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4th family member charged in murder of Family Dollar security guard who asked customer to wear mask
Brya Bishop was arrested days before her 25th birthday and charged with three felonies: tampering with evidence, lying to police and being an accessory after the fact, the Genesee County Prosecutor’s office said in a press release.
Three other members of Bishop’s family have been charged with murder in the shooting death of Calvin Munerlyn on May 1.
Prosecutors say Bishop’s mother, Sharmel Teague, began arguing with Munerlyn after he asked her to wear a mask inside a Family Dollar store in downtown Flint and then threw her out of the store when she refused and spit at him.
The 45-year-old Teague did not return, but her husband Larry, 44, and son Ramonyea Bishop, 23, entered the store moments later, police said. The two confronted Munerlyn before Bishop pulled a gun and shot him in the back of the head, according to cops.
Munerlyn, a 43-year-old married father of eight, was rushed to the hospital but died a short time later.
Sharmel Teague was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree premeditated murder and felony firearm possession, but her husband and son, both facing similar charges, are still at large.
Brya Bishop, however, has joined her mother in Genesee County Jail.
“Brya Bishop’s attempts to shield family members will not be tolerated and we will likewise hold anyone else involved in offering shelter and assistance to Larry Teague or Ramonyea Bishop accountable under the law,” county prosecutor David Leyton said in the release.
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A Google search for Calvin shows he's a cupcakeer too, so no big loss.
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Another non-deal:
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Father, son charged with killing black man Ahmaud Arbery
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia authorities arrested a white father and son Thursday and charged them with murder in the February shooting death of a black man they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood.
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Man charged in death of Monique Baugh arrested in Illinois in Murder for hire plot.
A fugitive who has been on the run since January for his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the killing of a 28-year-old mother-of-two has been arrested, police said.
Berry Davis, 41, was taken into custody in Illinois last week by the U.S. Marshals Service, working under the request of the Minneapolis Police Department, on murder charges for his alleged role in the New Year's Eve killing of realtor Monique Baugh, Minneapolis police spokesperson John Elder told PEOPLE.
Davis was booked on May 1 and is currently being held without bond, according to online records for the Cooking County Jail in Chicago.
Davis and another alleged co-conspirator, Cedric Berry, were charged with kidnapping and murder in connection with Baugh's death this January. Davis was also charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting earlier that day of Baugh’s boyfriend, an area rapper known as Momoh.
The two men were indicted in February on two counts of aiding and abetting first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder and one count of kidnapping, the Star Tribune reported.
According to the criminal complaint against Berry previously obtained by PEOPLE, Momoh was attacked an hour before Baugh was lured into the alley where she was shot three times and killed.
She was found with her hands bound with tape, police said.
The complaint alleged Berry, wearing a black mask with two eye holes, entered the home Baugh and Momoh shared with their two daughters at about 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2019.
According to the complaint, the children — who are 1 and 3 — were both in the home with Momoh when Berry allegedly opened fire, shooting the rapper several times before fleeing.
Momoh called police, who responded to the home, finding him on the floor of his bedroom covered in blood, surrounded by his two children. He survived the shooting and his children were not hurt in the incident, police said.
Authorities believe the intended target was Momoh, who had told investigators that he had recently signed a record contract and had been "flaunting his cash on social media."
At least eight people were involved in varying degrees in the plot, investigators said.
A fugitive who has been on the run since January for his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the killing of a 28-year-old mother-of-two has been arrested, police said.
Berry Davis, 41, was taken into custody in Illinois last week by the U.S. Marshals Service, working under the request of the Minneapolis Police Department, on murder charges for his alleged role in the New Year's Eve killing of realtor Monique Baugh, Minneapolis police spokesperson John Elder told PEOPLE.
Davis was booked on May 1 and is currently being held without bond, according to online records for the Cooking County Jail in Chicago.
Davis and another alleged co-conspirator, Cedric Berry, were charged with kidnapping and murder in connection with Baugh's death this January. Davis was also charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting earlier that day of Baugh’s boyfriend, an area rapper known as Momoh.
The two men were indicted in February on two counts of aiding and abetting first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder and one count of kidnapping, the Star Tribune reported.
According to the criminal complaint against Berry previously obtained by PEOPLE, Momoh was attacked an hour before Baugh was lured into the alley where she was shot three times and killed.
She was found with her hands bound with tape, police said.
The complaint alleged Berry, wearing a black mask with two eye holes, entered the home Baugh and Momoh shared with their two daughters at about 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2019.
According to the complaint, the children — who are 1 and 3 — were both in the home with Momoh when Berry allegedly opened fire, shooting the rapper several times before fleeing.
Momoh called police, who responded to the home, finding him on the floor of his bedroom covered in blood, surrounded by his two children. He survived the shooting and his children were not hurt in the incident, police said.
Authorities believe the intended target was Momoh, who had told investigators that he had recently signed a record contract and had been "flaunting his cash on social media."
At least eight people were involved in varying degrees in the plot, investigators said.
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'Blacks for Trump': The strange story of the US President's least likely fan who considers Oprah Winfrey the devil
'Michael the Black Man' a highly eccentric right-wing activist from Florida known by at least three other aliases who was once acquitted of conspiracy to commit double murder
At a number of political rallies over the last two years, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and possibly planted.
He holds signs that scream “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” and wears a T-shirt proclaiming with equal conviction that “TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist.”
Almost always, he plugs his wild website, Gods2.com, across his chest.
And so it was Tuesday night, before a crowd of Trump supporters in Phoenix who had come to watch another show. There was the President, whipping up the wildly cheering crowd, and then there was Michael the Black Man, chanting just beyond Trump's right shoulder in that trademark T-shirt.
The presence of Michael the Black Man - variously known as Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel - has inspired not only trending Twitter hashtags but a great deal of curiosity and Google searches. Internet sleuths find the man's bizarre URL, a easily-accessible gateway to his strange and chequered past.
The radical fringe activist from Miami once belonged to a violent black supremacist religious cult and he runs a handful of amateur, unintelligible conspiracy websites. He has called Barack Obama “The Beast” and Hillary Clinton a Ku Klux Klan member. Oprah Winfrey, he says, is the devil.
Most curiously, in the 1990s, he was charged, then acquitted, with conspiracy to commit two murders.
But Michael the Black Man loves President Donald Trump. And President Trump's campaign apparently loves him right back.
It's unclear if the White House or President Trump's campaign officials are aware of Michael the Black Man's turbulent history or extreme political views, but he and his followers have stumped for the president at his inauguration and the Super Bowl.
In July, he posted video footage of himself at the Mar-a-Lago Club, President Trump's so-called “Winter White House,” for the Republican Party of Palm Beach County's annual Lincoln Day Dinner.
Wearng a black dinner coat over a white “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” T-shirt, Michael the Black Man posed with the local GOP's chairman, apparently took a photo of first lady Melania Trump and recorded a selfie video that showed his arm slung over the shoulder of Florida Governor Rick Scott.
“I saw you on TV with Trump,” Scott can be heard telling Michael the Black Man. “You did a good job.”
At a campaign rally in late October 2016, down in Sanford, Florida, Trump even gave the “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” signs an approving shout-out.
“Look at those signs behind me,” Trump said to the roaring crowd. “Blacks for Trump. I like those signs.”
The candidate, wearing a camouflage “Make America Great Again hat,” turned to the sign-holders and offered a thumbs-up. Michael the Black Man, standing behind Trump and grinning widely, gave a thumbs-up right back.
“Blacks for Trump,” the candidate said again. “You watch. You watch. Those signs are great, thank you.”
The signs drew national attention at the time, but not because of Michael the Black Man. Rally watchers came away perplexed after one event when white women were seen waving the signs. That same month, New York Magazine and the Miami New Times published articles recounting the sign maker's story.
Before he started calling himself Michael the Black Man, the man identified as Maurice Woodside joined a cult led by Hulon Mitchell Jr, who went by Yahweh Ben Yahweh and eventually turned violent. The two men met when Woodside was 21 years old.
Woodside followed Yahweh's fiery teachings for years, even after the leader allegedly denied his dying, cancer-stricken mother medical treatment and instead prescribed her “vegetables, nuts, and herbs,” prosecutors once said in court, according to the New Times.
In the early 1990s, the New Times reported, Woodside, Yahweh and 14 other members of the cult were arrested by federal agents and charged with racketeering and conspiracy in 14 murders and a firebombing, reported the New Times.
Ricardo Woodside, Maurice's brother, had once been in the cult but left after his mother's death. Woodside testified in court that his brother had helped beat a man named Aston Green, who argued with Yahweh and was taken to the Florida Everglades and beheaded with a dull machete, reported the New Times.
He also testified that Maurice Woodside was the cult member who stabbed a Louisiana man named Leonard Dupree in the eye with a sharpened stick.
Yahweh was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Maurice Woodside, who denies the cult was violent or murderous, was acquitted along with six others.
In later years, Woodside changed his name to Maurice Symonette. Eventually, he became Michael the Black Man, an anti-Democrat - or as he calls them, Demon-crat - who preaches the Bible and abhors homosexuality. He started a private radio station, BOSS 104.1 FM, to broadcast his radical beliefs, and began causing a ruckus in public.
At an Obama campaign speech in Coral Gables, Florida, in 2008, he and a group of other protesters loudly interrupted the future president, shouting “Barack, go home!” and waving signs that declared “Obama endorsed by the KKK,” reported the Miami New Times.
One sign, held by Michael the Black Man, read: “Blacks against Obama.”
His website, Gods2.com, proclaims on the landing page: “LATIN, BLACK AND WHITE MUST UNITE!”
Links on that site lead to another one, honestfact.com, which claims that the “Real KKK Slave Masters” are “CHEROKEE Indians (Hidden Babylonians).”
The proclamations only get more unhinged from there: “ISIS AND HILLARY RACE WAR PLOT TO KILL ALL BLACK & WHITE WOMAN OF AMERICA WITH MS-13.”
And: “YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH Taught Us To Vote Republican & is Now VINDICATED.”
And: “BLACKS FOR TRUMP SUPPORTS SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS”
'Michael the Black Man' a highly eccentric right-wing activist from Florida known by at least three other aliases who was once acquitted of conspiracy to commit double murder
At a number of political rallies over the last two years, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and possibly planted.
He holds signs that scream “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” and wears a T-shirt proclaiming with equal conviction that “TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist.”
Almost always, he plugs his wild website, Gods2.com, across his chest.
And so it was Tuesday night, before a crowd of Trump supporters in Phoenix who had come to watch another show. There was the President, whipping up the wildly cheering crowd, and then there was Michael the Black Man, chanting just beyond Trump's right shoulder in that trademark T-shirt.
The presence of Michael the Black Man - variously known as Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel - has inspired not only trending Twitter hashtags but a great deal of curiosity and Google searches. Internet sleuths find the man's bizarre URL, a easily-accessible gateway to his strange and chequered past.
The radical fringe activist from Miami once belonged to a violent black supremacist religious cult and he runs a handful of amateur, unintelligible conspiracy websites. He has called Barack Obama “The Beast” and Hillary Clinton a Ku Klux Klan member. Oprah Winfrey, he says, is the devil.
Most curiously, in the 1990s, he was charged, then acquitted, with conspiracy to commit two murders.
But Michael the Black Man loves President Donald Trump. And President Trump's campaign apparently loves him right back.
It's unclear if the White House or President Trump's campaign officials are aware of Michael the Black Man's turbulent history or extreme political views, but he and his followers have stumped for the president at his inauguration and the Super Bowl.
In July, he posted video footage of himself at the Mar-a-Lago Club, President Trump's so-called “Winter White House,” for the Republican Party of Palm Beach County's annual Lincoln Day Dinner.
Wearng a black dinner coat over a white “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” T-shirt, Michael the Black Man posed with the local GOP's chairman, apparently took a photo of first lady Melania Trump and recorded a selfie video that showed his arm slung over the shoulder of Florida Governor Rick Scott.
“I saw you on TV with Trump,” Scott can be heard telling Michael the Black Man. “You did a good job.”
At a campaign rally in late October 2016, down in Sanford, Florida, Trump even gave the “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” signs an approving shout-out.
“Look at those signs behind me,” Trump said to the roaring crowd. “Blacks for Trump. I like those signs.”
The candidate, wearing a camouflage “Make America Great Again hat,” turned to the sign-holders and offered a thumbs-up. Michael the Black Man, standing behind Trump and grinning widely, gave a thumbs-up right back.
“Blacks for Trump,” the candidate said again. “You watch. You watch. Those signs are great, thank you.”
The signs drew national attention at the time, but not because of Michael the Black Man. Rally watchers came away perplexed after one event when white women were seen waving the signs. That same month, New York Magazine and the Miami New Times published articles recounting the sign maker's story.
Before he started calling himself Michael the Black Man, the man identified as Maurice Woodside joined a cult led by Hulon Mitchell Jr, who went by Yahweh Ben Yahweh and eventually turned violent. The two men met when Woodside was 21 years old.
Woodside followed Yahweh's fiery teachings for years, even after the leader allegedly denied his dying, cancer-stricken mother medical treatment and instead prescribed her “vegetables, nuts, and herbs,” prosecutors once said in court, according to the New Times.
In the early 1990s, the New Times reported, Woodside, Yahweh and 14 other members of the cult were arrested by federal agents and charged with racketeering and conspiracy in 14 murders and a firebombing, reported the New Times.
Ricardo Woodside, Maurice's brother, had once been in the cult but left after his mother's death. Woodside testified in court that his brother had helped beat a man named Aston Green, who argued with Yahweh and was taken to the Florida Everglades and beheaded with a dull machete, reported the New Times.
He also testified that Maurice Woodside was the cult member who stabbed a Louisiana man named Leonard Dupree in the eye with a sharpened stick.
Yahweh was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Maurice Woodside, who denies the cult was violent or murderous, was acquitted along with six others.
In later years, Woodside changed his name to Maurice Symonette. Eventually, he became Michael the Black Man, an anti-Democrat - or as he calls them, Demon-crat - who preaches the Bible and abhors homosexuality. He started a private radio station, BOSS 104.1 FM, to broadcast his radical beliefs, and began causing a ruckus in public.
At an Obama campaign speech in Coral Gables, Florida, in 2008, he and a group of other protesters loudly interrupted the future president, shouting “Barack, go home!” and waving signs that declared “Obama endorsed by the KKK,” reported the Miami New Times.
One sign, held by Michael the Black Man, read: “Blacks against Obama.”
His website, Gods2.com, proclaims on the landing page: “LATIN, BLACK AND WHITE MUST UNITE!”
Links on that site lead to another one, honestfact.com, which claims that the “Real KKK Slave Masters” are “CHEROKEE Indians (Hidden Babylonians).”
The proclamations only get more unhinged from there: “ISIS AND HILLARY RACE WAR PLOT TO KILL ALL BLACK & WHITE WOMAN OF AMERICA WITH MS-13.”
And: “YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH Taught Us To Vote Republican & is Now VINDICATED.”
And: “BLACKS FOR TRUMP SUPPORTS SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS”
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'Blacks for Trump': The strange story of the US President's least likely fan who considers Oprah Winfrey the devil
'Michael the Black Man' a highly eccentric right-wing activist from Florida known by at least three other aliases who was once acquitted of conspiracy to commit double murder
At a number of political rallies over the last two years, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and possibly planted.
He holds signs that scream “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” and wears a T-shirt proclaiming with equal conviction that “TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist.”
Almost always, he plugs his wild website, Gods2.com, across his chest.
And so it was Tuesday night, before a crowd of Trump supporters in Phoenix who had come to watch another show. There was the President, whipping up the wildly cheering crowd, and then there was Michael the Black Man, chanting just beyond Trump's right shoulder in that trademark T-shirt.
The presence of Michael the Black Man - variously known as Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel - has inspired not only trending Twitter hashtags but a great deal of curiosity and Google searches. Internet sleuths find the man's bizarre URL, a easily-accessible gateway to his strange and chequered past.
The radical fringe activist from Miami once belonged to a violent black supremacist religious cult and he runs a handful of amateur, unintelligible conspiracy websites. He has called Barack Obama “The Beast” and Hillary Clinton a Ku Klux Klan member. Oprah Winfrey, he says, is the devil.
Most curiously, in the 1990s, he was charged, then acquitted, with conspiracy to commit two murders.
But Michael the Black Man loves President Donald Trump. And President Trump's campaign apparently loves him right back.
It's unclear if the White House or President Trump's campaign officials are aware of Michael the Black Man's turbulent history or extreme political views, but he and his followers have stumped for the president at his inauguration and the Super Bowl.
In July, he posted video footage of himself at the Mar-a-Lago Club, President Trump's so-called “Winter White House,” for the Republican Party of Palm Beach
County's annual Lincoln Day Dinner.
Wearng a black dinner coat over a white “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” T-shirt, Michael the Black Man posed with the local GOP's chairman, apparently took a photo of first lady Melania Trump and recorded a selfie video that showed his arm slung over the shoulder of Florida Governor Rick Scott.
“I saw you on TV with Trump,” Scott can be heard telling Michael the Black Man. “You did a good job.”
At a campaign rally in late October 2016, down in Sanford, Florida, Trump even gave the “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” signs an approving shout-out.
“Look at those signs behind me,” Trump said to the roaring crowd. “Blacks for Trump. I like those signs.”
The candidate, wearing a camouflage “Make America Great Again hat,” turned to the sign-holders and offered a thumbs-up. Michael the Black Man, standing behind Trump and grinning widely, gave a thumbs-up right back.
“Blacks for Trump,” the candidate said again. “You watch. You watch. Those signs are great, thank you.”
The signs drew national attention at the time, but not because of Michael the Black Man. Rally watchers came away perplexed after one event when white women were seen waving the signs. That same month, New York Magazine and the Miami New Times published articles recounting the sign maker's story.
Before he started calling himself Michael the Black Man, the man identified as Maurice Woodside joined a cult led by Hulon Mitchell Jr, who went by Yahweh Ben Yahweh and eventually turned violent. The two men met when Woodside was 21 years old.
Woodside followed Yahweh's fiery teachings for years, even after the leader allegedly denied his dying, cancer-stricken mother medical treatment and instead prescribed her “vegetables, nuts, and herbs,” prosecutors once said in court, according to the New Times.
In the early 1990s, the New Times reported, Woodside, Yahweh and 14 other members of the cult were arrested by federal agents and charged with racketeering and conspiracy in 14 murders and a firebombing, reported the New Times.
Ricardo Woodside, Maurice's brother, had once been in the cult but left after his mother's death. Woodside testified in court that his brother had helped beat a man named Aston Green, who argued with Yahweh and was taken to the Florida Everglades and beheaded with a dull machete, reported the New Times.
He also testified that Maurice Woodside was the cult member who stabbed a Louisiana man named Leonard Dupree in the eye with a sharpened stick.
Yahweh was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Maurice Woodside, who denies the cult was violent or murderous, was acquitted along with six others.
In later years, Woodside changed his name to Maurice Symonette. Eventually, he became Michael the Black Man, an anti-Democrat - or as he calls them, Demon-crat - who preaches the Bible and abhors homosexuality. He started a private radio station, BOSS 104.1 FM, to broadcast his radical beliefs, and began causing a ruckus in public.
At an Obama campaign speech in Coral Gables, Florida, in 2008, he and a group of other protesters loudly interrupted the future president, shouting “Barack, go home!” and waving signs that declared “Obama endorsed by the KKK,” reported the Miami New Times.
One sign, held by Michael the Black Man, read: “Blacks against Obama.”
His website, Gods2.com, proclaims on the landing page: “LATIN, BLACK AND WHITE MUST UNITE!”
Links on that site lead to another one, honestfact.com, which claims that the “Real KKK Slave Masters” are “CHEROKEE Indians (Hidden Babylonians).”
The proclamations only get more unhinged from there: “ISIS AND HILLARY RACE WAR PLOT TO KILL ALL BLACK & WHITE WOMAN OF AMERICA WITH MS-13.”
And: “YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH Taught Us To Vote Republican & is Now VINDICATED.”
And: “BLACKS FOR TRUMP SUPPORTS SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS”
See, now thats fucking racist. You’re black, so hate the man who has lifted your community higher out of failure and poverty than we ever did, cupcakeer!”
Democrats: Party of racism then, Party of racism now.
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Couple charged with murder after three people found fatally shot in Kansas City
The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office has charged a woman and a man with murder after three people were shot and killed in an east Kansas City neighborhood.
Lynnsey D. Jones, 35, and Victor Sykes, 43, are each charged with three counts of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection to the shooting, which was reported before 9 p.m. Thursday.
Kansas City police have identified the victims as Larry Barnes, 40; Brandy Jones, 38; and Larona Jones, 42.
Charging documents filed Friday indicate the shooting happened as a drug deal was taking place.
According to the court records, Kansas City police officers were on patrol in the area of East 45th Street and South Benton Avenue when they heard the sound of gunfire.
The officers then spotted two people in the street. One person, a woman, was seen entering a car and carrying what appeared to be a rifle.
Police arrested the woman, who was later identified as Jones. A gun was found inside the car.
The second person, a man, ran from the scene but was taken into custody after a short foot chase. The man, identified as Sykes, was wearing gloves and had what appeared to be blood and a laceration on his left hand and wrist, court records said.
As Jones and Sykes were detained, police officers found the body of a man in the 4500 block of South Benton Avenue. Rifle shell casings were found near him.
In the same area, officers also noticed that the front door of a home was open. A second victim was seen inside.
Officers entered the home and tried to render aid to the second victim, who was soon pronounced dead.
Police found a third deceased victim in the home. Court records note that the two victims had head injuries.
Court records state that numerous 5.56 caliber shell casings were found at the home. The Kansas City Police Department Firearm Laboratory later determined that the casings were fired from the gun recovered from the suspects’ car.
A witness told police he saw one of the victims get shot in the street. The witness said he heard gunshots, went outside and saw a man striking another man with his fist. He stated he heard the male suspect yell at a woman, “Shoot him baby, shoot him.” The witness said the woman then shot the victim several times. The man who was seen beating the victim was later determined to be the same man who ran from police, court records state.
In an interview with police, Jones stated she went to the home Thursday night to buy drugs. While waiting for the drugs, she said she entered the home and smoked marijuana with two other women. Afterward, she said she went back outside and saw two men in a “heated” conversation on the front porch.
Jones said at one point, one of the men shot the other and handed her the gun. She denied that her boyfriend, Sykes, was present at the scene. But when asked why Sykes was fighting, Jones replied, “I don’t know why.”
Later in the interview, Jones allegedly admitted to shooting and killing all three victims. When asked by police why she shot them, she replied, “Because I’m a bad person,” court records state.
Sykes told police he was walking with the male victim when he heard gunshots. He said he hid behind a vehicle. When he saw officers taking Jones into custody, he said he tried to run away. He denied any involvement in the killings.
Court records note that Sykes was on parole for murder at the time of the shooting. Online prison records show he was convicted in Wyandotte County of second-degree murder in 1993 and sentenced to serve time in the Kansas Department of Corrections. He was granted out-of-state parole in Missouri last October.
Sykes and Jones remain in custody. Their bond amounts have been set at $500,000 cash. A court date has not been set. Attorneys for Sykes and Jones have not yet been listed in public records.
In a statement, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said that “quick thinking and action” of the officers allowed the suspects to be arrested and charged.
The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office has charged a woman and a man with murder after three people were shot and killed in an east Kansas City neighborhood.
Lynnsey D. Jones, 35, and Victor Sykes, 43, are each charged with three counts of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection to the shooting, which was reported before 9 p.m. Thursday.
Kansas City police have identified the victims as Larry Barnes, 40; Brandy Jones, 38; and Larona Jones, 42.
Charging documents filed Friday indicate the shooting happened as a drug deal was taking place.
According to the court records, Kansas City police officers were on patrol in the area of East 45th Street and South Benton Avenue when they heard the sound of gunfire.
The officers then spotted two people in the street. One person, a woman, was seen entering a car and carrying what appeared to be a rifle.
Police arrested the woman, who was later identified as Jones. A gun was found inside the car.
The second person, a man, ran from the scene but was taken into custody after a short foot chase. The man, identified as Sykes, was wearing gloves and had what appeared to be blood and a laceration on his left hand and wrist, court records said.
As Jones and Sykes were detained, police officers found the body of a man in the 4500 block of South Benton Avenue. Rifle shell casings were found near him.
In the same area, officers also noticed that the front door of a home was open. A second victim was seen inside.
Officers entered the home and tried to render aid to the second victim, who was soon pronounced dead.
Police found a third deceased victim in the home. Court records note that the two victims had head injuries.
Court records state that numerous 5.56 caliber shell casings were found at the home. The Kansas City Police Department Firearm Laboratory later determined that the casings were fired from the gun recovered from the suspects’ car.
A witness told police he saw one of the victims get shot in the street. The witness said he heard gunshots, went outside and saw a man striking another man with his fist. He stated he heard the male suspect yell at a woman, “Shoot him baby, shoot him.” The witness said the woman then shot the victim several times. The man who was seen beating the victim was later determined to be the same man who ran from police, court records state.
In an interview with police, Jones stated she went to the home Thursday night to buy drugs. While waiting for the drugs, she said she entered the home and smoked marijuana with two other women. Afterward, she said she went back outside and saw two men in a “heated” conversation on the front porch.
Jones said at one point, one of the men shot the other and handed her the gun. She denied that her boyfriend, Sykes, was present at the scene. But when asked why Sykes was fighting, Jones replied, “I don’t know why.”
Later in the interview, Jones allegedly admitted to shooting and killing all three victims. When asked by police why she shot them, she replied, “Because I’m a bad person,” court records state.
Sykes told police he was walking with the male victim when he heard gunshots. He said he hid behind a vehicle. When he saw officers taking Jones into custody, he said he tried to run away. He denied any involvement in the killings.
Court records note that Sykes was on parole for murder at the time of the shooting. Online prison records show he was convicted in Wyandotte County of second-degree murder in 1993 and sentenced to serve time in the Kansas Department of Corrections. He was granted out-of-state parole in Missouri last October.
Sykes and Jones remain in custody. Their bond amounts have been set at $500,000 cash. A court date has not been set. Attorneys for Sykes and Jones have not yet been listed in public records.
In a statement, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said that “quick thinking and action” of the officers allowed the suspects to be arrested and charged.
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Maryland couple slain at Delaware veterans cemetery visited son’s grave almost daily, surviving son says
Before they were shot and killed May 8 in what authorities say seemed to be a random attack, Maryland couple Paul and Lidia Marino spent part of almost every day visiting the Delaware grave of their son Anthony, who died in 2017.
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California man accused of stealing camera equipment tried to sell items back to store owner, police say
A California man recently released from jail was arrested again Wednesday after allegedly stealing equipment from a local business before trying to sell the items back to the store's owner later that day, authorities said.
Police said they received a call about a burglary at a Riverside store around 10 a.m. The owner told them several hundred dollars worth of camera equipment was stolen.
Earlier that day, the owner -- unaware of the break-in -- had been walking near the store when the suspect, later identified as Johnny Robles, 25, "approached him offering to sell camera equipment," police said in a news release.
"The owner recognized the equipment as belonging to him and went back to his business where he verified a break-in occurred," according to the Riverside Police Department. "When he came back, he attempted to detain the suspect after calling the police."
When officers arrived at the scene, they said Robles "immediately" fled before he was eventually cornered into a fence and detained. He was safely taken into custody and the stolen property was returned to the victim, police said.
"A records check on the suspect showed he is currently on probation for violence against the police, along with various other violations related to theft, drugs, and resisting arrest," the department added.
Robles had been released from jail “the other day” due to California’s zero-bail order during the coronavirus crisis, the release said, according to Los Angeles's KTLA. It's not clear what he was arrested for before his earlier release from jail.
Following the robbery on Wednesday, Robles was booked into jail for commercial burglary and probation violations. He's being held on $10,000 bail for the violation of probation charge, the department added.
A California man recently released from jail was arrested again Wednesday after allegedly stealing equipment from a local business before trying to sell the items back to the store's owner later that day, authorities said.
Police said they received a call about a burglary at a Riverside store around 10 a.m. The owner told them several hundred dollars worth of camera equipment was stolen.
Earlier that day, the owner -- unaware of the break-in -- had been walking near the store when the suspect, later identified as Johnny Robles, 25, "approached him offering to sell camera equipment," police said in a news release.
"The owner recognized the equipment as belonging to him and went back to his business where he verified a break-in occurred," according to the Riverside Police Department. "When he came back, he attempted to detain the suspect after calling the police."
When officers arrived at the scene, they said Robles "immediately" fled before he was eventually cornered into a fence and detained. He was safely taken into custody and the stolen property was returned to the victim, police said.
"A records check on the suspect showed he is currently on probation for violence against the police, along with various other violations related to theft, drugs, and resisting arrest," the department added.
Robles had been released from jail “the other day” due to California’s zero-bail order during the coronavirus crisis, the release said, according to Los Angeles's KTLA. It's not clear what he was arrested for before his earlier release from jail.
Following the robbery on Wednesday, Robles was booked into jail for commercial burglary and probation violations. He's being held on $10,000 bail for the violation of probation charge, the department added.
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83-year-old beaten, set on fire in Greenville home | Now, one pleads guilty to brutal murder
Mina Ellery was one of five people who, in 2016, broke into an elderly woman's home in Grantville, Georgia and beat her. Someone in the group also poured lighter fluid on the woman and set her on fire.
GREENVILLE, Ga. -- Mina C. Ellery is facing a life sentence in prison after pleading guilty to the brutal murder of an 83-year-old Meriwether County grandmother.
Ellery was 17 years old on Aug. 4, 2016, when prosecutors said she and four others broke into Dot Dow's home and beat her severely before someone poured lighter fluid on the elderly woman and set her on fire.
The District attorney's office confirmed to 11Alive was sentenced to life with a minimum of 30 years to serve in prison.
Ellery pleaded guilty to a total of seven of the 23 charges against her for the grandmother's beating. Dow who was then doused in lighter fluid and set on fire, died less than a month after the crime.
► 5 arrested for allegedly ransacking home, setting elderly woman on fire
► Elderly woman who was attacked, set on fire dies
According to police, Dow was sleeping when five suspects broke in and ransacked her home. Police said the suspects then asked the woman for the whereabouts of a family member and when she couldn't provide an answer, they assaulted her. Ellery was one of the five arrested after the initial investigation.
Prosecutors said Ellery also pleaded guilty to her involvement in a prior burglary at Dow's home on Aug. 2, 2016, two days before the deadly home invasion, and received additional sentences in connection with that crime.
Mina Ellery was one of five people who, in 2016, broke into an elderly woman's home in Grantville, Georgia and beat her. Someone in the group also poured lighter fluid on the woman and set her on fire.
GREENVILLE, Ga. -- Mina C. Ellery is facing a life sentence in prison after pleading guilty to the brutal murder of an 83-year-old Meriwether County grandmother.
Ellery was 17 years old on Aug. 4, 2016, when prosecutors said she and four others broke into Dot Dow's home and beat her severely before someone poured lighter fluid on the elderly woman and set her on fire.
The District attorney's office confirmed to 11Alive was sentenced to life with a minimum of 30 years to serve in prison.
Ellery pleaded guilty to a total of seven of the 23 charges against her for the grandmother's beating. Dow who was then doused in lighter fluid and set on fire, died less than a month after the crime.
► 5 arrested for allegedly ransacking home, setting elderly woman on fire
► Elderly woman who was attacked, set on fire dies
According to police, Dow was sleeping when five suspects broke in and ransacked her home. Police said the suspects then asked the woman for the whereabouts of a family member and when she couldn't provide an answer, they assaulted her. Ellery was one of the five arrested after the initial investigation.
Prosecutors said Ellery also pleaded guilty to her involvement in a prior burglary at Dow's home on Aug. 2, 2016, two days before the deadly home invasion, and received additional sentences in connection with that crime.
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