Rochester-area convict dies after prison fight

New York:

AUBURN - Authorities said Tuesday that an investigation is underway into the death of a Rochester-area convict who was attacked in a New York state prison July 9.

The Citizen of Auburn reports that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision reported that 51-year-old Daniel Wingate was pronounced dead last Friday at a hospital July 14.

Wingate was an inmate at the maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility in Cayuga County. State prison officials said he was a repeat sex offender.

New York State Police said in a news release that troopers responded to the prison July 9 after an altercation between Wingate and other prisoners.

Cayuga County prosecutors said Wingate was attacked by another inmate and that state police are investigating his death as a homicide.

According to Syracuse.com, the Cayuga County coroner expects to determine the manner and cause of death in about two weeks.

Wingate, who would have turned 52 next month, was scheduled to be released in September, according to a state website about prisoners. He was imprisoned in Auburn in January 2013 after being convicted in Monroe County of first-degree sexual abuse and sentenced to five years in prison, it said. No details were available.

Prior to his most recent sentence, he was convicted of sex abuse and spent time in prison from 1995 to 2008, The Citizen said. According to the New York State Sex Offenders Registry, he was convicted Jan. 17, 1995, of abusing a 7-year-old girl in Monroe County on April 1, 1994. ..Source..

DA: Rap Pioneer Killed Man Because He Thought He Hit On Him and was Going to Rob Him; Homeless Man was a Sex Offender

August 2017 New York:

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York prosecutor said Thursday that a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five stabbed a homeless man to death in Manhattan after he became enraged because he thought the man believed he was gay and was hitting on him, and he feared he would be robbed.

Rapper Kidd Creole — whose real name is Nathaniel Glover — was returned to jail without bail by Judge Phyllis Chu on Thursday after an initial appearance in a Manhattan criminal court on a second-degree murder charge.

Assistant District Attorney Mark Dahl said Glover, 57, a lyricist with the pioneering group, gave a detailed account of the street encounter in midtown shortly before midnight Tuesday that Dahl described to the judge, saying he wanted to demonstrate “the strength of the case.”

Defense lawyer Patrick Watts told the judge the evidence was “circumstantial” as his calm client stood alongside him, a tightly wound gray braid draped halfway down his back. Outside court, Watts declined comment.

La Crosse police identify career felon as carjacker killed during pursuit

8-16-17 Wisconsin:

La Crosse police identified career felon Roger Burzinski as the armed carjacker fatally shot by officers during a pursuit Sunday on the city’s South Side.

Burzinski, 54, of Green Bay, stole a Chevy Trailblazer from Houska Park about 5 p.m. after confronting a woman in the passenger seat at gunpoint. She was able remove her 3-year-old daughter from the backseat before Burzinski sped off with her 1-year-old daughter still inside.

Police found the car minutes later at 10th and Green Bay streets. Burzinski led officers on a pursuit of speeds up to 47 mph from South Avenue to Eighth Street, where he drove through a road construction site at Johnson Street, went airborne and crashed into a parked car about 10 minutes later.

Two officers, identified as Andrew Adey and Stephen Hughes, shot and killed Burzinski when he refused to comply with orders and they noticed he had a firearm, according to the department.

Contra Costa Sheriff Deputies Shoot, Kill Suspected Child Molester During Standoff In Byron

3-18-16 California:

BYRON (CBS SF) — A man facing child molestation charges who was fatally shot by Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies Friday morning after a standoff in Byron has been identified as 49-year-old Michael Mallet, sheriff’s officials said.

The situation began when Mallet was served with an arrest warrant at 10:06 p.m. Thursday. He responded by arming himself with a handgun and barricading himself in a home in the 2700 block of Hoffman Lane, Capt. Dan Hoffman said.

Hoffman said the $1.15 million arrest warrant was served in connection to 12 counts of child molestation charged against Mallet Thursday by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office.

The impetus for these charges was a February investigation by the sheriff’s office, Hoffman said. A 13-year-old foster child reported that Mallet molested her for a period of time when she was 11 years old, Hoffman said.

Man shot in standoff with Effingham County deputies was sex offender

2-1-17 Georgia:

The man killed last week during a standoff with two Effingham County Sheriff’s Office deputies and one deputy from Bulloch County was a registered sex offender, and had been jailed in 2014 for attacking Effingham deputies during a routine compliance check.

Gary M. Wigley of Highway 119 North in southeast Bulloch County, was convicted in 1988 on charges of child molestation and cruelty to a child, according to sex offender registry records.

Wigley, 52, was scheduled to appear in Effingham County Superior Court Jan. 9, before Ogeechee Judicial Circuit Judge WiIliam Woodrum Jr., regarding yet another, more recent case, where he was charged with false imprisonment, obstruction, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, disorderly conduct, and simple assault, according to Woodrum’s criminal bench trail calendar.

Former professor’s sexual advances brutally rejected, detectives say

1-15-17 Florida:

Manatee, Fla. Former college professor Hollant Maxford Adrien was acquainted with the 20-year-old man who detectives say rejected his sexual advances in a brutal attack, stabbing and then beating him to death with a hammer.

Barry Joshua Baer of Bradenton told detectives Friday, that Adrien, 56, had picked him up and driven him to the area of the intersection of 58th Avenue East and 21st Street East, a dead end in an industrial park, where Adrien’s body was later found, according to an arrest report.

“Baer stated that victim began to make sexual advances, which Baer rejected,” Manatee County Detective Ben Main, lead homicide investigator in the case, wrote in his report.

It was then when Baer said he took out a knife that he regularly carried for protection and stabbed Adrien in the neck. A physical struggle began outside of the vehicle, and Baer grabbed a hammer and struck Adrien 40 to 45 times in the head, the report said.

Cops: Man killed by deputy had been acting erratically

12-7-2016 Florida:

A Leesburg man was acting erratically before he beat a Lake County deputy sheriff with a boat oar during a confrontation in Lake Griffin, prompting the lawman to kill him, a sheriff's official said Wednesday.

The man killed Tuesday was identified as Wayne Donald Dorsey, 49, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Dorsey first ran into a car and then rammed into the Citgo gas station at 4075 Picciola Road before taking off on foot and attempting to carjack another vehicle with a person inside, Sgt. Fred Jones said.

The deputy, who has been with the Lake Sheriff's Office for about 12 years, was placed on paid administrative leave.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting, Jones said.

The deputy was not immediately identified.

Police identify motel homicide victim

11-17-2016 Missouri:

COLUMBIA — The man found dead from an apparent gunshot wound earlier this week in a motel is Gregory J. Moore, a 54-year-old Columbia resident, police said Saturday in a news release.

Moore's body was found around 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Welcome Inn on Providence Road, where police say Moore was a long-term resident. Authorities are treating his death as a homicide.

A man with Moore's full name, address and birth year is registered as a sex offender with the Missouri Highway Patrol, though authorities have not confirmed they are the same person. In 1996, the man pleaded guilty to second-degree sodomy against a 16-year-old girl in St. Charles, along with supplying a minor with liquor, according to online court records and the sex offender database.

Robbery suspect killed at KFC by police has extensive criminal record

1-18-16 Missouri:

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) - There is more information about the man shot and killed by St. Louis police last night during an alleged armed robbery at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. The man known as "Big Wes" is gone, and now new information is surfacing about his past troubles with the law.

St. Louis City Police continue to investigate the shooting that happened near Gravois And Grand Avenue. According to investigators Crayton West, 52, robbed the KFC and pointed a gun at a police Sargent when confronted at the restaurant.

The officer who was called to the scene by a witness. He fired at West, killing him.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that West became a registered sex offender in 1980 for assaulting a teenaged boy. He also served time for robbing seven restaurants in October of 1986. FOX 2 is also told West was recently dealing with financial issues.

Police say the encounter was caught on camera inside of the restaurant. So far both the video and name of the officer have not been released.

Victim or vigilante? Summations offer differing views of 'Lady Vengeance'

9-30-2009 New York:

QUEENS -- Either Brigitte Harris was trying to stop a sexually abusive "monster" when she strangled and mutilated her father, or she was a vigilante, seeking revenge with malicious intent.

The defense and prosecution offered those differing views to the jury at Ms. Harris' murder trial at state Supreme Court in Queens this morning. Jurors will now have to decide if Ms. Harris, 28, is guilty of second-degree murder -- a charge that carries a minimum sentence of 15 years to life in prison -- or a lesser charge of first- or second-degree manslaughter.

Both sides agree on one thing: Ms. Harris killed and dismembered her father, 55-year-old St. George resident Eric Goodridge, on July 28, 2007. He was found in her Far Rockaway apartment handcuffed and beaten, with his genitals cut off and a towel stuffed in his mouth.

In an emotional, hour-long summation, defense attorney Arthur Aidala told a captivated jury that Ms. Harris had no choice.

Man fatally hit with skateboard at Starbucks ID'd as registered sex offender

11-30-15 California:

A man who was fatally hit over the head by a skateboard after police and witnesses said he harassed a customer inside a Santa Ana, Calif., Starbucks was a registered sex offender.

Ozro Robert Lee, 50, was killed in the Nov. 24 incident, according to KTLA . The Orange County coroner’s office released Lee’s name over the weekend.

Lee was a registered sex offender, whose offenses included annoying or molesting a child after illegal entry into inhabited dwelling, as well as indecent exposure with prior conviction for the offense.

Lee was sentenced to four years in prison in 2012 after he was convicted of breaking into a Stanton, Calif., home and masturbating in front of a partially paralyzed grandmother and her two young granddaughters, according to the Orange County Register.

Rapist killed by police in Oak Cliff beat murder charge

7-9-15 Texas:

Joe Cody was a rapist. He was a robber. He was a thief. And, authorities say, he once murdered a man at random — though he beat the rap for that on a technicality.

“He was a sociopath. He really was,” said former prosecutor Andy Beach. “He was a scary, scary fellow.”

A Dallas County jury agreed and quickly decided in 1985 that Dallas was safer without Cody on the streets. It sentenced him to life in prison.

Yet, Cody, 59, was free Tuesday afternoon, back in Dallas and walking around Bishop Avenue while known to the state as a moderate-risk sex offender. When Dallas officers swarmed him to arrest him for violating his parole, he pulled out a handgun.

Within seconds, Cody was dead. No one else was hurt, or could be hurt again by Cody.

Police investigators Wednesday were still sorting through what happened. Cody’s family portrayed him as a caring man who wasn’t likely to shoot at police officers, but his criminal history suggests he was a violent criminal who committed heinous, senseless acts.

With body on the floor, suspects in Belfair homicide came back the next day to steal items

5-29-15 Washington:

SHELTON — A man being held on suspicion of murder for shooting a Belfair man last weekend told investigators he had accused the victim of being a pedophile and, when confronted, the victim lunged at him so he shot him in the head.

Daniel A. Dunn, 35, of Belfair, also is believed to have returned to Charles Albion Austin’s residence the next day, Sunday, and taken a number of items. Christopher G. Redfern, 27, of Port Orchard, also was arrested in connection with Austin’s death, although Dunn told investigators Redfern was not involved in the shooting.

Austin, 51, was found by a neighbor Monday at his residence on the 100 block of Southridge Drive in Belfair.

Although Dunn said he told Austin he intended to call police to report him for “weird” conversations, when investigators asked why Dunn didn’t go to police to report the shooting, Dunn said he didn’t want to go to jail.

Clues left at Austin’s house led investigators to Dunn and Redfern, said Mason County Sheriff’s Detective Bill Adam.

Neither man has been charged in Austin’s death. However, they appeared Thursday in Superior Court, and Judge Toni Sheldon found probable cause to hold both. Sheldon set $1 million bail for Dunn and $500,000 for Redfern, said Prosecutor Mike Dorcy.

Two dead in apparent murder-suicide at group home in Amelia Island

Note: The RSO was murdered by a non RSO who then committed suicide.

5-20-15 Florida:

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Two men are dead after an apparent murder-suicide at a group home in Amelia Island.

The Nassau County sheriff says Ken Supernor Sr. shot and killed Paul Auld, a registered sexual predator, then turned the gun on himself.

Neighbors there were already concerned about living next to the house, which operated as a halfway house for recovering addicts and criminals.

The halfway house in the middle of a heated zoning debate is now at the center of a murder-suicide investigation.

“Shocked that I wasn’t aware enough to recognize these people with this kind of behavior,” said Kathy Lynn Hamby, who lives at the home.

“We never would have any thought like this,” said Christopher Collins who also lives at the home.

Suspect in officer-involved shooting was just paroled

4-15-15 Missouri:

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Police say they are "95 percent" sure the man an officer killed Wednesday night in a parking garage was the same one wanted for a robbery earlier that day.

On Thursday Highway Patrol would not confirm the name of the suspect until the autopsy was complete. The autopsy is happening on Thursday.

Deputy Chief Jill Schlude with the Columbia Police Department told reporters outside Hitt Street Garage that they strongly believe Mark W. Adair, 51, died when he and an officer exchanged gunfire on the second floor of the parking structure just before 11 p.m.

An officer with the University of Missouri police department went to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries he suffered during the shooting. At this point, police aren't sure if his finger was injured by a bullet or just during the confrontation.

ABC 17 News learned Adair had a lengthy criminal past.

Man found murdered in a ditch may have been killed after confessing in therapy to abusing a 5-year-old relative more than 35-years ago

3-4-2014 Michigan:

1)Body of Steven Day, 54, was found in a ditch in Grand Rapids, MI, on December 18[ 2)He reportedly admitted the molestation of a five-year-old relative to his sister but was never charged or convicted; 3)Robert McCombs, 63, and Roger Musick, 38, charged with tampering with evidence

The murder of a man found in a snowy ditch could be linked to the victim's recent admission that he molested a young relative 35 years ago, police have said.

Steven Day, 54, was found in the ditch in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on December 18 - it is not yet clear how he died.

Kent County Sheriff's Detective Martin Albert said he found evidence at Day's home that suggested he he had admitted to molesting a five-year-old relative, 35 years ago.

At the time of his death Day had never been charged or prosecuted for any molestation crime.

But he was taking part in the Salvation Army's 12-step 'Turning Point' program for which Mr Day wrote that he committed the molestation, authorities said.

MPD identify victim killed in Tillman’s corner parking lot as registered sex offender

1-5-2015 Alabama:

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Mobile Police have released the name of the victim who was shot and killed on Friday at a parking lot on Highway 90 in Tillman’s Corner.

According to police, 50-year-old James Naylor was shot in the head outside Kentucky Fried Chicken and was taken by ambulance to USA Medical Center.

The person who shot Naylor has not been charged. The case is being sent to a grand jury to determine if there will be criminal charges.

According to witnesses and police at the scene on Friday, the victim and suspect were in some sort of argument leading up to the shooting. A close friend of Naylor who didn’t want to be identified said that Naylor was walking toward the shooter when he was killed.

Sex offender shot to death in Cleveland, TN after daylight abduction

11-26-2014 Tennessee:

A kidnapped woman and three children were in the house where Cleveland, Tenn., police shot to death a convicted sex offender who lunged at them with a knife, authorities said.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is still piecing together what happened on Tuesday that led to the death of Robert Edwin Eaves, 51, a self-described "jack of all trades" who was convicted of attempted rape in 2006.

The TBI and Cleveland police said Eaves, who lived on Vista Drive NW, abducted a 28-year-old woman who lived nearby at about 11:30 a.m. -- broad daylight -- and took her to a house on Phillips Street, halfway across town and a few blocks off of South Lee Highway in Cleveland.

He took the woman inside the house, authorities said, where there were three children, including a 16-year-old baby sitter. It's not known what relationships, if any, Eaves had to any of the other people involved, but TBI officials said Eaves was threatening the safety of everyone in the home.

One of the children managed to call their mother, who called 911, authorities said. Cleveland police showed up in just minutes.

When the two officers, identified as 25-year-old Jacob Varnell and 45-year-old Jody Musselwhite, arrived at the Phillips Street address, Eaves pulled a knife and attempted to assault them, TBI officials said.

The officers drew their weapons and "one or both of the officers" fired on Eaves, killing him, the TBI said.

Former Marine found dead on Cleveland's West Side was sex offender

10-8-2014 California:

A day after Edmunds Petersons' bruised body was discovered in his basement apartment, the proud former Marine's U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs badge drooped from the rearview mirror of his white Ford Explorer parked behind the home.

The badge dangled next to a pair of dog tags, a wreathed American flag bandana, a U.S. Marine Corps medallion and a bare metal cross -- trinkets that give a glimpse into the life of a 51-year-old sex offender Cleveland police say may have been the victim of a homicide.

A landlord found Petersons' body in a bed about 10:45 a.m. Sunday inside a duplex on the 1400 block of West 117th Street. Petersons head and body suffered contusions, but police did not see any seemingly fatal injuries, according to a division spokeswoman.

Petaluma slaying suspect arrested

9-11-2014 California:

A suspect was jailed in connection with the shooting death of a man at his home in Petaluma, police said Thursday.

Mikol Wayne Stewart, 37, of Santa Rosa is being held on suspicion of murder and burglary in connection with the slaying of Arturo Hinojosa Jr., 49.

The incident began about 4 p.m. Wednesday with a report of gunshots on Suncrest Hill Drive, said Lt. Dan Fish. Responding officers found Hinojosa dead from at least one gunshot wound.

Police identified Stewart as the suspect with the help of witnesses who said they saw a pickup truck with an ATV in the bed near the crime scene, Fish said. He said Stewart was found in Santa Rosa in a vehicle matching that description.

Hinojosa grew medical marijuana at his home and was a registered sex offender, having been convicted of oral copulation with a minor. But police don't believe either was a factor in the killing, Fish said.