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Police: White woman hurt in 2-on-1 black attack in Walmart parking lot
  BATTLE GROUND, WA - What started with a driver trying to back out of a parking spot escalated into a 2-on-1 attack, police say. "I've got a couple of bumps," Lauri Kennedy said, describing her injuries. "A real bad one here in back." She's still treating the wounds from an unexpected attack. "I never in a million years thought it would escalate like that, because I was very polite," Kennedy said. She said it started with a simple request in the parking lot of a Battle Ground Walmart on Wednesday night. "I said, 'excuse me, would you mind pulling up a little bit so I could get out?'" she said. Kennedy was stuck. An SUV parked behind her car as she was getting ready to back out, and two women were standing outside the car talking with the driver. So, Kennedy asked again. "'Excuse me, ma'am, could you please have them move forward so I can leave?' Exact tone," she said." She never expected the response to come like it did. "She goes, 'what do you want me to do?' and got real aggressive," Kennedy said. "She said, 'what do you want me to do, grab your face?'" That's exactly what she said came next. She got out of her car to defend herself. "She grabbed a hold of my hair and I was down on the ground and they were both punching me," Kennedy said. She managed to get away, but so did her attackers. They describe one subject as a black woman in her 20s, short, heavy and with hair in a ponytail. They other is described as a black woman, possibly in her teens, tall and slender with her hair in a bun. - (Black-on-white) |
Police have charged a second man with capital murder in the slaying of a Fort Worth auctioneer in April. Raan Henderson, 25, was charged Tuesday in the shooting death of 54-year-old Sheila Johnson during a robbery April 13 at the 4A Good Auction in the 3900 block of Mansfield Highway. He also faces an aggravated robbery charge in the case, police said. He has been in the Tarrant County jail since April 28 for parole violation and a burglary of a building charge. His bail has been set at $325,000 on all charges. Henderson’s brother, 28-year-old Romon Henderson, was charged with capital murder in Johnson’s death in May. An additional aggravated robbery charge was added Tuesday. He remains jailed in lieu of $235,000 bail. Johnson reported several break-ins at the auction barn since December. She shot at burglars who broke into the business the night she was killed. They returned fire, authorities said. - (Black-on-white)
SAN ANTONIO - Cibolo resident Michael Joseph Fobbs, 21, remains in jail after allegedly beating another man to death at the Amtrak station in downtown San Antonio. The medical examiner released the name of victim on Tuesday morning. He’s identified as 
SAN ANTONIO - A 35-year-old man has been named as a suspect in the death of a Papa John's pizza deliveryman who was run over by his own car. Members of the U. S. Marshal's Lone Star Fugitive Task force said they found Robert Carlos Delcid Tuesday night hiding in a motel near Loop 410 and Broadway and took him into custody without incident. Delcid later was turned over to San Antonio police detectives to face a charge of capital murder. An arrest warrant affidavit stated that a friend of Delcid told investigators he was with him when 
DALLAS -- An arrest has been made in the May shooting death of an insurance salesman. Joshua Tubbleville, 33, was shot inside his car in Oak Lawn on May 30. He died at a local hospital. Police say Derrick Madison, 24, has been arrested and charged with murder. He's accused of robbing and shooting Tubbleville at the intersection of Oak Lawn and Lemmon Avenues just before 6 a.m., before fleeing on foot. Tubbleville hit a tree at a gas station after he was shot, causing him to lose control of his car. The two men are believed to have just left a restaurant, and police say they found food inside the car. Madison's fingerprint was found inside the victim's apartment and on his car. Witness testimony and DNA on a baseball cap near the scene also linked the crime to Madison. 
The judge was refering to Wonzey Saffold, 30, who he sentenced in the attack on 
Dallas police are investigating a shooting at a hotel Wednesday morning that left one person dead and another in critical condition. The shooting happened shortly before 3 a.m. Police said a man and woman were shot on the balcony of the second floor of the hotel. "A male and a female victim were reportedly involved in a disturbance of some sort on the balcony with an unknown suspect," said Sr. Cpl. Sherri Jeffery with the Dallas Police Department. "The unknown suspect then shot the two and fled the location." Both victims were taken to the hospital following the shooting. The 
SEATTLE — A man who a Kirkland woman said she believed would be responsible for her death has charged with her murder. 
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for bribery, money laundering and other corruption that spanned his two terms as mayor -- including the chaotic years after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan handed down the sentence Wednesday morning. Nagin was convicted Feb. 12 of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from businessmen who wanted work from the city or Nagin's support for various projects. The bribes came in the form of money, free vacations and truckloads of free granite for his family business. The 58-year-old Democrat had defiantly denied any wrongdoing after his 2013 indictment and during his February trial. Nagin was alleged to have received roughly 
CLEVELAND, OH - Two, 20-year-old University of Miami linebackers were dismissed from the football team and suspended after being arrested on sexual battery charges against a 17-year-old girl. According to the Miami-Dade County records, Alexander Figueroa and JaWand Blue were booked Tuesday and being held on $10,000 bond. The two players are both facing charges of sexual battery on a physically helpless victim. Police reports show that Blue and Figueroa admitted to buying drinks for the young woman and then bringing her back to Figueroa's dorm room late Friday night/early Saturday morning hours. It goes on to say that they repeatedly performed sexual acts without her consent while she was "physically helpless to resist" Figueroa is additionally charged with possession of a stolen or forged driver's license. 
PALM BAY, Fla. - A convicted sexual predator is in trouble again for touching a 
UPPER DARBY, Pa. — Police in Upper Darby have charged a 21-year-old Yeadon, Pa. man with one in a series of overnight intrusions into women’s bedrooms dating back to mid-April. And authorities hope to link him to four additional incidents (
PATERSON — Authorities have charged a 19-year-old city teen in the shooting death of 12-year-old 
MUSKOGEE, Okla. - A suspect is behind bars for the shooting death of a Muskogee woman last week. 
DES MOINES, Iowa — Des Moines police have arrested 
MUSKEGON, MI – A 30-year-old man has been charged with open murder in connection with the June 26 shooting death of motorcyclist 
A man accused of killing a puppy by throwing it out of a moving car in Parker County was arrested and charged on Tuesday. Marquael Odoric Greer, 32, of Lancaster has been charged with cruelty to non-livestock animals -- torture, according to officials. Greer was reportedly arguing with his girlfriend as he drove along I-20 last week. The girlfriend, who was in the car’s passenger seat at the time, told authorities that at one point, Greer rolled a window down, picked up the 
PERRY, Fla. -- A Perry man is charged with animal cruelty after dragging his two dogs behind his vehicle. Emory Jenkins was arrested and transported to the Taylor County Jail after someone called in about the incident. Officers Jenkins tied the leashes of his 
Police have arrested a 52-year-old Maryland man for allegedly luring a 
GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. - Glynn County police are looking for an 18-year-old man who they said raped a 
Bibb County grand jurors voted Tuesday to indict a Macon man on allegations he grabbed a 
SPOKANE, Wash. - SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane Police have arrested a man they believe broke into a woman's house and raped her Sunday night. Just before 10:00pm, police say they received a report of a rape at a home. The woman told police that a man she did not know came to her house, spoke with her through an open door and then left. About 10-15 minutes later, the woman said the same man came back to her house, forced his way inside and raped her while holding a knife to her throat. Police say 
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. —Two Saranac Lake men have been arrested in connection with an alleged rape of a young woman last month. New York State Police arrested Reginald Normil and Fernando J. Francois on July 3, after a the 
BAY CITY, MI — A young woman wept hysterically in a Bay County courtroom on learning an 18-year-old Saginaw man is spending more than the next decade behind bars for breaking into a house and raping a woman. Bay County Chief Circuit Judge Kenneth W. Schmidt on Monday, July 7, sentenced Quay'von R. Brown to concurrent terms of 12 to 20 years in prison for armed robbery and 10 to 15 years for third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Brown pleaded no contest to both counts in May. Schmidt gave Brown credit for 170 days already served. Brown's charges stem from an incident that occurred the evening of Jan. 14, when he and three of his friends — Sammie L. Wright III, 20, Nashawn D. Lane, 18, and Antonio D. Griffin, 19 — broke into the Bay City apartment of 63-year-old 
BAY CITY, MI — Four Saginaw men are charged with 18 felonies between them after police allege they broke into a Bay City home, raped a woman, robbed her and then committed a carjacking a few days later. ...police saw four men exit a neighborhood house, a duffle bag in their presence. Police stopped the four men — Nashawn D. Lane, 18, Antonio D. Griffin, 19, Sammie L. Wright III, 19, and Quay’von R. Brown, 17 — and arrested them.
A convicted sex offender was arrested in connection with a weekend rape in eastern New Orleans, court records show. Darren Youngblood, 32, was booked Saturday (July 5) on one count of aggravated rape after police say he sexually assaulted a 34-year-old woman in the 7000 block of Bullard Avenue. The woman told police a man wielding a razor blade attacked her behind a business around 8:45 a.m. After the assault, the woman told police, her attacker ran down Bullard Avenue toward Chef Menteur Highway.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis woman is in jail, accused of aggravated rape. Police say Dymonecia White drugged a woman and raped her at a motel on Mount Moriah. A man was also charged, but 21-year-old Jonathan Jamison has already bonded out of jail. Police say 19-year-old White raped the woman at the Governor’s Inn. White and Jamison smoked some weed with the victim and then put something in her papaya juice. Police say it was an intoxicant so White and Jamison could take advantage of her. Police say the 26-year-old victim reported her head feeling heavy, then White and Jamison raping her. When interviewed by detectives, they say White admitted having sex with the victim, but said she thought it was consensual. Police say the victim suffered lacerations from the attack.
Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris held a news conference Tuesday in connection to the Tulsa serial rape suspect investigation. He said he wants the public to know the police case against suspect Desmond Campbell is strong, and although justice won't take place in a court room, police have their man. "This suspect was the suspect in the series of rapes," Harris said. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol notified the DA and Tulsa Police at 11:23 a.m. Tuesday that Campbell had died. Police said Campbell had been in a coma since wrecking a car on Sunday, June 29, 2014 just minutes after the most recent sexual assault was reported. 
COLUMBIA, SC - A man was arrested Thursday, accused of exposing himself to a library employee. Sheriff's deputies responded to Richland Library on Assembly Street after a security officer at the library reported the lewd act. When sheriff's deputies arrived, they caught 39-year-old Curtis McKie, exposing and fondling himself to 
Attorneys for a man charged with killing two people at the Vacation Host Inn are asking for more information after DNA from one of the victims was discovered on a gun collected at the home where the defendant was arrested. On Monday, parties involved in the case of Kelvin Lee Coleman Jr., 38, stood before Circuit Judge Robert Hodges for a hearing in the case concerning two defense motions. The defense asked for the state to turn over phone records and DNA information that are part of the state’s documents in the case, known as discovery. Coleman was arrested on March 13, 2013, the day after he was accused of fatally shooting 
Authorities say they didn't have to go far to make three arrests in the fatal shooting of a Gary police officer: Police found them all in a home less than a block away. Sheriff John Buncich described one of the men as a "person of interest" in the slaying of Officer 
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis police officer was killed Saturday night in a shootout with a man armed with an assault weapon, investigators said. Officer 
Officials say his father, also named Major Davis, died in 2003 while in police custody. In that incident, reports say Davis attacked officers when they tried to arrest him. Officers then sprayed him with mace. An autopsy showed Davis suffered a heart attack and had a pre-existing heart problem. Relatives said Davis was brutally beaten by police while they were placing him under arrest.
CAMAS, Wash. -- 
DETROIT - An 18-year-old charged with being part of a group who beat a driver after he accidentally hit a 10-year-old boy in Detroit with his pickup truck has been sentenced to probation and drug testing. Bruce Wimbush admitted to striking 
CALGARY - Police have released CCTV video footage of a suspect in their investigation into a stranger sex attack in Canyon Meadows. About 10:55 p.m. Sunday night a woman boarded a bus at Heritage LRT station and a man got on at the same time. Both got off at Elbow Dr. and Canata Pl. S.W. about 11:10 p.m., at which point it’s alleged the man ran toward the woman as she was on a pathway through a green space between Canata Cl. S.W. and Canterbury Dr. S.W., threatened her with a weapon and repeatedly sexually assaulted her. The suspect is described as black with a medium skin tone, in his 20s, and approximately 6 feet tall with a slim build and short afro. 
CAPE CORAL, FL - Authorities say they were contacted by the mother of a 
He could become the Willie Horton of the immigration crisis. 
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In the first police shooting, 
A St. Clair County judge on Thursday sentenced Lortez D. Thomas of Washington Park to 60 years in prison for the murder of a New Baden man. St. Clair County Circuit Judge Jan Fiss called the murder "cold-blooded" and "despicable." Thomas, 35, faced a minimum sentence of 45 years in prison and maintained his innocence during a sentencing hearing. A jury in May found Thomas guilty of shooting
The trial of a man accused of gunning down a Metro Police officer during a botched robbery at the officer’s home in North Las Vegas has been set for Nov. 10, nine days short of the fifth anniversary of the shooting. The suspect, Prentice Marshall, was identified by Metro Police as one of six Wood gang members involved in the Nov. 19, 2009, slaying of 
The killer of honeymoon bride 
NORFOLK, Va. - Convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo is appealing a judge's rejection of his claim that his sentence of life without parole is unconstitutional. Malvo was convicted for his role in the
A 24-year-old Salisbury man was sentenced to serve 35 years in prison on rape charges. Wicomico County Circuit Court Judge Jimmy Sarbanes sentenced Kevin Jay White, Jr., to life imprisonment, with all but 35 years suspended. The assault happened Oct. 17, 2013. Police and prosecutors said White went into the 17-year-old girl's bedroom at her Old Ocean City Road home, woke her up, then grabbed her while she was in bed. She tried to flee, but he told her he had a gun and forced her to perform sex acts. Police dogs tracked White to a local YMCA, where he was taken into custody without incident.
BATON ROUGE, LA -
He bowed his head as a federal judge read all 21 guilty verdicts. Then he shook it from side to side, as if in disbelief. Damion St. Patrick Baston finally lifted his head as each of the Miami federal jurors was polled Tuesday, confirming verdicts that convicted him of sex trafficking and related crimes. They had deliberated for less than six hours. The 12-person jury heard a half-dozen women testify about how the Jamaican man beat and raped them as he forced them into his prostitution racket, an operation that ranged from Australia to Dubai to Miami. The defendant took the witness stand for three days and denied everything. Baston was deported from the United States in the late 1990s for having a prior criminal conviction. 
INKSTER, Mich. - A second suspect now faces murder charges in the Inkster shooting that left a
James Rampulla Jr., 44, who taught at Irwin Altman MS 172 in Floral Park, sent some of the 513 texts to 
A suspect wanted for murder turned himself in to police late Friday morning. Investigators said 20-year-old Dwaine Love was among five suspects accused in a fatal shooting in a north Knoxville home at 2837 Valley View Drive early Thursday morning. A man who was shot, 21-year-old
Four people including two teenage girls were being questioned last night over the fatal stabbing of a father in front of children and parents on the school run. They were arrested along with two young men after 38-year-old 
FORT WORTH - Two teens have been arrested for the beating and robbery of a 
DETROIT -- A second man charged in the fatal point-blank shooting of a 2-year-old girl was arraigned Saturday. Rapheal Daniel-Jordan Hearn, 29, was arraigned in Romulus on first-degree murder, two counts of assault with intent to murder and other charges, including being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office and Michigan State Police. It wasn't clear Saturday whether Hearn has an attorney; he was denied bail. The first man charged in the case, Raymone B. Jackson, 24, was arraigned Thursday on first-degree murder, torture and other charges.
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH - 
harged with aggravated murder and robbery had a job-at The Brennan's Colony restaurant. Brennan had recently hired 23-year-old Brandon Jones to work in the kitchen. Police won't say if Jones was in the restaurant Monday when Brennan was murdered. Cleveland Heights Police Chief Jeff Robertson said "You can't get infuriated. You hurt and are sad just like all the people who knew Jim Brennan. Our job is to find out what happened and that's what we're doing." Also charged was Brandon's brother, 21-year-old Darien Jones, and brothers 26-year-old Devon Turner and Paul Turner, all of Cleveland. The Turners have extensive rap sheets including aggravated robbery, theft, kidnapping, and animal cruelty. 
Police in Robertson County have named a suspect in a cold case that has been open for three years. In August 2011, 
The trial of a Berkeley man accused of stabbing to death a 26-year-old woman in late 2012 began Wednesday morning in Oakland Superior Court. Attorneys for both sides said they believe Jamaal Prince, 36, killed 
A town hall held in Murrieta, Calif. — where three busses carrying 140 
SPOKANE, Wash. – What happened at an out of control North Spokane house party earned a man nearly ten years in prison on Tuesday. Treven Lewis pleaded guilty to 1st Degree Manslaughter for the beating death 
PITTSBURGH – Isiah Smith, who was accused of shooting and killing a former Slippery Rock University football player, was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison Wednesday morning. Smith was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in April. At the trial, prosecutors said he had no right to fire since Sheridan was running away from Smith at the time. On Aug. 3, 2013, Smith shot 24-year-old 
AUSTINTOWN, OHIO — The man arrested and charged in the death of a 16-year-old girl found in a local landfill appeared in court Wednesday. Police said Ricki Williams, 18, was charged with aggravated murder and kidnapping Tuesday night. Officials said Williams stabbed 16-year-old 
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —A man is wanted in the death of a Midtown Sacramento woman who was killed Saturday. 
KNOXVILLE – A taxi driver was killed in a shooting Sunday afternoon in South Knoxville, and now police are searching for two suspects in the crime. The Knoxville Police Department says the shooting happened around 3:30 p.m. Sunday on Sims Road.Police identified the victim Monday afternoon as 