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White families attacked, beaten, threatened by armed home-invading black man - stole 8-yr-old's Christmas money
      BESSEMER CITY, N.C. -- Police are stepping-up patrols in hopes of finding a man who is robbing people at gunpoint. Shad Black had just come home with his fiancé and 8-year-old son, Colby, Sunday night when he heard his back door open. Colby went to look and found himself face to face with an armed gunman. For the next few minutes, the Blacks were terrorized by the man, who wore a mask covering his nose and mouth. He demanded money, and pointed the gun at all four of the people in the house. Donald Black was asleep on the coach and woke up after hearing screams. "He was right beside me; he had that gun and said ‘give me your money,’” said Black. "He kept saying ‘I don't know which one I ought to kill first.’" The gunman pushed Shad to the floor, threatened to kill him and struck him with the gun while kicking him in his ribs and on the face and neck. "He held a gun to an 8-year-old's head, took his Christmas money" "He was talking about killing-- he said he was going to kill one of us. He also told Andrea ‘I know where you work at the Subway.’" Donald recalled. Police think this is the same man who severely beat a man early one morning just a few blocks away. Friday, a man was beaten as he was walking back to his truck after warming it up. Gray Helms told his next door neighbor that a man approached him demanding money. "He told the man he didn't have but $10, and the man said then ‘let's go inside your house,’" said Glaser. "His wife was inside, and he wasn't going to let that guy inside." That's when Helms said that the man, who was wearing a gray hoodie with a medium build and standing around 5-foot-9 to 6- feet-tall, beat him with a black handgun. "His doctor, who was working on his face told Gary, "He was trying to kill you." said Glaser. - (Black-on-white) |
MECOSTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A woman is dead and three others were sexually assaulted during an overnight standoff in Mecosta County. The incident began at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday when police were called to a home on Cramer Drive on reports of a shot fired. Upon arrival, deputies were told that a gunman was inside with hostages. Kathleen Hawley, 58, of Morley was shot and died at the scene. Three women, ages 20-30, were inside, along with two 7-year-old boys, and a 10-month-old girl. The gunman held the hostages overnight, but released two of the women and the children before sunrise. Duncan Eric Willis II came out of the home peacefully at about 7 a.m. and surrendered to police. The hostages reported that they were sexually assaulted during the standoff. Willis is a neighbor from across the street. - (Black-on-white)
WIlliamson County Sheriff Bennie Vick says 66 year-old
AUGUSTA, Ga. - A suspect is behind bars in connection to the disappearance and murder of a Kathleen, Georgia doctor. Richmond County investigators identified 22-year old Glenn Vincent Riggs II as being involved in the disappearance of 
It really was a commute from hell. December 7 will mark the 20th anniversary of the day crazed gunman Colin Ferguson went on a murderous rampage aboard the Long Island Rail Road, pulling out a 9 mm pistol and opening fire,
Dallas police say a 45-year-old man tried to force teenagers, including an underage runaway, into a prostitution ring in a North Dallas hotel. Robert Lee Cooper of Dallas has been charged with two counts of trafficking of a person. Police said a 
PHOENIX – An openly homosexual teenager, who was given a position as an “adviser” to Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and honored by President Barack Obama at a White House “gay pride” dinner, has been indicted on more than a dozen counts of sexual misconduct with a minor under the age of 15. Caleb Laieski, now 18, was 17 at the time of the alleged abuse. His alleged victim, a close friend he met on TrevorSpace (a social media site for children and young adults aged 13-24 who have an interest in homosexuality), was only 14 at the time. The younger boy said the sex was consensual, but that he felt “pressured” to participate. However, Arizona law says no one younger than 15 is capable of giving consent. In an unusual twist, Laieski is also considered a victim in the case, since at least some of the charges stem from a three-way sexual encounter the boys had with 43-year-old Chris Wilson, an openly homosexual Phoenix police officer who was arrested more than a year ago and is now in jail awaiting trial for his role in the abuse of both children. 
PHOENIX - A Phoenix police officer has been arrested and faces several felony charges of sexual misconduct with two teenage boys. At a news conference on Wednesday, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office said they are adding an additional charge of sexual misconduct against Detective Christopher J. Wilson. 43-year-old Wilson, a community action officer who was the city's police liaison with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community, was arrested at his residence. The alleged victims were 
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - Officials say a North Charleston man accused of murdering a medical student in Ann Arbor, Michigan has been formally charged, and is facing additional home invasion charges. Police arrested 21-year-old Shaquille Jones earlier this month at his North Charleston apartment. Jones is being charged in Washtenaw County with homicide, two counts of first degree home invasion, and conspiracy to commit home invasion. He is being held without bond. A preliminary hearing will be held December 5. The victim, 25-year-old 
MONTGOMERY, AL - A man on trial on multiple charges related to the home invasion and robbery of 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The mother of a (white) 26-year-old man shot and killed Monday night said her son never judged people by the color of the their skin, but she said the man who killed him did. Police said David Bouthillier (pictured at right) was killed by 20-year-old Troy Sirmons (left) after an altercation. Family members say Sirmons called Bouthillier, who is white, a racial slur before he pulled the trigger. Bouthillier said David and his girlfriend, who is African-American, had been dating for a year, and both lived in an apartment complex on the Westside. Bouthillier and his girlfriend were involved in a verbal argument outside the complex when Sirmons approached them to break it up. Sirmons later returned to the couple's house and shot the 26-year-old when he opened the door. 
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The woman charged in connection to the murder of 
GROVE CITY, Ohio - A Columbus police SWAT officer was injured while attempting to apprehend a man suspected of shooting a 9-year-old boy and a woman. The string of shootings began when paramedics and police officers responded to a home on a report of a shooting. A 9-year-old boy opened the door and was shot once at close range. The boy, identified as 
A Texas cheerleading coach is in police custody after a girl told police he sexually assaulted her three different times. Police arrested DeVincent Phillips, 40, at Xcel Athletics, where the alleged victim had attended training sessions. Phillips is the owner and an instructor. The girl, whose name and age have not been released by authorities, reportedly told police about the incidents in late October.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The family of the alleged victim in a sexual assault case involving Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston said in a statement late Friday that she didn't consent, as his attorneys have suggested, and that the player committed rape. "To be clear, the victim did not consent. This was a rape," the family said in the statement sent to media outlets. DNA report showed Winston's DNA was found in the underwear of the accuser.
Police say a homeless man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly pushing a 
A 14-year-old boy last month allegedly raped Danvers High School teacher 
SAN BERNARDINO — A San Bernardino man was arrested for killing an 84-year-old woman and brutally beating her 95-year-old husband during a home invasion, sheriff’s officials said Thursday. Freddie Weston, 33, was arrested Wednesday and booked at Central Detention Center for murder and residential robbery. 
In 2006, Mangum accused three (White) Duke lacrosse players of raping her at a party. The charges were dismissed after the evidence did not back up Mangum’s story, but not before her story and accusations made the local and national news. 
ST. LOUIS – A 17-year-old (N-word) faces a third degree assault charge after a possible “knockout game” attack in the Central West End Friday night. Edward Townsend allegedly struck a 30-year-old man in the head around 10 p.m. “Right when he was getting ready to pass me, he punched me in my left temple,” the victim, who wished to remain unidentified, said. Townsend was reportedly walking with a group of teens when he hit the victim. “They were just pushing me down on the ground and then I started yelling for help and then they ran in a bunch of different directions,” the victim said. Police believe Townsend was playing the “knockout game” where the goal is to knock the victim unconscious. 
DEKALB COUNTY, GA - The mother of a
A Southern California (Muslim) man was convicted of the murders of the father and sister of his ex-girlfriend, and the attempted murder of her mother, in what prosecutors say was an ill-conceived attempt to reunite the couple. A jury found
BOSTON — A former chemist at a Massachusetts drug lab who admitted faking test results in criminal cases pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to prison in a scandal that has jeopardized thousands of convictions. Annie Dookhan changed her plea Friday in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and tampering with evidence. She was sentenced to three to five years in prison, followed by two years’ probation. The diminutive Dookhan showed no emotion during the hearing and did not address the court. She answered “guilty” and replied to a series of routine questions from the judge in a barely audible voice. 
Blackface was common in minstrel shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries where white performers played stereotyped black characters. 
Townhall reported on the "knockout" game last week, and now one participant is learning that trying to knock random people unconscious with a single punch could have dangerous consequences. Marvell Weaver, a 17 year old from Michigan, attempted to "knock out" a man at a Lansing bus stop. Unbeknownst to Weaver, the man was a legal concealed carry permittee and was carrying a gun at the time. After approaching the man and "shoving something" into his side, Weaver was shot twice and survived. He has been sentenced to a year in jail. Weaver claims that this was his six or seventh attempt at knocking someone out, and says that his arrest is a "lesson learned." He said he usually played the game when he was "bored" and usually under the influence of drugs. He was inspired by seeing knockout game videos on the internet. 
Police have arrested two men who they believe attacked a 
A 22-year-old single mother whose criminal ex-boyfriend allegedly stabbed her and killed her mom had dropped a restraining order against him just weeks before last night's brazen attack. Gilbert Villanueva, 26, was today charged with fatally stabbing 
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Eddie Ricky Nealy learned that his death sentence for the 1985 rape and killing Fresno teen 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —James Washington will spend 65 years in prison for killing a Navy veteran from Jeffersonville. Washington was formally sentenced Monday. He stabbed 
State police charged an Augusta man with murder tonight in connection with the stabbing death of 24-year-old
The 20-year-old woman sat in the witness stand in a Jefferson Parish courtroom and estimated for the jury that Darrell Tillery, a former friend of her mother's, raped her more than 20 times during the course of a decade,
Police arrested a man Tuesday and charged him with the Sunday rape of a woman in Central Park. Omar Hoist, 32, who police had named as a person of interest in the rape earlier, was arrested inside Metropolitan Hospital Center in Manhattan and charged with first-degree rape, strangulation and assault, the NYPD said early Wednesday morning. Hoist is homeless, police said. 
An 18-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old girl. Dshone Jones has been charged with kidnapping and aggravated rape. He is being held in the Shelby County Jail. According to police, the incident happened just after 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 9. The girl was walking home from school, police said, when Jones began following her. As the girl neared her home, police said Jones grabbed her, then pulled her into a vacant home in the 900 block of Kney. Jones sexually assaulted her, then raped her, police said. The girl tried to fight him off, but was overpowered. Jones was taken into custody Wednesday.
A Gary man is facing a third rape trial in less than a year. In the trial currently underway, Ronald Dewayne Thompson 42, is charged with rape, criminal deviate conduct, robbery, criminal confinement and battery. He's accused of sexually assaulting an Elkhart woman Aug. 12, 2012, in downtown Gary. Thompson is alleged to have offered a ride to the woman, who had missed her bus, but then took her to a place of business in Merrillville where he demanded oral sex before raping her. The woman suffered numerous injuries, including bruises and broken ribs, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Veronica Gonzalez told jurors. "This was not consensual sex," Gonzalez said.
HENDERSON, NV - Wesley Bland Jr, accused of threatening to rape a woman walking along Boulder Highway claimed he was trying to keep her from getting hit by vehicles when he pulled her to the ground. A woman accused Bland of threatening to take her behind bushes to rape her. She encountered an older black man along the side of northbound Boulder Highway, about 10:30 a.m. that day after she noticed him following her. The man asked the woman for her name before threatening her. The man then ran up from behind the woman, pulled her down to the ground by her hair and used his body weight on her. The woman was saved by a passing driver who stopped to pick her up. 
LITCHFIELD — Former Torrington High School student and football player Joan Toribio was handcuffed Tuesday and escorted away by marshals to begin serving a nine-month prison term for raping a 13-year-old girl. The sentence was agreed upon in the same Litchfield Superior Court chamber in September, when the 18-year-old admitted raping a 13-year-old girl. The term is the minimum mandatory for a second-degree sexual assault charge. 
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - Investigators are trying to determine if a man arrested for rape on Monday may be linked to more violent attacks. The Clayton County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest of Calvin Rivers on warrants for rape out of DeKalb County. They believe he may be behind several other violent assaults. Rivers was being held without bond.
HAMDEN -- A 19 year-old Hamden resident turned himself in to police today after learning there was a warrant for his arrest on sex assault charges. Cameron Hough was charged with first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor and is being held on a $150,000 bond, said Capt. Ronald Smith, the department spokesman. Smith said police met with the girl's parents in August, when the incident was reported, and learned that she had accompanied three men, including Hough, to an isolated area on Dixwell Avenue. The victim told police that she was assaulted by Hough inside a large "cement tube'' which is near a large Hamden store. The suspect will be arraigned Nov. 25 in Meriden Superior Court. 
LEE COUNTY - A man who is accused of shooting and raping a 
Fayetteville, N.C. — Fayetteville police said Sunday they have captured a second suspect wanted in the Nov. 2 armed robbery and rape of a female clerk at the Advance Auto Parts store. Smith Paul Merinord 
FT LAUDERDALE – Two South Broward High School students charged as adults for their involvement in the alleged beating and rape of a 
MEMPHIS, TN - – The accusations make for a lowdown dirty shame. One family hopes no one else falls for it or anything like it. Lesley Loeffel has never met Terri Peacock, and it may be best it stay that way. Loeffel's grandparents are in their 90s. Peacock talked her way into their home and asked for money because her "child had died and she needed money for flowers for the funeral." Loeffel's grandparents gave her some money and she stole the grandmother's purse. Four days later, Peacock reportedly called and told them they could get their stuff back for $145. Loeffel and her grandparents agreed to meet Peacock with the money at Leawood Baptist Church. They brought the police with them. Peacock was arrested, reportedly holding bags of other people's IDs, credit cards, and checkbooks, too. Loeffel wants everyone to beware in order to avoid falling victim like her grandparents did. 
A man already serving time for raping two Tulane University students in the fall of 2008 was sentenced Monday in the attack of another women in the French Quarter the year before. 
47-year-old 
Raleigh, N.C. — A Raleigh man was arrested Friday on several sex-related charges involving a child. 
Merced County prosecutors said a Los Banos man drugged and raped two unconscious men in 2012 and photographed both incidents. The trial against Thomas Zavaleta, a 25-year-old fast-food worker, got underway in Merced Superior Court before Judge Marc A. Garcia and a jury of seven men and five women. Zavaleta has pleaded not guilty to sodomy with an unconscious person, false imprisonment and several additional felony counts in connection with the alleged assaults. If convicted, he faces a maximum prison sentence of 14 years and eight months, prosecutors said. 
CLEVELAND, OH - Prison for a reckless, unlicensed driver who caused a double fatal accident on I-77 in April. Antony Ford, 22, was sentenced to eight years behind bars. Ford was recklessly operating his vehicle on I-77 southbound when he swerved his vehicle across three lanes of traffic and onto the shoulder of the highway. As he attempted to swerve back onto the highway, he lost control of his vehicle traveling at 87 miles per hour, striking a box truck. The collision caused both vehicles to lose control and veer across the left lanes of the highway. The box truck crashed through a guard rail into the northbound lanes and became airborne before striking a Honda Civic and rolling over. A multi-car accident then resulted from other drivers swerving to avoid impact with the other two vehicles. The driver of the box truck and the driver of the Honda Civic were pronounced dead at the scene, and numerous other injuries were sustained by drivers and passengers involved in the multi-car accident. At the time of the accident, Ford had been driving with a suspended license. 
WASHINGTON - 
The victim told campus police that he was walking through the parking lot when he noticed three men get out of a car. One of the men allegedly approached the victim and hit him in the face, initiating a fight. The other two males are accused of pinning the victim to the ground while trying to remove a wallet from his pocket. After a struggle with the victim, the three suspects left in the car without taking anything. He suffered minor injuries and refused medical treatment. 
WINTERS – Police have identified the man accused of shooting and killing a Winters woman Monday morning while she sat in her SUV. Police say William Carl Gardner III is the woman’s ex-boyfriend. 
REYNOLDSBURG -- Police have charged a 17-year-old boy with the murder of a young woman whose body was found behind a school. Adrien McGee confessed to killing 18-year-old 
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Prosecutors have released a recorded confession of a St. Johns County woman convicted of stabbing to death a Fruit Cove man she met on Craigslist in his home in 2011. A jury convicted 26-year-old Latoya Jordan on Friday in the murder of 53-year-old 
COLUMBUS COUNTY, NC – Officials with the Columbus County Sheriff's Office have charged four Whiteville suspects in connection to the death of a Tabor City man. Darrius Dequan Hunter, 20, his brother Demoncrick Hunter, 23, and Christopher Frione, 29, have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit robbery after sheriff's officials say they confessed in the death of 20-year-old 
OXBORO, N.C. -- Three men are facing charges in connection with the 2007 murder of a Roxboro man. 
The death of a 16-year-old girl whose body was found in a bush has been ruled an accident causes by drugs, according to the state medical examiner’s office.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A driver is now charged with murder after police say he intentionally struck two people with a car on the west side of Columbus on Friday night. It happened around 5 p.m. in a strip mall parking lot on Soldano Blvd. "I just got a call from my daughter. She was frantic and I came straight here," says Chrissy Wagner. Officers say her daughter was driving through the parking lot in this silver car when the victims confronted her about speeding. Wagner says they threatened her daughter with a gun. Police say a second silver car came barreling through, driven by 24-year-old Montez Hollins. Wagner says Hollins is her son-in-law and was coming to her daughter's defense. Police say Hollins circled the parking lot, crashing into a Firebird, wrecking another car, then hitting the victims. Officers say the crash killed 
Florida - About a month after a 68-year-old man was severely beaten in a home invasion near Windermere, his estranged daughter has been arrested on attempted second-degree murder charges for the attack. Mary Ellen Christensen, 29 is accused of bringing (black) friends to burglarize her father's home and helping the suspects escape after tying up family members and stealing their valuables. It happened at 
GREENWOOD, SC - Police have confirmed that a man is charged in connection with the double homicide at a motel in Greenwood on Wednesday. Terrance Lamont Thomas was taken into custody and charged with two counts of murder and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. Thomas told someone that he had committed the crime and "gave details about the incident that only the perpetrator would have known." Investigators found the women dead at the Extended Stay Motel after an employee called 911. "I'm hoping that people don't look at this as, you know, as not to come here because this really is a safe motel. One of the women found dead checked into the room next door to the crime scene on Friday and had plans to check out on Nov. 16. Coroner Sonny Cox identified them as 33-year-old
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A woman’s husband turned himself in a day after his wife was found dead in abandoned home. Guido Henry, the husband of 
Two families are fighting to make sure no one has to live through the pain they suffered during trials for their murdered children. 300 times the Christians and the Newsoms walked inside the City County Building and they were there once again on Thursday. "This is almost like a second home now we've been here so many times," said Mary Newsom. They came this time with a different purpose. "I don't want anyone else to go through what we went through," said Mary. Sitting through re-trails for the murderers that took their daughter and son. All because the judge overseeing the case was a pill addict. That's why they're meeting with elected officials, drafting a bill intended to wipe the benches clean of illegal drug activity. "Somebody that is controlling something as important as our justice system- you would think they would have to get a drug screening," said Gary Christian. A mission that's been in talks for a while now. Although, these families say justice for their kids has finally been served ,closure won't come until the bill becomes law. 
