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Black man guns down his black police officer cousin - stabs black female cousin to death
  A woman was stabbed to death and a police officer responding to the stabbing was shot and killed with his own gun in an incident that began at a home and ended with the arrest of a suspect identified as Harrison Lee Riley Jr., 35, who was living in Arnaudville. Riley was a cousin of slain 52-year-old Sunset Police Officer Henry Nelson, Sunset Police Chief Luis Padilla said. Grand Coteau Mayor Shanterral Johnson, whose sister Shameka Johnson was killed, said Wednesday Riley was a cousin of hers, too. St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said three people were stabbed at 121 Anne St. in Sunset around 3 p.m. Wednesday. One of them, Shameka Johnson, 40, of Sunset, died from the injuries, according to Guidroz. She is the sister of Shaterral Johnson, the interim mayor of Grand Coteau. Another sister of the mayor, Surlay Johnson, 34, also was stabbed and was in critical condition Wednesday night. - (Blue lives matter) |
Shannon Miles, the man accused of fatally shooting Darren H. Goforth, a Texas deputy sheriff execution-style at a Houston-area gas station was arraigned Monday on a capital murder charge that could bring the death penalty. Also Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas flags be flown at half staff who honor Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, who was shot in the back while filling his cruiser Friday night. Fifteen shell casings were found near the body. . "This is just a cold blooded execution". - - (Blue lives matter) (Black-on-white)
A Delaware County police officer whose life was saved by his bulletproof vest when police say an armed man shot him early Sunday morning has been released from the hospital. 
ATLANTA -- A college student bit her attacker when he tried to pull her out of her car outside of a Buckhead Whole Foods. Twenty-two-year-old 
PEABODY, Mass. —The mother of a Salem man charged with fatally stabbing a co-worker at a Peabody restaurant is coming to her son's defense. Jaquan Huston is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on a first-degree murder charge in the weekend death of 
WILLOWBROOK, Ill. -- Police in the western suburbs released vehicle details and a sketch of the suspect Sunday after a 
Paul Schuster, the victim's father
FAYETTEVILLE, NC — Authorities say that a man with stomach scar and a “pink patch” of skin in his private area forced a woman into a car during a sex assault this week in Fayetteville. On Monday at approximately 5 a.m., detectives with the Fayetteville Police Department’s Special Victims Unit were notified of a sexual assault that occurred in the area of E. Russell Street and Broad Street. The victim was walking along Person Street near Eastern Blvd when she was approached by a subject offering a ride. The victim refused the offer and the suspect forced the victim into his car, police said. “The suspect then drove the victim to the area of E. Russell Street and Broad Street where he sexually assaulted her,” Fayetteville Police said in a press release. The suspect was described as a black male, approximately 25 to 30 years of age, 5’10 to 6 feet tall, 180-210 lbs., muscular build, with long, thick dreads that go midway down his back, and a receding hairline. “The suspect was also described as having a scar on his stomach and a ‘pink’ patch of skin in his groin area,” police said.
A homeless man was arrested Thursday in the rape of a 52-year-old woman who was attacked early Aug. 17 in an outdoor Bedford-Stuyvesant stairwell. Kareem David broke two of the victim’s teeth in the attack on the stairs leading to the basement of a building on Lefferts Place, police said. David, 28, allegedly threatened to shoot the woman, although he never displayed a gun.
HYATTSVILLE, Md. -- A convicted sex offender was apprehended Friday after he walked from a court-ordered home visit in Hyattsville on Thursday. James Norris Jr., 49, was apprehended in the Dupont area of Washington, D.C. and he is currently in police custody, police said. Norris Jr. walked away from a home in the 4000 block of Warner Avenue at around 2 p.m., during a court-ordered home visit, Prince George's County police say. He is a patient at a state hospital. 
CONCORD, CA – A public hearing has been scheduled in Fairfield to determine if a man convicted of rape and assault should be placed at a Concord home once he is released from custody. The Department of State Hospitals is seeking to place Fraisure Smith, 51, who is currently being housed at a state hospital, in a single family home, located in the
U.S. Marshals are searching for a sexual offender who has violated his parole and absconded from authorities. John Garrison, said marshals are asking for the public's assistance in locating 26-year-old Justin Lee Paul who is a registered sex offender and was last known to be in the Athens area. He is described as a black male, 202 pounds and five-feet-seven inches tall. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety sex offender website, Paul was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of 
Opening arguments in the rape trial of former Colts linebacker Josh McNary have concluded. Deputy Prosecutor Courtney Curtis recounted the events of Dec. 1, when McNary and the woman who has accused him of rape met. Curtis said the woman went to three Downtown bars with friends. She got drunk that night and met McNary at Tiki Bob's. Curtis said the two talked, danced and flirted before going to McNary's Downtown apartment. The woman said she doesn't remember how they got to the apartment but said she voluntarily went home with McNary, Curtis said. They kissed and flirted more, but the woman later realized she didn't want to be there, Curtis said. "She realized, 'You know what, I don't want to do this. I don't feel good,' " Curtis said. The woman was apparently drunk and had to lie down. Curtis said when the sex began, the woman told McNary several times to stop. "The defendant isn't stopping ... and she's scared," Curtis said. Curtis said the woman didn't remember much of that night. "She just knew she'd been raped." "She did go home with him willingly, but then he raped her," Curtis said. 
SEATTLE — Level 3 sex offender Demarcus Linwood, aka ‘Charm’, was arrested in a “citizen’s arrest” Friday in White Center, the King County Sheriff’s Office said. Linwood was taken into custody by a citizen who saw his appearance on Washington’s Most Wanted, sheriff’s deputies said. Linwood pleaded guilty to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender and was granted permission to attend a funeral. He was supposed to return but disappeared instead. He is facing 43 months in prison when caught for the failure to register as a sex offender charge and another 43 months for one he already pleaded guilty to. Police say his MO is to befriend teenage girls on the bus, on the streets or at events around town. He hangs out with them, gains their trust and then beats them up, threatens to kill them, chokes them and rapes them.
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – State judges have allowed a convicted rapist to be provisionally discharged from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program despite several doctors testifying he was not ready. Christopher Coker, 47, has been fighting his civil commitment for years. The Minnesota Attorney General's office argued on behalf of the Minnesota Department of Human Services that Coker was not ready to be provisionally released. The Hennepin County Attorney's office also argued against his release. "It's pretty clear, he's a sick man," said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman. "We think he's still a threat to public safety." Judges Joanne Smith, Kathleen Gearin and Leslie Metzen sit on the State Supreme Court Appeal Panel. Gearin and Metzen approved the release in a court document filed Friday. Smith did not.
BATON ROUGE, La. —A man wanted on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child in Texas was arrested earlier this week in Alexandria. Christopher Pryor, 32, was arrested by the state's Fugitive Apprehension Unit, according to the Louisiana Attorney General's Office. Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell said Pryor was wanted by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office in Texas for sexually assaulting a child. He was found at a business in Alexandria and taken to the Rapides Parish Jail. 
WASHINGTON - Prince William County Police arrested two men Tuesday for allegedly sexually assaulting two teenage girls on multiple occasions. Khayree Lamarr Moore, 19, and Kevin Ballard, 21, were each charged with two counts of carnal knowledge of a child. Moore was also charged with one count of indecent liberties and Ballard was charged with 2 counts of the same. Police say the
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI – A 55-year-old Muskegon Heights parolee with a long criminal record has been charged with raping 
Nashville, N.C. — An alleged Nash County sex offender was captured Tuesday afternoon after leading deputies on a car chase and fleeing into the woods earlier in the day. Robert Earl Lewis Sr., of 7440 Bunting Road in Nashville, was involved in a car chase on Interstate 95. The chase ended after stop sticks were deployed, but Lewis ran from the vehicle. He was spotted later in the day and ran into the woods. After an extensive search, Lewis was found in a crawl space under a church. Lewis was arrested and charged with first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and indecent liberties Lewis is a registered sex offender and has previously been charged with statutory rape, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, breaking and entering, assault on a female, felony larceny, aiding and abetting felony larceny, malicious maiming, communication of threats and several felony drug charges involving heroin and cocaine. 
SALISBURY, NC - A man was jailed on Thursday morning under $25,000 bond, charged with sex crimes involving children. Jamar Obrien Still, 24, was charged with three counts of statutory rape of someone aged 13, 14, or 15, by an offender at least six year older. Still was arrested early Thursday morning and booked into the jail just after 4:00 am.
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh police say a man told them he was adjusting a gun he kept in his underwear when it fired, killing one of his friends. Nineteen-year-old Eietyoung Kemp was jailed Friday on charges including criminal homicide and carrying a firearm without a license in the death of 19-year-old 
Morris Hinton
A Queens woman murdered her boyfriend, had her son help burn the body and then might have gotten away with the heinous crime except for a sliver of evidence miraculously left behind — her broken fingernail. Dawn McIntosh, 46, had flown into a murderous rage at beau 
The driver in a hit-and-run that killed a two-year-old boy and injured his mother in Philadelphia earlier this year surrendered to police Monday. 
Terry Lee Loewen came to the attention of the FBI in late May 2013, when he became a Facebook friend of an individual who regularly posted information supporting violent jihad, or holy war. Agents became concerned after looking back through Loewen's own Facebook activities. An online undercover agent contacted him, and offered to introduce him to someone who could help him engage in jihad. Loewen's case is among at least 462 terror crimes associated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State that the U.S. government has prosecuted since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
BARBERTON, OH - Detectives with the Barberton Police Dept. made two arrests Friday in a New Years Eve triple homicide investigation. Cops picked up Michael Deon Hendon, 22, and his brother Eric Donta Hendon, 30, both of Akron. Police say the brothers went to 
LEICESTER — The man responsible for what police call the worst crime in Leicester history is asking for parole, and police are doing everything they can to stop it. Marvin Cathy was sentenced to two life terms for the brutal murder of 
NASHVILLE, TN - The man charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two 18-year-old women has been returned to Nashville from a California prison. Patrick Lamonte Streater is accused of stabbing Exotic Tan employees 
A man was convicted of strangling the mother of his child in Sacramento, driving her body 80 miles to San Francisco and setting it ablaze in a car in the Lower Haight neighborhood. Almon Johnson, 33, of Sacramento was found guilty Tuesday by a San Francisco Superior Court jury of first-degree murder and arson in the 2011 slaying of preschool teacher 
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. – Maplewood police are asking for the public’s help in locating the husband of a woman shot dead in the family’s townhouse. The couple was heard in a heated argument around 5:30 a.m., just before 41-year-old 
LETHBRIDGE – Staff at the YWCA of Lethbridge and District are mourning the loss of a former coworker. Thirty-eight-year old 
A man "believed to be the alleged gunman" in the killing of a uniformed Houston-area sheriff's deputy was in custody and being questioned Saturday morning, Sgt. William Kennard of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN. No charges have been filed against the man, Kennard said. The man's name wasn't given. 
Brian W. Hill didn’t show any emotion on Friday when a Franklin County jury convicted him of killing a woman in a drive-by shooting last year in North Linden. He’s been through the experience before. In 1991, a jury found him guilty of aggravated murder for killing a man during a drug deal. Hill, 47, spent 18 years in prison for that slaying. This time, he could be sentenced to life without parole. The jury in the drive-by case convicted Hill of aggravated murder, attempted murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence. 
WAYNESBORO, MS - A Waynesboro man has been arrested in connection to a murder at an apartment complex. According to the Waynesboro Police Department, Allen Lewis Chambers was initially taken into custody for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Authorities said Chambers had been repeatedly avoiding numerous attempts by investigators to speak with him concerning his knowledge and or involvement in the murder of 
A Broward jury issued a split decision Friday, convicting one of the men accused of killing Fort Lauderdale resident
Police say the writings of Bryce Williams, who murdered two TV journalists, show his affinity with killers and terrorists.
Their interview subject,
Anthony Dwayne Rideau, 41, of Magnolia, was being held Wednesday on $300,000 bond on charges of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the county sheriff's office. Authorities allege that Rideau used a tire iron to batter and facture the skull of 
The Columbia man convicted of stabbing a woman 25 times in a home invasion received a lengthy prison sentence Wednesday morning in Lancaster County Court. Elswart R. Bodden, 24, was sentenced 27½ to 75 years in prison for the home invasion and attack on the an unidentified woman. Additionally, Bodden must pay more than $410,000 in restitution to the victim to cover costs of her extensive injuries. Bodden was convicted of attempted criminal homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, theft by unlawful taking, fleeing police, and recklessly endangering another person. Police initially described the stabbing as brutal, supported by the victim's testimony on the hour-long attack, in which Bodden stabbed her 25 times, according to a Lancaster Online report. Officials said
Two men who pleaded guilty to the 2013 murder of Beaufort native 
INDIANAPOLIS – The man accused of killing a woman in the basement of a far east side home was found guilty on Thursday. According to police, 21-year-old 
AKRON, Ohio - A Kent State University professor is facing felony charges after he was arrested with 
Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu, a transfer from Boise State, was convicted last week of sexually assaulting a former female athlete at the school 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has turned an illegal immigrant apprehended in northern California and accused of murder in Mexico over to Mexican authorities. According to ICE, 
LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. —Two people have been charged in connection with a shooting at a Laurens County gas station, according to Lt. Judy Stiles with the Laurens County Sheriff's Department. Stiles said Marvin Molquie Watson, 30, of Laurens is charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Zeryikia Copeland, 20, of Clinton is charged with accessory after the fact to felony murder, Stiles said. Both are charged in connection to the murder of 
FERGUSON • Prosecutors have charged a 21-year-old O'Fallon, Mo., man they believe murdered
A Morgan County jury on Wednesday convicted a man in a string of rapes that occurred three decades ago in Decatur. David Leon Garth Jr., 46, was found guilty of rape and burglary charges in three of the four sexual assaults he was accused of committing. Garth, who was already serving prison time on a burglary charge from that same time period, was indicted in 2012. Two of the assaults Garth was convicted of occurred in 1985 at the West Court Apartments and the third occurred at an apartment on Canal Street the following May, two days before a fourth alleged assault on a
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Tests of formerly neglected rape-kit evidence indicate that two men may have worked as a team, serially robbing and raping multiple victims together. The men were linked to three unsolved rapes dating from 2001, after DNA evidence in their cases was examined under a state program aimed at catching up on thousands of previously untested rape kits. Over the past two years, that project has identified 269 suspected or convicted serial rapists in Cuyahoga County. Michael Perry and Thomas Nicholson were indicted Wednesday on multiple counts of rape, robbery and kidnapping. Investigators are still working to identify a third suspect involved in the attacks.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A Santa Clara County grand jury indicted former San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Ray McDonald on one count of
An unidentified woman filed a suit against the Chicago Bulls player on Wednesday. The suit, which can be read in full on the Chicago Tribune website, was filed Wednesday by an unidentified women who accuses Derrick Rose and two other men of drugging her and gang-raping her in Aug. 2013. The woman, who claims she dated Rose from 2011 to 2013, says the men slipped something into her drink while at the former MVP’s Beverly Hills home. According to her account, she was able to escape, but later that night Rose and his friends broke into her apartment and sexually assaulted her while she was incapacitated. 
A Norwegian woman who was raped by three men while studying at Southern Methodist University in Dallas has spoken out about the night she was attacked - and why she decided to go and visit one of her assailants in prison. 
Texas police are searching for an illegal immigrant accused of raping a disabled teenager. The Brazoria County Sheriff’s Department said 25-year-old 
An illegal alien from Nicaragua, scheduled for execution in Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday evening, received a stay of execution from the state’s highest criminal court. The man, 
The man who shot and killed a reporter and cameraman on live television this morning is believed to be a former employee of WDBJ in Virginia. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe stated in a press conference that police have the man's name and license plate number, but had chosen not to release the information. Shortly thereafter, the man was identified by police as Vester Lee Flanagan. A source who was at the press conference at which Flanagan was identified as the suspect says, “He was described as a light skinned black male, with brown eyes and black hair, 6 foot 3 inches tall and approximately 250 pounds. They believe he is armed with a handgun.” McAuliffe says that police are in "active pursuit" of the suspected shooter and will likely have him in custody within the hour. Flanagan is said to be traveling on I-64, which runs east to west across Virginia. Little is known about Flanagan at this time, and it is unclear if he intended to target victims 
