Sunday, November 29, 2009

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/29/washington.police.shooting/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%

Maurice Clemmons is a "person of interest" in a Washington shooting. Four police officers all in uniform were shot in a coffee shop and died. They think the shooter may have been wounded by one of the victims. Maurice is not a suspect yet and investigators have not come up with motives. The sheriff's department said Maurice Clemmons has "extensive violent criminal history from Arkansas, including aggravated robbery and theft". He was recently charged in Pierce County in connection with the assault of a police officer and the rape of a child.



He should have been more than just charged after raping a child because that's not right at all. If they would have dealt with the other things he had recently done they would have been able to avoid the four deaths that he caused. I think he was pretty much a wuss to run like that and I don't even understand why he shot them anyways. People are frickin stupid but it could most likely have been avoided so I don't know who is dumber here.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

14 year old murders 4 year old neighbor

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/04/california.boy.slaying/index.html?eref=rss_topstories



Raul Renato Castro, a 14 year old boy, was charged as an adult for murdering a 4 year old child, Alex Christopher Mercato, during molestation, sodomy, kidnapping and murder of a witness to prevent testimony. Raul told the investigators that he lured Alex into his apartment by telling him he had something to show him. He took Alex into the bathroom and sodomized him. Alex started crying and told Raul that he was going to tell his mother what he had done so he panicked and killed the 4 year old by drowning him in the bathtub by filling the tub up enough to put Alex's face underwater. He held him down for 2-4 minutes and then carried Alex's body over his shoulder and put him in the clothes dryer so nobody would see him.



It's really stupid that he had to kill a little boy because he didn't want to get in trouble. He was obviously going to get in more trouble for killing someone that just molesting them. I don't see how anybody could do that to a little kid because they are so innocent. I'm sure they will find him guilty which is good because people like him should not be able to be around everybody else. I wish he would be able to get the death penalty for doing such a thing. They should look into the background of the 14 year old to see what kind of a person he is and why he would act like that and you would think his parents would notice something odd about him if he is that messed up to be able to kill someone.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Teen burned

Michael Brewer was doused with rubbing alcohol and set on fire by five teenagers, four of them were 15 and one was 13, on October 12 2009. Michael told the police that his dad's bike was stolen and it was because he had not paid one of the teenagers $40 for a video game. Witnesses heard the teenagers call Michale a snitch and then they used a lighter to set him on fire. He has second and third degree burns on 65% of his body and his organs are not functioning the way they should be. He is on a ventilator and other mechanical ventilation. The 5 teenagers that were accused of the attack are being held in custody. The four 15 year olds could be charged as adults and if Michael dies then so could the 13 year old.



I don't understand that if people were around to see them set him on fire then they probably saw that they had poured rubbing alcohol on him and had lighter and they could have taken it away or tried to stop it but didn't. I think they should all be charged as adults no matter what because he will never be the same as before it happened. I hope they all go to jail for a long time because of how much pain they caused Michael. I don't get why they had to steel his dad's bike either because if the boy wanted the 40 dollars so bad he should have told his parents or the police about that and could have avoided everything.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Ohio bodies

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/31/ohio.cleveland.bodies/index.html?eref=rss_topstories



Anthony Sowell was arrested for having 6 dead women found decomposing at his house in Cleveland, Ohio. The police found the bodies after trying to arrest him and search his house because he had sexual assaulted a woman. Five of the bodies were found inside of his house and one was found outside of his house and they were mostly all strangled. A woman had accused him of rape and assault about a month ago. He had already been convicted of rape in 1989 and went to prison for 15 years. Anthony Sowell is known for walking around and picking up any metal scraps he can find to sell.

I had heard from different sites that he had already assaulted two other women recently who had him arrested but the case had never made it to court. If he had already been in prison or just arrested for things like that he should have been checked on weekly. The courts and police officers let people like that get away for things that they should know are going to happen. You can't just expect that someone who had been in prison for 15 years is automatically going to behave again. The deaths could have been prevented if the case was actually looked into and thoguht about. Things like this happen alot and it's really stupid that people are that careless to not be able to check up on someone that could kill other people.

Memorial Park chapel burned

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/01/new.york.memorial.park.fire/index.html?eref=rss_topstories



Brian Schroeder set a section of Memorial Park chapel which houses remains of victims of the November 11, 2001 attacks. The man was arrested and will be faced with chargers of criminal mischief. Benches in the chapel and family mementos were damaged in the fire. Memorial Park is a big white tent that is a temporary place for unclaimed or unidentified remains. The remains will be transported to the World Trade Center Memorial once it is completed.


I don't understand why anybody would want to burn remains of peoples belongings or anything like that. I don't think it would affect anyone else except the families of the attacks but even then i don't think they would even want to destroy such things. They should have better security at places like that and these types of things would be able to be avoided better. He should be charged with more than just crinimal mischief if he tried to actually burn something down. They shouldn't be so easy on him just because no people would have been harmed. They are still people's belongings and they mean something to somebody.