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Police identify (White) woman killed (by goateed Hispanic man) during robbery in Walmart parking lot
  COVINGTON, GA - Police are searching for a man accused of killing a woman during a robbery outside of a Newton County Walmart store. The woman, identified as Marsha Penn Johnson, 65, was loading groceries into her car at about 7:45 p.m. Monday when a man driving a Honda Accord pulled into a nearby parking space at the Walmart on Industrial Boulevard in Covington. Surveillance video shows the man watching Johnson as she puts away her grocery cart and heads back toward her vehicle. As Johnson tries to get into her vehicle, the walks up behind her and tries to grab her purse, the video shows. At first, Johnson doesn't let go of her purse. The suspect pulls her to the ground, snatches the purse and jumps in his car. “She ended up behind the car," said Capt. Craig Treadwell of the Covington Police Department. "He backed out, and when he pulled forward, she ended up back underneath the car. He couldn’t get the car all the way out, so he ended up being on top of the victim with the vehicle three or four times.” Johnson was in critical condition when police arrived. She later died. Witnesses described the suspect as a Hispanic man with a heavy build, a black goatee-style beard, wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes. A woman was in the passenger seat of his car, police said.
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HOUSTON – Two of the three teens who escaped from the Harris County Juvenile Detention Center Sunday have been captured. Alferis Coby and Deionthay Harper, both 16, were caught by the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force. "They wasn't doing their job," Harper said when asked how they escaped. He said it was a mistake and he won't do it again. Jahrell West, also 16, is still on the run and he's considered dangerous. Authorities were especially concerned about Coby. They say he has a lack of empathy, is extremely aggressive and is considered to be a high risk for psychopathic behavior. Coby was charged with capital murder for allegedly killing a man at a Midtown nightclub earlier this year. Meanwhile, the guard who was beaten by the 16-year-old ringleader Sunday said he remembers little about the attack – other than the pain. Coby beat 61-year-old Tom Keneaster unconscious and used the guard's keys to free the other two inmates. Keneaster said he's been dealing with aggressive kids since the Harris County juvenile detention facility opened about 10 years ago in downtown Houston. But nothing like what happened Sunday. "I had a tooth knocked out and a little bit of fracture in the face," Keneaster said. - (Black-on-white)
LAS VEGAS -- Family members are speaking out about the double murder that took their loved ones away forever. On Monday night, a gunman killed a (black) boyfriend and (white) girlfriend waiting to eat some tacos outside of Pepe’s Tacos on Charleston and Fremont. Now on Wednesday, police say the killer is still out there. 
WORCESTER -- A Leominster woman indicted in the murder of her boyfriend in June was ordered held without bail during her recent arraignment in Superior Court, according court documents. Stephanie L. Cruz, 28, pleaded not guilty to murdering Cedric Taylor, 37, in the third-floor apartment the couple shared at 156 Water St., on June 10. Superior Court Judge James R. Lemire ordered Cruz held without bail and continued the case until Dec. 2. Taylor was killed just hours after being released from jail on a charge of domestic assault and battery that involved Cruz. When Cruz failed to appear to testify in the assault case, Taylor was released from custody on June 10. During Cruz's arraignment, state Trooper Kevin Dwyer testified that Taylor died as a result of 21 stab wounds that included injuries to his "heart, lung, neck, torso and back, among others." Dwyer also testified that Cruz called 911 the morning after the stabbing, June 11, and told dispatchers Taylor was dead. "Cruz indicated that Mr. Taylor had 'lunged' at her and she stabbed him in self-defense," Dwyer said in the affidavit he presented to the court during Cruz's arraignment. 
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. - Police have arrested a woman they say beat a man to death inside his home in Cheektowaga. Debra Haynes-Thomas, 47, of Buffalo was taken into custody at a hotel in Monroe County. Police say she needed medical attention and was initially taken to Strong Memorial Hospital but has since been taken to the Cheektowaga Police Department. The Buffalo News reports Haynes-Thomas suffered self-inflicted wounds. Officers were called to a home on Princess Drive around 6 p.m. Saturday to check on the welfare of the resident and they found 56-year-old 
A district judge has set an execution date for an East Texas man who was sentenced to death for starting a house fire that killed three children in Madison County almost 15 years ago. Raphael Deon Holiday, 35, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 18 at the Huntsville "Walls" Unit for the murders of 
MINNEAPOLIS — A woman and child were raped and beaten after masked gunmen invaded their Minneapolis home. Police say Reggie Bishop, Roynell Taylor and Deondre Bishop broke into a Minneapolis home on Bryant Avenue North late at night on July 19. “They broke into this house, vandalized and stole things, but worse: They raped both the young woman, the daughter, and her mother,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said. Police say the three armed men tied the mother and the
CLEVELAND -- A 26-year-old Cleveland Heights man has been sentenced to life without possibility of parole for sexually abusing two children, according to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty. Travis Sylvester was convicted by a jury on Oct. 30 on one count of rape, three counts of gross sexual Imposition and two counts of kidnapping. The jury's verdict also specified that the victims were both under 10 years of age at the time of the attacks and that the kidnappings were sexually motivated. On Monday, after making an additional finding that the defendant is a Sexually Violent Predator, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Cassandra Collier-Williams sentenced Sylvester to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance for parole. That is the legally mandated sentence for a Sexually Violent Predator who attacks a child under 10. Sylvester sexually abused
An accomplished MTSU student recently elected to the highest governing panel of his fraternity has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated rape, impersonating a police officer and other felony charges, Metro police said Tuesday. Clinton Knox III, a senior accounting major from Memphis faces one count of rape, one count of aggravated rape, one count of aggravated robbery and two counts of impersonating a police officer in connection to the crimes that took place April 22-23. 
Authorities say they have captured a wanted convicted sex offender in Oakland. The U.S. Marshal's and the Regional Sex Offender Unit previously thought 34-year-old Antoine Mouton may have been in the Reno area. Mouton was convicted of sex trafficking of a child – and had a warrant out for his arrest. No other information was immediately available.
TRENTON, NJ - Authorities say a Burlington County man has been indicted by a state grand jury for allegedly stalking
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- A man is wanted for exposing himself to a person in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County police said. According to police, the suspect was seen outside the victim's first-floor apartment on October 9 at around 4:10 p.m. The victim told police the suspect asked them for their phone number, made sexual gestures and exposed himself. The victim was able to take a picture of the suspect before they fled the area, police said. The suspect is described as a 5-foot 10-inch tall black male in his late 20's weighing approximately 170 pounds with black hair and facial hair. When the photo was taken, the suspect was wearing a navy blue jacket with the words "Woodstock Student" written in yellow letters on the upper left side of the jacket. Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to contact police at 240-773-5770. A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for any information that leads to an arrest. 
GLOUCESTER Twp, NJ – Gloucester Township Police say they were alerted by a local resident of a threatening post from a man in Texas claiming he was going to “shoot up a mosque.” Authorities in Fort Bend, Texas say they received notice from Gloucester Township Police concerning terroristic threats made on social media. Authorities identified the alleged sender as Clayton Alexander Cansler, 26, of New Territory, Fort Bend County. Officials noted the suspect’s home is in close proximity to a mosque and quickly responded.
HOUSTON - A man was shot and killed at a northwest Harris County apartment complex after sheriff's officials said he lunged at a deputy while holding a butcher knife. The father of the man who was killed identified his son as Jeray Chatham, 30. Ray Chatham said his son, a former defense lineman for Oklahoma State University, was a "gentle giant" who "didn't deserve this." Sgt. C. Collier said the deputy fired a Taser at Chatham but it "was ineffective." Chatham jumped into the patio area of one apartment and stripped down to his underwear. Chatham lunged at him with the knife. Collier said the deputy then shot Chatham twice and he died at the complex. 
SUMMERDALE, Ala. — With a population of less than 1,000, the quiet south Alabama town of Summerdale is not accustomed to dealing with a lot of violent criminals. But unbeknownst to local police 
A man descended from a Hasidic “dynasty” is transitioning into a woman — enraging members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community she left behind. Srully Stein — who now goes by Abby — recently came out as a woman and said she’s finally living as her true self — something she said was impossible to do growing up in her restrictive household in Brooklyn. Stein’s roots trace back to Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer, believed to be the founder of the Hasidic Judaism. Her grandfather, Mordechai, was born in Fălticeni, Romania, and her father was born in Israel. Her ancestors are part of several Hasidic sects, her grandfather’s mother was part of the Twersky family, a “very famous” old dynasty from the Ukraine, she said.
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- Receiving a massage from a licensed massage therapist is supposed to be a relaxing experience. But a woman now claims a Henrico massage therapist committed a crime and violated her during a recent massage session. Daeshawn Bullard, 24, was arrested and charged with forcible object sexual penetration after the woman told police what happened to her at Massage Envy in Willow Lawn last month.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Fayetteville police are searching for 22-year-old Diondre Kesean Jones, who they say raped and kidnapped a woman on Monday afternoon. Authorities said the victim met Jones in the parking lot of 24 Hour Discount Tobacco on Reilly Road. The victim willingly went with Jones to a residence in the 1600 block of Shively Court. Once there, investigators said Jones took out a handgun and sexually assaulted the victim. Jones reportedly made the victim get back in the car and told her to drive. While driving, the victim saw some people outside of the Freddy's Food Mart at 1528 Bingham Drive and drove into the parking lot. Police said she jumped from the car and ran inside the business. Authorities said Jones drove away with the victim's vehicle, which was found abandoned a short time later.
MEMPHIS, TN - Police arrested a man accused of attacking women he met on social media. According to police, officers received several reports of assaults throughout the Memphis area. They believed the attacks were related because they primarily happened after the victims met a man they first encountered on social media. According to a police report, a woman told police she talked to a man on Instagram with the username 'PRINCESHUN' for about three weeks. November 11, he asked to meet her in person, to which she agreed and gave him her address. When the man arrived, she walked out to his car and he told her he was Shun's cousin. After driving down Interstate-40, the victim said he took the Whitten Road exit and pulled over. He took out a gun and told her to reset her phone and give him everything she had with her. The victim told police she gave him her wallet, then jumped out of the car and got help from other drivers. Police learned that several similar attacks occurred in the same area. According to investigators, 22-year-old Terry Coley was identified as the man responsible for these crimes. 
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A woman was sexually assaulted at gunpoint early Tuesday morning near Indiana University, police say. Indiana University police say the assault happened around 3:30 a.m., at the Brownstone Terrace Apartments. The suspect is a black man in his early 20s with facial hair. He was wearing dark clothing and a hat and is armed with a handgun. Police say he ran after the assault. 
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Prosecutors say 19-year-old 
LOS ANGELES -- A man who killed and dismembered his boyfriend, leaving the head near the Hollywood sign, has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. 40-year-old 
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 
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. 
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 
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. 
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