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St. Louis boy, 12, shot to death while playing with gun; parents charged with involuntary manslaughter
ST. LOUIS • The parents of a 12-year-old boy who was shot to death while home alone with his younger brother were charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter.
Damian Holmes, 12, and his brother, 9, were left home alone Tuesday night in the 3300 block of Michigan Avenue when they found a gun and started playing with it, police said.
A round struck Damian in the head about 10:35 p.m; police are not saying who fired the shot.
The boys’ father came home and took the 12-year-old to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Donnie L. Holmes, 41, was charged with second-degree involuntary manslaughter, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm and four counts of marijuana possession.
The probable cause statement said Holmes and his wife, Yolanda Jackson, had left the boys home alone. A handgun and shotgun both were in the house, along with ammunition for both. The handgun was not secured, and the boys got to it.
Lab tests of substances that officers found in the house showed the presence of drugs, including amphetamine, cocaine and marijuana.
Donnie Holmes has previous convictions for drug possession in 1993, drug dealing in 1996 and failure to pay child support in 2009.
Jackson, 40, was charged with second-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child endangerment.
A neighbor, Brenda Harger, 62, said the boys were often left alone.
“Most of the time they are there by themselves,” she said. “The mother would leave for work, and the dad would leave after she left.”
Damian was a sixth-grade student at Monroe Elementary School in St. Louis. A spokesperson for the district said a crisis response team was at the school Wednesday for students and staff.
“A couple of weeks ago they helped me clean up the alley,” Harger said of the boys. “I gave them a pack of cookies. They were sweet little boys.”
This is the second fatal shooting of a child who was playing with a gun in just more than a month in St. Louis.
On Feb. 13, Mi’Kenzie Bostic, 6, was shot and killed by one of her three siblings in their apartment in Walnut Park West while her parents slept in the next room. Mi’Kenzie’s parents were later charged with involuntary manslaughter.
12 Year Old Boy Charged With Capital Murder
A 12 year old boy from Arkansas has been charged with capital murder for the death of a 21 year old store clerk. Christa Shockley’s body was found Thursday at a gas station in Fouke, 140 miles southwest of Little Rock. The boy was arrested later on that day when police discovered the gun that they believed was part of the crime.
The boy is being held in a juvenile detention center facing charges of capital murder and aggravated robbery. Because of state law he cannot be charged as an adult. However he can be held at the detention center until his 21st birthday where he will either be released or sent to an adult prison.
Two lives has been lost in this situation, one an innocent store clerk and the other a young boy who pretty much threw his life away. I hope this young boy thinks this was worth it because he will be living with this choice for the rest of his life.
Former “Attack On Titan” Editor Arrested For Wife’s Murder
The Tokyo Metropolitan police has just arrested Chonhyon Park on charges of homicide this Tuesday morning. 41-year-old Park is the assistant editor-in-chief of Kodansha‘s Morning magazine, and was an editor of the popular anime and manga series Attack on Titan manga series.
According to the Criminal Investigation Division, Park allegedly strangled his wife, 38-year-old Kanako Park, to death in the early morning on August 9, 2016 at their home in the Bunkyō ward of Tokyo. Later on at around around 2:45 a.m. that same morning, Park dialed 911 and told them that when he arrived home, he had found his wife unresponsive at the bottom of the stairs near an entrance to their home. She was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
In the report Park claimed that his wife killed her self by hanging but an autopsy report showed signs of strangulation around her neck. There was also security camera footage showing no signs of an intruder entering their home. The couple including their four children were home at the time of the incident.
Kodansha has stated that “Park maintains his innocence. We await the results of the investigation and are dealing with this incident with the utmost caution.”
It’s sad when you hear about people who are SUPPOSE to love and cherish one another killing one or the other. To top it off these four kids lost both parents not just one, one to murder and the other to the system. Hopefully justice is served quick for this scumbag.
Man Killed By Police In Connecticut Dispute
A man in Fairfield, Connecticut was shot and killed by police this Tuesday morning after a call was received stating he was attacking his family.
The incident occurred at around 6:00 a.m. this morning after police were called about domestic dispute. A child in the home managed to escape the home and was able to call 911. Police soon arrived and found that the suspects wife and children had wounds on them that appeared to be from slicking and stabbing and blunt force trauma. The suspect was soon shot and killed by police.
Of the three victims, the man’s wife and one of his children are listed in critical condition and are now hospitalized. The family has not been identified.
Despite the loss of the this woman’s husband and the children’s father, it sounds relieving to hear that these people are out of harms way from this man. Hopefully they’ll make a full recovery and are able to move on from this situation.
11 Year Old Charged In 8 Year Old’s Murder
An 11 year old boy from Tennessee has been charged with murder in the shooting of an 8 year old girl.
Benjamin Tiller of White Pine, Tennessee was charged last week with first degree murder in the death of McKayla Dyer after sn argument over puppies.
The incident occurred back in October when Tiller was talking to three other girls about seeing one of the girls new puppies. After she refused Tiller them retrieved his father’s 12-gauge shotgun and shot the young girl from the window.
As of the conviction, Tiller is set to spend the rest of his childhood in state custody. However his parents are planning to appeal the decision. Tiller was trained in using firearms and has gone hunting with his father and grandfather.
So just because a girl didn’t show this kid her puppies, he felt the need to shoot her. I don’t know why the parents are trying to appeal this, their child knows right from wrong and he had plenty of time to reconsider the decision he made. But that’s my opinion, let me know your thoughts.
Tattooed Man Arrested After 4-Hour Standoff
Remember people, meth is a hell of a drug and this story proves just that. 32-year-old Matthew Joseph Medlin was arrested Saturday after a four-hour standoff with Portland. Medlin was also reportedly high on meth and had been awake for 26 hours before police arrived.
The stand off began after police received a report of a man seen climbing on top of train cars at a rail yard. Police say they tried to talk to him, and he allegedly jumped inside of an open rail car, refusing to come out and grabbing objects around him to use as weapons.
During the confrontation with officers, he injected himself with more meth and began acting even more crazy. They withstood the debris and eventually used a taser to subdue him. He was taken to an area hospital for treatment and booked into the Multnomah County Jail on numerous charges. Those charges include two counts of first-degree criminal mischief, two counts of resisting arrest, two counts of second-degree criminal trespass, interfering with a peace officer, and disorderly conduct. He is also being held on an unrelated parole violation.
Suspects claim teen was having sex with father before alleged gang rape
The fifth suspect wanted in the gang rape of an 18-year-old girl in Brooklyn last week was nabbed Tuesday at school, law enforcement sources said.
The suspect, Travis Beckford, 17, of Brooklyn was being questioned by cops after he was picked up at Tilden High School. He has yet to be charged, sources said. Meanwhile, two other suspects in the shocking crime told investigators that the five youths came across the young woman as she was having sex with her father in the Osborn Playground in Brownsville around 9 p.m. Thursday, sources said.
“Can we have some of that?” one asked the dad, who was allegedly drunk and had been boozing with his daughter before the attack, sources said.
Two of the teens say they then had consensual sex with the victim while her sloshed dad staggered away.
The dad returned and chucked a bottle at the teens, who fled, said one of the suspects, according to the sources. The victim, the sources added, was combative, tried to flee from cops at the scene and bit an officer when she was finally placed in an ambulance after first refusing to go to the hospital and fighting with EMS.The woman claimed to have bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, but was not prescribed any medicines.
Police observed multiple healed scars on the victim’s arms.
Once she arrived at Kings County Hospital, she finally consented to a rape kit test.
Cops took her clothing and underwear, which they found at the scene, for DNA testing.
The dad walked into two local delis looking for help — but was too drunk for anyone to understand him, witnesses said.
“He was swaying side to side. He asked me, ‘Lend me your phone.’ I said no,’’ said a worker in one of the shops, Zaida Deli and Grocery.
“He didn’t tell me it was an emergency or ‘I need to call the police’ or of course I would’ve given it to him or just called the police for him.”
As for two of the suspects’ claims that the sex was consensual, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said, “At this juncture, we have no doubt she was raped.”
The first four teens were charged early Tuesday for their roles in the gang rape, while charges were pending against the fifth alleged attacker.
Denzel Murray, 14, Shaquell Cooper, 15, Ethan Phillip, 15, and Onandi Brown, 17, were each charged with rape, forcible compulsion, criminal sex act and sex abuse, police said.
The four teens were all charged as adults and were being held pending arraignment early Tuesday.
Two of the teens were brought in by their mothers Sunday night, the third was picked up at an undisclosed location and the fourth turned himself in, sources said.
“She has cuts and bruises consistent with being physically attacked,” a source added of the victim.
Police said the girl told detectives in a “detailed interview” at her house that one of her attackers had a bright red “satin-type’’ jacket on.
A video of the teens at a local bodega shows at least one of them wearing such a jacket, police said.
While two of the teens claim they engaged in consensual sex with her, a third suspect said he left the playground before the assault, sources said. The fourth teen is refusing to talk.
Police said they have video that shows the girl and her dad buying 22-ounce cans of beer at a bodega and entering the park before the attack.
The victim told cops that she and her 39-year-old dad — whom she only recently reconnected with after being adopted — were drinking near the handball courts “to be away from the police,” sources said.
Their plan backfired when the teens, including one with a gun, confronted them and ordered the father to scram, the pair told cops.
Surveillance video from the store shows the victim’s father walking inside before he begins to chat with two men. He does not appear to be frantic or in distress.
After walking out of the store, the dad drunkenly ran past a marked police car before eventually circling back and alerting the cops to his daughter’s attack — 20 minutes after the alleged rape first began to unfold, sources said.
Local activists complained that residents didn’t learn of the attack until it was publicized by the media over the weekend — and Mayor Bill de Blasio joined in the chorus of gripes Monday.
“The mayor was informed on Sunday of the tragic assault in Brooklyn. After further conversations with the NYPD, the mayor now believes strongly that the local community should have been informed sooner and has instructed that the NYPD notify communities more quickly moving forward, whenever appropriate,” a rep said.