All Blog Posts Tagged 'killed' (11)

1 dead, 1 wounded in Sarasota Florida shooting/robbery

1 dead, 1 wounded 1 surviver in Sarasota Florida shooting/robbery

Cornell "Pickle" Harris Jr. was found dead of an housing project apparent shooting.

Published: Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 1:35 p.m.

Last Modified: Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 3:03 p.m.

SARASOTA - A man was killed and a woman was shot multiple times this morning in a shooting at a Sarasota apartment.

Officers found Cornell Harris Jr., 21, dead in an apartment in the… Continue

Added by wint on March 7, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Three killed in two afternoon shootings in New Orleans

Three men were shot to death in the span of two hours this afternoon in two separate incidents in New Orleans.

First, two New Orleans men were shot to death in a vehicle Uptown. Travain Jones, 20, died on the scene, and Bryant Langston, 17, died shortly afterward at University Hospital, according to Orleans Parish chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano. Langston was three weeks shy of his 18th birthday.

About an hour and a half… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on August 18, 2008 at 8:48am — 15 Comments

Uncle arrested in fatal shootout that killed Camden boy, 4

The uncle of the 4-year-old boy shot dead during a gun battle last week in Camden was captured last night at the home of an acquaintance.

U.S. Marshals arrested Martin Pierce, of the 1600 block of Norris Street in Camden. He was found by the marshals at a home on Sherwood Lane in Westampton, and is now being held on a charge of attempted murder, accused of trying to kill Donald Lindsey, 20, with whom he had allegedly been feuding for weeks. A… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on August 12, 2008 at 1:06am — 4 Comments

37-year-old police detective killed in Virginia Beach shooting

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Detective Michael Smith Phillips was sitting in a pickup truck with a suspect, in the middle of an undercover operation to buy half a pound of marijuana, when another man came up and shot him three times in the torso, Virginia Beach Police Chief Jake Jacocks said in a press conference Friday.

Phillips, 37, and a member of the… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on August 8, 2008 at 9:41pm — 6 Comments

Man killed in drive-by shooting; three in custody

Robert Lee Holmes Jr., 22, was shot in the chest about 4:30 p.m. when a gunman in a maroon Lincoln Town Car opened fire near 31st Street North and Cincinnati Avenue.

Acquaintances who were with Holmes fired several shots in return, and the driver sped away, Police Chief Ron Palmer said.

Several children nearby at The Salvation Army's North Mabee Boys and Girls Club, 3001 N. Cincinnati Ave.,… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on July 16, 2008 at 12:06pm — 1 Comment

8 year old girl killed in Chicago alley

A young girl was stabbed to death Monday in an alley outside her father's South Side home, according to authorities.

Mya Lyons was found near the 8400 block of South Gilbert Court in Auburn Gresham, authorities said. Although authorities say she was 8, her grandfather, Orlando Barnes, said she was 9.

Chicago Police were releasing few details about the investigation, but a police spokeswoman said Mya's father found her and brought her… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on July 15, 2008 at 12:18pm — 22 Comments

Drug bust goes bad; innocent woman killed

PINELLAS PARK -- A South Carolina mother was killed and four others were hospitalized in a police drug bust that went bad.

Officers with the Pinellas Park Police vice squad completed an undercover drug bust about 9 p.m. in a parking lot when the two male suspects involved in the drug buy sped away from a police maneuver attempting to block them in, said Capt.… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on July 11, 2008 at 7:00pm — 12 Comments

Four killed, two injured in street party shooting

After celebrating her 35th birthday at a bar into early Friday, Sylvia Ware and some friends pulled up on the block where she lives to find more than 100 people partying in the street.The one-way block on N. 28th St. draws a crowd most nights, she said.

One of Ware's friends, Theresa "Two-Two" Raddle, 23, got out first and went to talk with another woman. That's when Ware heard the popping. At first she thought it was fireworks, an early Fourth… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on July 6, 2008 at 12:05pm — 12 Comments

Teen killed, 3 injured in drive-by shooting on South Side

A 17-year-old boy was killed and three men injured Monday night when four males in a van opened fire on them in an apparently gang-related drive-by on the South Side.

About 7:20 p.m., the four men were walking in the 6800 block of South Indiana Avenue when four men in a newer model silver van began shooting, according to police News Affairs Officer David Banks.

Jason Edwards, 17, of the 6800 block of S. Indiana Ave., was shot at 6847… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on June 24, 2008 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

Brooklyn teen killed in mob beatdown

The family and friends of a 19-year-old Brooklyn student who was beaten to death in East Flatbush by a group of ten men are calling for justice.

Darcy Antoine had received a football scholarship to Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh but a decision to take a semester off and come back to New York ended his life.

"I was mad at first, mad at god, why didn't you protect him, he was so good, he never hurt anybody," said Magdalah… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on June 23, 2008 at 5:28pm — 4 Comments

The 26th Chicago Public Schools student killed

A 15-year-old boy was killed and a man critically wounded in a shooting Monday night on Chicago's Northwest Side, police said. The teen is the 26th Chicago Public Schools student killed since the beginning of last school year.

The shooting occurred about 9:45 p.m. on the 2700 block of North Monticello Avenue in the city's Logan Square neighborhood, according to Officer Amina Greer, a Chicago police spokeswoman. The victims quarreled with a… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on June 11, 2008 at 3:24am — 1 Comment