Thursday, 29 January 2009

Daryon Walker died from a single gun shot wound, execution style to the back of the head

Daryon Walker died from a single gun shot wound, execution style to the back of the head. Police have charged Jaquelah Shonsa Banks and Juan Raphael Bethea with his murder. Bethea is from Wilmington and Banks was visiting from New Jersey. Wilmington Chief of Police Ralph Evangelous said, "For us to be able to help them down the road, and help them through this, and eventually culminate in the prosecution...
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Dwight Dixon who says he was shot by Indianapolis Colts receiver Marvin Harrison was convicted of a misdemeanor Wednesday for lying to Police

Dwight Dixon who says he was shot by Indianapolis Colts receiver Marvin Harrison was convicted of a misdemeanor Wednesday for lying to Philadelphia police about the shooting. A municipal court judge acquitted Dwight Dixon of two related misdemeanors after tossing out two of three statements he gave police, who had evicted Dixon’s lawyer from his hospital room after the shooting. Dixon, 32, initially...
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Jumez Lee was fatally shot in the head early Sunday morning during a private party

Arrested were James Hill, 19 and 18-year-old Markese Jones. The pair were charged with criminal possession of a weapon and Jones was additionally charged with unlawfully wearing a body vest police say he had on when he was stopped. As of late Wednesday night, both were still being held at the Schenectady County Jail. The third male, whose name is not being released due to his name, faces juvenile...
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24-year-old west Auckland man and a 20-year-old Manurewa woman are jointly charged with the aggravated robbery of the Sunny Brae Dairy

24-year-old west Auckland man and a 20-year-old Manurewa woman are jointly charged with the aggravated robbery of the Sunny Brae Dairy on January 16 and the Cedar Superette three days later, and a dairy on Eugenia Rise on January 23.Police say the offender in the first two holdups escaped on a green BMX bike.A 19-year-old Manurewa man is also jointly charged with aggravated robbery for the Sunny...
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Ernest “Bama” Edwards ranking member of the Bloods street gang allegedly pulled a gun and threatened to shoot another man.

Ernest “Bama” Edwards has an extensive history of gun use violence and gun possession, police said.Police in the Village of Monticello are looking for a ranking member of the Bloods street gang following an incident Tuesday evening in which he allegedly pulled a gun and threatened to shoot another man.At about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the parking lot of the Mobil mart at 519 Broadway, several men were...
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man, believed to be in his 20s was shot in the shoulder when police stopped two cars during a pre-planned operation.

man, believed to be in his 20s, is in a serious condition in hospital after the incident in north London just after midnight last night. A Met Police spokesman said he was shot in the shoulder when police stopped two cars during a pre-planned operation. Officers from the Met’s specialist firearms unit CO19 and Operation Trident – which tackles "black on black" gun crime – stopped the cars on Green...
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Daquan Blackwood, 19, and Lamont McDonald, Jr., 18, both of Newburgh, were each charged with first-degree robbery and criminal possession of a weapon

Daquan Blackwood, 19, and Lamont McDonald, Jr., 18, both of Newburgh, were each charged with first-degree robbery and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.Two men have been charged with armed robbery after a cabbie they had just robbed at gunpoint followed their footprints in the snow and told police where to find them.The victim had picked up the men after 2 a.m. on Wednesday and took...
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University of Arizona Police Department officer saw a gun in her glove box

woman was placed in handcuffs after police saw a gun in her glove box Jan. 20 at 5:55 a.m.A University of Arizona Police Department officer observed a car driving without its headlights near the ROTC building and did a routine traffic stop. A Tucson Police Department officer was also in the area and came to assist. The UAPD officer was at the driver's side window and the TPD officer on the passenger...
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Monday, 12 January 2009

Rodolfo Duarte, was arrested after allegedly attempting to carry a loaded weapon onto an aircraft at O’Hare International Airport

Rodolfo Duarte, was arrested after allegedly attempting to carry a loaded weapon onto an aircraft at O’Hare International Airport, the second such arrest in weeks.Rodolfo Duarte, 27, was arrested Thursday at O’Hare International Airport and charged with boarding an aircraft with a weapon, according to police News Affairs Officer David Banks. Jefferson District police indicated a loaded “homemade”...
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Friday, 9 January 2009

Experts who viewed the video clips speculated that Mehserle fired his gun because the officer had mistaken his handgun for a stun gun.

A BART police officer, idenitified as 27-year-old Johannes Mehserle, shot Grant on the Fruitvale station platform after responding to reports of men fighting on a train. Four officers had pulled Grant and a few other men out of the train. The victim was lying face down on the platform when he was shot. The shooting and events leading up to it were captured on amateur videos that have been broadcast...
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105 people were arrested in violent Oakland protests over the BART police shooting of an unarmed man

Heavy police presence greeted Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters Thursday after at least 105 people were arrested in violent Oakland protests over the BART police shooting of an unarmed man.The unruly protesters, responding to the Jan. 1 fatal shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant III, smashed store windows, burned cars, and vandalized an Oakland police cruiser as they made their way throughout the downtown...
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Thursday, 8 January 2009

Reward for information in a fatal shooting at a Far North Dallas smoke shop last week has been doubled to $10,000

reward for information in a fatal shooting at a Far North Dallas smoke shop last week has been doubled to $10,000, police said today. 1 dead, 3 injured in Gas Pipe smoke shop shooting in Dallas Investigators have not identified a motive in the killing of 18-year-old Rebeca Rae Kemp. Three other people were injured when a gunman standing with two other men opened fire from the front doorway of the...
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Enrique Zavala Zamudio, 19, and Joel Chavez Zavala, 21, died at the scene from their gunshot wounds.

Two people were killed and four were injured after two gunmen opened fire on a group of people barbecuing in Greenfield on Sunday, police said.The shooting took place at about 7:40 p.m. at 438 Calaveras St.Witnesses said they saw two Hispanic men in their late teens or early 20s walking in the neighborhood and looking “suspicious” just minutes before gunfire rang out, police said.Enrique Zavala Zamudio,...
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Randy Davis is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Michele Davis

Randy Davis is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Michele Davis last September. She was found dead after her car went out of control near downtown. Police believed she died in the accident, but an autopsy showed she had been shot.Witnesses reported seeing a red pickup truck in the area at the time Michele Davis' car crashed.Randy Davis was arrested a week later. He remains in the Polk...
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Oscar Juliuss Grant III,steady stream of mourners passed by the wreath-flanked casket

steady stream of mourners passed by the wreath-flanked casket of Oscar Juliuss Grant III, and by the time his funeral service began Wednesday morning, an overcapacity crowd of about 1,000 people had packed into South Hayward's Palma Ceia Baptist Church.As...
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