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 James Johnson, 52, called the police to tell them that the accused killers were hiding in the car park of the Immauel Baptist Church car park at about 5pm, two hours after they allegedly shot Lane. "My son called me and said, "They're saying they're coming to kill me," so I called the police and they got here within about three minutes," Johnson told the Herald Sun. Mr Johnson claimed that Edwards Jr had threatened the life of his own 17-year-old son Christopher on Facebook. His son was at home with his mother and sisters near the church when he received the death threat. "They threatened to kill my son because they are in a gang, the Crips, and were trying to get my son in it and I wouldn't let him do it. "I told him he couldn't run with those boys. He's a little terrified." Mr Johnson said the Crips, a predominantly African American street gang that began in Los Angeles in 1969 and had been in Duncan for the past few years. He said the group consisted of teenagers who he called "wannabes." "I've been living here all my life and we never had this, but in the past few years gangs from Lawton have been coming here," Johnson said of the Crips. Johnson's son also attends Duncan High School, where suspect Luna and Edwards Jr. were students. He said he knew both boys, and described them as "troublemakers" and "bullies" who had "no parental supervision."
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JACKSON, MS - A judge ordered 58-year-old Billy Ray Jordan to serve 15 years after he pleaded guilty to multiple charges including armed robbery, house burglary, kidnapping and attempted sexual battery. The Jackson man will be eligible for release from prison at the age of 72. In August 2011 Jordan attacked a 17-year-old girl who was alone at her Jackson home in the middle of the day and talking on the phone to her boyfriend. The boyfriend heard the girl's screams and called 911. Raymond police responded within minutes and found Jordan hiding in the bathroom of the home.
SPOKANE, Wash. - The 16-year-old arrested in the Delbert Belton case is identified as Demetruis Glenn, he's facing 1st degree murder and robbery. The 88-year-old man who was assaulted Wednesday night outside of an ice arena at 6321 N. Addison has died. Spokane Police are actively searching for two suspects described as black males between the ages of 16-19. Both were wearing dark clothing and one was wearing a do-rag. They are both suspected in the killing of the elderly man which occurred around 8pm on Wednesday night. 
SUFFOLK, Va. - Three Sailors stationed in Norfolk have been charged in connection to an abduction and rape in Suffolk. Monday, a female victim reported she was sexually assaulted by three acquaintances while visiting an apartment in the 6000 block of College Drive on Aug. 16. As a result of the investigation, three men were charged in connection to the incident. Daniel Keith Saunders, 22, of Norfolk is charged with abduction, extort money or immoral purposes; forcible sodomy and forcible rape. Freddrick Lamar Thompson, 24, of Norfolk is charged with two counts of abduction, extort money or immoral purposes; object sexual penetration; forcible sodomy and two counts of rape. Michael Jerame Willis, 20, of Norfolk is charged with abduction, extort money or immoral purposes; two counts of rape; object sexual penetration and forcible sodomy.
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A Long Beach man and his mother were in federal court Thursday for allegedly working together to prostitute a local runaway when the girl was only 
WINSTON COUNTY, Miss. - The Winston County Sheriff's Department needs the public's help to search for Ricky Cole, 21, who is wanted on a charge of statutory rape. Authorities say Cole has avoided capture for several months and is believed to be in Winston County in the Noxapater area. He is also known to hang out in Philadelphia, Meridian and on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The sheriff's department says it received a report about 3:00 a.m. on Thursday that Cole was at a residence at 31 Gunn Street in Noxapater, but managed to escape capture. Authorities say two women, Stormy Burnham, 37, and Heather Hunt, 38, both of Noxapater, were arrested and charged with aiding and abetting in connection with the case. 
A Dunkin’ Donuts worker was beaten and pistol-whipped Tuesday by a Florida couple enraged over a botched coffee order, police report. The 1 PM melee at the Lauderhill eatery resulted in the arrest of Jeffrey Wright, 27, for aggravated battery, a felony. Alexis Longo, Wright’s 22-year-old wife, was charged with misdemeanor battery.
A Memphis man remains in the hospital at the burn unit after police say he was set on fire. Authorities identified two suspects wanted for the crime. Police say the man suffered injuries to most of his body. Prior arrests meant Memphis police already had mug shots on file for 26-year-old Robert Glasper and 19-year-old Renard King. Police identified the two Thursday for allegedly being responsible for a horrific crime two weeks ago. 
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A married Goldman Sachs executive from Manhattan has been charged with raping a 20-year-old woman after a late-night party at his Hamptons summer rental raged out of control, authorities said yesterday. Equity-markets whiz Jason Lee, 37, was hauled into East Hampton Town Court in handcuffs and charged with first-degree rape, police said. Lee posted $20,000 bail, which was delivered in cash to court clerks while he waited in a holding cell. 
A Delaware County softball coach has been arrested and accused of having a sexual relationship with a minor. Authorities say 27-year-old Lana Trotter, a softball coach at Delaware County Christina School (DCCS) on Main Road in Newtown Square, allegedly had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
REISTERSTOWN, Md. — It was a crime that rocked a small Reisterstown townhome complex. The leasing manager was brutally murdered inside her office complex back in June. Now police have a suspect in custody—the maintenance man at that same complex. Twenty-seven-year-old Rashaan Williams was taken into custody Tuesday night—more than two months after the murder. Williams is the man police say is behind the brutal killing of 29-year-old 
A former Baltimore police officer already facing state charges for prostituting his wife was indicted on a federal prostitution charge that alleged he oversaw a call-girl business with more than 300 customers. In an indictment unsealed Friday, Lamin Manneh, 31, was charged with traveling across state lines and using the telephone and Internet to operate a prostitution business. He was arrested in May after officers from a human-trafficking task force found him outside a hotel room where his 19-year-old wife had agreed to have sex for cash with an undercover state police officer. Baltimore police fired him shortly after his arrest. Manneh's wife (
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A Macon woman accused state Sen. David Lucas of assaulting her son. According to an incident report from the Bibb County Sheriff's Department says Kinya Miller said it happened Wednesday night at the Lakeview Club Apartments. She said it started with her 16-year-old son, Chandler King, exchanging words with Lucas's son, Lenny Lucas. Miller claimed David Lucas then walked up and started choking her 14-year-old son, Chase, by the throat.
Cory Booker pocketed “confidential” annual payouts from his former law firm while serving as Newark mayor. Booker, the front-runner in New Jersey’s Senate race, received five checks from the Trenk DiPasquale law firm from 2007 until 2011. During that time, the firm raked in more than $2 million in fees from local agencies over which Booker has influence. “This was a settlement buyout for my interest in the firm,” the mayor told The Post at a campaign stop in Jersey City yesterday. “I had an equity stake, and we had a negotiated settlement.”
A Floyd County grand jury has indicted a jail inmate on sodomy accusations, Superior Court records state. Christopher Scott Whatley, 41, faces two counts of aggravated sodomy. Whatley was in jail on shoplifting and child support allegations in June when he sodomized another inmate while holding him down. 
JACKSON, Tenn. - Police in West Tennessee have caught a man charged with breaking into two houses where women were home and taking off his clothes. After the suspect was spotted in Madison County, schools were locked down for more than two hours beyond dismissal time. According to The Jackson Sun, officers arrested 41-year-old Dustan Smith, who was spotted running from a Dollar General Store near Rose Hill Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon. Smith was sought in two break-ins in neighboring Henderson County. Authorities said women in two Lexington homes said they awakened on Saturday to find Smith in their homes naked. One reported he was on top of her when she woke up.
The former priest convicted in May of sexually assaulting an altar boy was sentenced in Tioga County Court Monday to 5 to 10 years in state prison. The Diocese of Scranton suspended Shoback in November 2011 when the allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced. Thomas P. Shoback, 66, of Wilkes-Barre, was sentenced for seven counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and criminal attempt to have involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, as well as six months to two years for endangering the welfare of a child, concurrent. 
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the soldier said Thursday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks. Manning’s struggle with gender identity disorder — the sense of being a woman trapped in a man’s body — was key to the defense.
A Department of Homeland Security employee who works on, among other things, the procurement of guns and ammunition for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, spends his nights and weekends preparing for a coming race war and advocating for anti-gay causes, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Meet 
Monday was a bittersweet day for Kristin Twilla. On one hand, Twilla, 29, of West Liberty, learned that an arrest was made in the 1999 murder of her mother,
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The parents of two British students murdered in Florida have criticised President Barack Obama for his lack of compassion over their sons' deaths. They spoke out as teenager Shawn Tyson began a life sentence after being found guilty of the murder of 
A man is in custody after police say he attempted to abduct a girl from her Wentzville home on Sunday. Police say John Perry, 20, allegedly grabbed a 
WEST CARROLLTON — Police arrested a man Sunday afternoon accused of raping a woman he’s known for years. Two counts of rape were approved by Montgomery County prosecutors Tuesday afternoon against 34-year-old Shedrick Dewaun Johnson. The crime reportedly occurred at an apartment complex. The victim was not seriously hurt during the alleged attack. The victim is a 31-year-old friend of the suspect. The two previously dated, but not since 2011. The victim told police the suspect came to her door, and upon entering the apartment, he almost immediately forced himself on her. She said the suspect put his knee into her back to keep her from moving, and told me he would kill her if she screamed. The victim also told police that when she tried to pray, “he told me my God wasn’t there.”
An Albany sex offender has been arrested again by Albany Police for an alleged act of stalking and public lewdness on Saturday. The Albany Police Department had previously arrested 38-year-old Titus Jenkins in April 2012 for exposing himself to four children on a school bus. Jenkins was then arrested in April of this year for two incidents of public lewdness, one on April 4th and one on April 10th. In both cases, police say he exposed himself and began to masturbate in front of female victims. The April 2013 case was pending when he was arrested this past Saturday - Police say Jenkins exposed himself on Morton Avenue around 6:20 a.m. Saturday in front of a 44-year-old female victim while walking down the street. The victim reported the incident to police and Jenkins was observed fleeing between homes on Morton Avenue. An officer chased him on foot and placed him under arrest. 
NEWARK, Del., – Police say a man has been arrested after he allegedly exposed himself to three women at a beauty supply store in Newark Saturday morning. Newark Police say 33-year-old Robert Brinson, of Newark, was arrested on three counts of Lewdness and two counts of Indecent Exposure. According to police, officers responded shortly before 10:30 a.m. to Sally Beauty Supply in College Square Shopping Center after it was reported that a man had exposed himself to a store employee and and two customers and was reportedly masturbating inside the store.
A creep armed with a knife is wanted for touching himself on a Bronx bus in front of children and their mother, police said. The 27-year-old mom asked the sicko to stop masturbating about 5:45 p.m. July 9 on the Bx2, and notified the bus driver, cops said. The man then approached her and flashed his weapon. She struggled with him, and grabbed the assailant's hand to defend herself, authorities said. When the bus stopped at E 171st Street and Grand Concourse in Mount Eden, the suspect ran off, police added. Police are asking anyone who can identify the suspect to call Crime Stoppers at 1.800.577.TIPS or visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com.
HOUMA, La. —The Houma Police Department says a fourth man has been arrested in connection with an Aug. 8 murder and home invasion. Police say investigators developed information that Jabaar Celestine, 19, was also involved in the robbery and homicide of 
A Harrisburg man has been charged with four counts of attempted homicide after allegedly stabbing three police officers trying to arrest him. The incident happened early Sunday at a home. Police say 30-year-old Lamarkus Williams first stabbed his 
MIAMI – A teen charged in the shooting death of a South Miami guard has been ordered held on no bond. Quintin Vicks, 18, made his first appearance Monday in bond court. He’s charged with first degree murder and armed robbery of 50 State Security guard
Two University of Kentucky employees were beaten with a fire extinguisher early Thursday morning on campus. Chase Jackson, 23, was arrested on two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of third-degree assault of a police officer, two counts of first-degree burglary and one charge of resisting arrest. The attack occurred at the Thomas Poe Cooper Building. Jackson entered the building and asked a forestry department employee if he could use a phone. After using the phone, he took a fire extinguisher off the wall and allegedly attacked a custodial worker in the hallway. The forestry employee locked herself in her office and called 911. Jackson kicked in the door and beat the woman with the fire extinguisher.
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MORENO VALLEY — Five people were arrested in Moreno Valley on suspicion of abducting a teenager from Compton allegedly for prostitution. Following the abduction the suspects drove the victim to a location where she was sexually assaulted by two of the five suspects.” “The victim was then told they were going to force her to conduct prostitution for money.” Two of the suspects were identified by authorities as 25-year-old
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - A deputy sheriff in Prince George's County is accused of sexually assaulting a female inmate inside the county courthouse. Police say a 34-year-old inmate on Tuesday reported being assaulted while awaiting trial at the courthouse in Upper Marlboro. Police say Deputy Sheriff Lamar McIntyre admitted his involvement and has been charged with second-degree rape. 
Metro Nashville Police say 21-year-old Chris Boyd came to police headquarters Saturday morning after being indicted on Friday and turned himself in. Police say Boyd gave another defendant advice on how to cover up the crime. 
STOCKTON, CA (AP) - The son and daughter of a woman allegedly raped and murdered by her grandson are suing the state and San Joaquin County for releasing him from the county jail after he violated parole. The lawsuit filed this month claims parole agents supervising 40-year-old Jerome Sidney DeAvila knew he was a danger to 
Wilton Manors police on Monday released a sketch of a man wanted for sexually assaulting a
Norfolk, VA - 31-year-old Steven Woodlin was sentenced Friday to 95 years years in Virginia State Prison. He will serve 42 years. He was charged with one count each of Burglary, Rape, Oral Sodomy, Object Sexual Penetration, Robbery and Strangulation. 
Four suspected armed robbers who allegedly raped and robbed an Italian woman at gunpoint at a restaurant at Aburi on Thursday have been busted. They were said to have inflicted machete wounds on other customers at the restaurant. The suspects were part of a gang of eight who allegedly used pistols and a machete to attack 
"Lee Thompson Young -- who played the main character on Disney's "The Famous Jett Jackson" -- has committed suicide, TMZ has learned. He was 29. Young's body was discovered inside his North Hollywood home Monday with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to sources."
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A Grand Rapids father was arraigned Friday on a murder charge in the death of his little girl.
A married Kansas City councilman has admitted to an online relationship with a woman involving graphic text messages after she allegedly tried to blackmail him for $60,000. Michael Brooks, a councilman for Kansas City's 5th District, said in a letter to other council members he was sorry for 'the horrible lack of judgment' in becoming involved online with the woman. He is a Baptist minister who has four children
Riverview, Florida -- A woman has been arrested for living in another person's home for seven months. Hillsborough Sheriff's deputies say on Feb. 15, Jeanella Pollock moved into the home on Potomac Circle with her husband and teenage daughter, even though the home belonged to a woman currently living in Alabama. "The defendant had in fact changed the locks and she had applied for and was granted the name of the power and water into her name as well," said Larry McKinnon of the Hillsborough Co. Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's Deputy Leon Pollock, also lived there. Since Leon Pollock may have lived in the home, he has been placed on administrative leave from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. 
BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- Five months after a Georgia toddler was killed in his stroller by a gunshot to the head, a teenager charged as the gunman is scheduled to stand trial. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the murder trial of De'Marquise Elkins. He's charged with killing 
MEMPHIS, TN - - A nurse is facing charges in connection with the death of a 3-year-old girl who was in her care almost one year ago. Demequa Bonds, 34, of Cordova, was indicted by a grand jury on one count of reckless homicide. In February, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation began investigating Bonds after the death of 
COLUMBUS -- A Linden-area woman was able to survive a brutal rape and assault by playing dead while her attacker attempted to smother her with a pillow, according to police.
Raleigh, N.C. — Defense attorneys for a Raleigh man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend have asked a Wake County judge to allow testimony in his upcoming trial about an alleged "confession" his wife made in which she said she shoved the victim and "hurt her bad." Grant Ruffin Hayes, 34, faces a first-degree murder charge in the July 2011 death of
Four people charged in the Aug. 6 shooting death of a Jacksonville man outside an apartment were on a random hunt for a victim to rob, police said Thursday. The third and fourth arrests in the case — Eltonia Lavonne Humphries and Josh Dukes, both 18 — were made Wednesday. They were charged with murder and attempted armed robbery. Roteia Lashay Hutchinson, also 18, and Jarquavis De’Vonte Davis, 19, were charged with murder earlier this week in the death of 
BELLEVILLE, IL Five young adults were arrested on robbery charges Friday after a group of offenders attacked an elderly man late Monday night, police say. Daryl Jones, 18, of Farview Heights, Kaityln Fultz, 18, and Traseana Parks, 17, of Swansea, Deontre Samuels, 20, of O'Fallon, and Shay Bennett, 24, of East St. Louis are charged with robbery. The alleged robbery occurred around 3:30 a.m. late Monday in the 2500 block of West Boulevard in Belleville. According to police, a