Ehren, Evin, Ereal

— Moments after her estranged husband shot and killed himself inside her home, Brenda Robinson’s first thoughts were about her children.
“Where’s my babies?” she said as she jumped over the body of… Eric Robinson and ran outside. When she opened the door to the green Pontiac in the driveway, her six-year-old son, Ehren, fell into her arms. She grabbed him and immediately yelled for someone to call for help.
Her other two children — Erhen’s brother, Evin, 11, and their sister, Ereal, 4 — were in the backseat of the car, still clinging to life, she said. Both had gunshot wounds to the head. They were rushed to Jackson Hospital in downtown Montgomery for treatment.
At 3 a.m. Monday, nearly five hours after her gruesome discovery, Brenda Robinson would get the awful news — her children were dead. “I’m waiting for them to come back,” she said Monday morning.
Montgomery police are treating the Sunday incident as a triple murder-suicide. According to Lt. Keith Barnett of the Montgomery Police Department, Eric Robinson, 42, shot and killed the three children in the car at an unknown location. He then drove the car with the children’s bodies to a home at 635 Iris Lane where his wife and her mother were waiting for him to return them from their normally scheduled visitation, according to police. Eric Robinson went inside the home and asked for his wife. She hid in the bathroom and listened as he threatened to kill himself if she didn’t come out. Brenda Robinson said she hear a loud pop as shot himself in the head, Barnett said.
Police were called at 9:53 p.m. Sunday to respond to the shooting. Neither of the women was injured. Robinson and his wife were in the process of divorcing, according to police reports. Sunday would have been their 12th wedding anniversary.
Police say they previously had investigated a series of domestic violence reports involving the couple, and that Brenda Robinson signed a warrant against her husband Sunday afternoon for violation of a protective order. Police said they made multiple attempts to locate Robinson at his residence at 1128 Birdwood Drive

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2-year-old twins Dion and Davion Primm were killed.

 

A man who killed himself a day after he killed his wife and four others told a judge in 2005 that he was ready to be a law-abiding citizen who would not let society down if he was relea…sed from prison.
“I swear to you from the bottom of my heart that I ‘WILL NOT’ let you down. Let my wife or children down. Let my family down. Let society down. Or especially, let myself down,” Davon Crawford wrote to Cuyahoga County Judge Michael Russo as part of a motion for release.
Crawford, who was freed in 2007, shot himself in the head Friday afternoon when confronted by police in the bathroom of a home not far from the house where he fatally shot his wife, his sister-in-law and three young children, said Cleveland Police Lt. Thomas Stacho.
Crawford, 33, was divorced from his first wife about three months after writing the letter to Russo, records show. He married again recently, according to the father of his new wife, 30-year-old Lechea Crawford. She was one of the women killed in the couple’s home Thursday night, and police say a 2-month-old baby found unharmed in the home is believed to be theirs.
The two-story red-and-yellow wood frame home where Crawford died is located in a densely populated Cleveland neighborhood, and several dozen people lined up behind yellow police tape across the street as police converged on the house. They cheered as a sheet-covered stretcher was removed from the house, and cheered again when a van left the neighborhood with the body Friday evening.
Dozens also gathered Friday evening about four blocks away, on the street where Thursday’s slayings took place. They held a candlelight vigil and rally at the site, where a memorial of more than a dozen stuffed animals had grown on the front steps.
Crawford has convicted in 1995 of voluntary manslaughter, according to prison records. He was released in 2000 and sent back to prison in 2002 on a felonious assault conviction involving domestic violence, prison records show.
In the 2005 letter, Crawford apologizes for firing a gun in his home and says, “I made an insensible choice in a moment of anger that could have actually cost me my wife and children. … I now realize that when I make bad impulsive decisions, that I do not only hurt myself, but that I hurt everyone that love and cares for me as well, and especially my children.”
He wrote that his then-wife had lung cancer and that he had a job and supporting family waiting for him. His wife, mother and others wrote Russo on his behalf, noting that he had three children at the time and had taken parenting and anger management courses and was studying dental lab technology.
While on parole, which ended last year, Crawford passed several urine tests for drugs, paid his child support, had a full-time job and no run-ins with authorities, according to Andrea Carson, a spokeswoman for the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
Police searching for Crawford on Friday received a tip about his whereabouts and set up surveillance at the home where he was later seen by authorities, Stacho said. Police forced their way through the front door and found Crawford was hiding in the bathtub, officials said.
He fired one shot from a handgun, killing himself, said Jeff Carter, a U.S. Marshals Service spokesman.
“There was no standoff,” Stacho said. “As they confronted him, he shot himself.”
Stacho said officials believe a relative of Crawford lives at the home. He said an unidentified woman was found in another part of the home, but police did not release any information about her connection to Crawford.
Police Chief Michael McGrath said it appears that some sort of domestic argument sparked Thursday’s shootings.
Besides Lechea Crawford, killed were her sister Rose Stevens, 25, and Stevens’ three children: 4-year-old Destanee Woods and 2-year-old twins Dion and Davion Primm.
A fifth child was wounded and was being treated at MetroHealth Medical Center, which withheld the 7-year-old’s name and condition at the family’s request.
Two other boys in the house, ages 12 and 13, managed to flee unharmed and one called 911, officials said.
George Julien, 44, who lives across the street from the home, said he was stunned and upset at the shootings.
“I’m almost paralyzed. I’m almost not able to move right now,” he said, sitting on his porch Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,506767,00.html#ixzz1vh1STqBL

McKenzie Smalley

northwest Indiana man faces a maximum 40-year sentence after he admitted that he killed his 2-month-old daughter because she wouldn’t stop crying when he wanted to smoke synthetic marijuana.Michael Thomas Ivy, 24, admitted he was angry on June 25 because he wanted to smoke some “gas station weed” in his bedroom while watching TV and McKenzie Smalley wouldn’t stop crying.

Ivy moved the baby, who was in a bouncer seat, into the living room at the apartment in the 5000 block of Magoun Avenue in East Chicago, Ind., where he lived with the child’s mother and two sisters, but the child wouldn’t stop crying.

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Ivy then crouched before the baby and placed his right knee hard into McKenzie’s stomach, which caused her to defecate in her diaper. The waste oozed out of the diaper and up the baby’s back. After he kneed her in the stomach, Ivy saw the baby raise her arm and gasp for air, and her eyes rolled back in her head. Ivy cleaned the child, placed her in a bouncer seat and left her in the living room while he returned to the bedroom to continue smoking the weed for another 20 to 30 minutes.

When he returned to the living room, he found McKenzie unresponsive and violently shook her. The child suffered extensive head injuries, bruises on the chest wall and recent rib fractures.

Ivy pleaded guilty to battery, which is punishable by a sentence of 20 to 50 years. Deputy prosecutor Michelle Jatkiewicz and defense attorney Teresa Hollandsworth will argue an appropriate sentence on June 27 before Lake Superior Court Judge Thomas Stefaniak Jr.

Ivy had faced 45 to 65 years on a murder charge, which will be dismissed along with neglect of a dependent and aggravated battery charges if the judge accepts the agreement.

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Jamaya Griffith

 

 

When former Chief Deputy Ronnie Barnes arrived at 36 Doc Bass Lane on the afternoon of March 1, 2006, he thought he was answering a call about a missing child.

He had no way of knowing that less than an hour after he arrived he would find the body of 7-year-old Jamaya Griffith stuffed in the closet of a neighbor’s home.

“When I arrived on Doc Bass Lane, I spoke with Ms. Mary Knight and she told me her granddaughter was missing,” said Barnes, now a Jefferson Davis County Justice Court judge, during the capital murder trial of Johnny Ray Sims on Tuesday.

Knight said she had seen Sims on the property earlier that day.

Barnes said he then drove up the road looking for Jamaya until Jefferson Davis County Sheriff Henry McCullum called and said he had secured permission to search Sims’ home.

Sims, 40, who has a Sumrall address in Jefferson Davis County, is accused of killing Jamaya of Hattiesburg.

His trial started Monday in Jefferson Davis County Circuit Court.

Jamaya, a Lillie Burney Elementary School student, was visiting her great-grandmother when she disappeared after she went outside to ride her bicycle.

During a search of Sims’ home, Barnes said he smelled gasoline. He discovered a lawn mower in a bedroom. The lawn mower was turned on its side and slightly leaking gasoline onto a blanket, Barnes said.

Barnes said he lifted the lawn mower off the blanket and found a bicycle matching the description of the one Jamaya was last seen on.

Barnes said, after he confirmed that the bike was indeed Jamaya’s, he went back into the bedroom to continue his search.

Barnes said he looked into the bedroom closet and saw a pile of clothes that came up almost to his waist. Barnes said he began slowly pulling the clothing out until he felt something.

“At that time I didn’t know what it was… it felt warm,” Barnes said. “I said, ‘Lord, don’t let this girl be in this closet,’ and when I pulled it back I found Jamaya.”

Barnes said Jamaya was wearing a only a shirt and socks, and he saw what he thought were stab wounds.

Barnes said he then contacted an agent with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations.

“At the time, I was distraught and I couldn’t say much to him,” Barnes said. “I just said I need you.”

Barnes said he then helped rope off the scene and waited until MBI agents arrived.

Barnes was the prosecution’s first witness in the trial. McCullum took the stand after Barnes.

McCullum said when he spoke with Jamaya’s great-grandmother she said the last time she had seen Jamaya was when the child was in her yard playing on her bike.

McCullum said he secured permission from Sims to search Sims’ residence. McCullum said he looked into Sims’ home.

“I didn’t touch anything, I just went around and looked,” McCullum said.

McCullum said he then went outside Sims’ residence and asked Sims to sit in his patrol car because of the amount of tension at the scene.

“There were a lot of people upset about this child missing,” McCullum said. “I sensed he needed to be put in the car for his protection.”

After Jamaya’s bike was found in Sims’ home, Sims was then placed in custody and taken to the Jefferson County sheriff’s department.

Sims’ defense attorney, Deborah Gambrell, asked both Barnes and McCullum if they were certain the crime scene was secured because of the number of people involved in the initial search for Jamaya.

Barnes said he was aware that before law enforcement officers were called, some of Jamaya’s family members had searched Sims’ house. Barnes said he did not know the total number of people who had been in the house.

Gambrell asked McCullum if the crime scene could have been corrupted.

“Could have been,” McCullum replied.

McCullum then asserted the crime scene was sealed off.

David Oubre, a former MBI special agent, said the residence was encircled with crime scene tape when he arrived. Oubre said he never made entry into the home until a search warrant was secured.

Oubre said the day after the murder he received a packet containing a sexual assault kit from the nurse who collected the specimens from Sims. Oubre said the sexual assault kit was signed over to the state crime lab.

Oubre also was responsible for getting a full set of fingerprints from Sims, including palm prints.

After the court returned from a lunch recess, former MBI crime scene analyst Marcos Rogers took the stand.

Rogers said he and his partner, Grant Graham, were responsible for collecting and photographing the evidence at the scene.

Fifteenth Circuit Court District Attorney Hal Kittrell showed Rogers several photos, and Rogers said he took all of the photos associated with the case.

Kittrell showed photos of Jamaya’s bicycle in Sims’ home and then moved on to photos of a small laundry room. A maroon-colored, rolled-up carpet was shown in the corner of the laundry room. Rogers identified a shoe in the photo and said it was a Timberland tennis shoe, youth size 1.5.

Kittrell then showed a photo of the carpet – this time it was unrolled.

Rogers identified what he said was a pair of children’s size 6 Gap jeans and a knife on the unrolled carpet. Rogers said reddish stains had been found on the knife.

Kittrell also asked Rogers about a photo shot under a bed. Rogers identified the mate of the other Timberland shoe.

The next set of photos showed a mattress stained with a red substance and blood spatter on the wall behind the mattress. Rogers said the mattress was originally turned so the blood was hidden.

Kittrell then began showing Rogers several photos taken within the closet where Jamaya was found.

At that point, several of Jamaya’s family members left the courtroom with tears on their faces.

Several photos of Jamaya and the surrounding scene were shown to the jury while Kittrell asked Rogers about what was being shown.

Rogers said the photos showed that the victim was naked from the waist down and that there was trauma to the vaginal and rectal areas. Rogers then said two pubic-type hairs were found in the vaginal area of the victim.

An initial attempt to try Sims in August ended when a mistrial was declared during jury selection. It was discovered that more than 100 potential jurors had been given information about the case.

Judge Prentiss Harrell, who also presided over the first trial, said the information – which was never made public – may have prevented an impartial verdict.

Although Sims is charged with capital murder, the prosecution is not seeking the death penalty if a conviction is found.

“That would leave, if upon conviction, a life sentence without parole,” Kittrell said.

The trial is expected to continue this morning with the prosecution’s witnesses.

 

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Nazia Banks

• Nazia Banks, 12 (May 20, 2012)

Residents of a South Chicago neighborhood gathered outside the home of Nazia Banks, 12, on Sunday morning to remember a happy boy whose life was cut short by a gunman who shot him in the head as he walked back to his family’s house Saturday night.

Nazia was playing with children outside his home in the 8000 block of South Brandon Avenue just after 10 p.m. Saturday when his father called him inside, police said.

About that time, two people emerged from a gangway, and one of them pulled a handgun and opened fire, police said. Nazia was shot in the head and died at the scene, authorities said.

It’s unclear whether the boy was targeted. But neighbors on the block asked why anyone would kill an outgoing child who loved basketball and who always had a smile on his face.

“This is a pretty quiet block,” said Tasha Moore, who lives a few houses from Nazia’s home. “This is shocking to everybody that something like this would happen.”

Adults and children from the neighborhood sat on the front steps Sunday morning. Some brought stuffed bears or toys to place at a makeshift altar at the foot of the steps. The children used markers to sign a poster taped to a tree in front of the house. They wrote messages saying, “Rest in peace” or “You will be truly missed.” One young boy said out loud: “This street will never be the same.”

No one was in custody Saturday night as detectives investigated.

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Quachaun Xavier Browne

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police say Quachaun was killed by his mother’s live-in boyfriend, Jose Calderon, 18, on Jan. 29 after Mr. Calderon accused the child of knocking over Mr. Calderon’s 27-inch flat-screen television set. They  say Mr. Calderon beat the child so severely, including swinging him by the ankles and hurling him into a wall, that Quachaun suffered a fractured skull and was bleeding  from his ears and rectum.

Mr. Calderon has been charged with murder, and Quachaun’s mother, Aleshia Smith, 27, who told the authorities that she was not home at the time, has been charged with manslaughter, for allegedly failing to seek immediate medical attention for her child. Each has pleaded not guilty.

Among the 90 or so mourners yesterday was Quachaun’s biological father, Mandinga Browne, who has been awaiting trial at Rikers Island since last August on unrelated robbery charges. Mr. Browne entered and departed Glad Tidings Church surrounded by four plainclothes Correction Department officers, including one officer who stood next to Mr. Browne throughout the service.

Quachaun’s mother, Ms. Smith, who is herself being held at Rikers Island, did not attend the funeral.  Thomas Antenen, a spokesman for the Department of Correction, said that Ms. Smith had not made a request to go to the service, but that Mr. Browne had asked to be there.

“We thank God for the short four years he was allowed to live upon this earth,” the church’s pastor, the Rev. Winston S. Swan,  told the mourners. “This child is with the Lord. That’s the only comfort we have today.”

 

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Makayla Norman

The mother of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who weighed 28 pounds when she died has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Angela Norman, 43, was sentenced in a Dayton, Ohio court on Thursday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Her daughter Makayla Norman was covered in bed sores and showed other signs of neglect when she died on March 1, 2…011, said court authorities. The county coroner’s office attributed the teen’s death to nutritional and medical neglect complicated by her chronic condition. ‘She was the worst malnourished child this office has ever seen,’ said Ken Betz, director of the coroner’s office. Mrs Norman was indicted on the three counts last November. She pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony count of involuntary manslaughter and to single misdemeanor and felony counts of endangering children. Norman remained in jail with bail set at $250,000. Her attorney did not immediately return a call to his office. Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. said that Angela Norman did not provide sufficient food or proper care for the child, resulting in her death.   Neglected to death: Makayla Norman had numerous bed sores and showed signs of massive malnutrition when she died on March 1, 2011, according to authorities Three nurses who authorities said were to administer or monitor the girl’s care also were charged. Norman had been scheduled for trial April 18 with the other

Mya Carr

 

 

 

Police said the investigation began after they received a call after 11 p.m. Monday from the 3400 block of Calloway Avenue in northwest Baltimore.

The girl, identified as Mya Carr, was taken to a nearby hospital, where she later died.

The death was initially labeled suspicious, but was later classified as a homicide. The girl’s father, 22-year-old Matthew Carr, was arrested on Wednesday.

“It was painfully obvious to the medical teams at Sinai Hospital that she had suffered multiple body traumas,” said Detective Donny Moses. “She had fractures in her face and bruises all up and down her body. It is a horrific thing, and no child should have to go through something like that.”

Detectives said Matthew Carr was the only person at home with the girl at the time. According to court documents, he appeared to have been drinking and “admitted to beating his child repeatedly with his hands” all over her body.

“He basically said she had a bowel movement on herself, so he got angry and he beat her,” Moses said.

Matthew Carr is in custody facing multiple charges including first-degree murder, assault and child abuse.

Detectives said they believe this wasn’t the first time the little girl met with violence.

“In looking at her doctors’ records, we determined a lot of her injuries were old. So, at some point she’d been beaten in the past. We do feel like she’d been suffering,” Moses said.

 

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Kyla Frank

 A Las Vegas mother is facing a murder charge in the death of her 6-year-old daughter. The child, identified as Kyla Frank’s, was stabbed with scissors.Neighbors are heartbroken after hearing of the girl’s tragic ending. “It’s just unbelievable, truly unbelievable,” neighbor Margaret Holder said.

Metro Police received a 911 call on Sunday around 6 p.m. that a naked woman covered in blood was running in an area near Jones Boulevard and Vegas Drive. The woman, who was later identified as 27-year-old Danielle Slaughter, was taken to the hospital for evaluation. About three hours, a person who lives in the home Palmae Street, found the body of Slaughter’s daughter.

“It seemed like a very loving family,” Holder said.

Police believe Slaughter murdered her daughter and then ran almost two miles from her home.

“We know the mother had some sort of mental breakdown to where she repeatedly stabbed that child with what we believe to be scissors,” said Lt. Ray Steiber, Metro Police.

She is charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon. Slaughter is being held at Clark County Detention Center. Police say, Slaughter had no previous run-ins with law enforcement.

 

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left to right: Jazzlyn Johnson, 13; Jaxs Johnson, 15; and Pebbles Johnson, 17.

  mother killed her four children Tuesday morning, calling three of them back into her home to fatally shoot them before turning a gun on herself, according to investigators here.

• Florida Today

   

A 33-year-old mother went on a shooting spree early Tuesday in Port St. John, Fla., taking the lives of her four children and then herself.

At one point, three of the wounded children ran to a neighbor’s house, but the mother stepped outside and beckoned them to return to home where they were fatally shot before deputies arrived.

Joel Johnson, 12; Jazlin Johnson, 13; Jaxs Johnson, 15; and Pebbles Johnson, 17, died, said Tod Goodyear of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, which is leading the investigation. Their mother, Tonya Thomas, 33, reportedly sent a text to a friend at about 3 a.m. saying she wanted to be cremated with her children

The friend did not receive the message until much later, Goodyear said.

“I’m a father and I’ve got kids,” the sheriff’s spokesman said. “I cannot comprehend a person doing that to their child … calling them back to the slaughter.”

Sheriff’s deputies and the county’s SWAT team responded to the home  after a 5 a.m. call reporting that shots were fired.

The neighbor who had called heard a knock and went to the door to find three of the children standing outside, asking for help, Goodyear said. At least one appeared to have been shot, and the neighbor handed the victim a towel.

At that point, Thomas stepped outside and told the children to return home. The children listened to their mother and walked back to the house, Goodyear said. Two made it back inside and more gunfire ensued.

By Tim Shortt, Florida Today

Brevard County officers staff a command post Tuesday in Port St. John, Fla.. in response to shootings earlier in the day.

Deputies arrived a short time later and saw someone at the front door go back into the house, Goodyear said.

The officers spotted one shooting victim, the 17-year-old girl, lying in the front yard. Deputies pulled up, loaded her inside their patrol car and drove her to a waiting ambulance. Paramedics declared her dead at the scene.

Deputies saw movement inside the house, including what appeared to be a lit cigarette, Goodyear said. Then came a final shot.

SWAT team members entered the home a short time later, finding the bodies of the mother and the three other children, he said.

Police had been to the house previously, Goodyear said. One of the teens, Jaxs Johnson, was to appear in juvenile court Tuesday on a misdemeanor battery charge involving his mother. It was not known whether that hearing played a role in the shootings.

Neighbors were stunned at the scope of the shootings.

Greg Tschanz and his wife, Jennifer, live a couple houses from the crime scene. He said he gave Thomas a used TV and often saw the kids playing outside.

The couple typically leaves at 5 a.m. to commute to work in Melbourne. Tuesday morning, Greg Tschanz opened his door and started walking toward his truck — and a man started shouting at him in the darkness.

“All I heard was, ‘Sir, get back in your house!’ I looked up and there was a sheriff with a shotgun butted up against his arm,” he recalled.

“I cannot even come to grips with it,” he said. “It was a surprise to me to hear that the sheriff’s office had even been there before for domestic calls. Complete shock.”

Carol Hoar lived next door to Thomas and her children at their previous address in Port St. John, about two miles from the site of the shooting. Hoar helped pay the security deposit so the family could move to Bright Avenue, and even bought Christmas toys for the children.

“When she lived next door, they were a happy family. The kids were outside in the yard playing all the time,” she said. “I just don’t understand what happened. I’m just sick.”

Travis St. Peter, who lived about three houses down from the shooting scene until two days ago, said the family was known in the neighborhood for being disruptive. He said police were often at the house.

“They were just known for being hoodlums,” St. Peter said of the children before he knew their fate. He said the mother was regularly yelling at the kids, who were often running around the neighborhood late at night, “terrorizing our dogs and setting off firecrackers.”

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