Police: Man Shoots And Kills Woman, Then Self At SE OKC Hotel
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Oklahoma City, OK: Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide at a hotel in southeast Oklahoma City, after a man and a woman [Eniya Aeon] were found shot to death Wednesday night. According to Oklahoma City police, just before 6 p.m., officers responded to the reports of shots fired and a domestic dispute at a hotel room at Days Inn South, located in the 2600 block of S. I-35 Service Road. » more at News9.com
Elderly Man Shoots Wife, Then Self in Cherry Valley
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Cherry Valley, CA: An elderly couple died this week in Cherry Valley when the woman's husband first shot her, then turned the gun on himself, coroner's officials reported Friday. According to coroner's reports, Wallace Conrad, 83, shot his wife Carma, 71, on Wednesday at their home in Cherry Valley. » more at Banning-BeaumontPatch.com
An Akron Man Charged in Beating Death of New Franklin Couple
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
New Franklin, OH: Police have charged an 18-year-old Akron man with the bludgeoning deaths of Jeffrey and Margaret “Peg” Schobert, a New Franklin couple whose bodies were discovered in the bedroom of their Rex Lake Drive home Tuesday. Shawn Eric Ford, Jr. is facing two counts each of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary and one count of grand theft in connection with the murders. He was already in the Portage County Jail on an unrelated charge of obstructing justice. The charges against Ford were announced by New Franklin police Thursday afternoon at a joint news conference with Akron police. Ford was the boyfriend of the slain couple’s youngest daughter, Chelsea Schobert, 18, a senior at Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron, according to police. » more at CantonRep.com
Spotsy Man Faces Hit-and-Run Charge in Girlfriend’s Death
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Ivy Hill, VA: A Spotsylvania County man is charged with felony hit and run after his girlfriend was found dead along a dirt road driveway. Spotsylvania dispatchers received an emergency call around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday from a man stating he found his girlfriend lying in the road with a gash on her head and that she was unresponsive. When deputies and fire–rescue workers arrived at Marshall Tract Court in the Ivy Hill area of western Spotsylvania, they found 35-year-old Sarah Hitt lying in the driveway. » more at Fredericksburg.com
Woman Charged With Murder After Montco Stabbing Victim Dies
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Upper Moreland, PA: A Montgomery County woman has been charged with murder following the death of a man stabbed at an apartment complex in Upper Moreland. Candice Phillips is charged with fatally stabbing 54-year-old Myron McClinton inside the apartment the two leased together. Police arrived at the Wellington Apartments in the 2500 block of Horsham Road at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday after a man called 911 saying he had been stabbed. Officers found McClinton lying in a pool of blood in the master bedroom of apartment H24. He had been stabbed several times. » more at 6abc.com
Coroner: Man Shot Wife, Self in Manchester Twp. Home
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Manchester Township, PA: Police have identified the couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide on Tuesday morning in York County. Authorities were called to a home in the 900 block of Hedgegate Lane in Manchester Township at around 1:45 p.m. They found 43-year-old Parag Patel and his wife, 41-year-old Niha Patel, dead in an upstairs bedroom. York County Deputy Coroner Claude Stabley says Parag Patel used a .38 caliber revolver to shoot his wife in the head and then himself in the chest at around 8 a.m. » more at WHTM 27
Victim's Husband's Girlfriend Now Charged in Lower Wetumpka Rd. Homicide
Monday, April 1, 2013
Montgomery, AL: The Montgomery Police Department confirmed late Friday afternoon that a second person is in custody and charged in connection to the city's 18th homicide of 2013. MPD detectives charged Dominique Atkinson, 21, of North Carolina with one count of capital murder in the March 31 death of Montgomery resident Ashley Cheatham, 21. » more at WSFA TV
Matthew Charles Snow, U.S. Navy Sailor, Dies from Boca Stabbing that Led to Standoff on Palm Beach
Monday, April 1, 2013
Boca Raton, FL: A U.S. Navy sailor, who was one of two victims in a March 25 stabbing that led to a standoff on Palm Beach, died Monday night from his injuries, according to the Boca Raton Police Department. Boca Raton police arrested Paul Charles, 24, after they say he called officers to confess to a knife attack on Matthew Charles Snow and Vanessa Vandermeeren-Sanchez and apologized profusely. Snow, 22, was found by officers in the driveway of a home on 490 NW 53rd Street in Boca Raton bleeding heavily from multiple stab wounds to the chest, according to an incident report. » more at WPTV.com
Couple Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
Monday, April 1, 2013
Mohave Valley, AZ: A Mohave Valley man apparently shot his wife to death before taking his own life late Monday night in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide. According to Trish Carter, spokeswoman for Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, law enforcement personnel responded to a residence in the 1600 block of East Ironwood Drive for a report of a shooting. “Dispatch advised the officers and detectives that they were receiving calls from relatives stating that 55-year-old John Phillips had shot his wife and planned to shoot himself,” said Carter. “Deputies arrived at the residence around 8:30 p.m. and located two deceased subjects inside the residence.” They were identified as Phillips and Valerie Ann Corti-Phillips, 56. » more at Mohave Daily News
Ex-Boyfriend Arrested For Killing Pregnant Mother In Front of Children
Monday, April 1, 2013
Jennings, MO: A man is charged for allegedly killing a pregnant woman while her five children were in the house early Monday morning. Terrance A. Duff, 40, was charged with First Degree Murder, First Degree Burglary, and Armed Criminal Action. “It’s sad anytime we have a homicide and especially sad when it’s a domestic related homicide and you have children involved,” said St. Louis County Police Lieutenant Jeff Fuesting. The body of Antoinetta Davis, 32, was brought out of the home where she lived on Florence Place in Jennings a little before 5:00am Monday. » more at FOX2Now.com
Man Says He Killed Girlfriend Because She Was a Taurus
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Lauderhill, FL: Police have a stunning confession from a 22-year-old man accused of stabbing his girlfriend numerous times and even striking her with an X-Box 360 gaming console. On Monday, Lauderhill Police said, Darrius Johnson confessed that, a day earlier, he had "sacrificed the victim for the betterment of himself and the victim." According to the arrest affidavit, Johnson went on to say that he attacked Monica Gooden, in her early 20s, from behind, slamming the X-Box on her face and stabbing her "everywhere." He told police that he fought "the victim like he was fighting a dragon" and "felt like a new man afterwards." » more at WSVN TV
Police ID Victim, Shooter In Murder-Suicide At Spring Garden High-Rise
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Philadelphia, PA: Investigators say a husband fatally shot his wife inside their Center City high-rise apartment before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. The discovery was made at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Museum Towers hi-rise apartments near 18th and Buttonwood Streets in the Spring Garden section of the city. Investigators say 30-year-old Carlos Eugene Acosta fatally shot his wife, 29-year-old Rio Acosta Magden before taking his own life. » more at CBS Philly
Man Wanted for Clayton County Woman’s Shooting Death
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Clayton County, GA: Clayton County police are looking for a man accused of shooting a woman multiple times in a front yard, then leaving her to die. Doris Ann Young, 43, died Sunday after being shot in the yard of a Pine Meadows Drive home, near Morrow, police said Monday. The shooting suspect, Willie Thomas Mosley, then allegedly left the home in a beige 1993 Mazda 626 with Georgia tag BEF7260, according to police. Investigators believe Mosley, 51, has relatives in the Ellenwood area and could be hiding out. » more at Atlanta Journal Constitution
Autopsy Results Indicate Homicide-Suicide in Socastee Deaths
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Socastee, SC: Two bodies were found inside of a home on John Luther Road in Socastee early Saturday evening, according to Sergeant Robert Kegler with the Horry County Police Department. The bodies have been identified as 55-year-old Terry Vick and 57-year-old Harry Vick, both from Socastee, according to Darris Fowler with the Horry County Coroner's Office. » more at WMBF News
Columbus Police Arrest Boyfriend in Friday Homicide on Debby Street
Friday, March 29, 2013
Columbus, GA: A resident's tip led police today to capture Robert Junior Taylor, wanted for murder in Friday's fatal shooting of his girlfriend Lakeisha Shoulders on Debby Street. Detectives said the tipster called them around noon today and told them Taylor, 37, was back in the area where his girlfriend lived. Officers responding to the call found Taylor at Sidney Drive and Sims Street, where he was arrested without force. » more at Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Carroll Township Woman Found Killed in Home, Husband in Custody
Friday, March 29, 2013
Carroll Township, PA: A man is in custody after police in Carroll Township say his wife was found dead inside their home early Friday morning. State police said Ronald Powell, 71, is facing a homicide charge for the death of his wife Leslie, 62, in the house on Walters Street. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco said Ronald Powell called 911 to report the shooting. » more at WTAE TV
Retired Trooper’s Violent Attack on Wife Preceded Murder-Suicide, Court Documents Show
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Philipsburg, PA: Two months before Mark Miscavish shot and killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself Thursday inside a Philipsburg-area grocery store, the retired state trooper threatened to do exactly that, according to court documents. Miscavish allegedly threatened to kill his wife, Traci Miscavish, and assaulted her Jan. 23 inside their Rush Township home days after she told him she wanted to end their 30-year marriage, police said in charging documents against the husband. That morning, the wife, who had been staying with her mother in Chester Hill, arranged to pick up some of her belongings. » more at CentreDaily.com
Estranged Husband Accused of Shooting, Killing Wife Before Turning Gun on Himself
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Carroll Township, OH: A normally sedate part of Ottawa County was stunned Wednesday by news that a Fremont-area man allegedly stormed a two-story farmhouse and shot his estranged wife to death with a 40-caliber handgun. Randall J. Ross, who spent much of his life in Ottawa County but has a current address listed as Sandusky County Road 265 near Fremont, shot himself twice in the head after killing his wife, Amy Ross, with a single gunshot wound to the chest at about noon Wednesday, according to Ottawa County Sheriff Stephen Levorchick. » more at Toledo Blade
Arrest Made in Georgetown County Shooting Death
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Andrews, SC: Authorities have arrested a man in connection with the shooting death of Georgetown County woman early Wednesday morning. Andrews Police Department Sgt. Verney Cumbee said a suspect turned himself into police shortly after the shooting took place... Early Wednesday, the body of Yvonne Holmes, 31, of Andrews, was found inside her apartment located on Claire Street within the city limits. » more at Myrtle Beach Online
