Police: ‘Real Life Monster’ Sex Offender Murdered 10-Year-Old Girl, Little Sister Escaped
A convicted sex offender is accused of kidnapping and strangling a little girl to death in Rockford, Illinois, on Saturday.
Officials charged the Blue Island resident, identified as 44-year-old Antonio Monroe, with first-degree murder, attempted murder, two counts of kidnapping, and aggravated battery in the death of 10-year-old Destiny Huggins, the New York Post reported Monday.
“This is a real life nightmare with a real life monster,” Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara told reporters on Sunday.
The girl and her six-year-old sister were playing outside around noon when Monroe allegedly snatched the two children and fled. However, the younger child managed to escape and ran home to tell her mother what happened.
The woman immediately called the police, and 40 minutes later, a man flagged down officers and told them he found a girl’s body near a home on 9th Avenue.
Authorities performed CPR on Destiny before transporting her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
“Growing up in this city, I had the ability to stay outside and play until the street lights came on. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore due to sick individuals that make their way into the community,” Rockford Police Department Chief Carla Redd stated during a press conference:
“As a parent myself, I became an avid bike rider because my kids wanted to ride bikes. So we know this is not the time of the yesteryears, and we have to watch over our children,” she added.
Following the discovery of Destiny’s body, a police K-9 led officers to Monroe’s location, which was a few blocks away, where they arrested him after a short struggle.
He was transported to a hospital regarding an unrelated problem, and he will eventually be booked into the Winnebago County Jail.
The man is also accused of strangling the younger victim before she got away, and she also received treatment for her injuries.
As of Monday night, a GoFundMe page created to help the children’s mother has raised $9,482 of its $15,000 goal.
The Post article noted that “Monroe is a registered sex offender who was previously convicted of criminal sexual assault involving a 19-year-old victim in Peoria, Illinois,” adding it remains unclear why he was in Rockford on Saturday.
It is notable that lawmakers’ efforts to eliminate cash bail in Illinois were left to the state Supreme Court once justices heard arguments from Democrats, prosecutors, and sheriffs fighting against the law, the Associated Press (AP) reported in March.
Breitbart News reported in September the law abolishing bail in Illinois that was passed by Democrats and signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) would release from jail suspects accused of second-degree murder, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, and additional violent crimes.
“Beginning January 1, 2023, Illinois will become the first state in the nation to have eliminated cash bail — even for some of the most violent crimes,” the outlet said, adding, “As a result, local district attorneys say they will be forced to free thousands of suspects accused of crimes like murder and kidnapping.”
THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD!
Man Accused of Kidnapping, Strangling Ex’s Toddler to Death with Cellphone Charger
A man is accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter and strangling her to death with a cellphone charger, the New York Post reported, citing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
“Rashad Trice, 26, was charged Friday with kidnapping and killing Wynter Cole Smith on Sunday. He was also charged with as well as sexually assaulting and stabbing the girl’s mother, Symari Cole, who is his ex-girlfriend, in a Lansing apartment that same day,” according to the report.
Trice allegedly used a pink cellphone charging chord to strangle the toddler, according to the FBI. Her body was found on Wednesday evening in an eastern Detroit alley.
According to The Detroit News, pieces of the cellphone charger were found in Trice’s car after he was apprehended.
“The little girl disappeared after Trice allegedly attacked the mother, who then ran from the apartment, leaving her daughter and her 1-year-old son alone with Trice,” according to the report. “Trice, who was not Smith’s biological father, then grabbed the tot and took off in Smith’s car, authorities said, prompting an Amber Alert to be issued early Monday morning when they could not be found.”
Trice was arrested on Monday after a law enforcement officer tried to stop him and he fled and crashed into another police car, the report states. After the short chase and crash, Trice allegedly tried to take the officer’s gun before he was tased and taken to the hospital.
At the time, the toddler was not in the car, although it was covered in blood. FBI officials said they think the blood was from stab wounds Trice received after assaulting Cole.
“Trice denied kidnapping the girl, but authorities used cellphone location data to find her body,” according to the report. “The alleged killer told police that he and Cole had been arguing about money and stabbed each other when the dispute became violent.”
Trice allegedly told police “I am already a monster” a said he wanted to commit suicide, charging documents show.
Trice will be eligible for the death penalty and could face a minimum sentence of life in prison, according to the report.
18 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago
Eighteen people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported that a 22-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday at 4 a.m. She was standing “in the 9600-block of South Perry” when someone began shooting and a bullet hit her in the head.
The 22-year-old died at the scene.
A 28-year-old man was fatally shot in the abdomen Saturday night around 8:50 p.m. The man was “in the 100-block of West Cermak Road” when he was shot. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
Roughly an hour later, around 9:45 p.m., a 41-year-old man with a gunshot wound was discovered “in the 1600-block of North Parkside Avenue.” He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Breitbart News noted at least 32 people were shot last weekend in Johnson’s Chicago, three of them fatally.
A database maintained by the Sun-Times shows 303 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2o23 through July 8, 2023.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
Nine Injured in Early Morning Shooting in Democrat-Run Cleveland
Nine people were injured when a gunman opened fire on a group of people in Cleveland, Ohio, around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning.
ABC News reported a group of people was standing outside in Cleveland’s Warehouse District when began shooting at them. The suspect fled the scene after firing the shots and there were no fatalities.
NBC News noted the shooting suspect is still on the loose.
The Cleveland Police Department used a Facebook post to indicate law enforcement is scouring surveillance video to try to gain a description of the suspect.
They noted a reward of $5,000 “may be available” for any information leading to the apprehension of the suspect.
Breitbart News reported that 18 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning in Democrat-run Chicago, and three of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
A suspect on a scooter carried out four separate shootings in Democrat-run New York City on Saturday. He wounded three people and killed one.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
WHAT IS THE BLACK CRIME RATE IN AMERICA JOY???
ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION OF S.F. IS BLACK AND YET BLACKS PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIMES. THESE ARE PRE-COVID, PRE-STORE LOOTING, CAR JACKING AND DRUGS ON THE STREETS NUMBERS.
Nolte: Bat-Wielding Teens Rob Wealthy Moms in Democrat-Run San Francisco
MSNBC’s Reid: I Wouldn’t Go Out July 4 ‘Because America Is Awash with Guns’
MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Wednesday on her show “The ReidOut” that she did not leave her house on July 4 over fears of mass shootings because “America is awash with guns.”
Reid said, “Sadly, there is nothing more quintessentially American than fireworks and gun violence. So far we’ve had more than 350 mass shootings this year. According to a recent survey, around 1 in 5 Americans has lost a family member to gun violence, 1 in 5. More than half of American adults have said that they or a family member have experienced a gun-related incident, more than half. Violence, terror and trauma doesn’t happen in a vacuum. This country is awash with guns and the gun lobby is using its power to both increase access to them and to expand gun owner’s right to shoot first and ask questions later.”
She continued, “I have to say, I did not go out on July 4 and would not. The idea of going to a mass gathering, a parade, or a big fireworks thing outside seems insane to me, to be blunt, in America because America is awash with guns, and now people don’t just have them. They seem to want to shoot people with them and use them for whatever, you know?”
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Gavin Newsom Tries to Look Tough on Crime: Enforce the ‘Damn Laws’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is trying to look tough on crime as he attempts to stake a claim to national leadership in the Democratic Party, telling the city of San Francisco recently to enforce the “damn laws.”
The problem: no one is quite sure which laws he means. And the city is fighting in court to preserve its power to do just that, against advocates for homeless encampments that say the city cannot clear them from the streets.
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Emily Hoeven tried to get to the bottom of the question this weekend:
“I can’t take it anymore,” Gov. Gavin Newsom recently said of rampant open-air drug dealing and property crime in San Francisco.
The problem, he suggested, was not one of lenient laws but of lenient prosecution. “There are plenty of laws on the books, and it’d be nice to see some of these damn laws enforced for a change.”
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I repeatedly asked Newsom’s press office to identify specific laws the governor believes aren’t being enforced in San Francisco, but didn’t get a clear answer.
Last week, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear a decision that struck down local ordinances prohibiting homeless people from sleeping in public places unless there are adequate shelters.
Separately, San Francisco is fighting a lawsuit by activists for the homeless who oppose clearing them from the streets. The city says that it is offering alternative shelter, but many of the homeless are refusing to accept it.
Newsom recently sent the California Highway Patrol to assist in the fight against fentanyl in San Francisco. But he continues to back the open-border immigration policies that allow fentanyl to enter the United States.
Moreover, Newsom has backed and defended some “reform” prosecutors — like George Soros-backed George Gascón — who are responsible for lenient enforcement policies in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Newsom worked with Gascón in San Francisco when Newsom was mayor of the city — a point that critics say marked the beginning of the city’s decline into a morass of petty crime, homelessness, and public drug abuse.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Poll: A Third of Seattle Residents Are Considering Leaving, Citing Crime and Costs
One-third of Seattle residents are considering packing up and moving elsewhere, largely citing home prices and crime, according to a Seattle Times/Suffolk University poll conducted in June.
Roughly 33 percent of Seattle residents surveyed say they are seriously considering moving out of the city, while 67 percent say they are not. The survey was conducted with 500 residents by phone from June 12-16 and has a ±4.4 percent margin of error.
Of the residents who say they are considering moving, 37 percent blame rising housing costs, and 34 percent cite public safety as their main reason for wanting to leave.
“Reasons for moving were also closely tied to income levels and homeownership,” according to the survey report.
Overall, renters (44 percent) are more likely than homeowners (27 percent) to say they are considering moving out of the city. Lower-income respondents, especially those making less than $20,000 a year, are more likely to blame housing costs for why they are considering moving.
“Poll data shows this group also reported experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity at the highest rates,” according to the report.
Public safety is the top concern among respondents who make more than $250,000 a year. Higher earners are also more likely to own a home than rent, the survey found.
Out of the respondents who report wanting to move, 80 percent rate the city poorly as a place to live, and 66 percent report feeling unsafe in their neighborhood.
“In comparison, among the two-thirds of Seattleites who did not consider leaving, 88 percent rated the city as an excellent place to live and 72 percent said they felt safe in their own neighborhood,” according to the report. “Notably, the majority of respondents citing housing costs as a major reason for wanting to move out rated Seattle as an excellent place to live, indicating their reluctance to leave if not for affordability.”
The Times noted that in the last three years, costs in the city’s metro area increased 20 percent. The city’s metro area home price index is also 40 percent higher than in 2018, down from 50 percent in 2022, and wages have not kept up with the increases, according to the report.
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