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18 Dead In Shoe Factory Shooting In Honduras

People's Connection — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:10:48 +0000

Eighteen people died and several others were wounded Tuesday in a shooting at a shoe factory in San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras, police said.

The incident began at 3:45 p.m., when two men carrying AK-47 assault rifles burst into the factory and began shooting, said Chief Hector Ivan Mejia of the San Pedro Sula Police Department. By the time police arrived a few minutes later, 13 people were dead in the building. Five others died at a hospital, he said.

The victims were in their teens and 20s, he said.

Efforts were under way Tuesday night to identify the bodies, which were being placed into yellow plastic body bags.

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Mejia said he did not know the motive for the shootings and that no one had been arrested. “We will not rest until capturing the persons responsible,” he said.

The approximately 2,000-square-foot factory is located in a suburb in southeast San Pedro Sula, which is the industrial capital of Honduras.

Read entire article at CNN.com

Soccer Star Killed Outside Brooklyn Club Hours After Scoring Winning Goal

Angelo Henderson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:27:46 +0000

A St. Lucian soccer star in New York for a tournament was shot to death in Brooklyn early Monday, hours after scoring a goal that sent his team to the finals, police sources said.

Isidore Phillip Tisson, 27, was shot in a car outside a Crown Heights cafe around 4:25 a.m. where he’d stopped after leaving a nightclub where the team celebrated.

When Tisson climbed back into the car, an unknown gunman approached from behind, and opened fire. Sources say the bullet passed through Tisson’s head and struck a 24-year-old woman who was seated next to him in the chest.

She was taken to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition, police said. Two other women who were in the car were unhurt.

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Mildred Gaddis — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:55:20 +0000

FRIDAY afternoon was sliding at last toward evening, with what promised to be a weekend of memories and laughter ahead. Defarra Gaymon, 48, the charming and dapper chief executive of a credit union 900 miles south in Atlanta, had been back in his boyhood home in New Jersey for only a matter of hours, and already he was supposed to be in two different places at once.

He had told a former pastor that he planned on attending Family Vacation Bible School at St. Paul Baptist Church in Montclair, the church where he married his high school girlfriend, Mellanie Peoples, more than 20 years and four children ago. The class was to begin at 6 p.m. that day, July 16. At that exact time, he was due at Egan & Sons, an upscale Irish pub a mile away, to join a reunion of alumni from Montclair High School, where he graduated in 1980.

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Star Detroit Athlete Killed Over Cartier Glasses

Mildred Gaddis — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:13:20 +0000

He was an accomplished athlete with a promising future, but a gunshot ended it all. A young man was killed while leaving a club in Detroit; gunned down over a pair of glasses.

Detroit Police say whether they are real or just knock-offs, you can loose your life over Cartier shades.

“That was my only son. My baby,” said Rose Ford, the victim’s mother.

Ford loved her son more than life itself. 20-year-old Darryle Miller, Junior was a Northwestern High School basketball standout turned college star.

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Suspected Murderer Of 8 Year Old Jumping Rope, “We Didn’t Care. We Let The Whole .40 Clip Go”

Mildred Gaddis — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:00:10 +0000

One suspect has been arrested and Chicago police believe they know who the second suspect is in last week’s fatal shooting of an 8-year-old South Side girl.

Prosecutors said the suspect in custody, Steshawn Brisco, said he “didn’t care” that the victim, Tanaja Stokes, was jumping rope in front of her Roseland neighborhood home, when the shooting began.

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When asked if he knew the girls were in the way, Brisco said, “We didn’t care. We let the whole .40 clip go.”

Stokes’ cousin was also wounded in the shooting.

Police say the second suspect is a juvenile, so they can’t publicly identify him, but they say he is well-known in the community.

Read entire article at MyFoxChicago.com

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Marine DaShawn Longfellow Murdered By Kickboxer Lee Aldhouse In Thailand

People's Connection — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:29:45 +0000

Dashawn Longfellow, a former U.S. Marine, was in Thailand for vacation and to study Muay Thai, or Thai boxing – and that may have been what got him killed, according to Thai police.

A manhunt is now underway to find British kickboxer, Lee Aldhouse, who police say followed the Purple Heart recipient back to his hotel and ambushed him outside his hotel room, stabbing him several times in the chest and ultimately killing him.

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Man Admits To Having Sex With Dead Body, Denies Murder

Mildred Gaddis — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:43:32 +0000

Bernard Keith Howell admitted to having sex with the dead body found in his trunk when he was arrested, but claims that he was not the one who killed the victim.

The 26-year-old Tenino, Washington resident was pulled over on Sunday night with a dead woman in his pickup truck. He told police he had discovered the dead body, bloody and in “pretty bad shape,” on the Chehalis Western Trail. It was then he confessed that hours earlier at the time he found the body, he had sex with it.

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Mildred Gaddis — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:16 +0000

From The New York Daily News

The night before a Bronx mom killed her 12-year-old autistic son and took her own life, she posted a heart-wrenching prayer on her blog saying her life was in God’s hands.

“I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Jesus as my personal savior,” Michaela Jackson wrote on It’s Mick’s World. “Now as your child, I turn my entire life over to you. Amen.”

“I’m sorry it had to end this way,” Jackson wrote in the note found taped to the inside of the Loring Place apartment’s bedroom door, said a police source. It ended with the words, “I love you all.”

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Lawyers Ask Kwame Kilpatrick’s Girlfriend About Death Of Stripper

Mildred Gaddis — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:59:10 +0000

From The Detroit Free Press

A deposition got under way this morning for Christine Beatty, the former chief of staff for ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, in a lawsuit brought by the family of an exotic dancer said to have performed at a wild party at the Manoogian Mansion.

“She has been the arms and legs, the eyes and the ears, of Mayor Kilpatrick through his horrifying reign,” Birmingham lawyer Norman Yatooma said on his way into the seven-hour deposition. “I hope to learn about that today.”

Yatooma represents the family of Tamara Greene, 27, of Detroit, who was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Detroit in April 2003, several months after she supposedly danced at the long-rumored but never-proven party at the mayoral mansion.

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Arrest Made In Serial Killing Of 10 Black People

Mildred Gaddis — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:51:37 +0000

LOS ANGELES – A former police mechanic suspected of killing 10 people and stumping detectives for more than two decades was finally arrested Wednesday after police used DNA from his son to track him down.

Lonnie Franklin Jr., 57, was charged with 10 counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and special circumstance allegations of multiple murders that could make him eligible for the death penalty if convicted, District Attorney Steve Cooley said.

“Today is a good day,” Donnell Alexander, the brother of victim Monique Alexander, said as he watched police activity outside the South Los Angeles house where the arrest was made earlier in the day.

Detectives have spent years investigating slayings between 1985 and 2007 in which the killer targeted young black women and one man. The attacker was dubbed the “Grim Sleeper” because he apparently took a 14-year hiatus from his crimes, from 1988 to 2002.

The break in the case came after Franklin’s son was arrested and swabbed for DNA, said Alexander, who was given a briefing on the case by robbery-homicide detectives.

Using a controversial technique known as a familial DNA search, the sample came back as similar to evidence in the serial killings, leading police to investigate relatives of the man who was arrested.

Detectives later swabbed a cup used by Lonnie Franklin Jr. at a restaurant and confirmed his DNA matched that in the serial killings, Alexander said, citing his briefing by police. Two police officials confirmed Alexander’s account.

Cooley believes the “Grim Sleeper” case was the first time a familial DNA search has been used successfully in California.

Earlier Wednesday, dozens of police officials closed off a block around the 81st Street house where Franklin was arrested.

Neighbors described him as friendly and quiet and were stunned when they learned of his arrest. They said he was often seen working on cars in his front yard and would sometimes stop to chat with passers-by.

Neighbor Brenda Locker, a city transportation department employee, said Franklin used to work for the city as a mechanic at the 77th Street police station and had retired.

Alexander joined a crowd at the end of the block where the green house is located. A mobile command post was parked out front, and a line of police tents sheltered tables in the front yard.

Alexander said he always kept faith there would be an arrest.

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“You don’t think about it every day, but every birthday, every holiday, every Christmas,” he said. “It’s not closure but it helps.”

The “Grim Sleeper” case has dogged police even though they had the killer’s DNA, a description from a survivor and had offered a $500,000 reward.

The victims were shot, strangled or both, usually after some kind of sexual contact. Ten victims were women and several were prostitutes.

Police have said it’s possible the male victim, Thomas Steele, who was shot in 1987, was a friend of another victim or discovered the killer’s identity.

All the bodies were found outdoors, often in alleys a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

Rochell Johnson, whose mother Henrietta Wright was thought to be the killer’s second victim when she was murdered in 1986, praised detectives.

“I was just waiting for the day,” she said. “It’s a big relief for all the victims’ families.”

The initial killings occurred during a time of extreme violence in parts of Los Angeles, when many young women were falling prey to crack cocaine and other drug addictions. As many as 30 detectives investigated the slayings in the 1980s but exhausted leads within a few years.

A special squad of detectives was assembled after the most recent known “Grim Sleeper” killing, the June 2007 shooting of Janecia Peters, 25, whose body was found in a trash bin.

The detectives have been focusing on the January 1987 slaying of Barbara Ware, a 23-year-old with a history of prostitution who was found shot in a South Los Angeles alley.

A man called police to report seeing her body being dumped from a blue-and-white van. Within an hour police had used the license plates to locate the van at its registered address at a church. The van’s engine was still warm and there were several congregants in the church, but none seemed to know anything. The trail stopped there.

The one suspect description came from a woman who was sexually assaulted then shot and survived. She said a man with chiseled features and a black polo shirt who was driving an orange Ford Pinto offered her a ride to her sister’s house.

She said they exchanged banter and shortly after getting into the car, she was attacked and pushed from the car.

Keisha Smith was among the crowd kept away from the 81st Street investigation scene by police tape. She said Franklin was well known as a mechanic in the neighborhood and had often helped find parts for her truck.

“It makes me feel scared,” she said. “I have three little kids and he was that close to my kids.”

Franklin was expected to be arraigned Thursday.