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Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source
   Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a source close to the department's top brass told FoxNews.com. “The Assistant (Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side,” said the insider. “He was beaten very severely.”
According to the well-placed source, Wilson was coming off another case in the neighborhood on Aug. 9 when he ordered Michael Brown and his friend Dorain Johnson to stop walking in the middle of the road because they were obstructing traffic. However, the confrontation quickly escalated into physical violence, the source said.. “They ignored him and the officer started to get out of the car to tell them to move," the source said. "They shoved him right back in, that’s when Michael Brown leans in and starts beating Officer Wilson in the head and the face. The source claims that there is "solid proof" that there was a struggle between Brown and Wilson for the policeman’s firearm, resulting in the gun going off – although it still remains unclear at this stage who pulled the trigger. Brown started to walk away according to the account, prompting Wilson to draw his gun and order him to freeze. Brown, the source said, raised his hands in the air, and turned around saying, "What, you're going to shoot me?"
At that point, the source told FoxNews.com, the 6 foot, 4 inch, 300-pound Brown charged Wilson, prompting the officer to fire at least six shots at him, including the fatal bullet that penetrated the top of Brown's skull, according to an independent autopsy conducted at the request of Brown's family. Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket in the fracas, and was left dazed by the initial confrontation, the source said. He is now "traumatized, scared for his life and his family, injured and terrified" that a grand jury, which began hearing evidence on Wednesday, will "make some kind of example out of him." - (Black-on-white) |
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Richard Catalano was murdered. His family members described him as having a "heart of gold." Catalano, 26, was killed late Sunday night in an armed home invasion that also left his mother in critical condition. "I saw a lady come out (of the house). She was covered in blood or what looked like blood," said Juan Rios, a neighbor. "It was coming down her legs. She was screaming." Rios said that he heard a gunshot and saw the aftermath. Like many neighbors in this area, he said the situation was shocking. "I don't know what happened, but I know it's a great neighborhood," said Jerry Joly. "I just feel so bad for the family that lost their child." Police have charged Dari Garcia, 24, of Providence, with murder, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and other charges. - (Black-on-white)
A 65-year-old man was confronted by a group of women and beaten up in front of his 
ORLANDO, Fla. - Orange County deputies are searching for the man caught on video beating and robbing a 
BALTIMORE — A popular downtown Baltimore neighborhood is on edge after a second brutal attack in just a week. Police say this time they caught one of the attackers. The victim has several stitches, but it could have been a lot worse. He narrowly avoided a stab wound like the ones the victim in Sunday’s attack suffered. Sidney Joyner, 19, is charged in Thursday night’s attack on a lifeguard from the Otterbein Swim Club. Police say he was walking in the 100 block of W. Montgomery Street, where he says he was approached by three young African-American teenagers. One of them screamed out “hey white boy!” “He turned around and one of the males threw a rock. The rock hit him in the lip, causing the injury. One of the suspects then approached our victim, produced a pocket knife and lunged at the victim.” The victim was able to dodge the blade and began screaming for help. That’s when the suspects ran away. Immediately after the attack, police began canvassing the area. It was just a few blocks away they found a teenager matching the denoscription of one of the suspects. The victim identified Joyner as his knife-wielding attacker. The two other suspects remain at large. The incident on Montgomery Street follows a similar attack on Sunday that left 24-year-old
BALTIMORE – A 24-year-old man is listed in critical condition after being robbed and stabbed multiple times by a group of teenagers. Early Monday morning around 4:20 a.m. officers were called to the 1200-block of Wall Street for a reported stabbing. When officers arrived they located 24-year-old 
OCALA, Fla. - Ocala police have issued an arrest warrant for the woman they say posed while using a stolen credit card at a beauty supply store. Police issued the warrant for Mashana Harris, 26, on Friday on charges of fraudulent credit card use and identity theft in the July incident. Police said Harris used the credit card at Looking Good Beauty Supply on West Silver Springs Boulevard and the clerk took a photo because of the large transaction she was attempting.
The FBI's Rochester Child Exploitation Task Force is searching for a fugitive, Jordan McCloud, in connection to a rape that was videotaped and posted to Facebook. We're told there's a federal arrest warrant out for McCloud, who is described as a 6'1", 140 pound male with short hair and pierced ears. Investigators say his car is a 2006 red Cadillac STS with New York license plate number GPK-8686. According to the FBI, McCloud has been charged with the production and possession of child pornography and is also wanted for violating a probation warrant out of Monroe County. Court documents identify McCloud as the man who allegedly recorded 21-year-old 
A Metairie man accused of raping a young girl told investigators he couldn't say whether or not the assaults occurred because he is addicted to crack cocaine, according to authorities. Kenner police booked Horace Lee Foster, 47, on Thursday with aggravated rape, sexual battery and indecent behavior with a juvenile, said Sgt. Brian McGregor. Investigators first learned of the assaults in November when the victim reported them to authorities. The assaults occurred at two Kenner residences between September 2009 and August 2010 when 
A Palmyra man was charged Thursday with several sex crimes after police said he raped a 
PORTLAND, OR - Police are asking for the public's help identifying a man accused of exposing himself to a woman on a Metropolitan Area Express train. Transit police took a report about the incident on July 24. A surveillance image of the suspect was released by Portland police. Investigators said the suspect boarded an eastbound train at the Beaverton Transit Center and took it to the stop at 162nd and East Burnside. The suspect is described as a black man in his early 50s, 5'6" tall with a medium build. Police said he appeared to be well dressed, with glasses and a purple cap. 
An elderly babysitter pleaded guilty on Friday to molesting several young children while she took care of them at her Cincinnati home. Barbara Brooks, 64, was accused of 
A worker at a group home is now under indictment on multiple counts including murder. 55-Year-Old Janice Cooper is accused of killing
Thousands of demonstrators flooded Staten Island for a Saturday march protesting the chokehold death of a black man during his arrest last month by a 
NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA -- Police are trying to track down the trio of suspects who they say have been stalking out senior citizens at banks throughout Philadelphia then attacking and robbing them. "They're scum, really scum - going after people that really can't afford it," said 
CHICAGO – A black plaintiff who threw a courtroom chair at a white Joliet cop after he lost a civil rights trial was on Thursday sentenced to five years in prison for “assault with a dangerous weapon.” Lavelle Watts Jr. had waited nearly three years to get revenge against 
CHICAGO – Two convicted felons have been hit with a slew of criminal charges, accused of
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Riverside gang rape suspect has been ruled not competent for prosecution. Rakeem Mitchner, one of three men charged in the October 2009 beating and rape of a 47-year-old woman who was riding her bicycle, will have a competency review in February. The crime happened on Goodwin Street. The victim made her way to a Park Street business, where police were called. Stanley Armitage has already pleaded guilty to kidnapping and rape and is awaiting sentencing. The third suspect, Martin Anthony King, is awaiting trial.
Virginia Beach Police have made at least two arrests in the 1986 rape of two girls. Police have arrested 50-year-old Clarence Carvell Speller and 49-year-old Charles Williams, Jr. in connection to the August 1986 sexual assaults.
Sumter, SC - Sumter police are searching for a suspect they say sexually assaulted a woman as she slept. Lashonda Monique Dennis, 35, is wanted for the incident that took place May 2nd. According to officers, the woman left a party in her car, and pulled over to the side of the road because she had too much to drink. After falling asleep, she woke and saw small cuts and bruises on her arms. A friend later told her that while she was asleep, Dennis has sex with her.
ELYRIA, OH - The U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested fugitive Dana Woods, 47, around 8 a.m. Friday at a residence in the 400 block of West 11th Street in Elyria. Woods was wanted by the Lorain County Sheriff's Office for failure to register as a sex offender stemming from a case in 2006 where he was convicted of gross sexual imposition of 
PHILADELPHIA — The prosecution has disclosed new allegations today in the case against a 21-year-old woman charged with abducting a
Jurors told Judge Howard Shore they were hopelessly deadlocked on felony charges of assault with intent to commit rape and attempted robbery in the trial of 21-year-old Ameen Bryant. Deliberations lasted about a day-and-a-half. Bryant put a hand over the victim’s mouth, then tried to put dirt in it, Palermo said. Bryant was startled by two joggers and ran off, holding his pants up, the prosecutor said. DNA recovered from the victim’s face matched the defendant’s, Palermo said. “I have a small recollection of him trying to pull my pants down,” the victim testified. “I told him to get off of me.” 
SANTA BARBARA — An arrest warrant has been issued for a Southern California man with a contagious case of drug-resistant tuberculosis, authorities said Friday. 24-year-old 
It is the second time in the past month that California health officials issued a warrant for a TB patient refusing treatment, though the move is extremely rare. 
The man accused of killing two employees at a Kent gas station told police he opened fire after a group of construction workers directed racial slurs at him and a friend. Leland D. Russell, 29, who is being held for investigation of two counts of first-degree homicide, was captured on surveillance video at the combination Shell gas station and Wendy’s restaurant shooting the victims at close range. Russell told investigators that construction workers at the gas station had directed racial slurs at him and the friend. The two station employees intervened. Russell is described in the document as Hispanic and his companion described as black. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office identified 
Joe Michael Boose pleaded guilty to a second degree murder charge related to the May 2013 shooting death of 
SHREVEPORT, LA - Shreveport police say they have arrested a third suspect in the shooting death of a man in the Highland neighborhood last week. Shavez S. Taylor 32, of the 7400 block of Southern Avenue in Shreveport, was taken into police custody just before 6:00 p.m. Thursday after surrendering to authorities at Shreveport police headquarters. Taylor's arrest comes 10 days after 48-year-old 
MANHATTAN — A man mowing a lawn along a rural highway was struck and killed by a car near southwest suburban Manhattan on Sunday, and the driver is facing reckless homicide charges. Zevez A. Murrell, 31, was driving a blue Toyota Camry southbound on U.S. 52 near Delaney Road in Manhattan Township when the car swerved into the northbound lanes and sideswiped a Honda Civic, Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Wilfredo Rivera said. The Camry then swerved back across the southbound lanes and drove into a ditch on the west side of the roadway, then hit a John Deere tractor, Rivera said. The driver of the tractor, 
While national news media continue to focus on race in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, they apparently don’t think a similar case in Utah with the races reversed is that newsworthy. Police in Salt Lake City are continuing their probe into an Aug. 11 shooting outside a 7-Eleven convenience store, when a black police officer, whom local media are referring to as “not white,” shot and killed 20-year-old 
NEWARK, N.J. – A double-murder suspect from Washington state and two teenagers have been charged in the fatal shooting of a college student in West Orange. Essex County prosecutors announced Monday that 29-year-old Ali Muhammad Brown, of Seattle, and two West Orange men — 19-year-old Jeremy Villagran and 18-year-old Eric Williams — were charged in the death of 19-year-old 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 21-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the justifiable shooting death of a home invader last week in Arlington. Jessica Fain was a friend of 21-year-old Marquise Yates, who was shot and killed by 
OKLAHOMA CITY - Police have identified a man accused in the shooting that killed one person and injured another one Monday afternoon in southwest Oklahoma City. According to police, just before 6 p.m., officers responded to the report of a shooting at an apartment complex in the 1700 block of S. Grand Blvd. 
ANOKA, Minn. — An Anoka County judge has sentenced a 36-year-old man to 27 years in prison for abducting and raping a woman in Fridley after telling her he was a police officer. Gideon Charles Arrington II of Brooklyn Center was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to one count of first-degree criminal sexual assault in May. Judge Dyanna Street says aggravating factors such as the particular cruelty of the attack justified a sentence that exceeded state guidelines. Arrington abducted the 32-year-old woman near Fridley City Hall in November after telling her he was a detective. He then handcuffed and blindfolded her and raped her repeatedly. The woman tells authorities he washed her body and clothes before freeing her. Prosecutors say they recovered his DNA from the woman’s body during a physical exam.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office detectives have arrested a Metairie man accused of raping two girls more than four years ago. Marcus Harris, 38, was booked with two counts of aggravated rape. Harris is accused of molesting the
NAMPA -- A man is behind bars after police say they found evidence he had sex with a 
D.C. Police are looking for help identifying a suspect wanted for sexually assaulting a woman, and have released a photo of a person of interest. Police said the incident was reported between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Sunday in the 3900 block of Georgia Avenue NW. Authorities said the suspect is about five feet, six inches tall, with a beard and black hair. They said he was last seen wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt with writing on the front, but police also said his shirt may have been a baseball style shirt with burgundy sleeves and white writing on the front.
Hackensack police released surveillance video Wednesday of a man suspected of
Two dozen protesters — most of them armed — from a gun club named after the founder of the original Black Panther Party peacefully marched through parts of South Dallas on Wednesday. The open-carry rally was organized by the Huey P. Newton Gun Club to promote self-defense and community policing in response to recent police shootings, both nationally and locally. Police monitored the black-clad demonstrators, some of whom had rifles slung over their shoulders. As they walked down MLK Boulevard and Malcolm X Boulevard in the blistering heat, many chanted “black power” and “justice for 
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia police officer was shot in the city’s Tacony neighborhood early Tuesday morning. The officer was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center in stable condition with a deep graze wound to the left side of the head. The injured officer has been identified as 15th District Officer 
Julius Smith, the final suspect in the 2011 murder of a Lewisville resident, pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Smith entered his guilty plea July 25 in a Denton County court. The other suspects in the murder had already been sentenced. Tyrone Negale Jenkins was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in June. In April 2013, Markell Hardy was tried for murder, but it resulted in a mistrial. Before Hardy’s case came before another judge and jury, he accepted a plea bargain for a 40-year prison sentence and pleaded guilty to murder. The three men were convicted for the murder of 
LIVONIA, Mich. - School is just around the corner and rather than brushing up on some history, one child made some of his own. Late last week, 
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon drew criticism from his own Lt. Governor Tuesday when he said "a vigorous prosecution must now be pursued". Nixon made the comment in a videotaped statement in which he said he would not remove St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch from the case despite the demands of some black leaders who believe that McCulloch's deep family ties to law enforcement would affect his impartiality. McCullouch's father, mother, brother, uncle and cousin all worked for the St. Louis Police Department, and 
Many African American church leaders told News 4 a man pretending to spread messages of peace is actually escalating violence in Ferguson. Pastors are pointing the finger at Malik Shabazz, the former leader of the New Black Panther Party, and many church leaders want him to leave Ferguson. “I am upset with a certain group of them that are rebel rousers. We know them by name. Last night was the scariest night of my life,” said Pastor Mike Robinson. Robinson said there is growing concern over Shabazz and what he is doing in Ferguson.
A Lewisville man recently pleaded guilty in the 2011 stabbing death of his estranged wife. Tony Burrell entered a plea of guilty for capital murder and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Burrell was arrested in September 2011 on capital murder charges for the stabbing of his wife 
CATAWBA COUNTY, NC - A man accused in the death of a popular Catawba County teacher has been indicted by a grand jury in her death. Sharman Howard Odom was indicted Monday afternoon by a Catawba County Grand Jury in the death of 
Bruised and bloodied by an intruder, a Jacksonville man and woman exchanged gunfire with the invader and put an end to an assault early Friday at their home. 
COLUMBIA, SC - The man who fired shots in Five Points, striking and paralyzing a University of South Carolina student, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Michael Juan Smith appeared in Federal Court in Columbia for a sentencing hearing on the federal weapons charge in connection the shooting on Oct. 13 in Five Points. Prosecutors said Smith fired one or two shots that night. In court, they showed surveillance video of Smith in the area, the shooting and 
COLUMBIA, SC - The man accused of firing the bullet that critically injured an 18-year-old University of South Carolina student in Five Points early Sunday morning has been denied bond. Michael Juan Smith, 20, of Columbia appeared before a judge Monday morning to answer to charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, and possession of a stolen pistol. Smith will remain incarcerated. The 18-year-old woman, who was not the intended target, remains in critical but stable condition, according to Columbia Police. Attempts to identify the woman were difficult, but after digging through social media, we discovered a trending topic called #PrayForMartha. Digging further, we were able to identify the victim as 
John Crawford III
In the years before she would be implicated in the beating death of her mother on the resort island of Bali, Heather Mack was accused of locking her mother in a closet, stealing thousands of dollars from her, punching and biting her repeatedly, and once pushing her to the ground so hard that she broke her arm, according to newly released police reports. Yet 
LAFAYETTE, Ind. – After she said she was punched repeatedly in the face by her ex-boyfriend, an Attica woman is now speaking out about domestic violence. “I feel scared. I feel very scared,” said 22-year-old 
PORTLAND -- An immigration judge has dropped the deportation case against 
