Domino’s employee accused of assaulting his coworker for spoiling new Avengers movie
(Meredith) — A man in Texas is accused of assaulting his coworker for spoiling the ending to Avengers: Endgame.
Friendswood City Police issued Justin Gregory Surface was a citation for assault by contact after another employee spoiled something about the end of Avengers: Endgame.
That’s according to a police activity report posted to Friendswood City’s official Facebook page.
Apr. 28 (6:13 p.m.) An assault was reported at the Domino’s Pizza … . Justin Gregory Surface, 33, of Friendswood, was issued a citation for Assault by Contact after another employee revealed a spoiler about the movie, “End Game.”
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Director John Singleton to Be Taken Off Life Support on Monday After Suffering Stroke, Family Says
UPDATE: JOHN SINGLETON HAS DIED AT AGE 51
The family for John Singleton said the Oscar-nominated filmmaker will be taken off life support Monday after suffering a stroke almost two weeks ago.
John Singleton, director of “Boyz n the Hood” and co-creator of FX’s “Snowfall,” is on seen in a file photo. (Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
“It is with heavy hearts we announce that our beloved son, father and friend, John Daniel Singleton will be taken off of life support today,” read the statement. “This was an agonizing decision, one that our family made, over a number of days, with the careful counsel of John’s doctors.”
The 51-year-old director of “Boyz in the Hood,” ”Poetic Justice” and other films has been in intensive care in a Los Angeles hospital since he had a stroke on April 17. A court filing last week by his mother, Shelia Ward, requested that she be appointed Singleton’s temporary conservator in order to make medical and financial decisions while he is incapacitated.
Ward’s filing said that Singleton was in a coma. But on Friday, Singleton’s daughter Cleopatra Singleton, 19, filed a declaration disputing that account. She maintained that her father was not in a coma and that doctors did not “have a concrete diagnosis.” She opposed her grandmother becoming conservator, or guardian.
John Singleton was nominated for an Oscar for 1991’s “Boyz N the Hood.” His recent projects include the TV series “Snowfall.”
As news that Singleton would be taken off life support circulated, many paid tribute to the director. Jordan Peele, the “Get Out” and “Us” director called him “a brave artist and a true inspiration.”
“His vision changed everything,” said Peele.
Orginal article ——–> https://ktla.com/2019/04/29/director-john-singleton-remains-on-life-support-reports-of-death-are-inaccurate-publicist/
Alabama police charge man with soliciting 14-year-old through shopping app
BOAZ, Ala. – A Gadsden man used a popular marketplace app to offer a 14-year-old girl money for sex, Boaz police said Monday.
James Bresett, 31, is charged with electronic solicitation of a child. Boaz police arrested him just before midnight Friday when they said he tried to meet the girl.
Police said they were notified Thursday Bresett had sent messages to the girl on the mobile app Letgo, offering money in exchange for sex. The girl told her parents who called police.
Authorities said they set Bresett up, and when he showed up to meet the girl, he met police instead. Police said they took him into custody after he tried to run away.
Boaz police said Bresett was still in the Boaz City Jail Monday morning and bond had not yet been set.
Mom turns herself in after slashing throats of her two children
A Bronx mother slashed her two young children’s throats before turning up at a police precinct covered in blood to confess to the heinous crime, cops said Monday.
A passerby saw Shanice Martin, 24, allegedly stab her 2-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son in the neck and body on the corner of Washington Avenue and Brook Avenue at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, police reported.
Martin ran off as witnesses called the cops, officials said.
Shortly after the 911 call, Martin, covered in blood, walked into the 42nd Precinct and confessed to her crimes, police added.
She now faces 12 counts of assault, two counts of child abandonment, two counts of child endangerment and two counts of possessing a weapon, police said.
A razor blade was recovered, but it was not immediately clear whether it was the weapon she used to stab her children, officials said.
Martin is undergoing psychiatric evaluation and observation at Lincoln Hospital.
The children were treated at New York Presbyterian Hospital, but their conditions were not immediately clear, according to authorities.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/04/29/mom-turns-herself-in-after-slashing-throats-of-two-children-cops/
Yonkers 8th-grader wanted for shooting death of innocent teen
An 8th-grade boy with gang ties and a violent criminal past fired the stray round that killed a Yonkers teen Thursday as she protected her little sister, cops said Monday, pleading with the shooter to surrender and face justice.
Jamir Thompson, 15, intended the fateful bullet for a rival from whom he’d stolen a gold chain earlier Thursday — but he instead struck 18-year-old Marilyn Cotto Montanez as she pushed her 9-year-old sister to safety, police said.
“This incident has deeply affected our community because an innocent life was lost,” said Yonkers Police Commissioner Charles Gardner in a press briefing. “We will not rest until Jamir Thompson answers for his reckless and despicable conduct.”
Hours after allegedly stealing the chain from another teen, Thompson had another run-in with that victim near Montanez’s Morningside Avenue home, Gardner said.
Amid the dispute, Thompson — a Yonkers resident who attends the Linden Hill School in Hawthorne, New York — opened fire with a 9 mm handgun, Gardner said.
Montanez, a high school senior, shoved her younger sister out of the the way at the cost of her own life — a round struck her in the head.
Cops identified Thompson as the alleged shooter through a painstaking review of surveillance footage and a series of witness interviews.
The top cop, his voice strained with emotion at points, appealed directly to the teen triggerman to make it easy on himself and come forward.
“If Jamir Thompson is watching, I have a message for you,” Gardner said. “We are considering you armed and dangerous. We are out looking for you as we speak. And for the safety of everyone, I urge you to turn yourself in.”
Thompson lives in Yonkers with his mom, who has refused to give cops any info on her son’s whereabouts, Gardner said.
His department has had “multiple” contacts with Thompson over his “violent” criminal history, but Gardner said he couldn’t divulge specifics due to Thompson’s age.
Cops released a wanted poster showing the fresh-faced shooter, and announcing a $5,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
Gardner also issued a stern directive to anyone thinking of giving Thompson quarter.
“I am also sending a warning to anyone who is harboring Mr. Thompson,” he said. “You will also be arrested and held accountable for your actions.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/04/29/yonkers-8th-grader-wanted-for-shooting-death-of-innocent-teen-cops/
No prison time for school bus driver who admitted to raping 14-year-old girl
(Meredith) – A former upstate New York bus driver who admitted to raping a 14-year-old girl will avoid prison time.
Shane M. Piche, 26, was sentenced to 10 years’ probation last week, the Watertown Daily Times reported. The ruling comes two months after Piche pleaded guilty to third-degree rape in the 2018 incident.
Police said he met the girl on a bus he drove for the city’s school district, but raped her at his Watertown home.
As part of his plea deal, Piche is not allowed to be alone with anyone under the age of 17. He must also register as a Level 1 sex offender — which is less severe than the Level 2 designation the district attorney recommended.
Level 1 offenders are considered to be “low risk” of committing the crime again and are not included in online sex offender databases, according to the Daily Times.
Judge James P. McClusky noted that Piche had no prior arrests, and his crime involved one victim.
In a written statement to WWNY-TV, the victim’s mother said she was disappointed with the sentence.
“I wish Shane Piche would have received time in jail for the harm he caused to my child,” she wrote, according to the station. “He took something from my daughter she will never get back and has caused her to struggle with depression and anxiety.”
Piche’s defense attorney, Eric T. Swartz, said he feels good about the judge’s decision and confirmed that Piche no longer works for the bus company.
“He’ll be a felon for the rest of his life,” he said, according to WWNY-TV. “He’s on the sex offender registry for a long time. Maybe not the rest of his life because of the level, but this isn’t something that didn’t cause him pain. And this isn’t something that didn’t have consequences.”
Mom charged with murder 29 years after she allegedly left baby to die in cardboard box
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Charges have been upgraded against a South Carolina woman accused of leaving her newborn daughter to die in a cardboard box in an empty field.
Brook Graham was arrested earlier this month and charged with homicide by child abuse, 29 years after her daughter’s death.
Prosecutors upgraded that charge to murder last week.
A man was picking flowers in the vacant field to prepare for Valentine’s Day in 1990 when he found the baby now known as Julie Valentine.
Julie was born alive outside of a hospital. She was found dead, wrapped in newspaper and bedding with her umbilical cord and placenta still attached. It’s unclear why she was abandoned.
Authorities said DNA submitted to genealogy sites revealed a likely match to the baby’s father, who then pointed police to Graham.
Kansas teacher kicks student; mother says school ignored abuse
SHAWNEE, KS (KCTV) — A mother says an elementary school teacher grabbed and kicked her 5-year-old daughter and when her daughter told a teacher about it, she says the school did nothing.
The only reason this mother says she knows a teacher hurt her daughter, was because her daughter, not the school, told her and there was video to prove what the teacher said happened was a lie.
The incident happened at during a kindergarten class at Bluejacket Flint Elementary school in Shawnee, KS.
That girl’s mother requested not to be identified and did not want to share her daughter’s name. The mother said she picked her daughter up from school Feb. 21, and that’s when she first heard something might be wrong. She asked her daughter how her day went, when her daughter responded, “I don’t like my teacher. She’s really mean. She hit me on my arm.”
Her mother saw a large red mark on her arm. She tried called the school principal but couldn’t get through so she went back to the school to find out what happened. She learned her daughter had actually already told another teacher she’d been hit but nothing was done.
The mother recorded all of her conversations with her daughter’s teachers and school district staff from that point on.
You can hear the daughter’s IEP teacher talking to the mother, admitting the 5-year-old told her a teacher hit her, saying, “[The 5-year-old] did mention to me, ‘My teacher, like hit me’. I asked her what happened and she said she touched her on her arm but I wasn’t there so I’m not sure what happened.”
Then the mother met with Crystal Smith, the teacher her daughter accuses of hitting her. But that teacher tries to blame the child for what happened. You can hear Smith say the following:
“So, I’m not surprised she has some marks on her. She was crawling in the bookshelf. She has a red spot on her arm. And I’m not surprised because she shoved herself into that bookshelf…I mean, she kicked me a couple of times. She was reaching over into the bookshelf pulling books out and there were those metal, metal book divider things … I said don’t we can’t do that. So I put myself kind of standing around her so that if she does throw something she wouldn’t break something…”
But sensing something didn’t seem quite right, the mother pushed for more information and found out there may be video of the incident. The school confirmed the next day it existed, but it was more than a week before the mother was allowed to see it.
“When I saw the video it was heartbreaking, because everything she said, she sat at the same table as me and just lied about everything … she lied to me. She lied to everyone else. She was almost really convincing,” the mother told KCTV5.
The kindergartner’s teacher had described a violent 5-year-old thrashing around, throwing books, kicking her teacher, but the video shows something very different.
The video shows the little girl refusing to get in line with the rest of her class. She crawls up into a bookshelf while the rest of her class leaves the library. That’s when her teacher finds her in the bookshelf, grabs her by the arm, drags her out on the ground, and when no one is looking, kicks her in the back.
“I can’t really even put it into words. I hurt for my child, and I was just angry that someone could do that,” the mother said.
She worries about not only her daughter’s, but other students’ safety.
“I said, ‘OK, had my child not said anything to me, you were just going to go behind closed doors and speak to everyone else, and if something came up then you’d let me know? But had she not said anything to me it all. I may not have ever known,” she said.
The mother says the school told her Smith was put on leave pending the end of the investigation and was officially terminated March 25.
The Shawnee Mission School District issued the following statement:
“The Shawnee Mission School District was deeply distressed by the actions shown in the video. We take our responsibility to keep our children safe extremely seriously, and as parents and educators, we are heartbroken whenever a child is not treated with love and respect. As soon as we discovered what happened, we acted to remove the teacher from contact with students, and proceeded immediately to terminate that teacher.”
The Johnson County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the case to determine whether to press charges.
Police say New York woman asked 911 dispatcher how to commit murder
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A New York woman is facing charges after reportedly calling 911 to ask how to kill her boyfriend, WKBW reported.
Zelda Cotton, 54, is charged with endangering the welfare of an elderly person and criminal possession of a weapon, according to WKBW.
Police said they responded to the home, where Cotton was swinging a leaf blower battery at her 76-year-old boyfriend. She reportedly said she had hit him with a VCR tape five times.
WKBW reported Cotton was intoxicated at the time of the attack, but her boyfriend was not injured.