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Third teen charged as adult in Bevo Mill hammer death
  ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- A third teen was charged as an adult in the beating death of a Bevo Mill man in late 2014. Court records show Juan Carlos Fabian-Lutz, 16, is facing first-degree murder and armed criminal action charges. Zemir Begic, 32, was found unconscious with apparent injuries to his head, abdomen, face and mouth in the 4200 block of Itaska at 1:15 a.m. on November 30, 2014. Police say Begic was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased. According to police, Begic was in his vehicle when “several juveniles” approached his car and began damaging it. When Begic exited his vehicle the teenagers yelled and struck him with hammers. Following the assault, the teenagers fled the scene on foot. Police said Fabian-Lutz and a 15-year-old boy were located a short-time later and placed in the custody of juvenile authorities. They had been charged with first degree murder under the juvenile system, but Fabian-Lutz's charges were upgraded Tuesday. Two other (black) teens were already facing adult murder charges. Darrion Johner, 16, and Robert Mitchell, 17, were arrested after the attack.
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CINCINNATI —A driver involved in a crash that killed a retired Forest Park police officer has been arrested. Anton Palmer, 31, was charged with vehicular homicide and two counts of vehicular manslaughter for the death of George Brooks. Brooks was riding a motorcycle for a funeral procession on March 28 going to Spring Grove Cemetery when he was struck by Palmer's car, police said. Brooks, 63, died a day after the collision. Palmer is being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center pending his arraignment on Friday. - (Black-on-white)
A 37-year-old man told police he put a stone in a sock and beat another man outside a Southeast Portland Plaid Pantry so severely that he thought the victim was dead, court documents say. Surveillance footage from the store near Southeast 12th Avenue and Morrison Street on Monday shows James L. Edwards Jr. hitting 
The police said on Thursday that they had filed assault charges against David Baril, who was suspected of wielding a hammer in a series of attacks before he was shot by an officer in Manhattan on Wednesday. When the officers approached Mr. Baril near 37th Street around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, he brandished a bloodstained hammer and swung it, claw-end forward, at 
ST. CHARLES COUNTY • A former Lindenwood University wrestler was found guilty Thursday of exposing one of his sex partners to HIV and attempting to expose four others to the virus that causes AIDS. Michael L. Johnson, 23, was found not guilty on a sixth charge — exposing another man to HIV. That man testified he had unprotected sex with Johnson in the fall of 2012 but wasn’t diagnosed with HIV until September 2013. Another of Johnson’s sex partners also contracted the virus. Jurors deliberated for two hours and 20 minutes before returning the verdict. A sentencing hearing will be Friday; Johnson faces a maximum of life in prison. 
DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. — A 16-year-old boy is sought in connection to a school bus shooting on the Westside. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said a warrant has been issued for Edgar Robles. He is considered armed and dangerous. JSO said this is not a gang-related crime. 
Va. – A Newport News man has been charged with indecent exposure after he exposed himself near a school bus stop with children present, according to police. Police were dispatched to the area of 36th Street and Marshall Avenue around 11:40 A.M. on Tuesday for a report of a man exposing himself in the area. The victim, a 61-year-old Newport News woman, told officers that she had seen 31-year-old Justin Deandre Lacott exposing himself.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Police are searching for a man who is accused of raping a woman after giving her a ride from Remington Park. Police responded to a call at N.E. 23rd and Martin Luther King Ave. shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, April 27. The call was in regards to a woman claiming she had been raped earlier in the evening at a different location. The woman said she accepted a ride home from a man at Remington Park, but he allegedly took her to a different location and raped her. Surveillance video shows the suspect as a balding black male, wearing a striped shirt, a black jacket, blue jeans, and black shoes.
New Orleans police have released composite sketches of two men they say are suspected of raping a 37-year-old woman earlier this month (May 4) in eastern New Orleans. The woman told police she was walking in the 5400 block of Crowder Boulevard around 3:30 a.m. when a man with a tattoo of a star and a cross on the right side of his face approached, police said. Armed with a semi-automatic handgun, the man forced the woman inside a vehicle driven by another man, police said. The woman said the pair drove her to an unknown location where she was sexually assaulted. Police said the first suspect also has a tattoo on his back that reads, "Taqueria."
BRONX, N.Y. -- Police are looking for a man accused of attempting to rape a woman in the Bronx. Around 9:30 a.m. on May 12, a man followed a 26-year-old woman into her building at Wales Avenue and East 151 Street. He followed her into the stairway, then grabbed her by the neck and demanded that she remove her pants. The victim refused and the suspect fled. The suspect is described as a black man who is 25, 5 feet 6 inches, 130 pounds with brown eyes, black hair and a medium complexion. He was last seen wearing a grey baseball cap, white sneakers, black shirt and blue jeans.
GRAHAM — A man has been charged with the rape of a child after the victim, a teenage runaway, went to stay with him. Willie Earl McDaniels, 28, of 120 Albany St., Apt. 34, Graham, was arrested Monday and charged with felony first-degree statutory rape. He was held in the Alamance County jail under a $100,000 bond. According to the Graham Police Department, the victim was
KNOXVILLE – A man wanted in Kentucky on charges of raping and sexually abusing four children was arrested in Knoxville Tuesday during an identity theft investigation. Michael Mease, 40, is charged locally with identity theft, criminal impersonation, resisting arrest and being a fugitive from justice. He is wanted in Hardin County, Kentucky on multiple charges including one count of rape and three counts of sexual abuse. 
DENVER - Auraria Campus Police are searching for a man who tried to sexually assault a woman Saturday. The woman reported being attacked on May 9, at about 2:05 p.m. on the second floor the West Classroom building. The woman said the man grabbed her, pushed her to the floor and attempted to rape her, but she fought back and was able to get away. The suspect is described as a black man in his 40s, about 6-feet tall, with a thin build and a patchy mustache and beard. The suspect has noticeable red discoloration on the inside of his lips and two marks on his cheek, and may frequent the Auraria campus, investigators said. 
A cab driver has been arrested and charged with two counts of kidnapping, two counts of sexual assault and one count of robbery for allegedly taking a woman from Lower Downtown on Christmas Eve to his home in Green Valley Ranch and raping her before returning her home. 
PHOENIX - A Valley mother who left her kids in a hot car while she went to a job interview has been sentenced to 18 years of supervised probation. Shanesha Taylor was sentenced Friday morning in Maricopa County Superior Court. She also is required to undergo parenting classes. 
DOUGLAS, GA - A man has been captured in connection to an Atkinson County murder. Roderick Brock was arrested Monday night in Douglas, according to the Atkinson County Sheriff's Office. Brock is believed to be involved with the murder of 64 year-old 
OVERLAND PARK, KS - A 21-year-old woman says she was attacked in her Overland Park home and her security system caught it on camera. 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The mother of two who was strangled to the point she literally saw stars got a chance to tell her assailant exactly what she thinks of him in the moments before he was sentenced to 33 to 100 years in prison. "I think you're a shame to your family and friends," 
BRUNSWICK | A man who was to have stood trial Monday for murder in the shooting death of his live-in girlfriend pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter and was sentenced to 28 years in prison, the district attorney said. Jermaine Javon Thomas, 38, was charged with shooting 33-year-old 
Days after a Georgia woman was arrested for a Facebook post advocating the shooting of “every white cop in the nation,” an Iowa man cribbed the threatening words for his own Facebook page, a copy and paste job that now has him locked up in jail. Michael Leshawn McCullum, 30, was arrested Tuesday by Iowa City cops on a warrant charging him with harassment. McCullum is being held on $100,000 bail on the aggravated misdemeanor count. According to investigators, McCullum earlier this month posted a Facebook message stating, “I’ve thought about shooting every white cop I see in the head until I’m either caught by the police or killed by them.” He added, “Ha!!!! I think I can pull it off. Might kill at least fifteen tomorrow. I’m plotting now.” 
A fifth suspect has been arrested in the shooting deaths of two Mississippi police officers over the weekend. Abram Wade "Pete" Franklin was awaiting his initial appearance in court on Wednesday after the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation charged the 29-year-old with obstruction in the case, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said. Four others have already been charged in the Saturday shootings of Hattiesburg officers 
Police on Wednesday shot the hammer-wielding maniac who randomly attacked four people during a bloody rampage around Manhattan, law enforcement sources said. The bearded suspect, identified as 30-year-old David Baril, was in critical but stable condition at Bellevue Hospital. Around 10 a.m., two Midtown South cops were leaving the scene of an unrelated assault at 38th Street and Eighth Avenue when they recognized Baril as the madman who attacked four people on Monday. As they approached the suspect, Baril turned around, pulled out his hammer and “violently started swinging” the claw end of the tool at Officer
HOUSTON - A man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for a 2013 shooting at a Houston-area college campus that wounded three people. Trey Foster was sentenced Wednesday in Houston after pleading guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the shootings at a Lone Star College campus in Houston's northern suburbs. Foster, who's 25, could have gotten two to 20 years in prison.
BALTIMORE — Accused of looting. Two Baltimore correctional officers face charges in connection to last month’s riots. Kendra Richard and Tamika Cobb have been suspended without pay after being charged with theft and burglary. The officers were caught on camera leaving a closed 7-Eleven store in the 300 block of W. Baltimore Street with merchandise. Police say a tip led them to review video footage that allegedly showed looting.
Citrus Heights police are asking the public’s help in finding a man recently identified as the suspect in a 2013 rape case. Police said an investigation at the time of the incident indicated that the victim and suspect were acquainted. Detectives recently acquired information that confirmed the suspect’s identity and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Police identified the suspect as Lawrence Agusta Davis, 29, and released of photo of Davis. They said he is believed to have ties to the Sacramento, Oakland and Richmond areas, as well as the state of Oklahoma. Anyone with information regarding Davis’ whereabouts is asked to contact Detective William Sanderson at the Citrus Heights Police Department, (916) 727-5500. 
After last week's painful testimony from two sisters who claim they were victims of rape at the hands of Michael Sykes, the suspected serial rapist is back in court as other other victims tell their story. Last week's testimony came from two sisters who claimed they were forced into an alley at gunpoint in 2008 and raped. On Wednesday, three friends took the stand to tell their story about an attack that happened in March of this year. The three friends said they were carjacked at a gas station on Fenkle and Schafer on Detroit's west side, 21-year-old Michael Sykes. A witness says Sykes drove around Detroit and looked for abounded house. When he found the homes, Sykes allegedly forced them perform oral sex on him and then on each other. 
BRONX, N.Y. -- Police have identified the suspect wanted in the rape of a 21-year-old woman that happened in the stairwell of a Bronx building. The incident happened around 1 a.m. on Monday, May 4. Authorities say 22-year-old Larry Valencia stated that he had a knife and forced the woman to the top of the stairwell of the Banyer Place apartment building, where he raped her. He was last seen fleeing the scene on a scooter. The victim, who was taken to Jacobi Hospital for evaluation, picked Valencia's photo out of a photo array. "The girl was being dragged from the roof area and her body was just going boom, boom, boom, down the stairs," the witness' niece, Piedad Cordova, said. "Her clothing was ripped, she was crying, she was hurt, she was bruised up."
A Baton Rouge man was arrested Friday on counts of sexual battery after a juvenile reported the man had forced intercourse on her three times over the last six months, according to Baton Rouge police. The incidents came to light after the 
In denying that he sexually assaulted a woman, an Iowa man told cops that the victim was “not even rapable” by his standards, according to court records. William Miller, 36, was named in a May 7 criminal complaint charging him with felony sexual abuse in connection with the alleged attack last year. According to police, the victim “was with friends drinking and hanging out” at an Iowa City home. When “everyone went to sleep,” Miller removed the incapacitated woman’s pants and “began having sex with her.”
A Chicago sex offender has been charged with exposing and fondling himself while two girls were using nearby exercise equipment at Evanston's McGaw YMCA on April 20. Surveillance video helped lead Evanston police to the May 6 arrest of Tony G. Allen, 33, of 7547 N. Ridge Ave., Chicago, who is charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a child, a Class 4 felony, and failure to register a change of address, a Class 3 felony, in the incident. 
HOUSTON - Houston police have released a composite sketch of a suspect wanted in at least three robberies and sexual assaults at two southwest Houston apartment complexes in April. In two incidents the suspect approached the female victim in the parking lot of the apartment complex and sexually assaulted the victim at gunpoint, then stole her personal belongings. The suspect is believed to be in his late 20s to early 30s, 5 feet 9 inches tall, and about 150 pounds with a slim build. He was wearing dark clothing and a gray hoodie. In the most recent incident, he was armed with a handgun. 
She describes how on Monday at around 2:30 in the afternoon her 
GREENSBORO, Ga. -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says an autopsy indicates suicide in the death of a man found hanging from a tree in Greensboro, Ga. Greensboro is on I-20 about an hour east of Atlanta. Just after 11:00 a.m., Monday, someone walking past a house on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Greensboro spotted the body in the back yard of the house, and called 911. The body was hanging from a tree, and police quickly identified the man who had died as a nearby resident, Roosevelt Champion, III, 43. It just so happens that the GBI interviewed Champion twice last week about the apparent murder of a woman in Greensboro, 
PHILADELPHIA — The ATF and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia announced the arrest of 12 people and they’re seeking four more in connection with an 18 month crime spree from 2012 to 2014. “Some of the vicious people I’ve seen in all of my years in law enforcement,” said ATF Special Agent Kelly Brady. “They threatened to sodomize the victims. They scalded them with hot water. They water boarded them all in an attempt to try to elicit information to where their valuables were,” said Brady.
A pair of con men forged documents to illegally take ownership of nine homes in Brooklyn and Queens, renting some out, selling others and pocketing the cash, prosecutors said Wednesday. Accused ringleader Danny Noble, 45, of Baldwin, Long Island, and Roderick Grey, 37, of Freeport, were tripped up when the legitimate owner of one of the homes learned of the scam and called the cops, Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson said.
CHASKA, Minn. - Two men are now charged after prosecutors say a planned robbery led to the beating and murder of a 90-year-old Carver County farmer in mid-April. A criminal complaint details how 29-year-old 
LANCASTER, Pa. — A prosecutor says a Pennsylvania man whose rap music “glorified drug dealing and gun violence” has now been jailed on crack cocaine charges after a raid on his home earlier this month. The Lancaster County district attorney’s office on Wednesday announced that 36-year-old 
As its meeting stretched past midnight, the Orange school board on Wednesday voted to terminate the employment of a third-grade teacher for allowing her students to write "get well" letters to a convicted cop killer. But that decision was not immediately clear after board members cast their votes. Over the course of about 90 minutes inside the auditorium at Orange Preparatory Academy, supporters of 
VICTORVILLE, Calif. -- Investigators are searching for a woman who they say murdered her husband in Victorville and then fled with the couple's two daughters. Sheriff's deputies from the Victorville Police Department conducted a welfare check at the couple's home in the 13700 block of Brynwood Street around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday after the victim, 34-year-old 
A scissor-wielding psycho who stabbed five people in Riverside Park — including a toddler and his ballet-dancer dad — was sentenced to 23 years behind bars on Tuesday. “This is one of the most frightening types of cases I have ever seen.This was a completely random attack. These are the crimes that people fear the most. The lives of the people will be changed life long. This is not something you forget,” Judge Charles Solomon told the 44-year-old Julius James Graham in Manhattan Criminal Court, where several victims read statements about the grisly October 2013 rampage. 
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CARY, NC -- Officials in Cary say they don't believe the man arrested in connection with the death of a 72-year-old man knew the victim. Wake County Assistant District Attorney Howard Cummings said Monday the motive for the crime appeared to be a robbery. The body of 
LADUE, Mo. - A mother is demanding justice for her 21-year-old son who was beaten and left unconscious near a home in Ladue on May 3. Police said Darrian Johnson, 21, stomped on 
OSCODA COUNTY, Mich. - "She said 'Mom I love you very much, I've got to go," said 
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A Windermere man at the center of a series of alleged rapes is no longer in the country. Darryl Patterson is accused of attempted sexual assault on a woman who offered to drive him home from a function they were attending in April. Police said they believe Patterson tried to sexually assault the woman after giving her shots of Fireball whiskey that might have been laced with a drug. The woman told authorities she became nauseated and semiconscious.
Fury erupted this month over incoming Boston University sociology and African-American studies professor 
TACOMA – A Pierce County mother grieves for her only son who was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting last week. The suspected shooter made his first appearance in court on Friday afternoon. Prosecutors said 23-year-old Alexander Kitt is the gunman and he may have been trying to retaliate for an earlier shooting, but investigators say the victim may have been shot by mistake. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how I’m going to go on without him,” said Brandon’s mother, Elladell Morris. “He took care of me, he took care of his grandmother.” 
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Police are on the hunt for a North Providence man wanted in connection with not one, but two, homicides. Police say Malcolm G. Querido is a person of interest in this weekend’s homicide on Camden Avenue. Police say 
JACKSONVILLE – Two people are in custody, and more arrest are expected after a video surfaced capturing an attack a local Taco Bell. Several more arrests are expected in the near future and at this point the department has identified most of the participants in the assault. The first two subjects were charged with Assault Class A which means that bodily injury occurred during the assault. At least one other suspect will be charged with the same offense and others will be charged with Disorderly Conduct. Derrick Tatum, age 18 of Jacksonville and Deverick Tatum, also 18 and of Jacksonville were arrested, arraigned and charged with Class A Assault. Jacksonville Chief of Police Reece Daniel has released a statement: Despite a seven second video that has gone viral that purports to show several black males stomping and hitting
Protests erupted in Wisconsin's capital overnight after a police officer fatally shot an African-American teenager who authorities said attacked him. The 19-year-old was shot after allegedly assaulting police who were responding to a scene at a Madison apartment Friday evening, said Mike Koval, the city's police chief. While the chief indicated the officer acted in self-defense, that didn't stop protesters from hitting the streets. Chief: Suspect 'assaulted my officer' The incident started when authorities got a call that a man suspected in a recent battery had gone to an apartment, Koval said. Shortly before that call, another one had come in, saying the same suspect was "jumping in and out of traffic, dodging cars," according to the police chief. When a responding officer went to the apartment, he heard some commotion and forced his way in, he said. "Once inside the home the subject involved in this incident -- the same one allegedly out in traffic and that had battered someone -- assaulted my officer," Koval said. After that, according to the chief, "The officer did draw his revolver and subsequently shot the subject."
A month and a half after a shooting at Los Altos Skate Park left one person dead and six injured, police told a news conference Friday afternoon that the man who shot and killed a 17-year-old at a Northeast Albuquerque skate park did so in self-defense. Police said cellphone video of the encounter shows that the teen who was shot and killed, Jaquise Lewis, was one of the shooters firing at the skaters. However, they do not believe he was the first one in his group to fire shots. The fight began after members of one group asked to borrow a couple of skateboards from the other group. The first two skateboards were returned, but when someone asked for the third back, a fist fight broke out. It turned into a gunfight. Police said there was no indication the shooting was race-related or gang-related. Lewis was under house arrest after being charged with negligent use of a deadly weapon and unlawful carrying of a handgun by a person under 19 in early March, according to his order of release. 
UNION SQUARE, N.Y. — Police are searching for a man wanted for bashing two women with a hammer in Union Square and who may be connected to a third such attack in the area. A photo of the alleged attacker was released midday Tuesday. Earlier in the day, police sent out a sketch of a possible culprit but later said to disregard that image, replacing it with a grainy surveillance photo. NYPD said the man began his rampage about 7:30 p.m. Monday when he took out a hammer from inside a bag and hit a 28-year-old woman on the head. The victim was sitting on a bench in Union Square Park. About 10 minutes later, he slammed a hammer on a 33-year-old woman, attacking her from behind near 44 West 18th St. and leaving her with a scalp wound, police said. 
LOS ANGELES — A 41-year-old man accused of posing as a police officer was charged Monday with kidnapping and raping
Authorities filed charges against a South Side man accused of trying to sexually assault a woman on a CTA Red Line train on the North Side. A 27-year-old woman told police she was riding a southbound Red Line train between the Fullerton and North/Clybourn stations at 5 a.m. Sunday when a man tried to assault her, according to Officer Janel Sedevic, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department. Police arrested a suspect early Monday morning after sending out a community alert Sunday evening that included surveillance photos. Police said the man, 34-year-old Ronald Sparks, was spotted on a CTA train smoking a cigarette and was confronted by a private security officer.
John Paul Washington was on death row for a 1984 murder of a Tinker Air Force Base airman but his conviction was overturned in 1992. He has been confined most of the two decades since then at the state mental hospital in Vinita, considered too mentally ill to be tried again for that crime. On a hot summer day in 1982, vacationing widow 
PROVIDENCE - A man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend on Mother's Day in East Providence collapsed in court Monday. Yuland Stanfield was charged with first-degree murder and two counts of violating a restraining order. He fell to his knees and began wailing during his arraignment in Providence District Court. Police said Stanfield stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend,
PITTSBURGH – A Washington County jury has found Jordan Clemons guilty of first-degree murder. This morning, the defense conceded Jordan Clemons killed 
LANCASTER – An HIV-positive North Carolina man is facing nine felony charges and eight misdemeanors in connection with the May 6 kidnapping and sexual assault of a girl in Lancaster. Joseph Kenneth Cornett, 41, was charged with kidnapping to commit rape, assault with intent to commit rape, kidnapping, 
UPDATE - 28-year-old Cornelius Clark, the 4th suspect in the shooting deaths of two HPD officers, has been arrested and charged with obstruction of justice. Clark was a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the shooting. 
LANDOVER, Md. - Authorities in Prince George's County say sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man after he rammed a deputy's vehicle. The county sheriff's office announced Monday morning that the shooting occurred Sunday night in Landover. Officials say deputies pursued a truck driven by a domestic violence suspect to Nalley Road. Prince George’s deputies say the suspect, identified by his family as 35-year-old Lionel Young, rammed their cruiser with a pickup truck before they opened fire. Young, who was allegedly armed with knives, was killed in the parking lot of Cora L. Rice Elementary School. He was in the car at the time of the shooting. That's when officials say two deputies fired at the man, striking him. Officials say the man died at the scene. 
Detroit — State Sen. Virgil Smith told police his ex-wife stormed into his house and assaulted his girlfriend before he did “the most stupid thing in his life” — opening fire at the ex-wife’s Mercedes Benz with a rifle — according to a police report obtained by The Detroit News. He was naked when he met her at the front door, the senator’s ex-wife claims in a second police report, beat her with his fists, chased her outside and shot at her four or five times.
