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Y DANIELA GUZMAN AND JULIE K. BROWN
jbrown@MiamiHerald.com

One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp, police said.

The bloodshed began about 2 p.m. when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp, which is along NE 13th Street, just south of The Miami Herald building. Witnesses said a woman saw the two men fighting and flagged down a police officer who was in the area.

The officer, who has not been identified, approached and saw that the naked man was actually chewing the other man’s head, according to witnesses. The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued the assault, the officer shot him. The attacker continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.

Miami police were on the scene, which was just south of The Miami Herald building on Biscayne Boulevard. The naked man who was killed lay face down on the pedestrian walkway just below the newspaper’s two-story parking garage. Police requested The Herald’s video surveillance tapes.

The other man was transported to the hospital with critical injuries, according to police. Their identities were not released.

The incident, which came as crowds descended upon South Beach for the annual Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival, snarled traffic on the causeway for several hours.

In a text message, Javier Ortiz, spokesman for Miami police’s Fraternal Order of Police, said the officer who fired the fatal shots was “a hero.”

“Based on the information provided, our Miami police officer is a hero and saved a life,’’ he said.

Sergeant Altarr Williams, supervisor of Miami police’s Homicide Unit, said a man doesn’t have to be armed to be dangerous.

“There are other ways to injure people,’’ Williams said. “Some people know martial arts, others are very strong and can kill you with their hands.’’

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/26/2818832/nake...
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Arrest Made In Monroeville Mall Beating Case



PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Police have made an arrest in a brutal beating at the Monroeville Mall earlier this week.

According to police, a 13-year-old girl kicked and punched a 17-year-old clerk after being confronted about stealing merchandise from a Hollister store.

Officers identified her through tips and arrested her at an apartment in the 2500-block of Bedford Avenue around 9 p.m. Friday.

She is bring charged as a juvenile with two counts of robbery, simple assault and retail theft. She was also wanted by the juvenile court for a probation violation.

Earlier this week, police released video of the assault and a photograph of the suspect.



http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/05/26/arrest-m...
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They're always such "good kids" with "bright futures"...

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MAY 25--Meet Lonneshia Shafaye Appling.

The Georgia woman, 26, was so determined to shoplift beer, bacon, cheese, and chicken wings from a Piggly Wiggly that she punched, spit at, and pepper-sprayed store workers who confronted her as she tried to flee the supermarket Wednesday afternoon, according to cops.

Appling, pictured in the adjacent mug shot, allegedly hid items worth $88.27 in a canvas bag. She “attempted to check out, only putting one item on the counter,” according to a worker quoted in an Athens-Clarke County Police Department report.

When a Piggly Wiggly employee--who had been tipped to the pilfering by a shopper--asked Appling about the concealed items, she tried to exit the store. After worker Jonathan Orr tried to stop Appling, she “pulled out some pepper spray and sprayed him in the face.”

Appling kept spraying as several workers tried to keep her from fleeing. The 340-pound Appling also allegedly punched Orr in the face and spit on the 28-year-old employee. As she successfully bolted from the Athens store, Appling “was dropping beer cans out of her purse.”

Responding to a 911 call, a cop reported spotting “a very large black female in a purple dress standing there screaming at two store employees” who followed her outside the Piggly Wiggly, which was filled with a choking cloud of pepper spray. Police then arrested Appling, whose rap sheet includes several prior shoplifting convictions and outstanding arrest warrants in three Georgia counties.

Cops prepared an inventory of the items Appling sought to swipe: five packages of cheese; eight cans of Coors Light; vegetable oil; chicken wings; and five packages of bacon. As first reported by the Athens Banner Herald, she was charged with a variety of crimes, including aggravated assault, theft, simple battery, and disorderly conduct.

While in police custody, Appling told a cop to add whatever charges he wanted “because she was going to plea bargain and half of the charges would be dropped anyway,” according to the report. She also asked Officer Nathaniel Franco if her arrest would make the police blotter, requesting that the cop make his report “more interesting so that her arrest would make” the department’s compendium of notable incidents.

The unemployed--and now incarcerated--Appling “also commented that store personnel shouldn’t chase people like that because they could get themselves hurt.” Or shoplifters could get busted.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/sho...
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Niggers Shoot At Woman Over Parking Space



Men Threatened To Run Over Victim Holding Parking Space For Mother-In-Law, Police Say
Alan Gathright, 7NEWS Content Producer

DENVER -- Two men in a Mercedes Benz so wanted a parking spot that a woman was holding for a relative at the Denver Diner that they threatened to run her over before one of them fired a shot at her, police said.

The men got their parking space and strolled inside the diner, but it's unlikely they had time to eat.

Police soon arrived and arrested the accused shooter, Idus Marshall, 26, on charges of attempted first-degree murder, felony menacing with a handgun, illegally discharging a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon and using a weapon in a violent crime, according to court records.

The Mercedes driver, Lamar Robertson IV, 27, was arrested on a charge of felony menacing with a weapon, records show.

Police said the incident happened about 2:05 a.m. April 15 in the parking lot of the diner at 740 W. Colfax Ave.

The 31-year-old woman told police she was standing in the parking space when a black Mercedes pulled up with three men in it and they told her to move.

The woman tried to explain that she was holding the spot for her mother-in-law, according to court records obtained by 7NEWS.

Both Marshall and Robertson "became upset and, after telling the victim to move or they would run her over, pulled out handguns, then pointed them at (the woman) and told her to move," according to a police statement supporting a search warrant for the Mercedes.

Marshall then fired a shot at the woman, police said.

"The bullet narrowly missed (the woman) and struck the exterior wall of the Denver Diner," the affidavit said.

Arriving officers recovered one spent shell in the parking lot, the affidavit said. An officer looked into the Mercedes and spotted a handgun in plain view on the floor in front of the passenger seat.

Police impounded the Mercedes, obtained a search warrant and recovered two .40-caliber handguns, bullet magazines and 29 bullets from the car, the affidavit said.

Robertson is free on $50,000 bond. Court records show Marshall is also free on bond, but the amount was not known Wednesday.

Neither Marshall nor Robertson have prior adult arrest records in Colorado.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31104833/deta...
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Police: Semen was 'bodily fluid' Saginaw student allegedly put in mouthwash given to classmates as 'senior prank'

SAGINAW, MI — A Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy senior put semen into a mouthwash container before giving it to classmates as "a senior prank," police confirm.

Saginaw Police Detective Sgt. Joseph Dutoi said a state police crime lab confirmed the "bodily fluid" Jordan T. Drake is accused of injecting into the container was sperm.

Drake, 17, is charged with a felony count of adulterating or misbranding a food item May 15 at the school. Dutoi told The Saginaw News that Drake “described it as a senior prank.”

Drake appeared Thursday before Saginaw County Chief District Judge M. Randall Jurrens, who entered a not guilty plea on Drake's behalf and released him on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison. Drake is scheduled for a June 5 preliminary hearing before District Judge Terry L. Clark.

The accusations bear resemblance to a similiar incident in Minnesota, where a 16-year-old student was alleged to have given a "semen-laced cupcake" to a fellow high school classmate earlier this month, media reports indicate.

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2012/0...
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May 24, 2012
Woman killed for tip money earned at Schererville restaurant

The Post-Tribune

SCHERERVILLE, Ind. — Three men have been charged with killing 24-year-old Jacqueline Gardner and taking the tip money she earned from her restaurant job on May 19.


One of the three men, Stephen Lee Henderson, 25, of Gary, is still at large and considered armed and dangerous, Schererville police said Wednesday.

In custody at the Lake County Jail are Michael A. Craig, 22, of Merrillville, and William Blasingame III, 30, of Harvey, Ill.

All three were charged with murder and a second count of murder in the perpetration of a robbery.

Gardner lived in the 8000 block of Alpine Lane in the Hidden Creek apartment complex, south of Pine Island. She was shot in the hallway outside her apartment about 11:30 p.m. Saturday after she arrived home from work at Joe’s Crab Shack in Merrillville.

A witness heard cries for help and saw three males enter a black Oldsmobile Aurora and leave the area, according to charging documents. The witness recorded the license plate number and gave it to police.

Timothy Sarcia, who police said was Gardner’s live-in boyfriend, told police he was inside their third-floor apartment when he heard heavy footsteps and a struggle in the hallway outside of his apartment door. Through the peephole, he saw a man putting a chokehold on Gardner. He called 911 and screamed for help, he told police.

When he opened the door, he found Gardner lying on the hallway floor unconscious.

Gardner was taken to Methodist Hospitals Southlake campus in Merrillville where she died about 12:20 a.m. Sunday.

Police recovered a 12-gauge shotgun shell in the hallway. Gardner’s $85 in tip money was missing, according to the charging documents.

http://heraldbulletin.com/breakingnews/x1968169758...

http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/lake/12751986-41...
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Flash Mob Steals From Baltimore 7-Eleven; Beats Store Manager Who Tries To Stop Them

BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Another mob of juveniles causes problems in downtown Baltimore. This time, it happens inside a 7-Eleven where dozens of kids came for free Slurpees but ended up stealing much more.

Derek Valcourt explains the entire incident is caught on video.

But city police and managers at the 7-Eleven have refused to let WJZ see that video. But there are plenty of people in that busy area of town who saw it all unfold.

A nationwide 7-Eleven free Slurpee giveaway brought 35 to 40 kids into the Light Street store around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

“It was a lot of kids and they were out of control,” Kesha Chester, who was at the store at the time, said.

While some kids lined up for the free Slurpee, witnesses saw other kids raiding the candy shelves.

“They went in, they started going everywhere in the store, grabbing things and then they just run out. And I knew that they didn’t buy it because they just run out,” Kendra Mellerson said. “They ran that way and they ran that way. And the guy was trying to come out and stop them but they couldn’t because there was so many.”

After some kids ran away, a store manager blocked the door to keep the rest of the kids from leaving. But those kids got so mad that the door was blocked, they started punching the store manager.

“Yes, they really started hitting that guy and he couldn’t keep getting beat on so he eventually let them out. And then they just ran,” Mellerson said.

What happened at the store is the latest example of large groups of young people creating havoc in downtown Baltimore.

On St. Patrick’s Day, police broke up several fights and disturbances as crowds of teens gathered in the Inner Harbor.

That same night, another group beat and robbed a tourist. Cameras have spotted large groups of teens roaming streets in November and caught big fights on July 4, all of it upsetting to downtown workers.

“I’m really appalled at the behavior of these teenagers. When the kids are running rampant, running amock, where are the parents?”

The juveniles were all wearing yellow shirts and khaki pants. Police are trying to figure out what school they came from.

Police declined to be interviewed for this story.

LINK W/VID:
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/05/24/flash-mob...
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