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All four (black) cowardly terrorist suspects arrested after Polk robbery, slayings of two unarmed White women - one 72-years-old
   Four suspects were arrested after a Polk County crime spree that started with a pawn shop robbery, led to a shootout with a police officer and ended with the killings of a 72-year-old Haines City woman and her daughter. Michael Gordon, 34, of Lakeland, was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 72-year-old Patrica Moran and her 51-year-old daughter Deborah Royal. Gordon also was charged with armed robbery and attempted murder on a law enforcement officer, along with 22-year-old Devonere McCune, 25-year-old Jovan Lamb and 29-year-old Terrell Williams, all of Haines City. The crime spree began Thursday evening with a robbery at Cash America Pawn. Surveillance images show the intruders in white hoodies with assault rifles. Witnesses said three were inside the store while one waited outside in a red GMC Jimmy. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said the “well-designed” robbery was planned “to incite terror” among store employees. He said the foursome even called 911 with a false report of a shooting to distract police. Judd said a Haines City police officer spotted the Jimmy and when he attempted to pull it over the suspects started firing at the officer’s patrol car from the SUV. The officer was not injured. The vehicle eventually became stuck in sand and all four men ran. Authorities caught up with McCune when he was bitten by a sheriff’s K-9. A short time later, officers learned from a resident about suspicious activity at a neighbor’s house on Astor Drive. When authorities surrounded the house, a blue car came barreling out of the garage, straight at them. Judd said officers fired “many times.” The vehicle went a short distance before it also got stuck in sand. Gordon was the only person in the car and he was arrested. He suffered gunshot wounds and bites from a K-9. His injuries were not life-threatening. Officers then found the bodies of Moran and Royal inside the house, “viciously” killed in a way “much too graphic to describe,” Judd said. Moments earlier, one of the men had knocked on the door of a woman’s home, claiming to be a police officer. When the woman saw through a glass door it wasn’t an officer, and when the man asked to use her phone, she shut the door and called 911. - (Black-on-white) |
An employee at a Home Depot in Chelsea shot and killed a supervisor and then turned the gun on himself inside the bustling store Sunday afternoon, cops said. The 31-year-old employee shot the 38-year-old supervisor three times around 2:40 p.m. and then shot himself in the face. A police source identified the shooter as Calvin Esdaile, Jr., who was found dead at the scene with one gun shot wound. The other man was taken to Bellevue Hospital with three gun shot wounds and later pronounced dead. Esdaile’s father, Calvin Esdaile, Sr., 52, said that his son had arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 2006 and lived in Brooklyn. The shooter was looking for revenge against the supervisor. 
An illegal immigrant—who video surveillance reportedly shows calmly murdering a young store clerk in order to steal a box of cigarettes—was already out on bond from U.S. Immigration services and even had a previous conviction from which he had received no jail time. Police captured 
LARGO, Fla. — A Tampa Bay area teenager has been convicted of fatally stabbing an apparent stranger. The 17-year-old old boy pleaded guilty in Pinellas County court Tuesday to first-degree murder and other unrelated charges. He faces a possible life sentence at a March 10 hearing. Authorities say 22-year-old Jason Paul was riding his bike home from work in January 2013. As he rode near Crest Lake Park in Clearwater, the teen attacked Paul and repeatedly stabbed him. The teen later told police he was angry and decided to kill the next person he saw. 
A Harwood man was shot and killed Sunday morning in Croom as the result of an argument with an acquaintance, according to Prince George’s County Police. The suspect arrested in the case is Lemuel Alonzo Brown Jr., 25, of the 200 block of Polling House Road in Harwood. 
The murder trial for the man accused of murdering a Willow Creek resident in early 2010 was rescheduled during a trial readiness hearing Wednesday at the Humboldt County Superior Courthouse after the prosecution indicated a potential time conflict with another upcoming murder trial and a need to secure witnesses. Limmie Greg Curry III, 24, stood handcuffed in the courtroom wearing an orange jail jumpsuit. Curry is accused of murdering 46-year-old 
A 70-year-old man who avoided arrest for nearly 35 years before his second-degree murder conviction died Jan. 15 at the Jefferson City Correctional Center. Johnny Wright was pronounced dead at 7:15 p.m. Thursday of apparent natural causes, according to a news release from the Missouri Department of Corrections. He first was admitted to prison April 14, 2011, to serve a 30-year sentence. Wright was convicted in January 2011 of the 1976 murder of 23-year-old 
Fla. - Orange County deputies have made an arrest in the 2013 killing of a father of four. 
Police said they are looking for a second suspect in connection with the murder of an employee at a Drury Inn in south St. Louis. Police said they are looking for Quinton Williams, 30, of Poplar Bluff. Authorities said he was an accomplice in the shooting of 50-year-old 
MUSKEGON, MI – One of the two women that Leon Means is charged with killing last October in Muskegon Heights was strangled with a ligature, while the other was beaten to death and suffered multiple cuts, according to their death certificates. The certificates for 
The man arrested by Atlanta police for sucker punching people on the street made his first court appearance Friday morning. Curtis Bethea, 31, had a misdemeanor first appearance for the charge of battery substantial physical harm. Bond was set at $7,500. Police believe Bethea walked up to strangers in Midtown and punched them in the face. 
HOUSTON -- Their alleged post burglary selfies went viral and their mugshot may soon follow. Harris County Precinct 1 investigators arrested Dillan Thompson and Dorian Walker. The two men were seen on YouTube rejoicing with thousands of dollars in cash in hand. They claimed they got the cash after a good night's "hustle." The duo also posted selfies of themselves in Burger King with the money in their mouths. In all, the two posted 17 selfies. It was all taken on a stolen iPad. Those photos uploaded to the owner 
NEW YORK — Police say a father shot his daughters, his girlfriend and her mother in their home and then killed himself after the shooting that left three generations of women dead and a 12-year-old critically injured. New York Police Department spokesman Steve Davis says Jonathon Walker's body was found in a car, with a gun inside, in an isolated part of Queens after Saturday's pre-dawn shootings. 
While the relatives of two murdered Detroit teens spoke movingly of their loss, their killers yawned and feigned total disinterest as they were sentenced to life without parole. A bored looking Frederick Young, 25 and Felando Hunter, 24, stood before Judge Dalton Robertson and the families of 18-year-old 
DETROIT - Seven men are arrested in connection with what police say is a two-week killing spree in Detroit. Police believe the spree started with the murder of two teenage boys from Westland. The bodies of 18-year-old 
AKRON, OH - After following up on tips and evidence collected, police have made an arrest in the murder of an Akron man from earlier this month. Detectives have signed charges of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary on Akeeme AJ Hayes, 23. Akron Police say on Jan. 5 shortly after 5 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 800 block of East Exchange Street for a homicide. The caller, an acquaintance, called police and stated he went over to the victim's residence/business to borrow the victim's phone. The caller said the rear door was forced open. When he went inside, he found the victim, 
ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Supreme Court has called off an execution of a man convicted of killing a former newspaper reporter, state officials said Thursday. The court withdrew the execution warrant for Marcellus Williams, 46, whose execution was scheduled for next Wednesday. A court spokeswoman declined to discuss the reason. Williams was convicted of the 1998 fatal stabbing of 
Shaquille Jones stood in a courtroom before 
Minneapolis police are hoping tips from the public will lead to the arrest of the person responsible in an August 2014 stabbing death. On Aug. 16, 2014, police were called to a report of a stabbing at about 2:20 a.m. Saturday on Franklin Avenue between 4th and 5th Avenues South. When officers arrived, a woman had been stabbed and was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where she died a short time later. Authorities later identified the victim as 46-year-old 
MILWAUKEE — 32-year-old Derrick Brown made his initial appearance in a Milwaukee County courtroom on Wednesday, January 21st. He’s facing criminal charges in connection with an attempted sexual assault that occurred in December in the Riverwest neighborhood. The victim posted to social media a defiant photo showing her in the hospital with injuries, with the caption: “Guess who didn’t get raped last night?” She gave FOX6 News permission to use the photo. It appears Brown saw that photo on TV. That victim suffered extensive damage to her teeth, fractured cheek bones, cuts to her lip and four scalp lacerations that took 17 staples — from being hit with the gun before she screamed and ran for help. 
AURORA, Colo. - An Aurora man who was robbed on an RTD bus and shot over his cell phone, said he hopes someone will come forward with information. No one would blame 
ARLINGTON – North Texas officials are hoping surveillance video will help them find a robber/kidnapper. Investigators with the Arlington Police Department are still searching for the man who forced a woman into her trunk and kidnapped her from an ATM at the Wells Fargo Bank on North Collins Drive, on January 14. Thursday they released surveillance video from the bank, in hopes someone will recognize the suspect and contact them. Police hope the video will help in their search for the suspect who is described a black man in his early 20s, standing about 5’6” tall. At the time of the offense he had a short afro hairstyle and was wearing a grey hooded jacket or coat and jeans.
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CANTON, N.Y. -- A new murder indictment has been issued in the case of a former college soccer coach charged with killing a 12-year-old northern New York boy four years ago. Local media report that the second indictment procured by St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain says Oral "Nick" Hillary strangled and suffocated 
MCKEESPORT, Pa. — Allegheny County police have identified the two suspects in a shooting in McKeesport late Tuesday night that left one person dead and two injured. Arrest warrants were issued Wednesday for Jonathan “BJ” Coles, 20, and Roman Jones, 23. Police said the shooting happened in Crawford Village just before midnight Tuesday. Allegheny County police said the shooting started at Ohio and Brownlee streets, where 
TULSA, Ok — Tulsa police have arrested a man they believe is involved in the killing of an elderly Inola man who had gone missing on Tuesday. Police say 27 year-old Matthew Price Hannah was questioned and later arrest in the killing of
OLATHE, KS - Another suspect accused of killing She's A Pistol co-owner Jon Bieker has been discharged from an Overland Park hospital. Londro E. Patterson, 20, was booked into the Johnson County Jail on first-degree murder charges after he was released from Overland Park Regional Hospital late Monday. The final suspect, De'Anthony A. Wiley, 19, still remains hospitalized. Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe charged Patterson, Wiley and two other men in the death of 
WILMINGTON – Two Wilmington police officers were injured Wednesday afternoon when they responded to an emergency call for a knife-wielding man who allegedly attacked two people at the Wilmington Commuter Rail Station. When officers arrived, they found two people who had locked themselves in their vehicles, and reported that the man approached them with a knife and started yelling at them. When they locked themselves in their cars, the suspect allegedly slashed two tires and ran off. Police gave pursuit and located the suspect, identified as 28-year-old Seth Mather who ran towards an elevated railroad platform and jumped off. The suspect then attacked the responding officers. As Mather was being arrested, Wilmington 
Indianapolis police believe the suspect in a west side robbery could be as young as 10 years old. Police described the suspect as a young boy, believed to be between the ages of 10 to 13 years old. The robbery happened at a CVS store. Officials say the young boy was about five feet tall. He walked into the store around 11 a.m. on Monday. “He goes into the pharmacy asked for a list of drugs and then says at the bottom of the note, if you push an alarm I will kill everybody in the place.” The boy then took off running with the bag of prenoscription drugs and hasn’t been seen since. Tanya Bell is the President and CEO of the Indiana Black Expo. Bell says it’s depressing having to hear about these types of crimes. Bell admits this serves as a reminder of what community and city leaders need to focus on to improve the outcome of African American youth in Indianapolis. 
An Edmonton man admitted Monday that he committed a carjacking and two quick bank robberies in a disguise so realistic that witnesses described him as an unmasked white man, even though he was black. In January 2014, 
FT LAUDERDALE – Four people have been charged in the death a homeless man whose body was found floating in George English park. William Peterson told police that 24-year old David Harrison and 24-year old Ashley Barrientos had an ongoing fight with 
Douglas High graduate and former Gardnerville resident 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The brother of a man suspected in the 1990 killing of 
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - A western Indiana jury has convicted a Terre Haute man in the slaying of his estranged wife, whose remains were found dumped in a rural area. The Vigo County jurors deliberated about eight hours Saturday before finding 40-year-old Enzert Lewis guilty of murder, obstruction of justice and altering the scene of a death. The Tribune-Star reports that Lewis will be sentenced Feb. 17 on the charges stemming from the October 2012 killing of 39-year-old 
A fugitive foreign doctor accused of child rape in the U.S. has been allowed to stay in Britain - in case the Americans lock him up for too long. Judges ruled it would be a breach of Tobias Bowen's human rights if they agreed to his extradition. The 48-year-old fled New York for Africa four years ago while on $10,000 bail charged with two counts of raping a child. Detectives working with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force tracked his travels, which included a stay in Holland, and he was taken into custody at Heathrow when he visited Britain in April last year. Westminster Magistrates' Court yesterday heard that he had since settled in Milton Keynes with his wife and young family – making Britain his 'safe haven'. Daniel Sternberg, acting on behalf of the American authorities, told the court: 'Bowen is undoubtedly a fugitive from justice from the legal powers of the United States. 'He was granted bail for a huge amount of $10,000 and subsequently left the country in 2010. 'He was given bail and released and his record is not good, he has not attended court and travelled in Liberia and the Netherlands.' But, in a judgment likely to spark outrage in America, magistrates ruled that Bowen's 'right to liberty and security' under the European Convention on Human Rights was at threat from his extradition. District judge Margaret Rose rejected claims that putting him on a plane would breach either his right to a fair trial or his freedom of expression. 
A man accused of robbing and sexually assaulting 
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA - A teenager was arrested in Gwinnett County, accused of 
LOS ANGELES — Embattled former Husky and former Seahawk Jerramy Stevens was arrested this week for an alleged DUI in Los Angeles, TMZ Sports reported. According to TMZ, the 35-year-old former tight end was in the car with his wife, Seattle Reign and USA Soccer star Hope Solo, when he was pulled over early Monday morning. Stevens was arrested for driving under the influence, TMZ reported, and his bail was set at $5,000 after refusing to submit to a breath test. Solo was allegedly “acting belligerent,” while police talked to her husband, TMZ reported. She was not arrested. 
GARY — Another victim of suspected serial killer Darren Vann has a name. A body found Oct. 19 in a vacant house at 2200 Massachusetts St. has been identified as 
As the search for more bodies continues– the families of the identified victims are trying to work through their grief. Police say Darren Vann confessed to killing 36-year-old 
SPRINGFIELD TWP, OH - A Cincinnati man is up for parole after he was convicted for the kidnapping and the death of a 3-year-old boy more than 30 years ago.
Two men have been arrested in a Sunday home invasion and shooting at a Lakeland home that left one man dead and three wounded, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Auban Carter, 24, and Tobarais Hudson, 25, both of Lakeland, were charged in the incident on Chase Road in Lakeland. About 9 p.m. Sunday, deputies went to a home and learned two men had approached the home where 10 people had gathered, demanding money and drugs. The intruders were offered a small amount of marijuana and a small amount of money, but the suspects apparently thought there would be a large amounts of money and drugs at the residence, deputies said. The intruders forced the victims into the home and
CLAYTON • A man charged with killing an Imo’s delivery driver in Dellwood in November 2012 was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison. Earon Anthony Rivers, who was 17 at the time of the murder, was caught in a house with the empty pizza boxes and murder weapon, authorities say. Rivers, of the 10000 block of Bon Oak Drive, was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery and two counts of armed criminal action. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 17. St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Michael Burton sentenced him to 25 years on each count, with the sentences to run concurrently. The delivery driver, 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The man convicted of the brutal murder of 
TOLEDO, OH - A man already serving time for murder in an Ohio prison has entered an Alford plea to charges he killed a Toledo woman back in 1976. Martin Woods entered the plea Friday in the murder of 
