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John Paulsen, Kansas Native, Musician, Hotel Director, Killed: "Wrong Place, Wrong Time"
 John Paulsen, a 48-year-old Kansas native who moved to St. Louis ten years ago and worked as a director at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, was shot and killed over the weekend inside his convertible. And his grieving family and friends back home in Goodland, Kansas, believe Paulsen was the victim of a "random, senseless act of violence". "The whole world was at his feet, and why this happened to him, I don't know," James Paulsen, said his 72-year-old father "It's tough. It really is." Metro police officials say that Paulsen was parked on the 4200 block of Neosho Street in the Bevo neighborhood of south St. Louis at around 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning when he was fatally shot. Police say he might have been closing the convertible top of his car when an unknown gunman fired at him. The suspect is a "black male, 6' - 6'2" tall, slender build with shoulder-length dreadlocks," cops say. He remains at large, and the investigation is ongoing. - (Black-on-white) |
KENTWOOD, Mich. - The family of a murdered Kentwood couple spoke Thursday morning, thanking police and detectives for bringing charges against Javonte Higgins. Tom Kelly, the son-in-law of David and Vivian Bouwman, spoke at the news conference at the Kentwood Police Department. The Bouwman's were killed in their home in January 2013. Javonte Higgins was arrested a couple of weeks later in a suburb of Chicago on unrelated charges in Wyoming. Higgins was determined to be competent to stand trial in Wyoming earlier this week. Prosecutors and police announced the Kentwood murder charges Wednesday afternoon. Higgins was arraigned on two counts of homicide, one count of home invasion, and one weapons count at 1 p.m. Thursday in Kentwood. - (Black-on-white)
DECATUR, Ala. - Decatur police detectives interviewed a man arrested in Detroit for the murder of a Decatur man. Decatur police said Tuesday they will bring Ryan Oneal Caudle back to north Alabama to face a murder charge for the June 18 shooting death of
JACKSON – (AP) The Mississippi Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for one of several teens convicted in the slaying of a man who was shot after stopping to ask for directions to his grandson’s football game.
San Francisco police have arrested an Oakland man in connection with the brutal robbery and assault that was caught on tape during gay pride weekend. Police announced in press release Wednesday morning that 23-year old Christopher Porter-Bailey was arrested on July 26 in connection with the assault of a 28-year-old woman on Market Street between Buchanan and Laguna on June 30. The group is described as five men and a woman all in their late teens or early 20s. The same group is suspected of committing multiple robberies and assaults after the Pink Saturday street party in the Castro. 
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A New Jersey police detective is now indicted on first degree murder charges. Police say Joseph Walker gunned down a Maryland man on the side of a highway after a road rage incident spiraled out of control. Detective Joseph Walker was initially charged with second-degree murder but prosecutors have now opted to elevate those charges. Life in prison. That’s the sentence now facing a New Jersey detective. Forty-year-old Joseph Walker was driving with his wife and three children on Route 3 in Anne Arundel County last month. Witnesses say Walker cut off a car driven by 36-year-old 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Louisville Metro Police say they've arrested a suspect in connection with a robbery in which a man was beaten while the perpetrators yelled racial epithets. According to an arrest warrant, it happened in Okolona Park on April 12. Police say 18-year-old Brejon L. Ford and three accomplices approached a man and attacked him. According to the arrest warrant, Ford punched the victim in the face. As the victim was walking away, police say one of the suspects hit him with a tree log. Police say Ford and his accomplices then began hitting the victim several times in the head with their fists, all the while calling him names including
A Tupelo man was charged Monday with Kidnapping, rape and aggravated domestic violence. Trenton D. Johnson, 30, of Tupelo, is awaiting his initial bond hearing at the Lee County Adult Jail. His hearing is set for 1 p.m. Today. Tupelo Police say the charges stem from an incident at a local motel this weekend.
FRANKLIN, Va. - A Franklin man charged with the rape of a juvenile last Tuesday evening has now been charged with raping a 48-year-old woman earlier the same day. Officers were called to the 500 block of Washington Street around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 23 for a report of a burglary. There, they learned the suspect had forced entry into a home and sexually assaulted the 48-year-old resident. During the investigation of the burglary and rape, investigators learned of a second sexual assault victim, a 17-year-old female, who said she was led to the back of an apartment complex and raped. Tremaine M. Porter, 26, of Franklin, was arrested last Wednesday and charged with the abduction and rape of the young girl.
Milwaukee police are looking for two men they believe could be connected to as many as four robberies on the Upper East Side. In two of those incidents, police say the victims were also sexually assaulted. Police say a 44-year-old woman was attacked Sunday night, July 28th by a man who sexually assaulted her near Prospect and Locust. Police say the suspect got into a van and tried to take the woman with him, but she got away. That woman has provided police with a denoscription of the suspect, and police have released sketches of the two men they believe are responsible. – a black man, 25-35 years old, about 5’8″ tall, and weighing about 150 pounds.
NEW YORK – Police have released a new surveillance video and pictures of a man they say tried to rape a pregnant woman as she walked her dog in upper Manhattan earlier this week. The suspect grabbed the 30-year-old woman from behind and tried to take off her clothes around 7 a.m. Sunday near West 212th Street in Inwood, police said. The victim was able to fight off her attacker as a neighbor emerged from a nearby building. The suspect fled the scene, police said. The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 25 to 30 years old, standing about 5-foot-11 and weighing 180 pounds. 
Terrence Jones, who plays for the Houston Rockets, was arrested for allegedly attacking a homeless man in Portland, Oregon. Police say that Jones, 21, was witnessed leaving a nightclub around 2 a.m. Wednesday with a large group of men. While watching the group walk away from the Tube on 3rd Ave, a police officer says he saw Jones walk by a doorway where two homeless men were sleeping. The 6'8" tall 250 pound Jones allegedly yelled, "Wake up" and then stomped on the leg of one of the men. Police followed Jones and arrested him about a block away. The 46-year-old victim suffered a minor leg injury. 
A woman testified Monday in Red Bank Court that she still loves the man who chased her down and shot her on July 4. 
A man who sexually assaulted then beat his 
LOUISVILLE, KY - A woman and her boyfriend were charged with murder Tuesday in the 2011 death of the woman's six-month old daughter. Louisville Metro Police said they considered Whitney Phillips and James McElroy persons of interest in the case shortly after the pair brought 
A Dayton mother charged with abusing her 4-year-old son last year has been found guilty of causing his death. 
The parents of a 17-month-old girl have been arrested after she was allegedly strapped in a car seat for 15 hours without food or water and suffocated to death after a blanket was stuffed into her mouth. 
A Monroe man attending college in East Texas is facing capital murder charges in the death of his 7-month-old boy last summer. Marshall Police say they got a call on July 14, 2012 from Good Shepherd Medical Center Emergency Staff Personnel in reference to a 
PHOENIX - A 38-year-old man charged with his wife with child abuse in the death of their severely malnourished 
Indianapolis Metropolitan homicide detectives are investigating the death of a infant that happened Friday afternoon on the east side of the city. Police were called to 2310 Rural Street around noon on Friday for the report of a child not breathing. The 
The June 11 death of a 4-year-old Burnsville boy was a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examiner's office reported Thursday. 
A Richmond judge sentenced Ashley C. Williams on Monday to five years in prison for the neglect and murder of her 2-year-old son, a punishment two years shy of what the jury had recommended. Judge Alfred D. Swersky of Richmond Circuit Court sentenced Williams to five years on a charge of felony murder and two years suspended on a charge of felony child neglect. She also received a six-month sentence for a probation violation. The jury had found Williams, 28, guilty of child neglect and felony murder in the death of her son,
Lugoff, SC -- Kershaw County Deputies placed a man under arrest for criminal sexual conduct with a minor after he turned himself in. According to Deputies, 29 year old Timothy Odell Holloman of Camden turned himself in on Sunday, after discovering there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest, charging him with criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 14 years of age. On Thursday July 25th a Camden resident reported a 
(Memphis) Three people are in jail for allegedly pimping out a 14-year-old girl. Memphis Police and the FBI busted the group while investigating an internet escort site. Police had suspicions when they when they spotted her on Backpage.com, a website for escort services. Police and the FBI were on the site targeting minors being advertised for prostitution. According to the arrest affidavit police set up a meeting early this morning at a hotel in the 1100 block of Union Avenue and surprised Rodney Armstrong ,22, Trenton Mitchell,23 and Charlisa Wright, 18.
DAYTON — A police officer patrolling Triangle Park in an unmarked car Monday evening said a man propositioned him for sex and exposed himself while sitting in a vehicle. Eric Ford, 47, was arrested on three counts of public indecency and booked into the Montgomery County Jail. According to a police report, the officer noticed Ford following and staring at him. Ford then initiated a conversation while sitting in his vehicle and invited the officer back to his house. During the conversation Ford was allegedly exposing and touching himself. There were several children and other individuals in the park while this was happening, according to the police report.
San Mateo County prosecutors have charged a United Airlines employee and his wife with grand theft and burglary, accusing them of stealing the luggage of passengers who were supposed to fly into San Francisco International Airport, but were diverted following the Asiana Airlines crash. Numerous flights were diverted following the crash on July 6, but some of the bags from those diverted flights still made it to SFO. San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti said 44-year-old Sean Sharif Crudup of Richmond, a United customer service representative, stole the bags of at least one passenger. “The surveillance tape showed Mr. Crudup stealing the bags and then handing them off to his co-defendant, Ms. Raychas Thomas, who is his wife, and another woman,” she said. More property from the victims was found at the couple’s home. 
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who is Jewish, has been the target of mounting accusations that he made unwanted sexual advances toward women, including inappropriate touching. 
It was three days after their third wedding anniversary, and 
TULSA - Only two days into court proceedings, the case against a pair of Tulsa brothers accused of murdering four women inside a 61st and Peoria apartment has been pushed to September. Preliminary hearings wrapped up Tuesday and won't resume until Sept. 9. A motion hearing is also slated for August. Cedric and James Poore, who have pleaded not guilty to murder and robbery charges, are suspected of shooting
A Pontiac teenager has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison for killing two women over a bogus $10 bill. Semaj Moran, 17, was sentenced Thursday in Oakland County Circuit Court along with his adult accomplice, 23-year-old Arnold Howard, who was given a 39-to-90-year sentence. The sentencing comes months after Moran was found guilty of first-degree murder and Howard was found guilty of second-degree murder.
A local man is in custody this afternoon in connection with a triple murder in west Shreveport last week. Shreveport police say detectives with the Shreveport Police Department's Violent Crimes Unit arrested 57-year-old Tommy Wilson, of the 1000 block of Lafourche Circle, in connection with the July 18, 2013 stabbings that claimed the lives of 
Stockton police arrested three men who allegedly robbed a female pedestrian over the weekend. One of the men suddenly ran up to the women and demanded money from the younger woman. He hit her, took her purse and ran off. The women contacted police who searched the area and found three men who fit the denoscription of the suspects. Lamar Smith, Rickshawn-Williams and Lamar Smith Jr. (left-right) were all arrested for robbery and conspiracy.
The man accused in a vicious assault on a 71-year-old woman will face a judge Monday. Police say Jacob Lashun Lewis, 33, turned himself in last week, five months after the crime took place. On February 7, a man broke into the victim's home while she was watching TV late at night. The victim told police that she noticed someone peeking into her bedroom, so she grabbed her handgun and left the room. Once in the hall, the victim said the attack happened too quickly for her to protect herself. The man allegedly burst into the house, threw her to the ground and knocked the gun out of her hand before she could fire it. After sexually assaulting her, police say the suspect threatened the woman with her own gun and forced her to hand over her wallet.
James Fredrick Woodson III, 47 was arrested on felony complaints of cruelty to animals. A neighbor informed police that Woodson had beat her small dog to death in the street while she was at work. Police said the deceased dog had “extreme head trauma and blood all around the head.” A witness saw Woodson throw a log at the dog that was in the street. The dog was stumbling to get up and walk when Woodson walked over to the dog and beat it with the log twice until it was dead, according to the witness. 
A man has been charged for setting a dog on fire earlier this month. Officials said the dog was found on July 13 at the intersection of Ella Crossing and Burnell Oaks in north Harris County. Authorities said a necropsy performed at the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory found the dog had been stabbed multiple times before it was set on fire. Jacob Davis, 27, was arrested Tuesday and is charged with felony animal cruelty.
A RAPE victim giving evidence in court against her attacker was forced to watch CCTV film of her 25-minute ordeal.
ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. - A St. Lucie County man who shot and killed one person, and wounded two others before committing suicide, also shot and killed his own father. 22-year-old Adam Peavey had a rap sheet, but nothing that would indicate he was about to go on a deadly shooting spree Sunday. Sheriff Mascara says detectives believe that Adam Peavey shot his father 
Clearwater, Florida -- It's been nearly five years, but police now say they have the man who killed a taxi cab driver behind bars. On September 17, 2008, 51-year-old
An 18-year-old man allegedly threw bleach at at taxi cab driver to avoid paying a $175 ride to Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood this week, officials said. Oliver Dickens, of Carpentersville, was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated battery of a taxi driver, theft of labor and criminal damage to property, according to police. Prosecutors alleged Dickens hired the cab driver Thursday from an Elgin cab company to drive him to the South Shore neighborhood. Dickens became upset when he learned his fare was $175 and, instead of paying the tab, threw bleach in the cabbie’s face, stole his tablet and ran, prosecutors said. 
A Plano wife and mother who was attacked in her home is dead, and police say they know who sent her to the hospital. 
A 27-year-old Longwood man was in the Brunswick County jail on Friday, charged with animal cruelty. James Miles Butler of Pine Needle Road contacted Brunswick County Animal Protective Services and said his dog's head was swollen, according to a news release from the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office. When an animal services officer arrived, he found a dog with a nylon leash embedded in his neck. "The lead appeared to have been around the dog's neck for a lengthy amount of time," the release said. When the officer cut the dog free, he discovered wounds. The dog, a lab and pit mix, is being cared for by a veterinarian, who nicknamed the dog "Red." 
Police are on the hunt for a man who they say robbed an elderly Philadelphia woman. The
The woman was in elevator when the suspect walked in and pushed the button for the second floor. When the doors opened, the suspect pushed the woman to the ground and began kicking and punching her, police said. The man then stole the woman’s rings, chains and pendants, before running off. Police described the assailant as a black male standing 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 185 pounds, wearing blue jeans and a gray sweat shirt.
TAMPA, Florida -- Tampa police say they've arrested a man who allegedly stole a 75-year-old woman's groceries and wallet outside of a gas station earlier this week. 
BALTIMORE — A man is brutally attacked by a group of teens in Little Italy. Police say four of the attackers are in custody. Three of them are juveniles. The victim was walking home from work when he was attacked near Bank and Exeter Streets. Police say the brutality of the crime is why three juveniles arrested are being charged as adults. A brutal attack in the heart of Little Italy. Police say a man walking home from work at an area restaurant is attacked and severely beaten near Bank and Exeter Streets by a mob of at least ten teens.
A Gurnee man has been charged with sexually assaulting two girls who were both under the age of 13, officials said. 
Homer Washington of Milwaukee has been charged in the murder of 57-year-old 
Derek Don Posey, 30, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in Canadian County in the deaths of 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police have arrested a suspect in the death of 
WEST MEMPHIS, AR - – According to the West Memphis Police Department, Stanley James Carter was taken into custody Thursday night in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Carter was on trial in West Memphis for three counts of rape. When he did not show up for court Wednesday, the trial continued. After a brief deliberation, the jury found Carter guilty on all three counts. Carter faces life in prison for raping his live-in
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - A 45-year-old man is behind bars accused of punching and inappropriately touching a North Charleston police officer after he allegedly stole items from a store. The North Charleston Police Department charged Christopher T. Sanders with assault on police, public intoxication and shoplifting. Authorities say when the officer put her hands on the suspect, Sanders punched the officer in the face after he dropped the stolen case of beer. At one point, police say the officer pushed Sanders against a wall in order to gain control of him. Investigators say during this time, Sanders inappropriately touched the officer and said,"Ooh girl you know you like that."