street, Pennant Hills last night by a woman and her son who lived at the address, police said.

Police confirmed the mother of the teenager arrived home at around 6.20pm yesterday to find her husband and daughter dead.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/mum-....8949989362.html

Sarah Said 17, Amina Said 18-Lewisville TX
Post by janet on Jan 3, 2008, 9:16pm

Posted on Thu, Jan. 03, 2008
Slaying of popular teens stuns friends

By Domingo Ramirez Jr. and Melissa Vargas
Star-Telegram Staff Writers
Sarah Said was an avid tennis player known as a silly but bright student. Her 18-year-old sister, Amina Said, was often called "the girl with pretty eyes," friends say.

The girls were well-liked and made good grades at Lewisville High School. Their father was strict and rarely let them spend time with friends. When Sarah, 17, recently met a boy at her job, she told a friend that her father would kill her if he found out.

Friends are now rethinking the way they understood that turn of phrase.

The Said sisters were fatally shot Tuesday evening in their father's taxi in Irving, police said. A capital murder warrant has been issued for their father, Yaser Abdel Said, who is accused of killing both girls.

http://www.star-telegram.com/251/story/387530.html

Debra K. Edwards, 46, Arlington TX
Post by janet on Jan 5, 2008, 2:06pm

Posted on Sat, Jan. 05, 2008
Woman who was shot in face dies; husband arrested
By MITCH MITCHELL
Star-Telegram staff writer

ARLINGTON -- A 46-year-old woman has died after being shot in the face as she got out of her car late Friday night, and Arlington police have arrested the woman's estranged husband.

Debra K. Edwards died at Dallas Methodist Hospital after being shot in the driveway of a residence

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/391773.html

Jana Shearer, 21, Tyler, Texas
Post by pdp0143 on Jan 6, 2008, 4:18pm

Tyler man faces capital murder charges

Sunday, January 06, 2008 | 12:21 PM

TYLER, TX -- A man who investigators say placed the lifeless, bloodied body of his girlfriend in his mother's garage and showed it to her was being held on a capital murder charge Sunday.

Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, of Tyler, was at the Smith County Jail on a $2 million bond and did not have an attorney, officials said.
Investigators say McCuin told his mother and her boyfriend on Saturday morning to look in the garage and see what he had done. There, the couple saw the body of 21-year-old Jana Shearer, McCuin's girlfriend. McCuin's mother and her boyfriend fled the home and flagged down a police officer.......
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=5864245

Archie Lee Moore, Jr., 40, Longview, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Jan 10, 2008, 10:50am

Man found with fatal gunshot

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Officers arrived at 404-A Davis St. shortly after 2 a.m. Wednesday and found Archie Lee Moore Jr., 40, lying dead on the floor of his second-story apartment, according to the Longview Police Department.

Moore's neighbors discovered his body when they went to check on him after hearing gunshots, police said. Moore was lying near the door, which had a hole blasted out of it.
http://www.news-journal.com/news/content....8_shooting.html

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by texaslady on Jan 10, 2008, 2:55pm

This just breaks my heart.

4 kids believed thrown from Ala. bridge

The image won't link right:

http://tinyurl.com/2xm8jg

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. - Search crews in boats resumed looking Thursday for the bodies of four young children while a judge denied bond for their father, who is accused of throwing them from an 80-foot coastal bridge.

Boats went back into waters around the Dauphin Island bridge early Thursday, though heavy fog kept divers and helicopters on hold.

Lam Luong, 37, was charged with four counts of capital murder in the death of the children, who range in age from 4 months to 3 years, after he broke down and confessed, authorities said Wednesday.

District Judge Charles McKnight denied bond Thursday morning, describing the allegations as "heinous."

Luong's court-appointed attorney, Joe Kulakowski, was conferring with him and not immediately available for comment.

District Attorney John Tyson Jr. declined to discuss details of the case.

Authorities believe Luong threw the children from the bridge after an argument with his wife, but they gave no details on what the dispute was about. Luong had a crack cocaine possession charge pending in Georgia, and his wife's brother-in-law described Luong as a drug addict.

The search for the bodies had been halted Wednesday afternoon when the dense fog rolled in and obscured the bridge, a three-mile span over the Intracoastal Waterway. Authorities held out little hope of finding them.

While some friends and family members maintained hope the children remain alive, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said searchers were "in the recovery stage at this point."

Luong's wife, 23-year-old Kieu Ngoc Phan, discovered the children were missing Monday and went with Luong to the police, Tyson said. Luong initially told them the children were with his girlfriend from New York in a hotel in Gulfport, Miss., and that she had failed to return them, according to family members and authorities.

Based in part on a witness's account, investigators said the children were thrown from the highest part of the two-lane span Monday morning, a point about 80 feet above the waterway. The channel below that part of the bridge has a depth of 55 feet.

Phan's brother-in-law, Kam Phengsisomboun, said he was told that a witness saw someone throw a bundle from the bridge and then saw three children in a nearby car. Tyson said there was a witness but declined to give details.

Luong came to the United States from Vietnam in 1984 and was employed as a shrimpboat fisherman. He and his wife lived with their children and a grandmother in a brick home near Bayou La Batre, a fishing village 20 miles southwest of Mobile, with a large Southeast Asian community.

Presumed dead are: 4-month-old Danny; 1-year-old Lindsey; 2-year-old Hannah; and 3-year-old Ryan Phan, who was raised from infancy by Luong but is not his biological child.

Phengsisomboun, who is from Thailand, said Luong had quickly spent money from an insurance settlement after an automobile accident. He said he initially feared Luong had traded the children for drugs.

Luong was arrested Oct. 10 in Hinesville, Ga., on a charge accusing him of possessing crack. Luong called police and "requested an officer at his residence because he had used narcotics and wanted to turn himself in," according to a report by Officer Jeffrey Liu.

Luong was giving his children a bath when Liu arrived, the report states. He eventually emerged from the bathroom and pulled from a shirt pocket a pipe and "a whitish yellow rock that appeared to be crack cocaine," Liu wrote.

A grand jury has yet to act on the case. Luong advised Hinesville authorities on Nov. 1 that he had moved.

Unnamed man, Dallas TX
Post by janet on Jan 12, 2008, 2:23pm

Man dies in shooting at Dallas billiard hall

11:18 AM CST on Saturday, January 12, 2008

From Staff Reports

One man was killed and another wounded in a shooting early Saturday in Dallas.

Around 2 a.m., Dallas police were called to the Billar Los Sapitos billiard hall in the 2300 block of West Illinois Avenue.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dw....g.1566258e.html

Tarraina Mumphrey, 30, Kilgore, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Jan 13, 2008, 11:46pm

Woman dead after shooting at Kilgore club
Monday, January 14, 2008

Gregg County sheriff's investigators are hoping someone will contact them with information about a man who killed a woman in a nightclub early Sunday.

Sheriff Maxey Cerliano said the man had been ejected from El Greco Club for fighting, but returned around 1:30 a.m. with a gun and shot toward the front door of the club on Texas 31 near Kilgore.

Deputies found 30-year-old Tarraina Mumphrey of Mesquite lying outside the front door. She died later in Trinity Mother Frances hospital in Tyler.

Mumphrey had not been involved in the earlier fight, the sheriff said.
http://www.news-journal.com/news/content....08_slaying.html

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by felix2 on Jan 14, 2008, 6:33am

Quote:

Woman dead after shooting at Kilgore club
Monday, January 14, 2008

Gregg County sheriff's investigators are hoping someone will contact them with information about a man who killed a woman in a nightclub early Sunday.

Sheriff Maxey Cerliano said the man had been ejected from El Greco Club for fighting, but returned around 1:30 a.m. with a gun and shot toward the front door of the club on Texas 31 near Kilgore.

Deputies found 30-year-old Tarraina Mumphrey of Mesquite lying outside the front door. She died later in Trinity Mother Frances hospital in Tyler.

Mumphrey had not been involved in the earlier fight, the sheriff said.
http://www.news-journal.com/news/content....08_slaying.html

This brings back memories of a shooting I got caught up in in Miami in the mid eighties. Two Cuban guys were ejected from an establishment on Fort Lauderdale strip, I was on the raised patio outside drinking and chattingf up some nice local talent. About ten minutes later a car pulled up outside with guns sticking out the open wiondow and sprayed the place with gunfire, I immdiately went for the ground bringing down the girl I was chatting to. Nobody was killed, we were lucky we were on a raised patio really. There were two interesting outcomes, |I got off with the girl, and the only tow actually injured were two off duty British Soldiers from Northern Ireland. At the time I saw it as a double result! The place was called Penrods! Anyone know if its still there?

Phillip Washington, 50- Dallas, TX
Post by janet on Jan 14, 2008, 4:35pm

Rewards increased in Dallas courier's slaying

BY BILL MILLER
wmiller@star-telegram.com

Police are looking for three men in connection with the killing of Phillip Washington, 50, whose slaying was captured on surveillance video in the parking lot of the State Bank and Trust in the 4200 block of North Central Expressway.

Police have said that Washington's white Dodge Ram pickup truck and an undetermined amount of cash were taken.

The three men are considered armed and dangerous, police said.

A video of this offense can also be viewed at YouTube.com by entering the tag Dallas Police Courier.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/409564.html

17 yr old man, Richland Hills, TX
Post by janet on Jan 14, 2008, 4:39pm

Posted on Mon, Jan. 14, 2008
Police seek cause of Richland Hills shootout

BY MARK AGEE
rmagee@star-telegram.com
RICHLAND HILLS -- The security guard was breathing heavily but his voice wasn't panicked as he called 911 Sunday morning to report that he had been shot, according to a recording released Monday afternoon by the Richland Hills police department.

Investigators are still trying to figure out what started a shootout at a Richland Hills apartment complex that left a 17-year-old man dead and the apartment security guard seriously wounded.

More than a dozen shots were exchanged in the parking lot of the Bellaire apartments, 7030 Baker Blvd., about 4 a.m. Sunday, Detective Tye Bell said.

It’s the second shootout in an apartment complex in the past two weeks in Richland Hills, a small city of about 8,300 residents.

Stella Tasby 19 Dallas, TX
Post by janet on Jan 22, 2008, 1:44pm

Posted on Mon, Jan. 21, 2008
Dallas man arrested in young mom's slaying

By BILL MILLER
wmiller@star-telegram.com
A Dallas man has been charged with the shooting death of the 19-year-old mother of his child, police said.

Devin Bridges, 24, was arrested Sunday and was being held Monday at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, said Sgt. Larry Lewis, a Dallas homicide detective.

Bridges was charged with capital murder in the slaying of Stella Tasby, who was found shot to death Sunday in her apartment in the 3800 block of Gannon Lane, near its intersection with Marvin D. Love Freeway, in southwest Dallas.
................

The charge was capital murder, Lewis said, because detectives believe Tasby was killed in the commission of a crime, in this case, the theft of her car.

http://www.star-telegram.com/dallas_news/story/422787.html

Bronson Jamar Sanders, 36, Longview, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Jan 27, 2008, 1:59pm

Late Night Shooting Leaves 1 Dead
A Longview man was shot at a hotel late Saturday night, and died from his injuries.

At approximately 10:22 p.m., Longview Police responded to the American Dream Inn, 2015 E. Marshall Ave., on the report of a shooting, according to Sgt. Shaun Pendleton, Longview Police public information officer.

Upon the officers’ arrival, they found the victim lying on the ground near the swimming pool. The victim had been shot at least once. He was immediately transported to Good Shepherd Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, Pendleton said in a prepared statement.

The victim was identified as Bronson Jamar Sanders, 36, of Longview.
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080127/NEWS01/428435615

Richard Holmes, 31 Arlington, TX
Post by janet on Jan 31, 2008, 7:58pm

Arlington stabbing suspect arrested in Wyoming

ARLINGTON — Shari Eggum, suspected in the stabbing death of her boyfriend in Arlington on Tuesday, was arrested early today in Wyoming, Arlington police said.

Police said Richard Herrera Holmes, 31, died late Tuesday after being stabbed at the Arlington apartment the two shared and that Eggum, 33, fled the scene.

http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/445334.html

Marcelo Jiminez - Dallas, TX
Post by janet on Feb 2, 2008, 5:37pm

Man dies following South Dallas robbery

01:39 PM CST on Saturday, February 2, 2008

By MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News
mhaag@dallasnews.com

One man was killed and his brother was injured in a robbery in the front yard of a South Dallas home late Friday night, police said.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dw....y.82958d41.html

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by aspoestertjie on Feb 4, 2008, 7:56am

A local (Groblersdal, South Africa) traffic officer (Johan Kruger) was this morning, 4 February 2008, shot three times. He was killed. He tried to help a lady friend who was on her way to the gym, when robbers started to attack her.

I don't have any news articles as yet, as soon as I have a link and a report, I will add it to this post.

Pedro Moreno, 25, Mount Pleasant, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Feb 12, 2008, 1:35am

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

A man remains in Titus County jail on $1 million bond after being charged with murder.

Javier Diaz-Luna, 46, was arrested Saturday in the stabbing death of Pedro Juan Moreno, 25, of El Salvador, Mount Pleasant police said.

Moreno was found lying on the ground in a mobile home park in the 600 block of West 16th Street in Mount Pleasant, police said. Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Paula Dyke declared the man dead at 8:26 a.m.

http://www.news-journal.com/news/content...._Homicide_.html

Baby Diana
Post by christabella on Mar 13, 2008, 3:38pm

purple]
Report: Mom says revenge was motive in baby's death
01:08 PM CST on Friday, March 7, 2008
Associated Press
BOGALUSA, La. -- A woman whose 6-week-old baby died after being burned, beaten and drugged says she thinks the motive was revenge, a Bogalusa newspaper reported Friday.

Baby Diana Nelson
Amy Leighanne Thomas, 22, has been arrested in the case.

The child's mother, Lindsey Daigle, 19, told The Daily News that she had told another woman that Thomas had taken something from her work locker. Daigle said she believes Thomas harmed the baby after finding out that Daigle had talked about the alleged theft.

Daigle does not work at the store in question, and did not tell the newspaper how she learned about the alleged theft.

Thomas denied the allegations in an interview with the newspaper. She said she took Diana Nelson to her home and bathed her, but did nothing to hurt the baby.

Sgt. Darrell Darden, spokesman for the Bogalusa Police Department, was out of the office and could not be reached immediately for comment.

The newspaper interviewed both women Tuesday, a day before Thomas was arrested. Police asked the newspaper at the time to delay publication of the report because it might jeopardize the investigation, publisher and editor John Walker said.

Thomas was booked Wednesday with second-degree cruelty to a juvenile; after the baby died on Thursday, police said the charge would be increased to first-degree murder.

Investigators have said the infant was beaten on the head, singed with a curling iron and drugged. Police also have said that Thomas confessed on Wednesday.

Also, just to let everyone here know that I got the story off of www.kelseyspurpose.org from Christy Hershner. She posted the story.

This is just horrible. What a monster to hurt and kill a six week old baby girl!! Just horrible!! There is just no excuse for this. I have no pity for someone like this. I don't care what they have to say. Obviously, the girl that did this is not human, she is a demon and this demon needs to go back to hell where she came from!!!

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by josephdphillips on Mar 13, 2008, 4:02pm

Quote:

This is just horrible. What a monster to hurt and kill a six week old baby girl!! Just horrible!! There is just no excuse for this. I have no pity for someone like this. I don't care what they have to say. Obviously, the girl that did this is not human, she is a demon and this demon needs to go back to hell where she came from!!!

The mother will do 5 to 10 years max, if she's even convicted.

Andrea Yates killed five kids in cold blood -- is she in hell?

Nope. She's getting "treatment." Must be nice, huh?

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by christabella on Mar 13, 2008, 4:08pm

That just makes me sick to my stomach!! I'm sorry. There needs to be harsher punishment for these monsters who commit crimes against children. For instance, there needs to be some type of a law that states that anyone who hurts and kills a child should undergo surgery to have all of their reproductive organs removed so they can not have anymore children whatsoever. As far as the child molesters, they need to have their penises removed!!! Let me do it!!! I'll volunteer!!

Christina

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by aero on Mar 28, 2008, 8:42am

Olivia Jackson 20 and unborn child January 22 shot to death in her Lansing Ks. mobile home. January 11 a pipe bomb exploded at her previous house in an earlier attempt on Jackson's life.
the suspect Sedale Fox is being charged with capital murder. -Leavenworth Times

Maryellen Welsh, 61, murdered in New Britain CT
Post by mst3k4evur on Apr 1, 2008, 7:22am

Anyone keeping up with news here in Connecticut will remember the brutal rape and murder of Mrs. Petit and her 11 and 17 year old daughters and the near fatal beating dealt to Mr. Petit in their suburban Cheshire home before the two recently released ex-cons burned the house around them. Well, its happened again.

Maryellen Welsh, 61, was kidnapped from a friend's home and murdered after her friend Carol Larese, 65, was shot by Leslie Williams, a paroled child rapist.

Quote:

Freed sex offender charged in fatal home invasion

NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut (AP) -- A sex offender recently released from prison brazenly invaded a home, shot two women meeting for morning coffee and abducted one of them, whose body was found about 10 miles away, police said.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by sonofalamp on Apr 13, 2008, 11:11am

A 14-year old girl gave birth during school and drowned the infant in a toilet...

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by capt777737 on Apr 19, 2008, 7:39pm

Charlene, fortunately we've had none here in Thermop, probably since the mid 1990's since that russian guy killed his baby and threw it in the trash, then he killed himself in a standoff with police and sheriff's

However Yellowbear might have been moved. Wyoming just moved 85 of it's most violent inmates to Wallens Ridge, in Big Stone Gap VA
This until the new pen gets completed at Torrington in 2010
Here's some lowdown on Wallens Ridge and it's history, although it's written by anti-prison jerks but it gives you a good idea and pics of the institutions. Maybe if the prison guards beat the crap out of him so bad that he dies, we'll finally get our justice.
http://www.supermaxed.com
I'd also like to see a different board added here just devoted to prison institutions and jails.
Google has many pics of them.
plus I got a whole lot of other info such as JPATS etc.

Sept 7, 2007, 10:02am, admin wrote:

I'd like to try something and I'm curious how quickly this thread would grow. We have an incredible range of geographic locations among the members of this board. I'm asking you to scan your local news web sites and simply post the name and location of people who were murdered in your community this week.

Regardless of your stance on the issue of capital punishment, the number of murders occurring on a daily basis across the world is staggering and sobering.

You can post the date of the murder in the body of the post and a link to the news article if you like, or any additional information including a photo if available. Please include simply their name, age (if available) and location in the subject line.

Use a separate post for each case.

Please respect the intent of this thread and do not use this thread to make a political statement about the war. Please do not list soldiers killed in battle here.

Death row inmates are not murder victims and do not belong here.

Edited to add: We should post just the basic info about the case in the thread, rather than a complete news article. I don't want to duplicate what already occurs in the News Articles forums. Let's just include a synopsis of what is known about the murder at this time, and a link to the article for those who want further details.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by mst3k4evur on Apr 20, 2008, 7:55pm

Apr 1, 2008, 7:22am, mst3k4evur wrote:

Anyone keeping up with news here in Connecticut will remember the brutal rape and murder of Mrs. Petit and her 11 and 17 year old daughters and the near fatal beating dealt to Mr. Petit in their suburban Cheshire home before the two recently released ex-cons burned the house around them. Well, its happened again.

Maryellen Welsh, 61, was kidnapped from a friend's home and murdered after her friend Carol Larese, 65, was shot by Leslie Williams, a paroled child rapist.

Quote:

A developement, Williams has been formally charged with murder and sexual assault in the death of Welsh. It appears Welsh was suffering from cancer when she was murdered.

This isn't much cosolation but the New Britain DA is filing capital murder charges.

Shannon Christian and Christian Newsome Murders
Post by capt777737 on Apr 22, 2008, 10:49pm

Shannon or Channon (sp)
This a black on white crime that is not talked about in mainstream media.
Our Great American Patriot Charlie Daniels describes it best.

http://cofcc.org/?p=135

How dare these liberal pfuckers downplay this crime.

2 of the niggers the woman and cobbins is up for the death penalty.

read of the hienieous (sp) crimes that these bastards did on these 2 good people.

they cut off his *deleted* while he was dead, the *bi+ch* cut off her breasts while she was alive, and poured Draino or some other substance on her to hide the DNA evidence which did not work.
I'd love to pull the switch on the *bi+ch* and watch her fry slowly
guaranteed.

Every pro ought to get behind this case.
If not we will, and antis won't like the outcome.

Re: Engla Juncosa Höglund
Post by swede on Jul 8, 2008, 6:00am

I hope this is the right forum for this one:

http://articles.mibba.com/World/767/Disaster-Strikes-Sweden

10 year old Engla Juncosa Höglund was recently found dead after being gone for eight days. She was on her way home from soccer practice when she disappeared.

A 42 year old male was suspected for the abduction, but he denied any involvement in Englas disappearance until last Sunday when he confessed to not only Englas murder but also the murder of Pernilla Hellgren, 31 years old back in 2000.

Englas murder makes it the fourth child that's been murdered in just 19 days here in Sweden.

[image]

Thanks to oslooskar for the link.

Louis Monroy, Houston TX
Post by admin on Jul 25, 2008, 6:41pm

A frequent customer who was asked to leave a northeast Harris County restaurant after making advances toward a female employee has been charged with murder for fatally shooting the night manager, the Sheriff's Office reported today.

Witnesses told investigators that Michael Hare shot and killed Louis Monroy about 11:20 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of the Chili's restaurant at 9350 North Sam Houston Parkway East, sheriff's officials said.

Hare, who often came to the restaurant, was aked to leave after a female employee told him that his advances were not welcome, witnesses told officers.

Investigators said Hare left the restaurant, but later approached Monroy and shot him as he walked the woman to her car.

Police said Hare drove away after the shooting, but returned about 20 minutes later and was arrested. Investigators said he had a gun.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5907156.html

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by theanimal on Aug 14, 2008, 6:21pm

Evidently Justice got served in this case.

Mother of slain Edmonton man relieved by death of suspect
Last Updated: Thursday, July 31, 2008 | 12:25 PM ET Comments20Recommend27CBC News
The mother of an Edmonton man who was stabbed to death nine years ago said Wednesday that she finally feels she can be at peace now that the man suspected in her son's death has been slain.

"Justice has been served by putting him down,” Giavanna Kostiw said Wednesday. “You know, you live by the sword, you die by it. It's over. I don't have to worry that maybe he'll kill someone else.”

Hung Van Bui was charged with first-degree murder in the 1999 stabbing death of Andrew Allen, 35, but the charge was stayed the next year for lack of evidence.

This week Bui, 27, died in a hail of bullets as he drove his car in Vancouver, a shooting that police describe as a targeted hit.

In June 1999, Kostiw's son worked as a courier with UPS and was making his last delivery of the day to the Ottewell Curling Club in Edmonton when he got into a dispute with another driver. Kostiw said police told her that Bui stabbed her son in the stomach with a kitchen knife.

Bui’s lawyer at the time, Sid Tarrabain, said Wednesday that there was no evidence connecting Bui to the crime.

"The Crown had virtually no case against him. I haven’t seen him in years. I heard from him from time to time, and it’s really unfortunate,” Tarrabain said of Bui's death.

Vancouver police said they believe Bui's death was a drug-related gang hit, and said he was known to them.

In fact, Bui was shot at six times just last month, police said. They have no suspects in the case so far.

Kostiw said she’s relieved Bui’s life is over.

"I hope he burns in the hottest part of hell for all the life he has led, and for all the people that he has hurt," she said.

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This is Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada after all.

We don't get murders every week, not that we'd want them at all.

Gang members dead, I'm not going to cry over. Good Riddance.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by tracyk9935 on Oct 30, 2008, 2:15pm

Charges against Mounds View murder suspect allege he fought with girlfriend before stabbing her and two relatives

By Brady Gervais
bgervais@pioneerpress.com
Article Last Updated: 10/29/2008 11:55:51 PM CDT

The deaths were brutal. His conscience was eating at him.

A criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County on Wednesday offers the first details into the horrific killings of three Mounds View women and a glimpse at what Johnny Lee Ellis Jr. was thinking before his arrest. He grew increasingly agitated before he told an acquaintance Monday that he had stabbed his girlfriend over an argument.

The Ramsey County attorney's office charged him Wednesday with three counts of second-degree murder for his alleged role in the slayings. Ellis, 38, is accused of killing his girlfriend, Angela Vigen; her mother, Jolyn Vigen; and her sister Jennifer Vigen, who neighbors said had Down syndrome.

Jolyn Vigen, 75, suffered 13 stab wounds to the face, neck and shoulder area, the complaint said. Jennifer Vigen, 35, had 22 stab wounds to the face, neck and upper back area. Both bodies were found in a bedroom.

Angela Vigen, 40, whose body was found behind a locked door in the basement, suffered multiple sharp-force injuries to her head and a fracture. A 2-inch portion of a knife was found in her brain. A hammer with apparent blood was found next to her body.

The complaint does not say what the argument between Ellis and Angela Vigen was about.

Police discovered the bodies Monday afternoon. A relative asked police to check on the family at their home at 5108 Sunnyside Road after she was unable to contact anyone there since Oct. 23. Their bodies were beginning to decompose.

Bloody shoeprints were found at the home.

Ellis grew increasingly bothered Monday night at a Minneapolis apartment where he was visiting a friend and his friend's sister. About 5 p.m., when a television report aired about the homicides in Mounds View, Ellis showed his driver's license to the sister, the complaint said. It contained the same address where the homicides occurred.

Ellis told the woman, who is not identified by name in the complaint, to write for him: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it." He said he had stabbed his girlfriend, the complaint said. He also told the woman that Angela Vigen had a mother and that he "couldn't leave a witness."

Later, Minneapolis police were dispatched to the apartment at 3001 Third St. N. after a 911 hang-up call. When a dispatcher called back, the unidentified woman said Ellis was holding a knife to his chest, according to the complaint. Ellis took the phone and told the dispatcher he had committed a crime and wanted to turn himself in to authorities. He also said he "had done something bad in Mounds View."

While police attempted to subdue Ellis, he stabbed himself.

Police found a credit card belonging to Angela Vigen at the apartment, as well as her car in the parking lot.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by riverton79 on Nov 5, 2008, 9:44am

This happened two doors down from where I live ...

Two women, one man arrested in Cape Coral on murder charges
The charges involve the death of Raymond Pratt, 71, whose body was found in an apartment late Tuesday afternoon.

Carl Edward Smith, 40; (DOB: 10/12/1968) was charged with second degree murder, said police spokeswoman Connie Barron. Jennifer Lee Simundson, 32 and and Tyana Jean Kershaw, 41, were charged with second degree murder accessory after the fact, Barron said.

She said police received a 9-1-1 call at 4:17 p.m. on November 4 from the landlord of an apartment at 5235 Coronado Parkway #2. The landlord had gone to the apartment to make a repair. When no one answered, he entered the apartment and found Pratt laying facedown in a pool of blood, Barron said.

Pratt was an acquaintance of the tenant of the apartment, and he began staying at the apartment a few weeks earlier. Pratt also was an amputee with a prosthetic leg.

All currently known details at:
http://www.news-press.com/article/20081105/NEWS0101/81105041/1003/ACC

Darcey Freeman, 5 - Melbourne
Post by cyclone on Jan 30, 2009, 12:58am

Darcey Freeman, Aged Nearly 5 Years old...

Her father was driving her and her 2 brothers to school. The day she died should have been her first day. However her father inexplicably stopped on Melbourne's Westgate Bridge and threw her over. She fell 68ms, she was found alive and taken to hospital where she died several hours later.

Her father was involved in a messy divorce with the victim's father

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Kevin Jerome Powell, 18 - Houston
Post by admin on Feb 19, 2009, 9:26am

Five teenagers, including four high school students, are accused of beating a Baytown teen to death, mistakenly blaming him for breaking the windows of one of their cars, police said.

The five used the lid of a barbecue grill and a pistol when they attacked 18-year-old Kevin Jerome Powell early Monday morning, said Baytown police spokesman Lt. Eric Freed. Investigators would find no evidence that Powell vandalized the damaged car, a 1995 Buick Roadmaster, Freed said.

Arrested later that day and charged with murder were La Porte residents Marcus Jason, 18, a student at Dewalt Alternative School; Joshua Rider, 19; Joshua Ashford, 17, an 11th-grader at La Porte High School who owned the Buick; Charles Merritt, 18, who also attends La Porte High; and Cedrick Fears, 17, a Baytown resident who attends High Point High School.

Powell was visiting a friend at the Autumn Ridge apartment, 501 Massey Tompkins, late Sunday, the same time the five were visiting a friend at the same complex, Freed said. Powell’s body was found at a neighboring complex — Tompkins Green Apartments at 605 Massey Tompkins.

A resident there saw the body about 7 a.m. Monday between a hedge and a parked truck. Police said they believe he was killed hours earlier.

Freed said he didn’t know how the teens crossed paths. He speculated that Powell could have been with a large group, and he could have been chased.

“That’s the big question,” Freed said.

Commotion in progress
Officers had been dispatched to the Autumn Ridge complex around midnight Sunday for a disturbance, where they found the severely damaged Buick.

Police were dispatched again at 12:45 a.m. for shots being fired. One minute later, another call was reported — an assault in progress.

Residents of the Tompkins Green Apartments said they reported hearing a commotion early Sunday morning and saw a man being chased by a group of men, one of whom was carrying a pistol.

When police arrived, Freed said, they detained a group of young men running from the complex. One of those detained, Freed said, owned the Buick and told authorities that the group heard a commotion and then found the vehicle damaged. The teens were subsequently released.

After Powell’s body was discovered, the teens were brought in for questioning. Freed said each of the five gave statements to police, saying they took turns assaulting Powell.

The five are in the Harris County Jail, with bail set at $100,000 each. If convicted, each faces five years to life in prison for the first-degree felony. None had an attorney of record late Wednesday.

Renee Mullin, 35 & Brenda Alderman, 58 - Lufkin
Post by admin on Feb 19, 2009, 9:29am

Three people are dead near Lufkin after an apparent double murder-suicide.

Investigators believe 45-year-old Rickey Mullin, of Lufkin, shot and killed his estranged wife and her mother before turning the gun on himself. Authorities found the bodies of 35-year-old Margaret Renee Mullin and her mother, 58-year-old Brenda Sue Mayo Alderman in a van and Rickey Mullin’s body in the yard of his home just outside Lufkin Saturday morning. The women lived in Nacogdoches.

Renee Mullin had filed for divorce in November.

Angelina County Sheriff’s investigator David Rodriguez says the women came over to the residence and “something went horribly wrong,” The Lufkin Daily News reported in its online edition Sunday.

Rodriguez says there were reports of shots being fired into a van. He says the cab of the van was destroyed.

Autopsies have been ordered.

Houston - Sabrina Pina, 27
Post by admin on Feb 24, 2009, 10:39am

THE PINA CASE
Victim’s dad: ‘It’s my baby girl’

Houston Chronicle
Feb. 24, 2009, 7:47AM

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COMING TOGETHER: Edward Pina, in striped shirt, is comforted by loved ones before a vigil for his wife, Sabrina, at Christ the Good Shepherd Church on Monday, the day her remains were identified.

When Sabrina Pina’s family learned Monday that a body found in a northwest Harris County ditch had been identified as hers, the woman’s father sent out a heartbreaking text message to close friends.

“It’s my baby girl,” Rolando Tolentino of Spring wrote in the message, which was sent to friends’ cell phones at 2:23 p.m.

Sheriff’s homicide investigators and Harris County medical examiner’s officials have not yet released how Pina, 27, was killed, but her death has been ruled a homicide. It was not clear Monday night if her family had been told how she died.

Pina is believed to have been abducted Saturday afternoon after going to a Kohl’s department store at Texas 249 and Spring Cypress. The Tomball woman’s truck was later found in the store’s parking lot with purchases she made earlier that day still in her vehicle, friends said.

Pina’s clothed body was found about 7 a.m. Sunday in a ditch at Jack Road and Warren Ranch Road, a rural area near Hockley about 23 miles from the store.

Nearly 250 people gathered Monday evening at a vigil at Christ the Good Shepherd, Pina’s childhood church, to remember a woman described as bright, loving and kind. As the service began, a woman’s sobs echoed through the sanctuary. Pina’s husband, Edward, sat in the front row between his wife’s parents and his own mother. He bowed his head and clutched the front of the pew with both hands as he wept quietly.

The scent of incense filled the room as prayers were read and hymns were sung. Tears rolled down somber faces in the crowd. Pina’s father spoke to the crowd toward the end of the service.

“Our hearts are ripped open and we can barely breathe,” he said as his voice cracked. “With every text message I receive every 15 seconds and phone call every three minutes and with every hug, you are stitching back our hearts.”

Law enforcement officials said it is too soon to say whether Pina’s abduction is connected to the Feb. 2 kidnapping of Susana de Jesus, a 37-year-old Houston woman taken at gunpoint from a Pearland shopping center, also located in a suburban area near a major freeway. De Jesus has never been found.

Brazoria County sheriff’s detectives who are investigating De Jesus’ disappearance have been in touch with the Harris County sheriff’s homicide investigators working Pina’s case. There was not enough information to compare the crimes Monday, but both agencies will discuss the two cases in the future, said Brazoria County sheriff’s Capt. Chris Kincheloe.

Pina was running errands Saturday when she called her husband from Home Depot around noon to ask what kind of garbage disposal to buy. She was last seen at a Sonic at 1:30 p.m., where she was captured on video by a surveillance camera, said Jeffrey Armenta, a close friend of Pina’s. She is believed to have vanished between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Her vehicle was found at the Kohl’s store parking lot at 22529 Tomball Parkway, also known as Texas 249.

Harris County sheriff’s homicide investigators did not respond to repeated requests for information on the case Monday. Pina’s friends pleaded with anyone who saw anything suspicious to call homicide detectives at 713-967-5810 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

“She was funny, she was powerful. She’s very much missed,” said Jeffrey Armenta’s wife, Tatiana Armenta, who described herself at Pina’s best friend.

The two women graduated together from Klein High School in 2000. “We were actually dreading that we were old enough to be going to our 10-year (high school) reunion,” Armenta said.

Pina went on to graduate from the University of Texas and was working for TXU Energy’s marketing department at the time of her disappearance. She and her husband married in October 2006. They have no children.

Customers outside the Kohl’s store where Pina’s truck was found said Monday that they are frightened by the disappearances of two women from suburban shopping centers in the same month.

“I’m very scared,” said Ana Cabrera, 56, who lives in the Spring Cypress area. “I see it as a similar case.”

“I always walk outside with my keys ready, and I pay attention,” Bauman said. “I’m always paranoid ... It could happen to any one of us.”

Man charged with capital murder in woman's death
Post by admin on Feb 25, 2009, 8:41am

Detectives: Suspect and Spring woman knew each other
Houston Chronicle
Feb. 25, 2009, 7:50AM

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Sabrina Pina: The 27-year-old was remembered by friends for her “lovely smile.”

Authorities this morning charged a 27-year-old man with capital murder in the slaying of Sabrina Pina, whose body was found in a northwest Harris County ditch on Sunday after she disappeared from a shopping center.

Theodore Charles Schmidt was ordered held in the County Jail without bail after being charged with killing Pina, 27.

The charge came after Harris County sheriff’s deputies spent hours questioning the man.

“This is not a stranger case — they’d known each other for years,” said Lt. Rolf Nelson of the sheriff’s Homicide Division.

He did not elaborate on their relationship.

Schmidt was taken into custody about 7 p.m. at the Carrington Place Apartments in northwest Houston and gave investigators a statement about the slaying, Nelson added.

A close friend and co-worker of Pina's, Tatiana Armenta, said this morning that she was relieved to learn of the arrest.

But, she added, "I don't know what to think."

Armenta said she vaguely recalls Schmidt's name, but does not remember where she heard it. She said she doesn't remember Pina ever mentioning it.

"I don't know who he is. I haven't heard anything about him," Armenta said.

She had not yet spoken with Pina's family about the arrest.

"They're having a very tough day," she said.

Pina was found shot to death Sunday morning. She was last seen alive Saturday afternoon outside a Kohl’s department store at Texas 249 and Spring Cypress, about 23 miles away. Investigators said they think she was abducted there.

Detectives examined surveillance video for clues, but homicide Sgt. Wayne Kuhlman would not say whether the store’s surveillance equipment captured anything suspicious.

“We have her (Pina) on surveillance camera, but I don’t want to go into any more detail,” Kuhlman said.

He also said Pina’s purse has not been recovered. Detectives are checking her cell phone records to see if a call was placed after her disappearance. There is no evidence that her bank or credit cards have been used since Saturday, officials said.

After meeting her husband at a Starbucks about 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Pina spent several hours shopping at stores along the 22500 to 28000 block of Texas 249. Her last stop was at the Kohl’s store, detectives said.

“We’re confident that around 2 p.m., something happened out there in that Kohl’s parking lot,”’ Kuhlman said.

Pina’s clothed body was found about 7 a.m. Sunday in a ditch along Jack Road near Warren Ranch Road.

Online tributes
While investigators worked to press charges on the suspect, Pina’s family and friends made plans for her memorial services.

Many left online tributes to her, recalling Pina’s “enthusiasm” and “lovely smile.”

Tatiana Armenta, Pina’s good friend and co-worker at TXU Energy’s marketing department, said Pina joked about pulling down the wall that separated their desks in one of their final conversations.

“Just so we could work in the same cubicle together,” Armenta said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6277903.html

James Troy Barnes Jr. - Houston
Post by admin on Mar 21, 2009, 11:39pm

Police looking for 17-year-old's killer
Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
March 21, 2009, 11:24PM

Police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old who was shot and killed in a north Houston apartment complex Saturday night.

Officers arrived at the Coppertree Apartments, 1415 W. Gulf Bank, around 7:30 p.m. and found paramedics treating the teen, who appeared to have one gunshot wound, said Houston Police Department Sgt. C. Howard.

The teen was shot in a different part of the large apartment complex, but ran before collapsing where he died, Howard said.

At this time, details and the motive of the shooting are still unclear. The teen, identified by family members as James Troy Barnes Jr., did not live in the apartment complex and had come there with two friends for a child's birthday party, said his mother, Kathy Singleton, who rushed to the scene after learning of the shooting.

"I held him 'til he took his last breath," she said. "Until he went cold."

Another round of shell casing was found in a different part of the apartment complex, but investigators do not believe they are related to the teen's shooting.

"It's not uncommon to find shell casings in this area," Howard said.

Singleton fears the apartment complex is a high-crime area and would like to see it shut down.

"I don't want to see another mother cry," she said.

Anyone with information in this case is urged to call the HPD homicide division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

Michelle Chavez and unnamed victim - Ft. Worth, TX
Post by janet on Mar 28, 2009, 1:11pm

2 killed, 2 wounded in Fort Worth shootings after 'gang party,' authorities report

12:06 PM CDT on Saturday, March 28, 2009

WFAA-TV

FORT WORTH — Two people were killed late Friday night and another two victims wounded in shootings in Fort Worth's south side, authorities reported.

The incident started about 11:30 p.m. at what police called a "gang party" in the 700 block of West Drew Street. Witnesses said people in several vehicles left the party and exchanged gunfire nearby in the 4000 block of Hemphill Street.

Michelle Chavez, 18, of Fort Worth died at John Peter Smith Hospital. An unidentified man was also killed.

Police said a female victim was in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the leg. A male victim was treated and released after being shot in the left arm, authorities said. Their names were not available.

No arrests had been made Saturday morning.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dw....s.7d01bde1.html

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by cyclone on Mar 29, 2009, 6:15am

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25236084-5001021,00.html

More Murders in Bikie War. That is the big news over the past couple of weeks. Australia's Bikie Gangs are fueding and already the death toll is 4 at least, with the most notable murder happening during a brawl at Sydney Airport.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by nate on Jun 7, 2009, 5:55am

RIP VICTORIA STAFFORD. An 8 year old girl was kinapped after school here in Ontario last month by a young woman. She was missing for about 4 weeks until evidence lead to an 18 year old girl and a 28 year old man, and she had been kinapped 'for sexual purpose' and killed within 24 hrs...They caught the couple because neighboors said that a woman they new had the same jacket and this girl throw away her Jacket and cut her hair, they also removed the back seat of there car and dicth it...After they were arrested they confessed, but they buried the girl at night before the bloom and after they were caught everything bloomed and the landscape was different....
So they are taling these two scum for helicopter rides everyday to try and locate Vitorias body..its in the news every day in my area and its sad. I hope they find her soon so she can be buried properly. nate.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by redd on Jun 29, 2009, 12:33pm

Jun. 23, 2009

3-year-old Teigan Peters-Coconino County Arizona

murdered by father (father committed suicide)

Murdered -Loggan Lampert, 14
Post by redd on Jun 29, 2009, 12:39pm

Jun. 20, 2009 Phoenix AZ

Loggan Lampert, 14
Sheila Lampert, 61
(Loggans grandmother, mother of Erick Lampert-killer)

murdered by Erick Lampert

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by redd on Jun 29, 2009, 12:44pm

Published: 06.13.2009 Arivaca AZ

Raul Flores, 29 and daughter Brisenia, 9.

wife was seriously wounded but survived

Robert McLarry, Yantis, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Jun 29, 2009, 12:57pm

MAN DIES AT HOSPITAL: Woman Shot, Killed By Troopers After Allegedly Shooting Ex-Husband

By KENNETH DEAN
Staff Writer

YANTIS — Authorities say a woman shot her ex-husband at his place of employment in front of a witness Friday morning before returning home.

Several minutes later, she was shot to death by Texas Department of Public Safety troopers after she reportedly aimed her weapon at them. It is not clear whether the woman fired on troopers, but officials say they acted appropriately.

Ms. Kimberly McLarry was pronounced dead at the scene and her ex-husband was flown to East Texas Medical Center, where he died later Friday.

The ordeal began when Hopkins County Sheriff’s dispatchers received a 911 about 10:15 a.m. call in reference to a man being shot in the head at a mechanic’s garage about three miles north of Yantis.

After shooting Robert Alan McLarry, the 48-year-old Kimberly McLarry returned to her home on County Road 1858 in Wood County where she faced off with troopers, authorities said.

“We had troopers in the area when the initial call in Hopkins County came in, and they responded to that scene,” DPS Spokesperson Jean Dark said at the scene.

Dark said when troopers went to the woman’s home, she approached a fence on her property and brandished a weapon.

“They told her to drop the weapon but she pointed it at the troopers, and they fired,” she said.

Dark said Texas Rangers, along with the Wood County Sheriff’s Office, are investigating the shooting and that a helicopter was brought in to assist investigators in mapping the shooting.

She said there were a total of six shots fired, but she said it was unclear if the woman fired at troopers or not.

“That is all under investigation at this point, so we don’t know who fired, but she had just shot someone in the head and then pointed her weapon at troopers. They felt threatened,” she said.

Wood County records indicate the couple divorced in 2006.

Dark said there was no information Friday about why she would open fire on her ex-husband.

“We just don’t have that information at this point, so anything we could say would only be speculation,” she said.

Updated Friday, June 26, 2009 at 8:38 p.m. CDT

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20090626/NEWS01/906269989

Michael Motte, 24, Nacogdoches, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Jun 29, 2009, 1:09pm

Capital murder suspect arrested in shooting on Old Tyler Road

Updated: June 29, 2009 12:04 PM CDT

NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) - Friends and family are mourning the death of a former SFA football player shot multiple times during an apparent robbery attempt Saturday morning. 24 year old Michael Mott wore number 38 for SFA when he played four years ago, however, he is being remembered for his being just as impressive off the football field.

The Nacogdoches Police Department is investigating a homicide that occurred just before 2 o'clock this morning in front of Harlan's Bar-Be-Que on Old Tyler Road.

20-year old Nickevete Rhonshondo Carey of Nacogdoches was arrested by authorities in Center five hours later. He's charged with shooting to death 24 year old Michael Mott of Nacogdoches. NPD officers found Mott on Old Tyler Road suffering from several gunshot wounds. He was rushed to Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital where he died a short time after arrival.

The preliminary investigation into the shooting has indicated robbery as a possible motive. Mr. Mott was not employed at Harlon's.

The suspect was seen fleeing as a passenger in a vehicle. Shortly after the call came in, a Nacogdoches Police patrol observed the vehicle northbound out Old Tyler Road. The vehicle was stopped near Hurst Drive, outside Loop 224, where the suspect fled on foot.

Nickevette Rhonshondo Carey of Nacogdoches was arrested by Shelby County authorities in Center, Texas on June 27, 2009 shortly after 7:00 a.m. and NPD detectives transported him back to Nacogdoches.

East Texas News has learned that the shooting victim was a former Stephen F. Austin State University football player who played for the Lumberjacks in 2004-2005.

http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=10605540&nav=menu118_1

Remembering Michael Motte (w/video):

http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=10607014&nav=menu118_1

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by redd on Jul 3, 2009, 6:18pm

16-year-old dies after being shot in face in Maryvale
by Jahna Berry - Jul. 3, 2009 10:20 AM
The Arizona Republic
A 16-year-old boy died after he was shot in the face at a Maryvale townhouse complex early Wednesday morning.

The Phoenix Police Department has not released the victim's name because his relatives have not been notified, Lt. Cheryl Gipson-Thurman said.

A maintenance man found the teen just before 6 a.m. near a tool shed at 67th Avenue and Indian School Road, and then called police.
Police are looking for two suspects in the shooting. One is a 30-year-old Hispanic man with a shaved head, about 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 8 in height and weighs 160 to 170 pounds. The other man is described as 25 years old, Hispanic, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds with short dark hair.

Gipson-Thurman said officers had been to the same neighborhood twice that morning - once for a report of gunshots and later for a call about a fight. She said it's unclear whether those incidents were related to the shooting.

When police investigated the report of gunshots in the area, they didn't find anything, the lieutenant said. Officers responding to the second call found a man who said he had been in a fight with three other men.

He was taken to the hospital, Gipson-Thurman said.

If you have any information about the shooting, call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS

http://www.azcentral.com

2 yrs ago this week - Javier Ortiz Jr - Houston TX
Post by admin on Jul 10, 2009, 11:06am

Second Anniversary of the Murder of Javier Ortiz, Jr

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Crime Stoppers and Homicide Investigators with the Houston Police Department are seeking the public’s assistance with any information on the July 8, 2007 murder of 35 year old Javier Ortiz, Jr.

Around 3:00 in the morning on Sunday July 8, 2007, an HPD officer saw a vehicle engulfed in flames in a parking lot located at 10660 Hammerly. He immediately called the Houston Fire Department. Once the fire was out, Mr. Ortiz’s severely burned body was discovered in the driver’s seat of the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Any one with any information on this crime that occurred 2 years ago today is urged to call Crime Stoppers.

Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for any information called in to the 713-222-8477 tips hotline or submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org that leads to the identification, arrest and/or charging of any suspect in this case. All tipsters remain anonymous.

Robert Roy, Houston TX - hit & run homicide
Post by admin on Jul 10, 2009, 8:20pm

Information Needed on Hit and Run Homicide

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Crime Stoppers and Investigators with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Enforcement Section are seeking the public’s assistance with any information on a hit and run that occurred on Saturday November 29, 2008 that resulted in the death of Robert Roy on January 12, 2009.

On Saturday November 29, 2008 around 5:45 in the morning Robert Roy was traveling eastbound in the 1000 block of FM 1960 on his motorcycle. The suspect was traveling in the opposite direction in the same block, when the car they were driving made a left turn into a private drive in front of Mr. Roy’s motorcycle causing Mr. Roy to hit the car. The suspect then left the scene without checking on the condition of Mr. Roy. Mr. Roy was transported to the hospital. He was hospitalized until January 12, 2009 when he died as a result of his injuries from the accident.

After a lengthy investigation and from evidence collected at the scene it was determined that the suspect was driving a 2000 to 2005 silver colored Chevrolet Impala.

Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for any information called in to the 713-222-8477 tips hotline or submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org that leads to the identification, arrest and/or charging of any suspect in this case. All tipsters remain anonymous.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by redd on Jul 16, 2009, 4:21pm

Homicides: July 6 - July 13
The Los Angeles County coroner's office has confirmed the following deaths as homicides.

Roberto Alcazar Valencia, a 29-year-old Latino, on July 6. Alcazar was shot in the 700 block of North Soto Street in Boyle Heights.

Jesus Hernandez, a 10-year-old Latino, on July 6. Hernandez was ejected from a car and killed at the intersection of Sepulveda Boulevard and Mayall Street in Mission Hills.

Gerardo Reyes, a 28-year-old Latino, on July 6. Reyes was shot in the 6300 block of Middleton Street in Huntington Park.

Pedro Fernandez, a 24-year-old Latino, on July 6. Fernandez was shot in the 11300 block of Iowa Avenue in Sawtelle.

Luis Hernandez, a 68-year-old white man, on July 7. Hernandez was shot in the 1000 block of West 20th Street in University Park.

Jose Cruz, a 31-year-old Latino, on July 7. Cruz was stabbed in the 1700 block of East 7th Street in Long Beach.

Dennis Rodgers, a 19-year-old black man, on July 8. Rodgers was shot in the 3700 block of South Normandie Avenue in Exposition Park.

Jacob Jacobo, a 27-year-old white man, on July 9. Jacobo was shot in the 3300 block of Pico Boulevard in Boyle Heights.

Christobal Perez, a 23-year-old, on July 9. Perez was shot in the 2800 block of South Central Avenue in Historic South-Central.

Guillermo Jacobo, a 41-year-old, on July 9. Jacobo died from blunt-force trauma in the 1400 block of South Brand Boulevard in Glendale.

Rodolfo Hernandez Rivas, a 24-year-old Latino, on July 9. Hernandez Rivas was shot in the 5000 block of Henderson Street in El Sereno.

Woodrow Player III, a 22-year-old black man, on July 10. Player was shot in the 11200 block of Berendo Avenue in Athens.

Jose Jimenez, a 36-year-old Latino, on July 10. Jimenez was shot in the 1200 block of West 8th Street in Westlake.

Jorge Duarte, a 22-year-old Latino, on July 11. Duarte was shot at the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue in Norwalk.

Lindval Baptist, a 28-year-old black man on July 11. Baptist died from blunt-force trauma in the 3100 block of 6th Aveneue in Jefferson Park.

Gerson Rodriguez, a 33-year-old Latino, on July 12. Rodriguez was shot in the 1000 block of North Western Avenue in Hollywood.

Giuliana Perrotta, a 47-year-old Latina, on July 12. Perrotta died from blunt-force trauma in the 28000 block of Creston Court in Canyon Country.

William Outland & Shannon Guidry - Houston 10/07
Post by admin on Jul 19, 2009, 11:40am

Crime Stoppers and Homicide Investigators with the Houston Police Department are seeking the public’s assistance with any information on the October 1, 2007 murders of 24 year old William Outland and 26 year old Shaylon Guidry.

On Monday October 1, 2007, the Houston Police Department responded to a call of a shooting in progress in the 700 block of N. York. When they arrived at the scene, they discovered William Outland and Shaylon Guidry in a black Dodge Magnum. They had been shot numerous times.

Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for any information called in to the 713-222-8477 tips hotline or submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org that leads to the identification, arrest and charging of any suspect in this case. All tipsters remain anonymous.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by cyclone on Jul 19, 2009, 5:56pm

5 Found Dead in a Sydney Home

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/national/sydney-fa....90720-dprw.html

The grisly deaths of five family members in northern Sydney over the weekend were targeted and "extremely personal" murders, police say.

Police say the family - reportedly Chinese-born Min Lin, 45, his wife Yun Li Lin, 43, two sons, Henry aged 12 and Terry nine, and Mrs Lin's 39-year-old sister Yun Bin Yin - were killed some time between midnight and 9am (AEST) on Saturday.

Police hope post-mortem examinations and continued forensic investigation of the Lin's Boundary Road home will shed more light on how and why the horrific attacks occurred.

But Superintendent Geoff Beresford said it appeared the Lins had been targeted and could have known their attackers.

"It appears to be an extremely personal type of attack given the level of violence but ... we're open-minded, we can't make any particular prediction this early in the inquiry," Detective Superintendent Beresford told Sky News.

"I'm satisfied that it's not random given the house location, it's somewhat hidden from the street being a battle-axe [shaped] block, but I'm more concerned with the injuries to the people themselves that leads us to think that it is targeted."

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Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by tracyk9935 on Jul 30, 2009, 6:09pm

Man slays estranged girlfriend before killing himself, cops say
By Lien Hoang and John Brewer
Pioneer Press
Updated: 07/30/2009 05:00:45 PM CDT

A woman trying to end her 25-year relationship with a Wyoming man was shot and killed this morning by the man, who last week was making suicidal statements, according to law enforcement. The man then shot himself.

Erica Ann Wilson, 38, had just last Thursday moved out of the home she shared with James Harold Schwartzbauer, 46, in an attempt to end their relationship, said Lt. Paul Sommer of the Anoka County sheriff's office.

Witnesses saw the couple arguing outside of Wilson's new apartment building at 33 Village Parkway in Circle Pines at about 7:50 a.m. this morning just prior to hearing gunshots.

The sheriff's office believes Schwartzbauer shot Wilson and then killed himself.

The couple had been together for 25 years
Erica Ann Wilson but never married, the sheriff's office said. They have three adult children.

There was no history of domestic calls to the home, Sommer said, but the children said their parents' relationship "was not tranquil."

"There was a lot of arguing," Sommer said.

Last Friday, Wyoming police signed Schwartzbauer into Regions Hospital in St. Paul because he had been making suicidal statements. Sommer said he was distraught about Wilson moving out the day before.

The couple's children helped the Wyoming police department remove "several" guns from the man's Wyoming home .

Schwartzbauer was released Saturday morning without being admitted.

The sheriff's office is still investigating where the man obtained the handgun used in the shooting.

Neighbors first heard the couple arguing around 9 p.m. Wednesday night.

"I assume one left last night and came back this morning because one was yelling at the other to pack their bags and leave," Jillissa Levercom, 31, said. "She wanted to stay away from him, he's been antagonizing her."

Levercom's daughter Micaiah Summer, 14, said Wilson had been trying to get away from Schwartzbauer for the past year.

Anthony Apikelis, 20, said he talked to the man who witnessed the fighting this morning and called police. He didn't get the man's name, but said he was parked next to Schwartzbauer shortly before the confrontation.

"(Schwartzbauer) was sitting in his car with the door open and one foot out," Apikelis said he was told. "It was pretty sketchy. He was clearly waiting for her."

Wilson then walked into the parking lot, where Schwartzbauer grabbed hold of her, Apikelis said.

"He threw her up against a car with a gun to her head," Apikelis said. "Then the neighbors started shouting, 'Hey, he's assaulting her,' so he dragged her into a tunnel."

Before pulling Wilson into the tunnel that runs through the apartment, Schwartzbauer slapped her once, maybe twice, neighbors said.

Some heard two gunshots inside the tunnel, and possibly a third that came three seconds later.

"I'm guessing he shot her twice and then shot himself," Summer said.

Levercom and Summer saw the bodies before police covered the tunnel with a blue tarp.

"There was just a trail of blood coming from (Schwartzbauer's) body," Levercom said.

Apikelis had a better look at Wilson, whose face was half covered in blood, he said.

Witnesses said a glass door had been shattered nearby.

A truck towed away the couple's vehicles, a green-blue Grand Prix and blue Volkswagen, they said.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by theanimal on Aug 15, 2009, 2:15pm

Sam McGowan, Surrey, British Columbia

Surrey stabbing victim Sam McGowan was just trying to protect his family when he was brutally killed Wednesday night by strangers, his distraught girlfriend said.

http://www.vancouversun.com/dies+protecting+children+family/1869296/story.html

And crap from the other side.

The 14-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing Surrey dad Sam McGowan only recently began carrying a knife to protect himself in a rough neighbourhood rife with drug use and violent racial tensions between teens, said a younger friend who was with him on the night of the murder. (yeah, yeah, tell me another story)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Stabbing+accused+friend+says/1871741/story.html

Maybe the 13 year old should be charged as an accessory to the fact. Maybe that may open his eyes that his "great 14 year old buddy" is a murdering scumbag.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by kay on Aug 19, 2009, 5:27am

Man, girl charged in killing of girl's mom
Both charged with first-degree murder, Bastrop officials say.

By Patrick George
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

BASTROP — An 18-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl are accused of killing the girl's mother after the mother's complaints prompted Bastrop County officials to charge him with having a sexual relationship with the girl.

Joseph Dewayne Douglas was charged Monday with murdering Tracy Lynn Bellard at her McDade home while her daughter watched.

Bellard had previously filed a complaint with police saying Douglas had established a relationship with her underage daughter. He was subsequently charged with indecency with a child, harboring a runaway and criminal trespass and was released on bail. Officials did not say Tuesday when those charges were filed.

Bellard's sister told investigators Friday that the 42-year-old hadn't come to work at their family-owned restaurant, Mimi G's Steakhouse in Bastrop. Bellard's relatives declined to comment when reached by phone Tuesday evening.

On Monday afternoon, officers searched the five-acre property in the Smithville area where Douglas lived with his grandparents and found Bellard's car and what they thought to be Bellard's charred remains near a brush pile, Bastrop County Sheriff Terry Pickering said Tuesday.

The remains have been taken to the Travis County medical examiner's office for positive identification.

Douglas and the 14-year-old were in a romantic relationship, Pickering said, but detectives do not know the motive behind the killing.

"We don't have any idea at this point," Pickering said. "We're still trying to put the pieces together."

Douglas and the 14-year-old, who is not being named because of her age, were arrested on first-degree murder charges at his home Monday, Pickering said.

Douglas did not make a statement to detectives; his bail has been set at $500,000. Officials said the girl is in custody in Seguin.

Douglas' arrest affidavit states that his 13-year-old brother brought a .22-caliber rifle to Douglas at Bellard's home. Police did not say where the boy got the gun. The 13-year-old told police he saw Douglas shoot and kill Bellard in the presence of Bellard's daughter, the affidavit states.

The girl told investigators that she was present when Douglas shot her mother, the affidavit said. She said Douglas left her home in her mother's car. She said Douglas told her later that he had disposed of the body, the affidavit states.

Because she is a juvenile, investigators would not disclose the details of the 14-year-old's involvement or why she too was charged with murder.

"We have reason to believe she was a participant," Pickering said.

pgeorge@statesman.com; 512-392-8750

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/ne....tropmurder.html

Daniel Sorensen, Plymouth Twp., MI
Post by greatlakes on Aug 21, 2009, 4:35pm

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090821/....he ading/?imw=Y

Murdered in 2007. Convicted killer's lawyer trying to appeal based on killer's "psychological problems".

Matthew Landry, Chesterfield Twp., MI
Post by greatlakes on Aug 21, 2009, 4:48pm

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090821/METRO03/908210367/1408/local

They are talking about deporting the scum who they believe is responsible for Mr. Landry's death.

No DP in MI, despite public support for it. Government is not your ally.

4 month old baby boy - Gun Barrel City, TX
Post by pdp0143 on Aug 24, 2009, 10:45am

4-month-old dies of starvation, parents charged

Posted: Aug 21, 2009 05:53 PM CDT

Updated: Aug 21, 2009 05:53 PM CDT

Posted by Ellen Krafve - email

HENDERSON COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - An East Texas man and woman are being held in the Henderson County Jail, each on a $1,000,000 bond, in connection to the case of the starving death of their four-month-old boy.

Shawn Davis Wagner and Kristina Fay Tello were arrested Thursday and arraigned Friday.

According to Sheriff Ray Nutt, investigators became involved in the case when they received a call reporting the death of a child at East Texas Medical Center in Gun Barrell City. They found the child's body extremely malnurished.

The body was sent to Dallas for autopsy, and the results came back revealing that the child died of starvation.

©2009 KLTV. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10972254&nav=menu117_2

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by greatlakes on Aug 24, 2009, 8:31pm

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090824/....n-Holly/?i mw=Y

Convicted sex offender murdered in his home.

More on the Matthew Landry murder
Post by greatlakes on Aug 26, 2009, 8:09pm

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090826/....in-Landry-death

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by aaragao on Sept 4, 2009, 11:03am

Hi,

I'm not US citizen nor living in USA. I'm portuguese and I live in Portugal. The death penalty is a completly wrong answer from country to criminals. I think family victim's may think in revenge using death penalty but it will bring back anything. A democratic country should not even have life without a parole. In Portugal no one can be in jail for more than 25 years. Our criminal rates are low. USA have a culture of violence and guns this is your issue. Believe any country with a lots of guns and culture of violence have a high criminal tax.

No to vendettas No to death penalty. No guns.

Lets induce culture of peace and put away dangerous people.

Any comments ?

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by aaragao on Sept 4, 2009, 11:05am

In Portugal I never hear a case of a serial killer. In true I only hears stories about serial killers from USA, Russia and China.

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by stormyweather on Oct 23, 2009, 6:52pm

Police mum on cause of death of 7-year-old Florida girl, Somer Thompson

Somer Thompson, who went missing earlier this week, was found dead in a Georgia landfill.

Police in Florida are keeping quiet on what exactly killed 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who found dead in a Georgia landfill.

"We know the cause of death," said a spokesperson with the Clay County Sheriff's office. "We want to preserve the integrity of this investigation and are not releasing any information that in the long run would prevent us from prosecuting and convicting the person who did this to Somer [Thompson]."

Somer, who disappeared while walking the mile home from school on October 19th, was discovered dead days later.

The body was found late Wednesday, and local authorities confirmed it was the missing girl the following day.

Police tracked garbage trucks that took trash from the neighborhood in which she lived in Orange Park, to the landfill in Folkston, Georgia, according to authorities.

Angry that her sister told her to stop arguing with a playmate, Somer ran ahead of the group and was never seen again. Her disappearance triggered a countywide search involving helicopters, dogs and volunteers walking arm-to-arm through wooded areas.

Before the grim discovery, Somer's father, Sam Thompson, of Graham, N.C., pleaded for her safe return.

"Somer, your daddy Sam loves you unconditionally. Stay strong and don't give up the fight or the hope that we're going to be a family again. I love you," he said.

Police have questioned more than 70 registered sex offenders in the area. Florida Department of Law Enforcement records show 161 offenders live in a 5-mile radius of Somer's home.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...._of_death. html

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by stormyweather on Oct 23, 2009, 6:55pm

Elizabeth Olten Body Found, Juvenile in Custody

The body of missing 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten was found Friday in woods off of Route D in St. Martins, Missouri. Cole County Sheriff Greg White said a juvenile is in custody and is a “person of interest” in Olten’s death.
Police have not released details on the person of interest, except to say the individual lived in the area, was acquainted with Elizabeth and was older than her.
Elizabeth was last seen around 6:15 p.m. Wednesday leaving a friend’s house. No other details were available.
Elizabeth’s disappearance and death came just after a 7-year-old Florida girl was abducted and murdered while walking home from school in Orange Park, Florida. Somer Thompson went missing Monday and was found dead Thursday at a Georgia landfill.

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=132773&cat=14

Re: Murdered this week...in our communities
Post by belliebok on Nov 17, 2009, 1:02pm

Does this apply only for American states or can the rest of the world join in? I stay in South Africa and the people are doing their best to reinstate the Death Penalty because violent murder here are at the order of the day?

Regards
Cindy