A scissor-wielding psycho who stabbed five people in Riverside Park — including a toddler and his ballet-dancer dad — was sentenced to 23 years behind bars on Tuesday. “This is one of the most frightening types of cases I have ever seen.This was a completely random attack. These are the crimes that people fear the most. The lives of the people will be changed life long. This is not something you forget,” Judge Charles Solomon told the 44-year-old Julius James Graham in Manhattan Criminal Court, where several victims read statements about the grisly October 2013 rampage. James Fayette — once a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet — was in the park with his 18-month-old son when he heard screams from a female jogger who had been stabbed in the neck. “Completely unprovoked, Julius chased me down from behind as I yelled no. He slashed my son’s arm twice. He plunged his blade into my chest two times,” Fayette said in a statement. He said if it were not for a good Samaritan who came by, “ripping Julius off of me, I would have been killed and he would have had a clear path to my son.” The madman had first stabbed jogger Deanna Koestel in the back and then turned the broken scissors on Ben Leohnen, who was walking his dog, cops said. “I was left on the ground with blood gushing out of my back and my arm,” Koestel said in court. - (Black-on-white)(White victims pictured - L to r: James Fayette, Jennifer Lipps, Ben Loehnen, Deanna Koestel, Luke Fayette )
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CARY, NC -- Officials in Cary say they don't believe the man arrested in connection with the death of a 72-year-old man knew the victim. Wake County Assistant District Attorney Howard Cummings said Monday the motive for the crime appeared to be a robbery. The body of 
LADUE, Mo. - A mother is demanding justice for her 21-year-old son who was beaten and left unconscious near a home in Ladue on May 3. Police said Darrian Johnson, 21, stomped on 
Police on Wednesday shot the hammer-wielding maniac who randomly attacked four people during a bloody rampage around Manhattan, law enforcement sources said. The bearded suspect, identified as 30-year-old David Baril, was in critical but stable condition at Bellevue Hospital. Around 10 a.m., two Midtown South cops were leaving the scene of an unrelated assault at 38th Street and Eighth Avenue when they recognized Baril as the madman who attacked four people on Monday. As they approached the suspect, Baril turned around, pulled out his hammer and “violently started swinging” the claw end of the tool at Officer
OSCODA COUNTY, Mich. - "She said 'Mom I love you very much, I've got to go," said 
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A Windermere man at the center of a series of alleged rapes is no longer in the country. Darryl Patterson is accused of attempted sexual assault on a woman who offered to drive him home from a function they were attending in April. Police said they believe Patterson tried to sexually assault the woman after giving her shots of Fireball whiskey that might have been laced with a drug. The woman told authorities she became nauseated and semiconscious.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- A third teen was charged as an adult in the beating death of a Bevo Mill man in late 2014. Court records show 
Fury erupted this month over incoming Boston University sociology and African-American studies professor 
TACOMA – A Pierce County mother grieves for her only son who was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting last week. The suspected shooter made his first appearance in court on Friday afternoon. Prosecutors said 23-year-old Alexander Kitt is the gunman and he may have been trying to retaliate for an earlier shooting, but investigators say the victim may have been shot by mistake. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how I’m going to go on without him,” said Brandon’s mother, Elladell Morris. “He took care of me, he took care of his grandmother.” 
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Police are on the hunt for a North Providence man wanted in connection with not one, but two, homicides. Police say Malcolm G. Querido is a person of interest in this weekend’s homicide on Camden Avenue. Police say 
JACKSONVILLE – Two people are in custody, and more arrest are expected after a video surfaced capturing an attack a local Taco Bell. Several more arrests are expected in the near future and at this point the department has identified most of the participants in the assault. The first two subjects were charged with Assault Class A which means that bodily injury occurred during the assault. At least one other suspect will be charged with the same offense and others will be charged with Disorderly Conduct. Derrick Tatum, age 18 of Jacksonville and Deverick Tatum, also 18 and of Jacksonville were arrested, arraigned and charged with Class A Assault. Jacksonville Chief of Police Reece Daniel has released a statement: Despite a seven second video that has gone viral that purports to show several black males stomping and hitting
Protests erupted in Wisconsin's capital overnight after a police officer fatally shot an African-American teenager who authorities said attacked him. The 19-year-old was shot after allegedly assaulting police who were responding to a scene at a Madison apartment Friday evening, said Mike Koval, the city's police chief. While the chief indicated the officer acted in self-defense, that didn't stop protesters from hitting the streets. Chief: Suspect 'assaulted my officer' The incident started when authorities got a call that a man suspected in a recent battery had gone to an apartment, Koval said. Shortly before that call, another one had come in, saying the same suspect was "jumping in and out of traffic, dodging cars," according to the police chief. When a responding officer went to the apartment, he heard some commotion and forced his way in, he said. "Once inside the home the subject involved in this incident -- the same one allegedly out in traffic and that had battered someone -- assaulted my officer," Koval said. After that, according to the chief, "The officer did draw his revolver and subsequently shot the subject."
A month and a half after a shooting at Los Altos Skate Park left one person dead and six injured, police told a news conference Friday afternoon that the man who shot and killed a 17-year-old at a Northeast Albuquerque skate park did so in self-defense. Police said cellphone video of the encounter shows that the teen who was shot and killed, Jaquise Lewis, was one of the shooters firing at the skaters. However, they do not believe he was the first one in his group to fire shots. The fight began after members of one group asked to borrow a couple of skateboards from the other group. The first two skateboards were returned, but when someone asked for the third back, a fist fight broke out. It turned into a gunfight. Police said there was no indication the shooting was race-related or gang-related. Lewis was under house arrest after being charged with negligent use of a deadly weapon and unlawful carrying of a handgun by a person under 19 in early March, according to his order of release. 
UNION SQUARE, N.Y. — Police are searching for a man wanted for bashing two women with a hammer in Union Square and who may be connected to a third such attack in the area. A photo of the alleged attacker was released midday Tuesday. Earlier in the day, police sent out a sketch of a possible culprit but later said to disregard that image, replacing it with a grainy surveillance photo. NYPD said the man began his rampage about 7:30 p.m. Monday when he took out a hammer from inside a bag and hit a 28-year-old woman on the head. The victim was sitting on a bench in Union Square Park. About 10 minutes later, he slammed a hammer on a 33-year-old woman, attacking her from behind near 44 West 18th St. and leaving her with a scalp wound, police said. 
LOS ANGELES — A 41-year-old man accused of posing as a police officer was charged Monday with kidnapping and raping
Authorities filed charges against a South Side man accused of trying to sexually assault a woman on a CTA Red Line train on the North Side. A 27-year-old woman told police she was riding a southbound Red Line train between the Fullerton and North/Clybourn stations at 5 a.m. Sunday when a man tried to assault her, according to Officer Janel Sedevic, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department. Police arrested a suspect early Monday morning after sending out a community alert Sunday evening that included surveillance photos. Police said the man, 34-year-old Ronald Sparks, was spotted on a CTA train smoking a cigarette and was confronted by a private security officer.
John Paul Washington was on death row for a 1984 murder of a Tinker Air Force Base airman but his conviction was overturned in 1992. He has been confined most of the two decades since then at the state mental hospital in Vinita, considered too mentally ill to be tried again for that crime. On a hot summer day in 1982, vacationing widow 
PROVIDENCE - A man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend on Mother's Day in East Providence collapsed in court Monday. Yuland Stanfield was charged with first-degree murder and two counts of violating a restraining order. He fell to his knees and began wailing during his arraignment in Providence District Court. Police said Stanfield stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend,
PITTSBURGH – A Washington County jury has found Jordan Clemons guilty of first-degree murder. This morning, the defense conceded Jordan Clemons killed 
LANCASTER – An HIV-positive North Carolina man is facing nine felony charges and eight misdemeanors in connection with the May 6 kidnapping and sexual assault of a girl in Lancaster. Joseph Kenneth Cornett, 41, was charged with kidnapping to commit rape, assault with intent to commit rape, kidnapping, 
UPDATE - 28-year-old Cornelius Clark, the 4th suspect in the shooting deaths of two HPD officers, has been arrested and charged with obstruction of justice. Clark was a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the shooting. 
LANDOVER, Md. - Authorities in Prince George's County say sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man after he rammed a deputy's vehicle. The county sheriff's office announced Monday morning that the shooting occurred Sunday night in Landover. Officials say deputies pursued a truck driven by a domestic violence suspect to Nalley Road. Prince George’s deputies say the suspect, identified by his family as 35-year-old Lionel Young, rammed their cruiser with a pickup truck before they opened fire. Young, who was allegedly armed with knives, was killed in the parking lot of Cora L. Rice Elementary School. He was in the car at the time of the shooting. That's when officials say two deputies fired at the man, striking him. Officials say the man died at the scene. 
Detroit — State Sen. Virgil Smith told police his ex-wife stormed into his house and assaulted his girlfriend before he did “the most stupid thing in his life” — opening fire at the ex-wife’s Mercedes Benz with a rifle — according to a police report obtained by The Detroit News. He was naked when he met her at the front door, the senator’s ex-wife claims in a second police report, beat her with his fists, chased her outside and shot at her four or five times.
ELKHORN—As Larry Shannon was sentenced to life in prison for the sexual assault of a girl and abduction of two other children, he stared at the ceiling and smirked. It was a demeanor not unlike what people saw during the four-day jury trial in February that resulted in the Whitewater man being found guilty of 12 violent offenses in October 2012. He was convicted of 
CRAWFORD-ROBERTS - An Uptown man has been charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman. The attack happened early Sunday morning, as the victim was leaving a bar. According to the criminal complaint, 45-year-old Yancey Murphy wrapped a belt around the victim’s neck and dragged her into the bushes. The bushes, and a concrete landing, were connected to a vacant church on Vine Street in the Crawford-Roberts neighborhood. The complaint went on to say Murphy punched and kicked the victim before smashing her face into a brick wall. The victim was repeatedly raped for the next few hours, and police say she was in and out of consciousness.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man with a criminal history spanning nearly a quarter-century is accused of abducting a woman and attacking her inside a vacant building. Robert D. Cloud, 46, is charged with first-degree felony kidnapping. Cloud on May 1 grabbed a woman by the hood of her sweatshirt and forced her into an abandoned multi-unit house. Cloud forced the woman to sit on a box spring and he refused to let her leave. He demanded the woman have sex with him but she refused. Cloud slammed her face against a wall and punched her face, causing one eye to swell shut, court records say. 
A rapist and sexual predator wanted by New Smyrna Beach police in the sexual battery of
COLUMBUS, GA – Three of the four men accused of beginning a fight inside a Red Lobster bonded out of jail Monday. Artrez Coppins, Edward Merritt, Tommie Mullins and Corey Turner were all arrested following a sour turn to Mother's Day thanks to a brawl at a restaurant in Columbus. According to the Columbus Police Department, as one family was leaving the Red Lobster on 13th Street on Sunday afternoon around 3 p.m., a group of males came in and jumped on one of the guys who was with the group leaving the restaurant. It is believed the group of males assaulted the victim because they believe he may be involved in the 2014 Gleason Avenue shooting that killed 
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka came down hard on the Blessing of the Bikes 
Police in Darby Borough, Delaware County are searching for a man who fired multiple shots following a large brawl while dozens of children were outside playing in the neighborhood. Police say the incident started with a large fight involving a number of adults with baseball bats, and then a man pulled a handgun and fired six rounds close to where about three dozen children were playing in the street.
The vandal busted for an explosion at a Brooklyn subway station is the son of an MTA worker, law-enforcement sources told the Post. Keyshawn Brown, 16, was arrested Thursday for allegedly tossing an MTA metal sign box onto the tracks at the Nostrand Avenue station — creating a loud boom and smoke when it was hit by a C train.
A Chicago man is charged with aggravated kidnapping and domestic battery after using his fists and the threat of a hammer to keep a woman he was dating in his car overnight last month, prosecutors said Saturday. James Demus, 32, was arrested Friday after a routine traffic stop led police to discover there was an active warrant and investigative alert out for him. The evening of April 19, Demus slapped, punched and attempted to hit his 'date' with a hammer, not permitting her to leave the car he was driving, Assistant State’s Attorney Justin Goldfarb said. 
A North Side man has been charged with fatally stabbing his mother during a domestic dispute Tuesday afternoon in West Ridge. Jerome Jackson, 24, was charged with one count of first degree murder in connection with the May 5 stabbing death of his mother, 53-year-old 
Authorities early Sunday morning arrested two brothers and a woman in connection with the fatal shootings of two Hattiesburg police officers, who were killed in the line of duty during a routine traffic stop Saturday night. Forrest County Coroner Butch Benedict confirmed the deaths of officers 
A female officer with the Arizona Department of Corrections was sexually assaulted in April, according to a DOC spokesman. Fernandes Masters, 31, is accused of sexually assaulting the officer on April 13 at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Yuma during a meeting with Masters in an office, Department of Corrections spokesman Andrew Wilder said Saturday. The officer called for help and was treated on site before being taken to a local hospital for further evaluation and later released, according to Wilder. Masters is currently serving a life sentence for first degree murder, and a search on the Department of Corrections website shows 24 "disciplinary infractions" against him, including previously assaulting an inmate in 2009.
GARY, Ind. –– A bold attack on an employee at a gas station in Gary Thursday night was captured by the store’s surveillance camera. It started as teenagers playing around then quickly turned violent. The employee remains hospitalized and police are searching for the attackers. The video shows employee 
SLIDELL, La. -- A 22-year-old woman who had hidden her pregnancy from family and friends has been charged in the death of the child, whose body was found in an apartment complex trash compactor Monday. Antwonetta Jones was booked with second-degree murder. Slidell Police Chief Randy Smith said Jones delivered the baby in a bathtub and that a short time later it began choking and died. He said Jones told them she got scared and when the child stopped breathing, she put her in a box and brought it to the trash compactor.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- The 1-year-old baby boy, who police say was thrown into an Allentown river last weekend at the hands of his own mother, has died. Baby Zymeir Perry died Saturday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. The incident happened around 1:40 p.m. Sunday, May 3rd at the Hamilton Street Bridge. Police say this appears to have been an attempted murder-suicide. The child's mother is identified as 19-year-old Johnesha Perry. Witnesses told police that they saw Perry push a stroller with her 1-year-old onto the bridge. That's when witnesses say she kissed her baby boy and then pushed him over the railing. The child then fell more than 50 feet into the Lehigh River.
The evil mom charged with smothering her 1-year-old son to death in a midtown burger chain’s bathroom last month told cops shortly after her arrest “I don’t deserve to live. Am I going to get life in prison?” Latisha Fisher asked a detective hours after the alleged killing inside of 5 Boro Burger March 30. ”I don’t deserve to live. That was a baby.” Fisher, who was arraigned on one count of strangulation, sobbed as prosecutors described the tragic incident. The worker had found Fisher, “sitting on the closed toilet seat, crying and rocking the child.” the baby was foaming at the mouth and his eyes rolled back.” Fisher, 35, allegedly told police, “the devil made me do it,” and demonstrated how she suffocated little Gavriel Ortiz-Fisher by cupping her hands over the boy’s mouth to stop his crying.
A 22-year-old Baton Rouge woman who police say admitted to shoving her 2-year-old daughter against a shower wall was indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the child’s Dec. 29 death. The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office ruled the death of 
A 36-year-old man from Gibson is accused of attacking his girlfriend multiple times, causing the death of their unborn child, authorities said today. Tyson Dewayne Cheavis, of 188 Jimmy's Trailer Court, confessed Tuesday to hitting his 27-year-old girlfriend despite being aware of her pregnancy, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said. The multiple injuries she sustained over several weeks, which included bruises, swelling and unconsciousness, ultimately led to the baby's death, the sheriff said in a news release. A hospital exam revealed the child had no heartbeat.
HOUSTON – Capital murder charges have been filed in the brutal murder of a 5-year-old boy. Sherrick Washington, 26, is charged with killing 
Gwinnett County police have charged a former Southeastern Conference football player with murder in connection with the death of a 
LANHAM, Md. -- A Prince George's County man was arrested for killing his girlfriend's toddler, according to police. Joshua Riley, 29, of Lanham, Md. has been charged with first degree murder, second degree murder, child abuse and other related charges, police said. Police say 23-month-old Anthony Winfrey was in the care on April 9th, when his mother came home from work and found him unresponsive. Winfrey was taken to the hospital for treatment. He he died. on April 15. Riley lived at the home and was in a romantic relationship with the mother.
HUBER HEIGHTS -- A 22-year-old Huber Heights man faces murder, manslaughter, assault and endangering charges following the death of a 21-month-old boy. Dionte R. Evans is accused of killing his girlfriend's child April 8 while he was watching the boy. The Montgomery County Coroner's Office determined the child, 
Lee Turner Jr., 25, should be executed for murdering two people at a CarQuest auto parts store in Baton Rouge in 2011, a jury determined Friday. It took a little less than 2 hours for the jury of 10 women and two men to decide Turner should die for the deaths of 
A 19-year-old Hazel Park man was ordered serve 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting 
A Waffle House employee who was videotaped by a fellow worker masturbating inside the open Georgia restaurant is being sought by police on an arrest warrant charging him with public indecency, cops report. Emanuel Williams, 36, is wanted in connection with the incident Monday afternoon in the dining room of a Waffle House in Macon, according to police. 
Meagan Grunwald had tearfully testified that she feared for her life as she drove her boyfriend for a fatal crime spree, but she was still found guilty all but one of a dozen felony charges she faced. The Utah teen accused of aiding her murderous boyfriend by driving him 50 miles while he shot at sheriff’s deputies, killing one and critically injuring another, was convicted early Saturday morning of all but one of the 12 felony charges she faced, including aggravated murder. 
Police in Nebraska are searching for a missing 5-year-old boy after they said his brother confessed to throwing him in a river after killing their mother. 
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Broward Sheriff's Office employee accused of extorting a Boca Raton doctor whom she met on a website promoting infidelity was found guilty Thursday. Jurors returned a guilty verdict in the extortion trial of Debbie O'Flaherty-Lewis, 48, after less than two hours of deliberations. During the trial, Dr. Benjamin Harow testified that he met O'Flaherty-Lewis on the dating website AshleyMadison.com. Ashley Madison bills itself as "the world's leading married dating service for discreet encounters." According to a BSO arrest report, O'Flaherty-Lewis "maliciously threatened the victim over the phone and text messages" and threatened to expose his affair "if she was not paid $7,000." Instead, the 43-year-old doctor went to authorities.
A Woodbury man was convicted of murder today after a three-week trial in the 2012 strangling death of a city woman, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office announced. A jury found Harry J. Neher, 35, guilty after about three hours of deliberation today in the murder of 
Thomas Johnson III has been convicted by a jury on the top charge in the death of 
WASHINGTON - The man charged for allegedly assaulting a 69-year-old man at the Eastern Market Metro station on April 24 will enter an anger management program, wear an electronic device and be placed under a curfew. Elijah Smith, 19, appeared in court Friday and was released by a judge after he waived his right to a preliminary hearing, his attorney said, which opened the door for a future plea deal. Smith was arrested and charged with felony assault for allegedly punching and hitting 
GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. - A man who Clay County deputies say stabbed his girlfriend to death in front of her 14-year-old daughter Wednesday night before he died in a car crash while fleeing the scene had spent time in prison. 
PHILADELPHIA — Police say an 18-year-old has been arrested in connection with the hit and run of a Temple University student. Investigators say Rashan “Robert” Roberts is facing several charges. 
CLAYTON, Mo. — A St. Louis man made his first court appearance Thursday on charges he killed a 19-year-old Illinois college student whom he had contacted about buying a sports car advertised on Craigslist. Michael Gordon, 24, remains held at the St. Louis County jail in lieu of $1 million bond. He didn’t enter a plea and a judge set another hearing for May 18. He is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 
MINNEAPOLIS – The mother of a teenager who says she was sexually assaulted says her daughter’s attack should have been prevented. Ashanti Lymon is charged with criminal sexual conduct in her case, and in another one. Lymon previously pleaded guilty in a similar case, but was allowed to stay in a program for at-risk teens. Lymon was charged with rape of a teenage girl last year. He was 18. He’s also charged with sexually assaulting
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- A cab driver who suffered gunshot wounds in an attempted robbery in February is criticizing a plea deal for his alleged assailants. The shooting occurred during 62-year-old 
