Mom exchanges gunfire with man who stole candy money from her child
SHREVEPORT, La. – Shots were fired at a Louisiana apartment complex after a man tried to steal candy and money from a child, according to police.
Deshaveon Milling, 22, approached the child around 8 p.m. on May 12th and demanded the child hand over the candy that he had been selling, according to WGNO.
The child refused and started to walk away, but Milling allegedly followed and snatched away money that the child had made selling candy.
The child returned home and told his mother what happened.
When the mother walked up to Milling to confront him, Milling then pulled out a handgun and opened fire, according to the Shreveport Police Department.
The mother, who was also armed with a handgun, returned fire as Milling ran away.
The woman told police that she acted in self defense, and no one was injured in the exchange.
On May 14th, acting on a to the police hotline Crimestoppers, officers found Milling and arrest him without incident.
Milling, who had two outstanding warrants, faces charges of simple robbery and illegal use of a weapon.
Ramapo gymnastics coach allegedly sexually abused minors for nearly 20 years
RAMAPO, N.Y. — A 67-year-old gymnastics teacher was charged with alleged sexual abuse against multiple minors, police said on Thursday.
Joseph Lewin was arrested on Wednesday and charged with five counts of sexual conduct against a child and one count of sexual abuse.
Lewin, of Port Chester, is accused of abusing the victims from 2001 to 2014. Officials said all of the victims were under the age of 13 at the time of the incident.
The suspected offender previously taught at The Gym (also known as Joe’s Gym) located at 143 Rt. 59 in the Village of Hillburn and 7-11 Suffern Place. Both gyms are currently out of business.
The alleged offender, formerly known as Joseph Lewandoski, was released from Rockland County Jail on a $10,000 bail.
Officials encourage any other possible victims to contact Ramapo Police at 845-357-2400.
Teacher accused of choking, punching and dragging special education students
PIEDMONT, Okla. – A former special education teacher is accused of choking and dragging her students, along with multiple other allegations of physical abuse, according to KFOR.
Piedmont police arrested Holly Noelle Morris, 38, after parents complained.
According to an affidavit, one student’s mother became concerned when she noticed bruising on her son’s neck and face.
The mom tried contacting Morris, but told Piedmont police the teacher always had an excuse.
The allegations go as far back as January.
Witnesses, including students and staff, said they saw Morris choking, punching, pinching and squeezing two of her students on several occasions on the bus, in the bathroom, classroom and hallways, according to the affidavit.
Morris was even seen on video dragging a special needs child down the hall, according to police.
On another occasion, she allegedly dragged the same student down the hallway to the bus, cursing at a group of students telling them to “move out of the damn way.”
One mother even showed the bruised photos of her son to Morris earlier in the school year.
Morris resigned from Piedmont Public Schools in February.
She is charged with two misdemeanors of causing a child to be deprived, and was released after posting bond of $1,500 for each count.
KFOR made several calls to the superintendent that weren’t returned.
Teacher accused of drowning raccoons, opossum in class
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A Florida high school agriculture teacher has been accused of drowning wild animals in a trash can as students watched and participated, CBS reports. The animals included a raccoon that had eaten one of the chickens the class was raising.
“It made me sick. It made me sick to my stomach,” says the mother of a student who took surreptitious pictures of the event.
The teacher reportedly trapped the raccoons in metal cages, then lowered the cages into water-filled trashcans.
“My son stood in the background, hid his phone and watched as they filled these trash cans full of water, and held these raccoons down in trash cans in the cages,” she tells FOX.
The Forest High School teacher, Dewie Brewton, was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, per the Ocala StarBanner. He has been the school’s Future Farmers of America adviser since 2006.
Officials received multiple complaints about the event; a district spokesperson says officials were told the animals were drowned “because [they] were nuisance animals to the ag program.”
In all, two raccoons and an opossum were reportedly killed.
“While law enforcement tells us the teacher did not do anything illegal, his actions before students are certainly questionable,” a rep for the school district said.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officials are also looking into the matter and will determine if laws were broken.
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Police shut down woman who called 911 on black real estate investor
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis real estate investor inspecting a house he was purchasing says he was harassed by a neighbor who called police on him, according to WREG.
The neighbor he said was harassing him claimed he was acting suspiciously at a vacant property known to attract crime — and said she wasn’t the one who dialed the police.
Michael Hayes’ video has been viewed nearly 2 million times on YouTube since it was posted May 5.
Hayes says he was looking at a house he had under contract to buy near the University of Memphis. He put a sign in the yard, waved at a woman next door, then began pulling a board off the door so he could take photos of the property, he said.
That’s when neighbor Tiffany Albert yelled at him that he couldn’t do that and threatened to call police, he said. He began recording and waited for two Memphis police officers to arrive.
“This is what we go through,” Hayes says to the camera. “Young black man out here trying to do what’s right, and we get the police called on us.”
On Wednesday, Albert told WREG that she’s not racist, adding that she is “Spanish” and her boyfriend is black. Albert said she knows the owner and takes care of the lawn.
She said the vacant house is a hot bed for crime, so she was worried when she woke up to the sound of the boards being pulled off, and claimed Hayes wouldn’t show her paperwork or a business card until police showed up. Hayes said in the video that he showed her the sign that he posts in yards so residents know why he’s there. He later told police that he didn’t give her the paperwork from the owner because he felt threatened and didn’t want her coming close to him.
The video shows Memphis officers arrive and explain to Albert that Hayes has a right to be on the property. When Albert tries to tell Hayes, “Hurry up, do it and get out,” one officers tells her, “No, no, no, he can take his time.” Her partner adds, “He can take all day.”
Both officers agreed to Hayes’ request that they wait for five minutes while he took the pictures, and the three even posed for a selfie after he got done.
The Memphis Police Dept. later released a statement saying the video shows the officers responding to a complaint in a professional way.
“We are thankful to Mr. Hayes for recording a positive interaction with MPD officers and for sharing the true image of what our officers represent,” the department said.
NJ teen earns college degree before graduating high school – graduates college on May 19, High school on June 13
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – A New Jersey teen is skipping the usual academic order and earning a college degree before he’s even graduated high school.
Kwinton Adams, 17, is set to earn his associates degree from Warren Community College on Saturday. He graduates from high school on June 13.
“I like studying,” Adams said.
Adams pulls 6-hour study sessions each day to conquer both his high school assignments and college class homework. He earned six Advanced Placement credits toward his degree and took online courses in order to complete his fast track of studies.
“I just schedule and plan when I’m going to do homework,” he said.
Adams also credits his mom for the inspiration to tackle both at once. She gave him his motivation.
“You have to try twice as hard and you should not be afraid to, to like take the next step,” he said.
Adams will attend Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania next fall. He plans to study biology and attend medical school. He wants to be a physician or neurosurgeon.
He offered this tip to other teens: “Don’t doubt yourself.”
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Worst ambulance dispatcher ever told woman she’d die
An unapologetic ambulance dispatcher claims she was overworked and under pressure when she told a dying French woman, “You’ll definitely die one day” — hours before the victim actually did, according to reports.
Patient Naomi Musenga was having severe stomach pain when she dialed the city of Strasbourg’s ambulance service and got the gruff operator on the line, BBC News reported.
“I’m going to die,” Musenga told the worker, who replied, “You’ll definitely die one day, like everyone else.”
As Musenga struggled to describe her pain, the dispatcher responded, “If you don’t tell me what’s going on, I’ll hang up!”
The worker, who has not been identified, eventually dispatched a doctor to Musenga instead of an ambulance. After five hours, the 22-year-old victim was rushed to a hospital, where she suffered a stroke and died of multiple organ failure.
The dispatcher, who came under fire for her callous comment, tried to defend herself by saying she and her colleagues are “constantly under pressure” — but she stopped short of apologizing to Musenga’s family.
“In the conditions, let’s say it was inappropriate,” the worker told French TV on Sunday night when asked if she regretted her behavior. “We are constantly under pressure … I can be two or three hours hanging on my phone, I have no time to get up. There’s so much [demand] everywhere. We hang up, and we pick up.”
Last week, her lawyer said she normally fields an average of 2,000 calls a day.
“When … you hear, ‘I have a stomach ache’ … it is true that the first reflex is to think that there is no absolute emergency and that one has to go and see their [general practitioner],” the lawyer said.
The dispatcher had just returned to work after being off for two weeks and started her day at 7:30 a.m. Musenga’s call came four hours into her shift, at 11:30 a.m.
The victim’s 3-minute call dates back to December — but it recently made headlines after the disturbing audio was released.
The worker, who has been a part of the ambulance system for 24 years, has been suspended, the BBC said, citing Le Parisien newspaper.
Musenga’s family said the operator isn’t to blame and sympathized with her stressful working conditions, France’s BFMTV reported.
Authorities are investigating but said they’re looking into streamlining France’s emergency phone numbers, which vary for police, ambulance, fire and the European Union emergency number 112.
Benjamin Griveaux, a spokesman for the French government, said French citizens are more familiar with 911 than their own set of numbers.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/05/14/worst-ambulance-dispatcher-ever-told-woman-shed-die/
Man who gunned down girlfriend was ‘upset’ with her outfit
A jealous boyfriend in Arizona is accused of killing his girlfriend because he was “upset” about her outfit, authorities said.
Martin Larney, of Mesa, was arrested Monday in the shooting death of his 22-year-old girlfriend, Alina Duwyenie, AZCentral reported.
Police said Larney, 22, changed his story twice before confessing to shooting Duwyenie on Sunday morning at his apartment over her clothing choice.
Officers responded to the scene around 8:30 a.m. on reports of an accidental shooting. They rushed Duwyenie to a local hospital, where she died.
Larney’s brother was home at the time of the incident and told investigators that he heard a “loud noise.”
“[The brother] ran into the room and found the defendant sitting next to the victim holding her head where she was injured,” the police report stated.
Larney admitted to authorities that he owned the gun, which he said he purchased a month earlier for protection. The loaded weapon accidentally fired, he claimed, when he threw the firearm across the couch.
The boyfriend, however, then changed his story and claimed that he was attempting to load the gun when a shot fired.
Ultimately, he confessed to gunning down his girlfriend because he was “jealous and upset at [her] for what she was wearing,” according to police.
Larney was arrested and booked at Maricopa County Jail, where his bond is set at $750,000.
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Video shows stranger enter bedroom and expose himself as baby, mom sleep
LAYTON, Utah — Police hope someone can help them identify the person who broke into a Utah home and walked around a master bedroom where a woman and her baby were sleeping, according to KSTU.
According to a Facebook post from the Layton Police Dept., the burglary happened around 3:40 Monday morning at a home near 2500 E and 200 S.
Police said part of the burglary was captured on a baby cam, and the video footage shows the burglar exposing himself and standing next to the bed and crib where the mother and baby slept.
The young Layton couple, who didn’t want to be identified, said they noticed something was off early Monday morning.
“Our sliding door to our bedroom was halfway open. Certain things in my mind kind of triggered a red flag,” the husband said.
When he checked his recently installed nanny cam, he was shocked to see a man walking around his bedroom while his wife and infant son were asleep.
“It terrifies me. I really don’t know how to process it,” his wife said.
Despite having several electronics in plain sight, nothing was taken. The woman and child weren’t touched, but the man was seen exposing himself with an iPhone in his hand.
“What if he was taking pictures of me? I feel like that’s taken from me. My privacy of my body should be mine alone,” the woman said.
The couple isn’t sure how he got in, because there were no signs of forced entry and every door was locked. The only scenario that makes sense is that the suspect knew their garage code, which means he was either watching them or knew them personally.
“That’s what is worrisome to us, that it could potentially be somebody that we know, and this has been happening under our nose,” said the husband.
They not only feel violated but terrified, with a 2-year-old girl and an 8-month-old boy in the home.
“Imagine you have these little children, that your whole life revolves around these kids,” said the wife.
Since the nanny cam was only installed a month ago, they worry that the incident wasn’t the first time.
“It almost feels like someone has taken away my virtue, in a way without my consent,” his wife said.
Despite the suspect’s face being hidden, the couple hopes someone recognizes the man in the video – whether it be through his mannerisms or his clothing. He’s also seen wearing a wedding ring.
“I’m sure he would be livid if something like this happened to his wife,” said the woman.
If someone doesn’t recognize him, the couple hopes he will turn himself in, so they can have the opportunity to forgive.
“Things can be made right but you have to at least try,” said the wife.
Anyone with information that may help police identify the burglar is urged to call 801-497-8300 and reference incident number 18-0370.
Baby found naked, lying in dirt after dad abandons him in Oregon forest
DESCHUTES COUNTY, Ore. — A 1-year-old boy was found naked in the dirt in an Oregon forest last week after his father reportedly set him down and walked away.
According to a post on the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, a desperate search for the boy began after his father, Brandon M. Blouin, 25, of Belpre, Ohio, wandered out of the woods early May 10.
Blouin told police that he, an 18-year-old woman and their son, Bradley Michael, had been staying in a vehicle in the forest. The woman had walked away from the vehicle at some point and left Bradley in the care of Blouin. Blouin waited for her to return but then took the child with him to look for her.
At some point, he put the child down and left him.
Blouin is believed to have been under the influence of a controlled substance when he set his son down on the forest floor, officials said.
The sheriff’s office started scouring for the baby with horseback searchers, drones and helicopters with thermal image sensors. At just after noon, the child was found lying in the dirt about one mile from the family’s vehicle. He was transferred into the care of medical personnel on scene.
Blouin now faces charges of criminal mistreatment, child neglect, endangering the welfare of a minor and assault. Authorities say the assault charge stems from an injury they believe the child suffered while in Blouin’s care.
The case remains under investigation.
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