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25/02/2024

Houston Texas sheriff's deputies open fire on a woman after they mistook her for an intruder. The woman, identified as Eboni Pouncy, was shot five times and hit in the leg and torso

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office released the point-of-view footage of the early Feb. 3 incident that left Eboni Pouncy shot five times, in what the 28-year-old’s attorney called “unnecessary and excessive force” by the deputies.
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25/02/2024

A South Florida Uber driver is accused of picking up a tourist he wasn't assigned to in Miami Beach before bringing her to a motel against her own will.

The victim says Danny Maurad-Avecillas was posing as her Uber driver and instead of taking her to her Airbnb, she woke up in a motel without her clothes on.

She claims that he s*xually assaulted her and used her credit card to pay for the motel and to fill up his car with gas.
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25/02/2024

CCTV footage shows the moments after a father allegedly murdered his own son. 22-year-old Eric Contreras died after being fatally shot in November 2023, and his father is the person accused of his murder.
David Contreras is facing charges of second-degree murder and was arrested on the day of his son's death.
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24/02/2024

Kristel Candelario, left 16-month-old Jailyn home alone and unattended at her Cleveland home in a playpen for TEN DAYS so she could go to Puerto Rico and Detroit

Prosecutors said Candelario returned to her Cleveland home on June 16, 2023, and found her daughter had not been breathing.

The Cleveland Division of Police and the Cleveland Division of Fire responded to the scene and pronounced Jailyn dead shortly after they arrived.

Jailyn was extremely dehydrated at the time of death. The 16-month-old child was discovered in a Pack-N-Play pen on a liner soiled with urine and f***s with soiled blankets

An autopsy by the Cuyahoga County medical examiner´s office determined that the toddler had died of starvation and severe dehydration.

Kristel Candelario was indicted on charges of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, felonious assaults and endangering children.

WKYC Channel 3

23/02/2024

41-year-old Minnesota Magnus Daniel Humphrey was arrested in connection with the September killing of a model, Maleesa Mooney who was severely beaten, bound, gagged and stuffed inside the refrigerator of her downtown Los Angeles apartment, pleaded not guilty Thursday at a court appearance.

Magnus Daniel Humphrey, who is on probation for federal narcotics offenses, was taken into custody at his home in Minnesota on an unrelated federal warrant, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

He subsequently waived extradition proceedings and agreed to be transferred to Los Angeles, where he pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and torture stemming from the September killing of Maleesa Mooney.

Mooney's body was found two days after another model, 32-year-old Nichole Coats, was found dead inside a downtown apartment less than three miles away. Police eventually determined the deaths were not related, and the Medical Examiner later ruled Coats' death an accident due to "co***ne and ethanol toxicity."

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Notorious double child killer Howard Steven Ault will be executed over infamous 1996 s*x killings of two young sisters a...
23/02/2024

Notorious double child killer Howard Steven Ault will be executed over infamous 1996 s*x killings of two young sisters aged 7 and 11, which saw him r**e oldest victim in front of her younger sibling then strangle both

A notorious double child killer is set to be executed over the infamous 1996 murders of two young sisters after a jury condemned him to death row for the third time.

Howard Steven Ault, 57, was initially sentenced to death in 2000, but several legal challenges and changes to Florida's death row process have meant two further juries have weighed in, culminating in a 9-3 vote this week to execute him.

He shocked the nation almost 30 years ago when he lured DeAnn Emerald Mu’min, 11, and her younger sister, Alicia Sybilla Jones, 7, to his home with the promise of Halloween candy.

Jurors deliberated for two days before voting 9-3 to sentence Ault to death again, with his fate decided by the non-unanimous ruling thanks to a new law introduced by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

The governor signed a bill in April allowing the death penalty in his state to be approved with a jury vote as low as 8-4.

Ault has been imprisoned since his arrest shortly after the murders, but has been on-and-off death row several times despite his heinous crime.

Three years after his initial conviction in 2000, the Florida Supreme Court ordered Ault to undergo a retrial over concerns about the jury selection in his trial.

He was then resentenced in 2007 for the murders of the young girls in a 9-3 vote, and he sat on death row for over a decade until another Florida Supreme Court ruling in 2017.

The court found Florida's death penalty process was unconstitutional as it did not require jurors to make a unanimous decision.

With Ault waiting for yet another sentencing hearing, the case was complicated by the 2018 Parkland school shooting, as the gunman who killed 17 was spared the death penalty as the jury only voted 12-9 for death.

Amid outrage over the jury's vote, DeSantis pushed for lowering the threshold, ultimately leading to Ault's third death sentence this week.

According to a New York Times article from after his arrest in 1996, Ault was known as a longtime s*xoffender in the state of Florida who was on house arrest for an unrelated s*xcrime involving another child at the time of the sisters' murders.

He quickly confessed to the killings and led investigators to their bodies in the attic of his building.

Police found that he had befriended the sisters and their mother shortly before the killings, and although he was on house arrest, Ault was not monitored electronically and was only subject to visitations from his probation officer.

His arrest sparked outrage as many questioned why a convicted child predator was able to have contact with the young girls, with Ault owning a 10-year criminal record at the time.

In 1986, he was charged in connection with a violent attack on a couple on a beach, for which he was handed three years' probation.

Within two years, he pleaded guilty to attempted burglary and the attempted s*xual battery of a 12-year-old girl, which landed him a seven-year prison sentence.

However, Ault was released after just three years and nine months due to prison overcrowding.

Then in 1994, he pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and s*xual activity with a six-year-old child who lived in his neighborhood - which he was sentenced to house arrest for.

He was also accused on New Years Eve in 1995 of attempting to r**e an 11-year-old neighbor but was never arrested over the alleged crime.

At the funeral for the sisters he murdered, fury over the system that allowed him to reoffend was palpable.

One attendee, Laura Mucilli, 60, who didn't know the girls but wanted to support their funeral, said at the time: 'We need to start som**hing where one time they hurt a baby, they never see the light of day.

'We are the people. We make the laws. One time, and never see the light of day again. That's all that has to happen.'

Tederin Lane, 41, a cousin of the sisters' mother, added: 'They ought to put a tattoo on these murderers so the kids can know what they're running into.'

Now, although a jury voted to sentence him to death for the third time, he will still be subject to formal sentencing by a judge.

He is scheduled for a status hearing on April 11.

www.dailymail.co.uk

23/02/2024

Jurors deliberated for two days before voting 9-3 to sentence Ault to death again, with his fate decided by the non-unanimous ruling thanks to a new law introduced by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

The governor signed a bill in April allowing the death penalty in his state to be approved with a jury vote as low as 8-4.

Howard Steven Ault, 57, was on death row for the 1996 r**e and murder of two sisters, DeAnn Emerald Mu’min and Alicia Sybilla Jones who were just 11 and 7 years old. The victims were found in the attic of his Fort Lauderdale home -- a stunning crime that shocked South Florida.

Ault lured the sisters into his duplex, promising them Halloween candy. He then r**ed DeAnn Emerald Mu’min in front of her younger sister, Alicia Sybilla Jones, before strangling both girls, authorities said.

Howard Steven Ault was sentenced to death twice before, but the Florida Supreme Court granted him a resentencing trial after each one, bringing the issue of his sentence back before a jury.

Jurors considered aggravating factors such as the nature and motivation of his crimes, the victims ages and whether the murders were especially “heinous, atrocious or cruel”. The jury also considered mitigating factors, including Ault’s own history with childhood abuse, chaotic family life and mental disorders

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21/02/2024

NYC migrant families could make up to $15K per year under controversial $53M pre-paid credit card program

The program will give migrants up to $10,000 each in taxpayer money with no ID check, no restrictions and no fraud control.

A family of four migrants with two children under age 17 could get $15,200 a year under NYC’s controversial new $53 million program to dole out pre-paid credit cards to asylum seekers

20/02/2024

Migrants attack NYPD

Migrants surrounded about five uniformed officers and threw bottles and debris at them as the cops tried to apprehend a disorderly man inside the shelter

At one point, someone hurls a backpack, striking a cop in her head with it. A few moments later, a shelter resident with crutches tries to poke an officer.

Shelter residents are seen screaming at the officers in Spanish. Cops are holding up their batons to deflect the objects being thrown at them.

Cops were called to the shelter around 11 a.m. when a man began arguing with security guards and was “acting in a disorderly fashion,” an NYPD spokesman said.

The man, wearing a white T-shirt, was not a shelter resident, a source said.

In the video, the man can be seen on the floor surrounded by officers who are struggling with him and trying to handcuff him, enraging witnesses watching the arrest.

No injuries were reported.

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20/02/2024

Surveillance footage revealed a shopper in a kilt inserting display items up his behind before returning them to the shelves.

Mitchell C Vest, 60, was arrested on February 15 and charged with one count of criminal mischief for his treatment of items including a makeup brush, a 'Restoration hardware piece', an antique bottle opener and a 'to***co tent can.'
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15/02/2024

Cop resigns after mistaking falling acorn for gunshot, firing at unarmed suspect cuffed in patrol car

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Jesse Hernandez handed in his badge in December following the Nov. 12 Fort Walton Beach incident, officials said Friday.

Sgt. Beth Roberts, who also opened fire, was exonerated in an internal investigation and remained on the job, according to police.

The suspect, Marquis Jackson, was luckily uninjured, but the “situation was traumatic” for him, police acknowledged.

The police-involved shooting was captured on Hernandez’s bodycam footage and released by the department.

The deputies had responded to a complaint from Jackson’s girlfriend, who alleged that the man had committed grand theft auto, threatened her and was in possession of multiple fi****ms and a silencer,

No criminal charges were filed against the officers

14/02/2024

A Wisconsin woman accused of killing a man who s*xually assaulted her and other underage girls was arrested in Louisiana after nearly two weeks on the run.

Kizer was free on $400,000 bond and awaiting trial in the June 2018 death of 34-year-old Randall Volar III . She was charged last month with misdemeanor disorderly conduct in a domestic violence case at a Milwaukee home. A condition of her bond was that she does not commit any crimes, and Kenosha County prosecutors filed bail jumping charges against her stemming from the Milwaukee County incident.
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Chrystul Kizer was 16 years old when she met Randal P. Volar III, 33, at a bus stop. He offered to give her a ride home, then got her number. The next time they met, according to Chrystul, he took her to dinner and shopping then made clear what he expected in return. For two years, Volar regularly engaged in s*xual abuse of Chrystul, and without her knowing it, filmed their interactions. Little did she know, Volar was under investigation by local police for abusing and filming many more girls but they had not yet arrested him. One night, after resisting his advances, Chrystul shot Volar in the head. She lit his house on fire and fled in his car. After posting about the crime on Facebook Live, she was arrested and charged with his murder.

14/02/2024

Pastor Herbert Miller is charged with possessing rock and liquid crystal m**hamphetamine, which he allegedly intended to distribute so he could watch 'gay s*x' while living double-life as preacher at Connecticut church

Woodbury United Methodist Church Rev. Herbert Miller was pulled over Friday for driving with a suspended registration and failing to maintain insurance requirements, according to Connecticut State Police. Cops said the 63-year-old reverend was also in possession of a hypodermic needle loaded with m**h.

Pastor Herbert Miller is accused of dealing drugs from his Woodbury home, which is next door to the church where he worked

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14/02/2024

nine-year-old boy handed cops a 100-gram bag of m**hamphetamine he found under his drug-dealing mother's nightstand

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14/02/2024

Jacob William Weight Sr., 37, and Mimi Ann Frost, 33 have been arrested after Pennsylvania officials say they kept their 6-year-old daughter locked in a dog crate and tortured her.

Officials were called to their home for reports of an unresponsive 6-year-old.
When troopers arrived, they found the home in deplorable conditions, with dog f***s, trash and urine throughout the home.

Six children between the ages of 5 and 17 were also living in the home, but officials said only the 6-year-old girl was targeted. After speaking with the other children, they learned that the girl had been kept in a dog cage, naked zip-tied and beaten without food. She would be punished if she was able to escape that cage to go get food.

There’s evidence that a few of the other children may have participated in the abuse with the parents

11/02/2024

The driver was operating an M15 bus in Lower Manhattan when police say Rashon Eagle, 43, punched him in the head and pulled a knife on him.

The 58-year-old driver says he managed to disarm the suspect and restrain him.

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11/02/2024

Missouri Mother, Mariah Thomas, 26, is charged with baking her newborn baby daughter to death in an OVEN after mistaking kitchen appliance for infant's crib

A devastated friend of Thomas' told DailyMail.com that Za'Riah was a 'very bubbly' baby, who was 'smiling all the time'.

'Mariah had mental issues from what I know and didn’t have the mindset of a adult, she thought like a child,' the friend said, adding she last talked to the mom on Monday.

Za'Riah's grandfather told police he received a call from her mom at around 1pm on Friday in which she told him 'som**hing was wrong with the baby and he needed to return home immediately'.
On returning home immediately began to smell smoke and found Za'Riah dead in her crib. Thomas told him she had 'accidentally' put her in the oven.

Za'Riah was discovered by police in a car seat inside her home with 'apparent thermal injuries on various parts of a her body'.
She was wearing a bodysuit over a diaper which appeared to have melted onto it which was 'very dirty, possibly burned'. A charred baby blanket was also discovered and taken as evidence.

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11/02/2024

Police said the alleged shooter Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa is from Venezuela and arrived in New York City less than six months ago. He has been living in a shelter on the Upper West Side.

Detectives are investigating whether he is the same teen wanted in two other crimes, including a Bronx armed robbery on Jan. 27 and in a shots-fired case near a Midtown park.

The gunman who police said shot a Brazilian tourist in the leg and fired at an NYPD officer after shoplifting at a Times Square sporting goods store was arrested in Yonkers
NBC

10/02/2024

26-year-old Nicolas Sternaman is facing charges of kidnapping a child under 13, aggravated child abuse, as well as assault and battery after Miami Beach police say he attempted to kidnap a child right in front of his parents as they were leaving a store

10/02/2024

BODYCAM: Police to pay $1.9m to Black family held at gunpoint in Colorado

A mother and four children, who were held at gunpoint by police in Aurora Colorado, have been awarded $1.9m in a settlement.

This same city settled for $15 million in 2021 with the parents of Elijah McClain. He was a 23-year-old Black man who was killed in 2019 after he was stopped as he walked down the street, placed in a neck hold and injected with the sedative Ketamine

Brittney Gilliam was wrongfully stopped in 2020 at a parking lot, along with her six-year-old daughter, nieces aged 14 and 17, and sister, 12.

Police in Aurora, Colorado, said they mistakenly believed Ms Gilliam's car had been stolen and had been trained to perform a "high-risk stop".

On the day of the arrest, Ms Gilliam and the young girls went to a nail salon and returned to their car after finding out the salon was closed.

Officers then approached the vehicle with guns drawn as the family got into the car.

Ms Gilliam, her 12-year-old sister and her 17-year-old niece were handcuffed.

09/02/2024

Libao Zheng, 26 who authorities say shot a Philadelphia police officer earlier this week has been charged with attempted murder.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said the officer was struck in his ballistic vest which then ricocheted, wounding his hand.

The shooting happened in the 1300 block of King Place in North Philadelphia.

6abc

09/02/2024

NYPD released body camera footage showing of the attack on two NYPD officers by a group of migrants in Times Square.

09/02/2024

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell identified 15 year old Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa as the “armed and dangerous” person of interest

A reward is being offered in the manhunt for a gunman who shot a tourist in the leg and fired at an NYPD officer after an attempted shoplifting at a Times Square sporting goods store Thursday night, according to police.

NYPD Crime Stoppers is offering a $13,500 reward for information on the "attempted murder of an NYC police officer,"

BODYCAM: Police to pay $1.9m to Black family held at gunpoint in Colorado
09/02/2024

BODYCAM: Police to pay $1.9m to Black family held at gunpoint in Colorado



A mother and four children, who were held at gunpoint by police in Aurora Colorado, have been awarded $1.9m in a settlement.This same city settled for $15 mi...

Brazilian Tourist shot by shoplifting suspect at Times Square sportswear store.
09/02/2024

Brazilian Tourist shot by shoplifting suspect at Times Square sportswear store.

09/02/2024

Six family members are believed to be dead following a shooting and house fire in Pennsylvania.

The shooter Canh Le, shot and killed his 13 year old niece and everyone in the house before burning it down and killing himself.

The victims have been identified as, Xuong Le, and his wife, Britni Le, and their three children, NaKayla, 13, NaTayla, 17, and Xavier, 10.

6abc.com

08/02/2024

A family of 4 that was dropped off at a Greyhound bus station in New Orleans with apparent plans to move to Houston has disappeared, according to police.

According to a release from the New Orleans Police Department, a man said he took his daughter, her husband and their two daughters to a bus station in New Orleans on Nov. 30, 2023. He said he received a text message that same day that confirmed the family of four made it to their destination, but when he tried to make contact with his daughter that same week, he was unsuccessful.

The man told police he contacted relatives in Texas who said the family of four never arrived.

The missing family has been identified as Yanira David-Funez, 27, Ramon Ruiz Crisanto, 31, Jazzlyn Esther Ruiz David, 4, and Dara Ismeray Ruiz David, 1.

According to La Prensa, the family is from Honduras and had been in New Orleans for about a year. Ramon Ruiz then was moving with his family to find a better job.

Anyone with information about the missing family is asked to call Sixth District detectives at 504-658-6060.

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08/02/2024

A 60-year-old man from Indiana has been charged after his girlfriend Marsha Linsky was stabbed to death during an argument over cutting onions.

The suspect, Charles Michael Calvert claimed it began while he was cutting up some onions for dinner. His girlfriend said he wasn’t cutting them correctly and shoved a crock pot towards him. He went on to say she came at him with a knife; he grabbed it and “became defensive".

He claims he doesn't remember anything after that.

Charles Michael Calvert was also accused of attempting to stage the crime scene before alerting the police.

21alivenews

07/02/2024

"I wish for you to die. I will never forgive you. I hope all your family feels the worst pain imaginable with you being locked up. But it will never measure up to my pain,” “I have no remorse for you. I wish the worst for you.” Darrell Eason-Williams,

Prosecutors said Rev. Dr. Autura Eason-Williams, 52, was in her car and parked in her driveway when two suspects arrived at her home. Miguel Andrade opened fire, pulled her out of the car, and fled the scene.

They also took another victim’s car but ended up crashing it a short time later. Following the incident, local police located three suspects, one being Andrade. The teen was caught with Eason-Williams’ key and the firearm he used during the fatal carjacking

It was also discovered that Andrade had an ankle monitor linked to a crime that happened before the incident involving Eason-Williams.

16-year-old Miguel Andrade was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the death of Rev. Dr. Autura Eason-Williams

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/02/05/husband-of-tennessee-pastor-killed-in-2022-carjacking-slams-gunman-in-court-i-will-never-forgive-you/

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