CLARKSVILLE, TN - The search continues for the gunman who killed a 2-year-old boy and critically injured an adult man in Clarksville. Police were called out to the 900 block of Princeton Drive just after 11 p.m. Sunday. According to officers, 2-year-old Joseph Bankston was at was at home with his grandmother, mother, her boyfriend and Joseph’s 1-year-old sister when the shooting happened. Candace Johnson, a neighbor and Joseph’s babysitter, said she received a frantic call from the grandmother telling her to call 911. She said someone knocked on the door, broke in and started shooting. “She just called me and she was yelling, telling me to call 911,” Johnson said. “I called 911, and she told me Joseph had been shot. Johnson said Joseph was shot in the head and killed. His mother’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Brandon Jimenez, was also shot. He was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he remains in critical but stable condition. The suspected gunman is described as a black man who was wearing a long black coat with a hood and a gray checkered shirt. He was driving a maroon or red Chevrolet Impala. Witnesses said the Impala may have a loud engine and tinted windows. - (Black-on-white)
MASSILLON, Ohio - A man was arrested Friday in connection with the deaths of two women. Leeroy Wilbert Rogers Sr. was taken into custody by Massillon Police and BCI agents in Massillon. Rogers is charged with two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of 23-year-old 
ROCKFORD — A Rockford man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the July shooting death of a 67-year-old on the city's northwest side. Delano L. Foreman, 29, who was booked Aug. 3 into the Winnebago County Jail on possession of a stolen firearm charge, is being held without bond. He is scheduled to appear in court at 1:30 p.m. Monday. On July 18, Winnebago County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to 7609 Owen Center Road for a house fire. At that time, the body of a male was found deceased inside the residence. Sheriff’s detectives along with members of the crime scene unit responded to the scene to assist with the investigation. On July 20, the Winnebago County Coroner’s Office conducted an autopsy, and the victim was identified as 
New Orleans police are trying to identify two women seen in surveillance video beating up a man and stealing his wallet and phone in the French Quarter. The man was moderately injured, police said. Police said the women approached the 51-year-old man Saturday (Oct. 3) around 6:30 a.m. in the 800 block of Burgundy Street and started talking to him. One of the women punched the man, knocking him to the ground. The women went through his pockets and took his wallet and phone then left in a dark Ford sport utility vehicle, police said. 
A group of men and teenagers whom officials are calling a "pack of wolves" have been arrested in connection with Coatesville's first homicide in nearly three years, authorities announced Tuesday. Four of the five men wanted in the murder have been arrested, and a fifth remains on the loose. Police identified the four arrested as Dajon Rowe, 17, Steven Adams, 17, Demetrius Joseph, 21, and Chris Mansfield, 21. Tyler Adams, Steven Adams' 16-year-old brother, remains at large, according to the Chester County District Attorney's Office. Authorities said the man shot in the chest, identified as 
SPRING GARDEN -- A teenager is in police custody following a lockdown of the Community College of Philadelphia Tuesday morning. The 17-year-old boy was apprehended inside a classroom at the Center of Business and Industry at 18th and Collowhill streets. He was reportedly unarmed, but police believe he may have ditched a gun when he fled. They are now searching for the weapon.
A 15-year-old Monroe County boy has been jailed and charged as an adult with raping, stabbing and robbing 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man is in jail for attacking a teenager. Barrington Hunt is charged with two counts each of aggravated sexual battery, kidnapping and rape. Police say on September 30, he forced 
A Gainesville man was arrested Monday on suspicion of raping a teenager he met through the dating website PlentyOfFish. A witness told police the suspect said he heard her say no but went ahead based on their "vibe." Mark Anthony Lewis Jr., 20, remained in the Alachua County jail Tuesday on the sexual assault charge. His bail was set at $100,000.
A sworn complaint issued in July by the Gainesville Police Department stated that Lewis met the girl through PlentyOfFish. The girl went to meet Lewis, whom she knew only as “Junior,” at his apartment at The Pavilion on 62nd, 1000 SW 62nd Blvd., on July 19, the sworn complaint said. Lewis is accused of sexually assaulting her twice during that visit. The sworn complaint identified the victim as 
PHILADELPHIA — A former day care worker convicted of abducting 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – When men came to a hotel room expecting to have sex, they were greeted by a 15-year-old mother of two who took their money and then stepped to the side as a man with a gun robbed them of whatever else they had, according to police. Latesha Clay joins 17-year-old Monee Duepre Atkinson and 18-year-old Trayvin Donnell Lewis as they head to adult felony court where they are charged with armed robbery, unlawful imprisonment and conspiracy — charges that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The woman who pleaded guilty to keeping adults with mental disabilities locked in a basement now wants to change her plea. Linda Weston wrote a memo asking the court to change her guilty plea to not guilty and hold a competency hearing to evaluate her mental health, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. 
A woman who was repeatedly investigated by child protection officials in Delaware has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of her 
Four men and one teenager have pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of 
A man was arrested after he allegedly pretended to be the leader of a Philadelphia Mormon church in order to steal a PECO refund check of over $183,000. Mark Postell, 52, of Philadelphia, was arrested and charged with wire fraud after he allegedly stole from a Philadelphia Mormon church. Postell claimed he was the pastor of the Church, even though Mormon church leaders are called Bishops, rather than pastors. Postell also allegedly claimed he lived at the construction site where the cathedral was being built. 
St. Louis City police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a woman wanted for a Saturday morning bank robbery. The Commerce Bank in the 3100 block of Grand near Tower Grove Park was robbed just before 11 a.m. The suspect was wearing scrubs and was believed to be armed with a handgun. Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 866-371-tips.
PITTSBURGH - Police hope surveillance pictures help them track down the man who robbed a bank in Oakland. The robbery happened at the Citizens Bank on Fifth Avenue around 4:50 p.m. on Monday. The man, believed to be in his 50s, entered the bank and handed the teller a note. The suspect stated that he had a gun, but he never showed a weapon. After receiving an undetermined amount of money, the suspect ran away from the scene. The man is around 5’8″ tall, wearing a black t-shirt, pants, white tennis shoes and a dark baseball cap with the numbers 804. He had a scruffy beard that is turning gray and he was wearing glasses.
A convicted bank robber has been busted again after he left his fingerprints on threatening notes used in a string of new Manhattan heists, authorities say. Kirk Walker, 29, who got out of prison in 2013 after serving two years on a bank-robbery rap, was arrested again this month by the FBI-NYPD Joint Bank Robbery Task Force on new bank-heist charges. “Demand notes were used in all five of the robberies and were recovered from four,” a criminal complaint says. “Fingerprints were recovered from the demand notes used in three of the [robberies]. In all three instances, the fingerprints positively matched the fingerprints of Kirk Walker.”
A Columbus man was arrested in connection to the Monday afternoon robbery at the Suntrust Bank on Auburn Avenue. Victor Cartell Butler, the alleged thief, was apprehended 9:16 a.m. Tuesday in his home in the 900 block of Booker Avenue. He was charged with one count of armed robbery after police determined that he threatened to use a bomb in order to steal from the bank. 
He is described as a black male who is between 25 and 30 years old. He is about 6 feet 1 inch tall and 140 pounds with a thin build.
The robber was described as a black man of medium height and build in his 20s or 30s. He was wearing a white baseball cap, white shirt and dark jacket.
SANTA ANA — The Orange County Sheriffs Department on Monday asked for the public’s help in finding a suspect believed to have robbed several banks in Orange County. Authorities said Donnie Lee Jones, 55, is considered armed and dangerous and is on probation in San Diego. His last known address was 9411 S. Central Ave., Los Angeles.
OAKLAND, CA-- Homicide investigators on Monday released a surveillance camera image of a man described as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a mural artist last week in West Oakland. Authorities said the man is black, in his 20s, about 6 feet tall, with a thin build and dark complexion. In the image, he is wearing a dark blue athletic sweat jacket with an Adidas logo, and a dark baseball cap with an undistinguishable symbol. 
A 14-year-old boy was arrested and charged in connection to 15 robberies near Drexel University in Philadelphia in August and September. The woman told investigators she then looked up and saw the teen boy holding a gun. The boy then allegedly told her, “Get out of the car you f****** b****,” several times. The woman and second victim then fled into a nearby home. 
NEW YORK - A former president of the United Nations General Assembly was arrested Tuesday and charged with accepting over $1 million in bribes and a trip to New Orleans for his family from a billionaire Chinese real estate mogul and other businesspeople to pave the way for lucrative investments. John Ashe, the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who served in the largely ceremonial post from September 2013 to September 2014, faces conspiracy- and bribery-related charges along with five others, including Francis Lorenzo, a deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic. Those charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court included Chinese billionaire 
HOUSTON - No late appeals have been filed on behalf of a Texas inmate convicted of killing another man in a robbery in Houston that yielded just $8. 
Fattah has denied charges he paid off an illegal $1 million campaign loan with federal grants and charitable donations, and funneled campaign funds toward his son's student loan. 
Police are investigating the murder of a transgender woman overnight in Philadelphia. Police say 22-year-old
TAMPA — Eleven-year-old 
SACRAMENTO -- An elderly woman is recovering after she was reportedly sexually assaulted in her North Sacramento home just after 6 a.m. Saturday. Frances Vanskike got a call from her panicked mother-in-law after the attack. "I thought she was having a heart attack," Vanskike said. The 
A 28-year-old Oklahoma City man has been arrested after allegedly raping a woman he met on a dating app. According to the Oklahoma City Police Department, Ivan Kindelan was arrested early Oct. 4 on a complaint of first degree rape. Police reports show that at approximately 2 a.m. Oct. 4 an officer was dispatched to a gas station at I-240 and Walker. When the officer arrived on scene, he spoke with the female victim who told them she had recently met Kindelan on the dating app Tinder.
RADFORD – A Radford man is being held without bond after police say he sexually assaulted someone over the weekend. Radford City Police say at approximately 3:09 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 they responded to the 600 block of Clement Street for a rape in progress call. Officers located and identified the offender as Brain Alexander Austin, 22, of Radford. Austin was arrested for Rape and is currently being held in the New River Valley Regional Jail without bond.
A Florida youth league football coach is facing a battery charge after allegedly hitting an official during after an argument in a game over the weekend. Leo Davis, 36, told authorities that he pushed a referee while trying to break up a fight that involved parents and coaches following a controversial call in the game. The referee said that Davis hit him in the face, causing minor injuries. The Osceola County Sheriff's Office said, that there are several witnesses and video evidence to support the official's claims. Davis left the field at Liberty High School and reportedly tried to get away "at a rate of high speed" but was stopped by deputies and booked into Osceola County Jail before getting released on $1,000 bail. 
Two football players at a western Pennsylvania university have been arrested and removed from the team's roster after a fight and robbery that police say temporarily knocked a man unconscious. Gabriel Yuille and Kahlif Starke-Clemons were charged with robbery, theft, assault and other offenses in connection with the incident early Saturday near Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 
CATON, N.Y. -- A second man has been arrested and charged in connection to the murder of 
EAST HILLS - Police were called to a home in East Hi
lls on Sunday morning, due to a burglary in progress. Just after 7:30 a.m. Sunday, police say Shauna Kelley, 37, broke into the front of a home in the 2400-block of Bracey Drive in the East Hills. According to the criminal complaint, the woman that lives in the home told police she found Kelley sitting in the living room cutting a tennis shoe with a kitchen knife. The woman says Kelley swung the knife at her when she told her to leave. When police arrived, they found Kelley sitting on the sidewalk out front. She told police she came to the house to get frozen chicken, which police found in her purse. It was then returned to the victim. Kelley told police she and the victim were in a sexual relationship with Marcus Henderson, 37. Henderson was at the home when police arrived and was standing in between Kelley and the officers. When police told him to back up several times, he refused and pushed one officer on the shoulder and swung at another with a closed fist. Another officer tased Henderson in the back. 
Prichard police have identified a suspect in the shooting death of 
A Chicago man was ordered held without bail Sunday after murder charges were filed in connection with a fatal shooting Sept. 19 in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Ladarren Ball, 31, of the 200 block of North Leamington Avenue, was charged with murde. The shooting happened about 6 p.m. Sept. 19 in the 1200 block of North Keeler Avenue and left 38-year-old 
The owner of a Baltimore County restaurant was beaten and robbed while trying to get a bag of money out of his car Saturday. Authorities said 
BOSTON – Officers are searching for a man who allegedly carjacked a woman in a Boston’s South End. Police were called to the area of Cumberland and Saint Botolph Streets where a woman said that while she was parking her car a man came up to her driver’s side door and opened it. The victim of the carjacking was
COPLEY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A Michigan man held his 9-month-old daughter in a motel room while the baby's mother had sex with another man for money, police said. Derohn Wilburn, 25, of Detroit, is charged with fourth-degree felony promoting prostitution and misdemeanor child endangering. He is scheduled Friday for his first appearance in Barberton Municipal Court. The child's mother, Melissa Coleman, 26, of Akron, is charged with misdemeanor child endangering and prostitution. She pleaded not guilty Friday at a hearing in Barberton Municipal Court and was released on a $5,000 signature bond. Copley police released the baby to a family member. 
A Lower Paxton Township man has been charged with the rape of a child numerous times between August of 2013 and December of 2014. Otis Adam Thomas III, 32, of the 1600 block of Buckingham Road, was arrested Thursday as he left his home, police said. Thomas has been charged with: Rape of a child. Involuntary deviate intercourse of
MILWAUKEE -- U.S. Marshals are looking for 35-year-old Jermaine Jones. Jones is a registered sex offender. He was convicted of a brutal sexual assault in 1999. U.S. Marshals say Jones and two accomplices raped a woman inside a home on Milwaukee's south side. Afterward, the woman had hot sauce, baby powder and lighter fluid poured on her body. U.S. Marshals say the woman escaped to a bathroom and when Jones opened the door, she saw fires had been lit in her living room. The woman was able to get out of the house alive. Jones was convicted and sent to prison. U.S. Marshals say he served nine years of a 15 year prison sentence. U.S. Marshals say Jones has violated the rules of his supervision multiple times. In April, Jones went missing and hasn't been seen since.
DENVER - Police are looking for a man who's wanted for an unlawful sexual contact that happened in the area of East 18th Avenue and Broadway Street. The suspect is a black male, in his 50s. He's said to be about 5 feet 6 inches tallw ith a thin build and slightly graying hair at the temples. He has a beard and mustache and was wearing a red and white striped polo shirt, cargo jeans, and a dark colored hoodie around his shoulders.
A 21-year-old Englewood neighborhood man is accused of exposing himself and touching a woman inappropriately Friday on the CTA's Green Line, police said. Anton M. Johnson, 21, of the 6600 block of South Sangamon Street, was charged with aggravated battery to a transit passenger, police said. Johnson appeared for a bond hearing Sunday afternoon at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, where he was held in lieu of $150,000 bail. In an alert issued Friday evening, police said a man touched a woman and exposed himself at the 35th/Bronzeville-IIT station about 11:05 a.m. Friday.
STOCKTON – Police say a woman set fire to her ex-girlfriend’s Stockton apartment in a homicide attempt. The incident happened Saturday a little after 5 a.m. Stockton Police say the woman – identified as 29-year-old Lashanda Thompson – somehow got into the 8600 block of Acapulco Way apartment and started turning on the burners on the stove. A pot of grease left on the stove then heated up and ignited, causing the downstairs of the apartment to catch fire – trapping the three adults and a child inside. Stockton Fire crews were soon at the scene and helped the people jump out of a second-story window. It appears no one was seriously hurt in the fire. Officers later caught up to Thompson at a hotel room in the area and arrested her. Investigators believe Thompson was upset that her ex-girlfriend, one of the people inside the apartment, had gotten a new girlfriend. 
FREMONT — Police are seeking the public’s help in tracking down a man suspected of violently killing his own mother in Fremont Tuesday morning. Officers conducting a welfare check at an apartment in the 3900 block of Monroe Avenue around 11 a.m. Tuesday reportedly found a dead woman in her 60s. Investigators said the “level of violence involved” in this case was “severe.” The victim’s son, 31-year-old Omar Malik Pettigen, has been named as a suspect in the homicide and detectives have obtained a warrant for his arrest. Pettigen is described as a 150 pound black man with brown eyes and black hair standing roughly 5 feet 11 inches tall. He’s known to frequent the cities of Oakland and San Francisco, according to police, and may have access to guns. Anyone with information about Pettigen’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Fremont Police Department at (510) 790-6800.
CAMDEN An 18-year-old city man has been wrongly accused of killing one teenager and wounding two others in an Easter night attack, the suspect's lawyer said Friday. Daikwon Alford is charged with the murder of 18-year-old 
Phoenix police are trying to track down a pair of carjacking suspects, one of which was naked. The suspects are seen here on video taken at McDonalds near 51st Avenue and McDowell. That's where officers say the suspects drove after car-jacking a man at gunpoint. That allegedly happened down the street from the McDonalds, on 51st and Roosevelt. The victim ended up wrestling the gun away from the suspects, but they got away with his car. Police think someone might remember the couple especially since the woman was nude. "The video shows that when the woman got out of the vehicle at the McDonald's, she wasn't wearing any clothes, so it's our hope that somebody picked up on that," said Jamie Rothschild with Silent Witness. The suspects are described as an African-American male wearing camouflage shorts and an African-American female.
A Brooklyn woman turned herself in to cops Saturday on charges she slugged a boy she thought was behaving rudely at his father’s Bronx bodega. Jathiyah Richards, 47, surrendered to cops about six weeks after she was caught on video punching 
Dallas police say they have arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting a Dallas dentist last month at her Uptown apartment parking garage. Kristopher Love, 31, is charged with capital murder and is being held on a $2.5 million bond, Dallas Police Maj. Max Geron announced in a Friday evening press conference. Love also faces a federal charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Geron said when Love was arrested, he was allegedly in possession of the weapon believed to have been used in the murder. Jail records did not list an attorney for Love Friday. Geron said an alleged accomplice, 33-year-old Brenda Delgado, is wanted on a capital murder charge and is considered a fugitive. 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The man convicted of attempted armed robbery in connection with the shooting of a Navy airman was sentenced Friday. Courtney Phillips got 30 years on the charge with a minimum-mandatory of 10 years. The jury in Phillips case deadlocked on a second charge of attempted murder in the 2012 shooting of 
Ian Mercer and Laurel Harper are the parents of Oregon Shooter 
BRIDGE CITY, La. -- Jefferson Parish authorities are looking for a man wanted for the alleged rape and molestation of 
Former NFL star Irving Fryar was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for his role in a mortgage scam. His mother, Allene McGhee, was sentenced to three years' probation in the same case. Both were convicted in August of applying for multiple mortgage loans in quick succession while using the same property as collateral.
Fryar, 53, was a star wide receiver at the University of Nebraska and played for the New England Patriots, the Miami Dolphins, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins. 
GLENDALE, Colo. — A sex crime suspect appears to have slipped through the fingers of the criminal justice system yet again. 34-year-old 
Austin police say they arrested 25-year-old 
SPRINGFIELD — A man has been arrested in connection with the August beating death of a Springfield man. Jeremy Carmichael, 29, of Springfield, was picked up by the SOFAST regional task force early Friday in Springfield. A Clark County grand jury issued a secret indictment of Carmichael on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, said Sgt. Jeff Flores of the Springfield Police Division. 
FAIRFAX, Va. — 
A Cincinnati man has been charged with more than a dozen counts of rape. Adrian Sims, 23, was arrested last month and will head to court next week after being accused of sexually assaulting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A woman living in an apartment complex just off the Plaza told police an intruder climbed into bed with her and sexually assaulted her. The assault happened at a complex in the 4800 block of Belleview Avenue in Kansas City, Mo., during early morning hours this past weekend during the Plaza Art Fair. Police haven't arrested anyone yet, but know exactly who they're looking for after the suspect dropped his ID inside the apartment and the victim was able to snap several pictures of him on her cell phone before he ran off. One of those pictures was distributed to other residents so they could be on the lookout, but FOX 4 is not revealing his identity because he has not been charged with the crime yet. The intruder got into an apartment through an unlocked backdoor, according to police.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A man was booked on public indecency suspected of flashing a woman near the Oregon State University campus. Police arrested 19-year-old David James Brown on Thursday; his bail is set at $75,000. According to Corvallis police, a man followed a young woman home from the OSU campus at around 4:40 p.m. Tuesday. She told officers that she made it into her house and saw the man across the street, completely nude and apparently masturbating while looking in her direction. She called her friends, who came over to her house and took some photos of the suspect as he left the area on a long board.
ATLANTA, Ga. — A man who was mistakenly released from a Louisiana facility despite a murder charge has been recaptured in Atlanta. Benjuiel Johnson, 32, was arrested by the US Marshal Service just after midnight at a Motel 6. When deputy marshals opened the motel room door, Johnson was described as “very shocked” to see the authorities. He was booked into the Gwinnett County Hail and is awaiting extradition back to Louisiana.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's ex-son-in-law has been sentenced to six to 12 months in jail for stealing $140 from an alleged drug dealer's luxury car. What 45-year-old Gerold Gibson didn't know at the time is that the car was wired with hidden cameras and he was being watched by Philadelphia police internal affairs.
NEWARK — A veteran police lieutenant was fired Wednesday for disparaging 
