St. Kate’s guard who shot himself had cops looking for ‘black male’ suspect
SMDH WHY DO SOME WHITE FOLKS ALWAYS BLAME A BLACK MAN FOR THEIR STUPIDITY?
A campus-wide, building-to-building sweep of the school grounds lasted four hours.
St. Paul Police patrolled the wooded area on campus where the 25-year-old guard, Brent Patrick Ahlers, said he’d been attacked. They set up a perimeter around St. Catherine’s and conducted an “exhaustive” search, with 55 officers, four police K-9s, and a Minnesota State Patrol aircraft circling overhead.
Highland Park residents wondering what all the ruckus was about tuned in to the police scanner. As tweeted by one regular scanner listener, they heard the suspect described as a “black male” wearing a navy blue sweatshirt, black jeans, and a short afro.
Chicago activist: Video of Kenneka Jenkins shows her walking into freezer alone
This could happen . NOT EVERYTHING is a conspiracy. We just have to wait until the autopsy comes out in a month or so.
A Chicago community activist said Thursday that surveillance video from a Rosemont hotel shows Kenneka Jenkins entering a walk-in freezer alone.
Andrew Holmes, who has worked with many police agencies during his years of anti-violence activism, told the Tribune that Rosemont detectives showed him the video Wednesday when he showed up seeking answers on behalf of the family. He said the video shows Jenkins, 19, waiting in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel after her friends apparently went up to the room in which they had been partying to retrieve some possessions. Jenkins then takes the elevator to a lower level and wanders around, opening doors in an apparently disoriented manner, he said.Finally, he said, Jenkins opens two doors in a kitchen area and enters the walk-in freezer. The doors close behind her and Jenkins is seen no more, he said. Holmes said he was convinced no one else forced Jenkins…..
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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.
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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/
Serial killer with shipping container dungeon: My victims had it coming
The South Carolina serial killer who kidnapped a woman and kept her chained inside a shipping container, has spoken publicly for the first time since his November arrest — and his words are almost as brutal as his crimes.
In a chilling letter mailed to The Post last week, Todd Kohlhepp claimed the seven people he murdered were “criminals” and that he was merely trying to “save” the 30-year-old woman he had viciously imprisoned after killing her boyfriend.
“No one wants to really look at who they were, families, connections,” the 46-year-old killer wrote of his victims.
The cold-blooded murderer shot and killed seven people over the span of 13 years, burying three of the bodies across his 95-acre spread in rural northwestern South Carolina.
Kohlhepp, who’s serving seven consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to the killings, went on to accuse the woman he kept in a metal cargo container for two months, Kala Brown, of being “as big a criminal as I am.”
She “wasn’t raped,” he claimed in his barbaric, victim-blaming diatribe, written neatly in script on two double-side looseleaf pages.
“All of my victims were criminals,” he declared.
In his only hint of remorse, he then wrote, “Not that it makes it right, I was wrong to do what I did.”
He provided no further details, and authorities dismissed his accusations.
Kohlhepp is an “attention seeker” who “needs to stay in prison and be forgotten,” said Murray Glenn, a spokesman for the Spartanburg County prosecutor.
Brown’s rep said she was not yet ready to discuss her ordeal or comment on Kohlhepp’s missive from prison.
The killer was captured after a terrorized Brown, 30, was rescued by police on Nov. 3, 2016. They had used her cell phone records to trace her steps to Kohlhepp’s home.
She was found chained by the neck inside a dark-green 30-foot-long container tucked among rows of trees far back on Kohlhepp’s property, where she said she was raped “twice a day, every day.”
Kohlhepp “let me know that if I tried to run, he’d kill me. If I tried to hurt him, he’d kill me. If I fought back, he would kill me,” she told Dr.Phil.
Brown and her boyfriend, Charlie Carver, 32, went missing in August 2016.
They had gone to Kohlhepp’s property to help him with yardwork. They had previously worked several jobs for Kohlhepp over a three-month period, Brown said, and nothing ever set off warning bells.
But when Kohlhepp went inside a shed to retrieve gardening tools, he came out with a weapon and shot Carver “three times in the chest [and] wrapped him in a blue tarp,” Brown told investigators.
The murderer, who once worked as a real estate agent, bizarrely claimed in his letter to The Post that he was trying to save Brown.
“She was in [the] shipping container because I didn’t want to hurt her, refused to turn her over to someone else who would and was buying time while I figured out a way to resolve this non-violently,” he wrote.
Again, he provided no further details or evidence.
After Spartanburg, S.C., officers freed Brown, she helped lead them to Carver’s body and indicated there were others.
Kohlhepp eventually confessed to Carver’s murder and six others — four employees of the Superbike Motorsports shop in Chesnee, S.C., in 2003 because they wouldn’t allow him to return a motorcycle; and Meagan Leigh McCraw Coxie, 25, and her boyfriend Johnny Joe Coxie, 29, who had been missing since December 2015 when Kohlhepp also recruited them to do “yard work.”
In his letter, Kohlhepp accused the bike shop of being a “chop shop” with “$80,000 cash sitting in [a] safe.” He made no mention of the Coxies.
The killer had previously served 14 years in prison for kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old girl in 1986.
In a psych evaluation that same year, court psychiatrist Dr. Roger Martig said Kohlhepp had an “above average” IQ of 118, but described him as “extremely self-centered” as well as “touchy and defensive.”
The exam concluded he was not psychotic, but was “distrustful of others and generally unconcerned or lacks understanding as to how his behavior affects others.”