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(Black) Suspect in North Hills murder (of White woman) looks to escape death penalty
    Raleigh, N.C. — A man accused in the brutal 2013 slaying of a woman in her North Hills apartment was in court Monday morning as his attorneys asked a judge to take the death penalty off the table. Travion Devonte Smith, 22, of Raleigh, is one of three people charged in the beating and stabbing death of Melissa Huggins-Jones. Huggins-Jones, 30, had recently divorced and moved from Tennessee to the apartment complex off Six Forks Road in Raleigh, where she started a new job and a new life caring for her 8-year-old daughter, Hannah Olivia Jones. Her son had stayed behind with his father in Tennessee to finish the school year. The morning of May 14, 2013, Hannah wandered out of the apartment and approached a nearby construction crew, asking for help. A construction worker followed the girl back into the apartment and found Huggins-Jones dead in her bed, covered in blood. An autopsy determined she died from repeated blows to her head and neck. Smith, Ronald Lee Anthony, 25, and Sarah Rene Redden, 20, of Wake Forest, were charged in the case. - (Black-on-white) |
TORONTO – A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the death of an 82-year-old grandmother in Scarborough. The victim, identified as Stella Tetsos, was found inside her home on Elfreda Boulevard near St. Clair Avenue East and Birchmount Road on Wednesday afternoon. Police said the suspect broke into the home through a window and the murder is believed to have happened between Monday and Wednesday. Investigators said the body was discovered by someone who had come to check on the victim. An autopsy report determined the elderly woman died as a result of a blunt-force injury. The suspect has been identified as Sinbad King Simba Marshall and he faces a charge of second-degree murder and break-and-enter. The sister-in-law of the victim told reporters “I can’t really accept it,” said Anna Kutsopoulos. “I don’t even think she was 80 pounds, to see that guy there so strong. It’s devastating.” . - (Canada) - (Black-on-white)
Sterling Heights — Authorities intend to seek a murder charge against a parolee after an 89-year-old man he allegedly attacked earlier this month died. Warren resident Edwardian Dion Davidson is alleged to have attacked and robbed 
A 25-year-old South Carolina has been accused of killing his wife when his gun fired while he waved it around after a night of card-playing, deputies in South Carolina say. Jeremy Sims had been drinking and smoking marijuana before the shooting around 2:30 a.m. Saturday at his home in Chesnee, about 66 miles west of Charlotte, the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said. The coroner's office identified the shooting victim as Sims' wife, 23-year-old 
Police describe the suspect as a black male with a light to medium complexion, in his early 20s, with a medium build between 5’6″-5’8″ tall. He has been seen wearing a black cap or beanie type hat and has a Mohawk style haircut.
CHICAGO — A Bellwood man has been charged Sunday with sexually assaulting a woman early Saturday in the South Loop. Jason Hooks, 20, has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated sexual assault, police said. At 3 a.m. Saturday, the 31-year-old woman was exiting the CTA Red Line in the 600 block of South Plymouth Court when a man grabbed her and hit her with a blunt object, according to a community alert from Chicago Police. The man had followed her from the Harrison Red Line station. Hooks, of the 3500 block of West Adams Street in Bellwood, forced the woman to a secluded place where he sexually assaulted her and stole her purse, police said. He then fled in an unknown direction. 
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Police have identified a 22-year-old man suspected of exposing himself to numerous women in Southeast Portland. William Wimberly Jr. was booked in the Multnomah County Jail on an unrelated burglary charge and was issued criminal citations for five counts of public indecency, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.
A suspect sought in three sex attacks in lower Manhattan was arrested early Saturday, cops said. Robert Bowie, 20, was arrested around 1 a.m. on charges including rape, robbery and burglary in the three-hour crime spree. Bowie’s alleged rampage culminated in the rape of a 40-year-old woman inside her apartment near the FDR Drive around 8:45 a.m. Thursday, police said. He emerged from the building’s stairwell and tried to strike up a conversation with the woman outside her door before grabbing her and forcing his way into her apartment, cops said. He then allegedly raped her. The attack came on the heels of two other assaults.
BELLEVILLE, IL – A man arrested for a sexual assault in Belleville over the weekend is also accused of a similar crime from 2014. Marlon Humphries, 22, is charged for Sunday morning’s assault against a 56-year-old woman near 6th and West Main. Police say they also believe Humphries is connected to an October 2014 assault. Police say there may be other victims and urge them to come forward.
ROCK HILL, S.C. -- A Rock Hill man accused of being a serial peeping Tom has been arrested again for the crime. A judge set bond at $100,000 for 34-year-old Travis Cousar Friday afternoon. The registered sex offender continues to cross the boundaries of the law. "She busted out her window trying to get him to leave from the front of her house," said Melissa Boyer, the mother of the alleged victim. Boyer's daughter called in a panic Monday after, according to a police report, Travis Cousar peeped into her home on Roy Street.
A 62-year-old man was found guilty in the kidnapping of 
DETROIT – Police are asking for help identifying a suspect in connection with an attempted kidnapping of
OXON HILL, Md. -- A man was arrested for the shooting deaths of three people inside of an Oxon Hill apartment Friday night, according to the Prince George's County Police Department. Clifford John Browne, Jr., 34, of Capitol Heights is being charged with killing 
HOMESTEAD — The hunt is on for a man who, police say, intentionally lit his father on fire, leaving him in critical condition. Police said it happened Saturday morning at 730 N.W. 17th Street, after an argument between the victim and his son, 38-year-old Tabias Rollins. “During the argument, Rollins decided to douse his father with gasoline and light him on fire,” said Det. Fernando Morales of the Homestead Police Dept. “Fire was able to get here on time, extinguish the fire and airlift the father to Kendall Regional Medical Center.” 
A Hueytown man doused his wife with a flammable liquid and set her on fire during a fight at their family home, police said. Authorities today announced charges against 38-year-old Manfred McCarroll. He is being held in the Jefferson County Jail with bond set at $180,000. Hueytown police and firefighters were called to the family's house on Newport Drive about 12:45 a.m. on Oct. 28, said Sgt. Mark Didcoct. They were dispatched there on a report of a house fire, but soon learned there was more. Inside they found McCarroll and his wife, both badly burned. Both were taken to UAB's Trauma and Burn Intensive Care Unit. After questioning, detectives learned that the fire erupted during an argument between McCarroll and his 40-year-old wife. The couple's three school-age children were home at the time, 
PITTSBURGH, PA -- A single mother of eight young children was shot to death by an ex-boyfriend during an argument over money for diapers and baby wipes, police said in a criminal complaint. Markese Reese, 20, of Penn Hills, was arrested late Tuesday and jailed without bond on a charge of criminal homicide in the death of 28-year-old 
NEW ORLEANS – 
MIAMI — A woman is listed in stable condition after she was allegedly shot by the father of her four children. According to investigators, she was involved in a verbal dispute with Lamount Tavius Lubin, 32, that escalated into a physical confrontation Friday night at a home near S.W. 260th Street and S.W. 137th Avenue. That’s when, police say, Lubin grabbed a gun and shot her in the face. The victim was able to drive herself to the hospital and from there, she was airlifted to Kendall Regional Trauma Center. Lubin fled in a gray/silver 2005 Cadillac CTS, last seen near S.W. 268th Street and South Dixie Highway. Police are now looking for Lubin. He’s considered armed and dangerous.
A toddler died Sunday afternoon after he got hold of a gun and shot himself in a Rock Hill home, police say. Savion Barrow, 3, was taken by EMS ambulance from his home to Piedmont Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead by hospital staff shortly after his arrival, York County Coroner Sabrina Gast said. Capt. Mark Bollinger, spokesman for the Rock Hill Police Department, said Savion somehow got his hands on the gun and shot himself. 
Prosecutors are considering a felony drug charge against Lamar Odom after the former NBA star was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel. Nye County District Attorney Angela Bello said Monday that the sheriff’s office submitted the potential charge last week, and a prosecutor is considering filing a count of unlawful use of cocaine or being under the influence of a controlled substance. 
FAIRBURN, Ga. -- Police are looking for a teen they say assaulted a clerk at 
Speaking of the fatal shooting of Brown in Ferguson - also in Missouri - in August last year,
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Police said there are five victims, including children, in a murder-suicide Friday afternoon on Shirley Oaks Drive, off New Berlin Road, in Oceanway. Four people were confirmed dead, including the gunman, and one is in critical condition at UF Health Jacksonville. Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Director Mike Bruno said police got a call of shots fired just before 4 p.m. and arrived to find five victims with gunshot wounds throughout the house. Four were dead at the scene and the fifth last reported in surgery. "At this time, we haven't made next-of-kin notification, so we're not identifying any of our victims," Bruno said. "It appears this maybe spawned from a domestic issue where someone was moving out of the house or something to that effect. It's stemming from some type of domestic issue." Neighbors said a Navy family had moved into the home recently and that the man responsible for the shooting was 25-year-old Gawain Wilson (pictured), though police have not said that he was the shooter. One source told News4Jax that a woman was with a friend in the process of moving from the house when the shooting started. A vehicle can be seen in the driveway with belongings in boxes loaded inside. 
Springdale police arrested Antoine Jackson in the murder of 
KANSAS CITY, MO - Court documents reveal 
Demetrius Patterson sat silent Friday morning with his arms crossed as Circuit Court Judge Renee Roche sentenced the 25-year-old to life in prison for attacking an Orlando police officer. Patterson was convicted last month of shooting 
A previously deported Honduran illegal alien may finally leave the country after serving his time for filming a woman in a San Angelo, Texas, Walmart bathroom. The man completed his 270-day sentence and was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for processing. 
GREENEVILLE — A Mexican citizen found in possession of multiple fake IDs and living in the United States illegally has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing a firearm. 
Syracuse, like other cities in the North and Midwest that have experienced population losses, has put out the welcome mat for refugees, with 
A rendezvous inside a Tampa motel ended with a woman shot in the head and a man charged with manslaughter. Investigators from Tampa Police said Tyrone Fields, 21, accidently shot and killed 
PLAINVIEW, N.Y. - The Long Island mother who killed her
Natasha West, the Chicagoan, 27, is facing assault and property damage charges after becoming unhinged when a Denny’s waitress explained that she was not allowed to share her $4 all-you-can-eat pancake special with her friends. West cursed at the waitress and threw several punches at the employee (though the blows did not land). West and her party then left Denny’s without paying their tab, but not before she repeatedly kicked a door on the way out. 
The man who used a vehicle to run over a Dallas, Texas, police officer is an illegal alien who has been deported three times over the past 11 years. 
DAYTONA BEACH — A convenience store owner was arrested after police said he dumped a disabled man out of his wheelchair. 
Ka Yang,
Prosecutors in Tulsa County have decided to no longer seek the death penalty for a man convicted of a double homicide in 1999. 52-year-old Victor Cornell Miller is convicted in the fatal shootings of retired Tulsa banker, 
What started out as a peaceful morning turned into a nightmare that would change the Potenza family forever. In the early hour of 5 a.m. on October 29, 2013, six armed men entered their Indianapolis, Indiana, home and viciously attacked the family. A year and half later, parents 
A Minneapolis nursing home aide was sentenced Thursday for the rape of a woman suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. According to court documents, 77-year-old 
MCKEESPORT, Pa. — A man wanted in connection with the shooting death of an elderly motorist believed to have been caught in the crossfire between two cars earlier this month in McKeesport has turned himself in. Authorities said 
Curtis Kyles, a former Death Row inmate, is headed back to the Louisiana State Penitentiary to serve a life sentence for second-degree murder. The 56-year-old Algiers resident was convicted Sept. 29 of killing 
A 22-year-old Troy man pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide Tuesday morning in the July death of Sustainable Saratoga co-founder 
will only stand trial in March next year for two of those murders. 
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Police in Fayetteville have three people in custody facing armed robbery and sexual assault charges after a pair of incidents. Police had been looking for two men who in a 2014 black Ford Mustang that was stolen during an armed robbery and then later used in a sexual assault early Wednesday morning. Police said that a female was in the parking lot of the Knights Inn around 2 a.m. when a man approached her, showed her a handgun and made her get into his vehicle. Police said the man then drove the victim to a vacant house and sexually assaulted her. 
RALEIGH -- The man accused of a violent crime spree in Raleigh yelled "I am the Antichrist" and The Empire State building is going up in flames," as he entered a Wake County courtroom Tuesday. Kendrick Keyanti Gregory's outbursts came as he appeared before a judge for his third court appearance following his extradition from New York last week.The 21-year-old Wake Forest man is accused of an August crime spree that included the robbery and killing of Mr. Pawn owner 
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Two suspects have been charged with murder in connection with a slain Indianapolis delivery driver. Peter Hutchings, 25, was charged with two counts of murder, attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, conspiracy to commit robbery, unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, and carrying a handgun without a license. Terri Williams, 17, was charged as an adult with one count murder, attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, and conspiracy to commit robbery. According to court documents, Hutchings and Williams placed an order with China King Tuesday night. When delivery driver 
DES MOINES, Iowa —Video showing a teen charged in a murder case at the scene when officers arrived was shown in court Tuesday morning. The teen's mother also took the witness stand for the defense on Tuesday morning. Prosecutors said Ngor Makuey, 19, broke into the home of 
she was filmed trying to strong-arm student photographers into leaving the public campus, even grabbing one videographer’s lens. “Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here?” Click says when student cameraman 
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