The dead gunman in Monday’s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard is Aaron Alexis, 34, a native of New York City who was discharged from the Navy in 2011 after he was arrested in a shooting incident, an FBI official said Monday afternoon. Alexis was a Navy contractor “at one point” since his discharge from the military service. Alexis died at the scene of Monday’s shooting, in which at least 12 other people died. - (Black-on-white)
List of 12 Navy Yard Shooting Victims
— Michael Arnold, 59 — Martin Bodrog, 54 — Arthur Daniels, 51 — Sylvia Frasier, 53 — Kathy Gaarde, 62 — John Roger Johnson, 73 — Frank Kohler, 50 — Mary Francis Knight, 51 — Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46 — Vishnu Pandit, 61 — Gerald L. Read, 58 — Richard Michael Ridgell, 52
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His rights, as a convicted drug trafficker ordered deported to Somalia, were deemed more important than the guaranteed safety of Canadian citizens. And so, despite warnings that 
WAGENER, SC - Authorities say a woman has been shot and killed during a drug deal in Aiken County. Deputies say a woman called 911 around 9:45 p.m. Thursday to report her friend had been shot. Authorities say when officers arrived they found 25-year-old
A woman whose family says she was strangled and stabbed multiple times feared for her life but had vowed to handle a deteriorating relationship with the Marine veteran charged this week in her slaying. “She told me that every time she had had problems in her life, she’d always run back home to her mama and this time she was going to handle things herself,” said Lily Cantrell, speaking of her daughter, 
MIAMI – A 20-year-old Miami man has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of sexual battery on a child. Timothy Jeffrey Horne, 20, allegedly sexually assaulted a child for several years. According to the accuser, Horne, who is 6’1” and weighs 400 pounds, forced them to watch pornography on his telephone and then forced them to have anal sex when the victim was 3, 4, and five-years-old.
MONROE CO., Miss. -- Authorities in Monroe County have made an animal cruelty arrest. According to the Monroe County Sheriff's Department, it happened on Tuesday, September 17 on Old 41. Investigators say when officers responded, they noticed dogs in poor condition on the property. The Amory Humane Society was called to remove the dogs. Anthony McIntosh, 36, of Okolona was arrested and charged with five counts of cruelty to animals.
HOUSTON - A man is accused of engaging in sexual relationships with other men who he would then rob. On September 11, a victim told police that he gave Jatorick Jovon Lewis, a man with whom he says he had a sexual relationship a couple of times, a ride in his car to a parking lot in the 7400 block of Cook. When the two got out of the vehicle, the victim says an unidentified man wearing a red bandana approached and pointed a pistol at him.
The victim says Lewis then went through his pockets and took his cell phone, keys, wallet ID card, cash and backpack. He told police the accomplice hit him with the gun several times as Lewis yelled, 'Hit that (expletive) again."
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - North Charleston police have arrested man they say kidnapped and robbed a teen who was trying to buy a cell phone during a Craigslist rendezvous last week. According to an incident report, the kidnapping happened last Friday in the Waffle House parking lot. The 19-year-old told investigators she saw an ad for a Galaxy cell phone on Craigslist, and after reaching out to the phone number and speaking with a female, she agreed to meet her in the parking lot. But when she got to the parking lot, it wasn’t a woman with a cell phone she met, but a man with a handgun. Police say the man was 28-year-old Chavias Jenkins.
HUMBOLDT, TN - - Authorities arrested a teacher with a criminal background for falsifying his finger prints to obtain a teaching license. He has been teaching since 2011 at Humboldt High School in Gibson County, Tennessee. Leigh England cannot believe Willie Ozier is accused of any crime, much less one that involved falsifying records for a job teaching. On Tuesday the TBI arrested Ozier. They are charging him with identify theft. He used his father's name and his fingerprints so his background check would come up clean. Ozier has the same name as his father who does not have a criminal record. In May, Jackson Police arrested and charged him with criminal trespass and window peeping.
After that his past criminal record was exposed. In 2003, Ozier was arrested for sexual battery which resulted in a misdemeanor, and in 1999 he was arrested and convicted of simple assault. 
When Mark Essex was in the Navy, he said he wanted to become a dentist. Two years later he gunned down 
SEATTLE — A man accused of stabbing a couple in Pioneer Square is described in court documents as a "dangerous, mentally ill person." Police said 44-year-old Donnell Jackson randomly stabbed and killed 46-year-old 
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A mother involved in a contentious custody case has been charged with killing her 13-year-old autistic son and 9-year-old daughter in California after a judge ordered them returned to their father in Georgia. Authorities weren’t releasing many details, but one of the special circumstances filed by prosecutors against 42-year-old Marilyn Edge alleges the children were poisoned. Ms. Edge, of Scottsdale, Ariz., is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. She was charged Monday with two counts of murder with special circumstances in the deaths of her daughter, 
CHICAGO – Two months after the grandmother of 8-year-old 
JACKSON, Miss. —A Jackson mother accused in the beating death of her 
HARTFORD, CT - A 13-month-old girl was taken to St. Francis Hospital Thursday afternoon where she died a short time later. Hartford Police have arrested the boyfriend of baby's mother David Brown-Barrett, 19, and have charged him with assault and risk of injury to a minor. Brown-Barrett drove the baby to the hospital in cardiac arrest and now police are working to figure out what happened before they arrived at the hospital. Doctors at St. Francis Hospital called police around 12:30 p.m. saying that someone had brought the baby there. She was in cardiac arrest and doctors were attempting CPR. The child died a short time later. 
According to the alert, 
SALISBURY, NC - A Salisbury man has been cited for simple possession of marijuana and for exposing his private parts to a student on the campus of Rowan Cabarrus Community College. According to police, an 
Prosecutors have charged a New Jersey man with sexually assaulting an 
West Haven Police Officers assigned to the U.S. Marshals apprehended a local man accused of sexual assault and unlawful restraint. Police said Brent Wiley, 23, of West Haven, was wanted on a warrant out of West Haven, charging him with first-degree sexual assault and unlawful restraint. 
MURRIETA — Two high school football players accused of sexually assaulting six victims were scheduled to make their first court appearance Tuesday. Byron Holt Jr. and Kishawn Tre Holmes, both 17-year-old students at Vista Murrieta High School, were arrested Sept. 12 for sexual misconduct and booked at Southwest Juvenile, the Riverside District Attorney’s Office said.
Gary Baker took notes and flashed an occasional half-smile—not the reaction you’d expect from a suspect about to go on trial accused of raping a disabled elderly woman. The woman has trouble talking and writing after she suffered a stroke, which made it difficult for her to accurately communicate what happened with the alleged rape. That could be used against her in the trial. “After knocking on the door, said this person started kissing her,” said Officer Matt Armstrong, who took the statement from the victim, at the preliminary hearing. During witness questioning of the three separate attacks, the defense opportunity for a former Sacramento Police officer sought to poke holes in how detectives were able to pinpoint a suspect.
MARION, AR -- A West Memphis man who fled to Grand Rapids, Mich. while standing trial for child rape charges has been sentenced to life plus 100 years in prison. Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington announced Monday that 46-year-old Stanley James Carter was sentenced after returning to Arkansas from Michigan. Ellington says Carter, convicted of
Philadelphia police have identified the man beaten to death early Saturday morning in Wissinoming as 
Raleigh, N.C. — Police on Sunday arrested a Raleigh man on charges that he raped a child. Rahqi Bilal Tyler, 20, of 10110-104 Strome Ave., faces two counts of first-degree rape of a child in connection with the alleged crimes, which happened sometime between Aug. 21 and Sept. 11, according to an arrest warrant. A Raleigh police spokesman said the Tyler and the 12-year-old girl knew each other but did not elaborate.
BAINBRIDGE, GA - A Decatur County man is behind bars, accused of breaking into a woman's home and killing her. Bainbridge Public Safety officials say 
BARBOUR CO., AL - Barbour County Sheriff LeRoy Upshaw says an arrest has been made in connection to the sexual assualt cases of two women. Upshaw says 58-year-old Clayton resident Benjamin Phillips is charged with one count of rape 1st degree, one count of attempted rape 1st degree and one count of assault 3rd degree. The arrest comes after two women who were guests in Phillips' home on September 1 say he assaulted them. The vicims were able to get out of the residence and called 911 from a neighbor's home, Sheriff Upshaw says, but one of the victims was said to have been assaulted by the suspect as they were trying to leave.
HAMPTON, Va. - A Hampton school employee has been charged in connection to a sexual assault that occurred at an elementary school Friday. Sgt. Jason Price with the Hampton Police Division said school administrators contacted officers about a possible sexual assault that occurred at Forrest Elementary School on Todds Lane. According to police, a female juvenile was sexually assaulted by a suspect at 7:15 a.m. Police arrested Jerome Jenkins, a 56-year-old school employee, and charged him with aggravated sexual battery. 
Natchez - Paul Winfield, 40, former mayor of the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, pled guilty in U.S. District Court today to bribery in connection with a pre-event disaster contract for the city of Vicksburg, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. Winfield will be sentenced by U.S. District Senior Judge David C. Bramlette III on November 19, 2013 at 9:30 a.m. and faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The woman was suddenly confronted by a man who pulled out a small knife and began stabbing her repeatedly in the torso. The man she was with attempted to intervene, and the suspect turned on him and began stabbing him repeatedly in the neck and torso, Kappel said. 
One of four people convicted in a notorious 1993 attack on two British tourists in Jefferson County was sentenced to 40 years in prison after his original life term was overturned. At the Jefferson County Courthouse, Aundra Akins, 34, was sentenced to 40 years in the attempted murder of 
MIAMI – An Opa-Locka teenager is being held without bond after a court hearing and after Miami-Dade Police arrested him for shooting and killing a 71-year-old man. As first reported first reported by the blog Random Pixels, Miami-Dade Police have identified the suspect who fatally shot 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A former Memphis police officer charged with driving two women to a party at a north Mississippi hotel so they could strip and perform sex acts is going to trial. U.S. District Judge S. Thomas Anderson set an Oct. 7 trial date for Sean McWhirter on Friday. McWhirter has pleaded not guilty to charges of transporting the women for prostitution and racketeering. He was arrested Sept. 17, 2012, and has resigned from the force. FBI agents said McWhirter took payment for the prostitutes while he was on duty in Memphis. 
A Mercer County grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging two men with the shooting death of an off-duty corrections officer at a Trenton banquet hall last year. Maurice Skillman, 27, and Hykeem Tucker, 26, were each indicted on one count of murder, one count of second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and one count of second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun. They were also indicted on three counts of fourth-degree aggravated assault for pointing a firearm at three additional victims. Investigators charged Skillman and Tucker with firing a semi-automatic weapon from the parking lot of the Baldassari Regency banquet hall on Morris Avenue in the early morning hours of November 11, 2012.
Michael Law, the man who attacked Clark County jail guards with a baseball bat Wednesday, told detectives he was seeking revenge after police failed to thoroughly investigate after he was robbed last week. “Law said the police did nothing to help him, so he was going to hurt the first police officer in uniform that he saw,” Law’s Las Vegas police arrest report said. “He decided to take revenge on the ‘corrupt Metropolitan Police Department’,” the report said. Law, 25, knew there would be many officers at the jail, so that’s where he went. Two officers, 
CLEVELAND, OH - A Cleveland man who beat and robbed an elderly couple pleaded guilty Friday. Ronald Ellis, Jr. plead to a series of charges after he broke into a west side home and attacked the couple in June. During the incident, an 
MIAMI BEACH – Police have a suspect in the sexual battery of a South Beach hotel guest. Police say Derrick Jackson, 28, attacked a woman about 4:30 a.m. Friday, September 6th in the Breakwater Hotel. Police say Jackson got onto the elevator with the victim, a 
SAGINAW, MI — A Saginaw man is headed to prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl last year. After deliberating for about an hour, a jury of seven men and five women on Thursday, Sept. 12, convicted Saejar D. Parker of two charges. The jurors convicted Parker, 36, of third-degree criminal sexual conduct against someone ages 13 through 15 and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct against someone ages 13 through 16. Parker sexually assaulted the girl, a relative, while she was sleeping at Parker's home Aug. 2, 2012, at 2337 Hartsuff.
The mother of a 12-year-old girl killed by a teenage boy told a judge today: 'I am living every parents' worst nightmare'. 
DALLAS - A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the murder of a Good Samaritan outside a popular north Dallas bar. Prosecutors said Justin Jones shot and killed 36-year-old 
A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the beating to death of a disabled Chicago man. The brutal crime was captured on video and then posted on Facebook. Earlier this year, Anthony Malcolm was found guilty of first-degree murder and robbery for his part in the sickening attack that killed 62-year-old 
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia teen convicted of fatally shooting a baby in a stroller was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole after the grieving mother asked a judge to punish the gunman for taking "the love of my life." De'Marquise Elkins, 18, stood silent and showed no emotion as he was sentenced in a courtroom less than two weeks after a jury found him guilty of murder in the slaying of 13-month-old 
Suspended Vanderbilt wide receiver Chris Boyd has entered a conditional guilty plea to a role in attempting to cover up the rape of an unconscious student. Deputy Attorney General Tom Thurman said in court Friday that Boyd received text messages and phone calls from dismissed player Brandon Vandenburg on June 23. The prosecutor said Boyd went to Vandenburg's dorm and found a partially clothed, unconscious woman in the hallway. Thurman said Boyd carried the woman to Vandenburg's bed and left. Authorities said Boyd advised Vandenburg to delete video evidence and tell no one what happened. 
CLEVELAND, OH - A suspected serial rapist was in court on Friday morning. Gregory Fitzgerald, Jr. pleaded not guilty to one count of rape, however, Cleveland Sex Crimes Detectives will go to a grand jury for charges in three more rapes. Records show that Fitzgerald is a suspect in cases from 2005, 2008, 2011 and this year. Police say all of the sex assaults were carried out at gunpoint. And in one court document, an officer wrote, "no woman is safe with this man on our streets." The mother of one 23-year old victim said that she had a feeling he was to blame for that attack. She knew his family. "I wanted to attack him. I really did. I'm a mother, and you don't want nobody to hurt your kid, no matter how old they are," the woman said. 
Newport News Police have charged a man in connection to a 2011 sexual abuse case. On July 2, Child Protective Services contacted Newport News Police about a report of past sexual abuse involving a 
ATTALA COUNTY, MS - Authorities in Attala County are searching for a man wanted for statutory rape. L.A. Barksdale, 50, is charged with statutory rape of
A Princeton man police describe as a sex offender with a violent history has been captured in Shreveport, according to Bossier City police. Earlier this week, Bossier Crime Stoppers offered a reward in asking the public for help in finding 27-year-old Terrell D. Fuller, who was wanted for failure to register as a sex offender. According to a release issued by Bossier City Public Information Officer Mark Natale, Fuller was arrested late Thursday morning after receiving a tip. Agents found Fuller outside the Villa Norte Apartments in the 1600 block of Fullerton Street. Natale says Fuller attempted to flee, but agents caught up him after a brief foot chase. Fuller was then booked into the Caddo Correctional Center.
CAMDEN, N.J. — A teenager admitted Wednesday that he strangled a 12-year-old girl who disappeared last fall while out riding her bike, touching off a massive search that ended when her body was found in a recycling bin just blocks from her home. Justin Robinson 
The trial for the man accused of fatally shooting 17-year-old
COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. — If you knocked on her door today, she probably would not answer. A 91-year-old woman said she opened the door to the wrong person last week and became the victim of a violent crime. “I thought it was one of my neighbors because I had just come from the bank and I was talking to my neighbor in the driveway,” the 91-year-old said. “I couldn’t understand what he was saying, so I opened the storm door. That’s when he grabbed the door, took my wrists and pushed me down.” Ricardo Edward Thompson, Jr., 21, of South Chesterfield, is charged with robbery and burglary. He is being held in Riverside Regional Jail without bond. The judge issued a protective ordered that would keep Thompson and his family away from the 91-year-old woman should the suspect be released from jail. 
PHILADELPHIA – An 82-year-old Frankford man was pepper sprayed, assaulted and robbed walking home Tuesday morning. “I tried to fight with the cane. I kept jabbing him in the stomach until he got me down on the ground. Then when I was down on the ground he kept going in my pocket and I was pulling on his hand. He kept grabbing my pocket,” said the victim. 
NASHVILLE, TN - Vanderbilt University has been under a microscope in recent weeks over a rape investigation involving several former football players, but a woman who was raped last year in a campus parking garage is speaking out to give hope to other survivors.
A Satan-obsessed airport security screener who allegedly made creepy comments to a teen traveler in June is behind bars on suspicion of calling in threats to LAX and taping a menacing note inside his closet invoking the Sept. 11 anniversary, FBI officials said.