Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow said he was a reformed Chinatown gangster, but the jury in his federal trial didn’t believe that and convicted him of murder and racketeering.
The trial took about two months, yet it only took the jury two and a half days of deliberations to reach a verdict. The U.S. attorney declined to comment, but it was a big win for them. Chow’s lawyers say they’ll appeal, especially since Chow, 56, faces mandatory life in prison.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — September became the deadliest month of 2015 after a series of weekend shootings left three people dead.
At least 13 people were shot and three killed in the month’s final weekend. The circumstances of many of the shootings remain under investigation.
Cleveland tallied 97 homicides as of Monday morning, a drastic increase over recent years setting the city on track to experience one of its deadliest years in nearly a decade.
Police are still working to determine what’s behind the uptick, but investigators have said that many shootings are related to ongoing battles between local street gangs.
CLEVELAND – The wife of a Cleveland firefighter conspired with a group of young men to kill her husband so she could collect on a life insurance policy and cover up financial fraud she committed in her husband’s name, prosecutors said Monday.
Uloma Walker-Curry, 44, was indicted on aggravated murder, conspiracy and felonious assault charges in the November 2013 slaying of fire Lt. William Walker, 45, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office announced. He was shot to death in the driveway of his Cleveland home. Chad Padgett, 21, Christopher Hein, 22, and Ryan Dorty, 23, were indicted on the same charges.
A pair of television journalists at a CBS affiliate in Virginia were shot and killed during a live broadcast Wednesday morning, and the shooter is still at-large.
According to WDBJ-TV president and general manager Jeff Marks, the victims, reporter Alison Parker, 24, and her 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward died shortly after the shooting, which occurred at approximately 6:45 a.m. at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Va., near Smith Mountain Lake.
Four members of a Texas family have been arrested on suspicion of beating a 14-year-old relative to induce an abortion two years ago after she had been raped by a member of the family, Dallas police said on Wednesday.
Cedric Jones, 27; Sharon Jones, 45; Cecila McDonald, 25; and Lonnell McDonald, 27, were arrested on Tuesday and charged with engaging in organized criminal activity, according to online jail records.
The girl was about eight months pregnant when the four beat her for six hours, repeatedly kicking her in the abdomen, police said. The Dallas Morning News said the teenager gave birth to a stillborn baby hours later. The body was thought to have been burned in a charcoal grill and buried at an unknown location, police said.
The horrific torture and murder of a six year-old Mexican boy by five other children, that prosecutors say is evidence of “social decomposition” and an “absence of values,” is now believed to be linked to a satanic cult.
In Chihuahua, Mexico, Christopher Marquez, 6, had been invited to play a “kidnap game” by five other children – a boy, age 12, two girls of age 13, and two other boys of age 15. As the Daily Mail reported last week, during the “game,” the older children tied up Christopher’s hands and feet, then beat him with a stick. Finally, the alleged murderers stoned and suffocated the young child, then stabbed him in the back and buried him face-down in a hand-dug shallow grave, in which they also dumped some weeds and a dead animal.
The brother of one of the men charged in the disappearance and murder ofHolly Bobo, a Tennessee nursing student who vanished in 2011, has now been been indicted.
John Dylan Adams was indicted this week on charges of premeditated first-degree murder, murder in the perpetration of the aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape, according to the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office.
Nearly two hundred U.S. citizens have been murdered in Mexico since 2013. Fierce gunfights, kidnappings, bus hijackings, car-jackings and extortion by Mexican cartels are all possibilities that could be faced by U.S. citizens travelling into Mexico. These have resulted in the murder of 181 Americans in the past two years.
In the most recent version of the travel advisory issued by the U.S. Department of StateAmerican citizens are warned to “avoid non-essential travel” to the Mexican border due to the continued violence.
According to the Department of State, in 2014 one hundred Americans were murdered in Mexico. In 2013, 81 Americans had a similar fate throughout the country. The number of murdered Americans added to the nearly 199 Americans who were kidnapped last year. Breitbart Texas reports paint a grim picture about the true security conditions in that country in comparison to the image painted by Mexican officials.