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Pregnant woman beaten up after not giving boyfriend food stamp card
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man was arrested after allegedly beating his pregnant girlfriend when she refused to give him her food stamp card, PIX11 sister station WREG reports.
The victim told police she was sitting in her car in the 3400 block of Briar Park West Saturday when Hosea Taylor walked up to the vehicle. That’s when he reportedly assaulted her and stole her backpack, which he thought contained her wallet.
After speaking with the victim, police said they spotted Taylor and followed him to a home on Winchester where he was taken into custody.
He reportedly admitted to stealing the backpack from the victim.
Taylor was charged with domestic assault and robbery.
In December, police responded to another alleged domestic incident involving the couple. Taylor was arrested in that incident but charges were later dropped.
Father stabs 16-month-old son to death, yells ‘Jesus is coming’
DALLAS — A father was charged with capital murder Tuesday after police said he stabbed his 16-month-old son at a Dallas-area apartment complex.
Blair Ness, 27, is charged in the death of his toddler son, Ashton Ness. Authorities said the father was shot in the leg by a neighbor trying to stop the attack on Sunday.
Lewisville police Capt. Mike Lane said Ness had significant injuries to his hand from the knife, along with the shooting wound.
Police also said witnesses reported that Ness yelled “Jesus is coming” before the attack.
There’s no clear motive behind the slaying. Authorities said Tuesday that detectives were interviewing the suspect. Bond was set at $1.5 million.
According to a police affidavit, the attack is believed to have begun inside Ness’ apartment, which was filled with a smoky haze and smelled of newly burnt marijuana. Police found a large blood stain on the master bedroom carpet, with a blood-stained folding knife and skull fragments lying by the bedroom door.
Officers found a trail of blood leading outside to where neighbors witnessed the attack, and several kitchen knives were found in the grass next to a pool of blood, the affidavit stated.
Ness was found on a patio and was subdued with a shock gun when he refused police commands.
As he was being handcuffed, Ness said: “I know everyone’s mad. I’m mad. I killed my son,” according to the affidavit.
Ness’ girlfriend and the child’s mother, Alexandra Murphy, arrived shortly after police. She said that when she left for work earlier Sunday, Ness was feeding their son.
She said she could think of no reason why Ness would want to hurt their son, according to the affidavit. Ness had been reading the Bible extensively recently, she said, and they had been attending church services.
A GoFundMe has been created to raise funds for Ashton Ness’ mother with expenses.
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Omarosa taped call with Trump after she was fired
President Donald Trump appeared to be unaware that Omarosa Manigault Newman was fired by White House chief of staff John Kelly, according to an audio recording of a phone conversation aired on NBC’s “Today” Monday morning.
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3 Georgia Workers Accused of Making Snapchat Video Titled ‘The End’ While in Room With Dying Stroke Victim
Police arrested three employees of a Georgia assisted living facility after they allegedly made a Snapchat video titled “The End” while in a room with a dying stroke victim, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Nineteen-year-old Lizeth Jocelyn Cervantes Ramirez, 21-year-old Jorden Lanah Bruce and 21-year-old Mya Janai Moss all face charges of exploiting an elderly and disabled person, the newspaper reported.
The three women, who were employees of Bentley Senior Living in Jefferson, were supposed to be monitoring a 76-year-old woman until a hospice worker showed up. Instead, they ignored her and recorded the Snapchat story, according to the paper, in which the victim does not appear.
“One of them was smoking a vape pen. They were using profanities and (making obscene hand gestures) at the camera,” a Jefferson Police Department detective told Atlanta station WSB-TV.
Another Bentley employee noticed what was happening and reported the trio, police said, leading to their June 22 arrest.
Moss and Bruce were both released on bond, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took custody of Ramirez.
Teen accused of killing 3-year-old smiles in Georgia court, sparking near brawl
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Deputies had to restrain the mother of a 3-year-old boy Friday when the 15-year-old boy accused of killing him appeared to smirk while waiting for his bond hearing to start.
“What’s funny? What’s funny?” yelled Roshanda Craig, as deputies rushed to separate members of the victim’s family and the defendant’s family.
Christopher Cullins, 15, an eighth grade student at Sylvan Hills Middle School, was arrested at his school 10 days after the April 1 shooting that claimed the life of 3-year-old T’Rhigi Craig. Cullins is charged as an adult with murder.
The little boy was asleep in the backseat of his mother’s SUV when he was struck by a bullet meant for someone else, police said.
According to detectives, it all started when some people in cars drove past a gas station at the intersection of Bouldercrest and Eastland roads and fired paintball guns at customers.
Cullins and his family happened to be at the gas station. Cullins, furious about being struck by a paintball, grabbed his cousin’s gun, according to police, and fired at least one shot toward the cars where the paintball fire originated. The bullet missed the people who fired the paintball guns and instead struck the boy, killing him.
Child sex offender serving 300 years is set free
COLORADO — He was set to pay for his crimes in prison for at least 316 years. But on Tuesday, 46-year-old Michael McFadden walked out of Colorado’s Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility a free man, released under circumstances that have left Mesa County’s district attorney “appalled,” per the Daily Sentinel.
McFadden, who was convicted in 2015 of sexual assault against six children, appealed his conviction by claiming that his right to a speedy trial had been violated due to delays, and in June of last year, the Colorado Court of Appeals overturned his conviction, KKCO reports.
The state’s Supreme Court declined to hear the case last month, keeping the appeals court’s decision in place and resulting in McFadden’s release.
“We are without remedy,” DA Dan Rubenstein lamented. “If you’ve heard the phrase, ‘he got off on a technicality,’ this is exactly that situation,” he added, per KKCO.
Rubenstein took to Facebook to explain McFadden’s release at length so the community “can take action at the next election of [the] court of appeals judges” involved.
It initially appeared McFadden wouldn’t have to add his name to any sex offender registry, since his crimes were officially vacated. He’d been convicted once before for sexually assaulting a child, but that conviction happened before it was required by law for sex offenders to add their names to a public register.
However, Rubenstein said Thursday that McFadden will have to register based on that 1990 case.
Word as of Thursday was that McFadden was holed up in homeless shelters in Colorado Springs and was trying to get enough cash to take a bus to Florida.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/03/02/child-sex-offender-serving-300-years-is-set-free/
Georgia teacher arrested for shooting gun in classroom
GEORGIA — A north Georgia high school teacher was arrested on Wednesday after he barricaded himself in a classroom and fired a shot from his handgun out of a window, police said.
No one was injured in the incident at Dalton High School, except for a female student who injured an ankle running through the school, police spokesman Bruce Frazier said.
The shooting about 85 miles north of Atlanta heightened the already tense debate around guns in schools in the wake of the deadly mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, two weeks ago.
President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association, among others, have proposed that teachers should be allowed to bring firearms into schools to defend against possible attacks. But critics have said arming teachers would create a host of other dangerous side effects, and pointed to the Dalton shooting as Exhibit A in that argument.
The incident began about 11:30 a.m. when Randal Davidson, a 53-year-old social studies teacher, refused to let students into his classroom while he was in his planning period, Frazier said. When the principal put a key in the door in an attempt to enter, Davidson fired a shot from a handgun through an exterior window of the classroom, Frazier said.
The school went into lockdown, and police quickly arrived and evacuated the immediate area around his classroom. After about 30 to 45 minutes, Davidson agreed to surrender and was taken into custody without further incident, Frazier said.
Frazier said there was no evidence Davidson was trying to fire at anyone.
“It certainly seemed like he didn’t have any intention to harm anybody else,” Frazier said.
Police later tweeted that Davidson would face charges of aggravated assault, carrying a weapon on school grounds, terroristic threats, reckless conduct, possession of gun during commission of a crime, and disrupting a public school.
Dalton police said the school resource officer, who has a close relationship with school staff, was at the junior high school when the incident began and then came to Davidson’s classroom. The officer was able to speak to the teacher and persuade him to leave his room without harming anyone.
“We’re very, very proud of this officer and everything that he did to render this horrible situation safe as quick as what he did,” Dalton police Assistant Chief Cliff Cason said.
Cason praised the school’s lockdown drill as “flawless” and said it made it easier for police to quickly reach the teacher.
“When we got there, they directed us where we needed to go and it made things so much easier for us because it wasn’t mass chaos, as you see at times,” Cason said.
In a lockdown drill, teachers are instructed to gather students into classrooms, lock the room, turn off the lights and move away from windows, Principal Steve Bartoo said.
Davidson has been a teacher at Dalton since 2004 and was the play-by-play radio announcer for the high school’s football team, Frazier said. Police did not release any explanation for what happened.
Bartoo said Davidson was an “excellent teacher” who was “well thought of in our building.”
Classes will resume Friday. Students can go by the school Thursday to claim their belongings.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/03/01/georgia-teacher-arrested-for-shooting-gun-in-classroom-police/
Toddler dies on front porch in freezing weather
AKRON, Ohio — Police in Akron, Ohio are investigating the death of a 2-year-old girl who was found out in the cold on her front porch.
The frantic mother called 911 after discovering her 2-year-old unresponsive. The girl was taken to Akron Children’s Hospital where she died.
The temperature for much of Friday remained in the teens.
“You’re gonna carefully tilt the head back, you’re gonna pinch her nose closed and completely cover her mouth with your mouth and blow two regular breaths into the lungs,” says a dispatcher on the 911 call.
Police were called to the apartment around 3:30 p.m. on Friday. The mother told the 911 dispatcher she found her daughter ‘frozen’ outside.
“I cried because I just don’t understand how a 2-year-old could be outside and you not know,” neighbor Crystal Lucas told WJW.
Lucas says the woman who lives in the apartment kept to herself and had two children, the 2-year-old girl and a boy. She was surprised when police officers knocked on her door.
“It was freezing and that was my biggest worry when the cops came, when they started asking about the kids, they didn’t divulge what was really going on, but when he asked about the kids, obviously something was going on and I was worried,” Lucas said.
Neighbors say they would occasionally hear people arguing outside of the apartment. Lucas says she has seen both children outside alone before.
“I’ve had to take the baby home because she’ll be outside playing…it was a few times that I had to take both of her kids home,” she said.
No one answered the door when WJW went to the apartment.
“It’s just a very sad situation, it literally broke my heart,” said Lucas.
Police are not releasing the toddler’s name, but say they are still investigating. The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office will be conducting an autopsy.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/02/05/ohio-toddler-dies-on-front-porch-in-freezing-weather/
Man mistakes house for his own, kills neighbor thinking he was an intruder
RAYTOWN, Mo. — A Missouri man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after he allegedly went to his neighbor’s home, thinking it was his own, then choked his neighbor to death on the victim’s front yard.
Police believe Michael G. Augustine was drunk at the time he allegedly killed 60-year-old Clifton King, according to WDAF.
King died in his front yard Friday night, after he came to his door to find Augustine trying to come inside.
Neighbors told WDAF that Augustine, who lives down the block, believed the home was his and that King had broken in.
During the incident, Augustine called 911 to report that he had an intruder in a chokehold.
But when officers arrived at Augustine’s address, no one was there. They later found both men about a block up the street at King’s house.
According to court documents, police believe Augustine was drunk because his speech was incoherent and officers noted a strong smell of alcohol.
A neighbor, who did not want her face to appear on camera because the incident has made her concerned for her own safety, said she watched paramedics try to revive King, a military veteran, for about 30 minutes.
“He served our country and that was not an honorable way to treat him,” the woman said. “I think that it’s sad. It’s sad. Someone had to give up their life because someone was so messed up they didn’t know it wasn’t their home.”
Other neighbors said that King had been homeless at one time in his life because he couldn’t find a job but as long as he lived in their neighborhood, he was friendly and kind.
Some neighbors said they feel guilty about not immediately calling police themselves when they heard the commotion. They said there are often arguments on the block, and some thought it was better for them not to get involved.
Prosecutors have charged Augustine with first-degree involuntary manslaughter. Neighbors said he’s already posted bond and moved out of the area.
There was no answer at his door when WDAF tried to speak with him.
Colorado Woman Charged With Murder After Father’s Body Found Encased in Concrete Inside Crawl Space
The daughter of a man whose body was found inside a Colorado home has been charged with first-degree murder, the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.
Dayna Jennings, 44, was arrested Wednesday in the death of her father, 69-year-old William Mussack, whose remains were found inside a home in the 10000 block of Eliot Circle in Federal Heights, according to KTLA sister station KDVR in Denver.
His body was found in the crawl space encased in concrete and Jennings admitted to pouring that concrete, according to court documents.
Although those documents do not list a cause of death, it does say family members believe Mussack was drugged because of a prior incident where he was found unconscious for 15 hours last December after taking a bite of a hamburger Jennings gave to him.
Jennings has been charged with first-degree murder after deliberation and tampering with a deceased human body.
A preliminary hearing was set for Feb. 15 in Adams County District Court.
Family and friends had been searching for Mussack for two weeks and notified authorities in late December.
Police executed a search warrant on the home on Wednesday where Mussack’s body was found.
The Federal Heights Police Department said Jennings and Mussack shared a house. Neighbors said Jennings’ boyfriend also lived at the home.
Authorities have not said when they suspect Mussack was killed.