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(Black) Jennings man gets life sentence in fatal shooting (of White man) at St. Charles apartment
  ST. CHARLES, MO. • A 22-year-old Jennings man received a life sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a man last February at a St. Charles apartment complex. Wardell Davison Jr., of the 5300 block of Hamilton Avenue, also pleaded guilty to armed criminal action and robbery charges on Monday in connection with the death of Charles S. Dishman, 38, of St. Peters, authorities said. St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar said Circuit Judge Dan Pelikan sentenced Davison to 30 years each on those counts. The three sentences will run concurrently. Davison was among five men charged in the incident in the 200 block of Ameristar Boulevard. Melech Yachin Porter, 18, of the 8700 block of Kendale Drive in Bel-Ridge, pleaded guilty previously to the same charges and will be sentenced Dec. 14. A jury trial is set for Travon Johnson, 22, of the 3800 block of Manola Avenue in Pine Lawn, also for second-degree murder, robbery and armed criminal action. The two others - Lamont D. Ware, 22, of the 3600 block of North 20th Street in St. Louis and Dennis Lamont Baker, 24, of the 4300 block of Melba Avenue in Northwoods - pleaded guilty to robbery last month and will be sentenced Jan. 4. Police said the five went to the Crestview Apartments looking for money and drugs but that Dishman, the shooting victim, wasn't a target. Davison, Baker, Porter and Ware went to a second-floor apartment while Johnson stayed in their car. When a woman answered the door, Davison put a gun to her head and Porter told others in the apartment to empty their pockets. During the robbery, Dishman stood up and Davison shot him, police said. - (Black-on-white) |
About 30 minutes before John Spears walked into an office at Houston Marine in Kenner Friday afternoon (Dec. 4) and fatally shot supervisor Anthony Tardo, he revealed his intentions to a fellow instructor who thought Spears was just joking, authorities said. The unnamed employee was leaving for the day and came across Spears outside the facility, located in the 2500 block of Williams Boulevard. "You're gonna miss all the fun," police said Spears told the employee. "I'm gonna go back in there and shoot everyone." The employee didn't think Spears was serious, according to Lt. Brian McGregor, spokesman for the Kenner Police Department. His tone didn't imply an imminent threat. But Kenner police say Spears, 51, did indeed go back inside Houston Marine, a maritime school, armed with a .40-caliber pistol. He walked into facility manager Tardo's office and shot the Mandeville husband and father of three once in the chest, investigators said. Tardo, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene. No one else was injured. Just after the shooting, police say, Spears walked outside, put the pistol on the roof of his car and waited for police to arrive. - (Black-on-white)
The Brooklyn art curator fatally struck by an SUV Sunday evening was out holiday shopping with her chocolatier boyfriend when the unlicensed driver jumped the curb and mowed her down, sources said on Monday. “They were always holding hands and she seemed happy with him,” a doorman at boyfreind 
TAMPA -It took the jury four hours to return a guilty verdict in the Larry Donell Brown murder trial. Prosecutors say in November of 2012, Brown rode his bike over to the apartment complex where 
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have arrested a man and woman in Monday’s shooting and kidnapping at a home in Charlotte. The shooting victim, whose name has not been released, was taken to Carolinas Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, police said. A woman inside the home is believed to have been kidnapped after the shooting, but police said she was found unharmed Tuesday morning. The shooting happened about 2:45 p.m. Monday. Police found one of the suspects, Marsha Nicole Cook, 32, of Concord late Monday. She faces multiple charges: assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, felony breaking and entering and first-degree kidnapping. Early Tuesday, police found the second suspect, Larry Manns, 27, of Charlotte, at a hotel and took him in for questioning. He faces the same charges as Cook. Police said the victims and suspects knew each other, but they haven’t released a motive. 
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. -- Police are looking for a man they say raped a woman on Nov. 7. According to police, a unknown man offered a woman a ride who he saw walking down a road at night. She accepted but was then allegedly taken to an area off Robert E. Lee Parkway and raped inside the vehicle. The man was driving a dark colored Chevy Malibu, approximately a 2006 model, with yellow tape on the left rear brake light. He is described as a black man, 6'0 to 6'3 in height and about 260 lbs. He's between 30 to 40 years of age.
Round Rock Police have arrested 68-year-old Henry Lee McGee of Round Rock for sexual abuse of a child. According to police, the incident was initially reported to the Austin Police Department by the victim's parents. APD referred the family to Round Rock Police as that is where the abuse occurred. An investigation by RRPD revealed McGee had committed sexual acts with the victim since June of 2014. According to an affidavit, the victim told her friends at a church meeting in October of 2015 that she had been in a sexual relationship with McGee for the past year. Police say McGee had been in a sexual relationship with the girl since she was 13. McGee was her church pastor at First Baptist Church in East Austin.
Investigators say the victim first had sex with McGee in a storage facility somewhere in Georgetown. She also said they had sex in McGee's home while his wife was away as well as at a hotel in Round Rock.
NASHVILLE, TN - A convicted sex offender has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting 
DERWOOD, Md. -- A masseur was arrested after he sexually assaulted two women customers during a massages in July and November of this year. According to authorities, Gavin Anthony Otto, 42, a masseur at Red Door Spa in the Kentlands area of Gaithersburg, Md., sexually assaulted a 32-year old woman during a July 7 massage and also inappropriately touched a 37-year old woman during a November 17 massage. Police arrested Otto on December 2 at his home on the 7200 block of Blanchard Drive in Derwood, Md. and charged him with one count of second-degree sex offense and one count of fourth-degree sex offense. Investigators also believe Otto may have sexually assaulted additional victims during his time at the spa and are asking for anyone else who believes they were assaulted by Otto to come forth.
HOUSTON -- Sheriff's deputies in Liberty County are on alert after a woman was lured and then sexually assaulted. Authorities say the sexual assault happened along County Road 1413 in an area near an oil tank depot. The 30-year-old woman escaped her attacker after having car trouble near this gas station. 
A Myrtle Beach man was arrested in connection with exposing himself after two women complained about an incident to police, authorities said. Justin David Wilson, 28, was arrested at 12:45 p.m. Monday on the 1300th block of Stalvey Avenue, and he is charged with obscene/ exposure of private parts in a lewd and lascivious manner, according to jail records. Myrtle Beach police were called Friday and a 41-year-old woman told police Wilson exposed himself to her sister on Nov. 28 while at her home on Stalvey Avenue, and she also told police Wilson lives in her neighborhood and is constantly walking around exposing himself, police said. The woman said she was angry because nothing has been done about it, and she doesn’t allow her children to play outside anymore. The woman’s sister came to visit her on Nov. 28 and said her sister stated, “Oh my God, he pulled it out,” when she looked out of a window and allegedly saw Wilson expose himself while standing at the end of the driveway, according to the police report. 
ST. LOUIS • A man who helped launch a cyberattack that disabled a St. Louis County police union website last year was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday. Justin E. Payne, 33, disabled the St. Louis County Police Association website a year ago by overwhelming it with traffic. Payne used three “Rebel but Gangster” or RbG Black Rebels-associated Twitter accounts that he controlled to launch the attack. Payne also threatened law enforcement in a Jan. 26 tweet that read, in part: “Next time I get pulled over by the police I’m shooting first,” his plea says. FBI agents traced the attack to Payne. When they arrested him at his workplace, the Veterans Affairs Records Management Center, they found a gun, a very small amount of marijuana and a Molotov cocktail in his car, records show. Payne is no longer employed there.
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Brian Keith Terrell’s requet for clemency, the decision come a little more than two hours after prosecutors met with the panel to argue that his death sentence should be carried out Tuesday evening as scheduled. Terrell is scheduled to be put to death at 7 p.m. for the murder of 
All charges against Bunny Friend Park shooting suspect 
A female passenger was busted near the Holland Tunnel for carrying a loaded gun in her purse — and allegedly told cops she needed the piece for protection when she plays cards in Harlem. “I took the gun to a card game in Harlem, because I don’t feel safe,” she allegedly said. Stephanie Murphey, 31, of Jamaica, Queens, was busted at 10 a.m. Sunday after a male friend was pulled over near the Holland Tunnel, in Jersey City, for a license plate infraction. Port Authority Police Officer John Basile smelled marijuana and a search turned up an illegal .25- caliber Raven semi-automatic pistol with hollow-point bullets, a source said.
Authorities identified one of the suspects as Ann Brie Kelly, 24, of Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood. Police said they believe she was the driver of the getaway vehicle and that an arrest warrant for her has been issued. 
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter wants to ban Donald Trump from the city after the Republican presidential candidate called for a national ban on Muslims entering the U.S, and he sounded off during a press conference.
MARSHFIELD, Mo. - A former junior high teacher received a seven-year prison sentence but likely will serve only 120 days for having sexual relations with a student and then trying to obstruct the investigation. A judge on Monday ordered Johnna Feazell to complete a Missouri Department of Corrections sex offender assessment and treatment program, and then will decide whether to place her on probation. Feazell was charged in October 2014 with statutory sodomy and attempted enticement of a child. A detective says 
. – Police in Kentucky arrested an Indianapolis man accused of stabbing a 6-year-old boy to death during a Monday morning home burglary. Authorities in Versailles, Ky., were called to a home on Douglas Avenue around 4 a.m. A homeowner contacted 911 dispatchers to report an armed intruder inside the home. 
GARDEN CITY, MI – An arrest and arraignment have taken place for the hit and run killing of a 52-year-old Garden City man. Devin Andre Brooks, 39-years-old, of Westland, was arraigned on Saturday, December 5th, 2015, on the charge of failing to stop and identify at the scene of an accident resulting in death. Brooks was taken into custody around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015, while driving on Interstate 96 in connection with the hit and run accident that occurred on Monday night at about 8:45 p.m. on Ford Road. 
GARDEN CITY, Mich. - Investigators in Garden City are asking for your help to find at least three drivers who were either involved in a deadly hit-and-run, or saw what happened. George Punga, 52, was hit as he crossed Ford Road, east of Middlebelt Road, around 8:45 p.m. Monday. 
A pregnant woman and her two year old daughter were shot and killed Sunday. Three other women are still fighting for their lives following the shooting. Family and friends are feeling heartbreak and anger as more and more details on this double murder and triple shooting come out. Officers called to the Bluffs at Cherry Hills Apartments near North 108th Street and Military Road just after 11 p.m. Sunday found 22-year-old 
A doctor and his nurse wife who kept a man in forced servitude for almost a quarter of a century after illegally bringing him to Britain have both been jailed for six years. Former NHS obstetrician 
An American fugitive, who officials say is suspected of recruiting impressionable young men for terrorist groups including ISIS and was linked to at least one domestic terror attack in the U.S., has turned himself in to authorities, the State Department announced today. 
WORCESTER - The man accused of possessing five skeletons stolen from a Hope Cemetery mausoleum told Hartford Police detectives he paid another man to get human remains for him, statements on file in a Worcester court said. 
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A man who was driving drunk when he backed over a woman this past August, killing her, is going to prison. Rickey Mellerson, 54, was sentenced Friday to three to nine years in prison. He pleaded guilty to first degree vehicular manslaughter in October. Mellerson was intoxicated with a BAC of .20 percent on August 23 when he drove his vehicle in reverse through a parking lot and into an adjacent community garden, striking 26-year-old 
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. - Two people remain hospitalized with serious burns after police say their co-worker doused them with gasoline and lit them on fire. The gruesome crime happened in White Marsh. The suspect is under arrest but the investigation continues. Burned asphalt and charred grass mark the spot where police say Christopher Harrison Jr. set two men on fire. Police were called to Route 40 in White Marsh just before 5 o’clock Friday evening. They found the victims running frantically down the road, calling out for help. Investigators say four men left work at a local business in two different cars. When one car broke down, the co-workers went to the White Marsh truck stop for fuel. As they were walking back, they started arguing and fighting. Burned asphalt and charred grass mark the spot where police say Christopher Harrison Jr. set two men on fire. Police were called to Route 40 in White Marsh just before 5 o’clock Friday evening. They found the victims running frantically down the road, calling out for help. Investigators say four men left work at a local business in two different cars. When one car broke down, the co-workers went to the White Marsh truck stop for fuel. As they were walking back, they started arguing and fighting. 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A man is charged with criminal homicide after allegedly stabbing his boyfriend in north Nashville. Metro police were called to their home in the 1700 block of 10th Avenue North at around 2 p.m. Friday. 
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A 55-year-old St. Paul man is charged with kidnapping and first-degree criminal sexual conduct for allegedly holding another man captive for four days in his basement and repeatedly sexually assaulted him. Wilbert Glover grabbed the victim off the street in Minneapolis and took him to his home, where he chained him to a bar of concrete in the basement, according to the complaint. Police spokesman Steve Linders says squads were called to the home on the 1300 block of Marion around 8 p.m. Tuesday on reports of a kidnapping. When they arrived officers were met by two Good Samaritans who told them they answered a knock on the door and found a man who had one hand and both ankles in handcuffs. The handcuffs on the hand and ankles were attached with a chain. 
MEMPHIS, TN - A teen girl stopped her own abduction and landed her accused abductor in jail. The teen told police she was walking home from work when a red pickup truck pulled up next to her and the driver offered her a ride home. Instead of taking her home, the man, identified as 29-year-old Jeremy Woodard, took her in the opposite direction of her home. The teen told police she constantly asked Woodard where he was taking her, but he never responded. She said she noticed the door handle was missing, preventing her from jumping out of the truck. The teen said Woodard began touching her. She distracted him and he got out the truck. He then went to the passenger’s side of the truck and opened the door. The victim said she was able to get away, but he chased her down, slung her back in the car and threatened to kill her. The teen said she noticed an officer passing by. She then grabbed the steering wheel, swerving the truck in front of the officer’s car to get his attention.
A convicted Texas sex offender has been indicted on charges that he kidnapped and raped a woman Oct. 24 in eastern New Orleans while free on bond. Walter "Winkie" Bell, 42, was named in a three-count indictment handed up Thursday (Dec. 3) by the Orleans Parish grand jury. Bell, also known by the nickname "Walt Dog," is charged with second-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping of an unidentified woman. A New Orleans police log of major offenses listed one rape Oct. 24. Neither that report nor the indictment disclosed the age of the alleged victim. Bell had three previous convictions, including one for indecency with a child in Harris County, Texas, which encompasses Houston.
SAGINAW, MI — A trial resumes at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7, for a man accused of 16 felonies related to sexual assaults of two women and an assault involving a third woman. 
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - A man was taken into custody on rape charges while attending a MTSU basketball game. Authorities said Cornelius McEwen raped a woman in a Tullahoma home in October. Police said the former Motlow College basketball player made unwanted advances toward the woman, and when she went to sleep on the couch, authorities said he raped her. McEwen was spotted at the basketball game in Murfreesboro and taken into custody by police. He will be in court later this month. 
A vile sex beast has been caged after he attacked a woman in her own home. Twisted traffic warden Clifford Windith forced his terrified victim onto a bed and growled at her: "Are you going to shut up or am I going to have to hit you?". The monster, who also worked as a nightclub bouncer, forced his arm around the sobbing woman's neck and undressed her. Incredibly, the woman was able to escape after she pretended to need to the toilet but then fled through her front door. The terrified 27-year-old ran barefoot to a nearby taxi company and was shaking and crying as she told them what had happened. Windith, who also worked as a nightclub bouncer, had offered to drive the woman home after meeting her in a Bristol pub in May last year. 
MT. HEALTHY, Ohio —An arrest was made in a Mount Healthy rape and beating. Police said Ernest Eason forced a woman to have sex with him in September, then beat her in the face and head. The 25-year-old is charged with rape and felonious assault. Eason is being held on a $1 million bond.
Harrisburg police are looking for a woman accused of domestic assault and attacking a first responder with a knife last night. Juanee D. Crawford is wanted for criminal attempted homicide after the incident at around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Hall Manor complex, according to a Harrisburg police news release. First responders arrived at an apartment in the complex and were attempting to treat a 68-year-old man who had been assaulted. Crawford confronted the paramedics with a knife in her hand and told first responders, "I'm going to kill you," police said. She then lunged at one of the paramedics stabbing him in the chest and slashing at him near the waist, according to the news release.
Cottonwood Police have arrested four people in connection with the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old man from Goodyear. Police responded to a home on 2nd Street in Cottonwood and found several people leaving the scene in a red SUV. They detained the vehicle, and inside a nearby home they found a man deceased. The victim was identified as a 27-year-old man from Goodyear. Officers interviewed the homeowner, who was bleeding from the head. He told police he and his friend were working on a vehicle when three men ran towards them. When the two ran into the home, the three people forced their way inside and a fight broke out, the man told police. Shots were fired during the struggle, and the man and his friend ran out of the home, police say, when a red SUV, driven by a woman, tried to run them both over. The gunshot wound victim was taken to the hospital for medical attention and later passed away, police say. Police have arrested four suspects in connection with the crime. 28-year-old Calvin Clark and 21-year-old Jermaine D. Shields are being charged with aggravated assault, burglary, robbery and murder. 20-year-old Hope Olszewski is being charged with facilitation of burglary and aggravated assault, and 22-year-old Karrie Ann Funkhouser is chraged with aggravated assault and endangerment.
Eddie Ricky Nealy, whom a prosecutor called one of the most dangerous men in Fresno County’s history, was sentenced Friday to California’s death row for the 1985 rape and killing of Fresno teen 
GURDON, Ark. - Friday (12/4) was the first time 
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Police are looking for two men suspected in a Thanksgiving Day homicide as well as a rash of robberies in the area of Port Richmond. Authorities have released surveillance video of the suspects in the hopes that the public can help identify them. Police say 21-year-old
DAVENPORT, Iowa Police say DNA evidence led to a murder charge against a Davenport man. On July 15 
EVERETT, Wash. - Everett police say they've arrested a 40-year-old man for the rape and murder of a resident at a halfway house. Detectives say Kenny J. Tate, the manager of the home, admitted to killing 
NORRISTOWN, Pa. – It’s effectively a life sentence for the man convicted of robbing the Whitpain Tavern in Blue Bell at gunpoint, and then forcing Montgomery County Community College to shut down during his manhunt two years ago. Montgomery County Judge Gary Silow told 43-year-old Tyrice Griffin “you’re a bad dude” as he sentenced him to 60-120 years in state prison for his role in three gunpoint robberies — one of them the Whitpain Tavern in November, 2013. Griffin was convicted of Third Degree Murder and a previous robbery in the 90s. His accomplice in the robberies, Jose (aka 'Juan') Garcia, was previously sentenced to 20-40 years in prison. 
INDIAN HILL, Ohio -- Embattled Cincinnati attorney 
CHARLOTTE, NC - A teenager is now in jail after police say he shot and killed a woman in east Charlotte late Wednesday night near an elementary school. According to police, the shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. along the 4800-block of Shamrock Drive, this is near the Lawrence Orr Elementary school. Initial reports indicate the shooting happened at a basketball court, but police have not confirmed that information. Officers say when they arrived, they found the body of 35-year-old 
WARRENTON, Mo. - An Audrain County man is found guilty of killing his wife last May. Ricky Harding, Jr. was convicted of second degree murder and found guilty of other charges. 12 jurors decided Harding's fate. The trial continued Friday in Warrenton with the defense calling witnesses followed by closing arguments from both sides. Harding had a short outburst in court while the prosecuting attorney described his daughter's testimony during the trial. 
RICHMOND, Va. — A Glen Allen man was arrested in connection with a November 16 homicide that left a woman dead in the woods. Jeffrey L. Michaux Jr., 24, of the 11000 block of Cobbs Road in Glen Allen, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to a Richmond Police spokesperson. A police officer saw Michaux, who was wanted in connection with the homicide, at a business in Hanover County and took him into custody, police said. Several days after the death of 33-year-old 
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Police have made an arrest for a fatal stabbing that happened in Carrick on Saturday. With assistance from the Monessen Police, Pittsburgh Police arrested 25-year-old Dejuan Onza Windom in relation to the fatal stabbing of 28-year-old 
Calumet City police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man wanted in connection with a September homicide there. Interim Police Chief Tom DiFiori released a sketch of the suspect Wednesday morning. Calumet City police responded on Sept. 16 to the 300 block of Pulaski Road for a report of a woman shot multiple times. The woman was later identified as 
A Gadsden man charged with capital murder in the September 2011 shooting death of a Papa John’s assistant manager pleaded guilty Tuesday, according to online court records. Brandon Vontez Hawkins, 24, was sentenced to 35 years for shooting 
SUFFOLK, Va. – More than a year after the murder of a Suffolk furniture store owner, a jury found the second of three suspects guilty Wednesday. Police found 
YORK COUNTY, Pa. – The Northern York County Regional Police Department says they are seeking the public’s help in locating a suspect who shot at a police officer. Authorities released dash cam video of what they say is the suspect shooting at 
WALTERBORO, SC - Officials with the Walterboro Police Department say an arrest has been made in a case that has been cold for 37 years. According to a news release, James Willie Butterfield has been charged with murder, first degree criminal sexual conduct and first degree burglary. On May 28, 1978, officers with the Walterboro Police Department were approached by two individuals who said they went home to find their roommate lying on the floor, covered in blood. Officers responded to the scene on South Lemacks Street to find the body of 
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