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Racist black Muslim Walmart suspect gets nearly 98 years - Faust is black; the four victims are white
   A man accused of shooting four people in a Greenville commercial area in 2013 was sentenced to 97 years and eight months in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty in Pitt County Superior Court. Lakim Anthony Faust, 24, pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and seven counts of assault on a law enforcement officer. Law enforcement officers, victims and their families also attended the proceedings. Evidence presented for Jenkins to weigh for sentencing included video from security cameras in the area and from an officer who was wearing a camera. Faust, who has a histroy of mental illness, was experiencing a psychotic episode during the shooting, according to testimony, but understood the consequences of his actions and could not plead insanity. Police said at the time of the crime that he used a shotgun to shoot one man at 11:44 a.m. on June 21, 2013, in the parking lot of Kellum Law Firm on Greenville Boulevard. Then he walked across the street to the Walmart parking lot and allegedly shot three more men at close range before police shot him. The indictments said Faust shot the four men because of their “race, color, religion, nationality, or country of origin.” Faust is black; the four victims are white. A search warrant shows police seized several books on the Muslim faith from Faust’s residence as evidence after the shootings. Tim Edwards, 64, a GEICO insurance adjuster, was outside the law firm when he was shot in his face and left arm through the window of his car. The gunman then walked across Greenville Boulevard, entered Walmart parking lot and sprayed more pellets. Vernon Leggett, 69, Carroll Oakes, 70, and Haywood Whichard, 50, were injured. - (Black-on-white) |
MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The Montgomery man who confessed to driving drunk, crashing his vehicle and killing 25-year-old Ashlee Mock will spend the next two years in the county jail. Kevin Crosskey, 29, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to murder and first-degree assault in September, court records show. Mock's family questioned the justice behind the man responsible for the death of their beloved daughter only getting a two-year sentence. Mock and her boyfriend, Jeremy Gaines, were standing by Mock's parked car in the 1900 block of Yarbrough Street in north Montgomery at 11:27 p.m. on Oct 18, 2013 when Crosskey crashed his SUV into them. Mock died at the scene and Gaines suffered serious injuries. Crosskey later admitted to drinking a dozen beers before getting behind the wheel. - (Black-on-white)
ST. LOUIS, MO -St. Louis police say a man and his two dogs were all shot and killed in the parking lot of a Subway restaurant on Hampton Avenue, just south of I-64 around 5:30 Friday evening. When officers got to the scene, they found 
OKLAHOMA CITY — After a number of delays, Charles Frederick Warner is now scheduled to die by lethal injection January 15, 2015. It was August 22nd, 1997 when Oklahoma City Police detectives first arrested Warner for the 
MCCOMB, Miss. —McComb police are searching for a man suspected of kidnapping a girl as she walked to her school bus stop. Police said the 16-year-old girl was lured early Thursday morning into a yard of an abandoned house in the 200 block of South Cherry Street. The suspect, who police have identified as Justin Brumfield, would not let the girl leave and then sexually assaulted her. The girl was treated at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center and released.
TOMS RIVER —A man convicted of sexually assaulting a 
Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura in the 60's TV version of "Star Trek," did better on spaceships than planes because her travelling companion was busted at LAX after meth fell out of his suitcase ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ. We've learned the 81-year-old actress was with a male companion in his 20's at the American Airlines terminal. We're told he had attached his luggage to hers and her name tags were on his bags. Law enforcement sources tell us, his suitcase fell to the ground, opened and a bag of meth and drug scales spilled out. Nichols rep tells TMZ ... the companion is her assistant.
CALIFORNIA, Pa. — A sixth California University of Pennsylvania football player allegedly involved in a brutal assault near the campus early Thursday morning has turned himself in to police. Shelby Wilkerson, 20, of Harrisburg, turned himself in to campus police Saturday, authorities said. He was then turned over to the California Borough Police Department and charged with aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, harassment and criminal conspiracy. 
SANTA CRUZ -- It appears that someone in the liberal bastion of Santa Cruz doesn't like the overtly conservative Fox News -- imagine that! -- or anyone dressing up like a Fox News reporter on Halloween, for that matter. At downtown Santa Cruz's annual parade on Friday night, police said, 29-year-old Sean Kory said "I hate Fox News" before grabbing the victim's microphone prop. The dreadlocked Kory then made an obscene gesture with it before attacking the victim with an aluminium tennis racket, police said. The victim wasn't injured, but he called police, who ran down the suspect as he attempted to flee. 
MAYS LANDING, N.J. — A southern New Jersey man has been sentenced to 24 years in state prison for killing a man during a house burglary two years ago. Atlantic County prosecutors say 
MABLETON, GA - Police released video of a man who loaded a shopping cart with batteries at a Kmart and then threw several punches at a Kmart loss prevention officer. 
A 56-year-old 
England — 
GREENVILLE, N.C. - A man accused of breaking into and killing a pastor in Greenville pleaded guilty in court Wednesday. Shamel Brown is accused of the August 2012 murder of Pastor 
St. Petersburg police have charged a 32-year-old man with a 2012 murder. Police said Christopher E. Roberson killed 
A Tulsa man who police say fatally shot the mother of his child and then shot himself was charged with one count of first-degree murder and three counts of feloniously pointing a firearm. Robert Julius Tillotson III, 31, survived a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after police say he fatally shot 
CALIFORNIA, Pa. — Five football players from California University of Pennsylvania were arrested and suspended from the school after police said they beat and stomped a man outside an off-campus restaurant, then fled yelling, "Football strong!" The players attacked 30-year-old
District of Columbia police are searching for a man they say swung a large ax at an officer in an unprovoked attack.Chief Cathy Lanier said the officer was sitting in a marked police car in the 1200 block of Quincy Street, NE shortly after 3 a.m. Friday when a man swung the ax and shattered the driver's side window. The officer got out of the car and struggled with the attacker, who fled on foot without the ax. The officer was injured in the scuffle, but not by the blade of the weapon; he suffered a dislocated shoulder. The attacker was described by police as a black man who is approximately 6 feet tall with a stocky build, wearing dark-colored or black coveralls. 
ROCK HILL — John Tyrone Roddey Jr., 24, who is not a Winthrop student, is charged with criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping. A female Winthrop student was held against her will and sexually assaulted Friday morning outside her dormitory, but her screams during the attack may have saved her life, police said. The attacker sexually assaulted the victim and took pictures of her before officers arrived. 
After untested rape kits sat in a Detroit warehouse for years, the victims of a serial rapist had to wait and wonder if he would strike again. Michael Eugene Swygart’s sex crime arrests date all the way back to the late 1980s. So why did at least two of his more recent victims have to wait years for anyone to investigate what happened to them? When the 43-year-old was dragged into court last month, a woman he raped wanted vengeance. “If I could have you castrated while you’re locked up, you would be castrated,” she said to Swygart during his sentencing. 
Melvin Edwards, a 15-year-old Puyallup boy was sentenced Friday under a scheme that will keep him locked up for at least 19 years and possibly for life. Edwards pleaded guilty earlier this year to attempted first-degree murder, second-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping for luring a 
DENVER - Denver jurors have convicted a 36-year-old man for pimping a teenager. Thomas White was found guilty Thursday of the pimping of a child, pandering of a child, procurement of a child, keeping a place of prostitution and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. His sentencing for the crime is scheduled for Jan. 5. That's also the day when he will be tried on whether he is a "habitual criminal." If he is convicted of being a habitual criminal, Kimbrough says White will face a mandatory 48 years in prison. White met the victim in Arizona during July of 2012, when she was 17 years old, and brought her to Colorado, where he sold her for sex and kept all of the money. 
Just Thursday, three Republican senators who have supported immigration reform legislation — sent Obama a letter warning that any unilateral steps he might take to give large numbers of immigrants quasi-legal status could doom the chances of more permanent immigration reform legislation. “If [Obama] starts moving on immigration on his own through executive action, Republicans will get very angry and it will really be gridlock for a long time,” Thurber predicted. 
The family of an 8-year-old boy who was brutally murdered while playing outside an Alexandria home 14 years ago is afraid his killer could walk free. 
AKRON, OH - The Summit County jury deliberating in the trial for Shawn Ford has found the Akron man guilty on two counts of aggravated murder. The panel began deciding the fate of the 18-year-old on Monday and reached a verdict two days later. Ford was on trial for murdering his girlfriend's parents,
A man who appeared in Cook County Court Thursday morning on aggravated battery charges attacked judge Geary Kull after his hearing, sending him to the hospital, Cook County Sheriff's authorities said. The sheriff's office said Michael Ganter was being escorted by two sheriffs to a holding cell just before noon when he broke free near the side of the judge’s bench. Ganter went to the judge and punched him in the head and face, authorities said. Sheriff's officers and other law enforcement in the courtroom assisted in subduing him. A taser was deployed during the incident, sheriff's authorities said, and officials confirmed the judge was hit in the hand with a probe from the device. The judge was transported to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. His condition wasn't immediately released. 
Roksana Sikorski, 15, pleaded not guilty to seven counts of felony in her arraignment Thursday. She allegedly stabbed her 
A man has been found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend last year in a Winters parking lot. William Gardner III shot and killed 
The man charged with abducting 
NEW YORK – Police have arrested a homeless man in connection with the attempted rape of a Columbia University graduate student. Allen Taylor, 27, is charged with first-degree attempted rape, second-degree burglary and sexual abuse for allegedly attacking the student as she entered her dorm in Morningside Heights this week. Officers were called to dormitory housing on the Columbia campus around 9:40 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The 27-year-old woman said she was returning from a jog when she was followed into the building, where the suspect groped and fondled her. There was a struggle and the victim fell to the ground, source said. The suspect tried to take off the woman’s bra, but her screams scared him away, police said.
A married couple has been arrested in connection with a string of break and enters in south Etobicoke over the last three years. Victims reported someone broke into their homes while they were sleeping and went through their belongings. Several women were sexually assaulted during the break-ins and in one case a 
SALEM, OR - When Salem police tried to arrest a sex offender on a parole violation Tuesday morning, they were in for quite a surprise. Police received information that James Bufford, 49, was at a home on Alpine Drive NW, but when officers showed up to take him in, they say he was dressed only in underwear. He ran out the back door of the home and started jumping fences; somehow in the process, he lost the only piece of clothing he had. “At this point he's running naked, we don't have a visual, he's going over fences in three yards,” police radio traffic was heard saying. Bufford has a lengthy criminal history including rape, sex abuse and assault. He was arrested on that parole violation Tuesday, and is also now facing a slew of new charges: failure to register as a sex offender, burglary, criminal mischief, theft, escape and interfering with a police officer. 
WASHINGTON - D.C. Metropolitan Police officers are hoping that newly released video will help crack the case of a woman who was raped for hour in an abandoned row house in Southeast. The incident began Oct. 23 when a woman asked the victim for a ride from a gas station in Camp Springs, Md., to the row house along the 5000 block of Benning Road SE. Upon arrival, two men armed with a shotgun took the victim into the row house where she was raped by a group of men. Metropolitan Police are looking for eight men seen in surveillance video who are wanted in connection with the attack. 
SHREVEPORT, La. -- A 46-year-old homicide case has suddenly emerged as an issue in the mayoral race in Shreveport, Louisiana. The leading candidate in the race, Ollie Tyler, told the media that she killed her first husband in 1968 during a domestic violence incident. In August 1968, Ollie Tyler, then 23, shot her husband in the chest in her mother's bedroom in Shreveport. The couple had been married for 11 months. Tyler, who used her husband's last name, Harris, told police at the time that she was repeatedly beaten by her husband during their marriage. And, that she was so frightened of her husband that she bought a .22-caliber pistol at a pawn shop just two weeks before the shooting. 
A Rochester City School District teacher is facing child endangerment charges following a field trip. The school district says police have charged Sherald Cox with endangering the welfare of a child. Cox is accused of having improper interaction with a student while chaperoning a field trip to Washington, D.C. in June. He's accused of taking a towel from a student after he showered in a hotel. We are also told the victim did not have enough money to go on the school trip, so Cox paid for the student to go on the trip. In other incidents, prosecutors say Cox lifted up a student's shirt and rubbed his chest and stomach at school told him "you're getting fat."
SCRANTON, Pa. — A Baptist minister in Alabama said Thursday that he was inappropriately touched by a man now accused of sexually assaulting students at a state university in northeastern Pennsylvania. The minister testified at a federal civil-rights trial stemming from a lawsuit that three former East Stroudsburg University students filed against Isaac Sanders, the school’s former vice president of advancement. But the jury was unable to hear most of the clergyman’s story because a judge ruled it would unfairly prejudice the defendant. 
Milwaukee police have taken a vote that expresses no confidence in their chief after he fired a white officer who shot and killed a black man in a downtown park. Union president Mike Crivello announced Friday that about 99 percent of the votes expressed no confidence in Chief Edward Flynn. He did not say how many of the union's 1,600 officers voted, only that it was a majority. Officers are angry over the firing of 
Flynn has called Clarke an attention-seeker, and has criticized Republicans in Congress and gun groups for opposing new firearms restrictions. At a Senate judiciary hearing last week on a bill banning new sales of 
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Pennsylvania state senator LeAnna Washington plans to resign from office tomorrow, after pleading guilty today to a felony charge related to a political corruption investigation. She had little time left in her term as state senator anyway. She lost a primary re-election fight about two months after she was indicted. She gets to keep her pension, but was ordered to pay back
MEMPHIS, TN - One of the teenagers at the center of the Kroger beating case could face more trouble for a photo that surfaced on Instagram. The district attorney is investigating whether additional charges will be filed against 15-year-old Stanley Self now that a photo of him with a gun in his waistband is circulating. Self apologized for his part in the attack after appearing in court this week.
a man and his wife were walking in the mall when one of the suspects approached them and began talking to the victim's wife. Police said the man informed the suspect that the woman was his wife and the suspect continued to follow the couple, taunting the man and challenging him to a fight. The victim ignored the suspect, who then approached the man and the two fell to the floor fighting. As they were fighting, the suspect pulled out a gun and pointed it at the victim
SEAGROVE, N.C. —A former employee was among three Asheboro people arrested in connection with the death of a man found in a house fire near Seagrove two months ago. Debra Raegan Dorsett, 23, Jesse Levon Martin, 32, and Dannie Deddie Smith, 27, were charged with murder following the death of 
SPARTANBURG, SC - The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said a man wanted in a fatal shooting Sunday night was taken into custody on Monday. Around 7:45 p.m., deputies were called. Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said a young adult male was found dead at the scene. The coroner identified him as 25-year-old 
WINTER HAVEN, FL - Two Winter Haven nursing assistants were charged with battery of an elderly person after police say they were captured on video tormenting and hitting a 
A South Florida mother was arrested after police say she forced her 
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI - A man was arraigned on a an open murder charge for the death of his wife on Thursday. Andrew Farley Jr.'s charge comes after Tiffany Cane-Smith Farley's body was found at their home on the 5100 block of Centreville Road in Genesee County's Grand Blanc Township on Sunday night. A gas leak at the home was also discovered. Police were called to the home around 8:30 p.m. Sunday when they found the woman deceased in the home. Andrew Farley was injured inside the home, police said. He was transported to an area hospital for treatment. Officers said the gas leak may have been caused intentionally. Neighboring homes were evacuated because of the high levels of gas. 
WASHINGTON - Two “Stop the Violence” organizers allegedly beat one of their colleagues so severely that he vomited blood and was left unconscious in critical condition. Emanuel Velez and Nikole Ardeno, both 30, accused their former roommate of stealing their property, and allegedly punched and kicked him in the street until he had seizures. Arrested moments later, Ardeno was still wearing the same “Stop the Violence” T-shirt she had on the night before when she coordinated a march protesting two recent shootings, Washington Police Chief Chris Luppino said. The victim, 
MADISON, Wis. - Four men are facing charges related to what a 17-year-old describes as party involving sex, drugs, alcohol and minors in a Madison hotel room. Lucas J. Anderson, 20, Hanife E. Johnson, 21, and Jourdyn Ross, 20, all of Madison, are charged with sexual assault of a child under age 16, party to the crime of child enticement, and party to the crime of causing
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 34-year-old Jacksonville man pleaded guilty this week to charges of sexual battery, lewd or lascivious battery and child abuse that resulted in the impregnation of a child younger than 16. According to the State Attorney's Office, in April 2013, the 
LITTLETON — A 59-year-old man has been arrested and charged for second-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and second-degree sexual offense. The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office filed felony warrants against the suspect, Macon resident Eddie Cosom Jr., according to Detective Sgt. Willie Murphy Jr. Murphy said this incident occurred about 9 p.m. Tuesday outside of the Littleton area. He also said the charges stemmed from an investigation he lead which found Cosom allegedly committed sexual acts against a female victim. 
RAMAPO, N.Y. — A school bus driver in suburban New York is accused of masturbating behind the wheel while driving a student to his classes, Ramapo, N.Y., police said Thursday. Police charged Robert Bertart, 60, of Orangetown, N.Y., with public lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child. Bertart never touched the 14-year-old boy or spoke to him, and may not have realized the 9th-grader was still on the bus, Ramapo Police Detective Lt. Mark Emma said. The student saw the driver's activities through the large mirror the driver uses to look at students on the bus, Emma said.
Catania, October 27 - A 27-year-old, Senegalese man confessed to murdering his former girlfriend, 
A Fargo woman is going to jail for 90 days after pleading guilty in the traffic death of her boyfriend last March. Olivia Anderson was originally charged with manslaughter, she ended up pleading guilty to reckless driving. After the jail time Anderson will be on probation for a year and was ordered to pay seven-thousand dollars in funeral expenses. Dvraughn Rutues died three days after he was hit by a car driven by Anderson. Rutues fell off the hood of the car after the two had been arguing. 
A father has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after shooting a man he found hiding in his daughter's bedroom in the head. 
SIERRA VISTA- The U.S. Marshals arrested Calana Lawrence on a warrant for Sexual Conduct with a Minor. According to Sierra Vista Police Corporal Scott Borgstadt, Lawrence was wanted for four counts of Sexual Conduct with a Minor from a 2013 case. A tip through SVPD's Citizen Assisted Location List led the Marshals to a residence in Tucson. She was arrested and booked into the Pima County Jail on a $40,000 bond, said Borgstadt. 
A Framingham man, angry that an officer stopped him on the downtown train tracks Monday, took off his clothes and repeatedly asked the cop to shoot him. Framingham Police arrested Mandela A. Kponou, 30, at 9:02 p.m., police spokesman Lt. Stephen Cronin said. An officer saw Kponou walking across the tracks and told him to stop. . "(Kponou) took off his jacket and said 'shoot me,' and said it was an injustice because he pays our salaries," said Cronin. "He said 'Cops shoot black men all of the time. Come on, shoot me like you shoot handcuffed men,' and then he took off his shirt and threw it at the officer." 
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Police divers, under the watchful eye of homicide detectives and the Crime scene Unit, spent more than four hours searching the Schuylkill River beneath the Falls Bridge as part of a growing investigation into Dion Jordan, an accused killer, kidnapper and bank robber. Jordan is now under investigation for five additional murders in addition to the killing of 50-year-old 
The Asbury Park police officer, 46-year-old Keith German, is accused of helping gang members evade police by giving confidential information. 
SAN GABRIEL — The Pomona SWAT officer shot in the head died early Wednesday morning, officials said.
A 20-year-old pizza deliveryman from Florida was arrested and charged with murder after police say he strangled and stabbed to death his roommate, and then had sex with her lifeless body. 
NORMAN, Okla. – A 64-year-old Salvation Army worker says she quit her job after she was brutally beaten at work. Officials say the attack was captured on surveillance video.
The Muslim extremist who attacked rookie cops with a hatchet last week was “a crusader seeking justice’’ — and more assaults will likely follow, the head of his local New Black Panther Party warned. “It probably won’t be the last [attack on police] because you have a lot of frustrated people out here,” Queens chapter leader Frank Sha Francois told The Post. Francois said ax-wielding 