Boy, 13, executed teen girl because he feared he got her pregnant
A 13-year-old boy murdered a teen girl — because he mistakenly believed she was pregnant with his child, according to reports.
The teen, now 14, admitted in juvenile court to murdering 14-year-old Sylvia McGee, who was shot in the head in March just a block from her home in Canton, Ohio, according to People.
The killer, who was not identified because of his age, believed the girl was pregnant with his child, prosecutors say — even though the autopsy showed she was not.
“That is what I believe got this whole thing started,” Assistant Prosecutor Michelle Cordova said, noting McGee was not the boy’s girlfriend, the Canton Repository reported.
“There was no evidence of any other reason for this,” she said, without giving details of why he believed the girl was pregnant, the outlet reported.
Stark County Prosecutor John Ferrero said the evidence all suggested the girl was shot execution-style.
The killer accepted a plea agreement that brought an aggravated murder charge down to murder, the reports say.
As part of the plea, he will remain in a youth prison until he is 21.
If Stark County Family Court Judge Rosemarie Hall deems him a serious youthful offender, he could also face an additional adult prison term of 18 years to life after leaving juvenile detention.
Sentencing is in January.
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8-year-old girl gets photo shoot after being denied school picture for her hair extensions
The 8-year-old Michigan girl who was not allowed to get her school picture taken because of her red hair extensions got a second chance at a special photo shoot.
And this time, it was all on her terms.
When Chicago photographer Jermaine Horton was tagged in a Facebook post featuring young Marian Scott’s story, he wasted no time getting in touch with her parents to arrange a shoot tailor-made for her.
“This is an 8-year-old girl who was singled out by her school,” Horton said to CNN. “I’m a father and I’m tired of seeing injustices like this happen. I wanted to go out there and help build this girl’s confidence.”
Earlier this month, Horton drove 4 1/2 hours to Michigan just to make it happen. His one request? Marian should wear her red, braided extensions for the shoot.
“I wanted her to be herself and to let her know that it’s OK to be herself,” said Horton.
And Marian did just that.
The resulting photos show Marian in her extensions and a very colorful wardrobe provided by Pamela Blackman, CEO of Joy Management, and Mieka Joi, CEO of clothing brand Rich Girl Candy, for free.
“It was fun,” said Marian to CNN affiliate WILX. “You got to pose and to be yourself.”
Marian’s story made headlines when she was blocked from getting her school picture taken because of her hairstyle in October.
“She called us in tears,” Marian’s father, Doug Scott, told CNN. “She wore the extensions to school before and they never told us anything, so it was surprising to us that this was the first time we were hearing it was a violation of the school’s dress code.”
Ben Kriesch, principal of Paragon Charter Academy, where Marian went to school, told WILX that Marian’s red extensions violated school policy.
Paragon Charter Academy’s handbook says students’ hair color must be “of natural tones” to get their picture taken, the station reported.
The school did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
As a result of the incident, Marian’s parents pulled her out of Paragon Charter School three weeks ago.
“The school didn’t apologize or have any intention of changing their policy,” Scott told CNN. “They made my daughter feel inadequate and every child should feel adequate at school.”
In light of everything that has happened, Scott says a negative situation turned into a positive one.
“It’s made me see that there are people out there who care, like Jermaine. My daughter was very disappointed before but she’s much happier now.”
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Mother took mentally disabled daughter from nursing home then stabbed her to death
ST. LOUIS — An elderly woman who feared she was developing dementia removed her mentally disabled adult daughter from a nursing home, then fatally stabbed her in a suburban St. Louis hotel before attempting to kill herself, police and relatives say.
Marjorie Theleman, 78, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of her 51-year-old daughter, Sharon Theleman, after police were summoned to a hotel in Fenton, Missouri, because the pair had not checked out.
Sharon Theleman was pronounced dead at the scene. Her mother, who attempted to suffocate herself with a plastic bag, remained hospitalized Wednesday, according to a police news release. She left a typed note explaining her actions and a handwritten note telling housekeeping to call police, a police detective wrote in the probable cause statement.
Police said she was expected to survive. But one of her two sons, Scott Theleman, who lives in the Dallas area, said he has been told his mother is in a coma and has a “50-50 chance of surviving.” He said his mother lived in a retirement community and wanted to have his sister moved there from a group home because his sister’s mobility was declining.
“She was concerned about Alzheimer’s,” he said of his mother. “Her mother had it. She had spent many years trying to avoid it but felt she was heading that way.”
Court records show that Marjorie Theleman was appointed in 1989 as a guardian for her then-21-year-old daughter, who was described as an “incapacitated person.” A report filed in 2014 in the guardianship case described Sharon Theleman as mentally disabled and visually impaired. The report also said she needed a walker or wheelchair and “cannot take care of herself.” Thomas Zotos, the attorney for Marjorie Theleman in the guardianship case, said he had no recent contact with the mother or daughter and couldn’t comment. No attorney is listed for Marjorie Theleman in online court records in the criminal case. Her bond was set at $250,000.
Sharon Theleman had been in the care of St. Louis Arc, a nonprofit that provides services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
“We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of a long-time member of the St. Louis Arc family, “the group’s president and CEO, Mark Keeley, said in a written statement. “Sharon Theleman has been a valued part of the Arc community dating back to the early 1990s. The circumstances surrounding yesterday’s incident involve a domestic situation concerning a mother who has guardianship of her daughter. As such, the St. Louis Arc can offer no insight or comment other than to convey our deepest sympathy to Sharon’s family.”
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Michelle Obama nominated for a Grammy
Michelle Obama could soon add another award to her mantel: a Grammy.
The former first lady on Wednesday was nominated for the best spoken word album award for her work on the audiobook of her memoir “Becoming.”
She will compete against John Waters (“Mr. Know-It-All”), Eric Alexandrakis (“I.V. Catatonia: 20 Years As A Two-Time Cancer Survivor”), Sekou Andrews & The String Theory, and Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys (‘Beastie Boys Book”) for the award.
If she won, this would be Obama’s first Grammy but her household’s third.
Former President Barack Obama has two Grammys in the same category. He won in 2006 and 2008 for the audiobook recordings of his books “Dreams of My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope.”
“Becoming” was released in November 2018 and, as of March, sold more than 10 million copies.
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10-year-old boy dies days after being shot at NJ football game
PLEASANTVILLE, NJ — The 10-year-old boy shot at a New Jersey football game on Friday evening has died, officials said.
He was identified as Micah Tennant.
“This horrible news should shake us all. 10-year-old Micah—or “Dew” as most called him—has died,” Sen. Bob Menendez tweeted. “He was shot randomly at a high school football game. A football game for god’s sake. My heart is breaking for this little boy’s family.”
Alvin Wyatt, 21, was charged with murder in connection with Tennant’s death. He was captured on the football field moments after the shooting by a Pleasantville officer who was part of the game’s security detail.
Five other men were charged after the shooting sent players and the packed crowd fleeing in panic.
Ibn Abdullah, 27, was the target of the shooting and was charged because a gun was found on him when emergency responders went to his aid, authorities said.
Three other men face weapons charges, and a fourth faces weapons and eluding charges.
The shooting happened in the stands of a Friday night playoff game between the Camden Panthers and the Pleasantville Greyhounds. Authorities said it did not appear that any of the men charged had any connection to the game.
A 15-year-old boy was treated for a graze wound.
When the shots rang out, panicked spectators and some of the players knocked down a fence in their haste to escape the field. Some children were separated from their parents, and other parents held children tight to keep them from being run over by those fleeing, according to Jonathan Diego, who was at the game in Pleasantville, right outside Atlantic City.
“It was mayhem, literally people coming in waves running away,” said Diego, who helped coach a Pleasantville youth football team involved in a game in which three people were shot and wounded in 2005. All survived. That same team was practicing in 2015 when a spectator was shot but survived.
Diego said his friend, a retired paramedic, gave first aid to the young boy who was shot.
At least six gunshots are audible in a video from Jersey Sports Zone, which also shows players stop mid-play, look at the stands and then turn and run.
A GoFundMe was launched for the 10-year-old boy.
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Texas couple sentenced to prison for disposing their 2-year-old in tub of acid
A Texas couple was sentenced to more than a decade in jail Wednesday for disposing the remains of their drowned 2-year-old in a vat of acid, a report said.
Monica Dominguez, 38, received 20 years for endangering a child and abuse of a corpse for the February crime, the Laredo Morning Times reported.
She’ll also serve a 10-year sentence for violating her parole, according to the report.
Gerardo Zavala-Loredo, 33 — her husband and the father of the 2-year-old — pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence of a human corpse and was sentenced to 14 years, the Morning Times reported.
After their arrest, Dominguez told police that two of her kids were bathing and that one of them, Rebecka Zavala, drowned.
The kids were not being supervised while they were bathing, she told investigators.
Dominguez said she called her husband to help get rid of their daughter’s body, Webb County District Attorney Isidro “Chilo” Alaniz said at the time of the crime.
Police responded to a call from a concerned neighbor and searched the couple’s apartment and found Rebecka’s remains inside a five-gallon, acid-filled container in a bedroom closet, the Morning Times reported.
Child Protective Services took custody of four children, ages 1 to 11, who lived at the apartment.
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16-year-old girl had ‘detailed plan to commit murder’ at predominantly black church
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A 16-year-old girl was arrested over her “detailed plan to commit murder” at a predominately black church in Georgia, police said Tuesday.
The teenager, who is white, was charged with criminal attempt to commit murder regarding the alleged plot at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, according to a statement from the Gainesville Police Department.
Police did not reveal details of the plan, but said the church had been “targeted by the juvenile based on the racial demographic of the church members.”
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School administrators were the ones first notified of the alleged attack after other students found the teenager’s notebook that laid out the plot, prompting them to contact school counselors at Gainesville High School, according to police.
The school conducted a preliminary investigation and were able to verify the threat, police said. The investigation was then turned over to Gainesville police.
Dr. Jeremy Williams, superintendent of Gainesville City School System, said he was “stunned” over the arrest.
“A single act by a student does not represent the views and beliefs of Gainesville City School System. As a school system that celebrates our diversity, we are beyond stunned with the recent development,” Williams said in a statement to ABC News. “However, we are extremely proud of our students notifying school administration of a possible off-campus threat.”
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The church was notified and police said the threat was under control. The church did not immediately respond to ABC News for comment.
Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish applauded the students and school administration for helping stop “a potentially horrific incident.”
The teenager was transported to the Regional Youth Detention Center.
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Surgeons cut pounds of petroleum jelly out of ‘Popeye’ bodybuilder’s biceps
He is who he is — until he isn’t.
A Russian bodybuilder dubbed “Popeye” for his disproportionately large biceps nearly died as a result of the poisonous petroleum jelly injections in his arms.
Kirill Tereshin, 23, is recovering from surgery to remove synthol oil and “dead” muscle tissue from his arms. The substance in the bodybuilder’s enormous, 24-inch guns caused pain, fever and illness.
The social media personality with 442,000 followers on Instagram had a total of about three pounds removed at the behest of his doctors, who said his gargantuan limbs may eventually cause death or require amputation.
A Russian plastic surgery activist, 32-year-old Alana Mamaeva, helped raise the money for Tereshin’s surgery, according to East2West news.
Surgeon Dmitry Melnikov of Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, who performed Tereshin’s first operation, said he still had about 75 percent more of the Vaseline-like implant to extract, which should take at least three more surgeries.
Petroleum jelly “saturates the muscles,” said the surgeon, so the lump taken from Tereshin’s arm was actually a mass of “scar tissue with fragments of muscles.” Melnikov estimated that Tereshin had injected over 100 ounces (about three liters) into each arm.
“It saturated the muscle tissues, blocked blood flow,” said Melnikov. “As a result, the tissue dies and gets replaced with a scar which is as tough as a tree.” The doctor added that synthol oil could have wreaked havoc all over, his “kidneys in particular,” but that the patient was “lucky” to have spared the rest of his body.
Melnikov said that body modifications such as Tereshin’s are not uncommon. “We have seen petroleum jelly injected into breasts, buttocks and other parts of the female body,” he said. “We are warning that it is extremely dangerous.”
Last month, the wannabe Sailor Man fought and lost spectacularly in an MMA-style match with Russian blogger Oleg Mongol, who is two decades Tereshin’s senior, despite having trained with 18-year-old Tamaev Asxab, the so-called “Russian Hulk”.
This summer, the former Russian soldier revealed that he’d originally intended to use the risky substance on more than just his arms.
“In the beginning, I wanted to inject synthol oil into other parts of my body, but then the problems started and I stopped using it,” said Tereshin.
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Man drives girlfriend across US, kills her, then impersonates her on social media
PENNSYLVANIA — A man admitted to taking his girlfriend from Pennsylvania to Nevada under the guise of a vacation and then killing her, according to an Allegheny County criminal complaint filed Friday. Police say he then impersonated her through text and social media for roughly two months.
John Chapman, 39, faces charges of kidnapping, obstructing administration of law and criminal use of a communication facility in Pennsylvania, according to the complaint.
Whether Chapman will be charged with murder is up to Nevada, as Pennsylvania lacks jurisdiction, said Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, Police Chief Timothy O’Connor.
Chapman is being held at Allegheny County Jail in Pennsylvania and was denied bail. A preliminary hearing is set for November 21.
CNN has not been able to identify an attorney for Chapman and calls to his family were unanswered Monday.
Chapman told his girlfriend the trip was a vacation
Chapman told police the incident began in September, according to the complaint. He convinced his girlfriend Jamie Feden, 33, to drive with him from Pennsylvania to Las Vegas under the guise of a vacation and the potential to move there together, the complaint said. They arrived in Vegas around September 23.
Feden has VATER syndrome, according to police. This refers to several birth defects that often occur in conjunction with one another and impact the vertebrae and other parts of the body, according to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. The criminal complaint says the condition limited Feden’s mental capacity.
On September 25, Chapman convinced Feden to drive into the desert to participate in a “bondage themed photo shoot,” the complaint said. At the location, Chapman tied Feden’s hands and feet with zip ties to a sign post and put duct tape on her mouth and nose until she suffocated to death, the complaint said. Chapman then removed the tape, zip ties and clothes from his girlfriend and left her body, according to the complaint.
Family finds woman’s body while using the bathroom
The body of a woman was found in Las Vegas on October 5, according to a listing in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System database.
A traveling family pulled over for a bathroom break. One family member wandered away to use the bathroom in the desert area and discovered the body of the woman, according to the database listing.
The Lincoln County, Nevada, Sheriff’s Office took the remains to the Clark County Coroner’s Office in Las Vegas, where a full forensic autopsy was conducted, according to an October 6 statement from the sheriff’s office.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office told CNN on Monday that the identity of the body has yet to be determined.
Authorities in Pennsylvania say there is sufficient evidence to believe that the body is Feden’s, according to the compliant, because the recovered remains share many of the unique physical characteristics of Feden.
“We feel pretty confident that this is the missing person from Pennsylvania,” said Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry D. Lee.
In the next week, Lincoln County Sheriff deputies are traveling to meet with authorities in Pennsylvania after meeting with the Lincoln County District Attorney’s Office, Lee said.
Chapman impersonated Feden on social media
O’Connor told CNN that Chapman had been contacting Feden’s family members via text and social media pretending to be her for roughly two months until police got involved.
Police say Chapman “masked” his phone number to communicate with her family while impersonating the victim, using an application that disguises the originating cell phone number.
Feden’s cousin said she received Facebook messages from the victim’s account but due to the dialogue of the conversation, she did not believe she was actually communicating with the victim — she had asked proof positive questions which were answered incorrectly, the complaint said.
Officers went to Feden’s townhouse to do a welfare check Thursday after friends reported her missing, according to the complaint. Neighbors told police that they hadn’t seen her in a while, but did report activity at the residence by Chapman.
When police made their way into the house, they found Feden’s phone on the kitchen counter and a backpack containing a roll of duct tape and plastic zip ties upstairs, according to the complaint.
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Pennsylvania mother charged with killing quadriplegic daughter
A Pennsylvania mother has been arrested and accused of murdering her 32-year-old quadriplegic daughter, according to reports.
Yelena Nezhikhovskaya, 63, has been charged with third-degree murder, false reporting and drug delivery resulting in death, according to WPVI-TV.
In December 2018, police were called to a home in Philadelphia, and 32-year-old Yulia Nezhikhovskaya was declared dead at the scene, Fox 29 reported, citing police.
The body was taken to the medical examiner’s office for further investigation.
The ME did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for information on the cause of death. However, WPVI-TV reported it was found to be drug intoxication and a homicide. The outlet said that according to sources, Yelena gave her daughter a lethal dose of medication and alcohol.
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