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Knife-wielding man stabs teenager, 2 others inside East Liberty Target
  Leon Raymond Walls charged with attacking 16-year-old Allison Meadows, who was shopping with family in Penn Avenue department store.
Pittsburgh police said 41-year-old Leon Raymond Walls entered the store and headed toward the restroom. Shortly after, two men came in looking for him, and one of them followed him into the restroom, where he was chased out by the knife-wielding Walls, police said. (Slideshow: Photos from the scene) "Walls, missing his target, then moved towards the checkout area at the Target store where he began trying to stab additional victims who were in the store.
Walls then grabbed Allison Meadows and held her against her will at knifepoint in one of the checkout lanes to use her as a shield. Victims Hosea Davis, Mike Turner, Jobe Wright and Roland Smith attempted to subdue Walls and to free Meadows when they saw him poke the knife into Meadows' back." A witness told Del Greco, "I went back up the top of the steps, and he had this girl by the top of her hair. He just kept screaming, 'I'll stab her again.' He kept stabbing her. Me and like four or five other guys, they ran and tackled him. He cut the one guy's lip almost off. The other guy's finger was, like, hanging off." Allison Meadows, said she had surgery on her arm and back and to restore air to a collapsed lung. - (Black-on-white) |
A hooker went crazy and tried to eat the genitals of the man she had gone to dinner with, it has been alleged. Priscilla Vaughn, 29, gave her client much more than he bargained for after the pair met online and then got together for a meal in Florida. In their hotel room afterwards she began growling and then launched herself on him, bit into his genitals and tried to gouge out his eyes. Police were called by neighbouring guests who heard growls and screams from his room. Detectives found Vaughn with blood smeared around her mouth and face. Her victim had "significant" bites to his penis and testicles.
A sangoma from Lesotho was caught cooking the body parts of a murdered farmer in boiling water when he was arrested. This transpired at the trial of Moeketsi Hopolong Mokoena, 34, in the Free State High Court on Monday, reported 
A failed Bible class student, the 49-year-old 
about attacker's 'satanic rants and hints at blood sacrifice' before he killed a man.
The first man that a cannibalistic Maryland college student tried to kill and eat last spring is now suing the school saying that they had plenty of warnings and should have stopped the murderer before he had the chance to strike. 
"Cannibal cop" 
collapses while video evidence is shown in pre-trial court hearing. 
A Jamaican nurse married one of her patients to get a green card — then hastened his death to get his $1.5 million Brooklyn properties, the man’s family charges in a stunning lawsuit. Relatives of Garth Lewis, 67, claim that his marriage to caregiver Janet Lloyd was nothing but a sham — and that she “was directly responsible” for the diabetes-stricken man’s death because she didn’t care for him properly, according to court papers.
A former UW-La Crosse student imprisoned for raping a fellow student won’t get a new trial. La Crosse County Circuit Judge Todd Bjerke in a ruling issued this week dismissed John Lattimore’s claims that his attorney was ineffective and that the judge erred when he allowed prosecutors to present what Lattimore considered inadmissible evidence. A jury in June 2011 convicted Lattimore of second-degree sexual assault with use of force and false imprisonment after a three-day trial. The case hinged on whether the victim consented to sex with Lattimore. Prosecutors charged Lattimore, now 22, with sexually assaulting two students in his dorm room. 
A jury found a former Louisville Metro Police Department recruit guilty of sexual assault. Chauncy Rhodes, 25, was convicted of rape and sodomy charges Thursday afternoon after the jury deliberated about two hours. Rhodes sat emotionless as the judge read the verdict. Rhodes took advantage of a then-22-year-old victim following a 2011 Halloween party on West Burnett Avenue. During the penalty phase, the victim's father told the jury how the attack has drastically changed the life of his daughter and his entire family. 
A state prisoner accused of raping a Federal Way woman during a 2011 burglary may end up spending the rest of his life behind bars. King County Prosecutors charged Daven Lee White, 39, with first-degree rape and first-degree burglary. White is already incarcerated and faces a possible mandatory life sentence under Washington's persistent offender law, also known as the "three strikes law." He has past convictions related to burglary, robbery and controlled substances. On Oct. 18, 2011, a middle-aged woman reported that she had escaped from an intruder at her home on SW 353rd Place. According to charging documents, an unknown suspect ransacked the woman's home, then beat and raped her. The victim fought her way free, jumped out the bedroom window and called 911 at a neighbor's house. The victim reported that during the assault, the suspect also poured liquid detergent on her and smeared potting soil from a plant over her. DNA evidence was collected from the victim, but no suspect matches were found in the CODIS data bank at the time. Nearly 18 months after the rape and burglary, in February 2013, the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab matched White's DNA to evidence collected from the crime.
A “serial predator” is charged with five rapes in a four-month span in a small radius of Boston neighborhoods, authorities said today. Tikee Juan Beverly, 37, was charged in two rapes, and was indicted yesterday for three additional sexual attacks. “The evidence and testimony assembled over the past eight weeks suggests a violent and very dangerous serial predator at work in the area,” Conley said. “These were five cases of chilling sexual violence linked by Suffolk prosecutors and Boston police.” Beverly, a convicted bank robber being held on bail, will be arraigned on rape, aggravated rape, robbery, kidnapping and assault charges prosecutors said stem from sexual assaults on women Sept. 13 on Shirley Street in Dorchester; Dec. 27 on Kenilworth Street in Roxbury; and Jan. 11 on Arcadia Park in Dorchester. In addition, Beverly pleaded not guilty last month to charges he raped two women in a building on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain Feb. 2 and 3 after he charmed them into thinking they were rendezvousing for dates.
A man who tried to rape a woman on the North Oconee River Greenway five years ago and attacked one of the people who came to her aid will spend the rest of his life in prison. After listening to three days of testimony this week, a Clarke County Superior Court jury late Thursday afternoon took less then two hours to find 42-year-old Gary Gaylord Ford guilty on all seven counts of an indictment accusing him of crimes committed during a spree that started when he escaped from a state correctional facility in February 2008. Western Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Lawton Stephens sentenced Ford to life without parole, plus an additional 40 years in prison without parole. 
A second suspect is in custody after being charged with the rape of a Charlotte woman nearly 22 years ago. Police say they arrested, Drayton Lamar Thompson 
Convicted rapist and ex-pastor Terry Hornbuckle isn’t going anywhere right now. The parole request for the once prominent minister, who built a large nondenominational church in Arlington and mingled with celebrities, has been rejected. Hornbuckle, 51, founder of Agape Christian Fellowship, remains in prison serving his 15-year sentence for
A 19-year-old Chicago man has been charged with murder and armed robbery in the killing of his grandfather. The suspect, William D. Strickland, was due in bond court Saturday. Police said he and another man robbed and shot his grandfather, also named
A man sentenced in May to four years in prison for exposing himself to a 
A Plymouth man who police say was shooting a gun by the Susquehanna River on Wednesday evening is charged with threatening to kill a police officer who arrived on the scene. Police say Jimmy Jovan Bell, 20, was found in possession of a 9 mm pistol when police arrived at the levee near the Carey Avenue bridge about 5 p.m. "You're dead, you don't know you're (expletive) with," a police affidavit quotes Bell as saying to Plymouth police Officer Michael Thomas. Bell also made reference to his gang affiliations as he threatened that Thomas would be attacked, the affidavit says.
On Thursday, we reported that 
Metro Police arrested a Las Vegas man in connection with a sexual assault that happened at a hotel near Flamingo Road and South Las Vegas Boulevard. 
To the end,
A defendant in the gang rape case of a 15-year-old girl struck a plea agreement Wednesday, March 27, for a lesser charge. 
A San Luis Obispo man is behind bars accused of trying to rape his former roommate. The assault happened around 9:30 a.m. on Friday in the 1200 block of Manzanita in San Luis Obispo. Police officers arrested 28-year-old Bryan Kim after responding to a call of a possible rape. Investigators say Kim entered the victim’s bedroom while she was sleeping. She woke up to find him naked in the bed. The woman fought back and was able to escape. She was then able to call the police. The victim sustained minor injuries.
Detectives with the Baton Rouge Police Department are attempting to locate Tyrone Lentrell Pope, 20, who is wanted for Armed Robbery and Aggravated Rape. Just after midnight on March 23rd, a man and woman were confronted by a black male suspect armed with a gun, according to police. Police say, the suspect robbed both victims and then raped the female. Once he was done raping the female, police say a second suspect arrived and also raped the female victim while his accomplice held both victims at gunpoint. The second suspect is not yet identified, but is described as a dark complected black male.
Police said “Suave”, a Miami pimp, allegedly forced a
A local man is wanted by the Tifton Police Department for rape. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of 20-year-old Quntavion Dewayne Spivey of Tifton, who goes by the nickname “Tay.” Spivey has been living in Tifton for a while. He is believed to be in the Tifton area. Spivey is described as being a black male, 5’7” in height and 178 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.
Hours after his historic expulsion from the Nevada Assembly, former legislator Steven Brooks was arrested Thursday night in California. San Berardino (Calif.) County records confirm that Brooks was arrested on Interstate 15 after taking several law enforcement agencies on a high-speed chase. California Highway Patrol officials say Brooks threw metal objects out of his window at police. Police had to use spike strips to stop the vehicle, after which officials surrounded the SUV. Brooks was placed in restraints and taken away on a gurney. Brooks was arrested for resisting a peace officer with force, willful harm to a police service dog, felony evading and for throwing objects from a vehicle. 
The Nevada Democrat has been arrested twice since January and is accused of making threats toward his colleagues, including Assembly Speaker 
Fifty-one-year-old
A Phoenix woman is accused of shoving a vibrator into her
Brunswick City Commissioner James Henry Brooks Sr. has been arrested in connection to the investigation of the fatal shooting of a Brunswick toddler, Brooks (pictured), 59, turned himself into the Glynn County Detention Center. Brooks' wife drove him to jail. He was released Friday morning after posting $5,000 bond on the condition he surrender himself to the Camden County Sheriff's Office by noon Monday to answer a racketeering indictment there. Brooks was charged with willful obstruction of law enforcement and influencing a witness. Tucker also confirmed those charges are related to 
A Memphis man was convicted Thursday of raping, assaulting and imprisoning his disabled girlfriend two years ago, officials said. Joseph Jordan, 47, will be sentenced on May 2. According to officials, Jordan and the woman shared a room in a rooming house in Southeast Memphis. For two days in March 2011, he beat, kicked and raped the woman, officials said. She tried to flee, but he threatened to kill her, then continued his attacks.
- A Garland man was sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of his pregnant girlfriend and the death of their unborn child. Jurors in Dallas on Thursday convicted 21-year-old Ronnie Bass, of Garland, of murder and capital murder in the July 2011 attack. The body of 19-year-old 
A Detroit police officer on the force for more than a decade has been accused of orchestrating a series of robberies in southeast Michigan. 34 year-old Clifton Whatley was arraigned Thursday in a Taylor court on three counts of armed robbery, two counts of bank robbery and other charges. A judge set bond at $1 million and Whatley is in custody. Prosecutors say he doesn't yet have an attorney. Authorities say he organized robberies in numerous Wayne County communities between last May and this month. 
Among those named in the indictment just handed down by a Fulton County grand jury looking into the APS cheating scandal is former school chief Beverly Hall. Hall and 34 others were indicted related to a cheating scandal that toppled her regime, sullied the district’s reputation and raised doubts about testing integrity nationwide. In the indictments, there was only one count of racketeering, which carries up to 20 years in prison. But the alleged acts of false statements and writings, influencing a witness, theft by taking were the underlying crimes that supported the racketeering charge.
Three Tulsa teenagers have been arrested and charged with gunning down an Arlington man early Saturday morning. All three suspects are 17-years old and were booked at the Tulsa County Jail on Monday. Police say Jermaine Savory, Damian Anderson and Frankie Jackson admitted they were driving around looking for someone to rob when they saw 53-year-old
Charges have been filed on Thursday against a suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of a University of Houston student on Dec. 18, 2011 in south Houston, police said. Rodrick Damion Mitchell, 36, also known as Damion Latroy Mitchell, is charged with capital murder in the 338th state District Court. He is accused in the killing of 
Aaron Powell was arraigned on two counts of murder in the second degree. The County Sheriff's Office found the bodies of 
A Charlotte disc jockey has been sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for the death of his wife more than a year ago. Brandon Blakeney entered an Alford plea in court in Charlotte on Thursday. An Alford plea does not admit guilty, but does acknowledge there is enough evidence for a conviction. Blakeney was sentenced to between 20 years and 25 years in prison. Prosecutors say he strangled 34-year-old 
Despite no body, the trial against a Tallahassee man accused of murdering his girlfriend will move forward next week. Jury selection will begin Monday in the death penalty trial against Elijah James. James is charged for the presumed murder of his girlfriend, 
Prosecutors say two suspects got away with $400, a few cell phones and a little bit of marijuana after killing a UMKC student and left three others wounded. Anthony J. Williams, 21, and Alonzo D. Ruff, 20, each face 10 felony charges, including second-degree murder, armed criminal action and assault. According to police, the two men entered a house in the South Plaza neighborhood about 11 p.m. last Thursday.One was holding a gun and the other wore a red mask and carried a machete. After demanding money, the victim's cell phones and taking a small amount of marijuana, police say Ruff started shooting, killing 23-year-old 
An Akron man was sentenced to life in prison after admitting to the rape of a
CHICAGO – A Rockford man has been charged with brutally attacking and sexually assaulting a woman in the South Loop in January, before breaking into her home and robbing her husband. Deontae Latham, 19, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault, home invasion, and two counts of armed robbery for a Jan. 9 attack at a home in the 1400 block of South Clark Street. On Jan. 9, a 56-year-old woman was raped at gunpoint in her car, in the garage of her South Loop home.
A stranger entered a St. Paul woman's apartment and raped her while two of her children were in the same room, prosecutors say. Now Tyron Joshua Thomas, 25, who lives in the alleged victim's building, is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct Tuesday, March 26, in the Dayton's Bluff attack. Police responded on a report of a suspicious man lurking in the area. They found a man matching the denoscription and identified him as Thomas. While officers were speaking with Thomas, a woman yelled from Suburban Avenue, a block north. Officers checked, and found the woman was wrapped in a blanket, "hysterical and appeared traumatized," the complaint said, adding that she indicated she'd just been sexually assaulted. 
A man has been jailed for eight years for the rape of a 
A 19-year-old Macon man has been charged with rape in connection with an alleged assault at a Log Cabin Drive apartment Jan. 29. Shawn Jeremiah Robinson, of White Oak Lane, was arrested Saturday and is being held at the Bibb County jail without bond, according to jail records. A 21-year-old Macon woman called police in January and alleged that her friend forced himself on her while they talked and listened to music on her bed about 4:45 a.m., according to a police report. 
A former Bellflower High School track and girls’ basketball coach was sentenced Monday to 28 years in state prison for molesting a teenage girl over a five-year span. Bryan E. Shepherd, 49, pleaded no contest in February to one count of continuous sexual abuse of a minor and two counts of forcible lewd acts on a minor. The 28-year sentence was part of a negotiated settlement of the case, officials said.
Pa. — A man was sentenced Tuesday to 61-122 years for raping and robbing two women outside their Ross Township apartments last year. Arthur Henderson chose to represent himself in court last month. It took a jury less than three hours to convict him of the crimes that happened within three days of each other in January 2012. Henderson, 39, was also found guilty of a similar attack in Hopewell Township.
Fla. — A man accused of raping a woman he picked up off the street was arrested Monday night. James Johnson was booked into the Orange County jail, according to investigators. Police said Johnson picked up the victim in Paramore and drove her to Apopka, where the alleged incident happened.
Fla. - Police arrested a man who they say sexually battered a woman and punched her in the face beforehand. Police arrested 28-year-old Paul Jalieba on Sunday. He was charged with two counts of sexual battery, battery, resisting an officer without violence, and harassing a victim. According to police, before sexually battering the woman, Jalieba punched her in the face, causing swelling and bruising. After hitting her, Jalieba began choking her from behind, police say. The woman stabbed him in the thigh with a kitchen knife and he then took her cell phone so she couldn't call 911.
A 54-year-old Ypsilanti man faces a preliminary examination on charges he broke into a woman’s house, raped her and physically assaulted her. Derrick King used a key sometime after midnight on Feb. 3 to enter the home of a woman he had dated. King used to live at the residence in the 700 block of Washtenaw Avenue. King grabbed the woman’s phone away from her as she tried to call police and prevented her from leaving. “He kept her there during the night and sexually assaulted her and physically assaulted her.” King has a long criminal history, dating back to a shoplifting conviction in 1990.
A Roanoke Rapids man is behind bars and facing charges connected to two incidents of indecent conduct in front of minors. Around 10:41 p.m. March 18, a woman reported to police she was inside a local business with her 15-year-old daughter and saw a male exposing and pleasuring himself while looking at the girl. “A man was seen by multiple witnesses in (the yard of a residence pleasuring himself),” Temple said. “He was in fact speaking with two children as he was doing this and was observed by a third child talking with the other two while doing this.” Darrell Lenox Fleming, 47, was charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a child and two counts of indecent exposure.
GOLDSBORO, N.C. - The Wayne County Sheriff's Office has arrested a teen in connection with a home invasion and sexual assault earlier this month. Deputies arrested Montrel Crawford, 16, and charged him with first-degree burglary, kidnapping and rape. He is also charged with two counts of second-degree kidnapping. Crawford was arrested on Friday, March 22. The incident happened at a Dudley home on March 8.
DETROIT - Prosecutors are seeking at least nine years in prison for an African man who was convicted of forcing children to work as slave labor at his Ypsilanti home. The government also is asking a judge to order $60,000 each to two children who worked for Jean-Claude Toviave, a native of Togo. Four victims last fall told jurors that they were forced to perform household duties for nearly five years until January 2011.
DAYTON -- A 54-year-old man was charged with public indecency after a woman flagged down police about 6:28 p.m. Saturday and told them he was urinating along West Grand Avenue. The woman told police that the man, later identified as George Calloway of 500 Salem Avenue, Dayton, was urinating and that when she noticed him in the act he turned in her direction. Police responded to the area and said they found Calloway stumbling along the street.
A Pierce County prosecutor filed 12 charges Thursday against a man who is accused of beating and sexually assaulting a woman at a Tacoma day care. Police said Andrake Morris, 18, is accused of beating and sexually assaulting a woman at the Tender Heart Day Care on Monday morning. Morris was arrested later that evening and made his first court appearance on Tuesday. A police source said Morris was also being investigated in connection to other crimes, including sex crimes.
Lashon T. Hollman “brutally murdered” his neighbor by dropping a television on her head and stabbing her 54 times, a prosecutor says. Saginaw County Assistant Prosecutor Paul Fehrman on Wednesday, March 20, told a jury of eight women and six men that Hollman, now 21, killed
The man accused of killing an 80-year-old Cocoa woman and seriously injuring a man who came to her aid Sunday turned himself in to authorities in Virginia on Tuesday. Marcus Antonio Royal, 33, will be charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and burglary with battery under a warrant issued by a Brevard County judge. Royal was released from the Brevard County Jail on Saturday at 10:15 a.m., less than 24 hours before police said he killed
A man has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in the strangulation death of a woman in a northeast Philadelphia apartment more than two years ago. Forty-one-year-old William Walton pleaded guilty earlier this month to voluntary manslaughter and a drug charge in the death of 22-year-old 
A man who was originally from the Jamestown area was shot and killed during a terrifying home invasion in Indianapolis early Friday morning. 67-year-old 
have failed in their bid to have their conviction’s overturned. Gang ringleader