Victims of black on white crime

 

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – An Indianapolis teen pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in connection with a June shooting on the Monon Trail, and attempted murder charges against him were dismissed.

Devon Moore, 16, was charged as an adult after police said he shot Gary Bravard, 58, seven times on June 16 as Bravard walked home from work on the Monon Trail in the Nora area, near 86th Street and Westfield Boulevard. The incident had started as an attempted robbery, police said, and Bravard was shot after he refused to comply with Moore’s demands.

A charge against Moore of carrying a handgun without a license was also dismissed. Moore’s sentencing is set for 2 p.m. April 25.

 

 

Police have arrested four suspects in connection with the beating death of a former U.S. Marine who was found unconscious outside of a party at a Cobb County, Georgia, apartment complex in March.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arthur Batchelor, 37, Tarell Secrest, 36, and Jason Hill, 35, were taken into custody on Tuesday for allegedly killing 34-year-old Zachary ‘Zach’ Gamble. Another suspect, 38-year-old Sean Hall, of Atlanta, was arrested on Monday.

 

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Stephen Dean, KPRC (Houston), December 31, 2010

Homicide investigators said a welding torch is the likely weapon used in 12-year-old Jonathan Foster’s death, Local 2 Investigates reported Friday.

“We’re talking crematorium-type of hot,” said one Houston Police Department Homicide Squad officer assigned to the investigation.

Police said they confiscated a badly burned section of carpet from the home of Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, who stands charged with capital murder.

She had a welding background and police found welding equipment in her home on Allwood Street in the Fifth Ward area of Northeast Houston. Police said a section of carpet was badly burned and the smell of a human body filled the area around that carpet.

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One investigator assigned to the case said it now appears Foster was killed at that spot in Nelson’s home within hours of being kidnapped from his family’s home near Shepherd Drive and 43rd Street in Northwest Houston.

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One officer said on Friday that the autopsy has ruled out any trauma on the child’s body. There were no broken bones or any signs of strangulation or head wounds, so officers said it now appears the child was killed with a welding torch that could be capable of 6,000-degree flames.

“I’ve never seen burns like this,” said one officer who viewed the boy’s body after it was found in a ditch off the Hardy Toll Road on Tuesday.

He said that killers often try to cover their tracks by burning the victim’s corpse, but in this boy’s case, the burning was so intense and thorough that many veteran homicide investigators are struggling with the notion of such a grisly and painful way to die.

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As for a motive, one HPD investigator said officers believe sexual abuse was behind the crime.

The officer said there is no evidence to confirm the theory at this point, but police say there was no ransom demand after the boy was kidnapped, so one officer said, “That’s the only other motive (that makes any sense).”

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Nelson is jailed without bond with a court appearance set for Monday.

Police spent Friday interviewing the child’s family once again, shoring up the timeline of events and filling in routine gaps in the statements that were given immediately after the crime.

They also spent several hours organizing the carpet and other evidence confiscated from Nelson’s home. One officer said, “We got all we need (from there).”

Bryan M. Johnson texted his girlfriend about 3:30 p.m. Saturday to let her know that her toddler had vomited. Natasha Steele was covering the Columbus Crew soccer game for radio station WTVN (610 AM) when she read the text. She thought her daughter perhaps had an upset stomach, and continued working. Less than four hours later, 22-month-old London Hodge had stopped breathing, and Johnson called 911

When paramedics arrived at 7:18 p.m. at the Whitehall town house, they contacted police. Johnson, 19, was arrested and charged with first-degree assault. London was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where she died early yesterday. She had suffered severe head trauma, authorities said. Police will seek a murder charge against Johnson today, said Sgt. Dan Kelso of the Whitehall Police Department. The Franklin County coroner was to perform an autopsy on London yesterday

Steele, 21, said Johnson called her about 3 a.m. yesterday while she was at the hospital to apologize. I said, My daughter is dying right now, and you’re sorry?’ He tried to explain what happened: He was taking London upstairs for a bath and dropped her on her head. Then, during the bath, she vomited. Johnson said he dressed the toddler, laid her on the couch to sleep and noticed a few hours later that she wasn’t breathing… ‘Steele said that didn’t match what doctors and police detectives were saying. ‘They said the injuries were fresh, and there were too many bruises for it to be an accident.’

Belleville, IL (KSDK) — Four Metro East teenagers are charged in connection to the rape and beating of a White woman and the assault of a White man.

According to Belleville Police Captain Donald Sax, a police spokesman, the incident happened Wednesday around 1:30 a.m. in the 300 block of North Sixth Street. The victims, a man and woman in their 30s, were walking along the street when the suspects approached, struck the woman in the face and hit the man in the head with an unknown object.

The four suspects took the woman to a secluded area and raped her, Sax said.

Police located the suspects a short time after arriving at the scene.

Rachael Howard, Artarius Whales and Delcheva Harris were charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault. Joshua Harris, who police say is not related to Delcheva, was charged with aggravated battery.
Howard is from Belleville. The others are from Washington Park and East St. Louis.

They were found at Howard’s home just a few hours after the attack.

Bail was set at $500,000 for three of the accused. Joshua Harris was jailed on $250,000 bail.

Police said additional charges are expected next week in this case pending follow up investigation. Sax said the attack was completely random and the victims did not know the attackers in any way.

A man charged with killing a teenage Bamberg County store clerk screamed profanities at members of the victim’s family during his bond hearing on Wednesday.

Moments before a judge denied bond for 20-year-old Michael Daniels, the sister of 19-year-old Alicia Dyches broke down in court and wailed, “I hope he pays.”

“F— you,” Michaels responded, before repeating the insult.

Authorities say Daniels went into the Tiger Express convenience store in Olar near closing time Monday night, killing Dyches and wounding another employee and a store customer.

Bamberg County Sheriff Ed Darnell says Daniels lived near the store. Dyches’ father Mark says Daniels harassed his daughter in the weeks before the killing.

“He took from me the most important thing in my life,” said a devastated Mark Dyches.

Dyches recalls talking to his daughter three hours earlier. “I had just got off the phone with her at 8:15, she called me last night and said she was coming by when she got off work,” said Dyches. “I sat up and waited. I texted her. She never texted back. I got a call after saying she had been shot. I got there. It was too late.”

Dyches’ 53-year old coworker, Dwight James Williams, and 17-year-old customer Kenneth Utz were also shot in the incident. Utz and Williams are recovering at area hospitals.

Investigators took Daniels into custody about 30 minutes after the incident and charged him with murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and numerous other charges.

Investigators say Daniels was trying to rob the place. Dyches says Daniels had been harassing Alicia for weeks. “I think he was trying to hit on my daughter, trying to get her to talk to him but she wasn’t interested,” said Dyches.

A Winter Haven High School student has been charged with attempted murder after investigators said he stabbed another student multiple times early today.

Jade Iree Mose, 16, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder, carrying a concealed weapon, carrying a weapon on school property and a violation of probation.

Mose was previously charged in April with having a knife on the same school campus.

Luke Kendall, 16, was airlifted to Lakeland Regional Medical Center, where he remains in stable condition.

Police have recovered the knife used in the attack, said Winter Haven Police Chief Gary Hester.

He added that the attack appears to be a random act that occurred in a courtyard at the school, and the two students involved had no connection to each other or previous fights.

Cleophus Prince, who is African-American, only killed White women. 6 known victims.

Prince either lived near or had friends near the killing scenes. He was caught when a woman who was getting ready to shower heard someone picking her door lock. She escaped from a rear window and found a friend who came and confronted Prince. He excused himself, but the description led to his arrest.

The woman said he may have followed her from a local gym. All the previous victims had just left the gym, including a mother and daughter. Prince struck when he knew they would be showering and thus be less attentive to their surroundings. He later bragged about the double killing to a friend and took to wearing the dead woman’s wedding ring on a chain around his neck.

Authorities identified the victims as Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; Officer Ronald Owens, 37; Officer Tina Griswold, 40; and Officer Greg Richards, 42. Police have named Maurice Clemmons in connection with the ambush at a coffee shop near Tacoma in Pierce County.

The four victims of Sunday morning’s shooting were veteran officers who brought a range of talents to the fledgling Lakewood Police Department when it was created in 2004, according to Lakewood Police Chief Bret Farrar.

HAMPTON– Police made four arrests in a home invasion that left one man dead.

Originally, a police investigation revealed that early Friday morning, three men forced their way into a couple’s home, beat the two of them up and stole their vehicles. Hampton police received the call around 12:45 a.m. and responded to the home invasion in the 4000 block of Victoria Boulevard.

The suspects forced entry into the home and attacked the couple, a 60-year-old man and a 62-year-old woman, who were living at the residence. The suspects punched and strangled the victims, then stole both of the victims’ vehicles and fled the scene.

The male victim was pronounced deceased at the scene. The female victim escaped with minor injuries. Initially it was unclear if the man died as a result of the attack or an unrelated medical condition. A preliminary autopsy was performed Friday afternoon and the cause of death appeared to be related to the attack. The victim has been identified as Robert Jayson Broyles and his death is being treated as a homicide.

Hampton detectives searched the area and located both of the victims’ stolen vehicles. Through the investigation, they were able to identify the suspects as 20-year-old Anthony Darius Odella, Jr. of Hampton, 18-year-old Torian Marquise Gaither of Newport News, 22-year-old Robin Nadean Gaither of Newport News, and 19-year-old Ashley Michelle Odellas of Hampton.

Anthony Odellas, Tobian, and Robin Gaither each face one count of Murder, one count of Robbery, one count of Burglary, and one count of Conspiracy to Commit Robbery. Ashley Odellas faces one count of Conspiracy to Commit Robbery.