2 trans women were found murdered in hotels 12 miles apart in North Carolina
(WSOC/CNN/Meredith) — Police in Charlotte, North Carolina are concerned about two separate killings with many similarities.
Two transgender women were shot and killed in hotel rooms a little more than 12 miles apart.
The first victim, 29-year-old Jaida Peterson, was found dead Easter morning. The second, 28-year-old Remy Fennell, was found Thursday, just 11 days later.
Police say both women were sex workers.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) spokesperson Rob Tufano said officials worry there could be someone intentionally preying on trans women.
“There is probably arguably never a more vulnerable time for [trans women] than tonight, until this person or these people, whomever it is that is responsible for these cases, is apprehended,” Tufano said.
CMPD is reaching out to LGBTQ+ community groups to help get the word out.
Now as detectives work to fill in those answers and find out who killed these women, loved ones are praying they are caught soon.
Violence against transgender people has been on the rise. The Human Rights Campaign recorded 44 deaths of transgender and gender non-conforming people last year across the country — the most since the group started tracking the violence in 2013.
The group says there have been 14 deaths so far this year.
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Man accidentally gets one Moderna and one Pfizer COVID vaccine
While getting his second COVID-19 vaccine dose on Tuesday, a New Hampshire man accidentally received the Pfizer jab, despite his first dose having been from Moderna. Despite the unfortunate mishap, officials say he’ll be just fine, with no further shots needed for now.
“He said, ‘You ready for a poke?’ I said, ‘Sure,’ and he poked me,” New Hampshire resident Craig Richards told Manchester’s WMUR News 9 of the experience returning for his second vaccine dose this week at the same location where he’d gotten his first. “As soon as he poked me, he looked down at my card, and I think he realized he just gave me the Pfizer.”
Richards then pointed out the error.
“I looked at him and said, ‘You did not just give me the wrong shot.’ And he bolted!” Richards said. While the man may have panicked in response to realizing his mistake, Richards believes he also may have just been reacting to getting the stink eye.
“I don’t know if I had a real angry face on,” he said.
Shortly thereafter, the man’s supervisor approached Richards to discuss what had happened and to reassure him that, despite the error, all would be well.
“ ‘You’re going to be fine. The good news is, you are fully vaccinated,’ ” Richards said the supervisor told him. Still, he remained upset and concerned.
“I’m just, like, ‘This isn’t happening,’ ” he said of his response.
While medical experts reached by News 9 declined to comment on the situation due to the lack of data regarding mixing vaccine brands, New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services released a statement late Wednesday offering further reassurance. Mixing brands, while possibly not ideal or as effective as receiving two shots from either Moderna or Pfizer, is a safe alternative in an emergency situation, the department explained.
“A mixed series is safe, as (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) guidance recommends mixing the series if the brand from the first dose is not available at the second dose,” their statement said. “While there have not been any clinical studies on whether a mixed series is as effective as a complete series, it will still provide enough protection that a third dose is not necessary or recommended.”
CDC guidelines, available at the organization’s site, note: “The safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluated. Both doses of the series should be completed with the same product.” However, the CDC further instructs, “If two doses of different mRNA COVID-19 vaccine products are administered in these situations (or inadvertently), no additional doses of either product are recommended at this time.”
Richards says the ordeal has left him anxious for more information, even though he feels physically fine.
“With everything going on with Johnson & Johnson being pulled, you go home and you’re uneasy about the whole thing,” he said. “They screwed up. Something is wrong over there.”
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Bodycam video captured the moment police shot dead a 27-year-old black man after finding a gun in his waistband during a pat-down in an Ohio hospital emergency room
The cops had been searching Miles Jackson at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital in Westerville, a suburb of Columbus, on Monday in preparation for a custody exchange over warrants he had out for his arrest.
Jackson — who had been found unconscious in a vehicle by first responders — began to struggle with officers Andrew Howe and Ryan Krichbaum after one of them discovered bullets and felt a gun in his crotch area, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
“Get his arm behind his back right now!” one officer shouts as the suspect yells, “You’re grabbing my balls, man!”
The struggle escalates as the officer yells for Jackson to give him his arm and to “let go.”
“I’m going to comply, man. I’m going to comply,” Jackson says.
The other officer then uses his stun gun on Jackson, who screams out in pain and falls to the floor before a shot is fired, the chilling video shows.
One officer then runs out of the room as the other points his handgun at the suspect and yells at him to put his hands on his head and drop the weapon.
At one point, Jackson tells the officers that he “dropped it” and says he’s scared to move because he doesn’t want to get shot, according to the footage.
An officer eventually uses a stun gun for a second time on Jackson before another shot can be heard and the cops apparently open fire and quickly call for a doctor.
Emergency room staff tried to revive Jackson, who was pronounced dead, authorities said. No officers, hospital staff or physicians were injured, officials said.
Jackson had apparently been brought to the hospital earlier, walked away and was later found passed out in a nearby bank parking lot.
Westerville officer Eric Everhart, who responded along with officer David Lammert, told Jackson that he was going to pat him down before he went into an ambulance, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
“I’m just going to pat you down real quick, make sure you ain’t got nothing on you, right, no weapons, nothing like that?” the officer said.
Jackson repeatedly asked for a cigarette, saying he had anxiety. He turned away and began asking questions about why he was being taken to the hospital.
The pat-down was not completed, the paper reported.
Once Jackson was in the ER, an officer briefly handcuffed his left hand to the hospital bed. A few minutes later, an officer removed the handcuff and began collecting Jackson’s property.
“You don’t have nothing sharp in your pockets, do you?” the officer asks. “Hopefully somebody would have caught that earlier.”
About a minute later, a bullet drops from Jackson’s pants.
“Uh-oh. Got a little bullet action,” the officer says as he picks it up. “Don’t see people carrying those around every day.”
The officer then tells his partner to get Jackson’s arm around him. “He’s got a gun!” the officer yells out.
Over about three minutes, officers outside the room shouted multiple commands at Jackson to put his right hand over his head with his left hand.
“I’m just scared, guys! So if I move y’all not going to shoot me. They’re not going to shoot me?” Jackson says, adding he wasn’t going to do anything and that he was leaning on his right hand.
On Wednesday, Westerville Police Chief Charles Chandler placed the two cops who initially came into contact with Jackson — Everhart and Lammert, who are both white — on administrative leave.
He said “that if policy violations are found, there will be an appropriate level of accountability.”
In a statement, he said: “It is not customary to publicly report on personnel matters, but we are committed to transparency and fully understand the attention to this incident.”
Chandler added: “I have viewed the body camera footage from the initial contact with Miles Jackson and have concerns that warrant further review.”
It was unclear if Howe and Krichbaum will face any disciplinary action while the shooting is investigated.
Attorney General Dave Yost also is conducting an independent probe.
With Post wires
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Mom says she drowned her three kids ‘softly’ while she hugged, kissed them
A Los Angeles mother admitted to drowning her three young children — “softly” and “apologizing the whole time” — in order to keep them away from their allegedly abusive father.
Liliana Carrillo — the “sole suspect” in the gruesome slayings, according to Los Angeles police — confessed in a jailhouse interview to killing 3-year-old Joanna Denton Carrillo, 2-year-old Terry and 6-month-old Sierra amid a bitter custody battle with her estranged husband, Erik Denton, KGET-TV reported.
In a nearly 30-minute conversation at the Lerdo Pre-Trial Facility in Kern County, Carrillo flatly admitted to killing the couple’s three children, who were found dead in a Los Angeles apartment Saturday, to “protect” them from being abused.
“I drowned them,” Carrillo told reporter Eytan Wallace. “I did it as softly … I don’t know how to explain it, but, um, I hugged them and I kissed them and I was apologizing the whole time. I love my kids.”
An emotional Carrillo, 30, said she didn’t want the couple’s young kids to be “further abused,” alleging Denton was involved in human trafficking. She had also accused him of participating in a pedophile ring and allowing someone to molest one of their daughters, according to Denton and court records cited by the Los Angeles Times.
“I loved my kids,” an emotional Carrillo continued. “Like I said, I wish that this didn’t have to be the case, but I wasn’t going to allow … I promised to protect them.”
Denton had previously alerted child welfare officials in two California counties that Carrillo had become “extremely paranoid” before the slayings, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Denton said Carrillo claimed she was “solely responsible” for the COVID-19 pandemic and that he had allowed someone to molest one of their daughters, prompting an officer to go to the home, but no arrests were made.
Carrillo and her family had lived in Porterville until late February, KTTV reported.
The woman said she now expects to spend the rest of her life behind bars.
“I wish my kids were alive, yes,” Carrillo said. “Do I wish that didn’t have to do that? Yes. But I prefer them not being tortured and abused on a regular basis for the rest of their lives.”
She continued: “I know that I’m going to be in jail for the rest of my life, that’s something that I’ve come to terms with.”
Carrillo pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of carjacking, attempted carjacking and auto theft, KTTV reported. Her bond has been set at $2 million.
She has yet to be formally charged in the slayings of the couple’s children, but Los Angeles County prosecutors are expected to file murder charges this week, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Carrillo said she tried to take her own life following the slayings, saying she “tried to drive off a cliff.” She told KGET she had suffered from anxiety, depression and PTSD for much of her life and tried to get counseling previously but was unsuccessful.
Carrillo was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the slayings, she said.
“I love you and I’m sorry,” she said when asked about her final message to her children.
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Authorities release photo of FedEx gunman Brandon Scott Hole
Authorities released a photo Friday of the 19-year-old former FedEx worker who went on a shooting spree at a company facility in Indianapolis before turning the gun on himself.
Authorities have identified the shooter as Brandon Scott Hole a local man who last worked for FedEx in 2020 and had previous run-ins with police during a suicidal episode.
Cops still don’t know why Hole used a rifle to kill eight people and wound five others around 11 p.m. Thursday.
“We’ve recently identified him, so now, the work really begins, trying to establish and see if we can figure out some sort of motive in this, but we don’t have that right now,” said Deputy Chief Craig McCartt said at a press conference Friday afternoon.
It was also unclear where Hole got the rifle he used at the plant near the Indianapolis International Airport.
“There were at least 100 people in the facility at the time of the incident. … Many were changing shifts and were on their dinner breaks,” McCartt said.
The fatal victims have not yet been identified, police said.
“Crime Lab is still here they are finishing processing the scene,” McCartt said. “They’re working closely with the coroner’s office. We’re to the point now where we’re identifying victims, making notifications to the family, and then hopefully we’ll wrap up the processing of this crime scene here very shortly.”
Authorities were previously warned about Hole in 2020 when his mother told police she was worried he’d commit suicide by cop.
But the FBI eventually determined no that crime had been committed, nor that Hole had been talking about any racially motivated ideology. He was not given back the shotgun, authorities said.
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Mom of four killed when neighbor’s gun accidentally goes off while he was cleaning it
A Florida mom-of-four was killed when her neighbor’s gun accidentally went off as he was cleaning it, shooting her in the head, authorities said.
Jennifer Edelen, 47, was fatally shot inside her home on Sunday afternoon, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Her teenage daughter, who was also inside the house at the time, called 911 when she heard the gunfire, local outlet First Coast News reported.
A neighbor said he was cleaning his gun about 40 to 50 yards away from the victim, when the weapon went off by mistake, according to the sheriff’s office.
“This appears to be a tragic accident with the most unfortunate of outcomes,” said Sgt. Edwin Cayenne with the JSO Homicide Unit.
The neighbor is cooperating with investigators, who are working with the state attorney’s office to determine whether he will be charged, WJXT reported.
Friend and neighbor Linda McHenry remembered Edelen as kind and loving.
“She was just a loving person. She was a good person, I can say that. And we shared a lot together,” said Linda McHenry.
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Mississippi man partially paralyzed, unable to talk after J&J vaccine
A Mississippi man who experienced a blood clot after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, has been left paralyzed on one side of his body and unable to talk, his family said.
Brad Malagarie, 43, of St. Martin, suffered a stroke soon after stepping out last week to get the one-dose shot, news station WLOX reported.
“They called me and said he had that vaccine and something is wrong, we think it’s a stroke,” his aunt, Celeste Foster O’Keefe, told the outlet.
The father of seven was rushed to the hospital, where they determined that he had a stroke as a result of a blood clot in his brain, the outlet reported.
“I said be sure to tell the doctors he took that J & J vaccine and that, to me, is what caused his stroke,” his aunt said.
O’Keefe said he took medication for high blood pressure, but was otherwise a “young, healthy” man.
Now, the medical episode has left him paralyzed on the right side of his body, she said.
“He can’t talk now and he can’t walk. He’s paralyzed on the right side. He knows who we are and he will just cry when he sees us,” O’Keefe said.
She said doctors don’t know how long it will take him to recover.
“We want him to be able to communicate, to be able to walk and talk again, even if it’s not perfect,” O’Keefe said.
Federal regulators paused the use of the one-dose J&J shot on Tuesday after six women between the ages of 18 and 48 developed blood clots, including one who died.
On Wednesday, the drugmaker disclosed two more cases in recipients — including one man.
It’s unclear whether the inoculation is linked to the rare blood-clotting cases, which occurred out of more than 7.2 million people who have received the vaccine.
“CDC and FDA are working rapidly to investigate each case and understand whether there is a causal relationship between these blood clots and vaccine administration,” CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
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Missing Florida girl, 11, found at home of 22-year-old ‘boyfriend’
A missing 11-year-old Florida girl was found at the home of a 22-year-old man she called her “boyfriend,” according to police — who busted the alleged creep for child sex abuse.
The child was allegedly discovered at the Tampa home of Luis Alberto Encarnacion, one day after an Amber Alert was issued in a desperate attempt to find her, Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said at a press conference.
“There is no logical sense for a 22-year-old man to be with an 11-year-old child unless there was horrific things that were going to continue or go on in that place,” Nocco said.
Encarnacion is accused of preying on the child, who had already been subjected to “numerous adverse childhood experiences” — including that her dad is absent and her mom is in jail, Nocco said.
“In her mind, she thought Luis was her boyfriend,” Nocco said. “We all know that’s not real … What’s real is Luis acted like a predator on this little child.”
He added, “She has gone from one adverse childhood experience to another … She is looking for that stability, that rock, love, that caring nature that most kids are given in life.”
The girl, whose name is being withheld by The Post, likely met Encarnacion on social media, Nocco said.
Two other men — identified as Reginald Clark, 17, of Jacksonville, and Jonathon MacGregor, 19, of Clearwater — were allegedly seen in footage picking the girl up from a local 7-Eleven, according to Click Orlando.
They were arrested on charges of interfering with child custody, the outlet reported. It wasn’t immediately clear if they were linked to Encarnacion.
Encarnacion was charged with one count of concealing the location of a minor, one count of unlawful use of a communication device, two counts of lewd or lascivious battery, and two counts of sexual battery against a victim under age 12.
After Encarnacion was arrested, he allegedly admitted to the offenses, authorities said.
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Grandmother brutally beaten on LA bus by attacker who thought she was Asian
A 70-year-old woman was brutally beaten and dragged across a bus in Los Angeles by a hateful attacker who mistook her for Asian American, according to local reports.
The victim, a grandmother who is Mexican American, was trying to get off a city bus Friday when another female passenger hurled an anti-Chinese slur at her, The Eastsider reported.
The assailant then grabbed the elderly woman, identified only as Becky, to the front of the bus and pummeled her, the report said.
“Nobody would help. Not even the bus driver,” her son, Pete, told the website.
The beatdown eventually stopped after a passenger called 911, he added.
Photos of the victim, who had been on her way to go grocery shopping for her granddaughter, with a swollen eye and dark, purple bruises on her face and neck.
Her nose was broken and some of her hair pulled out, her son told the Eastsider. He added that his family members are often mistaken for Asian.
A police spokesman told the Los Angeles Times that Yasmine Beasley, 23, was arrested on felony battery charges in the attack.
He did not know whether prosecutors were pursuing hate crime charges.
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Man is arrested after trapping a police officer’s arm in his truck window and speeding off
The officer was attempting to stop the suspect, Luke Alvin Oeltjenbruns, 61, after an alleged assault over wearing a mask was reported at a Menards home improvement store in Hutchinson, a city about 60 miles west of Minneapolis.
Hutchinson Police Chief Tom Gifferson told CNN the officer approached the suspect’s truck and was standing on a running board on the driver’s side when the suspect rolled up the window, trapping the officer’s arm, and drove away with the officer clinging to the vehicle, reaching speeds up to 40 mph.
The officer used his rescue hammer to break the window to free his own arm, but the suspect took the hammer and began striking the officer in the head with it, Gifferson said.
Police had responded to the Menards store after a report of a man assaulting an employee with lumber in a dispute over wearing a mask, according to a Hutchinson Police statement.
Oeltjenbruns led officers on a slow-speed pursuit before stopping.
Police arrested Oeltjenbruns and booked him on first-degree assault.
The officer was taken to a local hospital for his injuries and is resting at home, said Gifferson.
The case is still under investigation by the McLeod County Sheriff’s Office.
CNN is trying to determine whether Oeltjenbruns has legal representation.
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