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(Feral Black) Teen Violence: Racial assaults a national problem
   CINCINNATI -- Teen mobs at city events is not a Cincinnati thing, and it's been going on for years. Evidence of teen violence goes back to the Wisconsin State Fair in 2011, Philly, Chicago and spring 2014 in Louisville. They all have in common the attacks are by black, teenaged boys and girls. And most of the victims are white. The race factor is not something officials like to talk about. One UC criminology professor says that silence could be deadly. To some who called 911, the race factor was obvious. 11 victims filed reports saying they were kicked, punched or stomped by a group of black teenagers or young adults, boys and girls. Ten of the victims were white, one was Asian. Two reported racial slurs. Noelle Findlay was so certain the assault was racially motivated; the police report says hate crime. At 12th and Clay, Noelle says about 15 teenagers stepped in front of the car her husband was driving, "Everyone swarmed the car; I was like, 'Go, go, go, get us out of here.'" Noelle's husband, Chad Findley, told Local 12 News, "I had my window down four or five inches, he punched me in the left side of the face, someone else was on my wife's side." He said, "They were laughing the whole time having a great time" Noelle Findley used to live in Over-The-Rhine. Her job was about helping mostly young black men find careers. She filed the police report as a hate crime because she believes there was no other motive. "I feel like it needs to be addressed, people need to speak out say something not sweep it under the rug," Noelle said. Dr. John Wright, a criminal justice professor at UC, said, "I think it is racist behavior, racist behavior when you target a group based on their race, sexual orientation, it's the very nature of a hate crime." - (Black-on-white) - (Hatecrimes) |
Toronto police are casting a wide net in their search for a suspect accused of a fatal shooting that also left two others wounded last month. Det. Joyce Schertzer updated the media about the killing of Douglas Parker, a 20-year-old man who was fatally shot on the evening of May 24. The shooting occurred at about 8:50 p.m. that night. "He’d arrived at the location in the company of friends by taxi. He was killed almost immediately after his arrival," Schertzer said. Parker was hit several times in "the chest area," while his friends were also shot. Schertzer said the investigation has determined that Parker was targeted in the shooting, which she said stemmed from a pre-existing dispute involving several parties. Police identified the suspect as Conrad Grizzle, 20, of Toronto. He is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for second-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. - (Black-on-white) - (Canada) 
Phoenix police arrested a man after DNA evidence linked him to an unsolved murder and sexual assault from 1989, court records show. In January, a report from the Phoenix Police Department's crime lab indicated a DNA match between a sample taken from the scene and a DNA profile in a state database that belonged to Cudellious Love, a 58-year-old man with a drug conviction that landed him in prison for more than three years in the early aughts. Police say Love's DNA was found on the body of 
ORLANDO, Fla. —Police have identified a suspect in a shooting last month that left a 20-year-old man dead outside Winnie Palmer Hospital. Brixten Dyer, 19, is already in the Orange County Jail on no bond for unrelated armed robberies. Police did not say how Dyer was identified as a suspect in the shooting case. 
WEST PALM BEACH — When prosecutors in 2003 convinced a jury that Otto Wright killed an 18-year-old night manager at Chick-fil-A restaurant in the now defunct Palm Beach Mall, their main evidence was his confession, which they insisted was “absolutely truthful.” However, in that confession, Wright never mentioned Jesse Lee Miller, who is to be tried next week for the execution-style murder of 
Convicted killer Deandre Clark’s appeal of his conviction and sentence in the death of 
Heather Holmes
A woman who was held captive for three days by her ex-boyfriend - who sheared her hair off as their children watched TV in another room - has spoken out about her nightmare ordeal. 
SAGINAW, MI — A Saginaw man who last week rejected a 30-year prison sentence now faces up to life in prison after a jury convicted him in a Saginaw Township armed robbery and sexual assault case. After deliberating for parts of three days, a jury on the morning of Monday, June 16, convicted DeMarcus D. Reed of 24 felonies for an Aug. 13 incident. Prosecutors charged Reed and James H. Brooks in connection with the incident. Brooks, 28, faces the same number of charges Saginaw County Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer Janetsky said during her closing argument that Reed and Brooks broke into the house in the early morning hours wearing masks and armed with a .45-caliber handgun and a .40-caliber handgun and subjected a then-30-year-old man and then-23-year-old woman to "20 minutes of torture." After Reed left the house, Brooks sexually assaulted the woman with a gun.
Police say a man was arrested for a sexual assault that allegedly took place at a local Hardee's eight years ago. Police arrested Joshua Ray, 27, after he allegedly assaulted
A Weldon teenager was arrested Friday and charged with second-degree rape, according to Northampton County Sheriff Jack Smith. Jeremy Lemuel Motley, 17, turned himself in to the Sheriff’s Office after the victim named him as the man who assaulted her at a barbecue in Northampton County on the evening of June 7. He was given a $100,000 bond and a Monday court date was set, Smith said. The victim did not report the assault until the following afternoon, June 8, when she went to Halifax Regional. “He allegedly choked her,” Smith said.
DALLAS -- A man has pleaded guilty after admitting to having sex with a teen and giving her HIV. Testimony in the punishment phase is now underway in Matthew Reese's trial. The 31-year-old said he had a relationship with a 
A man is facing rape charges in Davidson County after police say he had sex with a teenager and then pulled a gun on the person who tried to stop him. Someone who knows the victim says they found the 
Chicago police are investigating a bold and massive shoplifting scheme. They walk into a store like any other shopper, only they have no plans to pay. In fact, they grab what they want and suddenly take off. The thieves were not expecting a store employee to put up such a fight. A dozen or so people came to the Grand Crossing neighborhood K & G clothing store, but not in search of advertised bargains. They came to steal, as a pack, and in broad daylight. Surveillance video show a brazen robbery. The men and women bring their own shopping bags into the store and fill them up, then simply walk out of the store. The store is busy at the time and only one sales clerk catches on to what’s happening. He tries to stop one man at the door, and there’s a brief scuffle. A few minutes later, a group of female thieves walks away, but the employee surprises them. He grabs one of their bags and then tosses it back into the store.
A Scott County judge sentenced Darius Johnson to life in prison Wednesday for the 2012 killing of 
SAN DIEGO - New details y in a downtown bar fight that turned deadly. Friends are identifying the victim as 28-year-old 
A teenager has pleaded guilty to a role in the mob beating of a driver who hit a young child in Detroit in April. Bruce Wimbush, 18, admitted to punching 
UPPER DARBY, Pa. - A man sitting at a trolley stop in Drexel Hill is punched in the face, and it’s all caught on camera. "It's a real shame that something like this could take place," said the victim. The victim does not want to be identified, but wants his story told. He says he was just minding his own business at the Burmont and Morgan trolley stop last week when about six teens came up to him. "It's a feeling to me that I know it wasn't personal. I know, I don't do anything to anybody," he said. The video shows the attacker standing around for several seconds before striking the man in the face. "It could have been worse because they did hit me with glasses on, and they could have sent my glasses right into my eyes," said the victim. "I take anxiety medicine and it was quite a setback." Upper Darby Police are calling the incident yet another in the popular 'Knockout Game' where people are punched out of the blue while someone else records it. Police also believe one of the suspects posted the video on Facebook for the world to see. “Extremely disappointing about how the world's changed since I’ve known it," the victim said. The Upper Darby Police Department says they are very close to identifying the attacker. According to police, more information will be released this week. 
The Village Police Department reports Albert Johnson has been taken into custody. 
ATLANTA — A federal judge on Monday rejected a Georgia inmate’s argument that his execution, scheduled for Tuesday evening, should be stayed because the state had refused to disclose details about the drug to be used in his lethal injection. Marcus Wellons, 58, was sentenced to death in the 1989 
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — A New Smyrna Beach man is in critical condition after his father shot him multiple times, police said. Eugene Blackwell Sr., 46, allegedly shot his (son) 
A woman is banned from all Toledo Public School property after police say she groped a female teacher. A police report shows Annette Downs confronted the teacher, asked if she was a lesbian, and said she liked to perform sex acts on women. Then - the victim says Downs grabbed her shirt and pulled it open. Downs is charged with assaulting a teacher and disrupting school activity.
Federal agents have arrested a man identified as a validated member of the Athens Park Bloods gang and a major Chattanooga cocaine dealer. Authorities said the confidential informant who had been working with agents to make a case against 28-year-old Jeremy Labral Ellis was the victim of an assassination attempt last Wednesday night.
Investigators arrested 16-year-old Jamir Brazzle and charged him with assault with intent to kill. Police also arrested his friends, 17-year-old Willis George Jr. and 18-year-old Dazir Bonds, as accessories to the crime.
A week after a mother of five was shot to death in Chattanooga, the man police suspect of killing her was captured in Mississippi. Cashman Perkins, 31, had been declared one of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s “most wanted,” and he was described as armed and dangerous. He was captured in Columbus, Miss., about 1 a.m. Sunday by U.S. Marshals with the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force. 
A high school math teacher in Sacramento has been arrested on suspicion of mowing down
A man who was in an Arcata home last May at the time of a double shooting testified in court on Friday about the first frantic moments, describing how he used a towel to apply pressure to 
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A man convicted of killing his neighbor in Norfolk has been sentenced to a another life term for the death of the mother of his children in Virginia Beach. Jamiel Graves was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday on the capital murder charge against him in the death of 
The whole time people searched for Robinson, Jamiel Graves was taken into custody for the murder of his baby mama, 
TROY -- Police announced on Friday that they made an arrest in a fatal stabbing incident earlier in the week. 
Durham police have arrested Major Edwards Jr., 50, of Durham and charged him with robbing a SunTrust Bank just before noon Friday in the 1500 block of North Gregson Street. Police said Edwards entered the bank and handed a teller a note demanding money, and threatening the use of a weapon. However, no weapon was displayed. 
The FBI is looking for three suspects in three bank robberies over two days this week. But only one of the robbers left with any money, federal authorities said. The first incident happened Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Wells Fargo branch in the 3300 block of 14th Street in northwest Washington. A man approached the teller and demanded money; he didn't get any and left the bank. He's described as black, ... In the second incident, a woman attempted to rob a Bank of America branch on Minnesota Avenue Thursday, the FBI said. They say the woman came into the branch at about 12:30 p.m., approached the teller and demanded money. She didn't get any money and left the bank. She is described as black, ... The third incident happened Friday at about 10:20 a.m. A man came into the PNC Bank inside the Giant Food Store in the 2900 block of South Glebe Road in Arlington and demanded money; he was given an undisclosed amount of money and left the store. He was described as black, ...
This black-eyed bandit got around — cops say he pulled seven bank heists in just two weeks. Brian Blackford, 40, of Kings Park, LI, made off with roughly $40,000 — by passing notes to tellers and demanding cash between May 24 and June 9, according to Suffolk County Police. Cops nabbed the suspect on Monday after he tried to pull the same move at a Capital One in Nesconset — fleeing the bank toward a getaway car, police sources said. 
Authorities are trying to identify a woman who robbed a South Florida bank all while talking on her cellphone. The robbery occurred June 4 at a TD Bank branch on Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera said the woman passed the teller a note demanding money. She got away on foot.
Baltimore County Police are searching for a man they say robbed an M&T Bank. It happened around 10 a.m. in the 700-block of Frederick Road on May 23. Police say the suspect handed the teller a note stating he had a gun. The suspect got away with an undisclosed amount of money. Police say the suspect is a black male, 25-35 years old, 5’7″-5’8″, and 150-160 pounds. He was last seen wearing a Baltimore Orioles hat, sunglasses, gray Champion sweatshirt, camouflage shorts, and white tennis shoes.
Authorities have issued warrants against a man suspected of robbing a Webster Groves Bank in April. According to police, Deonte W. Phillips, 21, walked into the PNC Bank at 135 W. Lockwood on April 30 and took an undisclosed amount of cash from the customer service counter. While leaving, Police say he indicated to an employee he had a weapon.
The FBI and Brentwood police are seeking information about a man who robbed the First National Bank in Brentwood Towne Square today, according to an FBI press release. Surveillance footage captured a medium-build black male, who stood about 5 feet, 8 inches to 5-10, robbing the bank around 1:45 p.m. 
Authorities say a (black) man tried to rob a bank in Pottstown, Montgomery County Saturday morning and fired shots at the tellers before fleeing empty-handed. The FBI says the man tried to rob a Wells Fargo branch located at 1470 East High Street at 9:15 a.m. The agency and police say he showed tellers a handgun and demanded money. They say he fired into the ceiling and at the bulletproof divider in front of the tellers. No one was hurt. Authorities are seeking the robber, described as about 6 feet, 200 pounds, black and 20 to 30 years old. He was wearing a dark ball cap with the letter ‘P’ on it, dark clothes and gloves.
Deputies are searching for a man who threatened to kill a teller during a bank robbery in Boca Raton. The robbery occurred Tuesday morning at a Bank of America branch on State Road 7. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera said the man handed the teller a note that said, "Give me all the money or I'll kill you."
Have a close look at the suspect. "This is a black male, Jones said. "He's medium build, dark skin, and it looks like the hat may be a Miami Heat hat."
A 33-year-old black man is charged with armed robbery of a bank after the robbery of a SunTrust Bank in Neptune Beach on Friday. According to police, a masked man entered the bank about 2:45 p.m. and produced an object wrapped in a black plastic bag and yelled: "Nobody is going to get hurt if you give me $50,000 from the vault." Police identified the man as Andrew Murray of Memphis, Tennessee. He was charged with armed robbery and resisting arrest without violence.
TACOMA, Wash. -- A Tacoma mother is accused locking her three little boys inside a room where they were forced to live amid their own feces and urine. Tasha Noel Herndon, 26, is facing serious charges after police say her boys were living in squalor. "It's a horror story," said Herndon's neighbor, who only wants to identified as Rita. "It's something awful and terrible to hear about." 
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —About two dozen Winston-Salem police officers responded to the downtown area Friday night after a reported fight involving a large group of juveniles. Witnesses said about 300 juveniles were involved and police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. Officials said Shaquan Mizell, 19, and Briyonna Gambrell, 16, were arrested and charged with resisting an officer and disorderly conduct. 
Coney Island Principal Greta Hawkins, who blocked her pre-K kids from singing patriotic songs at their June 19 moving-up ceremony has retaliated against teachers after her dictate made headlines. Hawkins sent letters to three pre-K teachers warning that they face disciplinary charges of “insubordination and/or professional misconduct.” She boasted that the city would do nothing to punish her. “I have protection. It’s of a higher source.”
BREMERTON — A 14-year-old boy accused of violently attacking a Bremerton woman was found not guilty Tuesday. The boy is now out of jail but the victim in the case, 
A grand jury Wednesday indicted six men on a total of 91 counts that could bring them prison terms of more than 1,300 years in the alleged gang rape of a 
Myrtle Beach police charged a 43-year-old man in the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl, according to authorities. Samuel Carnell Cooper, 43, was taken into custody Wednesday and charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 11, exposure of private parts and disseminating obscene material to a minor, according to Myrtle Beach Jail records. Cooper is being held pending a bond hearing. Authorities were contacted in May after a woman learned from her daughter that the girl had been sexual assaulted
A relationship with a 
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. - Pembroke Pines police have released a sketch of a man they say followed an underage girl into her apartment and sexually assaulted her. The incident happened Thursday afternoon in the 8800 block of Southwest Third St. The girl, whose age and identity haven't been released, told police she was taking out the trash when she spotted a cream-colored Chevy Malibu or Impala park in front of her apartment. When the girl walked back to her apartment, she claims a man exited the car and forced his way into her apartment. She told police he then held her down against her will and sexually assaulted her. The man fled the apartment once the victim's cousin arrived home. Police describe the man as a black male, about 18 years old, thin beard, long braided hair and a tattoo that says "MARC" on his right upper arm.
DETROIT - "He flashed hisself, just waving his stuff, and I'd be looking like, is someone going to find him?" wondered 
VINELAND, N.J. (CBS) – Police are investigating after a 21-year-old woman was kidnapped from Millville and then assaulted in Vineland. Authorities say on May 20, the victim was pulled into a vehicle from the area of 115 Pine Street in Millville by a Hispanic male while a black male drove the car. The woman says that they took her to the back of a building, located on 2000 Hance Bridge Road in Vineland, where she was assaulted and then left alone. The female says the vehicle used was a white, older model four-door Honda.
SANTA ANA — A Garden Grove man was sentenced to death Friday for the murders of a Stanton sales associate and his secretary. Hilbert Pineil Thomas, 43, was found guilty in February of two felony counts of special circumstances murder for multiple murders, murder during the commission of robbery, and murder during the commission of burglary. Thomas entered Golden Sun Homes on Beach Boulevard and shot 
The Escambia County Sheriff's office has identified a woman who was found dead Wednesday in a Pensacola residence. Deputies reportedly found the body of 
WILMINGTON, NC -- The final two suspects charged with the murder of a Cape Fear Community College student are headed to prison for decades. Jasmine Dottin and Daniel Henry both pleaded guilty today to multiple charges, including second degree murder. It's been 18 months since
SAN DIEGO - A man who participated with a fellow gang member in a crime spree that included the near-fatal beating of an 18-year-old UC Berkeley student in San Diego was sentenced Friday to 170 years to life in state prison. Terrence Lavar Jarvis, 29, was convicted in April of the attempted murder of Grant Richman, along with robbery, attempted robbery and shooting at an inhabited dwelling. Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Fraser -- noting Jarvis' violent criminal record -- told the defendant he intended to sentence him to the maximum term under the law. "I am going to give you every day, every week, every month, every year that the law allows me to do to protect society," Fraser told the defendant. "You can never again be a free man. There is no chance of you being rehabilitated." Fraser -- fighting back tears -- told Richman's parents that he couldn't imagine being informed by homicide detectives, as they were, that their son had been brutally attacked and probably wouldn't live. "You should be very proud of your son ... very proud," the judge said. Dr. Peter Richman, a general surgeon at Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Mission Hills in the San Fernando Valley, called Jarvis a "sociopath." "I do not forgive him. My wife does not forgive him. My son and daughter do not forgive him," the victim's father said. He said his son, now21, has returned to school in Berkeley. 
CLEVELAND, OH - Cleveland Police are investigating an attack on a 10-year-old girl as a hate crime, and the attack was captured on video and posted on-line. It happened on Leeila Avenue off Bellaire Road on the west side. A video posted on YouTube shows a 
FORT WORTH — Two former high school football stars accused of capital murder in the death of a 17-year-old female accomplice pleaded guilty to lesser crimes and were sentenced to prison today. Curtis Fortenberry, 23, was sentenced to 33 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to murder. Fortenberry, whom authorities identified as the shooter, must serve half his sentence before becoming eligible for parole. Terrance Crumley, also 23, pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and theft charges for his role in the slaying. Crumley was sentenced to 15 years in prison on the tampering charge and 17 months in jail on the two theft charges. Crumley was on probation for one of the two theft charges and was sentenced to six months in Tarrant County jail after that probation was revoked. The sentences will run concurrently and he must serve one-quarter of his sentence before becoming eligible for parole. Each man was indicted on a capital murder charge and faced the death penalty for their roles in the murder of 
ROWAN COUNTY, NC - A man wanted by police after his ex-wife's body was found in a Spencer neighborhood on Wednesday morning was arrested Thursday along the NC coast. Rodney Roberto Wallace, 47, was arrested by police Thursday morning in Wrightsville Beach, NC. He was booked in the Rowan County Jail at 12:15 a.m. on Friday. Wallace is charged with first-degree murder and two counts of probation violation. The search for Wallace began after the body of his ex-wife, 
JEFFERSON COUNTY — 32-year-old Michael Henderson has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of 28-year-old 
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - An arrest warrant has been issued for a former Colorado woman suspected of killing her wife in California. The body of 38-year-old
INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis police arrested a man in connection to the March death of a 21-year-old woman. Police arrested 52-year-old Morice Ervin on charges of murder and rape Wednesday afternoon, officials with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said. 
MOBILE, Alabama – Isaac Isahas Washington and Dwayne Maguay Pettaway kidnapped and took 
The Stockton Police Department has announced that a police officer involved in the May 28 crash along El Dorado Street has died. Officer 
Police have made a second arrest in the shooting death of a Clay High School student. On April 16, 18-year-old 
SOUTH BEND - Police say an 18-year-old Clay High School student was killed over a drug deal gone bad. The St. Joseph County prosecutor's office has charged another teen, 18-year-old Shane Williams, with the April murder of 
John Cainion struggled with a drug problem and his temper. While those in his church praised him for his big heart, his family said Cainion was an irrational addict whose paranoia and anger caused him to stab his stepson to death. He went to prison for that. The judge sent Cainion, 50, of Loveland, to prison for 11 years, the maximum for his manslaughter conviction. Cainion was originally charged with murder for stabbing 
James Johnson, the man accused of tying up and robbing four women and sexually assaulting two of them during a violent April crime spree, was portrayed in court Tuesday as intimidating and scary while holding bound women at gunpoint, but cowardly and disloyal when police closed in. Three New Orleans police detectives testified at the start of Johnson's preliminary hearing, sharing new details from three separate crimes the 21-year-old Hollygrove man is accused of committing during the first nine days of April. once handcuffed in the back seat of a patrol car, they said he was eager to name his accused accomplices -- younger brother Aaron Johnson and his sister's boyfriend Kevin Jones -- in hopes of being granted leniency.