Ohio Mother Allegedly Stabs Boyfriend After Finding Him Naked on Top of Pre-Teen Daughter:
A Cleveland woman stabbed her boyfriend six times after she found him naked on top of her 12-year-old daughter earlier this week, according to a report.
The mother found the 31-year-old man on top of her daughter early Tuesday morning, news website Cleveland.com reported, citing police records.
“In a fit of rage,” she grabbed a pocket knife and stabbed him five times in the chest and once in the back of his head, the police document stated, according to the website.
They fought over the knife and eventually ended up outside where she screamed for help. According to records, the mother told police “her boyfriend tried touching her daughter and she stabbed him.”
The man told police his girlfriend thought the 12-year-old had feelings for him and may have been the reason she attacked, Cleveland.com reported.
The girl told investigators the man took off her pants before removing his own clothing, then sexually assaulted her. According to records, he told her: “This is what it is like in the real world when you have a boyfriend.”
The woman and her daughter suffered cuts on their hands during the struggle.
Police are investigating the incident as a possible sexual assault case.
No charges have been filed in the case yet.
Ohio Mom Facing Charges After Allegedly Pulling Gun on Student in Middle School Parking Lot
An Ohio mother faces charges after she allegedly pulled a gun in a middle school parking lot, WJW learned on Friday.
Police said Mary Thomas was charged with inducing panic, inciting to violence, aggravated menacing, contributing to the delinquency or unruliness of a child, and falsification.
The incident happened last week outside Milkovich Middle School in Maple Heights, a city roughly 10 miles southeast of Cleveland.
Thomas has a 12-year-old daughter at the school. Other parents said the girl got into a fight with another female student. The next day, Thomas came to pick up her child and pulled the gun, according to other parents. They said Thomas’ daughter later went on social media and a gun could be seen in the picture.
“They seen her reaching into her purse. She pulled it out. And they’re like, ‘She got a gun, she got a gun,'” the mother of one child there said.
“She pulled it out of her purse and started cocking it,” another parent told WJW.
A woman inside Mary Thomas’ home wouldn’t come to the door, but did yell from inside, “There wasn’t no gun at the school.”
Maple Heights police said Thomas has a permit to carry a gun, but they say she’ll have to answer to charges next week.
Meantime, records show Thomas also told police she was hit with mace in that school parking lot. The older sister of another girl said she pulled out the mace after Thomas showed the gun.
Maple Heights City Schools Superintendent Charlie Keenan released a statement:
“Last Wednesday afternoon an allegation was made that a parent had a weapon in her car at dismissal at Milkovich Middle School. Due to the seriousness of this allegation, our administration immediately notified the Maple Heights Police Department who began an investigation. The parent was notified that same afternoon by the school administration, the director of security and the police department that she is not permitted on school property until this situation is fully investigated and resolved. We have worked with the MHPD to provide all evidence related to the situation and as of now the incident is still an active case with the MHPD.”
via: http://ktla.com/2017/09/15/ohio-mom-accused-of-pulling-gun-on-student-in-middle-school-parking-lot/
Bay Area McDonald’s Employee Tries to Flush Newborn Down Toilet After Giving Birth at Work
A McDonald’s cashier is facing an attempted murder charge after giving birth to a boy while at work and then trying to flush the newborn down a toilet inside the Redwood City restaurant, prosecutors said.
Sarah Lockner was working as a cashier at the McDonald’s restaurant on Chestnut Street on the evening of Sept. 4 when she complained of stomach pain, according to the San Mateo County district attorney’s office.
During her night shift, prosecutors said, the 25-year-old Redwood City woman visited the restaurant’s bathroom multiple times, to the concern of a co-worker.
When the co-worker entered the bathroom to check on Lockner, prosecutors said, there was blood on the floor.
ockner tried to dismiss the bloody mess and blamed it on a heavy period, prosecutors said.
But Lockner’s behavior had drawn the attention of a second co-worker, who also decided to check on her.
The second employee walked into the bathroom, peered over Lockner’s stall and “saw a newborn baby face down in toilet bowl,” prosecutors said.
Lockner had her hand on the baby’s back, according to the district attorney’s office. The employee then heard the toilet flush.
Police arrived later to find the baby in Lockner’s arms, San Mateo County Dist. Atty. Steve Wagstaffe told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.
The baby had no pulse and was not breathing, so officers performed CPR and rushed the infant to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, he said.
The infant is alive and in stable condition, but the extent of the baby’s brain injuries was not known, Wagstaffe said.
Lockner claimed she didn’t know she was pregnant, prosecutors said.
She has been charged with felony child abuse and inflicting great bodily injury, along with the attempted murder charge, prosecutors said.
Lockner is scheduled to be arraigned in San Mateo County court on Sept. 18. She is being held on $11 million bail.
Man guns down his own mother in hospital ICU
An active shooter scare at a New Hampshire hospital on Tuesday turned out to be a deadly domestic situation — with a man killing his own mother as she laid in the intensive care unit, officials said.
Pamela Ferriere, 70, was gunned down by her 49-year-old son, Travis Frink, shortly after he arrived at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, according to WCVB.
“The purpose of Mr. Frink’s visit to the hospital was to kill his mother,” Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said Tuesday night at a press conference.
It took Frink a total of nine minutes — from the moment he signed in at the visitors desk to the time he arrived at the ICU unit — for him to take his mother’s life, MacDonald said.
Cops swarmed Darmouth-Hitchcock, New Hampshire’s largest hospital, at around 1:24 p.m. after receiving reports of an active shooter. The facility was placed on lockdown for at least an hour while authorities searched for a suspect.
Frink was eventually captured by local police while attempting to leave the premises, WJAR reports.
He allegedly let off several rounds while inside the medical center, but Ferriere was the only person hit.
Her son appeared to arrive at the facility in a silver SUV, which was surrounded by police and being checked during the lockdown.
Rhode Island State Police later confirmed to WJAR that the vehicle did belong to Frink, who is a Warwick resident.
Authorities were reportedly conducting a “well-being check” at his home Tuesday night.
Frink is expected to be arraigned Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/09/12/man-guns-down-his-own-mother-in-hospital-icu/
Woman sues Starbucks claiming hot tea killed her dog, badly burned her
DENVER – A Denver woman is suing Starbucks over hot tea that she claims caused second-degree burns and killed her dog, according to KDVR.
Deanna Salas-Solano, 58, claims the lid of the tea was not secured onto her cup when she bought a 20-ounce hot tea at the drive-thru Starbucks at 5835 Leetsdale Drive in Denver on Sept. 26, 2015.
The lawsuit, filed in Denver District Federal Court on Friday, states hot tea spilled out of the cup through an unsecured lid and onto Salas-Solano’s body.
The tea was so hot that Solas-Solando said it melted through her clothes and caused severe pain to her stomach, legs, and lap.
The lawsuit claims the tea did not have a hot cup sleeve and was not double-cupped. It was so hot, the temperature of the cup began to burn her hands, according to the lawsuit.
As Salas-Salano was screaming in pain, she claims her dog Alexander jumped onto her lap, causing the hot tea to spill onto him.
According to the lawsuit, Alexander was taken to an emergency veterinarian hospital but “ultimately succumbed to the injuries caused by the tea, dying a short time later.”
Salas-Solano was taken to Rose Medical Center for severe burns and underwent surgery the next day at the Swedish Medical Center Burn and Reconstructive Unit.
The lawsuit states she was diagnosed with “Two percent total body surface area second-degree burn injury to the abdomen and bilateral thighs.”
She would later need skin grafts.
The lawsuit claims Starbucks had received previous complaints about failing to provide hot cup sleeves and securing cup lids when serving customers with hot coffee or tea.
The complaint states Starbucks had a written policy to “double-cup” hot tea.
The lawsuit seeks claims that exceed $100,000.
“We have video evidence that clearly contradicts the claims made by the plaintiff and believe they are without merit,” Starbucks said in a statement. “We look forward to presenting our case in court.
“While we are sympathetic to Ms. Salas-Solano and the injuries she sustained, we don’t have any reason to believe our partner (employee) was at fault.”
Starbucks’ legal team would not provide a copy of the video, but it did allow it to be reviewed.
It shows Salas-Solano on her cellphone with her dog in her in her lap as she buys the tea.
The video also shows the hot tea did have a hot sleeve and it appears the lid was secure, though the video is not conclusive.
In the video, it’s hard to tell if Salas-Solano grabs the cup by the hot sleeve or by the lid when she accidentally spilled it.
It’s hard to determine if she spilled the tea because of the cup’s hot temperature or because she was distracted by her cellphone use or if perhaps her dog bumped into the cup while he stood in her lap.
The lawsuit might sound similar to a famous 1994 case involving McDonald’s and hot coffee.
In that case, a New Mexico jury awarded $2.86 million to Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman who suffered third-degree burns across her pelvic region when she accidentally spilled hot coffee in her lap.
Ultimately, the judge reduced the final verdict to $640,000.
McDonald’s appealed and the two sides settled for a confidential amount before the appeal was decided.
via: http://wreg.com/2017/09/12/woman-sues-starbucks-claiming-hot-tea-killed-her-dog-badly-burned-her/
Teen kills mom in her sleep after she told him he couldn’t keep puppy
MASON – A Wheatfield Township teenager fatally shot his mother as she slept hours after she told him he couldn’t keep a puppy he had brought home a few weeks earlier, police said.
Andrew David Willson, 19, was arraigned Monday in 55th District Court on one count each of murder and felony firearm possession.
Magistrate Mark Blumer denied bond for Willson, who has been in police custody since Friday.
Andrew Willson called police shortly before 7 a.m. Friday and said he had come home from a drive to find that his mother had been murdered, an Ingham County Sheriff’s detective told Blumer in a hearing that led to charges being issued against the teen.
Lisa Marie Willson, 51, was found dead in a bedroom of her home in the 200 block of Linn Road near Williamston, police said. She was shot once in the back of the head.
Investigators determined that no one besides her and her son had been inside the house the night of the killing, Detective Charles Buckland testified.
Andrew Willson had talked to his mother about the puppy Thursday evening, and she told him he would have to bring the dog to his father’s home in Dansville, Buckland testified.
The teen told detectives that in the overnight hours he removed a .22 Magnum rifle from a locked cabinet, then went into his mother’s room and shot her in the back of the head as she slept, Buckland said.
He then drove around back roads for awhile before discarding the rifle. Police recovered the weapon, which had a spent shell casing and a live round in it.
Andrew Willson has no criminal history, police said.
An attorney for Willson, Stephen Milks, declined to comment after the hearing.
A preliminary hearing has been set for Sept. 28.
Biracial 8-year-old boy nearly hanged by teens, family says
Teenagers in New Hampshire taunted an 8-year-old biracial boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off of a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him, the boy’s family said.
The child was treated at a hospital for cuts to his neck following the near-hanging Aug. 28 in Claremont, the boy’s grandmother, Lorrie Slattery, told the Valley News. He has since been released and has returned to school in Claremont.
Slattery said the children were in a backyard when some of the teens got on the table and grabbed a rope that held a tire swing. It’s not clear how the rope got around her grandson’s neck, but Slattery said the teens pushed him off the table. No adults are believed to have witnessed the incident.
An expert on abuse who spoke to the boy at the hospital said he swung from his neck three times before being able to remove the rope, Slattery said. None of the teens came to his aid, she said.
“One boy said … ‘Let’s do this,’ and then pushed him off the picnic table and hung him,” Slattery said.
Claremont Police Chief Mark Chase told the newspaper his department is investigating an Aug. 28 incident involving several juveniles. He declined to provide details and refused to confirm the case involved the 8-year-old boy.
Chase did not respond Monday to calls and emails from The Associated Press.
via: http://abc7chicago.com/biracial-boy-8-nearly-hanged-by-teens-family-says/2408200/
5-year-old boy found dead after watching mom get beaten, thrown from cliff
A Kentucky man was charged Monday with the murder of a 5-year-old boy who watched helplessly as his mother was beaten, bound and pushed off a cliff over the weekend. The mother survived and was found by two hikers who alerted police, prompting a two-day search that ended earlier Monday when the boy’s body was discovered near where his mother was left for dead.
Police arrested Lonnie Belt, 41, and charged him with the murder of James Spoonamore. Belt also faces charges of assault, kidnapping and tampering with evidence. James’ mother, Jessica Durham, is recovering at a Lexington hospital.
Kentucky State Police Commissioner Rick Sanders said he did not know how the boy died. Results of an autopsy likely won’t be available for another two days.
It’s unclear if Belt has an attorney. Sanders said Durham and Belt are acquaintances and were not romantically involved.
Police offered few details of what happened. But a police report says Belt and Durham got into a fight over some money and “he hit her on the head, tied her up and took her to the cliff where he assaulted her again.” Sanders said two hikers discovered Durham Saturday morning at the bottom of an 80-foot embankment.
“James was with Jessica when he took her to the cliff and assaulted her,” the report states.
Sanders declined to answer questions about what happened. He said more than 200 people searched for the boy on Saturday and Sunday. The search involved police dogs, aircraft from the National Guard and lots of volunteers. Sanders said authorities found the boy at 9:31 a.m. about 180 feet off the road in Jackson County, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) southeast of Lexington.
The news was devastating for Durham and her family, which includes some relatives in Florida who were enduring Hurricane Irma while authorities were searching for the boy.
“Honestly, it’s been hell. That’s the only way to describe it,” said Mary Batson, Durham’s sister.
Cynthia Wallace, Durham’s mother and the boy’s grandmother, said she is still without power at her home near Winter Haven, Florida. She described James as a sweet boy who loved playing with cars and trucks and being in the water. He recently started kindergarten, and Wallace said she enjoyed looking at photos Durham sent her of the boy’s first day at school.
“He was so happy, he loved school and he even wanted to go on the weekends,” Wallace said. “It’s hard. It hurts. I just went through a hurricane and all of this here on top of me, I’m just hurt.”
via: http://abc7chicago.com/boy-found-dead-after-watching-mom-get-beaten-thrown-from-cliff/2407993/
Landlord surrenders after allegedly shooting tenant over unpaid rent
A Bronx landlord who allegedly shot one of his tenants over unpaid rent turned himself in to authorities Tuesday, police said.
Robert Grant, 43, walked into the 47th Precinct where he immediately demanded a lawyer up after being charged with attempted murder, assault and possession of a weapon.
Grant confronted victim Michael Taylor over the back rent as he and his girlfriend were returning home to the Amundson Ave. building in Edenwald around 10:40 p.m. Monday, police said.
The two men began fighting before Grant allegedly pulled out a .40 caliber handgun and shot Taylor in the chest.
Taylor and his girlfriend then tried to drive to get help before cops pulled them over several blocks away and called an ambulance.
Taylor was then taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition, officials said.
Grant fled the scene and had been on the run from police before turning himself in on Tuesday.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/09/12/landlord-surrenders-after-allegedly-shooting-tenant-over-unpaid-rent/
Woman shoots homeless man who asked her to move Porsche
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A woman has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a homeless man in Nashville last month.
News outlets report 26-year-old Katie Quackenbush was charged Monday night in the Aug. 26 shooting of 54-year-old Gerald Melton near Music Row.
Metro Nashville police say Melton was disturbed by exhaust fumes and loud music coming from Quackenbush’s Porsche SUV while trying to sleep at 3 a.m., and asked her to move the vehicle. Police say the two began yelling at each other, and Quackenbush exited the vehicle and shot Melton twice before running up the street with another woman.
Quackenbush’s father, Jesse Quackenbush, disputed the police account, saying his daughter fired the shots in self-defense as a warning, and didn’t know Melton was hit.
Melton remains hospitalized with critical injuries.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/09/12/woman-shoots-homeless-man-who-asked-her-to-move-porsche-cops/