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Forbidden romance, a heated argument and a grisly Staten Island murder
  STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In the summer of 1975, Susan Jacobson and Dempsey Hawkins, neighbors in Port Richmond, began dating at a time when interracial romance was still frowned upon. But the two young teens -- she, an attractive and vivacious 13-year-old white girl, and he, a handsome, smart 15-year-old black male -- didn't see color. Hawkins was Ms. Jacobson's first boyfriend. Their romance blossomed into the fall and winter, but took an unexpected turn when Ms. Jacobson became pregnant. She was still in intermediate school. So, in January, 1976, Ms. Jacobson underwent an abortion. Afterward, her parents -- William, and his late wife, Ellen -- recommended that their daughter and Hawkins take a break from each other and see other people. If their relationship was meant to be, they could always get back together, Ms. Jacobson's parents reasoned.
TRAGIC END TO RELATIONSHIP And the relationship did end several months later, but in a way no one (except you, dear NNN readers) could have imagined. On May 15, 1976, Hawkins, then 16, strangled Ms. Jacobson to death with a shirt. She was 14. Prosecutors said Hawkins killed Ms. Jacobson during a quarrel in which she sought to break off from him. Hawkins then hid her body in a 55-gallon oil barrel inside an underground bunker at a former Mariners Harbor shipyard. Ms. Jacobson's grieving family, whom Hawkins pretended to aid, searched relentlessly for Susan's body for months. They even sought a nationally-known psychic's help. But her decomposed corpse wasn't recovered for 22 months -- and then, by chance. Three boys came across Ms. Jacobson's skeletal remains on March 25, 1978, as they were exploring in the area. Hawkins, a 52-year-old native of England, has spent the last 34 years in prison for murdering the Prall Intermediate School student. And he'll remain behind bars at least two more years. - (Black-on-white) |
A man who was on parole for killing three people in 1978 at the time he sexually assaulted, strangled and beat a Tyler woman to death in 1996 has had a date set for his execution next month. Robert Ladd, 57, was convicted in a Smith County court in 1997 of killing 38-year-old Vicki Ann Garner, before setting her on fire on Sept. 25, 1996 and taking items from her apartment, including kitchen appliances and food. Ms. Garner was a client of the Andrews Center and lived in an apartment complex on South Fannin with other mental health clients. Testimony at Ladd's trial showed he worked with Ms. Garner and took advantage of that relationship. At the time of the homicide, Ladd was on parole after serving 13 years in prison for pleading guilty to three other slayings in Dallas. He was sentenced to 40 years for killing an 18-year-old Dallas woman and her two children, ages 3 and 8 months, in 1978. Testimony in that trial showed he stabbed the woman and set her house on fire, killing the family. - (Black-on-white)
Officers arrested Lamarcus Antwon Jones Jr., 22, at his workplace in Fort Worth late Wednesday. They accused him of driving a vehicle used in the December 19 robbery of a Wells Fargo. Jones’ alleged accomplice, Andre Jackson, Jr., held up a teller and walked out of the bank with stolen cash around noon, according to police. After getting a distress call from the bank, two plainclothes detectives tried to apprehend Jackson outside a nearby 7-Eleven on Renfro Street at Crowley Road Burleson Boulevard. Police said Jackson, 19 and from Grand Prairie, 
Quiet weeping could be heard across the courtroom as a mother described the loss of her 24-year-old son, one of three men who died after being stabbed many times and set on fire in a Detroit house. Surrounded by armed deputies, the four convicted murderers couldn't see Mary Hoots' face as she wiped her eyes with tissue and spoke of her son, 
A suspect has been arrested in the assault of a 62-year-old man at the Manchester Center bus stop in Fresno on Dec. 15. Gregory Gibson, 29, was booked into Fresno County Jail on suspicion of felony assault, said Fresno police Lt. Donald Gross. Tips from the community helped police identify Gibson, who then agreed to turn himself into authorities at his home in Fresno, he said. Police obtained video footage that allegedly shows Gibson pushing the 62-year-old — who was reportedly standing up for a teenage boy who was being bullied — and the elderly man striking his head on his walker and falling to the ground. The man told police he blacked out for a minute and injured the back of his head and lower back. Gross said the victim was released from the hospital but is still facing medical issues related to the assault. 
THOMSON, Ga -- A husband is behind bars charged with killing his wife. Her death, one of two murders in Thomson in less than twenty four hours. The GBI says 25-year-old Dontiel Williams is accused of killing his wife 
CHARLOTTE, NC - Relatives say for a week they tried to contact 
JEFFERSON, Md. — A shocking murder in Frederick County just three days before Christmas. The victim was a grandmother. Now a family member sits behind bars–charged in her death. Maryland State Police say the grandmother was murdered by her own granddaughter. Christmas decorations outside of the home of 67-year-old 
A man was charged Wednesday with killing and dismembering his mother and stepfather, whose body parts were found in trash bags and containers inside their home. Frederick C. Harris is facing two counts each of criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse in the deaths of 
HOUSTON -- A Washington County man is behind bars, accused of attacking a family member, leaving her blind. Steve Gantt, 42, turned himself in to authorities after learning deputies had made numerous attempts to locate and arrest him. Gantt is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (family violence) as well as assault causing bodily injury (family violence) related to an incident that occurred on Thanksgiving Day at his family's home in Burton. Gantt is accused of stabbing the victim in the eye with a fork. The sheriff's office says this resulted in the victim losing complete vision. Gantt, who has spent time in prison, has an extensive criminal history and has previously been charged with assaulting the female on four separate occasions. 
A baby was allegedly punched in the face during a fight over control of the television on Saturday morning. Utica Police say they were called to a home on the 800 block of Waverly Place at approximately 1:30am on December 20, 2014. 35-Year-old Gregory Lee was arrested after, according to police, “It is alleged that Lee and has baby’s mother had an argument over control of the television. She wanted to watch a movie and Lee wanted to play video games. During the argument their 4 month old child woke up. When the mother went to pick up the baby, holding the child against her chest, Lee swung and punched the woman in the face. Lee swung again, this time punching the baby in the face.” 
There are new developments in the Detroit murder case where a man's body was found in the basement of a house fire - after firefighters left. 
TACOMA — A 34-year-old South Hill man pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges following his recent arrest for the August killing of a man in what would come to be known as the ‘bloody carpet’ case. Michael Clifford Boiselle was arrested Friday after being on the run for months, the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office said. He pleaded not guilty Monday, and was being held in leiu of $1 million bail. Boiselle was wanted for allegedly shooting
Dwight Gregory was charged with harassment and making terroristic threats after neighbors reported him for pointing a gun from his Bristol, Pennsylvania house. 
The Mobile Police Department is Seeking the help of the public in removing the Grinch who Stole Christmas from our Streets. On Tuesday, December 23, 2014, at approximately 12:05 p.m. officers responded to the 8700 block of Gold Mine Road for a report of a Residential Burglary. Officers collected evidences linking 25 year old James Markiese Wright to this Burglary where Christmas Gifts were stolen. 
Stockton Police have located the vehicle that was involved in the hit and run that cost a retired police officer his life. On Tuesday, 
CAMDEN, AR – The second suspect in the murder of a Camden grocery store manager has surrendered to authorities. Camden Police Chief Boyd Woody said on Wednesday around 11:30 p.m., Jaquestin Anderson, 19, turned himself in to the Ouachita County Sheriff’s Department. Anderson faces Capital Murder and Aggravated Robbery charges. Chief Woody said Anderson has no bond and will be held until his next court appearance. On Dec. 19, 63-year-old 
Fort Worth police arrested and charged a man Wednesday with the execution-style slaying of a gun supply store clerk. Gerry Handsborough Jr., 22, of Fort Worth was arrested Wednesday at his attorney’s office on a charge of murder in the death of
PITTSFIELD >> A city man remains held without bail after pleading not guilty to murder and other charges in the shooting death of a Goshen man. Peter J. Campbell, 18, wearing orange jail-issued clothing, appeared with his attorney, on Tuesday for his arraignment on five charges in the death of 
KEARNS — A woman was located and arrested Thursday after police identified her from surveillance photos in a credit union robbery. Unified police located Elicia Schow near 3100 S. Redwood Road in West Valley on Christmas Eve. Schow was identified from surveillance photos and was arrested without incident, according to Unified police Lt. Justin Hoyal. The robbery occurred Monday around 4:15 p.m. at the America First Credit Union at 4874 W. 6200 South in Kearns, police said. Schow and a man entered the credit union and presented a note to the teller, demanding money, Hoyal said. They left the credit union with an undisclosed amount of money. Police have not yet been able to identify or locate the man. He was described as being in his late 20s or early 30s with a dark complexion and thin build. He was wearing a dark-colored hoodie sweatshirt and baseball hat at the time of the robbery. Hoyal said the man should be considered dangerous. 
A South Side man pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to 26 years in prison for robbing and sexually assaulting a CTA employee on her way home from work, according to prosecutors and court records. Devonte Willis, 21, pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal sexual assault with a firearm in the Dec. 30, 2013, attack and was sentenced by Cook County Circuit Judge Vincent Gaughan, according to the state’s attorney’s office. He assaulted her at least twice behind a large container, then made off with $13 from her purse and her phone. Police arrested Willis about four hours later near his home in the 6200 block of South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive,
WASHINGTON - A Howard University football player home for the holidays was one of two men fatally shot during an attempted robbery in North Texas. A third suspect fled the scene. Twenty-two-year-old Terrence Neal Tusan, a running back for Howard, and 18-year-old Jakobi Damon Gipson were fatally shot on Sunday at a Denton, Texas complex. Denton police reported that five people were involved in some sort of altercation. Police say three men forced their way into an apartment. There was shooting and two of the suspects were dead. 
DEARBORN - Two young men accused of attacking a woman unloading groceries and stealing a 40-pack of juice boxes are now facing charges in the case. Aaron Hargrove, 21, and Stephon Webster, 18, were arraigned Tuesday in 19th District Court on charges of unarmed robbery. Both were ordered held on $25,000 bonds.
GRETNA, La. -- A deadly shooting at a Gretna shopping mall sent shoppers running for their lives on Christmas Eve. Jefferson Parish deputies are working to figure out what led up to the shooting inside the Oakwood Center. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office confirms 24-year-old
Police in Miami Township, in Montgomery County, said Jawaad Jabbar, 16, was at the Dayton Mall Saturday with some other teens attempting to get a pair of new, limited-release Air Jordan’s that were going on sale. When he failed to get in line in time to get a pair of shoes, police said, Jabbar decided to rob someone who had the shoes. He approached two men just outside the mall and showed a gun, police said. Sgt. Jay Phares said that one of the men Jabbar tried to rob also had a handgun, which he pulled out and fired one time. Jabbar was struck by the bullet and was pronounced dead a short time later.
Bail was set at $70,000 cash or bond for a Jersey City man charged with beating a woman with his fists – and with a bicycle – during a robbery on Saturday, officials said. Lester Smith, 19, of the Booker T. Washington housing complex, was crying when he made his first court appearance Monday on the charges of robbery and resisting arrest in Central Judicial Processing court in Jersey City via video link from Hudson County jail in Kearny. Smith allegedly committed robbery by “striking the victim with fists and a bicycle and forcibly removed a green iPhone from her person,” the criminal complaint says.
She keeps turning ’em loose. A day after freeing a gang member who posted an anti-cop death threat online, a Brooklyn judge ignored the admonishment of a court boss — and sprung a man who allegedly
A Brooklyn judge cut loose a gang member who had posted online threats to gun down cops in the hours after two NYPD officers were executed in their patrol car — ignoring prosecutors’ pleas to keep him behind bars. Criminal Court Judge Laura Johnson let Devon Coley, 18, waltz free without bail despite the fact that he faces seven years behind bars on charges he made a terroristic threat — complete with an image of a killer shooting cops in their car — and is awaiting trial in two unrelated cases involving assault and gun possession. Johnson’s stunning no-bail decision came just two days after Saturday’s broad-daylight slayings of 
RALEIGH, N.C. - The search for missing Raleigh 
Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich addressed the media this afternoon on the arrest of Hiawatha Robinson Jr. He is the father of 
The mother of two children who died overnight in a DeKalb County house fire has been charged with two counts of felony murder. Rockell Coleman, 28, also faces five counts of cruelty to children in the second degree. Her five children were in their Misty Valley Road home alone when the fire started. Three of them survived, though a 10-year-old boy is in critical condition and on life support.
EGG HARBOR Twp., NJ – Police in Egg Harbor Township served an arrest warrant on Tuesday for Dr. 
WINCHESTER, Ky. - Winchester police have charged two people in a shooting at an apartment complex Tuesday night that left one person dead and three others injured. Winchester Police Department Captain James Hall said Lamont Wilkerson, 20, and Lillian Barnett, 18, were arrested early Wednesday. Barnett is charged with complicity to murder. Wilkerson is charged with first-degree burglary and murder. Police say they are looking for a person of interest. Investigators say the shooting was a targeted home invasion. The shooting happened just after 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Summit Apartments on Oxford Drive. Hall said officers found
DETROIT - Police now say that the shooting that led to the death of 16-year-old Grosse Pointe teen 
A 38-year-old Whittier woman surrendered herself to police after allegedly driving an SUV into a Pasadena family in a hit-and-run crash that left
Toronto police have arrested a man after Toronto restaurateur Arron Barberian fought off a would-be thief in broad daylight in front of his downtown steakhouse. The attack happened as 
A 20-year-old man was sentenced Monday to nearly eight years in prison for stealing the wedding ring off the hand of a dying woman late last year. Keith Byron Hickles Jr. was given a 94-month sentence. Hickles was one of three men convicted of stealing items from 43-year-old 
The resident of a Harrison County home shot and killed an intruder during a home invasion early Monday morning. According to a police citation, Raven B. Edwards used social media to contact the homeowner to set up a meeting. Edwards was invited to the residence and shortly after arriving her boyfriend Marcus Gross and Larry Nolen forcibly entered the home shortly after 12:30 a.m. The two males began to assault the homeowner but during the altercation, the homeowner managed to grab a gun and fire the weapon, striking Gross. Nolen transported Gross to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased. Edwards admitted to police that she set up the meeting knowing that a robbery would occur shortly after her arrival. 
CYNTHIANA, Ky. - A homeowner fatally shot one of two men who broke into his home and attacked him early Monday. The Harrison County Sheriff said Marcus L. Gross, 28, and Larry J. Nolen, 26, broke into a home on Monroe Lane and attacked the homeowner, 
Crazed cop-killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley was loaded with cash when he executed two Brooklyn officers over the weekend, New York’s top cop said Tuesday. NYPD detectives are hot on Brinsley’s money trail after investigators found $100 bills on the bloodthirsty lunatic, who gunned down 
BERKELEY, Mo. -- Violent protests broke out again in suburban St. Louis after another black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the officer was questioning the 18-year-old and another man about a theft late Tuesday at a convenience store in Berkeley when the young man pulled a 9mm handgun on him. The officer stumbled backward but fired three shots, one of which struck the victim, Belmar said. Berkeley is just a few miles from Ferguson, Missouri. A woman at the scene told reporters she was his mother and identified him as 
HOUSTON -- A grand jury declined to indict a Houston police officer in the January fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, a decision that follows similar outcomes in recent officer-involved deaths in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin. The Harris County panel returned its decision in the case of 
BALTIMORE —City police are asking for the public's help to identify a man wanted in connection with two sexual assaults this week. Police said an 18-year-old woman was walking in the 1700 block of Westwood Avenue when she was approached by a man around 11 p.m. Sunday. The man threatened her and later sexually assaulted her, police said. Police said around 7 a.m. Wednesday, a 32-year-old woman was walking in the 1700 block of North Fulton Avenue when she was approached by a man who threatened her and then sexually assaulted her. Detectives have released a computer-generated sketch of a suspect related to the incidents. Police said they are looking for a man described as a black man, about 20 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches tall with a slim build. He was wearing dark clothing with a dark mask during both of these incidents, police said. The man was armed during both of these incidents, police said.
A New Orleans man suspected of raping one woman and robbing another -- both of whom police say he contacted through online classifieds websites -- was arrested last week, court records show. Police on Wednesday (Dec. 17) arrested McArthur Mackey, 31, on charges of aggravated rape, aggravating kidnapping and armed robbery in connection to crimes reported by two women on N. Broad Street this month. Police said Mackey contacted both women via online personal ads -- on Backpage.com and on Craigslist -- court records show.
TULSA – Police have arrested a man who allegedly attempted to meet a minor girl for sexual activities. According to Tulsa police, Marvin James, 29, was arrested for attempting to meet with a police officer, posing as a 15-year-old girl, for sexual activities. Tulsa police say an officer used a cellular phone to text James and posed as a 15-year-old girl
Another woman has come forward accusing Bill Cosby of rape. 
SACRAMENTO- Deputies are looking for the public’s help in finding a suspect following a violent sexual assault in North Highlands. According to the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department, the violent attack happened on Saturday near A Street and Watt Avenue. An unknown man forced a woman into her own home and sexually assaulted her. Authorities have released a sketch of the suspect, described as a young man around 5’8″ and around 170 pounds. He was said to be clean cut and without facial hair.
Memphis police are looking for a man wanted in connection with a Nov. 19 shooting and sexual assault. Officers responded to a call at about 9:43 a.m. on Saturday in the 4000 block of Berkshire and found a woman who said she’d been sexually assault and shot multiple times by two suspects, police said. The woman said she was assaulted at about 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 19 and it took about 12 hours before she gained the strength to call for help. She was taken to the Regional Medical Center in critical condition and has undergone several surgeries. Police also say she will need extensive rehabilitation. Officers have identified one suspect but are looking for a second man for questioning.
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Police in Georgia are investigating a murder-attempted suicide in Blackshear that happened in the parking lot of a Huddle House restaurant on U.S. 84. Investigators said around 11:30 p.m. Monday, 62-year-old Robert Taylor shot and killed his 26-year-old girlfriend, 
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A St. Paul woman is charged with murder after police say she held her young daughter under water in a bathtub and drowned her. Officers were dispatched to an apartment complex after 8 a.m. Tuesday on reports of a 6-year-old who had drowned in a bathtub. When squads arrived they found a female later identified as the child's mother. When they approached her the woman, 25-year-old Kayla Marie Jones, threw her hands up in the air as if she was surrendering. Other officers encountered a male on the scene who was crying and screaming. He told them he was Jones' boyfriend, the two of them had a fight, and he left the apartment. When the man returned he saw Jones leaving the complex. After she told him to call 911 the man says he ran back in the apartment and found the child lifeless in the bathtub. Jones said she had not slept in two days, and for some reason believed that her boyfriend had molested her daughter. Jones told them she was molested as a child, and believed the same thing had happened to her child. 
A disturbing editorial in a CUNY grad-student newspaper calls for rioters protesting the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown to arm themselves and wage violent war with cops. “The time for peace has passed,” says a revolutionary editorial titled “In Support of Violence” that was penned by editor-in-chief Gordon Barnes in the Dec. 3 issue of The Advocate. Urges rioters to emulate the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. “The acts of looting, destruction of property and violence directed towards state representatives is not only warranted, it is necessary,” says Barnes who once studied in Cuba.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The owner of Cupini's restaurant on Westport Road was beaten and robbed while he was opening the business, Kansas City police said. Police officers were called to the 1800 block of Westport Road about 7:45 a.m. The owner's son said his father was attacked as he was opening up the restaurant. Police said a man came in behind the owner and beat him, stealing his wallet and money from the restaurant. Witnesses told investigators that the robber hailed a cab. Police interviewed the cab driver. Investigators said there is no indication the cabbie had any knowledge of the crime. The driver told police he dropped off the man at Midtown intersection. 
Police are looking for three suspects in a brutal home invasion robbery early Tuesday morning in Skyway. The King County Sheriff’s office said that three men forced their way into a home in the 8500 block of South 120th Street around 1 a.m. Police said the adult male homeowner was beaten by the suspects, who reportedly fled the scene and may have gotten into a black vehicle. The three suspects were described as black males and all of the suspects were armed, according to 
MINNEAPOLIS — The suspect in the disappearance of a 25-year-old Wright County man appeared in court Monday while 
the victim’s family and friends held a prayer vigil outside. Family, friends and law enforcement searched for weeks last fall for any signs of the missing Howard Lake man, 25-year-old 
Tennessee cops are hunting for a McDonald’s patron who pulled a gun on restaurant workers after complaining that his drive-thru order was short a McDouble cheeseburger. According to police, Demetri Johnson, 21, placed an order early last Thursday at a McDonald’s in Nashville. After receiving his food, he pulled away from the restaurant’s drive-thru lane. Johnson soon returned to the eatery “and complained that he was missing a McDouble cheeseburger.” 
A Chicopee man is facing charges after posting “Put Wings on Pigs” to Facebook, police say. Chicopee police said Monday that local residents alerted them to the “very disturbing post” by 27-year-old Charles DiRosa. On Saturday, two New York police officers were killed by a gunman while sitting in their police cruiser. The suspect, who then killed himself, had posted “I’m putting wings on pigs today” on social media, according to officials. DiRosa will be summonsed to court for Threat To Commit a Crime, police said.
The woman who was found slain – along with two of her children – late Saturday night inside her mobile home in Garland was trying to escape an abusive relationship, according to a family member. Maine State Police allege that 
JEFFERSON CO. -- A Mt. Vernon man has pleaded to guilty to the 2011 murder of a cab driver. Damondros James now faces up to 60 years in prison when he's sentenced next February. James and three others were charged with shooting 
TACOMA, Wash. — Andrake Morris was a teenager when he began sexually assaulting and robbing women in what prosecutors call a reign of terror. Now, at 20-years-old, Morris will spend 23 years to life in prison. He pleaded guilty in September to eight counts -- including attempted rape, indecent liberties, theft, robbery, burglary, assault and unlawful possession of a firearm. 
INDIANAPOLIS – The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office formally charged two men with murder after a triple homicide on the city’s east side in March. Officials said 59-year-old
A Tarpon Springs police officer was shot and killed overnight, and a man identified as a transient has been charged with first-degree murder, authorities said. Veteran officer 
NEW YORK — A woman went through an emotional confrontation in court in the Bronx Friday, as she came face-to-face with the man who attacked her. 
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — The trial began Wednesday for a Long Island man accused in two separate killings. Loved ones of the two victims packed the Suffolk County courtroom, some with tears in their eyes as opening statements began at the trial of Reginald Ross. Construction flagman 
Cedric Theodis Hobbs Jr. will spend the rest of his life in prison after jurors deadlocked Thursday on his punishment for killing 
