A Georgia woman is charged with murder and deprivation after her teenage daughter was found dead of apparent malnourishment on Saturday.
Police arrested Ebony Berry, 38, after someone in her Cobb County home called 911 to report that a 16-year-old girl was unresponsive, CBS Atlanta reported. When officers arrived, the teen was already dead from malnourishment and neglect.
Neighbors said that the girl previously ran away only to be found at adepartment store, WSBTV reported. Her younger brother had also reportedly run away in the past. He was discovered hiding in a tree.
A Florida woman is under fire this week after she allegedly stabbed her fiance dead because he wouldn't give her a cigarette.
Yolanda Stills, 43, was arrested Saturday morning in connection to the stabbing death of her 56-year-old fiance, Ricardo McMillian, according to WJXT.
Stills allegedly went on a rampage when her beau wouldn't hand over a cancer stick.
"She wanted a cigarette from him, and evidently he wouldn't give her one, so she went and retrieved a 10-inch butcher knife and stabbed him," Lt. Rob Schoonover of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office told the station.
McMillian was found in the front yard of his apartment with several stab wounds. He was taken to the hospital where he died.
Stills was charged with murder and is being held at the Duval County Jail without bail.
Cops are searching for Luerissie Ashley Ross, a 20-year-old stripper stripper known as "Pocahontas," after she allegedly lured two victims to her home in separate incidents, set them up to be robbed, and then had them shot.
During the most recent incident in February, one of the victims, Budrohoe Briscoe, was killed in Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Ross has been charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery in that case.
Briscoe picked up his cousin at the airport on Feb. 17 and reportedly asked him to "come meet 'Pocahontas'." The pair arrived at 2 a.m. and the cousin stayed in the car while Briscoe walked up to the stripper's courtyard. The cousin reportedly watched two men approach Briscoe and shoot him.
Briscoe died at the hospital days later, leaving behind seven children.
A mother faces
life in prison for starving her daughter to death and dumping her body in the
trash because the baby didn't fit in with the rest of the family.
Tania Coleman, 21, was convicted today of
first-degree murder in Erie, Pennsylvania for the demise of her 14-month-old
child, whose decomposed body was found in a suitcase on the street.
Prosecutors said Coleman's chubby-cheeked
child Alayja was deprived of food and drink because she was considered the
family 'runt.'
In the courtroom, Erie District Attorney
Jack Daneri said the young girl was considered a problem for Coleman, who
neglected the baby because Alayja did not share the same father as her two other
daughters.
Mr Daneri said of Alayja's treatment:
'Everybody else gets cared for but the little runt.'
The exact timing of Alayja's death has not
been determined.
In May 2011, Erie firefighters found the
girl's decayed body in the suitcase along a street as they responded to a call
of a kitchen fire nearby.
When asked by 11Alive’s Jon Shirek who she believed shot and killed her son,
Ervin Jefferson, Candy Grimes says that he was trying to protect his family,
specifically his younger sister, when he was murdered.
We heard gunshots,” Grimes said in tears. “I seen the dude in the green shirt
shoot my son. I seen the guy, he had two hands, and he shot my
son.”
Grimes says that after her son was shot, someone ran him over with a car:
By the time I got down there, the car was on top of my son. He was literally
under the car. One of them shot him, and one of them ran over him. It’s two of
y’all. He’s little. He little. Why y’all just didn’t beat him up, jump on him,
why you just didn’t fight him, why you have to shoot him? I just want justice.
That’s all I want, I just want justice. He was trying to protect
us.”
Dekalb County police confirmed that two private
security guards shot and killed Ervin Saturday night after responding to a
disturbance outside of his home. They were supposed to be securing the premises
of The Village at Wesley Chapel, an apartment complex near the family’s home on
Pleasantwood Drive and Wesley Chapel Road.
Authorities released the following statement:
DeKalb Police responded to a Person Shot at the incident location. The
responding officers located the victim suffering a gunshot wound to the torso.
The victim was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The on scene investigation revealed the victim was shot by security guards who
were checking out a suspicious vehicle.
The investigation is on-going at this time.
Any follow up related to this incident can be obtained by the PIO during
normal business hours.
It is unknown at this time if the guards, who remain unnamed, have been
arrested.
Ervin, 18, was the father of a baby girl.
An unarmed teen in the Bronx was shot dead by police, right in front of his
mother. Ramarley Graham, a 19-year old boy, was shot in the
chest as he ran into his mother’s apartment on Thursday afternoon. Police are
saying that they thought the teen was grabbing a gun when he adjusted his
waistband.
“They chased him into the house,” his mother Constance Malcolm, 39, told the
Daily News.
“Nobody deserves to be shot in their own home.”
The teen was then rushed to the Montefiore Medical Center, where died soon
thereafter. Police had approached Graham when they saw him doing a drug deal on
the street. That’s when he ran away
to the Williamsbridge Apartment complex. The officers were behind him when he
ran into the bathroom to flush the marijuana down the toilet.
A Connecticut murder suspect was arrested Tuesday night in Florida after
allegedly killing a man with an axe and eating portions of the victim.
According to police in Bridgeport, Conn., 35-year-old Tyree Lincoln Smith was
arrested in Lynn Haven, Fla., on a murder warrant issued by the Constitution
State. The suspect was taken into custody without incident by local law
enforcement and the U.S. Marshal Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force, police
said.
The murder suspect, whose last known address is in Bridgeport, was being
sought for the murder of 43-year-old Angel "Tun Tun" Gonzalez. The victim's decomposed body was
discovered on a mattress inside an abandoned apartment building on Jan. 20. The
medical examiner's office determined Gonzalez died as a result of blunt force
trauma to the head.
