ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge declined Monday to move the 15-year-old charged with killing 4 students at Oxford High School out of an adult jail, but she agreed that the jail needs to ensure the boy can’t hear or see grown-up inmates.
Ethan Crumbley’s attorney, Paulette Loftin, argued during his probable cause conference in Rochester Hills District Court that her client should be moved back to a juvenile facility, saying that he “should not be considered a menace to other juveniles.”
“This is someone who has never been in trouble before,” Loftin said. “This is not someone who has a history of assaulting kids his age or any other negative contact with his peers. This one isolated incident is all that we’re looking at here today.”
But District Judge Nancy Carniak sided with Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Marc Keast, who countered that the nature of the charges & security risks mandate that Crumbley be held in an adult facility. Crumbley is charged as an adult with killing 4 classmates & injuring seven other people in the Nov. 30 shooting at Oxford High School, about 30 miles north of Detroit.
Monday’s conference was a procedural hearing to prepare for a Dec. 20 preliminary hearing, which also will be moved to a later date.
Crumbley’s parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, also being held at the jail, are accused of failing to intervene on the day of the tragedy & are charged with involuntary manslaughter. They face hearings Tuesday.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Police say a 57-year-old Florida man angry over his neighbors' parking habits sprayed fire from a commercial flamethrower toward a car with three teenagers inside. No one was hurt in the Nov. 30 incident.
Andre Abrams of Gainesville faces three counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intending to kill. He posted a $15,000 bond last week and is awaiting a decision whether prosecutors will formally file criminal charges. The mother of one of the teens says Abrams frequently sprayed the flamethrower to scare off guests at her home.
Abrams says he can't discuss the case. He's represented by a public defender.
A court filing Monday indicates that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will plead guilty Wednesday in the federal civil rights case related to his killing of George Floyd, whose death set off protests & demands for reform of police departments nationwide in 2020.
Chauvin, who is white, was convicted in April of Minnesota state charges of murder & manslaughter at a trial for Floyd’s killing. He was sentenced in July to 22-and-a-half years in prison.
Weeks after his conviction, federal prosecutors obtained a criminal indictment of Chauvin & 3 other Minneapolis cops for violating the civil rights of the 46-year-old Floyd during a May 2020 arrest for using a counterfeit bill in a purchase.
Chauvin had held his knee on or around the neck of a handcuffed & prone Floyd for more than 9 minutes that day as 3 of the other cops helped restrain Floyd. The 4 former officers had pleaded not guilty in the federal case.
On Monday, the Minneapolis federal court docket of the civil rights case against the cops was updated to note that Chauvin will appear for a change of plea hearing on Wednesday morning in St. Paul, Minnesota. Such hearings are held when a defendant plans to plead guilty.
There was no indication that the other defendants, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng & Thomas Lane, are changing their pleas in the case.
Those 3 men are set to go on trial in state court next year on criminal charges of aiding & abetting second-degree murder & aiding & abetting second-degree manslaughter after they face trial on the federal civil rights charges. They have pleaded not guilty in the state case.
(CNN) Kim Kardashian has passed a law exam and moved a step closer to being able to practice as an attorney in the state of California.
Kardashian revealed that she passed the exam at the fourth attempt in an Instagram post published Monday.
"OMFGGGG I PASSED THE BABY BAR EXAM!!!!," Kardashian wrote, alongside an image of herself in a bright blue dress, looking into a mirror.
Kardashian went on to thank CNN commentator Van Jones for persuading her to study law, as well as lawyers Jessica Jackson and Edy Haney and her professors, Sam Farkas and Chuck Shonholtz.
Referring to her late father, Robert Kardashian, an attorney famous for defending O.J. Simpson during his murder trial, she wrote: "I know my dad would be so proud and he would actually be so shocked to know that this is my path now but he would have been my best study partner."
Kardashian ended the post with a positive message to fans working toward their own goals.
"Bottom line is don't ever give up even when you are holding on by a thread, you can do it!!!!!" she wrote. "Set your mind to it and get it done because it feels soooooo good once you get to the other side!"
USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee have reached a $380 million settlement with hundreds of U.S. gymnasts abused by former national team doctor Larry Nassar, the New York Times reported.
Driving the news: The settlement marks the end of a five year legal battle and will compensate hundreds of gymnasts who were assaulted by Nassar and others over three decades, per the Wall Street Journal.
*The monetary sum is also one of the largest ever in a sexual abuse case.
State of play: The settlement was announced Monday during a bankruptcy proceeding for USA Gymnastics in Indiana, per the Times.
*Insurers of USA Gymnastics and the USOPC will fund most of the settlement, with USOPC paying $34 million and loaning USA Gymnastics $6 million for its own contribution, according to the Journal.
*Many gymnasts — including Olympic gold medalists Aly Raisman and Simone Biles — have spent years meditating with the sports federation. The settlement will go to over 500 athletes and will help cover medical care needed as a result of the abuse, per the Times.
The big picture: Nassar was sentenced to a minimum of 100 years in prison in 2018 after 160 women accused him of sexually abusing them under the pretense of medical treatment.
*In July, the FBI's inspector general issued a scathing report highlighting the "numerous and fundamental errors" in how the bureau handled its investigation into Nassar.
*In September, FBI Director Christopher Wray formally apologized to survivors for the agency's mishandling of the investigation.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 13, 2021 at 11:10am
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AEW superstar tag-team The Young Bucks go Sneaker Shopping with Complex's Joe La Puma at Flight Club in New York City and talk about their missing Dior Jordan 1s, starting the trend of wrestlers wearing sneakers, and modifying Travis Scott Fragment Jordan 1s for the ring.
OT The Real and DJ Green Lantern have combined forces to bring fans a new album titled "Broken Glass." It features Uncle Murda, Eto, Benny the Butcher, SKNJ and Millyz.
01. Broken Glass 02. Coke & Guns Ft. Benny The Butcher 03. 4 Wheeler 04. Go to War Ft. Millyz 05. The Wheels Fall Off 06. The Details 07. So Foul Ft. Uncle Murda & Eto 08. You Do It 09. Serious Shit Ft. SKNJ 10. You Are Who You Eat With, Pt. II 11. Philly Streets 12. DJ Green Lantern Freestyle 13. I Got You
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The 14-year-old son of a Philadelphia pizza shop employee shot an armed robbery suspect who started choking one of his parents, police say.
Police say the series of incidents unfolded around 9:30 p.m. Thursday when three men robbed the CVS pharmacy at North Broad and Spring Garden in the Spring Garden section of the city.
Moments later, police say at least one of those men went a block away to rob the Bold Pizza Shop at 15th and Spring Garden.
Employees say the man forcibly reached over the counter and tried to take cash from the register.
A struggle ensued between an employee and the robbery suspect when the offender started to strangle the victim.
The victim's 14-year-old son grabbed a handgun from under the counter and shot the offender one time in the face, police said.
"There was money on the floor and there was also some broken glass inside the store, and there was also a large amount of blood," said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.
The pizza shop was closed on Friday.
Some people who live nearby said they understand the teen was just trying to protect his parent.
"I think most people would do that in that situation to protect someone they love and they're being threatened so violently," said Nina Adams.
"I am very proud and its kind of sad that a 14-year-old had to shoot the suspect, but it was quick thinking and I'm glad they were able to catch the person so fast," said Raina Harris.
Investigators say they followed a trail of blood down the stairs of a SEPTA subway station at Broad and Spring Garden.
Police say that's where they found the 33-year-old male suspect.
"From following the trail of blood, we also found some cash in the subway where the victim was found," Small said.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Julianna Peña didn’t even realize Amanda Nunes had tapped out of Peña’s chokehold until somebody told her in the cage moments after the referee pulled her off the long-reigning champion.
One of the biggest upsets in UFC history might have been a surprise in the moment for Peña, but she had never stopped believing she could do the nearly impossible.
“Everybody was sleeping on me, and I shook up the world and did exactly what I said I was going to do,” Peña said. “But I’m not surprised. I have a big heart and determination.”
Peña stopped Nunes by submission with a rear naked choke in the second round at UFC 269 on Saturday night, claiming the bantamweight title from the long-reigning two-division champion in a 10-to-1 upset.
Charles Oliveira also defended his lightweight title for the first time with a third-round stoppage victory over Dustin Poirier by standing rear naked choke in the main event.
But the night belonged to Peña (11-4), who was a massive underdog against a vaunted opponent widely considered the greatest fighter in the history of women’s mixed martial arts. Nunes had won 12 consecutive fights since 2014 and reigned simultaneously atop the 135-pound bantamweight and 145-pound featherweight divisions for three years.
“Amanda has been such a great champion, and she’s done a ton for the sport,” Peña said. “For me to be able to take out arguably the greatest of all time is something that’s still sinking in right now.”
After Nunes largely dominated the first round with two knockdowns and superior striking, Peña shockingly hurt Nunes with punches in a slugfest start to the second round. Peña then got Nunes to the ground, got her back and forced the champion to tap out with a choke around her neck with 1:38 left.
“It feels crazy,” Peña said. “I definitely expected to win, but the world is my oyster.”
Peña had won just two of her four fights over the past 5 1/2 years, and the Spokane native who trains in Chicago got the title shot as one of the few legitimate 135-pound fighters that Nunes hadn’t already beaten. Peña didn’t fight for 30 months from 2017 to 2019 while giving birth to her daughter, but she won two of her three ensuing bouts to get this shot.
“Julianna is a person who always believed in herself and believed that she could win this fight if she got it,” UFC President Dana White said. “You heard her for months leading up to this fight, and she did it. It’s one of the things that makes this sport so incredible. An upset like this, where you can’t believe it, it happens all the time here.”
Nunes was fighting for only the third time in two years after making two featherweight defenses since her most recent defense of her bantamweight belt in December 2019. Few opponents had even given her a stiff challenge since her second victory over current flyweight champ Valentina Shevchenko by split decision in 2017.
Nunes is almost certain to be granted a rematch with Peña, who is eager to grant it: “We can do it next week. I’m free next week. I’m free next month.”
After Peña’s upset, Oliveira (32-8, 1 no-contest) survived a rough fight with Poirier (28-7, 1 no-contest) to improve to 10-0 with nine stoppage victories since 2017.
Poirier battered the champ with punches in the first round and knocked him down twice, but Oliveira took control on the ground in the second round with a series of vicious elbows. He finished the fight with 3:58 left in the third by attaching himself to Poirier’s back and forcing him to tap while standing up.
“We respect each other a lot,” Oliveira said through a translator. “But I was going to have my arm raised, and that’s what happened. ... I want to make history. I want to leave a legacy, and I plan to show people that I can.”
Oliveira finally claimed the belt last May in his 28th UFC fight -- the longest wait for a title in the promotion’s history and the culmination of an epic journey by a Brazilian veteran who overcame poverty and childhood illness to become an elite jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist.
Oliveira set the UFC record for stoppage victories by beating Michael Chandler with punches, and his finish of Poirier increased the record to 18. Oliveira’s 10-fight winning streak is the second-longest active string in the UFC, trailing only Kamaru Usman’s 15 straight.
Oliveira and White both said the champ’s next defense is likely to be against Justin Gaethje, the entertaining brawler who held the interim title in 2020.
Poirier already had a spectacular 2021 with his two victories over Conor McGregor, erasing the vaunted former champion’s winning mystique and making two enormous paychecks for decisive stoppage wins. Poirier’s only other loss in his last 11 fights since 2016 was to Khabib Nurmagomedov, who took away Poirier’s interim lightweight title before retiring undefeated.
“It ruins the dream outcome that I had planned, to forever be a world champion after tonight,” Poirier said. “But the year isn’t ruined. An opportunity I had is ruined, and that’s all right. It is what it is. I’ll look in the mirror like a man.”
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 12, 2021 at 12:29pm
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BALTIMORE (WBALTV @MurderInkNews) — A man killed his girlfriend in Federal Hill and his ex-wife in Columbia before turning the gun on himself Saturday, police said.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison told 11 News that officers received call shortly after 1:30 p.m. for an alarm in the 1500 block of Marshall Street in Federal Hill. The officers found a rear door kicked in, indicating a forced entry, Harrison said.
The officers found a 41-year-old woman inside dead from gunshot wounds. Harrison said police received information that the perpetrator then went to Howard County to kill another person and take his own life.
"We learned there's another homicide scene with another woman who died from apparent gunshot wounds. Then, we learned the perpetrator took his own life," Harrison said.
Howard County police said officers were called just after 2:07 p.m. to an apartment building in the 7300 block of Eden Brook Drive in Columbia for reports of gunshots. Police said the officers arrived at the scene at 2:14 p.m. and found two adults in a vestibule of the apartment building who were fatally shot.
Howard County police on Sunday identified the suspect as Rajaee Shareef Black, 44, of Hanover, and the victim as Wendy Natalie Black, 42, of Columbia.
County police said officers found the Blacks' two young children just after the shooting unharmed in Rajaee Black's car in the parking lot of the apartment complex. The children were placed in a safe environment and did not witness the incident, police said.
A Facebook video posted by the alleged suspect shows him talking to his phone, explaining the events surrounding the crime. The suspect made claims about his ex-wife in the video and how he killed his girlfriend just minutes before.
But by the time Howard County police were notified at 2:22 p.m. by Baltimore City police that there was a video posted on social media that indicated the suspect intended to go to Howard County, it was too late.
"What we now believe is that was a domestic-related murder-suicide. We believe the suspect, who is male, came to the area, sought out the female victim, shot and killed her and then shot and killed himself," Howard County police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said.
"This is a tragic domestic event that did not have to happen, and this is what we're talking about all the time with guns and domestic violence and the willingness of people to use these guns to take out their anger to solve conflict," Harrison said.
Things certainly got heated between DJ Akademiks and IG model Whitney LeDawn -- with cussing, yelling and even drink-throwing -- but Whitney says she NEVER pulled a gun ... despite claims to the contrary.
Ak claimed that during the turbulent interview, Whitney brandished her gun in a threatening fashion ... something LeDawn adamantly denies. The model admits to carrying a firearm, but says she never flashed or threatened anyone with it.
LeDawn now believes the only reason she was brought on the show was to be made fun of, specifically for having a baby out of wedlock as a Christian woman ... and thinks the gun claim was only made to help boost attention around the episode.
During the episode, Akademiks teased LeDawn about the gun, telling her to "reach for it" and "try it" ... but she says she never caved.
The model says Instagram deleted her account after reported "bullying" violations, but she claims she was only responding to hate from DJ Akademiks' fans after her appearance ... she added that she hasn't been contacted by the police or anyone from the podcast.
For what it's worth, you never really see the gun in the video that was posted ... but clearly, each side has a very separate version of what happened.
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Tornadoes and severe weather caused catastrophic damage across multiple states late Friday, killing at least six people overnight as a storm system tore through a candle factory in Kentucky, an Amazon facility in Illinois and a nursing home in Arkansas. The Kentucky governor said he feared dozens more could be dead.
Gov. Andy Beshear said about 110 people were in the factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, when the tornado hit.
“We believe our death toll from this event will exceed 50 Kentuckians & probably end up 70 to 100,” he said. “It’s very hard, really tough & we’re praying for each & every one of those families.”
Kyana Parsons-Perez, a factory employee, was trapped under five feet of debris for at least two hours until rescuers managed to free her.
In an interview with TODAY, she said it was the “absolutely the most terrifying” event she had ever experienced. “I did not think I was going to make it at all.”
Just before the tornado struck, the building’s lights flickered. She felt a gust of wind, her ears started “popping” & then, “Boom. Everything came down on us.” People started screaming, and she heard Hispanic workers praying in Spanish.
Among those who helped rescue the trapped workers were inmates from the nearby Graves County Jail, she said.
“They could have used that moment to try to run away or anything, but they did not. They were there, helping us,” she said.
At least one person died at an Amazon facility in Edwardsville, Illinois, Police Chief Mike Fillback told reporters Saturday morning. The roof of the building was ripped off and a wall about the length of a football field collapsed.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the damage was caused by straight-line storms or a tornado, but the National Weather Service office near St. Louis reported “radar-confirmed tornadoes” in the Edwardsville area around the time of the collapse.
Taylor Gang emcee Berner rounded up heavy hitters from Yonkers (Styles P), Buffalo (Conway and Benny) and Sacramento (Mozzy) for this certified banger titled "Pound for Pound" off of his new "Gotti" album.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 10, 2021 at 11:45am
Cops in & around L.A. are beefing up patrol & bracing themselves for possible gang retaliation killings in the wake of Slim 400's murder & a growing gang war in the city.
Law enforcement sources tell us that while they don't believe Slim was a targeted hit, they still think the killing was gang-related ... which almost always means revenge. Our sources say they believe Slim happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time & his alleged ties to the Bloods didn't help.
We're told lately things have really ramped up between the Bloods and the Crips, so tensions are already high & Slim's murder likely won't help that.
We're told the Inglewood Police Dept. will have a heavy & visible presence around the place of Slim's killing in hopes to discourage it from happening again to someone else.
As we reported, footage of the killing surfaced online Thursday showing the brazen attack. Slim's murderer walked up a driveway, pulled his gun & opened fire several times ... killing the rapper.
We're told cops across the city have been extremely frustrated with practices put in place by the district attorney & Governor Newsom that allow for certain criminals to bail out with little or sometimes no bail at all.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 10, 2021 at 11:30am
The jury didn't buy Jussie Smollett's claim he was the victim of a racist-homophobic attack, but the leaders of Black Lives Matter certainly do ... and the org. is sticking by the actor.
BLM and BLM LA released a statement before the verdict, in support of the "Empire" actor, saying ... "So let’s be clear: we love everybody in our community ... we can never believe police, especially the CPD over Jussie Smollett, a Black man who has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for Black freedom."
Now, after Jussie's been found guilty, BLM LA leader Melina Abdullah tells us that stance hasn't changed -- Jussie has their full support. Abdula says the organization refuses to abandon its people and stands on the principle that the justice system is corrupt.
Smollett's former "Empire" costar, Bryshere Gray, is standing by his friend as well, telling us, "My prayers, love and support is unwavering for my brother Jussie and the Smollet Family."
Smollett was found guilty Thursday on 5 of 6 felony counts of lying to Chicago PD.
From the jump, Jussie denied claims he staged the 2019 attack ... sticking to his story when he reported it to police with the rope still around his neck.
Jussie now faces a possible 3-year prison sentence, but considering he has no prior criminal record ... it's unclear if he'll get any time behind bars.
On the other hand, it's likely he'll have to pay $130k in restitution to Chicago to cover its expenses for investigating the hoax.
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