i am sure this guy picked their house at random, and had no reason to think there could be drugs or money there.
Daily Mail:
A 21-year-old woman shot and killed an armed burglar after he kicked her door down and shot her husband while demanding drugs.
Jamie Franklin, of Knoxville, Tennessee, fatally shot Joshua Dexter Watson, 24, after he and an accomplice charged into her home and demanded drugs and money.
Franklin's husband Jonathan was shot in the struggle before Mrs Franklin shot Watson, with the second robber fleeing on foot.
Knoxville police officers are still pursuing the second man, who is not believed to have been injured.
The dramatic standoff occurred on Monday evening at the Franklins' home on 210 Colonial Drive when Watson and another man knocked and 'then kicked in the door'.
'During the fight, the suspects were demanding at first drugs and then money from the victims,' said Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk.
Jonathan Franklin was shot in the struggle - officers declined to say where on the body he had been hit - and has since been admitted to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with what police termed non-life-threatening injuries.
After her husband was shot, Jamie Franklin leapt to the defence of her home with the family's .357 caliber revolver and 'fired several rounds, striking one suspect more than once in the upper body'.
Watson was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds at the scene while police have released information about the suspect still at large.
He is described as white, in his early 20s, about 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10 with a very thin build, black hair and armed with a handgun.
With a second suspect still on the loose, DeBusk declined to state whether the Franklins knew the home invaders or if both of the men were armed when they burst into the property.
Watson had a lengthy criminal record prior to his death, having faced a charge of aggravated robbery in 2004 before he turned 18.
He had later amassed a long rap sheet of charges, including drug possession, theft, evading arrest, reckless driving and violation of probation for the aggravated robbery conviction, according to police records.
The shootings were the sixth incident of gunfire during a home robbery in the last five months in South Knox County.
nice place.
and dead druggie.
and other guy who has been caught.
2 SC women killed on Thanksgiving, found in woods
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Authorities in Georgia were looking Friday for a man who may know something about the Thanksgiving killing of two young women from South Carolina.
The bodies of Angela Brooks and Nancy Cushman were found by a passer-by around 2:30 a.m. Thursday in a wooded area of Augusta. Authorities in Richmond County, on the state line with South Carolina, say the 19-year-old Brooks was from Warrenville, S.C., and Cushman was 17 or 18 and also from the area.
The women were last seen alive with an unidentified man around 12:30 a.m. Thursday.
Cushman had a 1-year-old daughter and was expected to celebrate Thanksgiving with family, her grandmother told television station WRDW-TV in Augusta.
"She lived way over here (in South Carolina), I couldn't believe or figure out what she was doing way over there," Sarah Cushman said of her granddaughter.
She said she had no idea how this could have happened.
"See if she was one of them raising sand and stirring up trouble, you could expect it, but she didn't," Sarah Cushman said. "She was quiet, nice, sweet little girl."
Authorities want to question 26-year-old Travis Lorenzo Berrian. They say he's not a suspect but they think he might have information about the deaths.
Shawn Johnson, a friend of the two young women, saw them a few hours before they died and couldn't believe they were gone.
"It was really kind of shocking ... at first I didn't believe it," he told Augusta television station WAGT-TV.
Johnson last saw the women in Cushman's car.
"You could see through the front of her Escalade," he said. "You could see the third person in the car. He was sitting behind Nancy. I don't know who it was."
Cushman's 1999 Cadillac Escalade was found about a mile and a half away from where the two were believed to have been shot.
Autopsies were expected to be conducted Friday at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab. GBI spokesman John Bankhead said it would be up to local authorities to release the results. The sheriff's office said the women were shot but declined to say where or how many times.
very strange disappearance. she must have become disoriented after the accident. or was she grabbed?
LASALLE COUNTY, Ill. WGN
Authorities in LaSalle County have suspended the search for a woman who vanished after a car crash that killed her husband.
The search may resume at the end of the week if the weather warms and ice melts in the area.
Tanya Shannon, 40, disappeared early Sunday. Police think she walked away from the accident. Her husband, Dale Shannon, 41, was killed when he lost control of the car -- hitting a utility pole.
Investigators say they cannot rule anything out. They have been monitoring the missing woman's cell phone as well as her credit card records to see if there is any sort of unusual activity that could point to foul play.
No new leads have turned up after several days of searching, and rescuers have not been able to find any clues that will lead them to Shannon.
Today rescuers turned their attention to the drainage ditches along the roadways. Special plows cleared away the snow drifts -- sometimes three or even four feet deep -- along these ditches near the accident scene.
Investigators found footprints leading away from the crash.
Tanya Shannon was wearing a bright red dress and a thin fleece hoodie when she staggered off into the brutal cold.
The wind chill has been sub-zero or in the teens the last three days, and the relentless wind has hampered the rescue efforts.
400 people live in the farm community of Ransom -- home to Dale and Tanya Shannon and their four daughters, ages 4 to 15. News of the tragedy has devastated the close-knit community. People have started collecting money, food, toys, and anything they want to share with the grieving family.
i would LOVE to be the arresting officer. it would be terrible if he fell down and hurt himself on his way to jail.
BM...black male in his 40s. still gone with her car a week later.
NEWS4/JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fern Gorin, 74, was badly beaten by a man who robbed her while she was sitting in her car at an Arby's drive-through, leaving her face and upper body swollen and black and blue.
"He hit me upside the head and said, 'Stay down. Don't make a noise,'" Gorin said. "And I guess I blacked out then because the next thing I know, he was beating me on the head and back and telling me to get out."
A week and a half later, Gorin is still in pain but moving around much better.
She said her attacker made off with about $73.
Her terrifying experience happened on Black Friday. Gorin said she was taking a break from Christmas shopping when she pulled into an Arby's on Beach Boulevard near University Boulevard.
Gorin said she was rolling down her window to make her order when a man popped up and demanded money.
"He put both hands on the door like that and said, 'Get over! Get over quick! Get the F over!' And I was just startled," Gorin said. "I tried to put the car into drive and drive off and leave him, and that's when he got me by the throat here."
Gorin thinks she blacked out because the next thing she knew, she was getting shoved out of her car. It was only a lucky coincidence that the robber and carjacker chose to dump her in the parking lot of her church, which is only a few blocks from her house.
Gorin managed to stumble to a neighbor's home for help.
"Oh yeah, I'm blessed to be alive. Absolutely," she said. "That's why I say I praise the Lord every day that I'm alive and able to talk about it."
Associated Press
authorities arrest Nicholas Brooks in the murder of Sylvie Cachay.
NEW YORK -- The son of an Oscar-winning songwriter was arrested Friday on charges of choking his Peruvian-born girlfriend, a fashion designer found dead and half-clothed in a bathtub overflowing with water in a posh hotel, police said.
Nicholas Brooks, 24, was arrested on charges of attempted murder and strangulation in the death of Sylvie Cachay, who was discovered around 3 a.m. Thursday at the Soho House hotel. He has been at a police precinct more than a day and was cooperating with investigators, who obtained a search warrant to take swabs from under his fingernails.
Police said the death was ruled a homicide, but the medical examiner's office has not determined a cause of death pending toxicology test results after an autopsy was inconclusive. The results could take days.
Brooks, the son of "You Light Up My Life" writer Joseph Brooks, has an attorney, but police didn't know the lawyer's name. His father, who is in unrelated legal trouble, has not commented on the case and doesn't know who is representing his son, according to the elder Brooks' attorney.
The 33-year-old Cachay, wearing a black top and underwear, was found submerged in the oval tub, face up, after hotel staff noticed the ceiling below her room was leaking. She had red marks around her neck and a bite mark on her hand, investigators said.
A bottle of prescription pills was found in the room, but no illegal drugs were found.
Before the body was found, Brooks was seen leaving the hotel, then returning and leaving again. According to police, he told investigators he ran into a friend at the lobby, and the two left to get drinks. He returned around 3:30 a.m. to find police in the room.
Cachay lived in an apartment in Manhattan's West Village and had a membership to the Soho House, an exclusive club frequented by celebrities. That meant she had access to the rooftop pool, where "Sex and the City" episodes were filmed, and could rent one of the 24 guest rooms at a discount. The hotel has hosted stars like Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts.
Earlier in the week, a candle sparked a small bedroom fire at her apartment, and that may have led her to stay at the Soho House, Browne said.
Cachay and Brooks had been dating about six months, and investigators said some of her friends told them he was erratic. The two started dating after Sylvie's poodle was struck by a car and killed, said her mother, Sylvia Cachay of McLean, Virginia, outside Washington.
"He helped her through all this process, and they became boyfriend and girlfriend," she told WTTG-TV, a local Fox affiliate. "Sylvie always had this idea of helping people, and I think this boy needed help in directing his life."
But on a family vacation in Cancun just two weeks ago, Sylvie told her mother the relationship was over.
"She told me, 'Mommy, we are just friends right now. He's trying, but I told him that I don't want to have a serious relationship or consider marriage if he does not change,"' the mother said.
"My heart is just broken," she said.
A phone call to Cachay's family rang unanswered Friday.
Cachay grew up with dual citizenship, splitting her time between Peru and McLean. She graduated from Marymount University with a degree in design. She worked for Victoria's Secret and left in 2006 to start a swimsuit collection, but had been working at fashion houses again after the economy tanked and she lost her backing.
Brooks' Academy Award-winning father is awaiting trial in an unrelated case. The 72-year-old was accused of raping 11 women he lured to his apartment with the promise of a starring role in a movie. He has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault charges and is free on bail.
He won the Oscar for Best Original Song for the 1977 ballad "You Light Up My Life." He also wrote and directed the movie "You Light Up My Life," about a comedian who has a one-night stand with a director.
Jeffrey Hoffman, who represents the elder Brooks, said the father hasn't spoken to his son since Cachay's death.
"I spoke to him within the last few months and I was unaware he had a girlfriend," Hoffman said.
I know that street well, I used to deliver bread there... Bad neighborhood, but then again, all of Jax could be bad. We are a normal big city and have our share of animals that roam the street. It is sad, but thank God she is still alive...
(12-11-2010, 02:28 PM)HyenaKiller Wrote: I know that street well, I used to deliver bread there... Bad neighborhood, but then again, all of Jax could be bad. We are a normal big city and have our share of animals that roam the street. It is sad, but thank God she is still alive...
Jax is as bad as Detroit. i read News4Jax every day because i know some cops in the region and follow the cummings case. and every single day it's another thug shooting.
when my son was in college there i was worried sick all the time. so happy he is up here now.
i don't see yet where they have caught the filthy bastard who beat that elderly lady, please let me know if you hear that they get him Hyena~
CINCINNATI -- A Madisonville man admitted to neglecting his invalid wife and allowing maggots to feed on her as she died.
Darrel White pleaded guilty Friday morning to failure to provide for a functionally impaired person and reckless homicide.
Officers were called to the couple's home July 23 found 46-year-old Jorene White dead and covered in flies and maggots.
An autopsy showed that the woman, who suffered from crippling arthritis, had been dead for only a day or so, and maggots had been feeding on her while she was still alive.
"The sores had gotten to the point that her body had actually started decomposing, and when a body starts decomposing, the flies move in and lay their eggs and they hatch, and they've got the larvae eating away at the body while she's still alive," said assistant prosecutor Mark Piepmeier.
The 65-year-old White said he was the sole caregiver for his wife since 2003.
"I did the best that I could under the conditions," White said.
Coroners said Jorene White died of a blood infection, and prosecutors said her husband did not seek treatment for her as she became ill.
"This guy, just after time, got overwhelmed and gradually stopped taking the proper care," Piepmeier said.
The couple's two adult sons lived in the home at the time, but prosecutors decided not to charge them because their father took responsibility for his wife's care and took action to conceal her condition from others.
"He made a point of saying he kept their mother totally covered from the neck down with sheets, and that he would never allow them in the room when he was changing her dressings and so forth," Piepmeier said.
The maximum sentence for White, if both are served consecutively, would be six and a half years.
no criminal charges here (in fire) but i didn't know where else to put this story! it's awful!!
OHIO News 10TV
Tragedy added to tragedy Tuesday when an Ohio couple died in an accident on their way to help make funeral arrangements for their three grandchildren.
Marc and Misty Royce of Circleville were killed in a crash on a snowy road on their way to help Marc Royce's daughter, Kacey Stacey, plan funerals for her three children, who died in a mobile home fire over the weekend, CNN affiliate WBNS-TV reported.
In the car accident, Misty Royce's two children from a previous marriage and a 6-month-old baby they shared were injured. They were treated at a hospital, as were the occupants of a second vehicle in the crash, WBNS reported.
The children who died in the fire in Wheelersburg were Dwayne Charles Stacey, 3, Emily Rose Stacey, 2, and Alexis Stacey, 11 months.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A construction worker who was on probation for felony drunken driving when he ran a red light and killed rookie Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two other people was sentenced Wednesday to 51 years to life in prison.
A judge sentenced Andrew Gallo, 24, amid sobbing from the victims' family and friends who earlier heard him apologize for the 2009 crash.
Prosecutors said Gallo's blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit when he blew through a red light at an Orange County intersection on April 9, 2009, and T-boned the car carrying Adenhart and three friends.
Also killed in the crash were 20-year-old Courtney Stewart and 25-year-old Henry Pearson. A fourth passenger, Jon Wilhite, was severely injured.
Before sentencing. Stewart's sobbing father, Chris Stewart, told the judge each day that goes by "is one more day I'm without my daughter."
Gallo was frequently moved to tears by the statements from family members of victims. He acknowledged before sentencing that he had taken the three lives and ruined his own after getting behind the wheel after hours of drinking.
He also said he expected to spend the rest of his life in prison.
"When I die, I have to look God in the face and ask him for forgiveness and mercy," he said.
Gallo was convicted in September of three counts of second-degree murder and single counts of drunken driving, hit-and-run driving, and driving under the influence of alcohol and causing great bodily injury.
He was sentenced by Judge Richard Toohey to 15 years to life on each of the murder counts, with the additional six years added for the other crimes. Prosecutors had sought the terms of 15 years to life.
"His conduct showed a complete disregard for the safety of others," Deputy District Attorney Susan Price said in court papers filed before the hearing.
Prosecutors said Gallo drank beer and shots at three different bars with his stepbrother before driving off in the family's minivan. Jurors saw a videotaped interview in which he told police he didn't remember driving that night and apologized to the victims' families.
Gallo's attorney had called for one sentence of 15 years to life, saying her client never intended to hurt anyone.
Attorney Jacqueline Goodman said in court papers that Gallo's stepbrother was supposed to be the designated driver that night, but that Gallo took the wheel when his stepbrother became too drunk to drive.
MIAMI -- A woman posing as a charity employee scammed the Miami-Dade County Police Department out of nearly $1,000 in Christmas presents they thought were for foster children, investigators with the department said.
Mayra Mesa, 49, was arrested at her Miami Lakes home Wednesday and charged with organized fraud and grand theft.
According to police, Mesa called the Police Department and asked for donations to her charity, Manos in Action.
The department came together and donated 64 presents to Mesa, only to find out that the charity has been closed for more than a year and never even employed Mesa when it was doing business.
“I didn’t take any money, I didn’t take anything from anybody," Mesa told Local 10's Rob Schmitt Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators said Mesa confessed to one of the department's officers that most of the gifts had already been sold at a flea market.
Police did get a few gifts back, but lost around $960 in merchandise they raised for Mesa.
32 times over limit?? why isn't he in a coma or dead??
no comment on the 15 sheep in the vehicle.
East London - A drunk motorist was arrested near Queenstown in the Eastern Cape after allegedly being found to be 32 times over the alcohol limit, the department of transport said on Thursday.
The motorist was driving a Mercedes-Benz Vito at about 23:00 on Wednesday when he was stopped by police.
Blood tests were conducted on him and he was found to have an alcohol content of 1.6g/100ml.
This is 32 times over the limit of 0.05g/100ml.
Five boys and a woman, who were also in the vehicle with 15 sheep allegedly stolen from nearby farms, were also arrested.
BOTH CHILDREN KILLED IN THIS FIRE WERE DEAF!
why in hell didn't one of the adults grab them?? fucking trailers.
Kingman, AZ (KTNV) – Two children are dead after a fire ripped through their mobile home in Kingman early Sunday morning.
The Fort Mojave-Mesa Fire Department responded to the call of a house fire just after 5:00pm Sunday, when they arrived they found a mobile home fully engulfed in flames.
Five out of seven family members who were inside at the time of the fire were able to make it out; two were killed in the fire.
The two children who were killed were 7 and 11 years old.
The five surviving family members are all suffering from some type of injury related to the fire.
* Boys were celebrating a friend's 19th birthday
* Their Kia Optima was still running when police arrived
* Friends claim room was 'sealed shut like an air craft'
Five teenagers celebrating a friend's birthday have died from carbon monoxide poisoning after they left their car running in the garage beneath their Florida motel room.
Their fully clothed bodies were found on and around the Hotel Presidente bed by a maid who peered through the window just hours later.
Evans Charles, 19, Jonas Antenor, 18, Peterson Nazon, 17, and Jean Pierre Ferdinand, 16, had rented the room on Sunday to celebrate the 19th birthday of their friend Juchen Martial.
This IS NOT a slam against those poor dead boys but, this kind of thing is what I meant when I asked who was going to look out for the stupid people, who would save them from themselves.
i don't know if anyone recalls this case, i had a thread going at 24 about it. this past weekend her remains were found, and IDed today.
The brother of a woman who disappeared while on the phone with her boyfriend more than a year ago found her burned, skeletal remains Saturday in the north Georgia woods, authorities said Monday.
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Tests conducted on bones found in Georgia have revealed they are the remains of Kristi Cornwell, who went missing nearly a year and a half ago, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Monday.
The positive identification was made through dental records, the bureau said in a statement.
Cornwell, 38, was last seen walking along a road in northern Georgia the night of August 11, 2009, according to the bureau. her boyfriend was on phone with her and heard her screaming.
Passersby found the human remains Saturday in a wooded area about 9 miles from where Cornwell was last seen.
The site where the bones were discovered is in Union County, in far northern Georgia.
Investigators believe Cornwell's disappearance could be related to a December 2009 incident in Ranger, North Carolina, in which a woman was attacked by a man driving a late model Nissan Xterra, the GBI said.
In April, investigators were led to the home of 42-year-old James Scott Carringer, who was suspected of rape in Gilmer County, Georgia. Carringer, who killed himself as police tried to arrest him on the rape charges, also owned a silver Xterra and was originally from Brasstown, North Carolina, not far from Ranger, the GBI said.
The bureau did not specify why investigators believe the two cases are linked.
Last summer, on the one-year anniversary of Cornwell's disappearance, the GBI said it had conducted interviews at 450 houses in the Union County area, and that its file on the case had grown to 40 volumes.
(CNN) -- Illinois authorities said Monday they had found the body of a woman who walked away from the December car crash that killed her husband.
Earlier, a television news helicopter spotted a body in a soybean field about a mile south of the remote site where Dale Shannon and his wife, Tanya, crashed on December 5 on their way home from a Christmas party.
Aerial footage from the search site Monday appeared to show a body in the field with red clothing. Tanya Shannon wore a red dress to the party.
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