Detroit, MI - As her mother lay bleeding from two gunshot wounds and a family friend frantically called police, 8-year-old Alexia Parker lunged at an ex-con who apparently planned to kill them all.
On Tuesday, Alexia was recovering from multiple gunshot wounds, many to the head, in a Detroit hospital, said Aisha Ford, the friend who repeatedly called 911 in a desperate attempt to thwart 29-year-old Kelvin Tillie.
Tillie is being held without bond in the Wayne County Jail on multiple charges, including assault with intent to commit murder, after police said he shot Alexia and her mother, Selietha Parker, around midnight Sunday.
Ford said Alexia lost her right eye and is awaiting an operation and lengthy therapy after the assault at an east side gas station. Parker, who was shot in the head and arm, has been released from the hospital, Ford said.
As brutal as the ordeal was, Ford said she is grateful they are all alive.
She told the Free Press on Tuesday that it all started when she went to pick up Alexia and her mom Saturday so they could spend the night at her house. The Parkers' furnace was out and they needed a warm place to stay.
Ford said she saw a man coming from behind the Parkers' home after she pulled up, but figured it was a repairman. Alexia seemed happy as she stepped out of the house, asking Ford about her son. It wasn't until they were about to pull away that Ford said she realized the man was Tillie, Parker's ex-boyfriend.
"When he entered into my car he entered with the gun showing," Ford said, adding that she asked him, "Why you got that gun around that baby?" Tillie told her not to call the cops, Ford said. "He was like a bomb just ready to explode."
Ford said Tillie ordered her to drive them to 6 Mile. She said he didn't say where, just that she needed to drive. "He just had so much anger, hatred," she said. "I knew I was not going to make it that night if I didn't get out of the car."
At that point, Ford was grateful she drove a gas guzzling Ford Expedition SUV. Although she had put $15 worth of gas into the car, the low fuel light flashed on. Ford said she told Tillie she needed to get some gas right away, and pulled into the Fast Stop gas station on East 7 Mile.
She said Tillie gave her $10 and told her to put $5 worth of gas into the SUV.
But as Tillie went inside the station to pay, she used her cell phone to call9 11 for help. A police report describes a tense situation inside and outside the SUV. After calling for help, Ford tried to stretch out the amount of time it takes to pump less than two gallons of gas. "Hoping the police would arrive" Ford "kept slowly cutting the pump off, trying to stall," the report said.
Meanwhile, it said Tillie was losing his cool.
"She's taking too long. She better hurry up before I start shooting," the report quoted Tillie as saying while Parker begged him to calm him down and "to not do this with her daughter ... in the car."
Playing for more time, Ford took another $5 into the gas station and told the attendant, "I don't need the gas, I'm waiting for the police."
The report says the attendant "dialed 911 three times before connecting with a 911 operator."
Tillie began firing.
After watching her mother get shot, Alexia "jumped into the front seat, trying to protect her mom and stop" Tillie, the police report said. The report added that Tillie "without hesitation, immediately fired six shots into" Alexia who "collapsed, critically injured."
The report says Parker escaped from the car and ran toward the store screaming,"He shot my baby!"
Police showed up just after the shooting stopped and arrested Tillie. They found Alexia "huddled on the floorboard beneath the steering wheel."
Tillie, who was arraigned Monday, faces life in prison if convicted of the charges.
He has previous convictions for assault with intent to rob while armed, home invasion and resisting arrest. He has been on parole since April.
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12.16.2007
Sect. Leader Who Used Religion as Justification for Sexual Assault, Rape of Female Followers Convicted
UT - Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs faces five years to life in prison when he returns to court this week for sentencing on two counts of rape as anaccomplice.
Earlier this year, a jury in Utah convicted Jeffs, the so-called "prophet" ofthe Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, of two felony counts stemming from his involvement in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-oldfollower to her 19-year-old cousin.
During a week-long trial in September, Elissa Wall testified that Jeffs forced her into an arranged marriage with Allen Steed and told her to give herself tohim "mind, body and soul," despite her objections.
On Tuesday, Jeffs is scheduled to return before Fifth District Judge JamesShumate, who will render the final decision under the broad sentencing range for rape as an accomplice.
The first count stems from Wall's initial sexual encounter with Steed, about three weeks after Jeffs married them in a legally non-binding ceremony in aNevada hotel. The second count covers the time after Wall met with Jeffs and begged him to release her from the marriage, to no avail.
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Earlier this year, a jury in Utah convicted Jeffs, the so-called "prophet" ofthe Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, of two felony counts stemming from his involvement in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-oldfollower to her 19-year-old cousin.
During a week-long trial in September, Elissa Wall testified that Jeffs forced her into an arranged marriage with Allen Steed and told her to give herself tohim "mind, body and soul," despite her objections.
On Tuesday, Jeffs is scheduled to return before Fifth District Judge JamesShumate, who will render the final decision under the broad sentencing range for rape as an accomplice.
The first count stems from Wall's initial sexual encounter with Steed, about three weeks after Jeffs married them in a legally non-binding ceremony in aNevada hotel. The second count covers the time after Wall met with Jeffs and begged him to release her from the marriage, to no avail.
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Presidential Candidate Helped Parole Serial Rapist, Who Then Raped and Murdered Again
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The case of the rapist, Wayne DuMond, began in 1985, when he was accused of raping a 17-year-old girl. He was later convicted and sentenced to a life term.
In 1996, Huckabee, during his first term as Arkansas governor, expressed support for the parole of DuMond in a letter to him. The Arkansas parole board, which has the final say on such matter, later approved DuMond's parole
Less than a year after his release from prison in 1999, DuMond was accused of raping and murdering Carol Shields, a woman in Kansas City, Missouri. DuMond was convicted of the crime in 2003. He died in prison in 2005.
On Wednesday, the mother of the woman the convict later murdered pledged to campaign against the former Arkansas governor.
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In 1996, Huckabee, during his first term as Arkansas governor, expressed support for the parole of DuMond in a letter to him. The Arkansas parole board, which has the final say on such matter, later approved DuMond's parole
Less than a year after his release from prison in 1999, DuMond was accused of raping and murdering Carol Shields, a woman in Kansas City, Missouri. DuMond was convicted of the crime in 2003. He died in prison in 2005.
On Wednesday, the mother of the woman the convict later murdered pledged to campaign against the former Arkansas governor.
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Report: Peterson case warrants seek GPS, 'biological material'
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- Warrant for plastic shavings, blood, bodily fluids, fingernail scrapings, prints
- "In-dash GPS navigation systems," info sought on Drew Peterson's vehicle
- Three state police dive teams search for evidence in Stacy Peterson case
- 23-year-old woman missing, presumed murdered
Fact recap:
Stacy Peterson was last seen October 28 and reported missing by her family the next day. Drew Peterson, a longtime member of the Bolingbrook Police Department until he quit after his wife went missing, has denied any involvement in her disappearance. He has said he believes his wife left him for another man and is alive.
The most recent warrant also sought objects containing or having traces of blue plastic, lead weights, plastic shavings and scuff marks, circular impressions or carpet indentations and any other indication of a plastic or barrel-like object. A nonprofit group helping to search for Stacy Peterson has said police asked them to look for a blue plastic barrel large enough to hide a body.
Authorities also are investigating the death of Peterson's ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, whose body was found in her bathtub in 2004. Her death initially was ruled an accidental drowning. But when Peterson disappeared, the Will County State's Attorney's office opened another investigation into the case and has said it appears her death was a homicide staged to look like an accident
Commentary - Investigators continue to attempt to prove what everyone already know: this guy beat his wife #2 and murdered #3 and #4. Wife #1 must feel like she won the fate lottery at this point.More from CNN
Man Accused of DV Against Son Wanted in DV Case Against Ex-Wife
CORAL GABLES, FL: A man arrested two months ago and accused of hitting his son with a belt is again wanted for questioning by Coral Gables police -- this time for allegedly pushing his girlfriend. His attorney says he is arranging now for his client to speak to police.
Police say Loscar Rodriguez, 30, had already left the apartment the couple shares at 614 Santander Ave. when they arrived Dec. 3 after being called by the victim.
The woman, who is the mother of another child of Rodriguez's, said that Rodriguez pushed her to the ground and grabbed her, said Officer Frank Jackson.
Rodriguez, a bartender in Coconut Grove, was arrested in October after he was accused of using a belt to punish his 8-year-old son for getting bad grades. A school nurse called police after she discovered bruises on the boy's buttocks and legs.
Commentary - Photo attached to the article. Turn him in if you see him.
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Police say Loscar Rodriguez, 30, had already left the apartment the couple shares at 614 Santander Ave. when they arrived Dec. 3 after being called by the victim.
The woman, who is the mother of another child of Rodriguez's, said that Rodriguez pushed her to the ground and grabbed her, said Officer Frank Jackson.
Rodriguez, a bartender in Coconut Grove, was arrested in October after he was accused of using a belt to punish his 8-year-old son for getting bad grades. A school nurse called police after she discovered bruises on the boy's buttocks and legs.
Commentary - Photo attached to the article. Turn him in if you see him.
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Seven NJ State Troopers Implicated in Gang Rape of College Student
TRENTON, NJ — It was college night at KatManDu, a sprawling nightclub on the Delaware River here in the shadow of the gold-domed State House, when, the authorities said, a woman from Rider University struck up a conversation with a group of New Jersey state troopers.
After the club closed a few hours later, the student, a female friend from Rider and seven of the troopers met back at the home of one of the officers in a nearby suburb to play pool, according to lawyers and others familiar with the case.
The next afternoon, one of the students showed up at a hospital in a Trenton suburb and filed a police report saying she had been sexually assaulted by several troopers, setting off a criminal investigation that has rocked the State Police and shaken students at the Rider campus in nearby Lawrenceville.
Seven troopers have been suspended with pay as the authorities investigate the accusation. The Mercer County prosecutor, Joseph L. Bocchini Jr., has said the police in Ewing Township received the complaint on Dec. 7; he declined to discuss the status of the case or a timetable for deciding whether to pursue criminal charges.
The prosecutor’s office said that the encounter began on Dec. 6 when the student, 25, was at KatManDu for its Thursday night College Daze, which features $1 beers and entitles any woman with a university identification card to be admitted without paying the $8 cover charge.
According to lawyers and people familiar with the case, a female friend of the student, also from Rider, was talking with a group of about 15 troopers who had dropped in after a holiday party. At closing time, seven officers went off to play pool and the two Rider students drove to meet them there about 3 a.m., the lawyers said.
Sometime later that Friday — prosecutors and the Ewing Township police would not disclose precisely when — the student reported that she had been the victim of a sexual assault by numerous troopers while her friend slept in a nearby room.
The timing was unfortunate: The accusation of assault came the same day that Gov. Jon S Corzine said he would seek an end to years of federal oversight, which was imposed after the force was found to have engaged in racial profiling.
Commentary - "The timing was unfortunate"!?! For who? How inconvenient for the NJ Gov that this poor girl was the victim of a gang rape. How sad that the officers involved are all getting a paid vacation this holiday season. What unfortunate timing. Someone at the Times needs a reality adjustment immediately. Any time a woman is raped, much less gang raped, much, much less gang raped by law enforcement officers who are supposed to protect us, the timing is more than unfortunate.
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After the club closed a few hours later, the student, a female friend from Rider and seven of the troopers met back at the home of one of the officers in a nearby suburb to play pool, according to lawyers and others familiar with the case.
The next afternoon, one of the students showed up at a hospital in a Trenton suburb and filed a police report saying she had been sexually assaulted by several troopers, setting off a criminal investigation that has rocked the State Police and shaken students at the Rider campus in nearby Lawrenceville.
Seven troopers have been suspended with pay as the authorities investigate the accusation. The Mercer County prosecutor, Joseph L. Bocchini Jr., has said the police in Ewing Township received the complaint on Dec. 7; he declined to discuss the status of the case or a timetable for deciding whether to pursue criminal charges.
The prosecutor’s office said that the encounter began on Dec. 6 when the student, 25, was at KatManDu for its Thursday night College Daze, which features $1 beers and entitles any woman with a university identification card to be admitted without paying the $8 cover charge.
According to lawyers and people familiar with the case, a female friend of the student, also from Rider, was talking with a group of about 15 troopers who had dropped in after a holiday party. At closing time, seven officers went off to play pool and the two Rider students drove to meet them there about 3 a.m., the lawyers said.
Sometime later that Friday — prosecutors and the Ewing Township police would not disclose precisely when — the student reported that she had been the victim of a sexual assault by numerous troopers while her friend slept in a nearby room.
The timing was unfortunate: The accusation of assault came the same day that Gov. Jon S Corzine said he would seek an end to years of federal oversight, which was imposed after the force was found to have engaged in racial profiling.
Commentary - "The timing was unfortunate"!?! For who? How inconvenient for the NJ Gov that this poor girl was the victim of a gang rape. How sad that the officers involved are all getting a paid vacation this holiday season. What unfortunate timing. Someone at the Times needs a reality adjustment immediately. Any time a woman is raped, much less gang raped, much, much less gang raped by law enforcement officers who are supposed to protect us, the timing is more than unfortunate.
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12.15.2007
13 of 34 DC Officers Arrested in 2007 for Domestic Violence charges
WASHINGTON, D.C. - 34 members of the D.C. police department were arrested this year on assault, fraud, drunken driving and other charges, the largest number in at least five years.
Although the percentage of officers arrested on the 3,800-member force is small, this year's total is 10 more than last year's. At least five cases involve on-duty conduct, but the majority stem from off-duty activities. Thirteen officers were arrested on domestic violence charges, 10 for drunken driving.
Officer Elijah Shahid was accused of shooting his wife, also an officer, in the leg in August 2006. That case was dropped after his wife declined to testify against him, prosecutors said.
"Once you've embarrassed the department or shown me you don't have integrity, I don't want you back," said Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, who took office a year ago. In most cases, when officers are arrested, their badges and guns are taken away and they are put on desk duty until the charges are resolved. In cases involving drugs or sexual assault, officers typically are barred from the workplace. In traffic offense cases, including drunken driving, officers could be returned to the streets pending outcomes.
Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham, who is in charge of the internal affairs bureau, said the department will start a training program to educate officers about domestic violence and alcohol abuse.
"We are bothered by the fact that there are so many domestic violence and alcohol-related arrests," Newsham said. "The department will take action and have a campaign to inform and train our people to avoid these types of things."
He said all arrested officers are ordered to an employee assistance program for an evaluation. "We anticipate improvement next year," Newsham said.
Commentary - Notice the piece does not directly a address what happens to those charged with DV offenses, despite them compromising ~38% of the arrests, more than any other offense.
D.C. Police Force Has 34 Arrests of Members This Year
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Although the percentage of officers arrested on the 3,800-member force is small, this year's total is 10 more than last year's. At least five cases involve on-duty conduct, but the majority stem from off-duty activities. Thirteen officers were arrested on domestic violence charges, 10 for drunken driving.
Officer Elijah Shahid was accused of shooting his wife, also an officer, in the leg in August 2006. That case was dropped after his wife declined to testify against him, prosecutors said.
"Once you've embarrassed the department or shown me you don't have integrity, I don't want you back," said Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, who took office a year ago. In most cases, when officers are arrested, their badges and guns are taken away and they are put on desk duty until the charges are resolved. In cases involving drugs or sexual assault, officers typically are barred from the workplace. In traffic offense cases, including drunken driving, officers could be returned to the streets pending outcomes.
Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham, who is in charge of the internal affairs bureau, said the department will start a training program to educate officers about domestic violence and alcohol abuse.
"We are bothered by the fact that there are so many domestic violence and alcohol-related arrests," Newsham said. "The department will take action and have a campaign to inform and train our people to avoid these types of things."
He said all arrested officers are ordered to an employee assistance program for an evaluation. "We anticipate improvement next year," Newsham said.
Commentary - Notice the piece does not directly a address what happens to those charged with DV offenses, despite them compromising ~38% of the arrests, more than any other offense.
D.C. Police Force Has 34 Arrests of Members This Year
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12.03.2007
Taxi Driver Sexually Assaults Woman Taken Home From Bar
MIAMI BEACH, FL - A taxi driver is facing a criminal charge after Miami Beach police say he took a drunken passenger home and sexually assaulted her.
Ilhan Kocak, 42, of Super Yellow Cab, was charged last week with sexual battery, according to a police report released Monday.
Kocak told The Miami Herald the woman is lying. "She invited me upstairs,'' he said in an interview, vowing to fight the charges.
Ilhan Kocak, 42, of Super Yellow Cab, was charged last week with sexual battery, according to a police report released Monday.
Kocak told The Miami Herald the woman is lying. "She invited me upstairs,'' he said in an interview, vowing to fight the charges.
According to an arrest report by Detective Gustavo Sanchez, a Lincoln Road restaurant manager and the woman's friend hailed Kocak on Lincoln Road on Oct. 31. The woman was so intoxicated that she could not give her own address.
Surveillance video of the woman's North Beach apartment showed the cabbie helping her into the elevator -- and returning 45 minutes later, the report said. She woke up the next morning half-naked, the report said.
According to police, Kocak admitted sexual contact with the woman but claimed that she forced herself on him.
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Pregnant DV/Murder Victim had RO System Used Against Her
CHICAGO, IL - It was clear from the detectives' faces that they had come to Theresa Bunn's home with bad news.
Bunn, 21, had been missing since Monday evening, and the pregnant woman's family had hoped hers was not the body found strangled and set ablaze in a garbage bin Monday night, the first of two women found murdered in similarly grisly fashion this week.
Chicago police said detectives had no suspects in Bunn's murder but were talking to people who had "personal relationships" with Bunn.
Police are investigating whether Bunn's murder could be tied to the killing of a second woman, found strangled and set on fire in another dumpster a little more than 24 hours later, 2 miles away, in the 800 block of East 50th Street. That woman, described by sources as black, has not been identified, although police say they have received a number of tips about her possible identity.
Bunn had at least one stormy relationship in her past. She was the target of an order of protection filed in August by a man who accused her of making threatening phone calls to him and his family, saying he was the father of her unborn child and threatening to have him beaten, according to court documents. The man wrote that they had been involved, but that they had not had sexual intercourse. On Sept. 12, Bunn was arrested on charges that she violated the order by allegedly going to the man's home.
Twelve days later, Bunn responded to the man's complaint with a letter, saying the man and his mother were "stalking and harassing" her because she was pregnant with his child.
"I want them to leave me along (sic) they are stressing me out," she wrote. "They are trying to make me lose this baby."
Commentary - More and more frequently, abusers, especially those who have been through the civil restrain system before, are preemptively obtaining R.O.s on thin, contrived, or non-existent evidence to isolate and limit legal options for victims.
1st murder victim identified: City cops canvass worried neighbors
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Bunn, 21, had been missing since Monday evening, and the pregnant woman's family had hoped hers was not the body found strangled and set ablaze in a garbage bin Monday night, the first of two women found murdered in similarly grisly fashion this week.
Chicago police said detectives had no suspects in Bunn's murder but were talking to people who had "personal relationships" with Bunn.
Police are investigating whether Bunn's murder could be tied to the killing of a second woman, found strangled and set on fire in another dumpster a little more than 24 hours later, 2 miles away, in the 800 block of East 50th Street. That woman, described by sources as black, has not been identified, although police say they have received a number of tips about her possible identity.
Bunn had at least one stormy relationship in her past. She was the target of an order of protection filed in August by a man who accused her of making threatening phone calls to him and his family, saying he was the father of her unborn child and threatening to have him beaten, according to court documents. The man wrote that they had been involved, but that they had not had sexual intercourse. On Sept. 12, Bunn was arrested on charges that she violated the order by allegedly going to the man's home.
Twelve days later, Bunn responded to the man's complaint with a letter, saying the man and his mother were "stalking and harassing" her because she was pregnant with his child.
"I want them to leave me along (sic) they are stressing me out," she wrote. "They are trying to make me lose this baby."
Commentary - More and more frequently, abusers, especially those who have been through the civil restrain system before, are preemptively obtaining R.O.s on thin, contrived, or non-existent evidence to isolate and limit legal options for victims.
1st murder victim identified: City cops canvass worried neighbors
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12.01.2007
11 Girls Made Victims of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse as Cop Covered Up for Her Husband
ATLANTA, GA - Atlanta police knew seven years ago that a police sergeant's husband may have been paying young girls for sex and producing child pornography, but failed to investigate the allegations, federal authorities said.
An employee of a photo processing company alerted Atlanta police about Crane in 2000, saying he was concerned about photos he developed for him.
The pictures, including images of the 11 girls believed to be between the ages of 12 and 15, were given to police between 2000 and 2002 by the photo processing company, Nahmias said. They were not turned over to federal authorities, however, until last month.
In 2003, Crane's wife, Atlanta police Sgt. Tanya Crane, "allegedly got a call from an unidentified person at APD headquarters that APD had photographs of her husband engaged in sexually explicit conduct with young girls," said the statement from Nahmias' office.
"Crane's wife said she found some explicit photographs in her house and burned the photographs and negatives."
The allegations are "disturbing," said Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington.
"The alleged actions -- and any purported failure to take action -- will not be tolerated within the Atlanta Police Department," said Pennington, who took office in 2002.
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An employee of a photo processing company alerted Atlanta police about Crane in 2000, saying he was concerned about photos he developed for him.
The pictures, including images of the 11 girls believed to be between the ages of 12 and 15, were given to police between 2000 and 2002 by the photo processing company, Nahmias said. They were not turned over to federal authorities, however, until last month.
In 2003, Crane's wife, Atlanta police Sgt. Tanya Crane, "allegedly got a call from an unidentified person at APD headquarters that APD had photographs of her husband engaged in sexually explicit conduct with young girls," said the statement from Nahmias' office.
"Crane's wife said she found some explicit photographs in her house and burned the photographs and negatives."
The allegations are "disturbing," said Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington.
"The alleged actions -- and any purported failure to take action -- will not be tolerated within the Atlanta Police Department," said Pennington, who took office in 2002.
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