Police: Husband Shoots Ex-Girlfriend in Front of Daughter
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Santa Fe, TX: The man accused of killing his estranged girlfriend outside her house Saturday faces additional charges, police said. William Ray Parker, 44, of Hitchcock is charged in the shooting death of Angela Renee Lopez, 42. Parker is also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon because police said Lopez’s 12-year-old daughter who witnessed the shooting told police that Parker pointed a gun at her. » more at Galveston Daily News
Valrico Man Accused of Strangling Wife With Electrical Cord
Valrico, FL: Deputies arrested a man Friday accused of strangling his wife with an electrical cord earlier this year. Colin Joseph Maloney, 39, called 911 on March 18 and told a dispatcher he had found his wife, Felicia, unconscious in the bathroom of their Valrico home. "She is non-responsive, her jaw is clenched and she's a little blue," Maloney told a dispatcher. When paramedics arrived at the home at 3413 Pearson Road, they performed CPR for about 20 minutes. Inside an ambulance, they saw marks around Felicia Maloney's neck. » more at TampaBay.com
Breaking: Joseph Montiel Charged in Wife's Death
Camp Verde, AZ: The Camp Verde Marshal's Office Friday charged 43-year-old Joseph A. Montiel with the murder of his estranged wife Jaime Treakle Montiel. She is the 26-year-old woman who vanished while trying to get a ride home from the Yavapai County Jail in Camp Verde Aug. 17. At the time, she had just bonded out after being arrested for failing to appear and pay fines in Justice Court. When her boyfriend arrived to pick her up off the Cherry Road, she had already gone. » more at VerdeNews.com
Man, 18, Arrested in Shooting Death of Girl, 16
Friday, September 14, 2012
Palm Beach, FL: An 18-year-old man was arrested Monday following the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl in Lake Worth on Friday, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Brandon Nicholas Santos was found at his home and booked in the St. Lucie County Jail after detectives questioned him about the murder of Emilie Sineace, investigators said. » more at SunSentinel.com
Victims Identified in Chesterfield Murder-Suicide
Friday, September 14, 2012
Chesterfield, VA: Chesterfield County police identified a man and woman found dead yesterday in what investigators believe was a murder-suicide. A man and a teenage boy were throwing a football yesterday afternoon in the 3000 block of Rycliff Avenue when the man noticed Donna Cheatham lying dead in a driveway between two cars outside the home of David Brogdon, neighbors said. » more at Richmond Times-Dispatch
Man Arrested for Eunice Shooting
Friday, September 14, 2012
Eunice, LA: A man has been arrested with a murder that happened in Eunice early Saturday morning. Robert Lee Heard has been taken into custody by Shreveport Police Department. Eunice Police will travel to Shreveport today for transfer back to Eunice to face 1st degree murder charges. Heard was on the run for about 12 hours last night before he was caught this morning in Shreveport. He is charged with the murder of his wife, Demetra Doyle Heard. » more at KATC TV
Man Accused of Killing Wife Caught in Charleston
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Charlotte, NC: A man who was released from death row in Florida more than two decades ago and now accused of murdering his wife Thursday night in north Charlotte has been arrested. Charleston police arrested Joseph “Shabaka” Brown at a Holiday Inn Express on Friday afternoon. Police said Brown murdered 71-year-old Mamie Caldwell Brown at the Oaks Apartments on Shadow Oaks Drive around 9 p.m. Thursday night. » more at WCNC TV
Instructor at Monterey's Naval Postgraduate School Arrested in Ex-Wife's Death
Monterey, CA: A distinguished Naval Postgraduate School professor and internationally recognized financial expert has been arrested in connection with the death of his ex-wife, whose body was found south of Gilroy last week. Lawrence R. Jones, 69, the area chairman at NPS for Financial Management, was arrested late Thursday in Los Angeles after San Benito County Sheriff's investigators conducted a search of his home on Spray Avenue in Monterey. The search followed the identification of the body of Norife Herrera Jones, 29, the professor's wife of about five years. » more at Monterey Herald
Arrest Made in Pediatrician's Death Near Overland Park Hotel
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Overland Park, KS: A Virginia man who fled the country after a pediatrician was found dead near an Overland Park hotel has been captured by federal agents in Colombia, Overland Park Police said on Monday afternoon. The victim, Franchesca Brown of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was found dead in a wooded area near the Hawthorn Suites off 111th Street in Overland Park last Wednesday. Police said Brown was in Overland Park for a continuing education conference, and was supposed to go back to South Carolina on September 8. » more at KMBC TV
Family Speaks Out After Mother Found Dead
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Sacramento, CA: A mother of five from Fresno has died in what police believe is a murder-suicide in Sacramento. The children of Kassandra Atterberry say they are devastated over her sudden death. Her boyfriend, Eugene Stevenson, was also found dead in the home. Sacramento police are still trying to figure out what exactly led to the murder-suicide. » more at ABC 30
Salon Manager Dies Trying to Protect Employee
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Sioux Falls, SD: Worried about an escalating conflict, Amanda Connors drove up to the door of the hair salon she managed and confronted her employee's boyfriend, who had just kidnapped his two kids after being hit with a protection order and domestic violence arrest. The heroic decision cost Connors her life, but the mother's was spared. Police said Connors was leaving the Sioux Falls salon Tuesday afternoon when she saw Tyrone Leeon Smith, 38, with the kids in the parking lot. She phoned the store from her car to warn her employees, including Smith's girlfriend, then pulled her car up. Smith exchanged words with Connors as he stood in the Cost Cutters doorway before fatally shooting Connors in the head. » more at ABC News
Regional Library Director, Wife Found Dead of an Apparent Murder-Suicide
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Warren, AR: The director of the Southeast Arkansas Regional Library and his wife were found dead in their Warren home Tuesday morning, apparently from a murder-suicide. The bodies of Kim Patterson, 64, and his wife, Sandra, 52, were found in a sitting room off the main bedroom of their home at 316 East Cedar Street, according to Lt. Shaun Hildreth, a criminal investigator with the Warren Police Department. Mrs. Patterson had suffered a single gunshot wound to the upper torso and Mr. Patterson had sustained a gunshot wound to the head, Hildreth stated. » more at Advance-Monticellonian
Man Sought for Death of Ex-Girlfriend
Monday, September 10, 2012
Aurora, CO: Officials announced Thursday that first-degree murder charges were filed against a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend. Police continue to search for 32-year-old German Medina after the body of his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old Bertha Garcia, was discovered under a bush on the 1900 block of Paris Street in Aurora Monday afternoon. » more at 9news.com
Boyfriend of Slain Woman is Charged
Monday, September 10, 2012
New Castle, DE: The boyfriend of a Smyrna woman slain early Monday at their home near New Castle was charged Wednesday with her killing, police said. Wade T. Smith, 24, of the Pine Valley Apartments in the 500 block of South DuPont Highway, was charged with first-degree murder, possession of a firearm during a felony and possession of a firearm by a person prohibited, said Cpl. John Weglarz Sr. of New Castle County police. Ashleigh Close, 26, who had recently moved in with Smith, was found shot to death at about 12:30 a.m. Monday. » more at DelawareOnline.com
Fort Lauderdale Man Charged With Wife's Murder
Monday, September 10, 2012
Fort Lauderdale, FL: A Fort Lauderdale man confessed to a friend that he killed his wife, police said. Alberto Ramos, 49, was ordered held without bond in Broward County jail during his first-appearance court hearing on Wednesday. Ramos is charged in the first-degree murder of his spouse, Danitza Gomez Reyes, 36. Ramos allegedly killed his wife in their home in the 600 block of Antioch Avenue, according to a police report. » more at SunSentinel.com
Cameron Village Shooting Victim Sought Help For Domestic Violence
Monday, September 10, 2012
Raleigh, NC: The Cary mother of three who police say was shot and killed by her ex-husband at Cameron Village Monday had been battling with him for the last few years, according to court documents obtained by NBC-17. Raleigh Police say Kathleen Ann Bertrand, 41, was fatally shot in front of her workplace, Pier 1 Imports, by her former husband, Christopher John Bertrand, 42, of Hoover, Ala. » more at NBC 17
Two Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Sebring, FL: The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is investigating a domestic incident that apparently ended in a murder-suicide on Sunday. According to a press release, deputies were dispatched to 3529 Cemetery Road at around 1:30 p.m. Sunday for a domestic disturbance. Upon arrival, deputies found that an altercation had taken place and two people were severely injured. Susie Ann Ahmed, 37, was pronounced dead at the scene by responding EMS personnel. » more at newsun.com
Officials: Mich. Man Who Killed Cop Had Arsenal
Sunday, September 9, 2012
West Bloomfield, MI: A businessman who gunned down a police officer at his suburban Detroit home held authorities at bay for hours with an arsenal of high-powered rifles and other weapons before finally killing himself, officials said Tuesday. Officers were responding to a report of a possible suicide attempt Sunday night at the home in West Bloomfield Township when Ricky Coley shot Officer Patrick O'Rourke, authorities said. About 15 families were evacuated from nearby homes during the subsequent 20-hour standoff that ended when Coley was found dead in his bed Monday evening. » more at Kitsap Sun
Man Charged With Strangling Pregnant Girlfriend
Sunday, September 9, 2012
East Germantown, PA: A 28-year-old on probation for assault was charged today in the strangulation death of his pregnant girlfriend in their East Germantown apartment, police said. Probation officers checking on Roysce Haynes on Monday afternoon found him in his apartment on the 800 block of East Chelten Avenue with the body of Atiya Perry, 24, on the floor of the one-room efficiency, police said. » more at philly.com
