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Guan Wen Brian Tan, 33, repeatedly struck Sherry Cheung with the 36-centimetre-long tool without warning before then stabbing her with a knife in his Airbnb rental at Norman Park on May 8, 2017.
The Supreme Court in Brisbane heard the pair had been playing computer games before Mr Tan asked the 20-year-old Hong Kong woman if she thought they “would ever be together” and she allegedly replied, “no, never”.
Crown prosecutor Mel Wilson said after hitting her with the hammer, he allegedly grabbed her by the arms as he asked her: “How could you be so cruel?”
A Massachusetts handyman pleaded innocent Friday to charges he used a packaged pipe bomb to murder a waitress who refused to date him.
Steven S. Caruso, 44, showed no emotion when he was arraigned in Malden District Court for first-degree murder in the Jan. 20 death of Sandra Berfield, 32, of Everett, Mass.
Berfield died when she opened a package authorities allege Caruso left on her front porch. Authorities said the device was triggered by a battery that activated a switch when the package was opened.
“My sister was stalked relentlessly for over two years,” Darisse said. “Unfortunately, she didn’t qualify for a 209A (protective restraining order) because she had no prior relationship. This left her without the protection she needed and deserved, which left police unable to stop her stalker.”
Certain states require that a credible threat be made before any action can be taken, Darisse explained.
“How do you prove a credible threat? It’s a matter of interpretation,” she said. “When you receive dead roses in the mail, like my sister did, how do you interpret that any other way?”
https://www.lowellsun.com/2008/03/06/hudson-woman-tells-story-of-attack/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/2000/02/25/Man-arraigned-for-bomb-slaying/2306951454800/
A teenager is in the hospital and the 41-year-old man who attacked her with a car before stabbing her is behind bars at a North Carolina jail, the Archdale Police Department reported on Facebook.
The 19-year-old was stabbed multiple times because she refused to date Tyvonne Quantaine Upshur, WXII reported. Upshur knew the teen from church, according to WFMY.
Jilted, the “obsessed” Greensboro man followed the teen and her family from church to a Taco Belland tried to run them over but missed and crashed into utility poles, WGHP reported. Upshur then got out of the car and stabbed the teenager in the back, according to the TV station.
https://www.thestate.com/news/state/north-carolina/article228715659.html
Amber Kyzer said her marriage to Tim Jones started out well but became increasingly abusive. Tim would regularly beat her, spit on her, and threaten to chop her up and feed her to the pigs. Once he even broke her back teeth out by throwing a phone at her head.
After Amber left in a bid to dispel the toxic tension between them and preserve Tim’s relationship with their five children, he routinely sent her short videos of the children crying for her in an attempt to lure her back under his control. His efforts failed. Tim murdered all five children in cold blood and drove their bodies around for nine days before dumping them in rural Alabama. The children were aged between eight and one years old. He expressed no remorse during his trial.
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article231423713.html
#violenceagainstchildren
It was supposed to be a family gathering on the northeast side of Fresno, Calif. When reporters arrived at the putty-colored ranch house on Monday, coolers were still sitting in the front yard, and a pink-and-blue banner was tacked to the window. “Happy Birthday!” it said in looping letters.
But according to the Fresno Police Department, the weekend celebration turned tragic when a 23-year-old man couldn’t take no for an answer and opened fire after a young woman rejected his advances. One of the bullets hit her 10-month-old daughter in the head, and the child has been hospitalized ever since.
“We are hoping and praying that baby Fayth is able to survive this injury as well as make a full recovery,” Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said at a Sunday news conference hours after the shooting.
As it turned out, Echartea was already wanted in another shooting “over a female,” Dyer said. On the night of May 27, he allegedly fired numerous shots into the house where his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend was living. One of the bullets penetrated the wall and nearly struck a 1-year-old who was inside, coming within approximately one foot of the baby.
Court records show that at the time of the shooting, Echartea was out on bond while awaiting sentencing in a domestic violence case.
The Florida woman killed by a man who had allegedly stalked her since her Hooters waitressing days had tried to get an order of protection against him, but a judge refused the request.
Alissa Blanton, 23, of Cocoa, Fla., was shot and killed Monday in the parking lot near her new job at an AT&T call center in Orange County, Fla. Police said her killer, 61-year-old Roger Troy, fatally shot himself immediately afterward.
About a week before she died, Blanton asked a judge for an order of protection against Troy, whom she said had been stalking her for two years. Despite the evidence she presented – her petition contained more than 70 pages of harassing e-mails Troy sent to her – Brevard County Circuit Court Judge Dean Moxley said he didn’t have enough information to rule on the petition.
As he was waiting to be taken to jail, a local reporter asked Willie Cory Godbolt why he did it. Why did he kill all those people?
“Because I love my wife and I love my children,” he replied matter-of-factly.
Of course, it wasn’t about love at all. Cory had just been arrested for committing a massacre. He was accused of slaughtering eight people: his wife’s mother, her older sister and her aunt, her cousin and her cousin’s husband, her pastor’s grandson and another young boy, as well as the officer who responded to the 911 call.
Why did Cory say it was love that led him to kill so many? Only one person understood.
“He didn’t want nobody else around us,” Cory’s wife, Sheena Godbolt, said sitting on her sister’s couch one scorching hot afternoon in July, almost two months after the shooting.
“He wanted me there with him, with no friends or family members, nothing,” she said. She shifted in her seat, drew a deep breath, shook her head. “That’s not love.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mass-shooting-domestic-violence-willie-cory-godbolt_us_5989f222e4b0449ed505d656
Hours before she was shot to death, Jenny Cashwell texted a friend to say she didn’t think the first date she was on was leading to anything serious.
By the end of the day, Jan. 12, the man she arranged to meet through the dating website Plentyof Fish, Alan Peter Porciello, would be arrested in connection with the shooting.
Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel shared details from the investigation, including the content of text exchanges between Cashwell and a friend.
“There wasn’t going to be a second date from her perspective,” Hummel said Friday.
“We know that during the hike, she had been texting at least one friend and said something like: I don’t know if he’s the guy for me. We’re about to wrap up here.”
Porciello remains in custody awaiting trial for first-degree manslaughter as the investigation into Cashwell’s death continues.
https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/6868639-151/shooting-victim-had-been-texting-friends-to-say
A Florida man reportedly told cops he “had to get rid of the Devil” after allegedly shooting his ex-girlfriend in the head and wounding a second woman.
David Marshall Murdock, aged 60, of Lake Wales, stands accused of murdering Lisa Bunce, 56, while visiting a home in Haines City owned by her friend Sandra Andrews, 66. Andrews was also shot in the face by the suspect but is expected to survive, WFTS-TV reported.
Citing information from local law enforcement, WFTS-TV (ABC Action News) reported Bunce had moved to Ohio last year following a “troubled relationship” with the suspect. WTOL reported that Bunce had relocated to Toledo after the suspect made threats against her.
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-who-shot-ex-girlfriend-head-and-hid-body-closet-says-he-had-get-1281511
State police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Carbon County.
Troopers in Lehighton said Kyle Gruver, 27, from Fleetwood beat stabbed and shot his ex-girlfriend Megan Leland, 26, from Palmerton.
Troopers said Gruver brutally killed Leland because he was upset over their recent breakup.
https://wnep.com/2019/01/25/two-dead-in-murder-suicide-in-carbon-county/
Four people are now dead after Thursday night’s shooting events in State College.
Jordan Witmer — a 21-year-old man from Bellefonte who shot four people Thursday night in State College — had no relationship with three of them, according to State College police chief John Gardner, who updated media in a press conference Friday afternoon.
The exception was Witmer’s ex-girlfriend, 21-year-old Nicole Abrino.
The two were speaking at P.J. Harrigan’s Bar & Grill at the Ramada Inn on South Atherton Street at about 10:15 p.m. and were seated across from Dean and Steven Beachy. Police don’t yet know why, but Witmer eventually got up from his seat, walked to the other side of the bar and began shooting.
https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/community/state-college/article225068910.html
A gunman burst into a UPS mail-sorting facility in New Jersey Monday, shot into the air and took two women hostage for more than three hours before he was shot and killed by police, investigators said.
The man, identified as William Owens, 39, of Sicklerville, New Jersey, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ashraf Hajomar, a truck driver who was making a delivery to the facility at the time of the incident, told NBC10 he saw the suspect attack one of the women.
“He grabbed his girlfriend, started punching her,” Hajomar said. “He said, ‘I have nothing to lose.’ And he pulled a gun and shot in the air.”
Severa said he also spotted the suspect with the hostage.
“All I heard him say was, 'I’m not going to jail.’ And something about, 'I’ll kill you.'“
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Logan-Township-Police-Warehouse-504317181.html
A Multnomah County grand jury handed up a 23-count indictment against a registered sex offender accused of killing an 89-year-old Portland woman and stashing her body in the trunk of his car.
Authorities say Timothy Joseph Mackley, 58, also sexually abused Marcine Herinck after he kidnapped her from her Northeast 150th Avenue home last month, according to the indictment filed in court Wednesday.
The 4-foot-10 great-grandmother, whose disappearance prompted a frantic five-day search, died from “intentional torture and intentional maiming,” the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said.
Authorities say he encountered Herinck on Sept. 18 at the Northeast Portland food pantry and thrift store where the churchgoer and avid volunteer stocked shelves once a week.
Mackley was asked to leave after the elderly woman accused him of trying to look up her dress when he dropped a cellphone on the ground.
He trailed Herinck home from her volunteer shift that day, authorities said. Mackley later broke into the woman’s house and kidnapped her, the indictment alleges.
She was reported missing the next day by her family.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/10/portland_woman_89_found_in_tru.html
SEPT. 27, 1999
A bride-to-be was shot dead in front of her family yesterday by a former boyfriend who walked uninvited into her New Jersey home as the family was about to leave for the wedding, the authorities said.
The former boyfriend, dressed as if for a wedding, walked in about 4 P.M. as the woman was posing for a final round of photographs, pulled a gun out of a briefcase and shot her repeatedly, prosecutors said. He was immediately restrained by the bride’s brother, who held him until the police arrived, the authorities said.
Ms. Ricart and Mr. Garcia, 47, of North Bergen, N.J., had dated for about six years and had broken up nine months ago, Mr. Schmidt said. “She terminated the relationship and had no desire to resume it or have contact with him,” he said.
In response to a question, Mr. Schmidt refused to say whether Mr. Garcia had been stalking Ms. Ricart or whether she had an order of protection against him. Rafael Heres, a relative of Ms. Ricart’s who was at the house, told Channel 5 News that Mr. Garcia was deeply troubled. “We already knew the guy’s background, and we figured that the phenomena would occur,” he said. “He was a little negative. He couldn’t accept rejection.”
Another family friend, Fior Martinez, told reporters that Mr. Garcia had left 100 roses on Ms. Ricart’s lawn last week.
Mod Note: Every year for the last eighteen years, there has been an annual Gladys Ricart & Victims of Domestic Violence Memorial Walk / Brides’ March.
