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White Islip man who traveled around the world killed by black strangers in North Carolina
   An Islip man who had traveled the globe for the past decade and was planning a cross-country bicycle ride was shot to death by robbers after he missed a bus connection in Fayetteville, North Carolina, last week, police and his family said. Mark Boyd II, 32, was shot late Thursday, and was pronounced dead early Friday, after a man he met in the Fayetteville bus depot offered him a place to sleep, they said. Instead, the man and an accomplice drove him to a secluded area, shot him and stole his crated bicycle and camping gear, they said. "Everywhere he went he met kind people, and he was a kind and good person. Then he came back to America and this happens," his stepmother, Susanne Boyd of Islip, said in an interview Monday. Her son went with the man "because Mark is so trusting. . . . They took this innocent kid. . . He is so kind. He wouldn't kill a bug," she said. "They hit him, they hurt him and they shot him." Fayetteville police said they arrested two local men there and charged both with first-degree murder in Boyd's death. Police identified them as Carlos Jacob Engle, 32, who was arrested Sunday and had previously served jail terms for armed robbery, assaulting a police officer and other crimes; and Deshavonte Kemp, 19, who also is charged with first-degree kidnapping and robbery with a dangerous weapon. Bail is not being made available to either man, police said. - (Black-on-white) |
HARTFORD — Either of two deep stab wounds to the heart could have killed Christopher Donato in 2012, a medical examiner testified during the first day of the murder trial of Carl "Hood" Small. Donato had two stab wounds to the chest and one to the back. The back wound and one of the chest wounds were so deep — 5 to 7 inches, he said — that both penetrated Donato's heart. Either could have killed him, he said. Donato, who was 30, was found dead in his apartment on June 18, 2012, by his father and a police officer. His father had asked police to help him check on his son, who hadn't been heard from in a couple of days and hadn't shown up for work that morning, police said. Donato worked at Sovereign Bank in West Hartford. They found Donato lying on the living room floor covered in blood, police said. - (Black-on-white)
A man accused of beating to death his cellmate at the county jail has been declared incompetent to stand trial and may claim insanity if he goes to trial. Mark Alonzo Cowans, 18, of Warren, is accused of beating 
MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP, MI – A doctor's examination of a 
Oklahoma City Police say they have arrested a man wanted for rape in Tulsa County. An arrest report indicates Bobby Lowe, 42, is wanted for raping a child under the age of 14 in Tulsa County. Officers were passing by an abandoned house known for drugs when they stopped to talk to the five people standing outside. That house has a no trespassing sign. A background check revealed Lowe's rape warrant and a public intoxication warrant also out of Tulsa County. Lowe is listed as a transient.
KENTON COUNTY, Ky. -- Two men who have been charged with rape and other crimes in Northern Kentucky are sought by police, while two others are behind bars. Rob Sanders of the Kenton County Commonwealth Attorney's Office said Thursday night that Donald Conrad and Eflin Tyler have been arrested and each faces first degree rape. The two suspects who remain at large are Deyshawn Perry and Jameel Lamont Mason. Perry has been charged with first degree rape. Mason faces complicity to first degree rape and promoting a sexual performance by a minor. 
NEWTON COUNTY, GA - A Newton County school teacher was arrested on Thursday for allegedly having inappropriate contact with a 15-year-old student. The Newton County Sheriff's Office said that they conducted in investigation into 24-year-old Victoria Tatum after receiving a complaint. According to authorities, the inappropriate contact, which began less than a month ago, happened more than once.
Authorities on Thursday arrested one of two Wilkinsburg men accused of shooting and killing a man during a home invasion. Bradley Darvin Kemp, 22, faces charges of homicide, robbery and conspiracy for the Nov. 1 slaying of 
In an action not seen in the U.S. Department of Justice in recent history, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday refused to comply with a court order to release a Vaughn Index of Operation Fast and Furious documents. Members of a House committee are requesting the federal judge in the case to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of court for failing to comply with a deadline a judge set to turn over documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a federal court motion on Thursday. 
KENNER, La. – After a weekend of rumors, Kenner police released mug shots and additional details on a sex scandal involving two Destrehan High School English teachers and a student. Jefferson Parish authorities said both teachers, Shelley S. Dufresne, 32, and Rachel Respess, 24, are facing felony charges of carnal knowledge of a juvenile, contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile. The two teachers met with a Destrehan High student after a football game on September 12th, then drove to Respess’s Kenner apartment where the three had sex simultaneously until the early morning hours of the 13th.
Deborah Pooley
NORMAN, Okla. — An Oklahoma prosecutor said Wednesday he will seek the execution of a man accused of beheading a co-worker in a fit of rage after being suspended from his job at a food processing plant. 
CINCINNATI – Police arrested a man involved in the killing of a 54-year-old ATM technician Tuesday in front of a PNC Bank ATM in Roselawn. Authorities arrested 36-year-old Yonah Israel Wednesday for the shooting death of 
HUBERT, ONSLOW COUNTY - Investigators have released the names of both men killed during a home invasion in Onslow County early Tuesday morning. They say 
YORK — A Rock Hill gang member described by police and prosecutors as one of the city’s most notorious and violent criminals was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison over a killing during a botched drug deal and several other shootings between November and January. Abbdul Omar Emmanuel, 20, pleaded guilty in July to voluntary manslaughter and other crimes in the January shooting and killing of 
ROCK HILL An accomplice in an armed robbery turned killing during a Rock Hill drug deal in January was sentenced to 10 years and three months in prison Tuesday, a day after the shooter was sent to prison for 40 years. Dontavion White, 18, pleaded guilty in May to accessory to the killing after the fact and conspiracy to buy marijuana in the death of 
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The (black) man charged with abducting (White) University of Virginia student 
A white lesbian mother is suing a sperm bank over claims she was mistakenly sent a black man's sperm and gave birth to a mixed-race baby as a result. Jennifer Cramblett, 36, and her partner Amanda Zinkon spent more than a year deciding on a donor to father a child. They specifically chose a white donor and paid around £1,500 pounds for six vials of semen. In a lawsuit filed against the clinic, she says the couple chose a white donor because they live a small, all-white community in Ohio and are afraid their child will be ostracised. 
The family of the teenager accused of raping a man in North Chattanooga Monday said 17-year-old Diontae Smartt was emotional during his juvenile court hearing. They said he denied being involved in the alleged rape. Wednesday however, juvenile court administrator Sam Mairs said Smartt gave a "verbal and written confession." According to the affidavit filed in juvenile court, the 
CHATTANOOGA, TN - Chattanooga police are urging runners to use extra caution as officers search for the person who raped a 
A registered sex offender is accused of groping a woman Tuesday night at a Brown Line station on the Near North Side. Adrian Balle, 48, of the 5400 block of West Huron, faces one felony count of criminal sexual abuse, according to Chicago Police. About 9:30 p.m., the 23-year-old woman was on her way up the stairs to the Franklin Brown Line stop in the 300 block of West Chicago when a man ran up behind her and grabbed her buttocks, prosecutors said. The man continued to follow her, then reached between her legs and groped her again through her clothes, prosecutors said. The woman turned around and pushed the man away from her.
The suspect is described as a black male between 25 and 30 years old, 6-feet tall, who was wearing a red polo-style shirt with white writing, a baseball cap and tan pants.
FRESNO, Calif. -- Four people have been arrested in connection to the killing of nearly 1,000 chickens at a Valley Foster Farms facility. The Fresno County Sheriff's office say 18-year-old 
MIDTOWN -- Police say they have captured a robbery suspect who entered a seemingly random hotel room in Midtown Manhattan Tuesday morning. The incident played out on West 35th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Police say the suspect entered the Wingate by Wyndham Hotel at 235 West 35th Street around 7:30 a.m., made his way to the 10th floor and burst into the room of 
PORTLAND, Ore. A young Somali 
CHICAGO – Two brothers were being held without bond Wednesday, charged in a series of brutal sexual assaults dating back more than a decade. 38-year-old Leondo Joseph and 29-year-old LB Joseph have been charged in a handful of sexual assaults, after DNA testing linked them to the rapes dating from 2003 to 2012. Leondo Joseph was charged in six attacks; LB Joseph in two. Leondo Joseph was arrested Saturday night at his North Side home. Police said he broke into women’s homes in the Lakeview neighborhood, and raped them after threatening their lives, often while armed with a weapon. His younger brother allegedly took part in two attacks which happened in vehicles.
TROY - Police have arrested the man who allegedly raped a woman on Third Street, and believe he may have other victims. Andre McClenos, 54, of the 2400 block of Third Avenue in Watervliet, is charged with first-degree rape and first-degree unlawful imprisonment, both felonies. Police say on Sept. 22, McClenos engaged the victim in conversation and then followed her when she ignored his advances. He followed her to a quiet area, police said, and forcibly raped her.
The man accused of stabbing a student in a dorm at the College at Brockport was arraigned in court Tuesday night. The assistant district attorney handling the case says he admitted to the stabbing. Twenty-year-old Osaze Adisa Timothy is charged with assault and burglary. Court documents say Timothy stabbed 
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A store surveillance video shows Antrione Archer repeatedly pressing his exposed penis against a female employee's buttocks in the Kroger on Dixie Highway last May, a Fort Mitchell police officer said in his report. Archer, a University of Cincinnati Athletics & Recreation staff member, was fired Tuesday - four months after the incident.
GONZALES — Police arrested a Napoleonville man Tuesday after he was linked by DNA to an incident in August when a man masturbated in front of a female employee at a yogurt shop, the Gonzales police said Tuesday. Jack Ryan Vincent, 34, 110 Bertie St., Napoleonville, was booked into the Ascension Parish Prison on one count of obscenity. On Aug. 18, an employee of the yogurt shop called police and said a man had come into the shop and began a conversation with her. Within a short time, he exposed himself and began to masturbate, according to a news release from the police. 
Queens Assemblyman William Scarborough was hit Wednesday morning with a 23-count indictment charging him with using campaign funds for personal expenses, authorities said. Scarborough, a Democrat first elected in 1994 to represent the 29th Assembly District in southeast Queens, was arrested following a joint probe by the offices of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
A New York auction house is suing 
A former NYPD cop who sued the department for $30 million after he was axed for allegedly trying to pimp out an undercover cop has settled his case — for just $2,500. Monty Green was terminated after he asked the woman if she was “looking for a daddy,” according to court papers. Green’s suit alleged that NYPD brass unfairly targets minorities and that there was never enough evidence to slap him with the pimp allegations.
"Give me a hamburger or I'll shoot you," Dechazo Harris said as he got out of the car, according to the report.
An illegal Ecuadoran immigrant from Cliffside Park who broke into his estranged wife’s home last October will likely be deported later this year after pleading guilty in Hackensack today to burglary and aggravated assault charges. 
Sheikh Rachid al-Ghannouchi
BRISTOL, R.I. — Colt State Park is a family-friendly place where people go picnicking and fishing, but according to police – it’s a place where several elderly men were arrested for inappropriate sexual activity. In the last week, Bristol police said they’ve arrested three men who had solicited other males for sexual favors, two being undercover cops and the other a teenager. According to the police report 
Further investigation into the possible fraudulent transaction at the bank revealed that the suspect might have a warrant for his arrest out of Oklahoma for a 
A 36-year-old prisoner scheduled to be released on parole last week was jailed instead in connection with a cold-case rape police say took place on New Year's Eve 17 years ago. Jamol Rickmon was booked Friday on charges of aggravated rape and aggravated burglary, court records show. His bond was set at $750,000.
Authorities in Sumter have arrested a man after he knowingly exposed people to HIV. Montie Davis, 44, was taken into custody on Friday. Bond was set for Davis on Saturday at $10,000, but he will be allowed to pay 10 percent of the amount to be released. Officials have said the investigation is ongoing as the continue to search for more information surrounding Davis's acts.
A mother who returned home from a trip to find an illegal immigrant sitting in her driveway fed him chocolate and crisps to waylay him until police arrived. 
‘This Is Just What We Do’ A fired Oklahoma City nursing home employee was arrested after a female coworker reported that he threatened to behead her, the Oklahoman said. 
An American teen sentenced to life without parole for the murder of two British tourists has had his sentence overturned. Shawn Tyson was found guilty of killing friends 
CINCINNATI —A Hamilton County man is accused of trying to force a girl to perform oral sex. The incident happened at an apartment complex on Sunday. Police said a man lured the girl to a basement laundry room and tried to force himself upon her. A witness, Rasheeda Lawson, said she heard a woman yell “Someone call the police, he just touched my daughter,” and saw a man, later identified as Terry Johnson, running away while trying to pull up his pants. The
TERRE HAUTE — An Indiana State University student who was shot over the weekend has been expelled–as has the man accused of shooting him. The motive behind the weekend shooting appeared to be gambling. Both men were rolling dice, according to court documents. University officials had described the shooting as an isolated incident. Calvin McCauley, 21, was arrested on a preliminary charge of attempted murder for the shooting of 
The woman beheaded by a Muslim convert was a grandmother who had lost her home in a tornado, it emerged today. 
Heroic: 
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the ineffective counsel claim of a condemned man from New Orleans who killed a Fayetteville couple in 2007. Gregory Decay, now 29, was sentenced to death twice by a Washington County jury in 2008 for fatally shooting 
LOS ANGELES: As 
One man is hospitalized, another in police custody after what police said was a random attack in downtown Cincinnati. Cincinnati police said Howard Martin III, 41, attacked another man with 
Peoria police are searching for five men involved in the assault of a Peoria man in late August, according to officials. A 35-year-old man was attacked by a group of men near Cactus Road and 83rd Avenue in Peoria just before midnight on Aug. 31, a statement from the Peoria Police Department said. After leaving a local grocery store, the five men are believed to have yelled at the man and then proceeded to physically assault him, the statement said. After the attack the victim was able to flag down police and report the incident, the statement said.
PHOENIX - A man charged in the hit-and-run death of a Phoenix police officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Maricopa County prosecutors say 25-year-old
N.Y. -- Niagara Falls residents are trying to make sense of a homicide that happened Tuesday night. Police believe an argument led to the shooting. Officers discovered 30-year-old 
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Family and friends of a homeless man who died after being savagely beaten outside a University Drive convenience store are turning to Huntsville City Hall for answers. During Thursday night's Huntsville City Council meeting, Help Our Homeless Veterans & Citizens founder Rusty Loiselle said 
SUFFOLK, Va. — Police have arrested a third person in connection to the murder of a well-known Suffolk businessman. Officers arrested 31-year-old Katron Shawndell Walker Wednesday night. Walker has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Carter’s Furniture Store owner, 
