On the day of June 20, 2000, a family of five, husband, wife, and three children, was awaken by two masked men. Earlier that morning the two bandit had just robbed a grocery store leaving the owner and one of the worker died. Little did the robbery know there was an another employee in the store. That employee was in the bathroom and once he heard the shot he called 911. He alert the dispatcher that two gunmen as in the store and that he believe the owner and the other employee had been shot. The dispatcher radio the information out to her officer. Officers arrived to the scene and discovered two bodies on the floor. The surviving employee was rescue and was able to describe the vehicle the gunmen had left in. Some officer remain at that scene
On October 20, 2014 a young male teen was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois. The shooting occurred in the middle of the road and the suspect that was fatally shot was named Laquan McDonald. McDonald was just 17 years old and was the suspect after initial reports placed him in the scene of a possible car jacking. It was reported that Laquan McDonald had a knife and was also seen slashing tires of a police cruiser. When police had finally had him surrounded in the middle of the road, one officer opened fire and released 16 shots into his body. Another deputy on hand said the use of force was not needed because Laquan was not in any way trying to attack the officers present. The officer who fired the 16 shots into Laquan is named Jason D. Van
Carlos Deluna was an American man who was convicted of first degree murder. Carlos was executed by the state of Texas for the killing of a 24 year old woman at the Shamrock gas station. The victim Wanda Lopez was stabbed multiple times apparently from a buck knife. Wanda Lopez was the attendant of the gas station and the police was senseless and oblivious to the tape at the gas station and only saw when she was giving the murderer the money yelling “You want it? I’ll give it to you. I’m not going to do nothing to you. Please!!!” There were only four eyewitnesses that was nearby when Wanda Lopez was murdered.
On the morning of December 18, 1992, two brothers were shot and killed in their home in Houston Texas. Police recovered six shotgun shell casings at the home and their investigation led them to defendant Genovevo Salinas who agreed to hand over his weapon for ballistics testing and to go to the police station for questioning. The interview lasted for about one hour, and both parties agree it was noncustodial therefore he was not read his Miranda warning. Salinas answered most of the officer’s questions during the interview, but fell silent and his body tensed up when asked if the shotgun would match the shells recovered at the murder scene. After a few minutes of silence, the officer continued to ask more questions, which he did answer. Salinas did not testify at his own trial and, even with his objection, the prosecution used his silence in response to the officer’s question as evidence that he was guilty.
The Mom and Pop shop open every day at 9:00 am, and the Pop has never been late opening the doors, it has been this way for 45 years. A long time, the shop stays open until 9:00 pm every day, except on Sundays and Holidays. Both Mom and Pop have worked the 12 hour shifts for 45 years, they have raised their family, they are loved by the community, it is, and has been the true American dream. However, one day Pop is working the register, and a young man enters the store, this young man kills Pop during an Armed Robbery. The police arrive, and determine through the video system, that the suspect was inside the store approximately 45 seconds, fortunately, a young beat cop was able to locate and arrest the suspect. However, the wheels of Justice
On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson was reported missing by her husband Scott, she was eight months pregnant. Scott acted very calm and collected about his missing wife, he was on a “fishing trip” at Berkeley Marina and he when he returned home he seen that lacy was not at home and that was gone from early in the morning to the mid afternoon. They called the cops, and the search for Laci began. It was a huge search over 1,000 volunteers signed up to give information about Laci and her disappearance. There was a 25,000 dollar reward that increased up to 250,000 dollars and then was then increased all the way up to 500,000 dollar reward for any leads that would bring her home. There were posters, and fliers and even a website trying to spread the word about Laci’s disappearance and trying to bring her home to her family and friends. But, There were no signs of Laci anywhere, they began to not believe that she would show up safe anytime soon about halfway thru, but they kept looking all the way until March 5th, 2003, when it went from a disappearance case, to a homicide case where Scott Peterson is the biggest suspect they have.
During the night of April 19, 1989 a young woman was brutally raped and beaten while she went for a jog in Central Park. The rapist left her for dead lying in her own pool of blood. When she was found by a near Officer. The Central Parker Jogger went into a coma due to her severe injuries and was place on life support once she arrived to the hospital. Within a few hours after the crime six black and latino teenagers between the ages of 14-16 were picked up and questioned about their where about during the attack. The next day everyone found out about the horrifying news through the press the city went into an outrage and wanted justice for the victim. The city became divided between the whites and blacks and latinos communities.
Once the police arrived the scene was a filled with blood and brain matter with both Kitty and Jose getting shot in the head. The shot to Jose caused him to get partly decapitated and Kitty was shot several times in the face causing her to become unrecognizable and they were both shot in the knee caps. With the placement of the bullets in both knee caps the police assumed that the murders were a mob hit. The police did not correctly search and questions at the crime scene, because if they had they would have found that the weapons the brothers used to commit the crime were thrown into the back of Erik’s car and the brothers still had gun powder residue on their hands. The nature of the killings led the police to classifying the killings as a mob hit.
This one particular story is just crazy, how could you just kill someone with no remorse. On fox 4 news there was a terrible incident that had transpired. The day of June 12 located in the area of Mesquite Texas it was affirmed that two young men were shot and murdered in cold blood during the day around 4:00 pm.The newscast says the victims were selling drugs. The drug deal soon turns into a robbery escalated into a bigger crime a murder.
In Corsicana, Texas Cameron Willingham and his family’s home was burned down the twenty-third of December is 1991. According to the report Cameron was asleep when the fire started and survived the accident with only a few injuries, as for his children they were not so lucky, they lost their lives to the tragic accident. At the time of the accident Cameron’s wife was buying presents for their children for Christmas. According to a witness and her Daughter Diane and Buffie from a few houses down went outside and saw Cameron screaming, “My babies are burning up!” Diane and Cameron tried countless attempts to rescue the girls from their room until the fire department could get there. According to the New Yorker “The house, in short, had been deliberately transformed onto a death trap.” According to the reports on December twenty-fourth and twenty-seventh of 1991 the fire was declared arson and they later decided to conduct a criminal investigation. Cameron was questioned by the investigators on December 31st and was then later arrested on January 8th of 1992 for the death his three daughters.
These murder cases stayed unsolved for decades, and their resolution may give some sense of closure to the long-suffering families of the victims. But these triumphs are largely symbolic. By congratulating ourselves too much for them, we risk neglecting the challenges of the present.
When the first responder got to the scene he adimatately meet the 911 caller, who lead him to a car in an apartment parking lot. The car doors were closed and all of the windows were fogged. The police officer used his flashlight to see inside of the car before opening the door. He found a young African American woman who had been shot several times. The officers quickly called for backup, investigators and medical personnel. While awaiting for their arrival he secured the crime scene with caution tape, creating an initial perimeter setup as discussed in lecture two. Once everyone arrived he left it to them to search the car while he talked to the 911 caller, witnesses and others who had information on who had been present in the car. The investigators were able to collect physical evidence of bullets and cartage casings that were found outside the vehicle and inside the vehicle on the floorboard of the driver’s side. The team determined the bullets came from a 40 caliber. Other types of physical evidence that were found on the scene were the bloody clothing on the victim, the victim’s cell phone and fibers in the car from the driver’s side. personnel at the scene crime took several photographs, powered test for finger prints and did a blood spatter analysis. Stewart’s autopsy revealed that she had been shot at close range in the left hand once and in the
The school's undercover narcotics officer, Randy, was killed in the faculty parking lot. A car pulled up, and a black tinted window rolled down. The passenger in the back seat shot him once in the head with a handgun, then the car sped away. Randy was killed instantly, and the people in the car were never caught.
One of the most eye opening school shootings was on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado. Thirteen students were killed and twenty wounded in the middle of the day while attending school at Columbine High School. Two armed students opened fire just outside the building, then moved inside and gunned down more students and faculty members. This rampage lasting for just under 45 minutes. The students then turned the guns on themselves and ended their lives. The police did not show up in a reasonable time, which lead families to file lawsuits against the police department and the school. There was only one resource officer in the high school, during this time. He was located in the parking lot to watch kids drive in and out. One of the parents of the victims said, "There was no one in that school that had a gun other than the two killers, and ...
On the morning of August 23, 1973, an escaped convict entered a busy bank in Stockholm, Sweden. The criminal pulled a gun out that he had hidden under his jacket and began to fire at the ceiling. These gunshots alerted everyone in the bank that their was a threat to their safety. A police officer was also alerted, by a silent alarm, and was wounded by the criminal while attempting to stop the robbery. The criminals intent was only to rob the bank but he found himself in a predicament and took four bank employees as hostages. These four hostages were strapped with dynamite and held in the bank’s vault. The criminal began negotiating with police. He asked for $700,000 in Swedish and foreign currency, a getaway car and the release of a
As the car was being searched, we learned the reason for such drastic precautionary measures. A man whom we knew and who was a candidate for the sheriff's office, had been brutally murdered in the presence of his wife and daughter. It was rumored that the opposing party was responsible for the fatal shotgun blast, and other rumors stated that explosives would be brought into town to bomb the courthouse.