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SHOULD AMERICA ARM AGAINST BLACK VIOLENCE? - Food Network Star Darnell ‘SuperChef’ Ferguson Charged with Felony Burglary, Strangulation
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge set bail Tuesday at $750,000 for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur in 1996, saying he can serve house arrest with electronic monitoring ahead of trial on a murder charge.
Court-appointed attorneys for Duane “Keffe D” Davis told The Associated Press after the judge’s decision that they believe Davis can post that amount. They had asked for bail of not more than $100,000 and noted for the judge that the demands of preparing a defense based on two decades of evidence may require a postponement of the current June trial date.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told reporters that he expects Clark County District Judge Carli Kierny will hold a “source hearing” to determine whether money posted for bail is legally obtained. The judge did not set a new trial date but called for a status check Feb. 20.
Prosecutors Binu Palal and Marc DiGiacomo argued Tuesday that Davis has never left gang life, that his 15 years of admissions about his role in Shakur’s killing show he is guilty of murder, and that a jailhouse phone call in October suggested he poses a threat to witnesses.
“There is one constant,” Palal told the judge. “Mr. Davis has consistently admitted to being architect of the murder.”
DiGiacomo called Davis “a very, very high danger to the community.”
The judge, in her ruling, acknowledged that Davis “made a living talking about his past life as a leader of the South Side Crips,” a street gang in his hometown of Compton, California, “and also the killing of Mr. Shakur in graphic detail.”
Robert Arroyo and co-counsel Charles Cano argued that police and prosecutors could have arrested Davis 15 years ago but didn’t, and that the prosecutors were wrong with their interpretation of the jail telephone call and a list of names provided to Davis’ family. The defense lawyers said it is Davis and his family who are at risk.
Arroyo and Cano said their 60-year-old client is in poor health after battling cancer, which is in remission, and said he would not flee to avoid trial.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, left, with deputy special public defenders Robert Arroyo, right, and Charles Cano, rear, appears for his arraignment at the Regional Justice Center, Nov. 2, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Pool Photo via AP, File)
They also downplayed evidence against Davis as the product of tales told by witnesses with gang backgrounds that make them not credible, and noted the prosecution lacks evidence, including the gun and the car involved in the September 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Shakur.
Arroyo focused Tuesday on what he called “the obvious question” dating to 2008 and 2009 — when Davis talked with police in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. He went on to write a 2019 tell-all memoir and began giving interviews on social media in which he described his role as gang leader and “shot-caller” in Shakur’s death.
“If his guilt is so overwhelming, what’s been happening for 15 years?” Arroyo asked in court Tuesday. “Why did we wait 15 years to make the arrest?”
Davis was arrested Sept. 29 outside his home in suburban Henderson, which Las Vegas police had searched in mid-July. He pleaded not guilty in November to first-degree murder and has been jailed without bail at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, where detainees’ phone calls are routinely recorded. If convicted at trial, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
Arroyo argued Tuesday that his client’s accounts in “the YouTube world” accentuated violence to attract viewers and make money.
“Conflict sells,” Arroyo said. “They get on these interviews, they puff out their chest. They’re trying to get clicks.”
Prosecutors say Davis’ own words are strong evidence that he is responsible for the crime, even if he didn’t pull the trigger. DiGiacomo said other people who have described Davis’ role in other media interviews, and to police, corroborate his accounts.
File/Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1996. Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, a former Southern California street gang leader, pleaded not guilty Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, to orchestrating a drive-by shooting that killed Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)
Davis’ attorneys noted that Knight is an eyewitness to the Shakur shooting but did not testify before the grand jury that indicted their client.
Davis maintains he was given immunity from prosecution in 2008 by an FBI and Los Angeles police task force investigating the killings of Shakur in Las Vegas and rival rapper Christopher Wallace, known as The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, six months later in Los Angeles.
DiGiacomo and Palal say any immunity agreement was limited. Last week, they submitted to the court an audio recording of a December 2008 task force interview during which they said Davis was told that what he said in the room would not be used against him, but that if he talked to other people he could be in legal jeopardy.
Davis’ attorneys responded with a reference to the publication 12 years ago of a book written by former Los Angeles police Detective Greg Kading, who attended those interviews.
“Duane is not worried,” the attorneys said, “because his alleged involvement in the death of Shakur has been out in the public since … 2011.”
Food Network Star Darnell ‘SuperChef’ Ferguson Charged with Felony Burglary, Strangulation
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Darnell “SuperChef” Ferguson, who has appeared on several Food Network shows, has been arrested in Kentucky and charged with a pair of felonies, including strangulation and burglary, along with several misdemeanor offenses.
Ferguson was arrested in Louisville, Kentucky, on Jan. 9 and accused of illegally entering a woman’s home and strangling her in a physical attack, according to WHAS-TV.
Jail records indicate that Ferguson was booked into the Metro Corrections facility at around 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
A police report claims that the TV chef entered the woman’s home, caused damage to walls and belongings, then strangled the woman and threatened to kill her.
The woman says she lost consciousness during the attack and when she awoke she found that Ferguson had undressed her. She says he warned her that she belonged to him and no one else.
Officials also say that Ferguson stole the woman’s credit cards and ID before he left the premises.
The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries and later entered an order of protection against the TV personality.
Details about the pair’s relationship or any motivations for the attack have not been made public.
Ferguson pleaded not guilty at his first court appearance on Jan. 10 and bond was set at $10,000.
The suspect has appeared in several episodes of Food Network star Guy Fieri’s Tournament of Champions, and season two of his Food Network series SuperChef: Grudge Match began last month.
His two Louisville restaurants, “Tha Drippin’ Crab,” and “SuperChefs” have both gone out of business.
Ferguson is next set to appear in court on Jan. 18.
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. - A retail theft ring was caught after attempting to steal more than $4,500 worth of designer handbags from a high-end store at Tysons Center, Fairfax County police say.
Just after 5 p.m. Friday, the detectives with the Tysons Urban Team received an alert about the theft. The suspects reportedly grabbed multiple bags, ran out and hopped into a Chevrolet Suburban, attempting to flee the area.
Detectives began to search along I-495 South in Annandale in the direction the suspects were believed to have fled.
Police say despite the heavy traffic, detectives were able to navigate through the Express Lane to catch up to the crew. With the help of Virginia State Police, the detectives were able to make a traffic stop and successfully apprehended all four suspects on the interstate.
All four were taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center where they were charged.
Paris Teresa Hooks, 20, of Washington D.C was charged with grand larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, and larceny with intent to sell and released on $6000 unsecured bond.
Miyara Ghiselle Fletcher, 19, of Maryland was charged with grand larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, and larceny with intent to sell and released on $6000 unsecured bond.
Shaniya Briyanna Clark, 19, of Maryland was charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny. She was held on a $1000 secured bond from another jurisdiction.
Kevin Wormley, 32, of Maryland was charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny and released on $6000 unsecured bond.
The police may have never learned about the disgraceful conditions two Florida boys were living in if one of those children hadn’t called 911 for help.
“Spencer failed to provide and protect her sons with care, supervision, and the services necessary to maintain their physical and mental health,” authorities say, per Local 10.
The report says she’s currently being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a $5,000 bond. If convicted, she faces anywhere between 5 and 15 years in prison with a fine of $5,000.
Police: NYC Man Dragged Woman into Alley and Sexually Assaulted Her at Knifepoint
A man is accused of dragging a woman into an alleyway and sexually assaulting her at knifepoint on Saturday at 12:30 a.m. in the Queens area of New York City.
Officers with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) are searching for the man who targeted the 45-year-old victim as she was walking near Northern Boulevard and 110th Street, the New York Postreported Sunday.
The suspect allegedly stole her jewelry and headphones during the incident before he fled on 109th Street.
In a social media post on Sunday, NYPD Crime Stoppers shared an image of the suspect, whom law enforcement said is five feet and six inches tall with a “medium complexion,” per the Post.
NYPD Crime Stoppers said he “forcibly removed the woman’s property & forced her to perform a sexual act”:
The man is also said to have been wearing a light green hoodie, black jogging pants, and grey sneakers. According to the Post, the victim was transported to a local hospital and listed in stable condition.
Now, police are asking those with more information regarding the case to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). Spanish speakers may call 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
Social media users were quick to share their thoughts about the incident, one person writing, “And when he’s caught, he’ll be immediately released without bail – just like that last rapist home invader.”
“The suspect was probably released 32 times the last 2 months for other violent crimes,” another user commented.
It is important to note that felony suspects released without bail due to New York’s bail reform law are more likely to be rearrested than those given bail before the law was implemented, Breitbart News reported in April 2023.
The outlet continued:
A study by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice reviewed cases prior to the New York law taking effect and cases after the law was implemented where most suspects arrested for crimes are not required to pay any bail to be released from jail.
Overall, the study found that 47 percent of New York City suspects previously charged with felonies were rearrested for crimes — including more than 31 percent of whom were rearrested for felonies, more than 17 percent rearrested for violent crimes, and almost four percent rearrested for firearm charges.
In December, Fox 5 New York highlighted several violent crimes that occurred in New York City.
In one instance, a Queens man killed four of his family members by stabbing them to death:
To make matters worse, more of New York City’s police officers are reportedly rushing to leave their jobs as crime bears down on citizens, according to a Breitbart News article published in July 2023.
THE DEPRAVED GHETTO BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA - Is it the world’s most violent subculture?
Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites
So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department employee. Plus, the killing took place only minutes after the victim was seen on video at the same location as the husband or boyfriend of the person who posted the threats, as he was filling a handheld can with gasoline.
Man caught on camera accosting a Las Vegas judge in court is sentenced in an unrelated attack
Deobra Redden is escorted into a courtroom Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Las Vegas. The man who was caught on camera attacking a Las Vegas judge was sentenced to up to four years in prison in an unrelated case. Redden leapt over the bench and attacked Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus in her courtroom last week after trying to convince the judge that he was turning around his violent past. (Kevin Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The same judge accosted by a defendant in a Las Vegas courtroom last week sentenced her attacker Monday to up to four years in prison in an unrelated case.
Deobra Delone Redden leapt over the bench and attacked Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus in her courtroom last week after trying to convince the judge he was turning around his violent past.
The sentence handed down Monday was in connection with a baseball bat attack on a person last year. Redden stood in court in shackles with a mask on his face and orange mitts on his hands, flanked by a group of jail officers. His lawyer, Caesar Almase, declined to comment outside the courtroom. In the attack last week, Redden had to be wrestled off the judge by several court and jail officers and courtroom staff members — including some who were seen throwing punches. One courtroom marshal was hospitalized for treatment of a bleeding gash on his forehead and a dislocated shoulder. Redden launched himself at the judge just after asking for leniency and describing himself as “a person who never stops trying to do the right thing no matter how hard it is.”
When it became clear Holthus was going to sentence him to prison time, the court marshal moved to handcuff Redden and take him into custody. That's when the defendant started yelling expletives and charged forward as people in the courtroom audience began to scream.
Redden vaulted a defense table, dove over the judge’s bench and landed atop Holthus. The video showed the judge falling back against a wall and an American flag toppling on them.
Redden “supermanned over the judicial bench,” Jerry Wiese, the court’s chief judge, said in describing the event.
Wiese credited court clerk Michael Lasso for acting quickly to protect the judge, saying he was the “primary person” who pulled Redden off “and probably kept her from having more severe injuries.”
As many Democrat-run cities are being ravaged due to soft-on-crime policies, new Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker is poised to bring a harsh crackdown on crime after taking office on the first day of the new year.
The New York Post reports that one of Parker’s first steps after becoming mayor was to sign an executive order on January 2, which declared public safety in Philadelphia to be an emergency. “I want the world to know that I am fully committed to ending this sense of lawlessness and bringing order back to our city and a sense of lawfulness,” the mayor declared.
Despite being a Democrat, Parker has been a proponent of “stop and frisk” police tactics and has promised sweeping measures in order to address the causes of major crime in Philadelphia. These involve getting “every available resource into the neighborhoods struggling from the scourges of crime, gun violence, drugs and addiction,” and “permanently shut down all pervasive open-air drug markets.” Parker also dismissed those who characterized her approach as “too aggressive,” noting that it was of greater concern that Philadelphia residents might have a “loved one on the streets openly using intravenous drugs.”
At the same time as Parker is pursuing a tough stance on crime, at least one local official promoting radical-left ideology has been removed from the government payroll. Leslie Marant, a DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) official with the Philadelphia Police Department, lost her job just before Parker was sworn in as mayor. Marant, who was paid a salary of $170,569, had no law enforcement experience when she was hired. The Philadelphia Police Department did not comment on why she was removed from the position, but it appears as though they may eventually hire a replacement.
Remarkably, it seems that at least one Democratic politician is looking to take meaningful action to stem the burgeoning crime in one of America’s major cities.
Over the last decade, BLM, and assorted leftist and libertarian groups dismantled our criminal justice system. Police forces were defunded, pro-crime prosecutors refused to lock up criminals, federal and state prison systems released tens of thousands of them, and a wave of legislative decriminalization legalized everything from shoplifting, to drug dealing and mugging.
The pro-crime policymaking that eliminated public safety and cost over 3,000 lives in 2020 alone was done under the guise of fighting racism. Statistics which showed that black people were more likely to be arrested, imprisoned or shot during criminal encounters with police were used to spread conspiracy theories falsely accusing the criminal justice system of systemic racism.
What all of these racist conspiracy theories popularized by politicians, the media, and the entertainment industry ignored was that black people were also far more likely to be crime victims. Even as the BLM riots got underway, black people in surveys were strongly opposed to police defunding. The opposition was so vehement that Democrats not only abandoned the issue, but claimed that they had always been opposed to it and ran against their own position.
Despite years of false claims portraying black people as victims of a biased criminal justice system whose police forces are descended from “slave catchers” who repress minorities at the behest of white suburbanites, surveys of black people continue to tell a very different story.
A Pew survey found that while only 33% of white Democrats wanted to reduce crime, 63% of Hispanics and 66% of black people thought that fighting crime should be a priority.
And that’s nothing new.
Leftists and libertarians lied that the War on Drugs was racist when it was actually pushed by black groups, including the NAACP, which demanded the death penalty for drug dealers.
That same Pew survey showed that while only 38% of white Dems answered that reducing the availability of illegal drugs should be a priority, 57% of Hispanics and 60% of black people believed that it should be.
Now a Kaiser Family Foundation survey shows that black people are far more likely to suffer from crime than white people. The survey, meant to generate support for unconstitutional gun ban measures, instead unintentionally demonstrated that crime hurts black people more.
The KFF survey noted that “three in ten black adults (31%) have personally witnessed someone being shot”, “one-third of black adults (34%) have a family member who was killed by a gun” and (32%) say that they worry all the time about themselves or a family member being shot.
One in six of black adults say they don’t feel “safe at all” from gun violence in their neighborhood, compared to 2% of white adults. 1 in 4 also bought a gun to protect themselves.
Gun violence is just another way of saying crime.
Black people are disproportionately affected by crime. Pro-crime policies led to the deaths of an additional 2,244 black people in 2020. According to a Johns Hopkins report, “in 2020, one out of every 1,000 young black males (15–34) was shot and killed” and, “more than half of all black teens (15–19) who died in 2020—a staggering 52%—were killed by gun violence.”
CDC numbers showed that homicide is a leading cause of death among black men under the age of 20, and from the ages of 20 to 44. White men are killed by guns at the rate of 3.15 per 100,000 while black men die at the rate of 48.16 per 100,000. Pro-crime policies increase crime and kill thousands of black people. That’s what a real disproportionate impact looks like.
Every time pro-crime politicians free criminals, pro-crime prosecutors refuse to prosecute violent offenders, and legislatures eliminate bail, the impact is felt most strongly in the black community.
Law enforcement isn’t racist, but getting rid of it is. When a community depends more on a particular service, losing it has a clear disproportionate impact. Keeping the peace, arresting offenders and dispensing justice is one of the few primal duties of government. The breach in the social contract when the government fails to provide peacekeeping services is devastating.
Most crimes are committed by repeat offenders. The only way to interrupt the cycle of violence is to lock them up. Successful tough on crime policies in the 90s made cities safe once again and led to an economic boom in inner cities. Manhattan’s Harlem went from a danger zone to hosting Bill Clinton’s office, but in 2022, crime increased 44%. The Clinton offices have mostly moved down to the Wall Street area, but where they remain in Central Harlem, crime is up 32%. Next door in West Harlem, it’s up 133%. That means Bill is less likely to tour the Apollo Theater, but it also means that the mostly black residents are the ones feeling the worst of it.
Pro-crime activists have spent years regaling us with the suffering of convicts while caring very little about the shattered lives they have left in their wake. Foundations, protest groups, activist organizations and even PACs have spent hundreds of millions lobbying for criminals, fighting for their release and remaking our system to favor perpetrators, not victims. Their political success has come with a very high cost. And much of that burden has fallen on black people.
It is hard to think of any single policy in the last generation that has done more harm to black people or claimed more lives than the pro-crime agenda. Pro-crime activists have falsely claimed that police shootings of black men are a form of genocide. They’re not. Crime is.
One studycounted 286,075 firearm deaths among black people from 1990 to 2021. That’s over a quarter of a million deaths. Some of them are due to suicide, but suicides are much lower among black people than white people, and the majority of black gun deaths were homicides.
And seeing a quarter of a million deaths, the pro-crime Left wants even more bodies.
Those quarter of a million deaths have been largely self-inflicted, but, much as with the welfare state, they were aided and abetted by white liberal policymakers who had come to believe that what the black community really needed was for the government to enable its criminals.
Racist liberal condescension continues to destroy black communities, families and lives.
2020 demonstrated that tough on crime policies can save thousands of black lives and, over time, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of black lives. Pro-crime policies are a racist disaster which reduced black people to criminals and then set out to free criminals to help black people.
That’s why 1 out of every 1,000 young black men are dead.
Pro-crime policies are racist. They enable a crime epidemic that has killed more black people than the total number of battlefield casualties for all races in the Civil War. More black people died in the year of Black Lives Matter than our entire death toll in the Iraq War.
Can it get worse than this? In 1991, 12,226 black people were murdered. For the first time, more black people were killed than white people. The numbers are trending that way once again. While the Left claims that highways and dress codes are systemically racist, their pro-crime policies are a racist program that promises liberation but offers only mass death.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
REPARATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF BLACK CRIME ONLY! STORE LOOTING, CAR JACKING, RAPPER ASSAULT, MURDER, HOME INVASION
Glazov Gang: ‘I Want All the White People Dead’
Steven Hutcherson stabbed two teenage girls in NYC. Why was he on the streets?
This new Glazov Gang episode features Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center and editor of The Point at Frontpagemag.com.
Daniel discusses ‘I Want All the White People Dead’, reflecting on Steven Hutcherson stabbing two teenage girls in NYC. And he asks: Why was he on the streets?
A Louisiana police chief and his wife, who is a police captain, were both allegedly shot by the chief’s mistress, who is also a police officer, after the chief’s wife confronted the affair partners.
Opelousas Police Chief Graig LeBlanc and his wife, St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Captain Crystal LeBlanc, were wounded outside Opelousas Officer Savannah Butler’s house on December 22, according to the sheriff’s office.
Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz reported that Butler surrendered to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on New Year’s Day and was booked on two counts of negligent injury, one count of obstruction of justice, and one count of illegal discharge of a firearm.
“The investigation revealed that LeBlanc and his wife were shot at Butler’s home on Garnet Drive just outside the city limits of Opelousas,” Guidroz said in a statement posted to Facebook, detailing how “Crystal LeBlanc went to Garnet Drive to speak to her husband who was inside Butler’s home,” prompting an argument between the married couple.
“Butler then entered the doorway armed with a gun. When Chief LeBlanc put his hand out in front of the weapon to retrieve the gun, he was shot in the hand,” the sheriff said. “The bullet then traveled through the chief’s hand and hit his wife Crystal in the arm.”
Police said that both shooting victims admitted themselves to local hospitals to be treated for their injuries.
According to Guidroz, the subsequent investigation “revealed that Savannah Butler cleaned up the scene to cover up evidence prior to notifying the Sheriff’s Office, which constituted the charge of Obstruction of Justice.”
Detectives also found probable cause to issue a trespassing summons for Crystal LeBlanc for entering Butler’s property.
“Both Captain LeBlanc and Officer Butler were placed on administrative leave by their respective agencies pending the completion of the investigation,” Guidroz noted. “Opelousas Police Chief Graig LeBlanc faces no pending charges at this time. The investigation is still ongoing.”
Butler was released from jail after posting a bond of $22,000.
Graig LeBlanc, who has been with the Opelousas Police Department since 1998, according to the New York Post, expressed his “sincere apologies” to everyone involved on Wednesday.
“My actions have caused pain and distress, not only to my family but also to our community,” the Opelousas Police Chief wrote in a statement posted by the department:
I must acknowledge the role I played in this unfortunate situation. I have failed in my commitment to uphold the standards expected of the Chief of Police and, more importantly, failed the trust you have placed in me. Infidelity is a breach of not only the personal commitments I made but also the professional standards we all expect from those in public service.
It is unclear when the affair between the chief and his subordinate began, but it is known that Chief LeBlanc had hired Butler to work under him before the affair began, according to the Daily Mail.
The police chief said he will be cooperating with any investigations stemming from the situation and is additionally initiating an “internal review” himself.
Graig LeBlanc has only been chief of the Opelousas Police Department since January 2023.
He has been married to his wife since 2004, and they share two children.
Chicago Mayor Asks For Reparations To Fix Crime Wave In City, Addresses Funding Migrant Crisis
One of the suspects caught on the viral bait car video created by YouTube star Mark Rober and I-Team's Dan Noyes has been arrested by SFPD that same day and was charged with breaking into three cars in a separate incident.
A homeless man has been charged with knocking a man onto the Philadelphia SEPTA train tracks, leading to the victim getting struck and killed.
Chaz Wearing, 40, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for his role in the Thursday evening incident, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
NBC10 reports that Wearing had begun arguing with another man, and the fight turned physical at the University City station at the intersection of 34 and Market Streets moments before a train arrived at 4:30 p.m.
A disturbing cell phone video obtained by Philly Crime Update shows the moment that Wearing, who appears to be held against a pillar by the larger man, strikes his opponent in the face twice, sending him falling onto the tracks.
The unidentified man could be heard telling Wearing in the argument, “Give me my lighter…give me my f*cking lighter, bro!”
Screams and cries can be heard erupting from the horrified crowd gathered on the platform as the train crushes the man just seconds later.
The victim was pronounced dead shortly after.
Wearing fled but was apprehended by police at the next station stop.
Wearing, whom investigators believe is homeless, was wanted on a bench warrant for an unrelated strangulation case in Delaware County at the time of the incident, reported the local NBC station. His criminal history also includes cases in Clinton and Lycoming counties, the District Attorney’s Office said.
“Appeared to be some type of physical altercation. We don’t know exactly what took place prior to that to initiate this, but it’s being investigated at this point,” Philadelphia Police Inspector Kpana Massaquoi told the outlet.
The station where the altercation occurred was shut down for hours on Thursday, as was the area near Drexel University’s campus.
“It’s kind of scary that that kind of thing is happening around here. I thought it was pretty safe, but I guess it’s pretty out of the ordinary for that to happen,” said a local SEPTA passenger.
Police: Chicago Father Killed Two Women, Wounded an Infant, then Turned Gun on Himself
A Chicago-area man fatally shot his girlfriend and her cousin and wounded his infant son before fleeing the scene and turning the gun on himself, police and members of the victims’ family said.
The tragedy occurred Tuesday night in Cicero, Illinois, about 15 minutes from downtown Chicago.
Local police responded to reports of gunshots at around 7:45 p.m., finding two women badly injured in a home on the 1800 block of South 48 Court, ABC7 reported.
Those two victims, later identified as Jessica Hughes, 29, and Myeshia Newby, 19, died after being rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital.
The family of the two women, who were cousins, said that Newby’s boyfriend shot her before shooting Hughes as she was attempting to escape with Newby’s infant son, Arturo, whom Newby shared with the alleged shooter.
The gunfire grazed the baby, but he is stable and recovering at Comer Children’s Hospital after undergoing surgery.
According to relatives of the victims, the couple was apparently arguing over a “Link” card — otherwise known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
“It went from one thing to the next. There was never any loud hollering or anything,” Hughes’ father, Mitchell Benton, told ABC7.
The heartbroken dad recounted the moment he heard Newby arguing with her boyfriend of two years in the basement of the home.
“He come back down and said, ‘Here, look at my wallet.’ She said, ‘You done went up there and took it out.’ So, she said, ‘Well, ain’t no point in me looking in it then.’ And the next thing I know, I’m hearing shot,” he explained.
Benton said that Hughes was trying to protect Arturo when she was shot.
“My daughter dropped at my feet. She had the baby in her hand. She had been shot in the face and in the chest,” he said, adding that he fought the alleged shooter, but he managed to get away.
With help from the grieving family, Cicero police were able to locate 21-year-old Rafael Vega, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in a park near 16th Street and Central Avenue early Wednesday morning.
Officials named Vega as the suspected shooter at a press conference later that evening.
“Preliminarily, the subject in the park does appear to be the subject we were seeking,” said Cicero Police Superintendent Thomas Boyle.
“It’s devastating for the whole family,” Hughes’ mother, Michelle Musgray, said. “They were loving, both of them, loving moms, good souls, good people, loved their kids. Their kids were their world.”
Newby would have turned 20 on Thursday.
“There’s no celebration. You can’t celebrate life. There is no life,” Benton said.
THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD!
IT'S ALREADY THE SITUATION THAT PEOPLE CAN'T LEAVE THEIR HOMES AT NIGHT DUE TO BLACK CRIME IN D.C.
WATCH: Clark County, Nevada inmate attacks judge in court
A Clark County, Nevada man was caught on camera flying at a judge and attacking her after she denied his probation in court. (Credit: Clark County Courts)
Man stabbed on Bronx subway platform for wishing strangers happy new year
A man was pummeled and stabbed on a Bronx subway platform by a group of strangers who took offense when he wished them a happy new year, police said Thursday.
The 29-year-old victim was waiting for a Manhattan-bound D train at the 182-183rd St. station in Fordham when he said “Happy new year” to the four fellow straphangers about 8:45 p.m. Monday, cops said.
The men began arguing with the victim, then punched him in the face and body, according to cops.
As the New Year’s day beatdown escalated, one of the men pulled a knife and stabbed the well-wisher multiple times, leaving him bleeding on the platform.
Medics rushed the victim to St. Barnabas Hospital in serious but stable condition.
His four attackers ran out of the station and have not been caught.
Cops on Thursday released surveillance images of the four suspects in the hopes someone recognizes them.
All of the brawlers are believed to be about 5-foot-8 with slim builds. One sported braids while another had braids and glasses, cops said.
A third attacker had long hair and was wearing red-and-black checkerboard-style pants while a fourth wore a black jacket and a black ski mask.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
Teen robbed at knifepoint inside her Bronx home by man she met on Grindr
A teen was robbed at knifepoint inside her Bronx home by a man she met on the dating hook up app Grindr, police said Wednesday.
The 19-year-old victim met her possible match on the popular app aimed at gay men and made a plan to meet up at her apartment near E. 187th St. and Beaumont Ave. in Belmont on Dec. 29, cops said.
But after the man showed up about 4 a.m. he put a knife to her throat, snatched her cellphone and fled.
The woman was left rattled but unharmed. No arrests have been made.
Cops on Wednesday released images of the suspect in the hopes that someone recognizes him.
This is not the first time a meet up arranged on Grindr ended in violence.
Parents Yolanda Hunter and Herman Coleman are on the run. Just before Christmas Day, Mississippi police responded to a call from a man who found the body of an infant, unresponsive, on his doorstep. Now the cops have named the boy’s mother, Hunter, and boyfriend, Coleman, as suspects in his death.
Prodigy Hunter, 1 years old, was found with a massive amount of trauma and bruises to the body on Dec. 21, said Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade in a press conference. After being transferred to the hospital, he died upon succumbing to his injuries.
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The Jackson Police Department issued warrants for Hunter and Coleman. They are facing capital murder and could be sentenced to death upon a conviction. Authorities said Coleman has been on the run since the day Prodigy died and Hunter has been MIA since bailing out.
Prodigy is one of Hunter’s five children, all of whom are in custody of the Mississippi Department of Child Protective Services. The chief said the department is investigating whether the others showed signs of being abused.
The nation’s capital recorded more homicides in 2023 than any year since 1997, marking the fifth-highest murder rate among the nation’s biggest cities, according to a report.
The Washington Post reported Monday that 274 people were confirmed victims in 2023, with 19 of them children and young teenagers.
The rate of homicides was 40 per 100,000 residents. In 1997, 302 people were killed.
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