Sex offender found bound, killed in Phoenix auto parts shop

6-7-2016 Arizona:

PHOENIX - A registered sex offender has been killed in Phoenix. Police discovered the body of 73-year-old Reginald Locke inside his home near 24th Street and Roosevelt after he was reported missing Monday night.

Phoenix police say Locke was found bound with trauma to his body.

Aaren Shivers and his wife Irene Piper just can’t believe their neighbor was found dead.

"It’s very bad, and it’s disturbing really, because I’m literally right next door," said Shivers.

Police believe Locke lived in an area of Fred’s Auto Parts and Machine Shop. Locke was reported missing Monday night, but then found dead at about 11 a.m. Tuesday.

“The victim was restrained with signs of trauma to his body," said Sgt. Vince Lewis of the Phoenix Police Dept.

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.

Homeless Roanoke man dies after September assault

10-27-15 Virginia:

A homeless Roanoke man who was assaulted last month died Monday, police said.

Thomas Patrick Corriveau, 62, died at a hospital from complications of the Sept. 30 attack, and the medical examiner’s office ruled his death a homicide on Tuesday, Roanoke police spokesman Scott Leamon said.

About 1 p.m. Oct. 1, Roanoke Fire-EMS responded to a report about an intoxicated person leaning over a railing at a business in the 300 block of Elm Avenue in southeast Roanoke, Leamon said. The man had injuries to his face and his side.

Responders took the man, who initially provided a false name, to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital for treatment. Police said he was extremely intoxicated.

'I can't be friends with a rapist,' suspect told Coaldale man before killing him, police say; teen also charged

1-12-2015 Pennsylvania:

The yearlong mystery of Corey Samuels' death in Coaldale was solved Sunday when a man told state police that he and a teenage boy killed Samuels as revenge for an alleged rape, police said.

Oliver L. Trizarri, 21, of Reading and Stanley E. Kralik, 17, of Coaldale were arraigned Monday on charges of homicide, aggravated assault, robbery and theft in the death of Samuels, 24, of Coaldale.

"I can't be friends with a rapist," Trizarri said the night of Jan. 20-21, 2014, after Kralik hit Samuels with a shovel and Samuels pleaded for mercy in the woods near an old railroad bed, according to the police arrest affidavit.

Trizarri told police that, weeks before the killing, Kralik informed him that a female friend of Kralik's said Samuels had sexually assaulted her, according to the affidavit. Kralik wanted Samuels punished, police said.

"Trizarri stated that [Kralik] told him, 'I want to kill (Samuels),'" and Trizarri agreed to help Kralik carry out the slaying, the affidavit says.

Trizarri told police that he and Kralik separated Samuels from his girlfriend the night of Jan. 20 by telling her they were going on a "boys night out" in the woods, the affidavit says.

Samuels was not seen alive again, police said.

He was reported missing to Coaldale police on Jan. 23, but his body wasn't found for nearly eight months. On Sept. 16, two hikers found his remains in the woods off East Miner Street, Coaldale.

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.

Eyewitnesses scarce in Williams murder case

9-17-2014 Florida:

The 46-year-old Eastpoint man charged in the bludgeoning death May 10 of a known sexual predator has said he doesn’t recall striking the victim with an axe handle, and so far there are few individuals at the scene that night willing to come forward to say he did.

Bobby J. Bullock, Jr. faces second degree murder charges in the death of Norman Bill Williams, 59, which police say took place sometime before 8:30 p.m. at a house on Washington Street.

An autopsy report from Dr. Lisa M. Flannagan, with the medical examiner’s office, said she found “blunt force trauma and hemorrhage. It appears that (Williams) was struck by a very significant impact near the base of the skull near left ear. The source of hemorrhage in this area is often difficult to locate.”

Bullock was in court last week on an unrelated felony charge of child abuse dating back to Sept. 2013. Nan Weaver, spokeswoman for the Office of Criminal Conflict & Civil Regional Counsel for the First District Court of Appeals Region, said Bullock’s attorney, Thomas Cassidy, from Port St. Joe, had sought a plea agreement to reduce the charge to misdemeanor domestic battery, with the punishment time served of about nine months.

Cops: Eastpoint man bludgeons to death sexual predator

5-13-2014 Florida:

APALACHICOLA - 46-year-old Eastpoint man has been charged in the beating death Saturday night of a notorious sexual predator who attracted nationwide attention in 2011 when he fled the county after being released from state prison to fend for himself in the woods.

Bobby J. Bullock, Jr., 46, Eastpoint, was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after he turned himself in to the sheriff’s office following the confrontation with Norman Bill Williams, 59, which took place sometime before 8:30 p.m. on 23 Washington Street.

Capt. Chester Creamer said second degree murder charges are pending because Dr. Lisa M. Flannagan, with the medical examiner’s office, has requested the opinion of a second pathologist regarding the blunt trauma wounds to the neck that felled Williams.

Creamer said several people, many of whom were intoxicated, witnessed the violent incident but are reluctant to come forward to police. “Few people want to talk about it,” he said.

Robbery was motive in killing of man at Myrtle Beach motel, warrant says

11-14-2013 South Carolina:

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) - Two men have been charged in connection with a Myrtle Beach motel homicide of a Hemingway man who was a registered sex offender, Myrtle Beach Police say.

Now, authorities say the incident happened during a robbery, according to an arrest warrant.

According to a press release, officers were notified of a homicide at the Atlantic View motel on Flagg Street in Myrtle Beach on Monday.

Officers said the victim of the crime, a 57-year-old Helbert Woodberry, was not located until late Tuesday afternoon.

The body was found on Postal Way, a road parallel to US 501 that links Carolina Forest shopping areas to Carolina Forest High School, police say.

Mitchell Monroe Weatherall, age 32, was charged with murder on Tuesday afternoon.

On Wednesday morning, Weatherall appeared in front of a judge for an unrelated shoplifting charge. Bond was set at the maximum penalty of $1,092 for that charge. Weatherall remains in jails and awaits a bond hearing with a circuit court judge for the murder charge.

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.”

Englewood woman accused of using baseball bat in murder of man she suspected of molesting a child

9-24-2013 Colorado:

An Englewood woman is accused of using a baseball bat to kill a man who she suspected of sexually assaulting a child.

Court records show that Forsythia Eliese Owen, 30, is accused of committing the murder on September 22.

Englewood police identified the murder victim as Denzle Rainey, 42. Officers found him in an alley between the 3600 block of S. Sherman and S. Grant Streets at 1:11 a.m. Sunday.

According to an affidavit obtained by 7NEWS, Owen confessed to officers in the Englewood Police Department's recorded interview room. She told the officers that the child, whose name is redacted from the document, said Rainey "had touched and sexually abused her."

The officers asked if Owen was responsible for Rainey's death.

"Owen stood up and said she killed him," the affidavit says. "Owen swung her hands back and forth and demonstrated how she struck Rainey over and over again because of what he did to [name redacted]."

Rainey suffered lacerations to his head and a skull fracture. Both arms, six ribs and his left hand were broken. His liver was also lacerated.

A punch from nowhere, and Michael Daniels' rough life ends in a senseless beating

5-30-2013 New York:

With a cold Bud Ice in his plastic bag and change for the bus, Michael Daniels was good to go last Thursday night.

A two-block walk to the bus stop, a short ride across town to the North Side and he could call it a day. He had mowed his former landlord's lawn on West Brighton Avenue earlier, which had left him breathless.

Daniels never made it to the bus. He left that corner in an ambulance, beaten senseless by a group of youths, at least one of them appearing as young as 10 years old. Daniels died a day later.

Police have made no arrests and they say they don't know the attackers' motive. Daniels was not robbed.

The killing in front of Los Amigos Grocery has people in the neighborhood shaken.

Some have since come into the store and mentioned the May 23 ambush as a version of a street game called "knockout," in which an attacker tries to knock out an unsuspecting victim with one punch, said Joe Brown, the son of the store's owners, Ruben and Marjorie Colon.

In an old city neighborhood of rundown houses, churches, schools and storefront social service agencies, Los Amigos sells lottery tickets, cold drinks, chips, canned goods and household essentials.

Suspect in 2009 beating confirmed dead

7-2-2013 Oklahoma:

Remains found last year are wanted man’s

Muskogee County sheriff’s investigators have closed the case on a man wanted for the brutal beating of his grandfather.

Skeletal remains found in December proved to be those of the suspect in the case, Timothy Curtis Peterson (33) of Oktaha, Sheriff Charles Pearson said. When and how Peterson died has not been determined, he said.

Peterson’s skull and several bones were found in December in a wooded area near Quinton in Pittsburg County on private property, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

The remains were believed to have been there between two and five years. Peterson would be 34 if he were alive.

Peterson was wanted by the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Department for assault and by the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force for failing to register as a sex offender, Pearson said. A $2,500 reward had been offered for his arrest.