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Daycare shut down, black teacher arrested after White child burned
   HALL COUNTY, Ga. -- The state ordered a daycare center to shut down on Friday, declaring that children there are in imminent danger. The order stems from the investigation of the daycare, Discovering Basics and the arrest of one of the daycare center's teachers on a felony charge of child cruelty. It's the latest in the case of a Hall County toddler who was severely burned last week. On Friday, sheriff's investigators backed up the mom's story that the child was burned while he was at the daycare the previous Friday, June 13. For sheriff's investigators, there is no doubt about what happened to 16-month-old Damon Gaddis, and where it happened to him. "These injuries did occur at the daycare," said Hall County Sheriff's Deputy Nicole Bailes, "And, more specifically, they occurred shortly after he arrived at the daycare" that morning. Damon somehow suffered second- and third-degree burns, from scalding water. He is facing multiple surgeries. At about 12:30 Friday, June 20, the Sheriff arrested Damon's teacher, Eddye Pittmon, 55, accusing her of one felony count of child cruelty in the first degree for not getting Damon treatment for the burns right away -- or ever. - (Black-on-white) |
BALTIMORE —A Mount Vernon man claims he and his brother were victims of the so-called knockout game last week. Police said they've made an arrest, and it turns out the suspect was wanted for more than one of these types of incidents. Police said officers arrested a 16-year-old boy out of a group of 20-25 teens who may have somehow been involved in the attack. The victim, who asked to be identified only as Eric, said that he knew exactly what was happening and that he wasn't going to let himself become another victim of the knockout game. "The moment I got hit, that split second, I knew what was going on. I've heard the stories, and I wasn't going to let these kids get away," Eric said. "People who play the knockout game are cowards. There was 20 of them and two of us. The moment we chased them, they all went away," Eric said. 
Authorities have charged a Raleigh man with rape after a woman reported a May 19 incident that happened during a date. Terry Becton, 53, is charged with rape and sexual battery. The woman told officers that Becton offered to give her a massage, which she initially refused, but later agreed to receive. According to an affidavit, when she agreed, Becton lifted her shirt and began to suck her breasts. Then, police said, he pushed her on the bed, took off her pants and underwear and used his fingers to penetrate her while she asked him to stop.
Police released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with a sex offense in northeast Baltimore.City police said the man is wanted in connection with an incident on May 1 in the 5600 block of Frankford Avenue. No details of the incident were immediately provided. Police described the man as black, 5 feet 10 inches tall and about 160 pounds. He has a flame tattoo on his left hand with the letters MOB. 
Early into the All American Bar Crawl in Arlington Saturday evening, a man stripped down naked at Goody’s Pizza, ran down the street, jumped into a car, sped down Wilson Boulevard with officers in pursuit, hit two vehicles and was eventually taken down by Arlington police with a taser. After the suspect hit the vehicles at Wilson Boulevard and Highland Street, he attempted to get out of the car as officers approached him. Police identified the suspect as Charles Mack. He was taken to Virginia Hospital Center. 
Allegheny County's Housing Authority previously tried to evict a resident of the Springdale Manor high-rise accused of stabbing two women and assaulting a third there on Friday. Charles Azim, 73, remained in the Allegheny County Jail Saturday on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. 
Cops are looking for a group of young women who beat a 
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma County jury has sentenced a convicted murderer to death. Fabion Brown was found guilty for the 2012 murders of his wife, 
HOPEWELL, Va. – Police have arrested 52-year-old Ulysses Blanding for first-degree murder after a woman’s body was found Saturday afternoon in Hopewell. Police responded to the Davisville Apartments for a domestic dispute just before 4 p.m. There police found 28-year-old 
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- A South Florida man has been arrested hours after, police said, he drove to the University of Miami campus with the intention of killing his ex-boyfriend. Investigators said 35-year-old Yasmien Love tried to kill a university employee. They said a struggle over the gun ensued between the two men, and that's when it discharged. Investigators said Love was trying to kill the employee after a recent break-up. 
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County prosecutors have charged a Kansas City man with four counts of sexual misconduct. They say 33-year-old Leroy Landum went to public places in the metro area and touched himself several times between April and this week. 
MONTGOMERY, AL - The Montgomery Police Department is charging a suspect in connection with a Highland Avenue homicide case. Authorities took Fredrick Shermain Simmons is charged with the murder of 27-year-old 
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — One person has been charged with homicide after a Tuesday shooting death in Battle Creek. Ghermell Bolden was arraigned Thursday on a charge of felony murder. He accused of killing 
MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI — The images captured on two Muskegon County Sheriff's Office cruiser videos are startling: A shirtless man carrying a 4-foot metal pipe charges one of the cruisers with a large pipe in hand before being thrown onto the windshield of the vehicle. Authorities said Deputy Thomas Johnson had no time to react to the shirtless man who charged the cruiser, was thrown on top of the hood of the vehicle, and then bounced off the windshield before getting back on his feet – seemingly uninjured. The man, later identified as Calquan Dion Burr, appeared to be "under the influence of mind-altering drugs." "He also claimed he was from the 
BOSTON -- The Suffolk District Attorney's office says police used data from a GPS bracelet to track down a suspect in the sexual assault of a woman at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. The incident happened Wednesday afternoon. The woman told police she was attacked and robbed at knifepoint while she was on a walk. The district attorney's office said the arrest was aided in part by data from a GPS bracelet obtained by Suffolk prosecutors in another case. Ashton Davis, 23, was taken into custody and then held on $50,000 cash bail at his arraignment Friday. 
He is described as a black man, late teens-early twenties, wearing a “snapback” style black cap with a camouflage peak, jeans with white writing on the back pocket, with stud earrings in both ears. 
BEAR, Del. – New Castle County police are searching for a man wanted in connection with five indecent exposure incidents. Charles Riley, a 39-year-old whose last known address is on the 1200 block of North Tatnall Street in Wilmington, is wanted for five separate incidents that occurred in the area of Wellington Woods and Sparrow Run in June. Police say Riley has been seen on foot or operating a bike in the area. He’s described as a black male who is about 5’10” and 189 lbs with brown eyes and black hair.
CINCINNATI —A transgendered 'woman' was killed and family LGBTQ communities want to know if the 
PITTSBURGH — Police in Lawrence County are searching for a woman who allegedly threw hot bacon grease on her boyfriend after an argument. Authorities identify the couple involved as 37-year-old Shawntay Thomas and her 49-year-old boyfriend, Jasper Williams III.
ORLANDO, Fla. - A man has been charged with attempted second-degree murder after police say he threw hot grits on another man, causing third-degree burns. Edward Holley, 59, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon during a verbal dispute with another man at a home on King Cole Boulevard.
A five-year-old boy has been beaten to death and his mother and her boyfriend arrested for murder, authorities said. 
MURFREESBORO, TN - Six months after the brutal murder of a Smyrna man on the side of Interstate 24, an arrest has been made. Rutherford County Sheriff's detectives arrested 23-year-old Edgar Domonique "Dom" Covington on Tuesday, charging him with the crime. Sheriff's officials are not releasing many details about how the two met or what happened on that tragic day near the Almaville Road exit on Dec. 15, 2013. Detectives got word that Covington shot and killed 47-year-old 
SACRAMENTO – Police say that a teen murder suspect was arrested after an hours-long standoff early Friday morning. According to the Sacramento Police Department, 16-year-old Antoine Weber was the person arrested at a home along the 3800 block of 36th Street just after 4 a.m. The standoff between police and the suspect had been going on since late Thursday night. Investigators had been seeking Weber for the murder of 19-year-old 
BATON ROUGE, LA - A Baton Rouge man is being held on a $25,000 bond after he allegedly confessed to beating his son's dog to death. Investigators claim he smoked synthetic marijuana prior to the incident. Officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department were dispatched to a home after a witness saw Charles Dumas, 39, violently attack a dog. "[I] arrived and saw 
TANGIPAHOA PARISH, La. —Authorities in Tangipahoa Parish are searching for a 64-year-old Arkansas man on two counts of forcible rape. They allege the incident happened in Arkansas, but authorities believe the man may be hiding in the parish. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office is looking for Willie E. Davis, of Blytheville, Arkansas. Davis is wanted by the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office in Luxora, Arkansas, on two counts of forcible rape. Davis was described as a black man, standing 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 210 pounds. 
St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's deputies have arrested a LaPlace man, whom they say is a convicted sex offender, for allegedly exposing himself to
HOUSTON -- Police arrested Joseph Jones, 51, for a sex crime dating back to 2008. Jones is charged with aggravated sexual assault of an adult. According to prosecutors, Jones and another man followed a woman who was walking along Cullen Blvd at Bellfort St. The men approached the victim as she approached a convenience store, and according to court records, placed a piece of clothing over her head and forced her into their car. Prosecutors believe the men took turns raping the woman, threatening her and eventually forcing her back onto the street at Martin Luther King Blvd at Crestridge. 
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Police today charged a female McDonald’s employee for the vicious beating of a 
Va. - A Colonial Heights mom went through a double mastectomy two weeks ago and last Wednesday doctors told her they didn’t catch the cancer in time. She has stage 3 cancer, but that revelation wasn’t even the worst part of her week. While working her latest job Saturday, someone fired a gun at her. She’s been delivering the newspaper since October, but after bullets came flying, “I quit on the spot,” she said. “The carriers out here get cents per paper, it’s not worth it.” With her
Court documents say a Massachusetts teenager charged with killing his math teacher appeared to be "psychotic" after he allegedly attacked a female clinician at a Department of Youth Services detention center in Boston earlier this month. According to the petition to have Philip Chism committed to Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital for 30 days of evaluation and treatment, the 15-year-old was "out of touch with reality" and "yelling, screaming incoherently (and) foaming at the mouth while being restrained by staff." Chism pleaded not guilty to robbing, raping and killing 24-year-old Danvers High School teacher 
BOSTON – A driver charged with raping and robbing a woman in South Boston over the weekend was ordered held on $35,000 bail Wednesday. 
A violent sex offender in Chattanooga is back in trouble with the law. 53-year-old Willie James Bradley is facing two counts of aggravated rape and one county of false imprisonment. The police report says the incident happened just before 3 a.m. Wednesday morning at a vacant house on Milne Street. Officers found the victim with several cuts to her face and head. She told police she had been attacked and raped by a man she knew as "Doc." She was sent to Erlanger. Investigators found a lot of blood all over the floor and walls. 
Denver Police have arrested a man suspected of attacking a woman in a parking garage in Lower Downtown Denver June 8. The woman told police she saw two men standing by the elevator in the Alamo Parking Garage near 18th and Market streets at about 1:45 a.m. when she walked in. When she got on the elevator, one of the two men followed her inside. The woman told police that when she exited the elevator on the third floor, the man followed her. When the woman got to her car, the man pushed her inside, climbed on top of her and tried to sexually assault her. Alexander C. Moseley, 26, was arrested and charged with attempted sexual assault. 
DAYTON — A maintenance worker was arrested today for the alleged rape of a female resident at Redeemer Community housing complex on St. Paul Ave. in Dayton. Arthur Brookins, 53, is being held in Montgomery County Jail on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition. According to Dayton Sgt. Monica Evans, police recovered what they're calling potential evidence from the scene and interviewed Brookins before arresting him. The Redeemer Community is run by Graceworks Housing Services and affiliated with Graceworks Lutheran Services, which provides housing for persons 62 years and older and/or individuals who are mobility impaired with lower incomes. 
A former aide at a Cincinnati nursing home has been convicted of raping a 
BILOXI -- Judge Lisa Dodson has ordered a 23-year-old Biloxi man to serve 20 years in prison, day for day, for sexual battery and an unrelated burglary. She sentenced Carltavious Causey to a total of 37 years but suspended 17 years, leaving 20 to serve without eligibility for early release. Dodson sentenced him on guilty pleas in Harrison County Circuit Court on Monday. The sexual battery involved an assault on a woman who lived in the same apartment complex on McDonnell Avenue. Causey knocked on the woman's door in the early hours of Dec. 29, 2011, forced his way in, attacked her and forced her to have sex. Had the case gone to trial, prosecutors would have presented DNA evidence to prove his guilt.
BURLINGTON, Vt. —Police say a Winooski man was arrested twice in days for allegedly masturbating in public. Around 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Burlington Police responded to Church Street, between Main and College streets, for reports a man sitting on a bench and masturbating with his penis exposed. Burlington police say the man was identified as Michael Norton. Police say in the month of June Norton has been criminally charged four times with violating conditions of release, unlawful trespass, disorderly conduct and lewd and lascivious. 
DENVER - Denver police have shared a sketch of a sexual assault suspect, based on the denoscription from his victim. The victim was approached by the suspect on June 20 around 6:30 p.m. while walking in the area of W. Alameda Ave. and S. Wolff St., by Weir Gulch. Police say the man grabbed her and sexually assaulted her until she was able to stop the assault by kneeing him in the right leg. She was able to run away and call police, while the suspect limped away. She said the suspect was a black male who was between 40 and 50 years of age, weighed 120 to 125 pounds and stood approximately 6 feet tall, police said. He had a full beard but no mustache, a mole or bruise over his left eye, a teardrop tattoo outside his left eye and long fingernails. He was also missing some teeth and his front tooth was chipped.
A registered sex offender faces charges after police say he threw a chicken bone at his live-in girlfriend and kicked her dog so hard it had to be euthanized. Randy Johnson, 47, was charged Tuesday with felony animal abuse and third-degree domestic assault. He was also charged with failing to register as a sex offender after he allegedly failed to tell authorities he had moved. Authorities say Johnson and his girlfriend were at their Jefferson County home in the 9700 block of Jones Creek Rd. on Sunday when Johnson threw the chicken bone, striking the woman in the back of the head. Johnson then allegedly kicked her dog, causing internal injuries so bad it had to be put down.
A murder suspect in the St. Clair County Jail is facing additional felony charges for allegedly throwing feces and urine at three guards as the guards entered his cell. According to St. Clair County Sheriff's Department reports, Ronnie J. Gulley Jr., 22, placed a blanket over the door of his cell so guards couldn't see what he was doing. He refused to take the blanket down when ordered to do so. When guards attempted to enter his cell to take it down, he unleashed his attack. In addition to throwing bodily fluids on the guards, Gulley allegedly also threw punches at them. According to the sheriff's department, he punched one of the guards in the face twice. 
The name of the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's deputy shot and killed in Abbeville Monday is 
Two more people have been arrested in connection with the Monday shooting death of off-duty Vermilion Parish sheriff's deputy 
One of four people charged in the death of a Shelton State student last year has pleaded guilty. Tamarra Shavon Wilder, 19, pleaded guilty to murder in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court last Thursday. She is one of four defendants accused in the death of 
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A State Mental Hospital doctor has found the man accused of shooting a woman in a Conway Walmart unfit to stand trial. According to a State Hospital forensic report filed in Faulkner County District Court last week, 30-year-old Myron Terrell “lacked the capacity to understand the proceedings against him and the capacity to effectively assist his attorney in his own defense” when examined by a forensic psychologist. Terrell is accused of shooting 
FLORENCE COUNTY, SC - Two suspects from Fort Worth were arrested Monday night and charged with capital murder in the death of 54-year-old 
HOUSTON - Investigators with the Harris County Sheriff's Office's Special Victims Unit, and Crime Stoppers, need the public's help in identifying and locating a suspect who broke into an apartment and sexually assaulted a 63-year-old woman. In the early morning hours on Friday, HCSO deputies responded to a sexual assault at an apartment complex located in the 10000 block of Old Bammel North in northwest Harris County. The victim, a 63-year-old woman, told deputies the suspect broke into her apartment by kicking in the patio door, and then raped her. She told deputies the suspect threatened to kill her if she did not comply with his demands. The suspect fled on foot, but not before demanding money and other items from the apartment. The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment. The suspect is described as a black male between 20 and 30 years old, approximately 5'9" - 6' feet tall, of big build with a large belly. He had marks underneath both eyes. 
JACKSON, Miss. —A Hinds County Detention Center employee is accused of shooting a man during an altercation, according to a spokeswoman for the Jackson Police Department. Officer Colendula Green said the incident happened about 1 p.m. Thursday in the 4000 block of California Avenue. Green said George Franklin, 40, confronted Marcel Williams, 26, about Franklin's 21-year-old daughter
The man charged with choking and terrorizing the mother of a child he's accused of killing last year will remain in custody on a $1 million cash-only bond. Joseph Robert Patterson, 28, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault, interference with emergency communications and third-degree burglary early Wednesday morning, Minnehaha County State's Attorney Aaron McGowan said in court. The victim is the mother of 
PUEBLO, Colo. - Pueblo Police say two people who they have identified as persons of interest in a homicide have been arrested. Kasai Ciofassa, 23, and Donna Tortessi, 32, were arrested in Denver on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Police say an SUV that was stolen from the victim's home has been recovered. Officers were called to the home in the 3200 block of Westview Drive just before 10 p.m. on Sunday, June 22, 2014. The person who called for help said there was smoke coming from the home and the sound of an alarm could be heard. Police say the body of 
WINNSBORO, La. -- A woman is being charged with attempted murder after deputies say she flung her baby out of a moving car. The Franklin Parish Sheriff's Office was dispatched to Franklin Medical Center in Winnsboro around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, June 22, to investigate the incident. They were called to the ER when staff noticed a
A Manhattan judge dismissed a rape charge Tuesday against a self-proclaimed “black Hitler” accused of torturing his grandson’s nanny for three days. Sherman Gamble, 54, of Manhattan was busted last March when the woman told cops he raped her, held her captive for several days, beat her, choked her and shoved a newspaper down her throat. ”There is no evidence that the defendant, either personally, or while acting in concert with another, engaged in sexual intercourse with the complaining witness,” wrote Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jill Konviser in her decision to drop one of the top counts against Gamble. He still faces serious felony kidnapping, sex trafficking and promoting prostitution raps for the sick act. “I am going to kill you,” he allegedly bellowed at the woman during the March attack. “I am the black Hitler.”
After nearly 20 days on the lam, a woman has been arrested in connection with the killing of her wife, who was found dead in a San Carlos apartment earlier this month. Tiffany Nowden-Vale, 39, was booked into the Las Colinas Detention Facility Tuesday night on a first-degree murder charge, San Diego police confirmed. U.S. Marshals found Nowden-Vale at a home on Market Street after searching for her for the past three weeks – since her wife was found dead. Police have considered Nowden-Vale a person of interest-turned-suspect in the case. On June 5, at around 6 p.m., Nowden-Vale’s wife, 
A River Valley man is behind bars after police said he attacked a woman with a baseball bat at Walmart on Sunday night (June 15). Fort Smith police said the incident happened at the Walmart on Rogers Avenue. Police said a man identified as Corey Mosley got a running start and struck a woman identified as
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Police are still searching for a man involved in a shooting Friday night that left a Marine dead and his wife injured. Friends say 26-year-old 
A 75-year-old woman was left with two breaks in her jaw following a vicious attack in East Ham in broad daylight. 
A man has been found guilty in the brutal beating of an elderly woman at the Foggy Bottom Metro station. Surveillance video showed James Dorsey beating and robbing an
PHOENIX - A 58-year-old Phoenix man has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a Phoenix woman to death nearly 25 years ago. Cudellious Love was arrested Friday by Phoenix police and booked into jail on one count of first-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old 
FLINT, MI -- A trial is underway for the men accused of killing a security guard outside of River Village Apartments near downtown. Floyd Perkins, 22; Aaron Williams, 33; and Kenya Hyatt, 21; all face first-degree felony murder, armed robbery and firearm charges in the August 2010 killing of 