Summer Violence: Child Shoots Another Child on Playground

Summer violence is on the rise all across the country...

"Prince George’s County Police say a five-year-old boy shot a four-year-old boy on a playground in the 4400 block of 23rd Parkway in Hillcrest Heights.

Police are still trying to figure out where the five-year-old boy was able to access the gun. They believe he found it in the home, but don't know whose gun it is.

Police say the bullet passed right through the upper part of the four-year-old’s torso.

Ebony Webb says she was there when the four-year-old boy ran into his apartment after he was shot. She called 911 and helped clean the wound. Officials transported the four-year-old to Children’s Hospital. Authorities say the gunshot wound is not life-threatening." read more - via MyFoxDC
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Child Shoots Another Child on Playground in Hillcrest Heights: MyFoxDC.com

It would not take a
psychology degree online to see that such an event would have a
profound effect on the life of each child.
Hopefully they will have some highly educated people in
their lives to guide them successfully through this.

Gunman Massacres 4 in Long Island Pharmacy

This World is going to hell.....

"He didn't stop shooting until everyone was dead. 

A coldblooded robber fatally gunned down two terrified customers and two employees at a Long Island mom-and-pop drugstore yesterday in a chilling morning bloodbath. 

The gaunt, glowering gunman stole prescription drugs from the pharmacy and then fled on foot toting a backpack, surveillance video shows.

He was still at large early this morning. "This is a vicious, horrible crime," said Suffolk County Chief of Detectives Dominick Varrone. "Right now, our primary interest is apprehending the individual . . . involved." 

Mercilessly gunned down in the shocking siege were Haven Pharmacy druggist Raymond Ferguson, 45, of Centereach; cashier Jennifer Mejia, 17, of East Patchogue, and customers Bryon Sheffield, 71, of Medford, and Jamie Taccetta, 33, of Farmingville. 

Mejia's slaying devastated her relatives, who described her as devoted to her family, friends and church.

The perky teen was excited about her upcoming prom, on Wednesday, and her high-school graduation, on Thursday, grieving relatives said. 

Her sister Leslie also had been scheduled to work at the pharmacy, but opted not to work on Father's Day, her family said. 

"[Jennifer] was not only beautiful physically but also in her heart," said the slain girl's shattered dad, Rene. "She was a nice, quiet family girl who went to church and worked hard in school . . . It's very hard for us."

A neighbor of Ferguson described the pharmacist as "really pleasant," saying he'd gotten married about five years ago to a nurse who works in Queens, and moved to Centereach at that time"-read more - via NYPOST

Cali Swag District’s M-Bone Laid to Rest (video)

"Over the weekend, family, friends and fans gathered at the Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood, California to pay respects to Mante “M-Bone” Talbert of Cali Swag District. The young group member was fatally murdered in a targeted shooting on May 15th in the same neighborhood he was laid to rest at on Friday. So far there’s been no arrests or suspects in connection with M-Bone’s murder, but the Inglewood Police Department do urge anyone to call its homicide division at (310) 412-5246 or its 24-hour anonymous hotline at (888) 41 CRIME, or (888) 412-7463. Below, you can check out Cali Swag District’s tribute to their fallen friend titled “How To Do That”." - via MissInfo
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WTF?!: D.C MAN HAS SEX WITH DAUGHTER AND THEN KILLS HER

Rodney J. McIntyre, 45, has been charged with the rape and murder of his 17-year-old daughter, Ebony Franklin, after police revealed that the father’s semen was found in the girl’s body.



Ebony Franklin, whose body was found in an alley, planned to meet up with her father to spend the weekend with him, her mother told police.

“Ebony was dropped off in Columbia Heights to meet up with her father, but she was never seen by any other person ever again,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jocelyn Ballan­tine. After murdering his daughter, McIntyre used his daughter’s cellphone to make calls and text messages to her mother in an effort to pin the murder on someone else. read more - via NewOne

Too Young: 'Teach Me How To Dougie' Rapper M-Bone Dead At 22

Montae Talbert, a.k.a. M Bone from the group Cali Swag District, is dead at the age of 22.

At this time, police will not provide details on how he died, but there is speculation that a man who was shot and killed in front of a liquor store in L.A.'s Inglewood neighborhood around 11:30pm Sunday is in fact Talbert.

Authorities say the victim was in one car when someone fired two shots from another car. Fueling the speculation, on Monday, Talbert's  bandmate Smoove tweeted: "Ma life changed drastically in the. Blink of an eye rip mbone."

More memorials for the Southern California native poured across the social networking micro-blog early Monday"

One user wrote, “Rest In Paradise Montae Talbert. you gonna be missed bro. inglewood aint gonna be tha same witout u,” while another tweeted, “Im sooo upset n hurt Rest in Peace ..Montae Talbert. .now whoz gona teach me how to.doughie.” read more - via RadarOnline

Rapper M-Bone Fatally Shot in Inglewood: MyFoxLA.com

21-year-old 'Shoots 3 Women After Fight Girlfriend

A 21-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of three women after he allegedly shot them while driving in his car following a furious row with his girlfriend.

Jacob Gonzalez, from Corpus Christi in Texas, is said to have fled from the crime scene with his gun after he smashed his car into a pole on a busy highway but was caught by a bystander who tackled him to the ground.

Police believe the young man, who proudly put up pictures of himself on a social networking site holding a handgun, was 'sent into a rage' after having an argument with his girlfriend.

In pictures posted on Facebook, Gonzalez can be seen proudly showing off a silver handgun.

In one the alleged murderer points the gun directly at the camera and in another he poses with his girlfriend and the lethal weapon.

Gonzalez had also written an update on his profile, that read: 'Wish I was dead. So lonely I trusted her to keep me moven n lyfe. Bye everybody im killing maself luv u boo so depressed.'

Michelle Valdez, a close friend of one of the victims, Virginia Rodela, rushed to the scene minutes after the shooting and saw her slumped over the steering wheel.

She told Kiii News: 'It was just crazy. I just wanted to run and grab her, and hold her for the last time.'" - Read more:

Adult Twins Kill Mom and Live with Body

Homicide detectives say 48-year-old twin brothers were found living inside a southeast Houston home with the decomposing body of their dead mother on the floor. Both men have been charged with murder. Houston police went to the twins' home on Glenscott Drive near Hinman Street on Monday night to conduct a welfare check after a neighbor reported that the mother had not been seen in a while.

The officer was allowed to enter and found the body of 89-year-old Sybile Berndt. According to court documents, Sybile's son, Edwin Berndt, initially answered the officer's knocks said "everyone was fine and there was no need for the police at their home."

The officer insisted she had to see Berndt's mother and he let her into the house. The home was in "deplorable condition and smelled terribly," and the elderly Berndt was lying face down on the floor of the foyer, according to the documents.

Sybil Berndt was dressed in a nightgown pulled up under her arms and was not wearing underwear.
The body was in an advanced state of decomposition and insects were crawling around it, the documents said.

Police: Adult Twins Lived with Dead Mother: MyFoxHOUSTON.com

Father Finds Son and Another Man Shot to Death in a Brooklyn Basement

Two men were found bound, gagged and shot to death in the basement of a home in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn on Wednesday, the police and relatives said.

The bodies were discovered by the father of one of the victims, who walked by the home at 3 p.m., saw the door wide open and made his way to the basement, where he came upon the scene. The home had been ransacked, and in the basement he found his son, Jason Bostic, 30 — recently married with three children and a fourth on the way — and a friend, bound in duct tape and apparently executed at point-blank range. Both had been shot in the head, the police said.

“I saw my son tied, his hands behind his back and gagged,” the father, Terry Buggs, 54, said. “The house is ransacked. I assumed it was a burglary. He just got caught up in it.”

Update: Details Emerge DJ Megatron’s Death

"Corey McGriff, who went by the name DJ Megatron on WQHT-FM Hot 97 radio, may have been distracted talking his cellphone when he was ambushed on Osgood Avenue near Vanderbilt Avenue in Clifton at about 2 a.m. and shot once in the chest, sources said.

Witnesses told cops they saw at least four young men running from the area after the shooting. But police sources said they’ve all but ruled out a street stickup. There were no eyewitnesses to the shooting itself, and McGriff’s wallet — containing the dollar — was found on him, as was his phone. Instead, investigators said they are looking at several scenarios, including whether someone was angry over being stiffed on a debt owed by McGriff, 32.

It was unclear why McGriff was on the street at that hour — his 4-year-old son had been left home alone, law-enforcement sources said. They said McGriff had a girlfriend with whom he lived on and off." Full Article Via NY Post

Big Shaq Remembers The Notorious BIG on ESPN

 Shaq feels in some way if he was with Biggie on the night of the murder things might not have happened the same way. "ESPN Colleen Dominguez examines the relationship between Shaquille O’Neal and the late rapper Notorious B.I.G."

Teen Violence: S.C. Teen Shoots 3 Family Members

"A 14 year old boy has been charged as a juvenile with two counts of murder, and one count of attempted murder as a juvenile, according to Murray Glenn of the Spartanburg County Solicitor's Office.
Spartanburg Public Safety says that 14-year-old Spartanburg boy shot and killed his father and great aunt and critically injured his grandmother late Monday night with a .22-caliber rifle." -New 7 Greensville

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: WHY DO AMERICA CELEBRATE A RACIST MURDERER?...

 (courtesy of huffington post: eric kasum)
"Once again, it's time to celebrate Columbus Day. Yet, the stunning truth is: If Christopher Columbus were alive today, he would be put on trial for crimes against humanity. Columbus' reign of terror, as documented by noted historians, was so bloody, his legacy so unspeakably cruel, that Columbus makes a modern villain like Saddam Hussein look like a pale codfish.

Question: Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution?

If you'd like to know the true story about Christopher Columbus, please read on. But I warn you, it's not for the faint of heart.

Here's the basics. On the second Monday in October each year, we celebrate Columbus Day (this year, it's on October 11th). We teach our school kids a cute little song that goes: "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." It's an American tradition, as American as pizza pie. Or is it? Surprisingly, the true story of Christopher Columbus has very little in common with the myth we all learned in school.

Columbus Day, as we know it in the United States, was invented by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal service organization. Back in the 1930s, they were looking for a Catholic hero as a role-model their kids could look up to. In 1934, as a result of lobbying by the Knights of Columbus, Congress and President Franklin Roosevelt signed Columbus Day into law as a federal holiday to honor this courageous explorer. Or so we thought.

There are several problems with this. First of all, Columbus wasn't the first European to discover America. As we all know, the Viking, Leif Ericson probably founded a Norse village on Newfoundland some 500 years earlier. So, hat's off to Leif. But if you think about it, the whole concept of discovering America is, well, arrogant. After all, the Native Americans discovered North America about 14,000 years before Columbus was even born! Surprisingly, DNA evidence now suggests that courageous Polynesian adventurers sailed dugout canoes across the Pacific and settled in South America long before the Vikings.

Second, Columbus wasn't a hero. When he set foot on that sandy beach in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, Columbus discovered that the islands were inhabited by friendly, peaceful people called the Lucayans, Taínos and Arawaks. Writing in his diary, Columbus said they were a handsome, smart and kind people. He noted that the gentle Arawaks were remarkable for their hospitality. "They offered to share with anyone and when you ask for something, they never say no," he said. The Arawaks had no weapons; their society had neither criminals, prisons nor prisoners. They were so kind-hearted that Columbus noted in his diary that on the day the Santa Maria was shipwrecked, the Arawaks labored for hours to save his crew and cargo. The native people were so honest that not one thing was missing.

Columbus was so impressed with the hard work of these gentle islanders, that he immediately seized their land for Spain and enslaved them to work in his brutal gold mines. Within only two years, 125,000 (half of the population) of the original natives on the island were dead.

If I were a Native American, I would mark October 12, 1492, as a black day on my calendar.

Shockingly, Columbus supervised the selling of native girls into sexual slavery. Young girls of the ages 9 to 10 were the most desired by his men. In 1500, Columbus casually wrote about it in his log. He said: "A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand."

He forced these peaceful natives work in his gold mines until they died of exhaustion. If an "Indian" worker did not deliver his full quota of gold dust by Columbus' deadline, soldiers would cut off the man's hands and tie them around his neck to send a message. Slavery was so intolerable for these sweet, gentle island people that at one point, 100 of them committed mass suicide. Catholic law forbade the enslavement of Christians, but Columbus solved this problem. He simply refused to baptize the native people of Hispaniola.

On his second trip to the New World, Columbus brought cannons and attack dogs. If a native resisted slavery, he would cut off a nose or an ear. If slaves tried to escape, Columbus had them burned alive. Other times, he sent attack dogs to hunt them down, and the dogs would tear off the arms and legs of the screaming natives while they were still alive. If the Spaniards ran short of meat to feed the dogs, Arawak babies were killed for dog food.

Columbus' acts of cruelty were so unspeakable and so legendary - even in his own day - that GovernorFrancisco De Bobadilla arrested Columbus and his two brothers, slapped them into chains, and shipped them off to Spain to answer for their crimes against the Arawaks. But the King and Queen of Spain, their treasury filling up with gold, pardoned Columbus and let him go free.

One of Columbus' men, Bartolome De Las Casas, was so mortified by Columbus' brutal atrocities against the native peoples, that he quit working for Columbus and became a Catholic priest. He described how the Spaniards under Columbus' command cut off the legs of children who ran from them, to test the sharpness of their blades. According to De Las Casas, the men made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. He says that Columbus' men poured people full of boiling soap. In a single day, De Las Casas was an eye witness as the Spanish soldiers dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 native people. "Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel," De Las Casas wrote. "My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write."

De Las Casas spent the rest of his life trying to protect the helpless native people. But after a while, there were no more natives to protect. Experts generally agree that before 1492, the population on the island of Hispaniola probably numbered above 3 million. Within 20 years of Spanish arrival, it was reduced to only 60,000. Within 50 years, not a single original native inhabitant could be found.

In 1516, Spanish historian Peter Martyr wrote: "... a ship without compass, chart, or guide, but only following the trail of dead Indians who had been thrown from the ships could find its way from the Bahamas to Hispaniola."

Christopher Columbus derived most of his income from slavery, De Las Casas noted. In fact, Columbus was the first slave trader in the Americas. As the native slaves died off, they were replaced with black slaves. Columbus' son became the first African slave trader in 1505.

Are you surprised you never learned about any of this in school? I am too. Why do we have this extraordinary gap in our American ethos? Columbus himself kept detailed diaries, as did some of his men including De Las Casas and Michele de Cuneo. (If you don't believe me, just Google the words Columbus, sex slave, and gold mine.)

Columbus' reign of terror is one of the darkest chapters in our history. The REAL question is: Why do we celebrate a holiday in honor of this man? (Take three deep breaths. If you're like me, your stomach is heaving at this point. I'm sorry. Sometimes the truth hurts. That said, I'd like to turn in a more positive direction.)

Call me crazy, but I think holidays ought to honor people who are worthy of our admiration, true heroes who are positive role models for our children. If we're looking for heroes we can truly admire, I'd like to offer a few candidates. Foremost among them are school kids.

Let me tell you about some school kids who are changing the world. I think they are worthy of a holiday. My friend Nan Peterson is the director of the Blake School, a K-12 school in Minnesota. She recently visited Kenya. Nan says there are 33 million people in Kenya... and 11 million of them are orphans! Can you imagine that? She went to Kibera, the slum outside Nairobi, and a boy walked up to her and handed her a baby. He said: My father died. My mother died... and I'm not feeling so good myself. Here, take my sister. If I die, they will throw her into the street to die.

There are so many orphans in Kenya, the baby girls are throwaways!

Nan visited an orphanage for girls. The girls were starving to death. They had one old cow that only gave one cup of milk a day. So each girl only got ONE TEASPOON of milk a day!

After this heartbreaking experience, Nan went home to her school in Minnesota and asked the kids... what can we do? The kids got the idea to make homemade paper and sell it to buy a cow. So they made a bunch of paper, and sold the paper, and when they were done they had enough money to buy... FOUR COWS! And enough food to feed all of the cows for ONE FULL YEAR! These are kids... from 6 years old to 18... saving the lives of kids halfway around the world. And I thought: If a 6-year-old could do that... what could I do?

At Casady School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, seemingly "average" school kids raised $20,000 to dig clean water wells for children in Ethiopia. These kids are heroes. Why don't we celebrate "Kids Who Are Changing the Planet" Day?

Let me ask you a question: Would we celebrate Columbus Day if the story of Christopher Columbus were told from the point-of-view of his victims? No way!

The truth about Columbus is going to be a hard pill for some folks to swallow. Please, don't think I'm picking on Catholics. All the Catholics I know are wonderful people. I don't want to take away their holiday or their hero. But if we're looking for a Catholic our kids can admire, the Catholic church has many, many amazing people we could name a holiday after. How about Mother Teresa day? Or St. Francis of Assisi day? Or Betty Williams day (another Catholic Nobel Peace Prize winner). These men and women are truly heroes of peace, not just for Catholics, but for all of us.

Let's come clean. Let's tell the truth about Christopher Columbus. Let's boycott this outrageous holiday because it honors a mass murderer. If we skip the cute song about "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue," I don't think our first graders will miss it much, do you? True, Columbus' brutal treatment of peaceful Native Americans was so horrific... maybe we should hide the truth about Columbus until our kids reach at least High School age. Let's teach it to them about the same time we tell them about the Nazi death camps.

While we're at it, let's rewrite our history books. From now on, instead of glorifying the exploits of mass murderers like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, and Napoleon Bonaparte, let's teach our kids about true heroes, men and women of courage and kindness who devoted their lives to the good of others. There's a long list, starting with Florence Nightingale, Mahatma Gandhi, Rev. Martin Luther King, and John F. Kennedy.

These people were not adventurers who "discovered" an island in the Caribbean. They were noble souls who discovered what is best in the human spirit.

Why don't we create a holiday to replace Columbus Day?

Let's call it Heroes of Peace Day".

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