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Third man charged with murder in shooting at Super Bowl Rally

Sabir Ansary — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 05:12:48 +0000

A third man has been charged with murder in the shooting that erupted during a February rally celebrating Kansas City’s Super Bowl victory, prosecutors said. announced on Thursday.

Nine people have now been charged as part of the investigation into the shootings over the past five weeks, including several people accused of gun violations. Prosecutors said Thursday that the investigation was continuing and additional charges were expected.

Terry J. Young, 20, of Kansas City, Missouri, was charged with second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon, as well as two counts of armed criminal action.

The shooting occurred after a Feb. 14 parade through downtown and a rally in front of Union Station, an Amtrak interchange and tourist attraction. As the gathering began to disperse, several groups of people became involved in a confrontation, and as the argument escalated, several people who had brought weapons to the parade shot at each other.

Twenty-five people were shot, including a 43-year-old woman, Elizabeth Galvan, a DJ and radio host who died from her injuries. Many of the people shot were children.

Two Missouri residents, Dominic Miller and Lyndell Mays, have already been charged with murder.

According to charging documents, Mr. Young was identified through video surveillance after the shooting. As the argument unfolded, Mr. Young pulled out a gun, walked up to at least one person and fired several times, authorities said.

He was identified on video by a distinctive backpack, authorities said. The backpack appeared to depict a bear that is half green and half yellow.

It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Young had retained a lawyer.

Two teenagers were charged in February with resisting arrest and “weapons-related” offenses in connection with the shooting, officials said. Earlier this week, one of those teens was indicted on an additional charge of unlawful use of a weapon, a misdemeanor.

On Thursday, juvenile prosecutors said a third teen had been charged in connection with the shooting. The 15-year-old teen was charged a day earlier with unlawful use of a weapon for firing a gun during the rally. The three teens have not yet been publicly identified.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said in a statement that the investigation into the shooting was unusually broad and complex.

“We get complicated cases, but this case was a challenge,” she said.

Last week, three men were charged with firearms trafficking and other crimes as part of the investigation.

While many people in Kansas City remain shocked by the shooting at the Super Bowl rally, a St. Patrick’s Day parade took place last weekend as planned. According to some spectators, the turnout was smaller than in previous years.

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Murder of teenager in front of her twin sister stuns Brooklyn neighborhood

Sabir Ansary — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:51:45 +0000

Four days after a 19-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in front of her twin sister outside a Brooklyn deli, law enforcement officials are still searching for the man accused of killing her when she rejected his advances.

Police identified the man as Veo Kelly, 20, of Brooklyn, Joseph Kenny, the chief of police, told reporters Thursday. He said U.S. marshals are looking for Mr. Kelly, whose criminal history includes an arrest on theft charges.

Early Sunday morning, the woman, Samyia Spain, and her twin brother Sanyia had been up for hours playing games at their father’s apartment with friends. Then the sisters and the rest of the group went to the Natural Plus deli on the corner of Fourth Avenue and St. Marks Place in Park Slope, a favorite spot for the twins where the owners knew them by name.

The fraternal twins left a game night at their father’s apartment to grab a late night snack at a local deli.

The friends arrived around 2 a.m., police said. As they waited for food, a group of young, intoxicated men, including Mr. Kelly, approached them, Chef Kenny said. Mr. Kelly began flirting with the twins and insisted on their contact information, police said.

Mr. Kelly had never met the twins and was in Park Slope for a party in a building next to the deli, Chef Kenny said.

When the women sent him away, he became more aggressive. Moments later, the twins’ friends and deli workers pushed him and his companions out of the store and locked the door, a deli employee said. The women and their friends stayed inside to finish their meal.

When they stepped outside, Mr. Kelly was waiting with a knife and attacked the twins, slashing Sanyia in the arm and fatally stabbing Samyia in the chest, police said. Sanyia was treated at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn, where her sister was pronounced dead.

Investigators searched Mr. Kelly’s apartment on Hancock Street in the Stuyvesant Heights neighborhood this week, police said. They found the clothes he was wearing the night Samyia was murdered.

In Park Slope, friends and neighbors were stunned that the twins were attacked, apparently because they refused to give anyone a phone number. Many expressed anger at the owners of the building next to the deli, blaming them for allowing parties where, neighbors said, underage people lined up to drink inside on weekends.

At a vigil on Wednesday evening, more than 100 people gathered outside the deli, many surrounding themselves with the twins’ father, Steven Spain, who cried as he struggled to talk about Samyia.

“How could you take her?” he exclaimed. “I do not understand.”

His friends took turns talking into a megaphone, many of them warning young men nearby that women have the right to stay out late without worrying about being attacked.

Darryl Hobson, pastor and vice president of the 79th Precinct Clergy Council, said he was struck by a young woman who described the pressure she felt to give a man her phone number just so he would leave her alone .

“It just gave me a different perspective on what women in the world are dealing with,” Pastor Hobson, 65, said in an interview Thursday.

The location of Samyia’s death, near the popular deli, was also disturbing, said their neighbor, Najee Wright, 23. It is a popular gathering place for those who live in Wyckoff Gardens, the New York City Housing Authority neighborhood where the twins grew up. , and it’s also close to where their father lives. The deli employees knew their usual orders: Samyia preferred the honey-glazed turkey sandwich, said Mohammed Albaher, a cashier at the store who had known the sisters since they were little girls.

Octavia Bell, the mother of an 18-year-old man who was with the twins that night, said her son is distraught, unable to cry or even talk about what happened.

“I’m really, really scared for him because pain shows up in so many ways,” she said. “I don’t want it to be harmful to him.”

Samyia and Sanyia “practically lived at my house,” Ms. Bell said. Samyia was part of a close group of friends and was part of a cooking club with Mrs. Bell.

Samyia “was my favorite of the group,” Ms. Bell said. “The one with her head on her shoulders, that makes sense to these children.”

In the hours after Samyia was killed, Yvette Ramos, who grew up with the twins’ mother, watched Sanyia cope with her sister’s death. At first, she suppressed her pain to comfort her mother, Lashawn Goodson, whose grief is all-consuming, Ms. Ramos said.

Sanyia was too furious to talk to the police, Ms. Ramos said, and had to be convinced. “I told her, come on, put on your sneakers, we’re going to the police station,” Ms. Ramos said.

Sanyia finally broke down about 24 hours after her sister’s death, Ms. Ramos said.

“She said, ‘Auntie, my sister isn’t here.’ And all I can do is hold her and tell her it’s okay to cry, it’s okay to scream,” Ms. Ramos said.

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DNA from discarded gum leads to conviction in 1980 Oregon murder

Sabir Ansary — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:47:53 +0000

Ultimately, it was a discarded piece of gum, casually spit on the ground in 2021, that held the key to solving the cold-case murder of a college student that had baffled authorities in Oregon for more than four decades.

Robert Arthur Plympton had been under police surveillance since authorities determined that year that he had “likely contributed” to a DNA profile developed from swabs taken from the body of Barbara Mae Tucker, who was 19 when she was killed on the Mount Hood Community. University campus in 1980.

On Friday, Mr. Plympton, 60, was found guilty of Ms. Tucker’s murder after a three-week trial in Portland, Oregon. According to The Oregonian, that reported on the research And Mr. Plympton’s convictionIt was the oldest cold case murder in Gresham, Oregon, east of Portland.

On the night of January 15, 1980, Ms. Tucker was expected in a class at college where she was studying business administration. She never arrived.

Students heading to class the next morning found her “partially clothed” body on a brush-covered slope near a campus parking lot, The Oregonian reported at the time. There were signs that Ms. Tucker had been sexually assaulted and that she had struggled with her attacker.

For decades, authorities were unable to identify a suspect or make an arrest.

The first step toward a break in the case came in 2000, when vaginal swabs taken during Ms. Tucker’s autopsy were sent to the Oregon State Police Crime Lab for analysis. Laboratory technicians were then able to develop a DNA profile from the smears.

In 2021, Parabon NanoLabs, a Virginia company whose services include DNA-based forensics, identified Mr. Plympton as “a likely contributor to the unknown DNA profile developed in 2000,” according to the Multnomah County Prosecutor’s Office. said in a statement. It was not clear how the DNA connection was made; The Public Prosecution Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

Detectives from the Gresham Police Department discovered that Mr. Plympton lived in Troutdale, Ore., east of Portland and northeast of Gresham, and began surreptitiously monitoring him, prosecutors said.

When investigators saw Mr. Plympton spit a stick of gum onto the ground, they collected it and sent it to a state police crime lab, prosecutors said.

“The laboratory determined that the DNA profile developed from the chewing gum matched the DNA profile developed from Ms. Tucker’s vaginal swabs,” the district attorney’s office said.

Mr. Plympton was arrested on June 8, 2021, as he drove away from the Troutdale home he shared with his wife and son, The Oregonian reported.

He had a criminal record, including a conviction for second-degree kidnapping in Multnomah County in 1985, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections.

Mr Plympton was 16 when Ms Tucker was murdered. Witnesses reported seeing her with a man the night she was killed, and several people reported seeing her running into the street clutching her arms, perhaps in an attempt to ask someone for help, The Oregonian reported.

Kirsten Snowden, Multnomah County’s chief deputy prosecutor, said during the trial that there was no evidence that Ms. Tucker and Mr. Plympton knew each other, according to The Oregonian.

Mr. Plympton’s attorney, Stephen Houze, said during the trial that there was “undeniable, unavoidable reasonable doubt” about who killed Ms. Tucker, according to The Oregonian. He said witnesses had described the man seen with Ms Tucker – who was almost six feet tall – as being about her height or taller, but Mr Plympton was closer to six feet tall. He also said investigators never tested Ms. Tucker’s clothing for DNA evidence.

“We will appeal and we are confident that his convictions will be overturned,” Mr. Houze and his law partner Jacob Houze said in a statement on Tuesday.

Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Amy Baggio found Mr. Plympton guilty of one count of first-degree murder and four counts of “various theories of second-degree murder,” the district attorney’s office said.

“To be clear, this court has no doubt whatsoever that Robert Plympton struck Barbara Tucker in the head and face until she died,” she said during the trial. “He did.”

Judge Baggio found Mr. Plympton not guilty of assault and said prosecutors had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he assaulted Ms. Tucker while she was alive, The Oregonian reported.

Mr Plympton is expected to be sentenced on June 21. Based on his age at the time of Mrs. Tucker’s death: he faces a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 30 years for first-degree murder.

According to The Oregonian, two members of Ms. Tucker’s family cried and hugged after the verdict was announced. Ms. Tucker’s older sister, Alice Juan, said in a statement Tuesday that her family was “thrilled that this had finally been resolved.”

“I thought it might not be that way as the years went by, but Barbie was a special little girl,” she said. Her little sister, she added, “was smart, cheerful, caring, all those things.”

Kitty Bennett research contributed.

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Badaun double murder: Father of two murdered children says suspect demanded Rs 5,000, unaware of exact intention

Sabir Ansary — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:05:30 +0000

Bareilly Inspector General of Police Rakesh Kumar said the suspect is between 25 and 30 years old and he will reveal his details after further investigation.

According to police, the deceased’s family has also named the suspect’s brother, who is on the run.

Badaun (Uttar Pradesh): A day after two children were mercilessly hacked to death in Baba Colony of Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, the father of the deceased children said on Wednesday that the accused demanded Rs 5,000 and that he was not aware of the exact intentions of the people behind the had committed a crime.

“I was not aware of the meeting (of the suspect). He (the suspect) tried to run away, but the police caught him. There were two people. I live outside. We had no interaction with them before. We don’t know why this happened,” he said.

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One of the surviving brothers of the two deceased children and an eyewitness to the incident said, “The man from Salon had come here. He took my brothers upstairs, I don’t know why he killed them. He tried to attack me too, but I pushed his knife away, pushed him away and ran downstairs. I suffered injuries to my hand and head…Two people (suspect) had come here…’

Speaking to ANI, SSP Badaun said the deceased’s family has also named the suspect’s brother, who is on the run.

“The suspect Sajid entered the house yesterday around 7.30 pm and went to the terrace where the children were playing. He attacked and killed the two children. He then came downstairs where the crowd tried to stop him, but he escaped. Police teams swung into action when they learned that the suspect had escaped. The suspect shot at the police and was killed in retaliatory fire. The murder weapon and revolver have been recovered. In the FIR, the family of the deceased children have also named the accused’s brother, Javed. Teams are trying to find him and he will be arrested soon. According to the family, the suspect had demanded Rs 5,000 from the father of the deceased children,” he said.

Meanwhile, police officers and security personnel held a flag march this morning in the city where the incident took place.

Earlier, Bareilly Inspector General of Police Rakesh Kumar said the suspect is between 25 and 30 years old. After further investigation we will release their information.

Meanwhile, heavy police security was deployed at Baba Colony near Mandi Samiti outpost as locals protested against the gruesome double murder.

District Magistrate of Badaun (DM) Manoj Kumar said some people became agitated after the incident and they were asked to maintain peace. Talking about the victims, the DM said.

(With inputs from ANI)

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Samantha Murphy bombshell: Police swarm to new search site in Buninyong for missing Ballarat woman – weeks after Patrick Stephenson was charged with murder

Albert Elence — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:24:04 +0000

By Kylie Stevens for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 6:55 PM EDT, March 19, 2024 | Updated: 7:11 PM EDT, March 19, 2024

Police have launched a new search for the body of Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy at Royal Park in Buninyong, about 10 kilometers from the original search area.

The 51-year-old was last seen leaving her home on Eureka Street in Ballarat East about 7am on February 4 for a run at nearby Woowookrung Regional Park.

No trace of the mother-of-three has ever been found, despite Patrick Orren Stephenson, 22, being charged with her murder on March 7.

Police allege Stephenson ‘intentionally assaulted’ Ms Murphy in Mount Clear, about 5km from her home, on the day she went jogging.

He was taken into custody and police allege he repeatedly refused to cooperate with police in their investigation into Ms Murphy’s remains.

Royal Park is a small park in Buninyong city, with facilities such as football fields and a children’s playground. The park is surrounded by bushland.

Police have launched a new search for the body of Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy in Buninyong.

The original search area was the extensive Woowookarung Regional Park, which is approximately 7 km from the new search area.

It comes after Patrick Stephenson, 22, was charged with one count of murder following her suspicious disappearance.

More to come

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Man charged with murder of three-year-old boy in Brooklyn

Sabir Ansary — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:02:47 +0000

A 29-year-old man has been charged with killing a 3-year-old Brooklyn boy who was found with head injuries in a bathtub in the building where the child’s mother had left him in the care of a neighbor, police said. Tuesday

The man, Kevin James, is charged with murder, assault and acting in a manner harmful to a child in the death of the boy, Denim Brown, police said. Mr. James was awaiting arraignment Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

Mr. James and the child lived in the same building on New York Avenue in East Flatbush, police said.

Few details were available Tuesday about the circumstances surrounding the killing. Police had previously said that officers responding to a 911 call around 9:45 p.m. Sunday found the boy, who had suffered head trauma, face down in the bathtub and unconscious. He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

It was initially unclear whether the child’s injuries were accidental or the result of foul play, but the New York City medical examiner subsequently ruled the death a homicide, police said. An autopsy showed that the boy drowned and that his head injuries contributed to his death, said Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office.

Maria Cramer contributed to the reporting.

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Kings and royal princes were the rock stars of their time – with the rampant sex lives and mistresses to match. Too bad about the murder, blackmail and kidnapping along the way…

Sabir Ansary — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:49:57 +0000

Never take a mistress, Your Majesty, it only ends in tears. This one piece of advice should have been given to every British monarch for the last four hundred years – but none of them would have listened.

These kings and princes were the rock stars of their time – women flocked and bowed to them, they could choose whoever they wanted. And as much as they wanted.

Granted, murder, blackmail, grand theft and kidnapping were all part of the bedding of these royal mistresses, but somehow Their Majesties always stood above it all.

Marie Marguerite Fahmy, former mistress of Edward VIII, had been a Parisian prostitute

The Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, pictured during a visit to Washington in 1936

The Prince of Wales visited Ontario in 1919, where it was claimed he ‘met and married Millicent Milroy’

When Millicent Milroy died, her gravestone clearly reads: ‘Millicent…wife of Edward (VIII), Duke of Windsor

Some kings had astonishing numbers of mistresses: King Edward VII had more than seventy known girlfriends, beaten only by his great-uncle, King George IV, with eighty.

Saint George III apparently had none, but still did not escape sexual rumors and innuendo.

One of Edward VIII’s early loves when he was Prince of Wales was Maggie Alibert, a curvaceous courtesan whom he courted in Paris in the closing days of the Great War.

They met at the city’s famous Crillon Hotel and Edward fell so in love that he showered her with a mountain of embarrassing love letters.

Later, Maggie married an Egyptian aristocrat, Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey, but murdered him in cold blood in their suite at the Savoy Hotel after six months.

The couple was on an extended honeymoon and got into an argument after a night out. Maggie shot him several times in the back, using a .32 caliber Browning automatic.

When she went to trial, the judge banned any mention of her challenging past as a courtesan. A secret deal had been struck: Maggie would return the tell-all letters to the Prince of Wales in exchange for not mentioning his name.

And so she was acquitted of the murder charge – clearly a scandalous miscarriage of justice – but at least the future king’s reputation was preserved.

Edward was less lucky when it came to Millicent Milroy, a Canadian schoolteacher who claimed she secretly married him when he visited her hometown of Galt, Ontario, in 1919.

The prince rode into the city on a steam train as part of his tour of Canada.

Fifty years later, the still apparently single Millicent commissioned her gravestone – which still stands to this day – which boldly reads: ‘Millicent… wife of Edward (VIII) Duke of Windsor’.

She wouldn’t die for another fifteen years, but to the end she insisted she was Edward’s secret wife.

Have they met? Did they kiss? Are they married? Nobody knows.

Elizabeth, the Marchioness Conyngham, was a great beauty during the Georgian period and, dissatisfied with her fate, she donned her cap to the Prince of Wales, later King George IV.

It took thirteen years for him to put her to bed, but she felt it was worth the wait – because as he lay on his deathbed in Windsor, Elizabeth picked up as many jewels as she could and headed for the door.

“Despite her beauty, she was considered vulgar, clever, greedy, and unsuitable for aristocratic society because of her common background,” read one description of her.

She was also a thief on a grand scale – among her loot was said to be the whopping large Hope Diamond, one of the largest stones in history at 45 carats.

King George VI, the current king’s grandfather, was a lightweight when it came to the bedroom – with only three or four mistresses before marrying Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

But his brothers made up for this lack of sexual ambition: Prince George, Duke of Kent, was NSIT – not safe in taxis – with either sex.

He had a number of gay affairs before his marriage – although not with Noel Coward, as some people claim – but his main interest was in women. Every woman, in fact, and there could be hundreds.

Less successful was George VI’s other brother: Harry, Duke of Gloucester, the deadbeat of the royal family.

He had an affair with aviator Beryl Markham, who convinced him that he was the father of her son. If Harry Gloucester had had the sense to count the months until conception on his fingers (nine, Harry, in case you didn’t know), Beryl would be in Africa and he in Britain.

Nevertheless, the nincompoop paid up after Beryl threatened to take him to court for alimony.

A satire mocks George IV and his mistress Elizabeth, Marchioness Conygham

Beryl Markham with tape covering the minor cut she suffered while landing her plane in Nova Scotia. She had an affair with Prince Harry, Duke of Gloucester, a brother of George VI

Prince Harry, Duke of Gloucester, at the Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lords

Queen Victoria is cared for by Hafiz Abdul Karim, also known as the Munchi, in 1893.

King George IV was married to Queen Caroline

Queen Caroline, wife of King George IV, was a sexual pioneer with at least 19 notches on her bedpost

One of Queen Caroline’s cases concerned George Canning, Prime Minister

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland in a portrait by Sir Peter Lely

King George III has always been regarded as a saint by royal historians. He fell in love and married Princess Charlotte, with whom he had no fewer than fifteen children. But even this royal paragon did not escape scandal.

At the age of 15, he formed a ‘friendship’ with Hannah Lightfoot, eight years his senior. She had married Isaac Axford in 1753, but went missing within a year and was never discovered again.

Word spread that George, then Prince of Wales, had her kidnapped and secretly married her, their marriage producing three children. No one has ever proven that – but no one has ever discovered what happened to Hannah, so the jury is out.

Royal women were just as prone to sexual dalliances. Everyone knows that Queen Victoria was closely associated with ghillie John Brown, but she was equally attracted to her Indian servant Abdul Karim, whose photo was hidden in her coffin on her orders when she died.

But it is Queen Caroline, wife of King George IV, who was the sexual pioneer with at least 19 notches on her bedpost.

According to expert historian Anthony Camp, Caroline – who thought George was so ugly that he reached for the brandy decanter when he was first confronted by his future wife – had no trouble finding bed partners. Among them were British Prime Minister George Canning, an Italian singing teacher Pietro Sapio and Joachim, the King of Naples.

But when it comes to bad behavior, perhaps the last word should go to courtier Ralph Montagu, who boldly bedded both mother and daughter in Paris. First came Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of King Charles II, after her moments of passion with His Maj were over.

Charles II, whose mistresses included Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland

Concerned about the virtue of her daughter Anne (the king’s illegitimate daughter), the Duchess had her placed in a convent for safekeeping.

But the moment she left for England, the predatory Montagu stormed Anne, sprung her from the convent and began a steamy affair. He was 38, she was only 15.

Montagu, who would become the first Duke of Montagu, was truly a bad boy. Ambitious and a spendthrift, he kept himself comfortable by seducing wealthy widows; his last victim was Elizabeth, Duchess of Albemarle.

Elizabeth, supposedly mad, had vowed to marry only a crowned head after her husband’s death – so Montagu tried to woo her, disguised as Emperor of China.

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Stabbing in Balga, Perth: Mauwa Kizenga, 22, was allegedly attacked outside a primary school – now a man, 30, charged with murder

Albert Elence — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 21:33:48 +0000

A 22-year-old woman who was allegedly stabbed to death outside a primary school was on her way to visit a relative when she was attacked.

There has been an outpouring of grief for Mauwa Kizenga, also known as Melanie, after she was allegedly attacked in an ‘unprovoked’ attack in Balga, Perth’s north, on Saturday evening.

Emergency services found Ms Kizenga with serious injuries opposite Balga Primary School at around 7.55pm.

As St. John Ambulance paramedics attempted to stabilize her at the scene, irate witnesses chased the alleged knifeman and arrested a citizen.

A 30-year-old man has since been charged with one murder. He will appear in the Perth Magistrates Court on Monday.

Mauwa Kizenga (pictured) allegedly stabbed to death in an ‘unprovoked’ attack near a primary school in Perth’s north

WA Police allege Ms Kizenga was walking to a relative’s house with her cousin when she was attacked (pictured, Sunday’s scene)

Ms Kizenga was rushed to Royal Perth Hospital where she later died.

Her family announced her death on Sunday evening and shared a message GoFundMe post to raise money for her funeral.

“We are saddened to announce today the death of our beloved daughter, sister, niece and friend Mauwa Kizenga,” the GoFundMe said.

‘Mauwa was only 22 years old and still had her whole life ahead of her. She was filled with love, life and laughter.

‘A soul with so much light has gone too soon. An untimely death that no parent wants for their child.

‘Mauwa, you will be greatly missed; your smile, liveliness and positive attitude can never be replaced. May your soul find peace today.”

Western Australia police allege Ms Kizenga was walking to a relative’s house with her cousin when she was attacked.

CCTV showed the pair together on Walderton Avenue. Moments later, just 100 meters away, Ms Kizenga was allegedly stabbed.

Witnesses rushed to help Ms Kizenga (pictured) and used a pair of socks to stop her bleeding, but she later died in hospital

Ms Kizenga’s cousin (pictured walking together just before the alleged attack) was at the scene ‘screaming and crying’

Local residents rushed to her side and tried to save her life by using a pair of socks to stop the bleeding.

“She was very bad, they were messing with her and everything, and her friend was screaming and crying and everything, it was very horrible to see,” said a shocked witness. Nine news.

Ms Kizenga’s close friend Martha Pommet said they grew up together after meeting at a birthday party almost a decade ago.

‘She was very caring. The relationship we had was very unique. She was like a twin,” Ms Pommett said The West on Sunday.

One of Ms Kizenga’s cousins, Mary Kolanda, described her as a “big sister” and shared the couple’s plans for an upcoming “big family holiday” to Sydney.

“Mauwa was just one of those people where she would drop everything to be there for you,” said 18-year-old Mary.

Police have charged a 30-year-old man, arrested by witnesses, with one count of murder (photo, officers on scene)

Mrs Kizenga (pictured) is remembered as ‘very caring’ and ‘full of love, life and laughter’

‘When I went to high school, she was the main person who helped me through it when I was being bullied, she said, “Mary, you’re so beautiful, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise” and I’ve never forgotten that. I have those words in the back of my mind.”

Det-Sen. Sergeant Venn thanked witnesses who arrested the alleged attacker, but reminded the public not to approach people with weapons.

“We would not encourage people to try to disarm people armed with knives,” she said.

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Harrowing story of the boy fed to PIGS as his family wins a million dollar lawsuit against Kansas over his evil father’s brutal murder of Adrian Jones

Albert Elence — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:16:06 +0000

The state of Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of Adrian Jones, who was murdered by his father and fed to pigs.

The lawsuit, filed in 2017 by the child’s mother and relatives, said the state child protection agency took him from an abusive home before starving and torturing him.

Police found the 7-year-old’s remains in a pigsty on the property of his father and stepmother Michael and Heather Jones in November 2015.

Both are serving 25 years to life sentences for his murder, after beating Adrian and locking him in a shower stall and watching him deteriorate on surveillance camera.

Gov. Laura Kelly and top leaders of the Kansas Legislature approved the settlement Tuesday during a brief public meeting.

Police found the 7-year-old’s remains, seen here, in a pigsty on his father and stepmother’s property in November 2015

Michael and Heather Jones are serving a prison sentence of 25 years to life for his murder, after beating Adrian and locking him in a shower stall and watching him deteriorate on surveillance camera.

The Kansas Department for Children and Families received reports that Adrian was being abused several years before his death.

Their last physical contact with him was nearly four years before his death, according to more than 2,000 pages of documents released by the agency in 2017.

The records showed that all three moved regularly between communities in Kansas and Missouri.

The lawsuit argued that the state and social workers “could have intervened at any time and saved Adrian,” but “chose to act as disinterested bystanders.”

The Kansas agency argued that frequent moves made it difficult to monitor the boy.

Senate Minority Leader Dinah Sykes, one of the lawmakers who approved the settlement, said she believes the state bears “a lot of responsibility” for what happened.

Kelly said the problem wasn’t the potential harm in a lawsuit, but the lawsuit distracting from “the mission at hand” to improve the child welfare system.

“It really had to do with us wanting to get that settled and not spend time litigating in court for months, maybe even years,” she said.

Dainna Pearce, Adrian Jones’ biological mother, is seen here in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2017. She has now been awarded $1 million by the state

Adrian is seen here kissing his eldest sibling, half-sister Keiona ‘Kiki’ Doctor, in 2012

Matt Birch, a lawyer representing the family, said: “This has been a long journey for Adrian’s family.

“The most important thing for the family was to hopefully make a change and make sure this is less likely to happen in the future.”

Police had responded to the home in 2015 for a domestic violence call, with Heather Jones accusing Michael Jones of beating and choking her.

Once there, she blurted out that the boy’s father had fed him to their six feeder pigs two months earlier, in late September.

The investigation into her claims revealed harrowing evidence of years of abuse with Heather, sickeningly proud of the way she tortured her stepson and captured it in photographs.

He was locked behind a plywood door in a shower, forced to stand in standing water up to his neck for hours, chained, tied up, starved and beaten.

His stepmother called him “the boy” instead of using his first name. While she and Adrian’s father cared for their six girls, he was accused of abuse of the worst kind.

The injuries photographed included deep cuts to his face and lips, suffered while trying to fight his way out of the cardboard cell his parents had created for him in a shower stall.

The investigation into her claims revealed harrowing evidence of years of abuse with Heather, sickeningly proud of the way she tortured her stepson and documented it in photos.

He was locked behind a plywood door in a shower, forced to stand in standing water up to his neck for hours, handcuffed, tied up, starved and beaten.

Heather pleaded guilty to murder in November 2016 and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 25 years

He was also photographed with a cutting board tube taped to his chest and strapped to an inversion table.

The pair were arrested in 2015. Heather pleaded guilty to murder in November 2016 and was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years.

In May 2017, Michael Jones received the same sentence after also pleading guilty in March that year.

In 2013, Adrian told a staff member at the Children’s Department in Missouri, where the family lived at the time, that his father kept hitting him in the head.

“My dad keeps hitting me on the head and punching me in the stomach and my mom keeps pulling on my ears and it really hurts.

‘Mom and dad lock me in my room alone. Mommy and daddy can’t feed me,” he said during the interview, which was promoted by an anonymous phone call raising concerns about Adrian’s well-being.

Shockingly, he was allowed to continue living with the couple and shortly thereafter they moved to Kansas City, Kansas.

When he died, Adrian was a little bag of bones and his last months were hell.

Instead of receiving a proper burial, the child was fed pigs purchased by his father, seen here, specifically for the purpose of getting rid of his emaciated body

Instead of a proper burial, the child was fed to pigs that his father had bought specifically to get rid of his emaciated body.

The boy’s death was followed by a multi-year overhaul of child welfare system laws.

In 2021, “Adrian’s Law” required officers and case workers to visually observe children suspected of being victims of abuse or neglect.

The state has also taken steps to improve training for doctors to recognize abuse and provide “wraparound” services to struggling families.

Birch said he and the family hope that with the lawsuit and the 2021 law, “more eyes will be on these children.”

Adrian’s relatives also filed a lawsuit in 2017 in Jackson County, Missouri, also in the Kansas City area, against officials in that state.

The case was settled in 2020, but details were not immediately available and Birch said he could not comment.

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Anna Jenkins: Judge’s final insult to heartbroken family seeking answers about beloved grandmother’s abduction and murder – after thugs dumped her body at a Malaysian building site: ‘You should be grateful’

Albert Elence — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:20:20 +0000

EXCLUSIVE

A heartbroken family has been told they ‘should be grateful’ to property developers in Malaysia who covered up the discovery of an Adelaide woman’s buried remains.

Greg Jenkins, 44, has spent the last six years on a quest for justice after his mother Anna Jenkins, 65, went missing while on a trip to the island of Penang in 2017.

Mr Jenkins said the comment – made this month by a Malaysian High Court judge as she threw out a negligence case against local police he alleges failed to properly investigate – ‘highlights the disrespect’ his family have consistently encountered.

Mr Jenkins said the judge told his family they should be grateful that construction workers involved the police when his mother was found but he alleges they only did so after he put pressure on them.

After his mother disappeared, Mr Jenkins, a member of Australia’s Defence Force, got leave from his post in Hawaii. He flew back to his home in Adelaide before making 34 trips to Malaysia at a cost of more than $300,000 in an effort to track her.

His persistence paid off when a construction worker in 2020 replied to a missing persons flyer he posted saying his mother’s body had been found during works on a building site and it had been quietly moved nearby to not disrupt the development.

The last call Ms Jenkins made from Penang’s main city of Georgetown indicated she was being followed by men after her passport and her family believe she was robbed, murdered and left at the building site – which at that point was still jungle.

Greg Jenkins and his sister Jen Bowen (pictured) searched relentlessly for their mother

Australian grandmother Anna Jenkins, 65, (pictured) is believed to have been snatched off the streets while on a trip to Penang in 2017 and was never seen again

Georgetown city in Penang, Malaysia sprawls out against its jungle surroundings

Mr Jenkins has received the backing of SA-Best MLC Frank Pangello who also accompanied him to Malaysia for the recent ruling.

Mr Pangello said the Jenkins family, who just want someone to answer for what happened to Anna, have been repeatedly brushed aside by Malaysian authorities.

Ms Jenkins had dual citizenship because she had lived in Australia since the early 1970s, raising a family in Adelaide after she married RAAF serviceman Frank Jenkins as a young woman.

‘It’s high time the Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, made strong representations to the Malaysian Government about the treatment of the Jenkins family,’ Mr Pangello said.

Her son Greg said none has been held to account after a project manager and landscape contractor who were working on the housing development moved his mother’s remains in a deliberate effort to cover up the body.

‘We have proof they found and reburied mum’s remains,’ Mr Jenkins told Daily Mail Australia.

‘How is tampering with evidence and contaminating a crime scene not a criminal offence in any Commonwealth country?’ he said.

‘Instead the judge absolved them and said we should be thanking them that they brought the police in – which they only did because of the amount of pressure I put on the construction worker.’

‘They at first didn’t do anything and the police refused to go there until we forced their hand because it was getting some local media coverage and I said I would go to the foreign minister.’

Devoted son Greg Jenkins found the skeletal remains of his missing Australian mother at a Malaysian building site as he rummaged through rubble after years of investigating

A 2023 coronial inquiry into Ms Jenkin’s death was declared an ‘open verdict’ due to a ‘lack of evidence’.

Anna’s daughter and Greg’s sister, Jen Bowen, said she felt authorities ‘did not care’ for her mother and didn’t want to help.

The housing development was aimed at wealthy Chinese buyers – and traditionally they can’t buy a home anywhere that’s had human remains on it.

‘This development cost over $100million to build but the selling price of the luxury villas made it worth more than a billion – so everyone just hushed it all up,’ Mr Jenkins said.

‘They didn’t want word leaking out that dead bodies had been found there as it’s taboo and could have killed off the market for Chinese buyers.

‘So they moved my mother’s bones off to the side to an area which was going to be a water feature in parkland, and wouldn’t be residential land.

‘We found 34 bones from my mother but the police and deputy public prosecutor called the search off. They said the excavation equipment could destroy any more remains which is ridiculous.

‘When I first went to the site the Chief of Police told me we were not allowed to tell the press we were going or post it on social media.

‘The developer has put a lot of money into Penang and they don’t want anything putting that at stake.

‘They are setting the profits of this developer above a kidnapping and murder investigation.’

Mr Jenkins said during his investigations he found out that an Australian passport is worth $100,000USD on the black market in Malaysia as they are used by transnational criminal groups.

‘Someone holding an Australian passport can access 129 countries without a visa, which is very valuable to these people.’

There is no suggestion the construction workers had anything to do with Ms Jenkins’ disappearance, only that her remains where later found at the building site.

Despite the fact Ms Jenkins was an Australian citizen her case has largely gone under the radar at home.

‘If this had been a younger blonde Australian woman there would be outrage.

‘That just crushes my heart, my mother was the most beautiful person.

‘She was a Christian woman who dedicated her life to helping others. She helped the homeless and refugees in Adelaide through her charity work and an Aboriginal group through the church.

‘It’s just indicative of the person she was.’

Malaysian-born Anna Jenkins married husband RAAF serviceman Frank Jenkins and moved to Australia in 1970, raising son Greg and daughter Jen in Adelaide, South Australia

Mr Jenkins said the Malaysian High Court judge won’t accept an appeal until he pays the legal costs of the defendants – the government, the police, the land developers, the project manager and a landscape worker.

‘They just want me to drop the case but I haven’t let this go for six years and I’m not going to let an unjust system deter us.’

The quest to find Anna and the legal case has cost the family about $600,000 and the Australian government has provided little in the way of help.

‘Anthony Albanese goes out of his way to send a text about David Warner’s missing baggy green, yet there’s been an Australian citizen go missing overseas and we’ve had no assistance at all.’

TIMELINE OF THE HUNT FOR ANNA

December 5, 2017 – Retired RAAF serviceman Frank Jenkins and his Malaysian-born wife of 47 years, Anna, make their regular trip from Adelaide to see Anna’s 101 year-old mother on the island of Penang.

December 13, 2017 – Anna has a 3pm dentist’s appointment and the receptionist calls her an Uber afterwards to go on to visit her mother. She is last seen at 4.45pm. Around 5.30pm, Frank says he gets a call from his wife saying she is being followed by ‘two Ukrainians who are after her passport’.

The family raises the alarm and hotel staff help search for her. Anna never arrived at her mother’s nursing home.

December 14, 2017 – Police are alerted at 9.28am and a missing person’s report is filed.

December 15, 2017 – Greg Jenkins arrives in Penang to join the search for his mother, alerts police to six CCTV cameras near where she was last seen.

Earlier CCTV footage had captured Anna Jenkins with her husband Frank talking to a local outside their hotel before she vanished

December 16, 2017 – Family claim police lost interest in the search from this point on, ignoring offers to search her hotel room or phone records.

December 21, 2017 – Distressed husband Frank, who suffers from dementia, flies home to be with his daughter Jen. Greg remains.

December 24, 2017 – Police tell the family they will not be following up on the Uber driver after he gave a statement which they ‘consider to be true fact’ without any corroborating evidence.

January 2018 – Police fail to attend several meetings with Greg, despite a string of possible sightings. Requested CCTV footage is no longer available as it expires after three to six weeks. A series of possible sightings of Anna throughout the year are apparently ignored by police.

October 16, 2018 – Anna’s elderly mother dies without knowing what happened to her daughter.

2019 – Greg continues to travel to Malaysia to hunt for his mother

June 25, 2020 – Greg receives a WhatsApp message from a construction worker saying he’d seen his mother’s dentist’s appointment card among possessions and bones dumped at a building site. He supplies pictures showing items from her bag, including her cross and asthma inhaler, and a coccyx bone. Greg begins five week process to get permission to travel to Malaysia during Covid lockdown.

The WhatsApp message that changed everything in the hunt for Anna Jenkins

WhatsApp messages (pictured) from a Malaysian construction worker proved to be the breakthrough. The worker found some of Anna’s belongings and went back to try to find more for the family

June 26, 2020 – The worker hands in the possessions to police.

July 3, 2020 – The family is told the lead police investigator has gone on leave for two weeks.

July 29, 2020 – Greg Jenkins finally gets to the construction site and immediately finds one of his mother’s shoes, weeks after police were alerted to the location and were said to have searched it.

August 7, 2020 – Greg finds his mother’s vertebrae and other possessions in the rubble next to the area where police had been searching. Further digging finds more bones and bone fragments

April 12, 2022 – Police give Greg all his mother’s remains to bring home to Australia in a cardboard box filled with bags of bones.

January 23, 2023 – Malaysian coronial inquest sits for a week but is branded a farce by the family after it visits the wrong location and mistakes a bag of gravel and sand for ground up bone fragments. Vital clues for a murder investigation, including a skull fragment showing trauma damage, are destroyed. The findings are due later this month.

February 2023 – SA-BEST MP Frank Pangallo calls for a South Australian coronial inquiry into Anna’s disappearance.

February 2024 – A Malaysian High Court judge throws out Mr Jenkins’ negligence case against the government, the police, the developers, a project manager and a landscape worker.

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