UPDATE: Suspect in Floral Ave Arson is Dwight D. Burton, 38, of Johnson City. He's charged with 1st Degree Murder and 1st Degree Arson. JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. -- A community is grieving after two children died in a house fire early Monday morning. Johnson City Firefighters were called to 145 Floral Avenue at 1:58 a.m. where a fire had engulfed a multi-family home. Two children were trapped on the third floor and were taken to UHS Wilson Hospital where they later died. "It took them a while cause they had to put the fire out to get to the third floor, so it delayed their time to get up there," Johnson City Fire Chief Rob Jacyna said. The children's parents were able to escape the fire, but not without suffering severe burns. They were transported to a burn unit in Syracuse. Investigators suspect it may be arson. - (Burned Alive!) - (Black-on-white)- You can't replace babies': Vigil held for victims of JC fire
The early Monday morning fire, which police say was intentionally set, also severely burned two women who leaped from a third-story window, including the boys' mother. They are listed in critical condition at a burn center in Syracuse. "Two beautiful women and two innocent babies," said Patricia Baxter, of Castle Creek, whose daughter Jessica Baxter was one of the two adult victims, during Monday night's vigil. "Who does that to a family? Who tears us apart?" She identified the two boys as Michael Maxwell and Joshua Maxwell and the other female victim as the boys' mother, Erica Kurtz. Jessica Baxter and Kurtz, both 27, have been friends since childhood, Patricia Baxter said.
Police say Dwight Burton, 38, used an accellerant to start the fire in a hallway outside a third-floor apartment at 145 Floral Ave., as the victims slept. He has been charged with felony counts of first-degree murder and arson
Court papers identified Jessica Baxter as Burton's intended target. - Fire suspect's prior arrests linked to domestic violence
Dwight Burton, 38, is accused of igniting the third-floor hallway of apartment housing at 145 Floral Ave. while the victims were asleep, killing 4-year-old Joshua Maxwell and 3-year-old Michael Maxwell. Police say Burton’s intended target was Jessica Baxter, who was inside the apartment with the boys’ mother, Erica Kurtz.
Burton was arrested again in January of this year and charged with second-degree harassment in an incident involving Baxter, his intended target in Monday’s fire, Burton was accused of punching Baxter in the face at an Endicott Avenue apartment in Johnson City. That case ended in an unconditional discharge for Burton.
- Memorial outside Johnson City home a day after fire
I think this guy is a coward. If you are going to burn down a house with little kids in it and hurt their family. I basically think you are a straight up coward. - Offender Name: DWIGHT D BURTON Offender ID: 09640342P Age: 38 Race: African American Gender: Male
- Keekee Motionless is on Facebook
"There's gonna be a petition at 145 floral Ave to have Dwight Burton sent to consider death penalty we need 1000 ppl to sign. He is the one who caused the fire he pored gas out side my aunts door and lit it because she didn't want him no more. She's fighting for her life in Syracuse hospital so is her friend Erica. Erica is in a coma she had 2 little boys 3&4 and they both passed because of this man. They all lived together and he knew the children were in the house. Some of you may know my aunt her name is Jessica Baxter her and her friend also need prayers. My grandma (her mother) seen her (Jessica) and almost had a mental break down. My family ran to ketch her before she could collapse on to the hospital floor..."
- Michael And Joshua Maxwell Obituary
In Memory of Michael Maxwell, 3, and Joshua Maxwell, 4, of Johnson City, who left this world together on Monday, October 19, 2015. The two boys were the sons of Michael Maxwell, Sr. and Erica Lynn Kurtz
- please help Erica Kurtz family - (gofundme)
- my aunt lost everything in a fire - (gofundme)
Police in Dallas are searching for an unidentified black man who was seen talking to 18-year-old Zoe Hastings at a Walgreens drug store the day she was murdered. Hastings' body was discovered inside her family's white Honda Odyssey minivan October, 12, the day after she went missing on her way to church. Detectives have been tight-lipped about the details of the case, only saying that obvious signs of homicide were found at the scene of the crime near White Rock Lake in Dallas. 
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - A 22-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the October 8 Hot Springs murder of 
The officer who was trying to arrest accused cop shooter Davon Lymon Wednesday night had one of Lymon’s hands in handcuffs and was trying to shackle him to the stolen motorcycle he was on, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.
KANSAS CITY, MO - Two Kansas City men are facing assault charges after an off-duty Army captain was brutally attacked outside a Plaza restaurant. Raymond P. Robinson and Antonio D. Stuckey each face charges of first and second degree assault after
LOTHIAN, Md. - A Maryland wife, her teen daughter and her daughter's boyfriend plotted to kill her husband and another woman who was involved in a love triangle with the married couple, police said. Ann Marie Anastasi, of Lothian, and Gabriel Ezekiel Struss, 18, of Annapolis, have each been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, among other charges, for plotting and carrying out the murder of 
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two people face kidnapping and robbery charges for their alleged involvement in an armed robbery at a Northeast Portland tavern on Oct. 17. That night, an employee at the West Wynn tavern on NE 102nd was tied up and robbed near closing time. A woman, later identified by police as Christie A. Dillman, came into the tavern as the employee saw a man “pacing out in front of the business” on surveillance video, court document revealed. When the man came in, the employee asked to see his ID. The man, later identified by police as Laboyce Daniel Ross, said he didn’t have any ID and began to argue. When Dillman and Ross began to leave, Ross pulled a gun and told Dillman to zip-tie the employee’s hands to a metal bar in the bathroom, documents showed. More than $2000 was taken from the cash register as they fled. The robber had dread locks. As detectives viewed the surveillance video, they recognized Ross. When his home was searched, court documents said, a dread lock wig and an airsoft gun were found.
A young married couple has been charged in a string of home burglaries in Kent County, state police said Wednesday. David E. Moore, 22, and Sarah R. Moore, 21, of Magnolia, were charged with six counts of second-degree burglary, eight counts of theft, three charges of criminal mischief, as well as selling stolen property, falsifying business records and conspiracy, said Master Cpl. Gary E. Fournier. He was committed to Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna after failing to post $82,300 cash bail. She was sent to Baylor Women's Correctional Institution near New Castle, lacking $34,400 cash bail. 
BASTROP COUNTY, Texas — Former Austin Police officer VonTrey Clark has been indicted on a capital murder charge in the death of his
The North Middleton Township man who has already been accused of raping a
Chisholm, MN -- A Chisholm man has been charged in connection with the alleged kidnapping and sexual assault of a female who fell asleep in her car earlier this month. The female says the car was parked in the Chisholm Disc Golf Course parking lot around 1 a.m. on Oct. 9. Authorities were called to the scene at 4:30 a.m. on reports that a female had been raped. She claims Owoidighe Ekanem, 34, who was a stranger to her, knocked on the window awakening her. She told authorities she opened the door thinking he was a police officer or her friend. He reportedly questioned her and threatened to call the police. She says she then attempted to call the police, but he allegedly grabbed her phone, pulled her out of the car by her hair, hit her face several times and tied her sweatshirt around her head. The female says he told her not to look at him or he would kill her, according to the criminal complaint. The female claims he then put her into his Ford Escape, drove around a little, then stopped and raped her in a wooded area. She says he then drove to a different location where he parked and allegedly raped her again in the backseat. The victim was taken to a hospital in Hibbing, where she was interviewed by authorities. It was determined that she suffered a fractured nose.
GULFPORT, Mississippi -- Police have arrested a 44-year-old man in connection with the rape of
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – An East St. Louis man is accused of sexually assaulting children. Police were called to the 1800 block of Wilford around 6:45 p.m. Oct. 14 for a report of a sexual assault to a girl, and later learned there may be at total of 
NEWARK, Ohio –Takiesha Black says she decided to attend her brother’s court hearing Thursday because she wants him to go to prison for good. Roger Black Jr., a registered sex offender, is charged in connection with an alleged rape that occurred Oct. 17. He is also a suspect in a separate incident that occurred Oct. 11. Court documents say the victim in the Oct. 11 incident positively identified Black in a photo lineup. Black, 31, was convicted of rape, gross sexual imposition and abduction in 2004 and served 8 years in prison. He was also behind bars for the first half of 2015 for violating his parole.
NANTUCKET, Mass. —A Nantucket man described by police as a "legitimate threat to women" was arrested and accused in a string of rapes dating back to 2008. David Matterson, 35, was arrested at a job site shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday. Matterson faces multiple charges, including kidnapping and rape in connection with a July 2008 case and a September 2014 case. Police said it's possible that there are other victims of similar crimes who haven't come forward, and anyone who has had a similar experience or wants to provide additional information about Matterson is asked to call Nantucket police. "Matterson was a very legitimate threat to women in our community," Nantucket Police Chief William Pittman said. Pittman said nearly 100 members of the local Jamaican community voluntarily provided DNA samples and information to detectives to assist with the investigation.
Police are still searching for the man accused of threatening and then trying to rape a woman in a public bathroom at Union Square Park. The authorities released surveillance images and a police sketch of the suspect.
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A suburban Philadelphia man has been sentenced to 18 to 36 months in state prison in what investigators had called one of the largest invasion of privacy cases in the region. A judge Wednesday also designated 38-year-old Sean Moses a sexually violent predator and said he must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. 
Police have identified three suspects in the armed robbery of a woman delivering pizza in Delaware over the weekend. Dover Police said an investigation into Saturday's robbery along the 200 block of N State Street in Dover led to an encounter with a vehicle believed involved in the crime.
As officers tried to stop the car Saturday night, the driver fled on foot and got away, said investigators. Based on evidence in the car, named the suspects as 25-year-old George Wilson, 18-year-old Isaiah Harber and 18-year-old Donnell Cuffee, all of Dover. The trio is charged with robbery and conspiracy. Cuffee also faces resisting arrest and reckless driving charges. 
Congressman Chaka Fattah’s son, Chaka Fattah Jr., insists he’s winning his case as he continues to represent himself in federal court. The 32-year-old is accused of using money from business loans to live a lavish life and not pay his taxes. Fattah and his father, Democrat U.S. Rep Chaka Fattah Sr., are charged in separate but overlapping cases investigated by the same FBI agents and prosecutors. The congressman has denied charges that he misused federal grants and charitable donations. He has yet to stand trial.
The man who barricaded himself in a house on Indianapolis' northeast side, then later danced on the roof appeared at his first pre-trial conference Thursday. Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to a house on the 3500 block of Layman Avenue around 10:30 a.m. Monday for a barricaded subject. Police say a man, later identified by authorities as Matthew Russ, 25, stole his ex-girlfriend's keys from her house, took her car and crashed it into a pole. Police say they found Russ in a chair in the driveway holding a knife. He then went into the house and onto the roof with the knife in his hand. An IMPD officer then fired rubber bullets at him, and he retreated back into the house. Around 11 a.m., smoke was seen coming from the house, leading to the fire department being called to the scene. Russ then began dancing on the roof with 
LAS VEGAS - A man identified as a person of interest in a fatal shooting that took place during a child's party was taken into custody Tuesday. Mose Bennett, 23, was booked into Clark County Detention Center on counts of open murder and possession of stolen property, which police identified as a firearm. According to Las Vegas Metro police, the shooting took place on Oct. 17 in the 1300 block of Kari Lee Court. Officers found 28-year-old 
Albuquerque police said that a suspect had confessed to a road rage shooting that killed a four-year-old girl on Interstate 40. 
An illegal alien who was reportedly drunk when he harassed 
TOWSON, Md. — An Ohio rabbi has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse charges in Maryland. 51-year-old Frederick Karp pleaded guilty last week in Baltimore County Circuit Court last week to sexual abuse of a minor and third-degree sex offense. Karp was sentenced to a total of 35 years — with 13 of the years suspended — and five years of probation upon release. He was arrested in January after police said 
Karp, 51, is former director of spiritual living at 
An HIV-positive Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, man is jailed on charges he raped a 6-year-old child at his residence while another man recorded the incident. Online court records don't list an attorney for 61-year-old Ira Task, arrested Wednesday by North Middleton Township police. Police say Task's arrest grew out of charges earlier this month against 19-year-old William Byers-Augusta. He's charged in a separate child rape and child pornography case, and allegedly brought the child to Task's residence on April 20 where
Not everyone in Zimbabwe is delighted by the award, either. "Mugabe as we know him and as the people of Zimbabwe have experienced his reign is a war-monger, a bellicosist and a sadist who delights in the misery of the people," Gorden Moyo of the opposition People's Democratic Party wrote 
HATBORO, Pa., — Word that 18-year-old 
Radnor police say the “disturbing” incident happened around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, after school had dismissed for the day. The man is accused of approaching the
DETROIT - Two Detroit EMS workers were seriously injured Tuesday when they were attacked by a man with a box cutter near the Neighborhood Service Organization in the 3400 block of 3rd Street. A woman near the NSO building reported a sprained ankle and the two EMS workers worked on her across the street. When the crew determined that the woman wouldn't be transported in the rig, a man she was with became enraged and pulled out a weapon. While the attacker stabbed and slashed EMT 
CHARLOTTE, NC - Five reputed gang members pleaded guilty Tuesday for their role in a racketeering and conspiracy case involving the 2014 shooting deaths of 
SEATTLE -- The teenager who shot and killed a Seattle man during a botched cell phone robbery pled guilty Monday to first degree murder. Byron White was 17-years old in February of 2014 when he tried to rob 
One of two people under arrest in the fatal shooting of 
PHILADELPHIA Police say a couple on a shopping spree using the cash and credit cards they swiped from a 78-year-old woman. That victim says her act of generosity cost her dearly, but aside from the money there's one thing she desperately wants back. 
A man accused of killing seven people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania over a seven-week period told police he heard the devil's voice in his head, a detective testified Tuesday. Todd West, 23, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and two co-defendants were ordered to stand trial on homicide and robbery counts in connection with the July 5 shooting deaths of a man in Easton and a man and a woman in nearby Allentown. The victims were chosen at random. Arrested a day after the shootings, West described for police how he spotted 
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- A 16-year-old sex assault suspect's tongue was bitten off by his alleged victim during an early morning attack last Friday at her Sumner Avenue home, police say. Police identified the teenaged suspect as Antoine Tremane Miller, of Remount Road. He was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, first-degree assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree kidnapping, and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. During a bond hearing Saturday, bail was set for the weapons charge and the assault charge at $250,000 each. He was denied bond on the other charges. According to North Charleston police, officers were dispatched to Remount and North Murray avenues shortly after 7 a.m. to tend to the 33-year-old victim who fled her home after the attack. The report notes that there was blood on the floor of the bedroom when the officers arrived. According to the report, the woman told police she heard a knock at her door at 6:30 a.m. but when she answered it, no one was there. There was a second knock at her door, she told officers, and again no one was there. Then her doorbell rang and when she opened the door, a black man holding a knife was standing on her porch. The woman told police she screamed and tried to run back in the house, but Miller forced his way inside her home, tackled her, and punched her several times, the report states. "Stop fighting and I won't hurt you," Miller reportedly told the woman before carrying her over his shoulder to the bedroom, the report states. Miller tried to remove the woman's shorts but she reportedly kicked him in the groin. Miller then forced himself on top of her and tried to kiss her, forcing his tongue in her mouth, the report states. The victim retaliated, and "bit his tongue as hard as she could until she heard it snap," she told police. That led to Miller moving away, screaming, she added. The woman said Miller's tongue was still in her mouth, so she ran from her home and threw it on the kitchen floor. She made it to her car and drove until she found an open store so that she could call police. Based on the denoscription the victim gave and Miller's mother's call to 911 because her son did not have a tongue, police were able to locate Miller at the Waffle House on Northwoods Boulevard. 
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Police have arrested a suspect in the armed robberies of two Temple University students. He is identified as 26-year-old Robert Sherrill. He’s charged with robbery and related offenses. The first incident occurred October 15 at 10th and Susquehanna Streets. Police say a 21-year-old student was confronted by two men, one of which was armed with a gun. They ordered the victim to get into his car, but when he refused, the men threw him to the ground before they took off with his phone and car. Hours later, a 24-year-old student was held at gunpoint on the 1800 block of North 15th Street by two men while they stole his phone, keys and wallet. The suspects then fled, but were caught on surveillance video which police later released. Officials say Sherrill was detained as a result of tips generated from the video. Sherrill was taken into custody at his home located in the 2400 block of North Clarion Street. Police are still looking for the second suspect.
The gunman who allegedly shot and killed a New York City police officer has been identified as a 30-year-old who had prior offenses related to gang activity. Tyrone Howard is the man who is currently in the hospital after getting into a shoot-out on Tuesday night that left Officer 
WICHITA — An immigrant living illegally in the United States for decades faces sentencing in an identity theft scheme so ingenious that prosecutors say 
An illegal immigrant was caught using fake documents to obtain a driver’s license in Nashua, police said. 
Rather, he pointed to Jerusalem's then-grand mufti, 
A Saudi Arabian prince is accused of a having sexual relationship with a male aide, taking cocaine and threatening to kill women who refused his advances - as well as sexually assaulting a maid – Daily Mail Online has exclusively learned. 
CAMDEN - A city man was convicted Tuesday of slaying a Merchantville woman and wounding her daughter in a 2013 knife attack. Gilberto Villanueva, 28, killed 50-year-old
MILWAUKEE -- Nearly a year after the tragic death of 
A New Orleans teen charged in the April murders of a father and son in their Metairie home was rebooked late last week on an accusation that he was masturbating in his Jefferson Parish jail cell while looking at a guard. The parish Sheriff’s Office on Friday booked Dexter Allen, 17, on one count of obscenity, which is punishable by between six months and three years in prison as well as with a fine of between $1,500 and $2,500. Allen is in jail awaiting trial on two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of 
A western Pennsylvania couple who were shot at a suburban Pittsburgh mall are suing the mall's owners, claiming they ignored warnings about increased violence and gang activity. Seventeen-year-old Tarod Thornhill, of Penn Hills, is accused of shooting three people in Macy's at the Monroeville Mall about 15 miles east of Pittsburgh on Feb. 7. Forty-nine-year-old 
LAS VEGAS–An arrest warrant was issued for 34-year old Brandon Williams in connection with a recent homicide. At approximately 9:16 a.m. on October 18, 2015, Williams was found by patrol officers from the LVMPD Northeast Area Command at a residence located in the 4500 block of Fireside Lane. Williams was taken into custody after a short foot pursuit, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Office of Public Information. He was later transported to the Clark County Detention Center where he was booked fo r one count of Open Murder. 
DULUTH, Ga. -- A man who authorities say orchestrated a fatal home invasion in Duluth, Ga. has been convicted of murder. A Gwinnett County jury convicted Brian Brewner in the death of 37-year-old 
Police in Florida have launched an independent investigation after a plainclothes officer shot dead a well-known local drummer — who police say was armed — while he sat in his car on a highway exit ramp. 
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