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  • Pregnant Mother and Son, 3, Shot in the Face; Boyfriend Arrested 

    On May 12, a 23-year-old pregnant woman and her 3-year-old son were found, both with gunshot wounds to the face, after a runner saw them in an Asheville, N.C., park. The woman, Candice Pickens, was pronounced dead at the scene, while her son, Zachaeus Waters, was rushed to a local hospital, where he underwent emergency…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 19, 2016
  • Symone Marshall Moved to Texas Looking for a Fresh Start. So How Did She End Up Dead in a Texas Jail?

    Stop reading if any of this sounds familiar: A young woman moves to Texas seeking a fresh start, ends up in jail, and because she’s unable to post bail, stays in police custody for weeks until one day she’s found unresponsive in her cell. She’s rushed to a local hospital, where she is pronounced dead.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 18, 2016
  • George Zimmerman on Trayvon Martin’s Parents: ‘They Didn’t Raise Their Son Right’

    Because George Zimmerman won’t just go away, he’s now criticizing Trayvon Martin’s parents, the Black Lives Matter movement and Hillary Clinton. In a recent interview with the Daily Beast, Zimmerman claims that he, not Trayvon, is the real victim and questioned Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin’s parenting skills. “They didn’t raise their son right. He…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    May 18, 2016
  • Former Marine Attacked and Taunted With Racial Remarks in Wyo.

    A former Marine from Montana suffered a concussion and a broken facial bone and had his eye swollen shut after, he says, two men made racial remarks and attacked him outside a bar in northern Wyoming May 7. Twenty-five-year-old Clayton Denny, who is half African American and half Chippewa Cree, said that he had just…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    May 17, 2016
  • Watch: Houston Police Looking for Drivers in Road Rage Brawl

    A driving incident in Houston quickly turned into road rage as a woman confronted two men in a car and then things got physical. Police investigators told KHOU that the incident began after one vehicle cut off another. When the vehicles were stopped at a light, a passenger inside a black truck got out and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    May 17, 2016
  • Missing Ivy League Student Found Safe; Rented Apartment in Brooklyn, NY: Report

    Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore who’d been missing since May 5, was found Monday after she reactivated her bank card with her new address. According to the New York Daily News, Kidd had changed her cellphone and bank account numbers and pulled down her Facebook page before disappearing earlier this month. Kidd, a…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 17, 2016
  • Calif. 2-Year-Old to Be Given 1 More Week on Life Support, Judge Rules

    A California family has been given a one-week extension by a judge to keep their son, 2-year-old Israel Stinson, on life support. Israel was declared brain-dead after an asthma attack left him without oxygen for 40 minutes April 1, CBS News reports. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller in Sacramento, Calif., ruled that the family could…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 16, 2016
  • NJ Girl, 3, Mauled by Pit Bulls

    The two pit bull mixes were supposed to be in the basement, but somehow they escaped and began attacking 3-year-old Janaya Everett. “The baby was laying on the floor bloody with her scalp all messed up, and just a mess … horrible, horrible thing,” Dwyane Harper told ABC 7. Harper said that he was outside…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 16, 2016
  • Report: Missing Ivy League Sophomore Nayla Kidd Changed Bank Account and Cellphone Numbers Before She Disappeared

    Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore who has been missing since leaving a May 5 dorm party, is now believed to have taken her Facebook page down and changed her cellphone and bank account numbers before her disappearance, police sources tiold the New York Daily News. “This is not Nayla,” her mother, La Creis…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    May 16, 2016
  • Photo of NC Cop and Autistic Teen Talking Goes Viral

    This situation could easily have gone wrong. An autistic North Carolina teen with a history of violent behavior, and who school officials believed was also suicidal, left his school campus without permission. School officials immediately called the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which dispatched Officer Tim Purdy. When the officer arrived, he found the teen sitting by…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    May 13, 2016
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