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Woman sentenced to life in ’09 robbery and killing of SF man
  MARTINEZ, Calif. — A Pittsburg woman who shot and killed a 22-year-old San Francisco man after robbing him of his iPhone and cash in 2009 will spend the rest of her life in prison, a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge ruled Friday. Kiarra Price, 24, was sentenced during an emotional hearing in a Martinez courtroom packed with her relatives and some two-dozen family members of Benjamin Merrill, the young man she was convicted of killing. Her accomplice and former girlfriend, 24-year-old Teareney Brown, was sentenced during the same hearing today to 14 years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter, kidnapping and second-degree robbery. Merrill, a Washington state native living in San Francisco, had been stood up by a date and was walking through San Francisco's Mission District around 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 3, 2009, when Price and Brown, then 20, pulled up in a car, asked for directions and began chatting with him. Intoxicated, Merrill accepted their offer to party with them and got into their car, according to police and prosecutors. But instead of heading back to the home he shared with roommates, Merrill ended up in Pittsburg, where Price and Brown stopped to pick up a friend, then-21-year-old Kendra Fells, who brought a gun. A short time later, they all drove to a park near the Pittsburg marina where the women robbed Merrill of his iPhone and pocket cash. For unknown reasons, Price shot Merrill, fatally wounding him, and the three women fled the scene. - (Black-on-white) |
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- Women sentenced for San Francisco man's 2009 murder and robbery in Pittsburg
- Another white Eloi falls into the maw
A young white man, Benjamin Merrill, from a small, mostly white town in Washington State, was murdered on November 2nd in San Francisco by three young black women. Two women started talking with him on the street. He apparently got in their car and went to a house to pick up a third woman. They then drove to a park where they robbed and shot him dead. Since this young man’s home town, Belfair, is near where I live, I can tell you that the thought of three women preying upon a man is likely outside the realm of anything he could have conceived of. There are essentially no blacks in Belfair, so I don’t know what he might have thought about black women. The three women charged are: Kiarra Price, Teareney Brown and Kendra Fells. You can try, try in vain to find an article that includes pictures of the victim and any of the alleged killers in the same article.
- Benjamin Peterson Merrill - November 15, 2009
- Their friend, Kendra Fells, 25, is serving a 15-year sentence under a plea deal that requires her to testify for the prosecution.
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ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. -- Family members of Marco Kauffman decided to take him off life support after he was shot in the head earlier this month. Kauffman died Friday afternoon. The family made the announcement on their 'Praying for Marco' Facebook page: They said, "Marcus burst into heaven at 12:52 p.m. Our loss is so painful, but we know this was gain for Marcus. Kauffman was shot during a burglary attempt in front of his home on Chenault Road in Cleveland County. He and his pregnant wife were returning home after spending the Thanksgiving holiday with both in-laws. Authorities have arrested four men in connection with the shooting. Following Kauffman’s death on Friday, the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office upgraded the charges for two of the suspects. Khari McClelland, 23, and Jaylend Turner, 29, will now be charged with first-degree murder. - (Black-on-white)
Four people are in custody six days after the senseless carjack killing of 30-year-old 
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FORT WORTH – A 23-year-old Arlington man has been sentenced to life in prison for lighting his longtime girlfriend on fire. A jury sentenced Antonio Hales Jr. after convicting him last week of attempted capital murder. Prosecutors said Hales was on probation for drug convictions when he got into a fight with his girlfriend outside his drug supplier’s apartment. He doused her with gasoline inside their car, choked her and tossed a match in the vehicle lighting both her and the car on fire. She suffered burns on 40 percent of her body. Jurors heard of a long history of domestic abuse prior to the final confrontation. The girlfriend spent nearly a month at the Parkland Hospital burn unit and several more months at Zale Lipshy University Hospital in Dallas. She has undergone numerous surgeries and will continue to need medical care throughout life to cope with the scar tissue caused by her burns. 
Virginia Beach, Va. – State police need your help to find a 56-year-old man who they say is an armed and dangerous sex offender. They are looking for Melvin Leon Wallace who is now wanted on two felony counts for knowingly failing to re-register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. They say Wallace’s last known address was in the 500 block of Sterling Court in Virginia Beach. Police believe he is now driving around the Norfolk and Virginia Beach areas in a 1986 primer gray Nissan or Toyota model pick-up truck. They say the truck has a North Carolina registration with a partial NC tag of “X6X___.” They say Wallace is traveling with two pit bulls.
ROBESON COUNTY, NC - Four sexual assault cases have been reported in a small town within seven days. The Robeson County Sheriff's Office have now arrested two men in these cases, and are continuing to investigate. One of those attacks happened on Lariat Court, the victim a 
CLEVELAND, OH - Multiple charges have been filed against a suspected serial rapist, and there could be even more. The charges were filed against Robert Green. Court papers show Green is tied to six attacks. And, we've learned of plans to file charges for a seventh. That's a total of seven rapes. Now, investigators wonder, could there be more? Police say for years, it went like this: A predator driving the streets, usually Cleveland's Northeast side, kidnapping women at gunpoint then raping them, and getting away with it. Now, Green's past is catching up with him. Investigators used DNA and they say they've tied Green to seven sexual assaults dating back to 1993. How'd he hide on your streets for so long? Investigators did not have his DNA in a database. We've learned in the past, he'd been arrested for sexual assaults in California, but was cleared. Police also arrested him on a gun charge. But, that was before police started routinely taking DNA samples. Cleveland Police investigators used old fashioned detective work to come up with Green as a suspect in a few cases. And now, the total is seven. Green now 68-years-old. His health is failing. He's fighting the charges. But, the push for justice for those old crimes is still building. 
FRANKLINTON -- Christopher Dillon tried to rob his neighbor for cash, then shot him in the arm. That man is still recovering in a New Orleans hospital. Dillon was pulled from the burning home and arrested, but once the fire was out, the body of his mother, 44-year-old 
LOVELAND, Ohio —One man is dead after a stabbing in Loveland and his stepfather is accused of the attack. Police said the stabbing happened at the Chapelwood Apartments Thursday. Police identified the victim as 
It was all just part of the game. That was the message Shawn James Hamilton had in court Friday when he and his brother, Sawud Davis, pleaded guilty to murdering three people in cold blood at a Plymouth apartment in July 2012. Hamilton also admitted to murdering a man in Wilkes-Barre the day before the Plymouth massacre. “We got caught up into the drug game,” Hamilton said in court. “I’m not a monster. ... I felt like I was being played with and I did what I had to do. “I’m not going to say I’m sorry because you can’t just say ‘I’m sorry’ for killing someone.”
RICHLAND COUNTY, SC - A South Carolina Department of Corrections officer has been arrested and charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor. 34-year-old Nicolas Sheldon Brown was arrested and charged after investigators determined that he was sexually abusing a young girl since 2009. The abuse began when the alleged victim was 
A Tulsa man was arrested after police say he raped a woman and drove around with her in the trunk of a car. James Partee, 47, is in Tulsa County Jail on a $157,000 bond. Tulsa police were called to a home just after midnight by a woman who said her live-in boyfriend held a knife to her throat and sexually assaulted her. She said Partee then wrapped her in a blanket, placed her in the trunk of her car and drove around. When police spoke to Partee, who is a convicted felon, they say he had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and was unsteady on his feet. He was booked on complaints of rape by force or fear, kidnapping, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, assault with a deadly weapon and driving under the influence.
A Queens teenager whom police dubbed a "serial sexual predator" pleaded guilty Thursday to two Valley Stream sex attacks. Nassau County Judge Angelo Delligatti said he planned to sentence Nashane Peterkin to 20 years in prison at a February hearing. Peterkin, 17, of Springfield Gardens, pleaded guilty to charges that included first-degree rape, committing a criminal sex act, strangulation and assault. A psychologist had diagnosed Peterkin with sexual sadism disorder...
WILMINGTON, NC – A Wilmington man is facing human trafficking charges after befriending young girls and forcing them to have sex for money. Randolph Johnson Spain, 24, is accused of human trafficking charges that stretch up and down the east coast. He is known to earn the trust of young women, taking them out of the state, and force them into prostitution. Spain is currently in the New Hanover County Jail under a $1.2 million bond. A spokeswoman with the Wilmington Police Department said the case started out as a domestic violence case and developed into something a lot bigger. Spain is charged with: Sexual servitude of a minor, Promotion of prostitution of a minor...(
OROVILLE, Calif. - A Butte County judge has found the man accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death mentally competent to stand trial. Investigators say Olabaku Jones killed his long-time girlfriend 
OKLAHOMA CITY —A teenager convicted of murder in the pharmacy robbery that left a 16-year-old dead is recovering at a local hospital after he was shot in the face, Oklahoma City police confirmed. Officers said that Jevontai Ingram, 19, was shot in the face Tuesday night at the Nottingham Apartments, near Northwest 27th Street and Shields Boulevard. Ingram and Antwun Parker attempted to rob the Reliable Pharmacy in 2009. During the robbery, pharmacist 
RALEIGH — A 38-year-old Raleigh man was being held on $3 million bail Friday after police arrested him Thursday night on two counts of statutory rape involving a 
A registered sex offender is accused of inappropriately touching a girl after she stopped to help him use a DVD-rental machine. The girl and her mother told Gloucester Township Police that the girl was leaving a Walgreens around 1:15 p.m. on Sept. 29 when an older-looking man asked her to show him how to use the Red Box machine outside the store. As the girl helped him out, the man reached over and rubbed her midsection while making a comment. The girl told police that she pulled away, told the man not to touch her and ran to her vehicle in the parking lot. Police began to investigate the incident and eventually identified the suspect as Vincent Kerr, 46, of Blackwood, N.J.
Former Suns player Richard Dumas was arrested on suspicion of organized retail theft as part of statewide roundup of people with outstanding warrants. Authorities found 44-year-old Dumas at Dumas and Friends Athletic Association in Litchfield Park and he was taken into custody without incident. Dumas was indicted on suspicion of eight counts of organized retail theft. Operation Grinch Stopper 2 focused on people who held outstanding warrants in connection with various property crimes. Authorities from 27 agencies across the state made 151 arrests. This is the second year Operation Grinch Stopper has been put into effect. Dumas was a rising NBA star as a forward with the Phoenix Suns in the early 1990s before his career came to an early end. After a 1998 cocaine arrest, Dumas tried to revive his basketball career in Croatia as a center but injured his knee. 
Three felons were arrested after they stole children's Christmas presents and other valuables from a home in Seminole County. A deputy on patrol saw three men loading large bags into a Ford Explorer parked in the driveway of a home on Westchester Drive. The deputy followed the sport utility vehicle, which refused to pull over and crashed into a brick wall to avoid stop sticks investigators had placed in the road. The driver, David Smith was trapped in the SUV and treated at Orlando Regional Medical Center before being taken to the Seminole County Jail. He was released from prison in June 2012 after serving a nearly five-year sentence for an aggravated assault and armed burglary in Orange County. He is on drug-offender probation out of Dixie County. The other two men, Quinton Chambers, 24, and Shamoule Bridges, 20, ran away but were caught by a sheriff's dog. Deputies found the Christmas gifts, cash, jewelry, a stolen handgun, burglary tools and drugs in the SUV. 
A Maryland woman has been accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a mentally handicapped person for whom she worked. Alexandria Police officials Tisa Dorsey was working as a cleaning lady for elderly Alexandria woman when she allegedly stole more than 100 checks and cashed them. Authorities believe that, in total, the 29-year-old Greenbelt resident stole
St. Petersburg, Florida - Twenty-four hours after a teenager was carjacked at gunpoint, the suspects are arrested after they tried to escape capture. It started on Tuesday evening along the 1800 block of 64th Ave. North when two men carjacked the teenager for her 2013 Hyundai Sonata at gunpoint. "He hit me with the butt of his right under my eye, pick up my phone right after I'd thrown in. Got into my car and drove away," said 17-year-old 
EL CAJON, Calif. - A man accused of forcing an 18-year-old student into her car at knifepoint in a Grossmont College parking garage must stand trial on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape. The victim was leaning into her car shortly before 11:30 a.m. Oct. 22 at the western El Cajon campus when Anthony Jerome Washington Jr., 26, forced her into the vehicle. The victim, who was only identified as 
WAUKEGAN, Ill. – “Let me be clear, I intend that you spend the rest of your days in prison,” a Lake County judge said before sentencing a Wisconsin man to 110 years for the murder of a north suburban girl during a 2007 robbery. Montago Suggs convicted of killing 22-year-old 
SEATTLE - Newly-released surveillance video shows a violent confrontation on a Seattle bus last month. A man was robbing passengers getting robbed at gunpoint - until they decided to fight back and stop the suspect cold. "It's the bus I take home every day," said 
A former River Oaks Hospital employee who was convicted last month of raping a heroin addict seeking help at the Elmwood facility has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. John H. Williams Jr., 38, also must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, Judge Scott Schlegel ordered in handing down the sentence. The victim said she was in a medication-induced stupor when she realized Williams, a 300-pound technician, was raping her. Williams was convicted of simple rape and could have faced up to 25 years in prison. The same jury acquitted him of raping another River Oaks patient who also had accused him of rape. 
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio —A Butler County grand jury has indicted a man seven months after he was arrested.In May, Middletown police went to an apartment in the 3900 block of Roosevelt Avenue for a well-being check. When officers arrived, they said they found a man and woman in an argument. While refusing to leave the apartment, a woman ran outside and, according to police, said she had been held against her will and threatened with a knife. The victim filed a domestic violence charge and officers arrested Tyrone Lowe. On Wednesday, Lowe was indicted on two counts of kidnapping and one count of rape. 
DENVER — Denver police are looking for a man in a photograph taken by a woman who claims he was masturbating while staring at her. The woman was on a light rail train near 25th and Welton station in downtown Denver around 3 p.m. Dec. 10 when she noticed the man, police said. Shen then took out her phone and took a picture of him and gave it to police. The woman got off the train and walked away.
SENECA, S.C. - Mattie Brooks, of Seneca, is facing child abuse charges after she was arrested on South Walnut Street Thursday morning. Between 1999 and 2009, investigators say Brooks 
TERREBONNE PARISH, La. —A man was shot and his girlfriend was killed in an attempted robbery that happened as the two sought to buy illegal drugs from a teen boy. Deputies responded to a report of an unresponsive woman in a parking lot on Highway 56 about 7:30 p.m. 
JACKSON, Miss. —A man convicted of killing his mother was sentenced to life in prison Thursday. Marc Lewis, 23, was convicted of murder last month. Police said Lewis killed his mother,
EAST VILLAGE — A teenager pretending to gather signatures for a petition was arrested for swiping a passport and wallet from an East Village Starbucks customer — and then biting the victim in the face when confronted, police said. Jamel Chandler, 18, approached a man in the Astor Place Starbucks at about 7 p.m. on Nov. 29 and asked him to sign a petition, according to police and the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Chandler then placed a clipboard over the victim's wallet, which contained a passport, credit cards and cash, to distract the victim and grab the wallet, police said. When another customer spotted the theft and alerted the victim, the man confronted Chandler outside the store, where a scuffle between the two ended with Chandler biting the victim in the face, drawing blood, police said. 
A Brooklyn judge delivered a scathing condemnation of violent street culture Wednesday as he sentenced a smiling teenage girl to 20 years to life in prison for a gang slaying. “This isn’t a civil society when your children become murderers,” Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice thundered. “It’s up to the adults in the community to make sure this doesn’t happen. Society is better than that.” Del Giudice sentenced Sahiah “Uzi” Davis, 18, for fatally shooting 
WEST PHILADELPHIA - -- Police have made an arrest in a shooting from early this summer that left one man dead and two others wounded in West Philadelphia. 21-year-old Joshua Raheem from the 5400 block of Baltimore Avenue was arrested Monday after turning himself in to police. Raheem is facing murder and gun charges. It was approximately 7:54 p.m. on June 6, 2013, when officers responded to the report of a shooting in the area of 50th and Thompson Streets. 21-year-old 
DOTHAN, AL - Dothan Police say a man attempted to escape arrest twice before being taken to jail. Police say 28-year-old Ricardo Alwayne Salmon, was arrested and charged with first degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, second degree assault and escape in the first. Salmon was initially pulled over on a traffic stop. He attempted to escape but was caught, to which a struggle ensued where he used his head to strike one of the officer's. As officers were placing him inside the patrol unit, Salmon attempted to escape for a second time but was immediately caught and transported to the Dothan City Jail. He is being held on a $600,000 bond for all charges. 
Two men have been convicted of murdering a soldier in broad daylight near a military barracks in London, in the first al-Qaida-inspired attack to claim a life on British soil since 7 July 2005. 
A Syrian American with ties to Detroit has been placed on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, the agency announced Thursday. 
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - State prosecutors say they are "confident and satisfied" that Carl Philip Herold, accused of holding a child captive, sexually torturing him and producing child pornography of the torture, will show up for trial after a judge here raised Herold's bond to $1 million cash today. The judge issued a similar order Monday raising to $1 million the bond against Charles Dunnavant, identified as Herold's domestic partner and suspected partner in the alleged crimes. Dunnavant faces charges including sexual torture, sodomy, aggravated child abuse and transmitting or exposing a person to a STD, 
HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. —Deputies with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi was met by an 
MEMPHIS, TN – Detectives with the Shelby County Sheriff's Office Sex Crimes unit contacted officers with the Fugitive Apprehension Team Wednesday in reference to 48-year-old Michael Bryant who was wanted on a warrant charge of Sexual Battery by an Authority Figure. The investigation reveals that he had been sexually abusing a 
COLUMBIA, SC - A Columbia pastor arrested and charged with criminal sexual conduct is out of jail on $60,000 bond. Pastor Willie Lee Marvin, 51, of New Life World Ministries left the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center late Wednesday afternoon. Marvin, who is also charged with producing, promoting, or directing a sexual performance by a child under 18, and voyeurism, appeared in bond court Wednesday morning along with his family and the 15-year-old victim's family. During the hearing, the judge said paperwork indicates Marvin provided a written and recorded confession to all three charges. The victim's parents spoke during the hearing. The parents said Marvin began his relationship with the victim while he worked at Carolina Children's Home, a treatment clinic for behaviorally challenged youth in Columbia. A spokesperson for the clinic said Marvin had only been employed there as a therapeutic counselor since October 21, 2013. He was suspended on December 2 and later fired on December 17 after the allegations surfaced. According to a Columbia Police Department incident report, Marvin sent sexually explicit text messages and an obscene photo to the 
MEMPHIS, TN - Memphis police need your help to find two men suspected of killing a Mid-South woman. 19-year-old 
Police arrested a man in connection to an assault and robbery in the Jeweler’s Row section of the city last November. Keith Richardson, 19, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with attempted murder, carjacking, robbery and other related offenses. On November 17, at 2:45 a.m., police say a 23-year-old man and two of his friends were walking along the 700 block of Sansom Street when Richardson and three other suspects began to follow them. As the victim tried to enter the door of a building, police say one of the suspects punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. The suspects then allegedly stole his iPhone and then fled west on Sansom Street. They then entered a silver or gray-colored late model Pontiac Grand Prix. Police say an anonymous tip led them to Richardson. While he is now in custody, police say the other three suspects are still on the loose. 
AMITYVILLE, New York -- A 20-year-old Long Island man is under arrest and is expect to be charged with up to 7 counts of 'knockout' assaults that date back to April of 2013. Darryl Mitchell is expected to be charged in the assaults of residents, at least
A pastor has forgiven a man accused of stabbing him 37 times and leaving him for dead after coming face to face with his alleged attacker in an emotion-charged court room. 
Lexington Police have identified a man they believe is a suspect in a reported sexual assault, kidnapping and car theft. Police identified the suspect as Parico Coffey, 21. As of this writing, he had not been captured. On Tuesday around 5:46 a.m., police said they arrived at a home on Bordeux Drive for a complaint of a woman who was in distress knocking on doors asking for help. Police said the woman told them she was sitting in her car in a gas station parking lot at Versailles Road and Alexandria Drive, when two men forced their way in at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her. The woman told investigators she was able to escape her captors and run to a home on Bordeux Drive. Police said the reported victim's stolen car was found around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of the Gardenside Plaza, not far from the gas station.
SANTA ANA — Arraignment was postponed for an 18-year-old man who faces charges of sexually assaulting two women in separate attacks in Santa Ana and Anaheim. Raymond Boykin was ordered to reappear in court. Boykin was named in a $1 million arrest warrant after a 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in a parking structure at the Westfield MainPlace Mall, Boykin had tried to buy a phone at a Verizon store at the MainPlace Mall, but was $20 short, Bertagna said. He left the store and robbed and sexually assaulted the woman in the parking garage at knifepoint, then returned to the store to the buy the phone, he said. Two days later, Boykin sexually assaulted a 42-year-old woman at about 6:15 a.m. in the parking lot of Sa Rang Community Church in Anaheim. The victim broke free and ran across the street to a gas station, where she called police, he said.
NASHVILLE, TN - A man is in jail after allegedly causing a scene inside of a Burger King Tuesday night. Police say Clarence Potter became irate because he said it was taking too long to get his food. Burger King employees say Potter asked for a refund and became enraged when they asked for his receipt, shoving the cash register onto the ground. Police arrested Potter in the Burger King lobby. He was booked in around 10:30 p.m. Potter is facing disorderly conduct and vandalism charges. The register he allegedly destroyed is worth about $2,500.
GARY, Ind. – A northwest Indiana woman arrested after police viewed a video that showed her striking her 3-year-old son and screaming at him as he struggled to say the alphabet is free on bond. Rosena Small, 25, of 1812 W. 5th Ave. in Gary was arrested at her apartment Dec. 11 after her ex-boyfriend posted five videos of the incident on YouTube. She is now free on a $20,000 bond. The videos, obtained by Gary police and the Post-Tribune, show Small using a metal door stopper to smash her son’s toys when he couldn’t repeat the letters she shouted at him.
SHREVEPORT, LA - A Shreveport woman is behind bars after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend on Tuesday afternoon. Shreveport Police patrol officers were called to an apartment complex in the 1900 block of Patzman Street just before 2:30 p.m. and arrived to find 45-year-old 
A woman arrested last year for allegedly stabbing a woman at a Chuck E. Cheese is now facing murder charges in the death of her boyfriend during a fight over the weekend, police said. Shardonnae Pruitt, 20, was arrested Sunday evening after she stabbed 
LAUREL, Md. — Anne Arundel County Police say a woman killed her husband. Around 10:30 a.m. Friday, police were called to a home in the 8300-block of Frostwood Road in Laurel to check on the well-being of its occupants. When they arrived, they found 
SAN ANTONIO - A woman is jailed accused of stabbing a man because he did not make her breakfast. Rosie Mae Strait, 39, is charged with aggravated assault. Police said she stabbed 
PITTSBURGH — A father of a 1-year-old girl is on the run after police said he threw a remote control at the girl, causing injuries to her face. According to the criminal complaint, 22-year-old Corbin Ingram used a television remote to assault his daughter. Investigators said the incident happened at the girl’s grandmother’s house in Sheraden earlier this week. The criminal complaint stated that Corbin’s girlfriend witnessed the assault saying, “He picks up the TV remote control and throws it like a baseball at his daughter across the living room, striking her in the nose and mouth.” The complaint goes on to say, “He then picked up his daughter and threw her into the corner of another couch.” The girl had blood on her face and hands.
A Mill Valley man who fell into the Bay on Friday was allegedly trying to throw his wife off of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge during an argument. Xavier Jarrell McClinton, 47, appeared in court Monday to be arraigned on one felony count each of attempted murder and domestic violence in connection with the bizarre attack, which took place on the bridge at around 2:25 p.m. Friday. McClinton was driving east with his wife of eight years when the couple began to argue. During the argument, McClinton drove his car off the side of the roadway in an apparent attempt to crash it into the Bay. When the car hit a barrier and came to a stop, McClinton grabbed his wife, pulled her out of the vehicle and tried to throw her off the bridge into the water. 
TYLER, TX - An East Texas man was sentenced to 80 years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of a 2012 murder. Marquel Jermon Scott, 33, of Tyler, was convicted of murder Tuesday evening in a Smith County courtroom for the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Keeston Fields outside of The Hyena Club in north Tyler.
Santa Monica — An illegal immigrant who stabbed a man waiting for a bus with his girlfriend in Downtown has plead guilty to one count of attempted second-degree murder and was sentenced to nine years in state prison, Santa Monica police said. Upon his release from prison, authorities said
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Nashville judge is weighing a request to allow a private attorney to handle the death penalty case against Lorenzo Jenkins. The request from the public defender's office comes as the state is pushing to begin executing condemned inmates again. Assistant Public Defender Mike Engle told Criminal Court Judge Randall Wyatt Jr. last week that the Nashville public defender's office lacks the resources to take on another death penalty case, which on average takes 2,000 hours of preparation. Elected Public Defender Dawn Deaner said that her office is underfunded and understaffed and is already involved in two death penalty cases. Jenkins is charged with murder in the 2012 stabbing deaths of 
Three young men have been found guilty of killing a 20-year-old Pennsylvania student. A jury found 17-year-old Jon Lee guilty of third-degree murder, while the judge in the case delivered the same verdict for 19-year-old Brandon Lind, while finding 24-year-old Devele Reid guilty of second-degree murder. Prosecutors say all three are liable in the June 2012 death of Slippery Rock University student 
Forensic evidence has linked convicted cop killer Kevin Randleman to a 2005 rape case in Illinois. On May 31, 2005, a 
BALTIMORE —The man charged with hitting and killing a longtime Baltimore City employee earlier this year in front of City Hall enters a plea in the case and learns his fate. Johnny Johnson entered a guilty plea to vehicular manslaughter in the death of 
LIVERMORE, Calif. — The man killed in the fiery crash in Livermore Thursday morning has been identified as 
It’s been more than two years since 
FLORENCE, Ariz. — A Mexican citizen illegally in the United States killed a prison cellmate in order to remain in custody, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said. The Sheriff’s Office said it is recommending that prosecutors charge 43-year-old 
The former Brooklyn judge who said he wrongfully convicted a man of murder because of his own anti-white bias said Thursday that he felt “terrible” when he saw the condition of the guy in court this week. 
WILMINGTON, NC – The man accused of killing a teen just before Christmas in 2012 is expected to take a plea deal in court Thursday. Quintel Raheem Grady will like plead guilty to his involvement in the death of
A Memphis man already accused of attacking a popular crossing guard is back in jail. Donell Johnson, 20, is all smiles in his mug shot, but he is facing more time after his second arrest on robbery-related charges. The first time involved popular Richland Elementary crossing guard 
ATLANTA, GA - On Oct. 13, 2013, 18-year-old 
