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I-TEAM By Jermont Terry CREATED 10:27 PM WAUWATOSA - The Christmas Eve manslaughter shook the entire community. Officer Jennifer Sebena is the only officer killed in the line of duty in Wauwatosa history. Her manslaughter, although a month ago, still leaves many people wondering how this scene played out. How could an on-duty police officer lie dead in front of a firehouse for almost an hour before being found? On Christmas Eve morning of 2012, Underwood Avenue in Wauwatosa turned into a gruesome manslaughter scene, right outside the firehouse. "Our hearts are really heavy," said Gerald Witkowski with Wauwatosa Police. "You just can't believe something like this occurs." The city mourned the loss of officer Jennifer Lynn Sebena who was shot to death, shot five times, from two separate weapons. Police say it was by the hands of her own husband, Benjamin Sebena. "It changed the way a lot of us feel in this neighborhood," said ...

More than 11,000 people in the U.S. were murdered with guns in 2011, giving it a per capita gun homicide rate of 2.75 per 100,000 people, about the same as Peru's. Here's how each state matches up with the rest of the world. Gambrell is a contributing graphic designer for Bloomberg Businessweek . Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

Lacey Burley 1st Feb 2013 6:00 AM POLICE have launched a homicide investigation after a 32-year-old Toowoomba man died from a knife wound. The man was a passenger in a Mitsubishi Magna when he was stabbed in the lower left leg on Sunday night. He suffered major blood loss and died from medical complications in the Toowoomba Hospital yesterday afternoon. The man was driven to hospital on Sunday about 9pm. Police have seized the car. Toowoomba District Police spokesman Dave Isherwood said police were awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination. He said witnesses had not fully cooperated with police. "We are still trying to determine the cause and where it happened," Detective Inspector Isherwood said. "It has been upgraded to a homicide investigation." Police have notified the victim's next-of-kin after the man was pronounced dead at 12.40pm. No charges have been laid. Anyone with information which could assist police with...

Mumbai, Jan. 31: Salman Khan , enjoying a dream run as Bollywood 's most bankable actor, will be tried for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in a case of alleged hit and run. The 2002 incident, in which one person died and four were injured, was so far proceeding under the charge of rash and negligent driving which carries a maximum punishment of two years in jail. The punishment under the new charge can go up to 10 years in prison. The year 2002 was one of the worst in Salman's personal life, marked by a series of events, including a messy break-up with Aishwarya Rai , that sealed his image as the "bad boy" of Bollywood. Since then, in one of the most incredible bouncebacks in movie history, Salman has delivered one smash hit after another, drawing on a testosterone-driven formula of explosive muscle power, rip-roaring one-liners, improbable action scenes and grey characters whose personae carried a whiff of his own black sheep image. Last year...

31 January 2013 Last updated at 11:11 ET Pat Finucane was shot dead by loyalists in front of his family in 1989 One of David Cameron's closest advisors described the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane as far worse than anything alleged in Iraq or Afghanistan, the High Court has heard. Sir Jeremy Heywood also questioned whether the prime minister believed it was right to "renege" on a previous administration's commitment to hold a public inquiry into a killing. His family are challenging that decision. Mr Finucane was shot dead in 1989. On Thursday, Mr Justice Stephens heard how Mr Heywood, now cabinet secretary, referred to Mr Finucane's murder as "a dark moment in the country's history". Details of emailed correspondence between the top civil servant and another senior Downing Street official were revealed as lawyers for the Finucane family pressed for complete disclosure of notes or recordings from a series of minister...

A federal judge in New Orleans accepted an agreement for BP to plead guilty to homicide and other charges and pay a record fine in connection with the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which ranks as one of the nation's worst environmental disasters. The agreement, announced in November, allowed a unit of the London-based oil giant to plead guilty Tuesday to 11 counts of seaman's homicide in connection with the explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the gulf. The company also entered a guilty plea to one felony count of obstruction of Congress and two environmental misdemeanors. The company was fined $ 4 billion in connection with the spill and was given five years' probation. Tuesday's court action ends the company's current criminal issues, but is just one step in the ongoing proceedings related to the disaster. Four current or former BP employees have been indicted on criminal charges. BP has separately agreed to a $ 7.8-billion se...

A former Ohio police captain has been cleared in the murder of his ex-wife and released from prison, where he had been for 15 years -- but prosecutors say they plan to appeal the ruling. "I'm just a jumble of emotions and I just can't wait to hug all of my family," Douglas Prade told reporters outside the prison when he was released Tuesday afternoon, according to ABC News' Cleveland affiliate WEWS-TV. He thanked "all of the people that supported me and communicated with me and told me to keep my spirits up." Prade's ex-wife, Dr. Margo Prade , 41, was found shot to death in her minivan outside of her medical practice in November 1997. Douglas Prade was an Akron, Ohio, police captain at the time. At trial, he was convicted on murder and wiretapping charges and sentenced to life in prison. Prade, now 66, maintained his innocence and, eventually, the Ohio Innocence Project took up his cause and petitioned for his release or a new trial...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say a Las Vegas man who botched his own suicide after killing three family members will face murder charges. Las Vegas police said Wednesday that 54-year-old James McCarty remained hospitalized with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head following the Tuesday afternoon shooting at a home in a residential community several miles west of the Las Vegas Strip . Police say McCarty is expected to survive and will be arrested when he recovers. Investigators haven't described a motive for the shootings, and the Clark County coroner hasn't released the names of the man and two women who died. Police summoned to a report of gunshots found blood on the back patio and bullet holes in a window before SWAT officers entered the house and found McCarty and the others. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

Jan. 30, 2013 — Homicide-suicides in households occur across all social classes in Switzerland. A University of Bern study reveals that life stressors, such as divorce, temporary residency status, or cramped living conditions, are risk factors. The rate at which these offenses are committed, mostly by men with firearms, has been steady over the last twenty years. Share This: See Also: Staying Healthy Healthy Aging Gender Difference Social Psychology Suicide Self-esteem Pap smear Fertility There are around six or seven household homicide-suicides a year in Switzerland. For the first time, risk factors have been examined in a Swiss national cohort study, by a group headed by Radoslaw Panczak and Professor Matthias Egger of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern. The results, published in the journal PLoS ONE in January, show that frequency of these events did not change during this period. In homicid...

Ijahka T. Williams ( Orange County Jail / January 30 , 2013 ) By Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel 12:56 p.m. EST , January 30, 2013 Detectives today identified the man found dead in a vacant house in east Orange County on Monday. The man, Ijahka T. Williams, 32, was killed but detectives are not releasing the method and manner of death at this time. Investigators said Williams was discovered by a family member inside a home on Lake Sharp Drive in the Watermill subdivision, about 8 p.m., according to sheriff's spokesman Jeff Williamson said. Detectives are looking for a dark-colored Mercury Villager driven by a man who was seen in the area at the time of the incident. Enter to win tickets to LEGOLAND! Anyone with information about the death is asked by detectives to call Crimeline at 1-800-423-8477. Sentinel staff writer Bianca Prieto contributed to this report. jeweiner@tribune.com or 407-420-5171 Read More @ Source Criminal Stories ...

Frani Lisa Olivas, Crimestoppers. CSPD photo The vote last time was 11-1 to acquit. Prosecutors are looking to change those odds in the first-degree murder retrial of Frani Olivas, who defense attorneys say came within a single vote of a murder acquittal at a three-week trial in December. Olivas, 49, was found guilty of accessory to murder but a lone holdout kept her from walking away with a murder acquittal in a 
July 27, 2011, shooting that killed one man and wounded another at an Auto Zone in east Colorado Springs. Her retrial in 4th Judicial District Court began Tuesday before a new jury and is expected to last at least two weeks. The shooting occurred in the parking lot of the auto parts store at Powers and Palmer Park boulevards. According to Colorado Springs police, Olivas and Edward Coffey, of Colorado Springs, hatched a scheme to kidnap someone at the store and force them to turn over their ATM pin so that Olivas and Coffey could drain t...

Christopher Huffman PHOENIX (AP) - A man wanted in connection with a homicide in North Carolina has been arrested in southern Arizona. Arizona Department of Public Safety officials say 42-year-old Christopher Paul Huffman was taken into custody Monday on Interstate 10 near Casa Grande. They say Huffman was wanted in the fatal shooting of 62-year-old Charles Michael Middleton last Friday at the victim's home in Charlotte. North Carolina authorities say the two men knew each other, but a motive for the shooting isn't immediately clear. An Arizona Highway Patrol officer pulled over Huffman after confirming the vehicle he was driving was connected to the homicide case. DPS officials say a stolen handgun also was found inside the vehicle. They say Charlotte-Mecklenburg detectives were flying to Arizona on Tuesday to interview Huffman and process the vehicle. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcas...

When Kimberly Common visited her mother in the hospital Monday, the two spoke of how much they missed Common's son, Antonio, who was slain 15 months ago at the age of 23. By Tuesday afternoon, the family's tragedy deepened as Common's older son, Devin, 27, was fatally shot near their home in the Park Manor neighborhood a little past noon. As she stood on a sidewalk by her son's sheet-covered body, Common recalled his last words to her: "I'll be back. I'm going to the store." "That's the same thing" Antonio said before he was killed in October 2011, the mother of two other children said as tears streamed down her face. A little more than two hours later, a 15-year-old girl had also been shot to death, bringing to 42 the number of homicides so far in 2013, making this month the most violent January in Chicago since 2002. The bloody start to the new year comes as the Police Department hoped it had begun to turn the corner after a v...

An attempted murder charge has been dropped against a Collie man accused of causing his 17-year-old girlfriend's car to plunge into the Collie River. Daniel Grazier, 20, appeared in the Stirling Gardens Magistrate's Court today, where prosecutor Justin Whalley asked for the attempted murder charge to be discontinued. It was previously alleged in a court that Mr Grazier and his girlfriend of one month Shelleigh Everett started arguing bitterly as they drove around Collie before Mr Grazier threatened to kill his girlfriend. At the time police alleged Mr Grazier grabbed the steering wheel of Shelleigh's Hyundai sedan causing it to plunge into the river. Shelleigh was taken to hospital with a cracked vertebrae. Defence lawyer Derek Hunter told Bunbury Magistrates's Court last November that Mr Grazier denied causing the accident, had not fled the scene and had helped rescue his girlfriend from the water. "He dragged her from the car, undoing her seatbelt a...

A former Culpeper police officer was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and other charges Tuesday for killing a 54-year-old homemaker during a routine suspicious vehicle check that spiraled out of control last February. A Culpeper Circuit Court jury deliberated for about nine hours before returning the verdict in the trial of Daniel Harmon-Wright, who fired seven shots into Patricia Cook's Jeep Wrangler as she attempted to drive away from the then-officer. He faces a maximum of 25 years in prison. The killing shocked and angered many in the small town of Culpeper, which had not seen a fatal police shooting since its department was created in 1956. The case also raised questions about whether the five-year veteran should have been on the force. Jurors could have found Harmon-Wright guilty of murder, but their finding indicated that they gave some weight to his contention that he shot Cook out of fear for his own safety and that of the public. "Citizens found t...

Facebook Google buzz Del.icio.us Digg Reddit Newsvine Buzz up! Fark it - A A A + ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Homicide detectives have been called to the scene of a downtown shooting. Police say a man was shot near the Civic Center MetroLink station at 14th Street and Spruce Street around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday. The victim, a teen around 18-years-old, ran to the station for help and then collapsed. He was rushed to an area hospital. His condition has not been released. NewsChannel 5 will have more on this story as details become available. KSDK Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A 70-year-old California woman who was a trustee at a private school and a retired business counselor with the U.S. Commerce Department was stabbed to death in a random attack in a New Hampshire hotel lobby by another guest, authorities said Tuesday. Catherine ''Kitty'' Houghton, of Novato, Calif., had traveled to New Hampshire for board meetings at the White Mountain School, her alma mater, in Bethlehem. She was staying at the Hampton Inn in nearby Littleton and was in the lobby Monday evening when, prosecutors say, a 37-year-old man stabbed her in the neck and torso. Houghton died soon afterward at a hospital. Littleton is a community of 4,000 just west of the White Mountains National Forest in northwest New Hampshire, near the Vermont border. Its last killing was in 1999. Although a Vermont man was in custody, the lead prosecutor said she's at a loss to explain a motive. ''At this point in time th...

Police arrested a homicide suspect from Puerto Rico Monday night in the city, they said. City police Officer Jonathan Reppert stopped a sport utility vehicle in the 800 block of Manor Street at about 11:30 because it had a stolen license plate, Lt. Todd Umstead said. Officers discovered that a passenger, 22-year-old Jerry Rodriguez-Sanchez, is wanted in Guyama, Puerto Rico for a homicide in October, Umstead said. Rodriguez-Sanchez, who does not have a known address, was arrested and charged with being a fugitive from justice before District Judge Cheryl Hartman. He was being held Tuesday at the police station, pending his arraignment. Rodriguez-Sanchez will be extradited to Puerto Rico, Umstead said. The driver of the SUV, Tony Pesante, 26, of the 700 block of Manor Street, was arrested and charged with receiving stolen property. He was released on a summons to appear in court, Umstead said. Rodriguez-Sanchez does not appear to be connected to Carlos A. Ramos-Lebron, ...

KOTB: Sounds like a dangerous place, this salvage yard. Ms. MILLER: Pretty much. We were broken into quite a bit. Quite a bit. KOTB: (Voiceover) Detectives first turned to Miller's salvage yard, where they began looking into the hardscrabble cash-and-carry nature of the business. In fact, Sharee remembered something strange the very morning of the murder. (Salvage yard; salvage yard office; photo of Bruce; salvage yard office) Ms. MILLER: I did have a weird run-in with some customers in the morning. KOTB: Were they threatening you or were they saying... Ms. MILLER: No, they were saying comments like, 'What did you do have to do to get that kind of wedding band?' and stuff like that. And usually I can put people off or whatever, but these guys wouldn't stop. So I told them I was going to call the police, and then they left. KOTB: (Voiceover) While that lead went nowhere, sheriff's detectives began a routine canvass of Bruce Miller's associates...