Sex offender killed by teenage niece

10-22-2013 Georgia:

Child charged with murder, held at youth detention center

A convicted sex offender was stabbed to death by her 14-year-old niece.

Monday night, paramedics found the body of 49-year-old Shirley Elaine Mack on the kitchen floor of her small brick home on Scott Store Road just north of Midville.

She appeared to have a single stab wound to her chest.

The child accused of killing Mack had been living in the house along with four younger children.

“It appears that they got into some kind of argument and the girl got a knife and stabbed (Mack),” Sheriff Greg Coursey said, noting a 911 call was received around 8:30 p.m.

Although the child’s name has not been released, the sheriff confirmed the 14-year-old is being held at a youth detention center in Sandersville. GBI Special Agent Pat Morgan told The True Citizen she is charged with murder and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime.

Woman Who Allegedly Beats Man To Death With Baseball Bat Is Charged

9-27-2013 Colorado:

A family is grappling with grief and confusion after a 42-year-old man was beaten to death with a baseball bat.

"My husband is the most loveable, caring person I know," Denzel Rainey's widow told sister station KCNC.

The woman arrested for the attack, however, allegedly told authorities she beat Rainey because she believed he sexually assaulted a child. She was formally charged Friday.

According to the arrest affidavit, 30-year-old Forsythia Owen told police she grabbed a bat and hunted Rainey down after a child said he had sexually abused her.

Rainey was found Sunday in an alley in the Denver suburb of Englewood. Owen allegedly told police she went to that alley because he slept there, and according to the affidavit detailed her attack on him by swinging her hands "back and forth...demonstrated how she struck Rainey over and over again."

Rainey suffered multiple injuries: skull fracture, six broken ribs, broken left hand and two broken arms.

Lisa Rainey told KCNC that her husband had been homeless due to struggles with alcohol.

“I just don’t know why, what caused her to do this on Denzel, and if Denzel did anything to provoke it,” Lisa Rainey said. “I need to know the answers for closure for me and closure for my kids.”

Neighbors told KCNC Rainey kept to himself and "never bothered anyone." One woman KCNC spoke with alleged that Owens was the troubled one.

“From my understanding of looking at her, you could tell she was on something,” Veronica Evans said. “That’s why my little sister and I would stay away from her.”

Man Shot By Officer Was Subject Of Rape Probe

10-18-2013 Texas:

A man shot to death Oct. 16 in Wishram by a The Dalles police officer has been identified by the Klickitat County prosecutor as Adrian Suarez, 22, a suspect in the rape of a minor.

#Suarez’ address is unknown, said The Dalles Police Chief Jay Waterbury, but investigation by The Dalles Police Department and Oregon State Police were able to determine that Suarez was residing in the Wishram area.

#The officer involved in the shooting was Detective Jamie Carrico, 42, a 17-year veteran of The Dalles police force, Waterbury said. Carrico had not been involved in any previous shootings. He was part of a multi-jurisdictional team who went to Wishram to question Suarz.

#In conjunction with Klickitat County sheriff’s deputies, the Oregon investigators went to a residence in the 200 block of East Main Street in Wishram to question Suarez. Identifying themselves as law enforcement officers, they told the subject to come to the door. As he approached the door, police observed that he was carrying a gun.

#The subject fled on foot out the back door of the residence and led The Dalles officers on a foot pursuit. About a block away, the subject was reported to have shot and wounded a The Dalles officer.

#The officer, reported to be a 17-year veteran of the force, returned fire, striking Suarez, reports indicated. Suarez was declared dead at the scene.

#The plain-clothes officer was released from Mid-Columbia Medical Center around noon Thursday.

#Plain clothes officers are not required to wear bulletproof vests under department policy, Waterbury noted, adding that the policy may be a topic of discussion in the future.

#Both The Dalles and Klickitat County law enforcement agencies are continuing their investigation of the alleged rape and shooting. ..Source.. by The Dallas Chronicle

Elmore Correctional Facility prisoner dies from injuries after altercation with another inmate

10-17-2013 Alabama:

A prisoner at Elmore Correctional Facility has died from injuries suffered in an altercation with another inmate.

Derrick Dennis, 34, died Tuesday at 2:55 p.m. at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, according to Department of Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett. The altercation happened Saturday.
Dennis was serving a life sentence for rape, assault and burglary out of Jefferson County. He was sentenced on Jan. 10, 2006.

Inmate Christopher Smith is a suspect in the death. Smith, 29, is serving a 25-year sentence out of Mobile County for trafficking, possession of a controlled substance, and receiving stolen property.

The Department of Corrections’ Investigation and Intelligence Division is investigating the homicide. Elmore is a medium security prison with about 1,180 inmates.

The incident is at least the fourth inmate-on-inmate homicide in Alabama prisons since Oct. 1, 2012.

In August, an inmate at St. Clair Correctional Facility was stabbed to death by another inmate.

The Department of Corrections reported in its July statistical report that there had been two inmate on inmate homicides during since Oct. 1, 2012, one at Donaldson Correctional Facility and one at Bibb Correctional Facility. ..Source.. by CONUS TOC

Ramapo rape suspect killed; Orange County man charged with murder

10-11-2013 New York:

A 35-year-old New Hempstead man accused of raping an underage female acquaintance was shot dead in Orange County on Friday. A neighbor has been charged with murder.

Norris Acosta-Sanchez, who had been on the run from Ramapo police since July when a warrant was issued for his arrest, was killed at 115 Old Plank Road, Sparrowbush. David Carlson, 42, who told police he was confronted on his property by Acosta-Sanchez, is accused of killing him, police said.

Carlson, who carried a 12-gauge shotgun, told Acosta-Sanchez that he was going to escort him to a neighbor’s house, where police would be called, officials said.

But at some point, Carlson fired two shots that missed Acosta-Sanchez and then two additional shots that proved fatal, police said.

Carlson, a union carpenter who lived at 99 Old Plank Road, notified authorities of the shooting about 9:30 a.m., Ramapo police said.

Police questioned Carlson after the shooting and charged him Friday with second-degree murder, a felony.

Carlson was to be arraigned Friday night.

Man who shot at deputies killed

10-9-2013 North Carolina:

Sheriff: Leicester suspect fired at officers with hunting bow during foot chase; SBI investigates

LEICESTER — Buncombe County deputies shot and killed a man after he fired a hunting bow at them while they were trying to serve a warrant for failure to register as a sex offender, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The Sheriff’s Office has not released the name of the man as they try to determine what next of kin needs to be notified, but said he had a history of sexual battery out of state.

Officers attempted to serve the warrant around 3 p.m. Wednesday at a residence on Elkins Road. Sheriff Van Duncan said the man ran as deputies approached his residence.

During the foot chase, the man fired a hunting bow at the officers at close range. Deputies returned fire, killing the man. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The SBI will investigate the shooting, as is routine in such cases.