At Monday’s White House Press briefing, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, disgusted with the flurry of questions from reporters that ignored violence around the country and instead focused on the Confederate flag, finally had had enough. Concluding the briefing, she said levelly:
<blockquote>Finally, I’d end with this: I was asked probably twelve questions about the Confederate flag. This president’s focused on action. I’m a little dismayed that I didn’t receive one question on the deaths that we got in this country this weekend. I didn’t receive one question about New York City shootings doubling for the third straight week and over the last seven days, shootings skyrocket by 142%. Not one question.
I didn’t receive one question about five children who were killed. And I’ll leave you with this remark by a dad; it broke my heart. A dad of an eight-year-old lost in Atlanta this weekend: “They say Black Lives Matter? You killed a child; she didn’t do nothing to nobody,” was his quote. We need to be focused on securing our streets; making sure no lives were lost, because all black lives matter. That of David Dorn and that of this eight-year-old girl.</blockquote>
McEnany wasn’t making anything up about the number of relentless questions regarding the Confederate flag. Here are some of the questions that were fired at her:
1. Why is the president so supportive of flying the Confederate flag?
2. Does he believe NASCAR should fly the Confederate flag and why don’t they fly it here?
3. What is the president’s position? Does he think NASCAR made a mistake by banning the Confederate flag?
4. Let’s drill down on the Confederate flag. Does he think it was a mistake for NASCAR to ban it?
5. Does he think NASCAR’s ratings are down because they banned the Confederate flag?
6. Does he think his supporters should not take the flag to Trump rallies?
7. Has he considered banning the Confederate flag from Trump rallies?
8. You were saying we were taking the tweet out of context, but this is what he (Trump) tweeted: “Has Bubba Wallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers &amp; officials who came to his aid, stood by his die, &amp; were wiling to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another hoax? That &amp; flag decision has caused lowest ratings ever.” How are we misinterpreting that?
9. On the Confederate part, why would the president not praise NASCAR for removing the Confederate flag, particularly given the history of that flag, the symbol that it has for African-Americans, and also what it represents in terms of just the treasonous acts and the insurrection against the republic?
10. What exactly does the president see as positive or uniting about the Confederate flag?
11. You’ve said there’s no opinion on the Confederate flag. Why can’t this White House unambiguously state whether or not it supports displays of he Confederate flag?
12. And what about making a statement on the Confederate flag? Are we capable of doing that?
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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds Briefing

WATCH: McEnany Rips Press For Ignoring Murders: ‘I Didn’t Receive One Question On The Deaths That We Got In This Country This Weekend’

Confederate Flag

Kayleigh McEnany

Media

Murder

(See update below)
At least one has been killed in a shooting inside the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” in Seattle, dubbed “CHAZ” or “CHOP,&#8221; on Saturday, police confirmed.
Officers collected shell casings and other evidence on scene inside the &#8220;no-cop&#8221; zone and are currently investigating the incident.
&#8220;Videos recorded Saturday morning show volunteer medics scrambling to help the purported victims after Seattle Police Department radio dispatchers received multiple reports of three to six gunshots around 2:20 a.m.,&#8221; <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/police-investigating-shooting-inside-seattles-no-cop-chaz-zone-1512330?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1592661180">Newsweek</a> reported Saturday afternoon. &#8220;People involved in the incident were seen fleeing the scene north from 10th Avenue and East Pine street in the city&#8217;s Capitol Hill autonomous protest zone, also called CHAZ.
Last week, Seattle Police abandoned the East Precinct that fell within the six blocks commandeered by the protesters, which include far-left Antifa and Black Lives Matter supporters.
&#8220;Police arrived on the scene on foot and prepared with anti-protest gear at the border of the citizen reclaimed protest zone,&#8221; Newsweek reported. &#8220;East Precinct police radio chatter said officers who arrived on the scene were collecting shell casings and evidence, and the second victim had a gunshot wound to the arm and chest.&#8221;
&#8220;Local videographers from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WWConverge/videos/297548387941384/?v=297548387941384" rel="nofollow">Converge Media first reported</a> that one of the victims was transported by non-ambulance locals to the Harborview protest camp staffed by medical volunteers,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;Capitol Hill Seattle Blog reported the man was dead when he arrived at the volunteer medical camp. Video showed several people on the street announcing that one of the victims was dead in front of the Rancho Bravo restaurant at 10th and Pine Street.&#8221;
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Police investigating shooting at 10th Avenue and East Pine. Will update with additional information when available.
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Last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-police-chief-challenges-democrat-mayor-says-rapes-robberies-occurring-in-chaz-with-force-unable-to-respond">Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best</a> said abandoning the city’s Third Precinct to the radical protesters was “not my decision,” stating that “rapes, robberies,” and other violent crimes are occurring in the left-wing utopia.
“You should know, leaving the precinct was not my decision. You fought for days to protect it. I asked you to stand on that line,” Best addressed officers last Thursday, according to <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/seattle-police-chief-not-able-124718101.html">Yahoo! News</a>. “Day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened and in some cases hurt. Then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in, it seems like an insult to you and our community.”
As previously noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-documentarian-goes-behind-scenes-at-chaz-speaks-to-leader?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">The Daily Wire</a>, one of the protest leaders at CHAZ, Jaiden Grayson, told documentary filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-protesters-interviewed-were-stealing-because-its-slavery-money-we-should-kill-them-police-bes-if-anybody">Ami Horowitz</a> that police and the prison system should be “abolished,” not defunded. She also emphasized that “by any means necessary” is not just a slogan but a promise.
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“Every single day that I show up here, I’m not here to peacefully protest,&#8221; Grayson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-documentarian-goes-behind-scenes-at-chaz-speaks-to-leader?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">said</a>. &#8220;I’m here to disrupt until my demands are met. You cannot rebuild until you break it all the way down. Respond to the demands of the people, or prepare to be met with any means necessary. It’s not a slogans, it’s not even a warning. I’m letting people know what comes next.”
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UPDATE: On Saturday afternoon, the <a style="font-style: italic;" href="https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2020/06/20/homicide-investigation-inside-protest-area/">Seattle Police Department blotter</a> posted the following updated information:
<blockquote>Homicide detectives are investigating following a fatal shooting that occurred early Saturday morning at 10th Avenue and East Pine Street. One man was declared deceased at the hospital and another male is being treated for life-threatening injuries.
On June 20th, at approximately 2:30 AM, East Precinct officers responded to a report of shots fired in Cal Anderson Park. This is inside the area referred to as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). Officers attempted to locate a shooting victim but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims. Officers were later informed that the victims, both males, had been transported to Harborview Medical Center by CHOP medics.
Officers responded to Harborview and were informed that one of the victims, a 19-year-old male, had died from injuries. The other victim, also a male, unknown age, remains in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The suspect or suspect(s) fled and are still at large. There is no description at this time.
Homicide detectives responded and are conducting a thorough investigation, despite the challenges presented by the circumstances.</blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-police-chief-challenges-democrat-mayor-says-rapes-robberies-occurring-in-chaz-with-force-unable-to-respond">WATCH: Police Chief Challenges Democrat Mayor, Says Rapes, Robberies Occurring In ‘CHAZ’ With Force Unable To Respond</a>
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Graffiti on a barricade inside the so-called  &#8220;Capitol Hill

CHAZ: Shooting Leaves One Dead Inside Leftists’ No-Cop Utopia; Police Investigating

CHAZ

Crime

Seattle

Shooting

Violence

Between 1974 and 1986, a series of murders, rapes, and burglaries terrorized California. In 12 years, the man known in different parts of the state as the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and the Visalia Ransacker committed at least 13 murders and more than 50 rapes and 100 burglaries.
Like so many famous serial killers, the Golden State Killer taunted victims and police by making creepy phone calls and writing letters.
The serial killer and rapist would break into suburban couples’ homes at night, tie up the man and stack plates on his back, and then say he would kill both of them if he heard the dishes fall while he raped the wife.
On April 24, 2018, U.S. Navy veteran and former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was charged with crimes associated with the Golden State Killer – more than 30 years after the crime sprees ended. DNA linked DeAngelo with the murders and rapes. He was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder and charges relating to kidnapping and abduction attempts. He couldn’t be charged for the numerous rapes due to the statute of limitations at the time.
The Associated Press has now <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/16/golden-state-killer-suspect-expected-to-plead-guilty/">reported</a> that DeAngelo is expected to plead guilty in exchange for a plea deal that allows him to avoid the death penalty. He is expected to plead guilty on June 29 and be sentenced once the surviving victims and relatives of his murder victims have a chance to confront him in court.
Ron Harrington, whose younger brother and sister-in-law were murdered by DeAngelo in August 1980, said they would accept either punishment.
“We are so totally supportive of the death penalty and yet we are totally supportive of this decision to let the Golden State Killer plead to life without possibility of parole,” Harrington said.
“Almost 40 years have passed and literally some of the victims have passed away, there are foundational issues from an evidentiary standpoint,” he added. “You’ve got victims who have now passed away, how are they going to testify?”
The AP reported that “District attorneys in six counties that had been seeking the death penalty issued a joint statement that did not address that issue, but noted the scope of crimes that started more than four decades ago and involved dozens of victims across 11 counties over more than a decade.”
“Victims of a crime are entitled to finality in their criminal cases, as well as the expectation that the person convicted of committing the crime will be punished,” the DAs wrote in their statement, adding that they “are working closely with the victims in this case to ensure their statements are considered by the Court prior to sentencing.”
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Joseph DeAngelo Jr

The ‘Golden State Killer’ Terrorized California in The 1970s And 80s. The Man Accused Of The Crimes Is Expected To Plead Guilty.

California

Rape

Walter Ogrod was one of those death row inmates who wasn’t just convicted of murder but convicted of the murder of a 4-year-old girl.
On Friday, however, Ogrod walked out of prison an innocent man, his conviction overturned. Judge Shelley Robins New vacated Ogrod’s conviction and his sentence after hearing “clear and convincing” evidence that the Pennsylvania man did not kill the little girl back in 1988.
A hearing was held over Zoom to determine Ogrod’s fate, Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/walter-ogrod-freed-prison-conviction-vacated-1509217">reported</a>. A new trial had been ordered for his case, but the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office filed a motion to decline retrying him. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told media outlets he expects the case to be dismissed within weeks. Osgrod was released Friday on bail.
His family was waiting for him outside the prison, NBC 10 Philadelphia <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/after-2-decades-on-death-row-wrongfully-convicted-man-will-be-set-free/2421261/">reported</a>. Ogrod told the outlet he “was glad to get out.”
James Rollins, one of Ogrod’s attorneys, told Newsweek that Ogrod’s case is not that unique.
&#8220;This innocent man and his family lost almost thirty years that they should have spent together. Instead, that irreplaceable time together is gone, lost to a system that keeps making the same mistakes,&#8221; Rollins said in a statement.
Rollins went on to say:
This is a case where no forensic evidence tied Mr. Ogrod to the crime, where eyewitness descriptions didn&#8217;t match Mr. Ogrod, and where police coerced a false confession from Mr. Ogrod which got many of the facts incorrect about the crime he allegedly committed.
The state presented false testimony, unconstitutionally withheld exculpatory evidence, and relied on unreliable jailhouse informant testimony to convict an innocent man of a brutal murder.
NBC 10 reported that 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn was found dead in a cardboard box in 1988 after she went missing. Ogrod, Horn’s neighbor, was charged with her murder four years after she was found dead. Ogrod confessed, but claimed he was coerced, a claim with which followers of the case agree. Ogrod later recanted his confession. Five witnesses also said the man they saw with the cardboard box didn’t look like Ogrod.
Ogrod was nearly found not guilty during his first trial, but one juror announced he disagreed with the finding before the foreman could announce the verdict. A mistrial was declared. Ogrod was found guilty during a second trial based on testimony from an unreliable jailhouse informant.
The Philadelphia DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit re-investigated the case and discovered errors.
“Prosecutors claimed Ogrod beat Horn with a weight bar. But her injuries showed she died of asphyxiation, not from blows to her head. And a sample of male <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philly-da-reviewing-new-dna-evidence-in-infamous-1988-child-murder/2278932/">DNA found at the crime scene did not match Ogrod&#8217;s</a>, his attorneys said in January,” NBC 10 reported.
Last month, Horn’s mother, Sharon Fahy, filed a motion urging Ogrod to be released.
&#8220;My daughter is never coming home but I wanted justice for her, not simply a closed case with an innocent person in jail. Two families have already been destroyed,&#8221; she wrote in the brief.
Ogrod, 55, contracted the coronavirus while in prison, but appears to have recovered.
It is still unknown who actually killed Horn.
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Death Row

He Spent 23 Years On Death Row For A Murder He Didn’t Commit. His Conviction Was Just Overturned.

false accusations

A woman previously convicted of murdering her husband but successfully appealed down to a lesser charge of manslaughter will now be able to fully inherit his estate instead of the couple’s children.
In 2010, Sally Challen went to visit her estranged husband with a hammer in her purse. As her husband, Richard, ate lunch, Sally beat him to death with the Hammer, leaving a note on his body that said, “I love you.” She then fled the home and was later arrested and convicted for his murder.
Sally and Richard were married for three decades, the Mirror <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sally-challens-abusive-husbands-final-21056853">reported</a>. At her murder trial, Sally repeatedly admitted to murdering her husband but wouldn’t say why except that she had suspected he was seeing another woman and after stalking him discovered a voicemail from another woman asking Richard to dinner. Her niece, Dalla, said that Sally “hacked into his email and asked neighbours who he had been at the house with. I suspect she was stalking him.&#8221;
The couple had already separated at the time of the murder. Richard moved out and began dating again, while Sally struggled to move on and eventually begged Richard to take her back. Sally told police after the murder, “I wasn&#8217;t thinking &#8216;I&#8217;m going to go and kill Richard&#8217;. I was thinking I&#8217;m going to go there and there&#8217;s a possibility, depending on how it panned out.&#8221;
Dalla, the Mirror reported, was convinced there was more to Sally’s reasoning behind killing her husband, so she reached out to Justice For Women, a feminist organization that defends women who killed their partners and claim to have been abused.
After Sally met with the organization, she started claiming she had been emotionally abused throughout her marriage to Richard. From the outside, friends described the marriage as “old fashioned” and said Sally was “all about servicing Richard.” The couple lived in luxury as Richard owned a second-hand car garage. The couple lived in a wealthy area of Surrey with their two sons, James and David, who each attended private school.
Most of the accusations are from Sally herself, with little corroborating evidence. She claimed that when she got a part-time job at the police federation, Richard ordered her to start paying the couple’s bills and purchasing all their food. Her brothers said they noticed that over the years she started voicing her opinion less and less, though no suggestion is made that this was because of Richard. Sally also claimed that after a male friend in Los Angeles hugged and kissed her while she was vacationing with Richard in 1998, her husband pushed her “into the bedroom and forced sex on me. He was brutal and said nothing.&#8221;
David, one of the couple’s sons, said that whatever happened in America “was never talked about but it was always clear you never crossed my father.&#8221;
Sally claimed she could never refuse Richard when he wanted sex and would be told to “get ready” when he wanted it, an indication that she should clean herself. At some point, Richard started refusing to have sex with Sally, and she began trying to tempt him with raunchy outfits. She started stalking her husband and checking his phone and pockets to discover he was frequenting a brothel, which upset her. She even called the cops after the brothel was raided to report her husband as a visitor. She told police on that call that her husband was dead, but Richard took the phone and told police things were fine.
In 2009, Sally left Richard, but soon regretted the move as she was unable to cope with single life. Richard went on dates and seemed to have no issue moving on. Their son David lived with Sally while James lived with Richard.
Sally eventually begged Richard to take her back. He agreed, but wrote up a post-nuptual agreement that allegedly demanded Sally quit smoking, only visit him once a week, never interrupt him, and go through with the divorce. She was also told that she would only receive £200,000 in the event they separate again, which amounted to a fraction of Richard’s assets. These odd and conflicting alleged demands hurt Sally, she said, and on that day in 2010 she went to his home with a hammer in her purse. Richard allegedly demanded she travel in the rain to get ingredients for his lunch, and Sally suspected he wanted her out of the house to talk to one of his lady friends.
&#8220;There was so much going on in my head. I knew he was seeing another woman,” Sally said in a statement during her appeal process. &#8220;I looked at his computer and could see he was sending emails to various women.”
She would later admit, “I don&#8217;t know why I did it, I don&#8217;t know why I had the hammer in my bag.”
Their son David cleaned their father’s blood from the kitchen and said he only learned of the alleged abuse after Richard died. Even though the adult children <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50673081">admitted</a> in a BBC documentary that it was “obviously a struggle to let her be our mum again,” they were happy when she was released from jail in 2019. She had been convicted to 22 years back in 2011. Sally began her appeal by claiming “coercive control,” after it became a crime in England and Wales in 2015. The BBC described coercive control as “a pattern of behaviour by an abuser to harm, punish or frighten their victim.”
The media covering Sally’s story have positioned her as an abused wife who fought back without acknowledging the lack of evidence for her claims.
Sally was able to appeal her murder conviction and take a lesser charge of manslaughter. She was released after a judge determined she had served enough time for Richard’s death.
This week, Sally was also granted her request to inherit Richard’s estate, after a judge waived the rule that barred people who killed their spouse’s from inheriting their estate.
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Sally Challen

She Murdered Her Husband With A Hammer. Now She Gets To Inherit His Estate After Claiming Emotional Abuse.

Florida law enforcement officials say that a man who had been arrested in March on drug charges, and subsequently released from prison due to fears over the coronavirus, committed a murder the day after he was released from prison.
&#8220;According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, deputies arrested 26-year-old Joseph Edward Williams for a homicide that happened in Tampa, Florida on March 20,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbc12.com/2020/04/15/fla-man-accused-murder-day-after-he-was-released-jail-due-covid-concerns/">WBTV</a> reported. &#8220;He is facing a second-degree murder charge along with resisting an officer with violence, felon in possession of a firearm, possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia.&#8221;
Williams, who was arrested on March 13 on drug charges, was one of more than 100 inmates that were released from the Hillsborough County detention facilities on March 19 due to fear that the coronavirus could be spreading throughout the prison population.
&#8220;But now, deputies say, he has been arrested for a murder that took place March 20 along Ash Avenue in Tampa’s Progress Village neighborhood,&#8221; <a href="https://www.fox29.com/news/sheriff-drug-suspect-committed-murder-1-day-after-being-released-from-jail-in-coronavirus-purge">Fox 29</a> reported. &#8220;Deputies said the victim was found injured on the street, and he later died in the hospital.&#8221;
In announcing Williams&#8217; arrest, which happened on Monday, Sheriff Chad Chronister said, &#8220;There is no question Joseph Williams took advantage of this health emergency to commit crimes while he was out of jail awaiting resolution of a low-level, non-violent offense. Every murder, every violent crime, especially those involving a gun, is a sickening example of the worst in our community, especially at a time when our community is working relentlessly to fight against the spread of this deadly COVID-19.”
Last month, Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and subcommittee chairwoman Karen Bass (D-CA) demanded that Attorney General William Barr release as many prisoners from custody due to the spread of the coronavirus.
&#8220;We call on you, in the most urgent of terms, to do the right thing and exercise [authority to modify sentences of prisoners who present ‘extraordinary and compelling reasons’] and immediately move to release medically-compromised, elderly, and pregnant prisoners in the custody of the [Bureau of Prisons],&#8221; the Democrats wrote. &#8220;In addition, we urge that you use every tool at your disposal to release as many prisoners as possible, to protect them from COVID-19.&#8221;
The two Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-demand-doj-release-as-many-prisoners-as-possible-over-coronavirus">said</a> they had a problem with a memo from Barr that stated that low and minimum security facilities should be prioritized and those who were convicted of serious offenses should not be released. The two Democrats stated [emphasis added]:
<blockquote>Your memorandum specifies that priority should be given to inmates in low- and minimum-security facilities and that “serious” offenses should weigh more heavily against consideration for home detention. These limitations, unfortunately, beg the question of what you do with individuals who are at a high risk for contracting COVID-19 who are not in low- or minimum-security facilities, who have been convicted of serious offenses, or who have high PATTERN risk scores. We urge you to consider that even individuals in these categories should be assessed for release because they may be elderly or particularly vulnerable. Pregnant prisoners, in all circumstances, should be released to home confinement forthwith. We further urge you to assess the risk of contracting COVID-19 of every individual in BOP custody, regardless of the type of institution in which they are housed, the seriousness of their offense, or the potential recidivism risk they may present. If BOP decides to keep these individuals detained, what specific provisions are being made for those among them who are at high risk for contracting COVID-19? What plans are being made to communicate information to these individuals, their attorneys, and their loved ones, about the plan for their care behind bars during the COVID-19 pandemic?</blockquote>

Joseph Edward Williams

Inmate Released Over Coronavirus Fears Murdered Someone After Release, Police Say

Coronavirus

Jerry Nadler

William Barr

In the middle of March, just weeks after filing for divorce from her husband, 51-year-old Gretchen Anthony disappeared. Soon, Gretchen’s friends and acquaintances began receiving odd text messages from her claiming she had the coronavirus.
CBS 12 <a href="https://cbs12.com/news/local/mystery-of-missing-jupiter-woman-began-with-suspicious-text-messages">reported</a> that on March 25, a witness called the Jupiter Police Department in Florida to say she received a  “suspicious text message” from Gretchen claiming to have COVID-19 and being held by the “CDC” after she was released from Jupiter Medical Center. The witness said she had received the text two days earlier and that she hadn’t made contact since.
An officer went to Gretchen’s home, but nobody answered the door. The officer also contacted Jupiter Medical Center and was told no one named Gretchen Anthony had been a patient. Officers would later Gretchen’s car with a purse inside in the hospital parking lot.
Another witness also reported receiving a strange text from Gretchen on March 24. This witness said the text claimed Gretchen had an “acute” case of COVID-19 and was “sedated” at a CDC-approved task force in Belle Glade. Notably, there is no CDC office in Belle Glade, Florida.
Jupiter Medical Center also told police that it wasn’t protocol to send someone elsewhere and sedate them.
This second witness was a friend of Gretchen’s husband David and had access to the couple’s home. He entered the home with police but didn’t find Gretchen. The friend also told police that Gretchen stopped sharing her location on March 21, which was unlike her. He also said the texts he received from “Gretchen” didn’t sound like things she would write – they sounded more like things David would write. He showed police officers some of David’s text to prove his point.
Two other witnesses told police they also received strange text messages from Gretchen and were concerned about her. One said David had “issues” and worried he had done something to Gretchen. Police couldn’t reach David by phone and he wasn’t home. A neighbor told them she hadn’t seen David since March 24 when he picked up his dog and said he was moving to Costa Rica.
Police then listed Gretchen as an “endangered missing adult.” Using cellphone tracking data, they found that Gretchen’s phone had pinged near Pensacola, Florida. A clerk told police David tried to sell a bag of jewelry there on March 25, but they wouldn’t buy it. The clerk believed one of the rings must have belonged to Gretchen. The clerk also gave police video footage of a man matching David’s description as well as his truck from that day.
On March 26, one of the previous witnesses called police to say her mother received a text from “Gretchen” saying she was on a ventilator at Palms West Hospital. Police were told by that hospital that Gretchen was not a patient.
More from CBS12:
<blockquote>When police went to Gretchen Anthony&#8217;s home March 26 to investigate further, a neighbor asked them if they were here investigating &#8220;the attack that occurred Saturday morning,&#8221; according to the arrest report. The neighbor told them between 6 and 6:20 a.m., she heard a woman&#8217;s voice let out &#8220;a blood-curdling scream.&#8221; She said she hears a woman yelling, &#8220;No! No it hurts,&#8221; from either the patio or garage area of Gretchen Anthony&#8217;s home.
Police say another neighbor said he also heard the screams and saw David Anthony&#8217;s truck parked on the road, with the bed loaded up and covered with a tarp. He also noticed that on Monday morning (March 23), someone was cleaning something inside Gretchen Anthony&#8217;s closed garage, as there was water &#8220;mixed with an unknown chemical&#8221; coming out of the garage door and into the alley. A third neighbor gave police surveillance video, showing what appears to be David Anthony&#8217;s truck driving to and from the home around that time.</blockquote>
Police later found cleaners and a rag in the kitchen as well as towels with a “reddish substance” on them in the washing machine. “There was a broken glass frame upstairs on the landing and what looked like small droplets of blood on the wall in the master bedroom,” the outlet reported.
The garage had been locked with a key broken off inside the lock, so police knocked in the door and found the garage floor was wet with large bleach stains leading out to the driveway.
One of the previous witnesses said David had answered her question about if he had heard from Gretchen by saying he “&#8221;ran into her randomly Sat am. She mentioned something about going to the beach to ground herself bc she wasn&#8217;t feeling well. Then she proceeded to tell me I should &#8216;plead insanity&#8217; on some bogus police charges I&#8217;ve been dealing with.&#8221;
David was arrested in Las Cruces, New Mexico and charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping. Gretchen still has not been found.

Man texting

Wife Disappears. Sketchy Coronavirus Texts Led Police To Arrest Her Husband.

It was January 27 when 11-year-old Gannon Stauch disappeared from his Colorado Springs home. He missed school that day, and his stepmother, Letecia Stauch, reported him missing shortly before 7 p.m. that night
Letecia’s story about what happened the day Gannon disappeared kept changing, and despite her interviews with the media where she denied she had anything to do with the little boy’s disappearance, she was arrested a month after she reported him missing and charged with his murder.
Letecia initially said that Gannon left their home around 3:15 p.m. on the day he disappeared to walk to his friend’s house, but when he didn’t come home for two hours, she reported him missing, The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/colorado-cops-say-they-dont-think-missing-11-year-old-gannon-stauch-was-abducted">reported</a>. A neighbor would later tell police his home-security video showed Letecia and Gannon leaving their family home that morning and Letecia returning home alone hours later.
Two days after she reported Gannon missing, Letecia told investigators that a man named Eguardo held her at gunpoint, raped her, and apparently hit her on the head so she blacked out the day Gannon disappeared, according to an arrest affidavit first <a href="https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/04/03/letecia-stauch-gannon-murder-arrest-affidavit-leaked/">reported</a> by CBS Denver. She suggested this same man abducted Gannon. On the day Leticia made this new claim, she was two hours late to meet with investigators and brought written notes. Investigators asked Leticia to take a sexual assault forensic exam, but she refused. Surveillance video from a neighbor also showed no one entering the Stauch home at the time she claimed to have been attacked. More from CBS Denver:
Between Jan. 25-28, investigators determined Letecia viewed websites associated with searching for a job in Florida and California. Letecia’s Google search history on Jan. 25 includes, “I’m over doing all the work for my step kids and their mom doesn’t help,” and “one day people will wish they treated you differently.”
On her cell phone, investigators said Letecia searched, “are there any free money to move away from bad situation.” On the morning of Jan. 27, investigators said Letecia searched on Google, “my son burned the carpet how do I fix it?”
In her discussion with Al [Gannon’s father], Letecia, without prompt, provided explanations for why blood would be found on Gannon’s bedroom wall along with an alibi for why she was in the area where the particleboard was recovered. Investigators said information about blood evidence in the home and on the particleboard had not been released publicly at that time.
A search of court records in North Carolina reveals Letecia has a criminal past. Investigators said she was convicted after a trial for communicating threats, a misdemeanor. She was also sentenced to 45 days confinement and 18 months of probation for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Al Stauch is a member of the National Guard and was deployed between January 25 and 28.
Leticia also gave investigators reasons why Gannon’s blood would be found in the home and garage, saying he cut his foot in the garage on Al’s woodworking tools.
In reality, police wrote in their affidavit, it is believed that hours before she reported him missing, Leticia killed Gannon in his bedroom, stuffed his body into her car, and then waited until the next morning to dump his body off the side of a highway. His remains were found on March 18 – after Leticia was arrested and charged with his murder – under an overpass in Florida, though police are unsure how he ended up there.
At a press conference announcing the charges against Leticia, Al and Gannon’s biological mother, Landen Hiott, expressed a desire for justice to be served.
“Justice will be served because my boy does not deserve this,” Hiott said, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/letecia-stauch-stepmom-of-missing-boy-gannon-stauch-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-reports-say">according to</a> The Daily Beast. “She will pay 100 percent for this thing that she did,” Hiott added, “because I want to live on this Earth knowing that justice will be served for my little boy.”
Al read a statement during the press conference that said:  “The person who committed this heinous, horrible crime is one that I gave more to anyone else on this planet, and that is a burden that I will carry with me for a very long time.”

Leticia Stauch

She Reported She Was Raped By Her Step-Son’s Kidnapper. It Turns Out She Actually Killed The Boy.

Children

The man who helped kill 10 people in the Washington, D.C. area in 2002, known as the D.C. sniper, has married.
Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the killings, was married during a ceremony at Red Onion State Prison in southwest Virginia, the Associated Press <a href="https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/10/lee-boyd-malvo-dc-sniper-gets-married-prison/">reported</a>. “Carmeta Albarus, who has served as an adviser and mentor for Malvo since testifying at his 2003 trial, confirmed the wedding took place earlier this month,” the outlet reported.
“Over the past 17 years, he has grown despite his conditions of confinement,” she told the AP. “He has grown into an adult, and has found love with a wonderful young lady. … It was a beautiful ceremony.”
The bride has not been identified
Back in October 2002, Malvo and John Allen Muhammad terrorized the nation’s capital and neighboring states of Virginia and Maryland during a terrifying killing spree that lasted three weeks and killed 10 people while critically wounding three more. Even before the sniper spree, the pair killed others during a crime spree that began in February 2002 as the two crossed the country. They murdered and burglarized people from Washington state to Louisiana before heading up the Washington, D.C. metro area for the sniper spree.
Muhammad, who was 41 at the time of the killings, was executed in 2009 for his role. Malvo was sentenced to life in prison. Earlier this year, Virginia passed a law that allowed criminals who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crime to seek parole after serving 20 years in prison, the AP reported. This new law would have made Malvo eligible for parole in 2024.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-snipers-case-dismissed-by-supreme-court">reported</a>, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2017 vacated three of Malvo’s life sentences in Virginia. The decision came years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders violated the Eighth Amendment, which protects against cruel and unusual punishment. More from The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>The Supreme Court heard Malvo’s case last fall. Attorneys for Malvo, now 35, argued that he should be resentenced in light of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on juvenile offenders. The Supreme Case on Wednesday dismissed Malvo’s case.
“The one-sentence order, which was expected, comes two days after Virginia’s governor signed a bill making juvenile offenders who were sentenced to life imprisonment eligible for parole after serving 20 years. Both sides told the Supreme Court there was no reason to continue the case,” CNN reported.</blockquote>
Though Malvo received some relief in Virginia, he won’t be released from prison anytime soon. He still has three life sentences in Maryland for the people he killed there during his 2002 crime spree. Following the Supreme Court’s decision, Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) released a statement saying the case was about more than just Malvo.
“He has counts in the state of Maryland so it would be a long time. But it’s not so much about him. It’s about the hundreds of people who are incarcerated right now and were tried as juveniles and we want them to have an opportunity for a second chance,” Northam said in the statement.

Lee Boyd Malvo

The Sniper Who Killed 10 People In Washington, DC Gets Married. In Prison.

Washington D.C.

Seventeen years ago, the Washington, D.C. metro area was terrorized for three weeks by sniper fire, which claimed the lives of 10 people and critically injured three others.
The culprits were John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the attacks. Muhammad was executed on November 10, 2009, while Malvo was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders violated the Eight Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/26/politics/supreme-court-lee-boyd-malvo-case-dc-sniper/index.html">reported</a>. In 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the three life sentences Malvo received in Virginia based on the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling.
The Supreme Court heard Malvo’s case last fall. Attorneys for Malvo, now 35, argued that he should be resentenced in light of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on juvenile offenders. The Supreme Case on Wednesday dismissed Malvo’s case.
“The one-sentence order, which was expected, comes two days after Virginia&#8217;s governor signed a bill making juvenile offenders who were sentenced to life imprisonment eligible for parole after serving 20 years. Both sides told the Supreme Court there was no reason to continue the case,” CNN reported.
Just because Malvo’s sentence in Virginia was reduced does not mean he will be getting out of prison anytime soon. He still has life sentences from Maryland for the people who were killed there during the 2002 attacks. More from CNN:
<blockquote>At oral arguments, Virginia argued that the sentence of life without parole could stand because Malvo&#8217;s sentence was discretionary, not mandatory.
Justice Elena Kagan had questioned, however, whether Virginia properly considered Malvo&#8217;s age. She pointed out that the 2012 decision, which she wrote, could be summarized in two words: &#8220;youth matters,&#8221; and that a sentencer must treat children differently from adult offenders.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, on the other hand, repeatedly questioned a lawyer for Malvo on the meaning of the court&#8217;s precedents and how they would impact cases where the judge or jury did not just consider a sentence of life without parole.</blockquote>
In response to the Supreme Court dismissing the case, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) released a statement saying the case is about more than just Malvo.
“He has counts in the state of Maryland so it would be a long time. But it’s not so much about him. It’s about the hundreds of people who are incarcerated right now and were tried as juveniles and we want them to have an opportunity for a second chance,” Northam said in the statement.
Fox 5 DC <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-sniper-case-dismissal-prompts-statement-from-virginia-gov-northam">reported</a> that former Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, who prosecuted Malvo for his crimes in Maryland, made sure people knew Malvo was not getting released thanks to the latest ruling.
“Six people were murdered in Montgomery County and should have their day in court, was that we were worried and concerned about what might happen in Virginia down the road. And this has happened, so even in the event that Malvo were to be paroled, he would then have to serve six life sentences in Maryland,” Gansler said in his own statement, adding that Malvo is unlikely to be paroled and the Maryland sentences mean he’ll probably never leave prison.

Lee Malvo

D.C. Sniper’s Case Dismissed By Supreme Court

Supreme Court

In 1984, a woman was murdered at Torrey Pines State Beach in California. Claire Hough was just 14 years old when she was found dead on the beach after being strangled to death and having one of her breasts severed.
Her murder went unsolved for decades.
In 2012, police detective Michael Lambert joined the cold-case homicide unit and ordered DNA tests on Hough’s body, which couldn’t be conducted 28 years earlier. DNA from a man named Ronald Tatro was found in multiple places on Hough’s body. Tatro, however, drowned in 2011 and therefore could not be charged.
Another man’s DNA was also found in a small quantity of the vaginal swab taken during the girl’s autopsy, the San Diego Community News Group (SD News) <a href="http://www.sdnews.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Jury%2Bawards%2B%25246M%2Bto%2Bwidow%2Bof%2Bman%2Bfalsely%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bmurder%2B-%2520&amp;id=27703145">reported</a>. The DNA belonged to Kevin Brown, who worked as a crime lab employee at the time the sample was handled. SD News reported that crime lab employees testified at a trial for Brown’s widow’s wrongful death lawsuit against city police that in 1984, male lab employees “used their own dried semen samples as a control method” and did not always wear gloves when handling samples or thoroughly cleanse scissors.
Lambert, the detective working Hough’s cold case, wrote an affidavit asking a judge to authorize a search of Brown’s possessions. That affidavit did not mention that contamination could have resulted in Brown’s DNA being found on the victim. Deputy City Attorney Catherine Richardson said Lambert had been told contamination was ruled out as a possible reason for why Brown’s DNA was discovered on the victim, and he was never told contamination was possible.
&#8220;He had a distinguished career as a detective. He was an officer for almost 30 years,&#8221; Richardson argued at the trial.
She also said Brown never mentioned the fact that crime lab employees used their own semen as a control factor in tests when he was questioned about his DNA being found on Hough. When questioned Brown did say he had sex with a young girl in the early 1980’s who may have been named Claire. He said the sex occurred in a hotel, but police considered him a suspect. Brown allegedly called his old roommates from that time period to see if they remembered anything but then called back asking them not to tell police about anything that happened back then.
Police seized 14 boxes from Brown’s home, including family photos and recipes, a 1937 yearbook, and other mementos that had nothing to do with the case. Brown’s wife, Rebecca, who filed the wrongful death lawsuit, didn’t get the boxes back until after Kevin committed suicide in 2014. Just two days after his suicide, San Diego Police sent out a press release saying Brown had been linked to Hough’s murder. Rebecca filed the wrongful death lawsuit in 2015 and was awarded $6 million in damages for the way her husband had been treated. The individual officers included in the lawsuit – Lambert and detective Maura Mekenas-Parga, were only ordered to each pay $1 in damages.

DNA evidence

Man Kills Himself After Being Falsely Accused Of Murder. His Widow Just Got $6 Million.

On Wednesday, former National Rugby League (NRL) player Rowan Baxter, 42, reportedly doused his estranged wife Hannah Baxter, 31, in gasoline and set her and their three children on fire to be burned alive in a car.
Hannah reportedly made it out of the car while engulfed in flames screaming that Rowan had poured gasoline on her as she fought to save her babies. Rowan, it has been reported, left the accident and died of self-inflected knife wounds in an apparent suicide.
Rowan, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8019461/Ex-footballer-shared-footage-play-fighting-kids-Brisbane-car-inferno-left-four-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR2yPLk9lJr0aislqsM6AzI7ExkCYSxb_TrpQOJsbaQqH-iUCvT7Y6diSh8">The Daily Mail</a>, set the family&#8217;s white SUV aflame on Wednesday morning at Camp Hill, in Brisbane, Australia. &#8220;Baxter survived the blast but stabbed himself in the chest on the sidewalk next to the car as locals desperately tried to free the children trapped inside,&#8221; the report outlined.
All three children, 6-year-old Aaliyah, 4-year-old Laianah, and 3-year-old Trey, perished on Wednesday. Hannah was brought to a hospital, but later succumbed to her injuries.
One witness, reported The Daily Mail, claimed Hannah screamed, &#8220;he&#8217;s poured petrol on me.&#8221;
&#8220;The former New Zealand Warriors player stabbed himself after the blast and begged first responders not to put out the flames on the car,&#8221; the report said.
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Det. Insp. Mark Thompson called the scene &#8220;horrific,&#8221; while speaking to reporters on Wednesday morning, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/19/three-dead-including-children-after-car-allegedly-set-alight-in-brisbane">The Guardian</a> reported.
“It will be a horrific thing for police and emergency services to deal with in the coming days,” said Thompson.
“We’ve all got different experiences in life. I’ve seen some horrific scenes, this is up there with the [worst] of them,&#8221; he added.
“Preliminary investigations indicate the woman was driving the car and the man was in the front passenger seat prior to the incident,&#8221; a police report said, noting, &#8220;A man who assisted in rescuing the woman from the vehicle sustained burns and was transported to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital for treatment.”
According to The Daily Mail, Rowan posted a video to Facebook of himself playing with his children about a month ago:
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Baxter uploaded to his Facebook account about a month ago, the three children giggled as he took turns grabbing them by the neck and pushing them away from him.
Trey, who was still in diapers at the time, eventually grew tired of the game after having his head slammed into a bed and ran off camera in tears.
Baxter laughed and continued playing with his two older girls.
The video was met with messages of support from his friends, who said he was teaching his children to have a thick skin.
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Hannah and Rowan ran a gym together called <a href="http://integr8fit.com.au">Integr8</a> and even created a video, as seen below, to advertise their services. According to reporting from The Guardian, the gym stopped operating within the last few months.
&#8220;By far the best trainers I have ever experienced,&#8221; reads a review posted to the gym&#8217;s website from a woman named Erika. &#8220;They are so passionate about what they do and care so much about their members, and for their member to reach their goals.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve been at Integr8 for 4 months now and love it more every week. From the moment I joined the welcome was warm and the vibe was like nothing I’d experienced,&#8221; praised another reviewer.
&#8220;Rowan and Hannah are top notch athletes with a wealth of knowledge in various areas of fitness,&#8221; a review from Sima said.
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Rowan Baxter

‘Horrific’: Ex-Rugby Player Burns Alive Wife, Three Young Children: Report

Australia

An illegal alien who used a loophole to obtain a green card is now suspected of smothering 22 elderly people in Texas, most of whom were women.
Billy Chemirmir had posed as a maintenance worker at various senior living facilities throughout the Dallas-Forth Worth metro area between 2016 and 2018. In May 2019 he was finally arrested and charged with the deaths of at least a dozen elderly women, making him one of Texas’ most prolific serial killers.
Now Chemirmir is suspected of killing up to 22 elderly residents of Texas, mostly women, The Dallas Morning News <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2020/02/04/new-suits-in-billy-chemirmir-case-identify-two-more-alleged-victims-offer-new-details/">reported</a>. Two lawsuits were filed in the 4th County Court at Law in Dallas by three families alleging their loved ones were killed by Chemirmir and the retirement community where they lived, Preston Place Retirement Community, didn’t do enough to protect them.
One of the victims mentioned in the lawsuits is Miriam Nelson, who told staff at Preston Place that a man she did not recognize had entered her apartment. Two days later, she would be dead. Her son-in-law, former Dallas Cowboys safety Cliff Harris has since called for improved security at Preston Place.
“We made an assumption that it was safe,” Harris told the Morning News. “These ladies, these widows are the most vulnerable part of society. I feel like they were sitting ducks.
Nelson had told her family that a man believed to be Chemirmir entered her apartment claiming he needed to check for leaks. Nelson did not recognize him as one of the regular maintenance men, so she called the front office. It was the middle of a weekday, yet no one answered. The next morning her grandson complained to the management office. At the time, five women had already died under mysterious circumstances. The day after her grandson complained, Nelson was murdered.
“By the end of the month, Miriam’s family would discover the horrific and preventable reality about what happened on the last day of their mom’s life. They would discover that the same man who had accessed and robbed Miriam’s apartment on March 7, 2018 had returned two days later on March 9th. They would learn that he forced his way into Miriam’s apartment and forced Miriam into her bed. They would learn that he then placed a pillow over their mother’s face and held it down as Miriam struggled helplessly to breathe. They learned that, after he had killed Miriam, Chemirmir had scavenged her apartment to steal the fine jewelry he must have identified during his first visit,” the lawsuit stated.
Two other women – Mamie Dell Miya and another unnamed woman – were mentioned in the lawsuits. Chemirmir has not been charged with their deaths, but the Morning News reported that police reports included in the lawsuit show that authorities suspected Miya’s death may have been a capital murder case. If Chemirmir did indeed kill the 22 people that have been publicly linked to him, it would make him a more prolific serial killer than even Jeffrey Dahmer, who was proven to have killed 16 people. (For reference, John Wayne Gacy was proven to have killed 33 people).
Chemirmir has only been charged with 12 deaths so far, including seven from Preston Place. Chemirmir is alleged to have overstayed his tourist visa and then marrying an American woman as part of a sham marriage that allowed him to stay in the country. He had already been arrested for driving while under the influence and aggravated assault, which should have gotten him deported.
As for the retirement community where many of the murders took place, CBSDFW <a href="https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/02/05/families-of-women-allegedly-murdered-by-billy-chemirmir-file-suit-against-apartment-complex/">reported</a> that the lawsuit against Preston Place accused the retirement community of being “geared only toward in luring elderly residents to maximize occupancy and profits for their private equity owners and investors.”

Elderly woman

Illegal Alien Who Avoided Deportation Allegedly Smothered 22 Elderly People

Texas

Maesaiah Thabane, the 42-year-old first lady of Lesotho, the mountainous African nation that is completely encompassed by South Africa, turned herself in to police Tuesday for the 2017 murder of Lipolelo Thabane, the country’s former first lady and the estranged wife of the 80-year-old sitting prime minister, Thomas Thabane. 
According to the <a href="https://apnews.com/bf378c5758680242c10758a8b8d855f5">Associated Press</a>, Maesaiah Thabane fled the country last month after she was ordered to report for police questioning in connection with the death of Lipolelo Thabane, who was <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40286150">mysteriously shot</a> to death in 2017 only days before the prime minister’s second inauguration. 
At the time of the Lipolelo Thabane’s death, Maesaiah Thabane was in an odd predicament: During 2015, the country’s court had ruled Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, despite having filed for divorce in 2012 against his estranged wife on the grounds of “malicious desertion,” was still legally married to her pending legal challenges put fourth by Lipolelo Thabane, reports the <a href="http://lestimes.com/thabanes-ex-wife-is-first-lady-high-court/">Lesotho Times</a>. 
As such, Lipolelo Thabane was still technically the real first lady, and Maesaiah Thabane was not legally entitled to any government benefits, reports the news outlet. 
In the ruling, Judge Molefi Makara prohibited Maesaiah Thabane from “performing any functions and exercising any rights vested” in the office of the first lady, and from receiving any government compensation, including access to a chauffeur, bodyguard, and healthcare, reports the news agency. Furthermore, any government benefits were to be directed to the prime minister’s estranged wife until the divorce case had been settled. 
According to the Associated Press, Prime Minister Thabane formally married Maesaiah Thabane approximately two months after Lipolelo Thabane was found dead. 
Mokete Paseka, the deputy commissioner of police, announced Tuesday that the first lady, who voluntarily turned herself into authorities, would be held in custody until formal charges were drafted, reports the news agency. Authorities had previously questioned Prime Minister Thabane himself, alleging that his cell phone was in contact with an undisclosed person who was near Lipolelo Thabane at the time she was killed. 
The first lady’s arrest comes amidst Prime Minister Thabane’s recent acknowledgment that he no longer has the energy to rule the country, and as such, plans to retire soon. His own party had previously called on him to leave office last July. 
In 2014, Prime Minister Thabane fled to South Africa amidst concerns that an army coup was threatening his life after he ousted a military leader. 
&#8220;I have been removed from control not by the people but by the armed forces, and that is illegal,&#8221; Thabane told the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28994193">BBC</a> from neighboring South Africa. &#8220;I came into South Africa this morning and I will return as soon as my life is not in danger. I will not go back to Lesotho to get killed.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-lesotho-coup/lesotho-pm-calls-for-regional-peace-force-after-coup-aide-idUKKBN0GW1TM20140902">Reuters</a>, the military denied staging a coup, but acknowledged making a strategic move against the police, who support the prime minister, for allegedly plotting to give weapons to a regional political faction. 
Thabane returned to Lesotho shortly after the military disruption with a South African official to help resolve the conflict.

LESOTHO-POLITICS-CRIME

African Nation’s First Lady Arrested For Murdering Former First Lady

Africa

Homicide

Police

A man who was convicted of murdering his partner by beating her with a hammer before fatally stabbing her with two knives in 2004 was given supervised release and given permission to “satiate his sexual needs.”
Then he <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7959179/Wife-murderer-freed-parole-satisfy-sexual-needs-kills-sex-worker.html">stabbed a 22-year-old sex worker</a> to death in a hotel room in January.
Eustachio Gallese, 51, turned himself in on January 22 and confessed to the murder of Marylène Lévesque in a Sainte-Foy district hotel room. He had been banned from visiting an erotic massage parlor where Lévesque worked after he had behaved violently with other women, but Lévesque agreed to meet Gallese at the hotel room.
As <a href="https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/daphne-bramham-allowing-paroled-murderers-to-visit-brothels-isnt-just-stupid-its-illegal-and-deadly?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR1sX7Rz-YaNpqUmGNMonWVJcDn6456ktc3ZvGSegipfos3mDQxAhquj">The Vancouver Sun</a> reported, Gallese was convicted of conjugal violence in 1997, and in 2004, he murdered his 32-year-old partner, Chantal Deschênes, who had two daughters of her own.  In 2006, Gallese was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years, with a judgment in 2007 saying he was at high risk of committing violence against a partner. But that judgment was later reduced to a moderate risk; and later he was allowed to leave the prison if he was supervised.
In March 2019, Gallese was granted supervised release and released to a halfway house. In September, that release was extended for another six months.
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/884xd3/sex-worker-killed-after-paroled-murderer-allowed-to-satisfy-sexual-needs">Vice</a> reported that Gallese discussed his sexual needs with case workers.  The written summary stated:
<blockquote>The hearing allowed us to realize you managed, and this with the approval of your case-management team (the people who prepare an offender for a release), relations with women that the board considers inappropriate. This strategy of managing your risk as it was presented and understood during the hearing paradoxically constitutes a worrying and significant risk factor …
Although you are still single and you say you aren’t ready to enter into a serious relationship with a woman, you are able to efficiently evaluate your needs and expectations towards women. During the hearing, your parole officer underlined a strategy that was developed with the goal that would allow you to meet women in order to meet your sexual needs.</blockquote>
The Conservative MP for Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, Pierre Paul-Hus, wanted to know how the parole board could have allowed Gallese, &#8220;whom they knew had a problem with women, to obtain sexual services.&#8221; asking, &#8220;Can the minister tell the family why the board gave that permission to a man known to be violent?&#8221;
Quebec Minister of Justice Sonia Lebel has demanded some answers, wanting to know how Gallese got parole in the first place. She later tweeted, &#8220;We are satisfied that the federal Minister of Public Security has announced that an investigation will be held and that Quebeckers will get their questions answered.
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Nous sommes satisfaits que le ministre fédéral de la Sécurité publique annonce la tenue d’une enquête et que les Québécoises et Québécois obtiendront des réponses à leurs questions. <a href="https://t.co/qAE7WFeNHn">https://t.co/qAE7WFeNHn</a>
&mdash; Sonia LeBel (@slebel19) <a href="https://twitter.com/slebel19/status/1221898715818008577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Bill Blair stated, “In its September 2019 decision, the Parole Board explicitly opposed letting the accused visit massage parlours during his release.”
Sandra Wesley, executive director of the sex worker advocacy group Stella, was furious, saying that authorities “knew that this man, who was considered very dangerous to women, was not ready to have sexual relations with women, that he had a history of extreme violence toward women,” according to the <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-wants-answers-on-how-moderate-risk-murder-suspect-made-parole">Montreal Gazette.</a>

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When you think of the deadliest cities in America, you probably think of Detroit, Baltimore, maybe some place in New York and California.
It’s true that Detroit, Michigan and Baltimore, Maryland rank among America’s top five deadliest cities, but the other three on the list might surprise you. Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/deadliest-u-s-cities.amp">reported</a> on the most recent <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2018-crime-statistics-released-093019">crime statistics</a> from the FBI, which showed an estimated 16,214 murders in the U.S. in 2018 (2019 data is not available yet). Below are the top 5 deadliest cities in America:
5. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The state capital of Louisiana “saw 35.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents in 2018, which is 10 places higher than Chicago&#8217;s murder rate. In total, 87 people were murdered in Baton Rouge in 2018,” Fox reported, adding that the number of murders in the city actually fell from 2017, which saw 106 murders.
4. New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana makes the list again. New Orleans in 2018 had a murder rate of 37.1 per 100,000, with 146 murders taking place in the city. NOLA.com, however, <a href="https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_5a55e4d0-d958-582f-af70-645af3ab9c0f.html">reported</a> that this was actually the “lowest annual murder toll since 1971, when there were 116 slayings.” The outlet reported that 2018 also marked the second year in a row the number of murders dropped. In 2016, the city suffered 174 murders, but that number dropped to 157 in 2017.
3. Detroit, Michigan
It’s no surprise that Detroit is on the list, and it’s not just murders that make it one of America’s most dangerous cities. The 2018 murder rate in Detroit was 38.9 per 100,000 people, but murders dropped slightly to 261, down from 267 in 2017, Fox reported.
The Detroit News <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/2019/09/30/detroit-crime-numbers-drop-again-but-still-fbis-most-violent-city/3787467002/">reported</a> that overall violent crime rate in the city decreased by 2% in 2018, though it still placed among the most dangerous cities with a rate of 2,008 violent crimes per 100,000. Violent crime includes murder, rape, assault, and robbery. There were a total of 13,478 violent crimes reported in Detroit in 2018.
2. Baltimore, Maryland
“Baltimore saw 51 homicides per 100,000 people in 2018, more than five times the national average, for a grand total of 309 homicide victims. For perspective that&#8217;s 20 more than were murdered in New York City the same year, despite having less than 10 percent of New York City&#8217;s population. Though Baltimore&#8217;s murder rate remained high, its overall crime rate dropped by nearly 60% between the mid 1990s and the mid 2010s,” Fox reported.
1. St. Louis, Missouri
Another city in a southern state makes the list. The murder rate in St. Louis was 60.9 per 100,000 in 2018, Fox reported. The city’s population is just 318,000, yet saw 186 murders that year.
The FBI statistics note that an estimated 1,206,836 violent crimes were reported in 2018, but noted this was a slight drop from the 2017 estimates and that robbery offenses fell by 12%, murder fell by 6.2%, and aggravated assault decreased by 0.4%. Rape reports, using a revised definition that allows more woman to make accusations, increased by 2.7%.

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On Tuesday, a federal official blamed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for the murder of a 92-year-old Queens woman by an illegal immigrant, citing New York City’s “sanctuary policies” triggered the immigrant’s release after he had already been arrested on assault and weapon charges.
Thomas Decker, New York field-office director of enforcement and removal operations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-lodges-detainer-against-guyanese-national-arrested-murder-92-year-old-new-york">stated</a>:
<blockquote>It is made clear that New York City’s stance against honoring detainers is dangerously flawed. It was a deadly choice to release a man on an active ICE detainer back onto the streets after his first arrest included assault and weapon charges, and he now faces new charges, including murder. New York City’s sanctuary policies continue to threaten the safety of all residents of the five boroughs, as they repeatedly protect criminal aliens who show little regard for the laws of this nation.
In New York City alone, hundreds of arrestees are released each month with pending charges and/or convictions to return back into the communities where they committed their crimes, instead of being transferred into the custody of ICE. Clearly the politicians care more about criminal illegal aliens than the citizens they are elected to serve and protect.</blockquote>
On November 27, Reeaz Khan, 21, an illegal immigrant from Guyana, was arrested for allegedly slashing his father with a broken ceramic mug, prompting ICE to initiate a detainer request; Khan was charged with misdemeanor assault, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment, and released without bail after being slapped with a temporary order of protection for his dad, as <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/14/feds-blame-de-blasio-for-murder-sex-assault-of-92-year-old-woman/">The New York Post</a> reported.
On January 10, Khan was arrested for the sexual abuse and murder of Maria Fuertes, 92; Fuertes was found near death on a Richmond Hill sidewalk in the early morning of Jan. 6. The Post noted, “Fuertes had been lying in the 32-degree weather for about two hours after being sexually assaulted and strangled, law-enforcement sources have said.” Fuertes later died at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, having suffered a broken spine and rib fractures. Khan was charged with murder, sexual abuse, contact by forcible compulsion, and sexual abuse against a person incapable of consent.
The Post added that Fuertes “allegedly implicated himself before being arrested last Friday.” Before he was charged with the murder of Fuertes, Khan informed police he was only trying to help Fuertes on the ground when he “fell down, his belt broke, his pants fell down and his penis fell near her vagina,” but Assistant District Attorney Joseph Grasso said at Khan’s arraignment, “Defendant then stated that he did lift up her skirt and tried to put his penis inside of her.”
&#8220;The city’s detainer law and policy mandates that officials turn over to ICE only those who are convicted of violent and serious offenses, and only when ICE has met legal and due process requirements, according to a city official,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/nyregion/92-year-old-woman-queens-murder.html">The New York Times</a> noted. The NYPD said it “did not receive an ICE detainer” regarding Khan, but ICE spokeswoman Rachael Yong Yow noted a fax confirmation receipt of a detainer request sent to the NYPD’s Queens Central Booking unit at 7:41 a.m. on Nov. 27.
ICE stated:
<blockquote>ICE lodges detainers on individuals who have been arrested on criminal charges and who ICE has probable cause to believe are removable aliens. The detainer asks the other law enforcement agency to notify ICE in advance of release and to maintain custody of the alien for a brief period of time so that ICE can take custody of that person in a safe and secure setting upon release from that agency’s custody. When law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release serious criminal offenders onto the streets, it undermines ICE’s ability to protect public safety and carry out its mission.</blockquote>
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Baltimore has registered a grim new record in its crime statistics. Over the holiday weekend, the city suffered its 343rd homicide of the year, surpassing its previous high of 342 and setting a new record for killings per capita.
After seeing declining numbers, homicides began to increase dramatically in 2015 following the infamous case of Freddie Gray, which some blame for encouraging a more &#8220;hands off&#8221; approach by law enforcement.
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&#8220;Baltimore police recorded the 343rd homicide of the year Saturday with the fatal shooting of a 32-year-old man in the Belair-Edison neighborhood,&#8221; <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-12-29-20191229-d2mxtvzxance7gwo2rre3lbteq-story.html">The Baltimore Sun</a> reports. &#8220;Shortly before 11 p.m., city officers found the man lying in the 4300 block of Dudley Ave. in an area south of Belair Road and two blocks from Herring Run Park. The man had been shot multiple times and later died in an area hospital.&#8221;
The outlet notes that the murder followed just two days without a fatal shooting in the city. The previous murder took place Thursday night.
As <a href="https://wtop.com/baltimore/2019/12/baltimore-breaks-city-record-for-killings-per-capita-in-2019/">The Associated Press</a> details, with its 343rd fatal shooting of the year, the city has now officially reached &#8220;a historically high homicide rate.&#8221;
&#8220;With just over 600,000 residents, the city hit a historically high homicide rate of about 57 per 100,000 people after recent relentless gunfire saw eight people shot — three fatally — in one day and nine others — one fatally — another day,&#8221; AP reported Friday. &#8220;The new rate eclipses that of 1993, when the city had a record 353 killings but was much more populous before years of population exodus.&#8221;
To highlight how dire the situation is in Baltimore, AP notes that New York City, which has a population of over 8 million compared to Baltimore&#8217;s 600,000 residents, had recorded 306 homicides through Dec. 15.
Baltimore&#8217;s previous record for the number of homicides in a year was 342, the number fatally shot in the city in both 2017 and 2015. Beginning in 2015, the city has recorded at least 300 homicides per year.
After seeing a decline in the murder rate, killings spiked dramatically in 2015, the same year that Freddie Gray, an African American Baltimore resident, died while in police custody. Gray&#8217;s death caused a massive uproar in the city, sparking protests and riots, in which police were reportedly told by the mayor to &#8220;stand down.&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/source-baltimore-mayor-ordered-police-to-stand-down">Fox News</a> reported at the time:
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Despite a firm denial by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a senior law enforcement source charges that she gave an order for police to stand down as riots broke out Monday night, raising more questions about whether some of the violence and looting could have been prevented.
The source, who is involved in the enforcement efforts, confirmed to Fox News there was a direct order from the mayor to her police chief Monday night, effectively tying the hands of officers as they were pelted with rocks and bottles.
Asked directly if the mayor was the one who gave that order, the source said: &#8220;You are God damn right it was.&#8221;</blockquote>
Many have blamed the fallout of the case for the increase in crime in the city, maintaining that the backlash against the police and the pressure from elected officials has resulted in a more &#8220;hands off&#8221; approach by officers.
Others, as AP explains, have blamed the spike in crime as the result of a confluence of factors, including access to illegal guns, the opioid epidemic, social inequalities, lack of jobs, and political incompetence.
H/T J<a href="https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/12/29/baltimore-succeeds-breaking-murder-record-century/">azz Shaw</a>
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The oh-so-very conscientious Middle East historians at Vox, who once landed themselves in hot water barely three months after website launch with the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/blog/in-praise-of-vox-media-max-fisher-and-zack-beauchamp/">dissemination of laughable fake news</a> about a purported <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2014/07/17/voxs-motto-should-be-explaining-the-news-incorrectly-repeatedly/">land bridge</a> connecting the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-israel-must-destroy-hamas-once-and-all-josh-hammer">Hamas</a>-controlled Gaza Strip with the biblical Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria (i.e., the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">&#8220;West Bank&#8221;</a>), are apparently <a href="https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/12/24/rashida-tlaib-would-no-doubt-be-very-pleased-with-voxs-inexcusably-dishonest-reporting-on-israel-and-israeli-jews/">up to it again</a>.
As highlighted by <a href="https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/12/24/rashida-tlaib-would-no-doubt-be-very-pleased-with-voxs-inexcusably-dishonest-reporting-on-israel-and-israeli-jews/">Twitchy</a>, Vox has written a piece about the post-Oslo Accords modern history of the city of Bethlehem that is, in the words of one venerable pro-Israel Twitter user, &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/AG_Conservative/status/1209497608122703872">inexcusably dishonest</a>.&#8221; And it is.
Seven years following 1993&#8217;s <a href="https://honestreporting.com/the-second-intifada-israeli-society-terrorized/">fateful</a> signing of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_I_Accord">Oslo I</a> between the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the late Palestinian-Arab unrepentant jihadist Yasser Arafat, Vox informs its readers, &#8220;tourism in Bethlehem &#8230; took a nosedive when the Israeli military invaded many of the West Bank’s major cities that were under Palestinian jurisdiction.&#8221; Vox continues: &#8220;As a political stalemate and expanding Israeli settlements led to the bloody Second Intifada, or uprising, the devastation and Israeli curfews kept tourists away; hotels closed and restaurants went out of business.&#8221;
This is not merely historical revisionism or tendentious distortion. It is an outright lie.
In reality, it was the terrorist Arafat who was singularly responsible for commencing the bloody Second Intifada — a four-plus-year sustained jihad during which over a thousand Israelis paid the ultimate price and thousands more were also wounded.
Although Arafat strategically waited to launch the Second Intifada until after then-Likud party prime minister candidate Ariel Sharon had the oh-so-shocking temerity to visit the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, in September 2000, it is now commonly known that Arafat had been planning the civilizational jihad at least since he rejected then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak&#8217;s <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-clinton-palestinians-were-offered-temple-mount-in-2000/">exceedingly generous</a> &#8220;two-state solution&#8221; offer (96% of Judea and Samaria) at the U.S.-hosted Camp David Summit two months prior. The U.S. government&#8217;s own <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-mitchell-report-may-2001">Mitchell Report</a> on the subject, overseen by former Sen. George Mitchell (D-ME), made this quite clear (emphasis added):
<blockquote>&#8230; [T]he immediate catalyst for the violence was the breakdown of the Camp David negotiations on July 25, 2000 and the &#8220;widespread appreciation in the international community of Palestinian responsibility for the impasse.&#8221; In this view, Palestinian violence was planned by the PA leadership, and was aimed at &#8220;provoking and incurring Palestinian casualties as a means of regaining the diplomatic initiative.&#8221; &#8230; The Sharon visit [to the Temple Mount] did not cause the &#8220;[Second] Intifada.&#8221;</blockquote>
Lest there be any doubt as to which party was to blame for the negotiation breakdown at Camp David in 2000, furthermore, let us defer to then-U.S. President <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/23/israel3">Bill Clinton</a>: &#8220;[Arafat] did not negotiate in good faith; indeed, he did not negotiate at all. He just kept saying no to every offer, never making any counterproposals of his own.&#8221;
In short, the unrepentant terrorist Arafat deliberately tanked the Camp David negotiations and used his own destruction of the possibility for a sustained peace as an excuse for launching a years-long bloody jihad to murder as many Israeli Jews as possible. Contra Vox&#8217;s despicable lying, all subsequent Israel Defense Forces (IDF) incursions into Palestinian-Arab strongholds in Judea and Samaria were in direct response to Arafat&#8217;s preplanned war. In short, it was Arafat&#8217;s deliberately beginning to kill Israeli civilians en masse that prompted the IDF&#8217;s military response.
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Vox apparently wants readers to think Israel invaded Bethlehem out of nowhere, and suggests the second intifada *followed* the invasion. 
Of course, that &quot;uprising&quot;—ie the murdering of Israeli civilians in cafes, buses, and markets—prompted the invasion of West Bank cities. <a href="https://t.co/lkMCaEvUho">pic.twitter.com/lkMCaEvUho</a>
&mdash; Gilead Ini (@GileadIni) <a href="https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1209496422778900480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Second Intifada was a uniquely harrowing time to live in Israel. Here is how Matti Friedman, who lived in Israel during part of the jihad, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/israel-election-netanyahu.html">described</a> it at The New York Times in September:
<blockquote>No single episode has shaped Israel’s population and politics like the wave of suicide bombings perpetrated by Palestinians in the first years of the 21st century. Much of what you see here in 2019 is the aftermath of that time, and every election since has been held in its shadow. The attacks, which killed hundreds of Israeli civilians, ended hopes for a negotiated peace and destroyed the left, which was in power when the wave began. Any sympathy that the Israeli majority had toward Palestinians evaporated. &#8230;
I remember standing at a bus stop when I heard a suicide bomber blow himself up and murder 11 people one street over, at Café Moment. My mother passed through the Nahariya train station right before a suicide bomber struck there, and my sister was in a cafeteria at the Hebrew University campus when Palestinians blew up a different cafeteria. I’ve got many more memories like that, all of them standard for the time.</blockquote>
There are a <a href="https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/12/24/rashida-tlaib-would-no-doubt-be-very-pleased-with-voxs-inexcusably-dishonest-reporting-on-israel-and-israeli-jews/">myriad other problems</a> with Vox&#8217;s duplicitous holiday season smear job about Israel and Bethlehem. But outright lying about how the Second Intifada started — in contravention of the U.S. government&#8217;s own review of the facts, no less — stands atop the sordid list of Vox&#8217;s falsehoods.
Of course, what else might we expect from the folks who once claimed Israel restricted Palestinian-Arab &#8220;traffic&#8221; on a &#8220;land bridge&#8221; connecting Gaza to Judea and Samaria? &#8220;Fake news&#8221; is very, very real.

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Last week a female student from Barnard College was found murdered in a New York City park. Shortly after, several young teenage boys – including a 13-year-old – were arrested for her murder.
On Sunday, Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association – a police union – made a comment on a radio program that the victim, Tessa Majors, was in the park to buy marijuana.
“An 18-year-old college student at one of the most prestigious universities is murdered in a park, and what I’m understanding, she was in the park to buy marijuana,” Mullins said on John Catsimatidis’ radio show.
“And you think about that, we don’t enforce marijuana laws anymore. We’re basically hands-off on the enforcement of marijuana,” Mullins add. &#8220;So here we have a student murdered by a 13-year-old and we have a common denominator of marijuana. You know, my question to the people of New York City is, ‘Why is this happening?’”
The New York Daily News reported that police have not confirmed if what Mullins said was true. The outlet reported that Majors’ boyfriend said she was jogging in the park. The 13-year-old arrested for his role in the murder said he and his friends chose to rob Majors as she jogged down the steps of Morningside Park.
Even if what Mullins said was true, it had no bearing on Majors’ murder. Her reason for being in the park did not cause her murder – the three young men who killed her were responsible.
In a statement published Monday <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/murdered-barnard-freshmans-family-blasts-police-union-chief-over-marijuana-comment/2242512/">by NBC New York</a>, Majors’ family slammed Mullins for his remarks about Tessa.
&#8220;The remarks by Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins we find deeply inappropriate, as they intentionally or unintentionally direct blame onto Tess, a young woman, for her own murder,&#8221; the Majors family said Monday. &#8220;We would ask Mr. Mullins not to engage in such irresponsible public speculation, just as the NYPD asked our family not to comment as it conducts the investigation.&#8221;
The family went on to say that they still want to know “what exactly happened to Tess and who committed her murder.”
“We believe, for the immediate safety of the community and the surrounding schools, that should be everyone’s top priority and we are grateful to the men and women of the NYPD for all of their efforts,&#8221; the family continued.
Majors had moved to New York this year to attend Barnard College as a freshman. She was interested in music and “sang and played guitar in a band called Patient 0, which recently played its first concert in New York,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/nyregion/barnard-student-fatal-stabbing.html">reported</a>.
On Friday night, the 13-year-old charged in Majors’ murder said during a court hearing that he and his friends put Majors in a chokehold and started robbing her. The young woman fought back and was able to bite one of the attackers on their finger. The teens then stabbed her and left her for dead.
NBC reported that Majors was able to find a security guard outside the park and ask for help. She was taken to a hospital but died soon after.

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