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TAYLORSVILLE, N.C. July 11 2009– A North Carolina couple is charged with first-degree murder after a deputy pulled over their van and found a woman’s body inside.
Investigators said Lisa Damron, 31, was driving the van on Interstate 77 in Wythe County, Va. Her husband, Jerry, 42, was in the passenger seat. A deputy pulled over the van for speeding and charged Lisa Damron with driving under the influence shortly after 8:30 a.m. Friday.
The deputy then searched the van and found the body of a woman. Investigators said she was shot to death.
Authorities identified the woman as Kelly Cully, a former neighbor and friend of the couple.
Investigators said the woman was killed at the couple’s home in Taylorsville, N.C. According to a warrant, Lisa Damron said the couple got into an argument while drinking with the woman and she heard several shots fired. She said she helped her husband wrap the woman’s body in a blanket and put it in the van. She said they were on their way to West Virginia to dump the body.
Jerry Damron was charged with driving while impaired and felony death by motor vehicle in a crash that killed his son last fall.

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Mobile AL NOV 15 2008
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The driver of the stolen vehicle that crashed and killed two teens during a police chase Tuesday has been charged with two counts of murder, Mobile police said Friday.
Nineteen-year-old Jacob Michael Cartee also faces charges of first-degree assault and first-degree receiving stolen property.
On Thursday, Cartee blamed police for the crash that killed his 17-year-old half brother, Aaron Blake Cartee, and 18-year-old Richard Hamilton. A 15-year-old boy, whom police have declined to name, was also injured in the wreck.

They were chasing the wrong car in the first place,” Cartee said Thursday from his hospital bed.
The chase began at about 9:14 p.m. Tuesday near Schillinger and Cottage Hill roads, when police spotted the car Cartee was driving — a red Mustang convertible — that resembled a car involved in an assault earlier that day.
Police chased the car in excess of 80 mph, police spokesman Sgt. Charles Bagsby said, and the chase ended when Cartee crashed the car, flipping it several times, on Cody Road just north of Grelot Road. None of the occupants wore seat belts, according to police.
Aaron Cartee was pronounced dead at the scene, police said, while Hamilton and the 15-year-old were airlifted to the University of South Alabama Medical Cen ter. Hamilton died Thursday.
Bagsby said that he could not release the condition of the 15-year-old Friday.
Authorities confirmed Wednesday that the car Cartee was driving was not the same one they were looking for. However, Bagsby said that the Mustang had been reported stolen earlier on the day of the wreck.
Bagsby said that police are still investigating to find out if Cartee was the one who stole the car. Additional charges could be pending, he said.
Cartee was arrested at about 1:30 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Three Notch Road and U.S. 90, Bagsby said. He elaborated only by saying, “that is where the investigation led police.”
Cartee was in USA Medical Center as of Thursday afternoon.
Nicki Patterson, chief assistant district attorney, said Thursday that when someone is killed in a wreck where the driver is attempting to flee from police, the accident can constitute a homicide.
“We have a tragedy that has unfolded before our eyes that didn’t need to occur,” Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. said. “The simple way to avoid this is, when the police try to pull you over, stop. It would have been so easy just to stop and we wouldn’t have had to do all this.”
Bagsby said that Cartee was expected to be booked into the Mobile County Metro Jail later Friday night.
Mobile County court records show that Cartee was arrested Sept. 14 on a first-degree theft of property charge, as well as on June 5 on a first-degree receiving stolen property charge.

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FLORENCE, SC NOV 13 2008

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www.privateofficer.com A woman living in Alabama has been arrested and charged in the death of her daughter four years ago in South Carolina.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said Tuesday that 27-year-old Courtney Sue Braddock was charged with homicide by child abuse.
Police said Braddock was living in Florence County in 2004 when, while under the influence of heroin and cocaine, she passed out while holding her infant daughter. The baby died.
Braddock told police she was coming off of the drug Oxycontin and couldn’t care for herself or her daughter. She has lived in several states since her daughter’s death.
Braddock is being held at the Florence County jail.

A bond hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.

Jail officials said they did not know if she had an attorney.

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Memphis TN NOV 12 2008

BY: Rick McCann
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A shooting over the week-end at a Memphis bar has resulted in murder charges against a local man.
Memphis police have charged Hector Bonilla, 28, in the shooting death of Christopher Baldwin, 21, on Sunday.
According to police, Baldwin was shot and killed around 3:40 a.m. inside Club Stampedo at 754 N. White Station.

Police said the two got into some type of confrontation and Bonilla pulled a handgun and shot and killed Baldwin.
Two security officers who were working at the club, which is just north of Sam Cooper Boulevard at Interstate 240, were able to subdue Bonilla and detained the suspect until police arrived.
Investigators said Bonilla, who was charged with second-degree murder, had argued with Baldwin but did not release further details of the argument.

Bonilla is being held at the Shelby County Detention Center without bond pending his arraignment.

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WEST PALM BEACH FLA NOV 8 2008 – A $5,000 reward is being offered in the shooting death of a well-known West Palm Beach couple inside their Australian Court home.

Linda and Aaron Sampson were both shot during what police believe was a home invasion Thursday evening. Linda Sampson, 61, died where she fell, police said.

But Aaron Sampson, 62, made it out of the house and over to a neighbor’s front door, where he alerted the neighbor to the attack before he collapsed in the yard, police said.

The neighbor called 911. Aaron Sampson was rushed to St. Mary’s Medical Center, where he later died.
Detectives say they have not ruled out any possibilities, but based on their conversations with neighbors and relatives, they believe the attack was likely a home invasion.

The Sampsons were active members of St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church, where Aaron Sampson was at one time the church’s treasurer, records show. He also played saxophone, fellow congregants told NewsChannel5, and when he didn’t show up to play for evening services Thursday, fellow congregants were worried.Both owned their own businesses, state corporate records show.

Aaron Sampson ran Sampson’s Moving & Hauling Inc. and Linda Sampson had her own pastry business, L.J. Sampson’s Pleasing Pastries & Gourmet Gift Baskets.

West Palm Beach police ask anyone with information to call the department’s Homicide Unit at 866-312-7193 or Crime Stoppers at 800-458-8477.A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information that leads to a conviction in the case.

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8 Yr old charged with double murder of father, friend www.privateofficer.com

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. NOV 8 2008 – An 8-year-boy is accused of fatally shooting his father and another man in eastern Arizona.
St. Johns Police Chief Roy Melnick says the boy is charged with two counts of premeditated murder after the shootings Wednesday.
Killed were the boy’s father, 29-year-old Vincent Romero, and 39-year-old Timothy Romans.
Melnick says police arrived at a home shortly after the shooting and found one victim just outside the front door. The other was found in an upstairs room.
Melnick says the boy initially denied involvement but later confessed.
St. Johns is a community of about 4,000 people more than 150 miles northeast of Phoenix.

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CLEVELAND OH OCT 4 2008 A jury on Tuesday found 17-year-old Ismael Irizarry guilty of aggravated murder. He could be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Prosecutors said Ismael killed Gabriel Feliciano, 17, to prevent him from testifying in a string of burglaries they committed together.
Ismael will be back in court at 11 a.m. Thursday, when Gabriel’s family will speak to the judge. He will be sentenced Oct. 22.
Gabriel’s body was found in a sewer pipe near the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo after police were told that Ismael had bragged about shooting Gabriel. He was shot in the head and neck in September 2007 when Ismael was 16.
Gabriel’s girlfriend testified during Ismael’s trial that word had gotten out that Gabriel — also known as Gordo — was going to “snitch” on Ismael about the thefts.
Gabriel had been missing for more than a week when Ismael was arrested. On Oct. 3, 2007, he led police to the Brookside Reservation, where they found blood and pocket change at the top of a hill and the body in the sewer drain at the bottom of the hill.
The teens had both been charged in April with stealing cars, cell phones, a digital camera and an iPod from Ismael’s neighbors.
Ismael is also charged in juvenile court with murder and aggravated robbery in the death of 51-year-old Daniel Higgins.
Prosecutors said Ismael and Gabriel were attempting to enter Higgin’s house in the 5800 block of Lawn Avenue in Cleveland on Aug. 17, 2007. As they were opening a window, Higgins confronted them. Ismael pulled out a gun and shot Higgins through the eye, prosecutor’s spokesman Ryan Miday said.

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Pueblo CO Sept 18 2008

By: Rick McCann

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Police say that a Pueblo security guard has been arrested after a shooting at a business where he was hired to protect it.
The shooting happened outside the American Iron and Metal Company on Santa Fe drive.
“Apparently he works for the company up in Colorado Springs and because of all the recent break-ins he had been down here at the owner’s request to watch the place,” says Sgt. Eric Bravo, Pueblo Police Department.
The County Coroner confirmed the victim as 42 year old Clay Frank Eldred of Pueblo and say that he had been shot in the torso and that he had died on the scene.
The security officer is identified as 46 year old David Noriega and police say he was arrested earlier this morning at his Pueblo home, and is now facing second degree murder charges.
Noriega told police, around 10 p.m. he heard a car door slam, and thought it was somebody trying to break in.
“So he actually went outside and confronted the guy at the fence, and that’s when the shooting happened,” says Bravo. A second man was also with the victim during the incident.
“There was in indication early on in the investigation that accounts of the story were inconsistent by employees when police arrived,” says Sheriff Kirk Taylor.
Investigators are questioning the account that Noriega gave them saying that it doesn’t add up and that this did not look like a case of self defense.
If you were around the area and have any information about where that man may be, authorities want you to call Crimestoppers at 542-STOP.
Police say that this is the 10th homicide this year.

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Police arrest woman for murder at Bally’s Casino www.privateofficer.com

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LAS VEGAS NV Sept 10 2008

By: Bryan Hill

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police have released a few new details in a fatal stabbing that occurred at Bally’s Hotel-Casino over the week-end..
It happened early last Friday and according to Metro Las Vegas Police, security officers. had spotted several woman involved in a confrontation inside the casino.
According to the police report, the three women became involved in a fight and one woman was escorted out of the hotel by security personnel..
According to police said that’s when one of the woman who had been involved in the fight minutes earl now identified as Latrovia Reed fatally stabbed Taleasha Jamerson in the neck.
Reed is charged with murder with a deadly weapon.
She is in custody and will make her first court appearance on Wednesday.

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Suffolk County NY Sept 2 2008
The Suffolk County police’s search of the North Haven spread where a 100-year-old woman was shot and killed will continue through the night, Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick said Monday.Jessie Burke was fatally shot in the head Sunday while sitting in a recliner in her living room, police said.

A crossword puzzle was found nearby.Family members were shocked by the news.

“This is insane,” said Burke’s granddaughter, Briana Burke of Burbank, Calif. “Something has happened to my grandmother and it has not been disclosed what it is.”
Burke’s Payne Avenue home, which police said is owned by her daughter, Jean Burke, sits on 2.9 acres and was assessed this year at $1.2 million, according to Southampton Town records.Jean Burke discovered her mother dead in the chair Sunday afternoon after returning from an hour-long shopping trip, Fitzpatrick said.

Police have questioned Burke, along with several others, but have made no arrests.

Fitzpatrick said he does not expect to make an arrest in the case on Monday.

No one has been arrested or charged thus far.There were no signs of a break-in, and there was nothing missing from the home; it is unclear whether the home was locked. Fitzpatrick wouldn’t comment on evidence found at the scene, or say anything about the weapon involved.He described Jessie Burke as “spry” and “mentally nimble.”

Family members told police she prepared her own meals and did a crossword puzzle every day, he said.While the case is being investigated as a homicide, Fitzpatrick said it defies typical circumstances.”

A 100-year-old woman being shot is unique no matter what area it happens,” he said.North Haven is a sleepy village of 743 between Sag Harbor and the Shelter Island ferry terminal, and Jean Burke was its primary political gadfly.

She ran an insurgent mayoral campaign in 1994 because she disagreed with how the village was handling a surge in the deer population.

Though she lost the mayoral race, Burke continued to appear at village board meetings and was often critical of how elected officials handled municipal affairs, said Fred Stelle, an architect who has served as deputy mayor and as a village trustee.Stelle described Jean Burke as a physically imposing woman who stands about 5-foot-10.

A former corrections officer, she was believed to have spent nearly all of her time caring for her elderly mother, Stelle said.”She always spoke very forcefully about whatever issues were concerning her,” Stelle said.

“She tended to be very certain about whatever issue she was concerned about.”

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Homicide Squad at 631-852-6392 or Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS.

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PARIS AR Aug 10 2008

By: Rick McCann

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police are still investigating circumstances surrounding a murder of an employee of the local Wal-Mart who was shot dead Friday in its parking lot.

A Logan County sheriff ’s deputy said that they were called about a shooting in the parking lot of the store and found one man laying on the ground with apparent gunshot wounds.

Police say that they do have a suspect in the murder and have apprehended him and are holding him pending formal charges.

Police identified that suspect as Robert Lee James, 60.

The Logan County jail’s log did not show any charges for James, but Prosecuting Attorney Tom Tatum said he planned to file charges Monday.
James is being held in the jail without bond.
The name of the victim was not released pending notification of relatives, Paris Police Chief John O’Brien said.

Police would not release details of the shooting, which happened just after 4 p.m.
Witness M. J. Baine of Paris said he saw two men scuffling in the parking lot. He said that he heard five gunshots, the last one striking the employee in the head. Baine said that after the employee fell to the ground, the man with the gun fired twice more into the body.
A blue Dodge pickup that police believe James was driving after the shooting was found in a yard at South Second and Academy streets near the store.
Video from a Wal-Mart security camera would be collected for evidence, Tatum said.
Ashley Hardie, a spokesman for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Bentonville, confirmed the death of an employee but referred other questions to police.
“We are deeply saddened by the death of our associate,” she said, referring to the employee. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”

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Security officer finds possible murder victim www.privateofficer.com

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San Diego CA. July 26 2008
PALA INDIAN RESERVATION – Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the death of a man whose body was found Thursday lying in plain sight on a dirt bike trail.
The body was spotted by a tribal security guard about 1:30 p.m. off Lilac Road south of Pala Road, said sheriff’s Sgt. Roy Frank.
The man, believed to be 18 to 25 years old, suffered traumatic injuries, Frank said.
Detectives do not know if the man was killed in the area or if his body was placed there, Frank said. They also don’t know how long the body had been there but deputies estimate it was no more than a few days.
There was no effort made to conceal the body, Franks said.
Deputies are trying to determine the man’s identity and how he died. An autopsy is scheduled today, Frank said.

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DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (Metro Atlanta) July 25 2008

Kyle T. Greene

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ An 18-year-old father is accused of killing his 2-month-old son, Douglas County authorities said Thursday.
Alonzo Toler has been charged for allegedly killing 2-month-old Demond Toler. Demond was pronounced dead Wednesday night at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Hospital officials said it appeared the baby was suffering from a fractured skull and other injuries.
“Upon interviewing Mr. Toler, he has told investigators from my department and the Major Case Unit that he punched the child and threw the child down on the floor sometime between the time he got the child and the time we got the call from the hospital,” said Douglasville Police Chief Joe Whisenant.
Officials said they are still investigating and trying to determine exactly what happened.
The baby’s mother lives in Riverdale. Officials said Alonzo Toler picked his child up from the mother late Tuesday night.
Toler is in the Douglas County Jail.

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Baltimore MD July 23 2008

By: Rick McCann

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Baltimore police are working to solve a homicide of a store manager who was found dead at the store earlier in the day.
Police have now released the identity of the woman killed at a Family Dollar store in the Mount Clare Junction Shopping Center in Southwest Baltimore.

Elizabeth Queensbury, 51, was stabbed multiple times, according to police.

She was an assistant manager at the store in the 1200 block of West Baltimore St.

According to Baltimore police spokesman Donny Moses, detectives are working the case and believe robbery may have been a motive.

Police are reviewing store videotapes and records from the security company to find any additional clues.

An autopsy is planned. Queensbury’s body was found Monday morning but police don’t know how long she had been dead.

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CLEVELAND OH July 1 2008 Two men were arrested Saturday in the shooting death of a stroke victim who was hit by a bullet when he went outside his home in a wheelchair to get some fresh air, police said.
Police Lt. Thomas Stacho said Nathan Johnson, 26, turned himself in at a police station and gave authorities information that led investigators to Eric Carson, 27, who surrendered at his home. Both men live in the same neighborhood as shooting victim Daniel Lewis.
They had not been formally charged.
Johnson drove a Ford Contour from which Carson fired a gunshot around 6 p.m. Friday, police said. Stacho said Carson was aiming for a rival drug dealer, but the shot bounced off the hood of another car and hit Lewis.
Lewis’ son, Charles, said his father was hit in the chest. Lewis, a retired Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority supervisor, died at a hospital about an hour after the shooting.
“It’s a tragedy, a man minding his own business. He’s sitting outside enjoying the weather and two fools come by, and as a result he’s dead,” said Mayor Frank Jackson, who went to the Lewis home after the shooting. “It’s senseless. … The people responsible will pay for their dumb act.”
Family members said Lewis had a stroke two years ago and had returned to his home in September. He’s lived there since 1974.
Charles Lewis said family had been urging his father to go outside to get some fresh air.
“We finally got him outside to get some air,” Charles Lewis said. “He should have stayed inside and stayed stuffy.”

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PRESS RELEASE

The National Association of Private Officers
Mike Matthews-Sr. Vice President
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Atlanta Georgia
Friday June 6 2008

The National Association of Private Officers has announced that they are offering a $5000.00 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of security officer David Fulkrod.

On Wednesday June 4th, 2008 Mr. Fulkrod was working as a security officer at the CMC Recycling Facility in Augusta Georgia when he was shot in the head by several unknown burglary suspects.

Executive Director Mr. Rick McCann called this a horrific and senseless killing of an honest man doing an honest day’s work and another example of how violence against private security officers continues to escalate.

If you or anyone that you know has information that could help police investigators solve this murder, we encourage you to contact the Richmond County Sheriff Investigations Division at 706- 821-1000 or 706-821-1020.

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EL PASO, Texas June 4 2008 A federal jury convicted an El Paso man Tuesday of assaulting an international bridge security guard who later died, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Pablo Aragon, 29, was convicted of two counts of assault causing serious bodily injury and one count of assault causing bodily injury for the New Year’s Day fight with 58-year-old Cruz Vite.
Investigators said Aragon punched Vite several times during a confrontation at a pedestrian toll booth at the Paso Del Norte bridge, connecting El Paso with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Vite later died of a heart attack at a local hospital.
The El Paso County medical examiner ruled Vite’s death a homicide, saying that the fight triggered the fatal heart attack.
Aragon, who has been free on bail, was not charged with Vite’s death.
When he is sentenced later this year, Aragon could face five to 99 years in prison, prosecutors said.

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EASLEY SC April 28 2008 — Nathan Dickson was going through a rough patch in his life. The teen and his live-in girlfriend had broken up and he was dealing with tension from moving back in with his parents a year after graduating high school and going out on his own.
Still, the 18-year-old politely answered questions on a visit to a friend a week ago, according to the friend’s mother. Dickson text-messaged the same teen Friday, saying he was going to ride four-wheelers with friends.
Less than 12 hours later, authorities say Dickson gunned down his father, stepmother, 19-year-old stepsister and 14-year-old brother at their Easley home Saturday morning. He has been charged with four counts of murder, leaving friends and neighbors trying to grapple with how the quiet teen who loved video games and sports and always called women “ma’am” could be capable of the largest killing spree officials in this county of 180,000 can recall in at least 50 years.
“I can’t put my finger on what happened,” said Melissa Funk, whose 16-year-old son, Robbie, was good friends with both the suspect and youngest victim. “It’s not what I’ve known him to be.”
Authorities won’t talk about what might have prompted Dickson’s shooting spree or whether he is talking to investigators. “I’m going to have this case tried in the courtroom, not out on the streets,” Anderson County Sheriff David Crenshaw said Sunday.
Dickson is the only suspect in the case and more charges could be filed against him, Crenshaw said.
Crenshaw said he does not think the teen has an attorney.
The sheriff said he can’t remember ever dealing with the teen before Saturday’s quadruple homicide.
The killings unfolded in a one-story house with tan siding and bright blue shutters in a wooded neighborhood about five miles from Easley. A plastic tricycle and basketball goal were overturned in the yard Sunday.
An orange notice stuck to the front door warned of biohazard material inside and recommending calling someone to clean up before entering.
Just to the left of the front door is a window for the laundry room where authorities say 14-year-old Taylor Dickson was found behind a clothes dryer, apparently trying to hide from his brother. The blinds were up and the inside pane of glass had a fist-sized hole in it. The outside pane was not damaged.
Deputies found Taylor’s body last, a few hours after someone called 911 Saturday morning to report a man injured in the yard of the home. Samuel Andrew Dickson Jr., 46, died as paramedics arrived. Officers then went inside and found the bodies of his wife, 46-year-old Martiza Hurtado Dickson, and his 19-year-old stepdaughter, Melissa Giliam Salazar.
All were shot to death. Authorities would not say how many times they were shot or release other details.
Neighbors said the family was quiet and kept to themselves. Joyce Allen’s husband worked with Samuel Dickson, who went by the nickname “Andy.” The elder Dickson was an electrician with Vulcan Materials, a company that provides crushed stone, sand and gravel for construction.
Dickson didn’t say much at work, keeping to himself. Most of Allen’s memories are of him with his sons.
“He was crazy, crazy, crazy about those kids,” Allen said. “I’d see him running up and down the road, taking them to ball games.”
Taylor Dickson had just made one of the junior varsity baseball teams at Wren High School a year after failing to make the cut. His father, who had coached his youth teams, was so proud he bought him several Wren High school shirts and caps, said Melissa Funk, whose son was friends with the Dickson boys.
Funk said she thought the two brothers seemed close. When word came that four people were dead inside the home, Funk said she figured the fourth victim might be the stepsister’s boyfriend, and Nathan Dickson and his brother escaped with their lives.
“I figured we’d find him safe with Taylor, or that it had to be something else,” Funk said.
Neighbors said they didn’t see Martiza Dickson much. She was a native of Colombia and worked as a translator. Melissa Salazar graduated from high school last year and was going to technical college, Funk said.
Funk said her 16-year-old son is taking what happened hard. He had been hanging around with Nathan Dickson since the two families moved into the neighborhood about five years ago. Dickson’s younger brother would tag along too.
“He’s heartbroken,” Funk’s husband, Robert, said. “Those were his only friends in the neighborhood.”
Dickson graduated from high school last year and moved in with his girlfriend, working a series of fast-food and restaurant jobs. The two broke up and Dickson moved back in with his parents about two weeks ago, said Funk, who wasn’t sure if he had found another job before the killings.
The last time her son saw Dickson was Friday evening in the driveway. Funk said her son told her that Dickson’s eyes were bloodshot and he looked like he needed to sleep. Dickson later sent a text message to him saying he was out with friends, Melissa Funk said.
Sitting on her couch the day after the killings, Funk recalled with tears in her eyes the only time she remembered Dickson getting in trouble. She was coming to pick up her son at the high school and the teen was sitting outside the principal’s office.
“I said, ‘Nathan, what are you doing here?’ And he said, ‘Mrs. Funk, I have holes in my blue jeans.’”

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NASHVILLE TN. NOV. 27, 2007

A Memphis man has been arrested and charged with the 1975 murder of a Vanderbilt student, Nashville police announced yesterday.
Nashville Police say they developed new scientific evidence over the past few months that linked 60-year-old Jerome Sydney Barrett to the crime.
Barrett previously served 26 years for the rape of a Belmont student and was released in 2002.
Police arrested him Monday night in the murder of 19-year-old Sarah Vanetta Des Prez, who was found dead in her Nashville apartment.
Nashville police say their cold case unit has cleared a total of 22 murder cases since it was formed in 2005.

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Baltimore Md. Nov. 16 2007 The family of a slain 72-year-old woman on Thursday filed a $14 million lawsuit against her Baltimore apartment complex, alleging her murderer was allowed to kill because of lax security. On June 2, Leo Cooper entered his mother Shirley Cooper’s home, located in the Temple Gardens apartments located at 2601 Madison Avenue, to find her dead as a result of multiple stab wounds. The killer is still at large. “The person who savagely murdered the late Shirely Cooper entered the premises through an unsecured and unmonitored entryway,” attorney David Ellin wrote in the family’s wrongful death suit against ETG Associates and Roizman Development, the owner and operator of the apartment complex. Ellin alleges that security cameras were not properly installed or operating at the time of Cooper’s murder. He said the $14 million is a “symbolic amount” representing the number of times Cooper was stabbed. “It’s an overall failure of their security system,” Ellin said of the suit, which was filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court by Cooper’s mother and five children. “There have been problems with people just walking in the front door and a side door left open.” Representatives of the apartment complex were not immediately available for comment.

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NEWARK, N.J. Nov. 14, 2007— A 20-year-old Newark police candidate died late Friday of gunshot wounds suffered during a scuffle with a teenager two days earlier at a home in Lyndhurst.
Jose Hall, the son of a Newark police officer, died at Hackensack University Medical Center where he had spent two days in the intensive care unit.
His accused assailant, a 17-year-old Newark boy, was initially charged as a juvenile with attempted murder. Those charges will likely be upgraded to murder on Tuesday, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said.
Authorities said Hall was at the home on Second Avenue visiting a friend. At some point, he and the 17-year-old, who was dating the daughter of the homeowner, got into an argument. A scuffle ensued and Hall was shot twice at about 12:20 a.m., Molinelli said.
The teen fled but Newark police arrested him later Wednesday at a friend’s home on Cary Street in Orange, Molinelli said. He is being held at the Bergen County Juvenile Detention Center in Paramus.
A gun, believed to be the murder weapon, was recovered during a search of the Orange home, Molinelli said.
Hall, a graduated of Barringer High School in Newark, had considered joining the military or the National Guard but decided to follow in his father’s footsteps, friends said.
Joining the Newark Police Department had been a lifelong ambition for Hall’s father, Jose Sosa, 39, and the experience clearly influenced his son, according to a Dec. 20, 1996, article in The Star-Ledger that quoted father and son during Sosa’s graduation from the Newark Police Academy.
Hall, then 10, beamed with pride as Sosa graduated and described to a reporter the rigors of his father’s police academy experience.
“My dad said they make you run in class and exercise,” he said. “He said they teach him stuff about police, and he showed us the books they gave him, and he even told us stories from the books.”
Hall recently passed the Newark Police Department’s written test and scored well enough to be considered a candidate for the academy but had not yet taken his physical exam and other required tests, police sources said.
The physical exam probably would not have posed any problems for Hall, whom friends described as a physically strong weightlifter.
Hall was well-liked, respectful and always welcome, said Dean Lowenstein, who owns the home where the shooting occurred.
“If he could do anything to help anybody, he would do it,” Lowenstein said.
Hall also was known for his humor.
“He always kept you laughing, he always had stories to tell,” said his friend, Robert Brown, 37, of Newark. “He was a good all-around kid.”
In addition to his father, Hall is survived by two brothers.

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OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. NOV. 14 2007

On November 10th at 1:00 a.m., 19-year-old Jessie Carr allegedly killed Abdulaziz Albani, an apartment security guard at 23rd Street Station Apartments, Oklahoma City police say. They say Carr was in a vehicle with two other people when Albani stopped them.
“The security guard had spotted a vehicle that pulled into the apartment complex occupied by someone he recognized and knew should not be on that property because they had been banned,” says Oklahoma City Police Department Master Sergeant. Gary Knight.
Carr then pulled out a handgun and shot it numerous times, killing the security guard and injuring one of the passengers. Carr then fled on foot.
“Just before 10:00 p.m. is when someone called from Wes Chase Apartments saying the suspect was at that apartment complex,” says Oklahoma City Police Captain Steve McCool.
Police arrived at the complex, which was about a block away from the shooting. Officer Jacob McClain encountered the suspect on the south end of the complex.
“There was a struggle and Jessie Carr broke free from the officer. As he did, he pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the officer,” says McCool.
Police say the officer fired at Carr, hitting him several times. The suspect then fled on foot.
“With the assistance of a K-9, we were able to locate Jessie Carr hiding on the west side of the apartment complex,” says McCool.
Carr was taken to Deaconess Hospital and then transported to the Homicide Office at Police Headquarters for questioning. Afterward, police booked him into Oklahoma County Jail.
McClain is currently on routine administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Some residents at 23rd Street Station Apartments say they are worried about their own safety. Residents say Carr is allegedly a member of the Crips and goes by the name Cotton. They say other members of that gang are now harassing some residents. One resident says the victim, Albani, leaves behind three children and his wife, who is currently pregnant.
Police say Carr faces a long list of charges. Some of those charges include murder in the first degree and shooting with intent to kill.

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Biloxi ms. Nov. 7 2007–

Police on Monday charged two suspects with capital murder in the shooting death of Arkansas businessman Jim Johnson II, the underlying crime being robbery.Weldon Leagea, 42, and Chana Wells, 22, both of Baton Rouge, are being held in Louisiana awaiting extradition, which could take more than a week, Assistant District Attorney Mark Ward said.

Johnson, of Hot Springs, was found in his Isle of Capri hotel room on Oct. 18. Here on a golf vacation, the 49-year-old failed to meet with a group of 11 others, prompting hotel security to check his room about 7 a.m. He had been shot twice in the stomach.

No guest reported hearing gunfire, Capt. Darrin Peterson said. Evidence collected from the hotel room and Leagea’s car, along with interviews with witnesses, linked the two to the crime, which is punishable by death.

Investigators are releasing scant details, saying more information will come out during trial.

“Our canon of ethics really has us limited to all the stuff we can say,” Ward said.

Peterson applauded officials from Baton Rouge, Oakdale, La., and the Isle of Capri for their assistance in the murder probe.

“We’ll continue to investigate and collect information,” he said.

Both suspects have extensive rap sheets, according to East Baton Rouge Parish records.

Three years before the Johnson murder, Wells admitted mopping up blood to cover up a homicide in Baton Rouge. There, the fugitive from justice faces charges of aggravated robbery, accessory to first-degree murder, arson and aggravated kidnapping.

Leagea, a convicted robber, has been in and out of prison since 1983. Paroled in 2003, he stopped reporting to his probation officer in July.

Johnson was buried Oct. 23 at his church, Piney Grove United Methodist in Hot Springs.

Brett Millender, who helped carry the golf-motif casket to the gravesite, described Johnson as giving, deeply religious and passionate about everything he did. But his friend never wanted credit for his benevolence.

“If the food pantry was low, he would meet the pastor late enough and fill it by himself,” Millender said. “It’s a true, true tragedy.”

Police ask that anyone who had contact with the suspects in Biloxi, between Oct. 14 and Oct. 18, call investigators at 435-6112, or 392-0641

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MOUNT VERNON N.Y. Nov. 3 2007 – A 52-year-old security guard from North White Plains who was on life support after being shot in the head and chest by thugs who threw eggs at his car on Halloween died last night with family at his hospital bedside, police said.
“This senseless, heinous crime is now categorized as murder,” Mount Vernon police Commissioner David Chong said today. “The Mount Vernon Police Department will leave no stone unturned in efforts to bring the murderers of Mr. Neville Webb to justice.”
Webb, the father of council candidate Chris Webb, was also a father figure for the residents of the Oakwood Gardens Apartments at 630 E. Lincoln Ave., the complex where he was on duty as a gun-carrying security guard the night he was shot.
Webb, who had been on a respirator and was never well enough after the shooting to speak to detectives about what happened, was declared brain dead about 10:30 p.m. at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.
During a news conference today, Webb’s son talked about his father’s life.
Webb was a self-educated man who joined the correction department in Kingston, Jamaica, at the age of 26, his son said.
“They may have came to his jail as criminals, but he helped so many of them,” Webb said of his father’s time in Jamaica. “So many people in the ghettos of Kingston respected him, loved him.”
Chris Webb also took the opportunity to address the families of the teens involved in the shooting.
“I want to reach out once again to the families – the families of these people that took someone from my family – we do not hate you,” said Webb, his voice rising with emotion. “We pray for you.”
Police interviewed people at headquarters last night and are interviewing more people today, Chong said.
No one has been charged yet.
“We are gathering up all the evidence to ensure that when we do make an arrest, this case will be rock solid,” the commissioner said.
The family, meanwhile was taking the death hard, said Chong, who took a personal interest in the shooting from the beginning.
“This goes to the core of what every one of us tries to do – to go to work and make a decent living – and then this happens,” he said.

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NEW YORK CITY NY OCT. 24, 2007

Off-duty police Officer Sean Sawyer made a startling revelation early yesterday, approaching a patrol car and admitting he fired the shot that killed a young father in an East Harlem road rage confrontation Sunday, police sources said.The shooting, however, may have been in self-defense, with a friend of victim Jayson Tirado saying Tirado pretended he had a gun, fashioning one out of his thumb and forefinger and saying, “You want to see Mr. Ruger?” the sources said.”To the best of the information we have now, the victim who was shot made a reference to the fact that he had a gun, and then pointed his hand towards the driver of the other car,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Tirado, 25, was shot on First Avenue after he apparently got into a fight with Sawyer as they navigated a traffic jam on Harlem River Drive.Sawyer, 34, was released from police custody last night. He was suspended without pay and his gun and badge were taken away. At the very least, the sources said, he faces departmental charges for fleeing the scene and waiting 19 hours to report what happened.Tirado’s family wants Sawyer behind bars.”He killed him like a reckless teenager, shooting him through the window, abandoning my son, letting him die,” said Tirado’s mother, Irene Tirado, 54, of the Lower East Side. “Now, I find out he’s a police officer.”But Sawyer’s brother, Christopher, 36, called his brother “a hero by nature.” “He’s a good cop,” said Christopher, who lives in the same Manhattan Valley apartment building as his brother. “It’s a clean shooting. You do not reach down into your car on a New York City police officer in this city. My brother did his job.”Tirado’s shooting was still being investigated when Sawyer, a four-year veteran assigned to Queens narcotics, stepped out of his home about 1 a.m. yesterday and approached a sergeant in a patrol car at Central Park West and West 102nd Street.He was overcome with guilt, the sources said, and felt like he was about to have a heart attack. He told the sergeant he was an officer, he was having chest pains and needed medical attention.A short time later, police said, Sawyer told the sergeant he had fired his gun Sunday during a confrontation.That shooting, police sources said, followed a road rage incident on Harlem River Drive sparked by an apparent act of machismo, with Tirado pretending he was armed.Tirado, it turns out, was unarmed, but Sawyer opened fire from his Nissan Xterra, the sources said. Tirado, behind the wheel of his Honda Civic, was struck under the right arm, Kelly said. The victim managed to drive off, but collapsed behind the wheel three blocks north. He was taken to nearby Harlem Hospital and died minutes later.”All he did was threaten our lives and shoot,” said Jason Batista, 21, who was in the car. “It was a reckless act. The officer never pulled out a badge. He never said, ‘I’m a cop.’ If he would have said he was a cop, none of this would have happened.”Neither Batista nor another passenger, Anthony Mencia, 23 – who said he was too drunk to recall what happened – was hurt. Kelly said it appears all three had been drinking.The circumstances surrounding the shooting played out during the inevitable tensions that arise during a Manhattan traffic jam, in this case one caused by a motorcycle crash on the southbound Harlem River Drive, near the East 116th Street exit.Sawyer, trying to exit the drive, got angry because he felt Tirado was blocking his path. There were words, the sources said, then both drivers exited and headed north on First Avenue. A block later, the sources said, Tirado cut Sawyer off.Tirado lived in the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side with his girlfriend and daughter, Jayleen, 5.”I don’t know what I’m going to tell her,” his mother said.The officer lives with his wife, Monique, and two toddler sons. His brother said he pursued a career as an entertainer before becoming a cop. Recently, the officer and his wife bought a home in Queens.

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Eastlake Oh. Oct 24, 2007 A Cleveland security guard, angry about his former girlfriend’s engagement, killed his romantic rival, police say.
Dajuan Banks, 34, of Kipling Avenue, was charged with aggravated murder Monday. He was in Lake County Jail on Monday on a $500,000 bond.
He is accused of slashing the throat of Samuel Nicholson Jr., 41, on Oct. 15 at the Plymouth Road home Nicholson shared with fiancée Jackqualynn Duncan, Eastlake police said.
Duncan returned from work about 10:30 a.m. and found Nicholson dead in the bedroom. They had been engaged 21 days. Police believe he was killed between 7:30 and 10 a.m.
Banks, who works for Securitas Security Services as a guard for WJW Channel 8 News in Cleveland, slashed three tires on Nicholson’s GMC truck, then waited for Duncan’s children to leave for school before he broke into the home and confronted Nicholson about dating Duncan, Lt. Bill Gutowski said. Banks had dated her for about 18 months before she met Nicholson at a Wickliffe bar.
Police said she sent Banks a text message to notify him of the breakup.
Gutowski said Banks confessed to the crime during questioning late Thursday night. He told police he was aware of Duncan’s morning routine and waited until Nicholson was alone in the home before he went in. During the argument he pistol-whipped Nicholson before slashing his throat.
Police said Duncan had not filed any harassment or stalking complaints against Banks and was not aware of his resentment against Nicholson, police said.

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NORTHERN LIBERTIES PA.- October 20, 2007 – Gunfire in Northern Liberties wounded five people early Saturday.
Police said the shooting happened about 3:30 Saturday morning on the 100 block of Spring Garden Street. A spokesperson had initially reported that the shooting occurred in the parking lot outside of Delilah’s, but later said that information was incorrect and that the shooting happened in the street.
Police have not said what they think sparked the shootings.
A 25 year-old man is in critical condition with at least one bullet wound to the face. A 48 year-old woman is being treated for a graze wound to the leg. A security guard was shot in the hand. At least two others were also shot.
A car belonging to one of the victims was also shot up.
Police are questioning multiple people who were at the club during the shooting and reconstructing the events as they unfolded. Police have no suspects but are working several leads.

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INDIANAPOLIS — A convicted murderer who escaped from an Indiana prison 35 years ago was found living quietly in a small Tennessee town, authorities said Tuesday.
Linda Darby, 64, was arrested Friday in Pulaski, Tenn., where she was going by the name Linda Joe McElroy. Darby was sentenced to life in prison in 1970 for her husband’s murder, but she escaped in March 1972 from the Indiana Women’s Prison in Indianapolis by climbing over a barbed-wire fence.
Pulaski police Capt. John Dickey said that Darby had been living a quiet life in the town some 70 miles south of Nashville for about 30 years.
“This woman has led an exemplary life in Pulaski,” Dickey said. “There is no record of any criminal activity here whatsoever.”
Darby, who was originally from Hammond, Ind., has waived extradition from Tennessee, said Karen Cantou Grubbs, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Correction. She is being held at the Giles County, Tenn., Jail.
Dickey said investigators in Indiana had contacted the Pulaski Police Department about Darby and Indiana and Tennessee authorities worked together to make the identification and arrest.

Her arrest came two weeks after the start of the Indiana Department of Correction’s new Indiana Fugitive Apprehension Unit, which aids in the recapture of offenders who have escaped from confinement, fled residential programs or vanished while on parole.
Since the unit’s creation, two other fugitives have been identified and apprehended. DOC officials said that about 300 Indiana fugitives remain at large.

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DURHAM NC Oct. 14, 2007

Shoppers at a local mall was stunned Saturday afternoon after finding out that a person had been murdered just a few feet away from the main area of the shopping center.
Poilce are looking for a suspect wanted now in connection with the fatal stabbing that happened at Durham’s Northgate Mall Saturday afternoon.
Police say they responded to the call around 5:45 p.m. Saturday.
The victim, 22-year-old Keanan James Odom, was stabbed during an altercation at the mall. He was taken by personal vehicle to Duke Hospital where he later died.
Police are looking for Xavier J. Moore of Durham. He is considered a suspect in the murder.
Anyone with information about Moore’s whereabouts shout contact Durham Crime Stoppers at 683-1200.

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