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From Bad behavior to stalking to abusing their shields as police officers, Madision, CT is under some serious pressure to make changes within the rank and file.

Brianna Denison found dead in South Reno

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They describe the suspect as white man with light brown/dirty blonde hair.  He is 5'8'' to 5' 10'' with a slender to medium build. The victim said the suspect was wearing a dark hooded pull over sweat shirt with no zippers or markings, athletic type nylon silver sweat pants with black stripes, and white tennis shoes.

Police are also looking for an extended cab pick-up truck or SUV with an interior dome light above the windshield. The vehicle is tall enough that it requires a step up to gain entry, but that step is not an added "aftermarket" step. There is a floor-mounted console described as "fairly skinny" that opens in front, and the radio has blue and red LED read-out. The vehicle also has cloth seats and an automatic transmission. There was a baby shoe on the front seat floor board, and 8 ½" x 11" white pieces of paper with typing on the floor board of the front seat.

If you have any information, call the 24 hour tip line at 745-3521 or Secret Witness at 322-4900.  Secret Witness is offering a reward for information.

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For many months life in the Hamlet home had been anything but sweet.  Kathleen Hamlet according to sources was making plans to get away from her abuser husband, and file for  divorce, she could not take it anymore.  If you or someone you know is in an abusive relationship, it is very important that you plan ahead, without confronting or aggravating the abuser.  For assistance please contact the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, their services are confidential and free 1-800-799-SAFE. And they can provide support, services and direction. http://www.amazon.com/Defending-Our-Lives-Domestic-Violence/dp/0385484410/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208150645&sr=8-1

Click the play button on the video window to the right to see the story Jeffrey Hamlet, a Maricopa County Detention Officer, admitted to police he killed his wife Wednesday night and that he wanted to take his own life.   According to a police report, Hamlet's son, Sean, called police after going to his parents' home late Wednesday after an uncle expressed concern for the couple.   There he found his mother dead and his father on a bed, bleeding from the head.    When officers arrived at the home near 40th Street and Shea Boulevard they found Jeffrey Hamlet, 55, in the kitchen.   Hamlet reached into a kitchen drawer for a knife and began trying to stab himself, police say.   Officers tased him to keep him from injuring himself, then took him into custody.   Police found Hamlet’s wife, Katherine, 52, in a bedroom, dead and wrapped in a blanket.   After telling officers he had ingested rat poison and bleach, Hamlet was taken to a local hospital.   While officers were checking the house, they came across a note 'stating something along the lines of what the son saw and continuing with I'm going to hell and you are going to heaven', according to the police report. They also found a blue steel bar that Hamlet had wrapped in padding and cotton socks to strike his wife in the head.   The report says, Hamlet told officers he 'continued to hit his wife until he knew she was dead'. Police say Hamlet 'admitted that he intentionally killed his wife first, because he stated that she would not be able to take care of herself if he died and she did not'.    Shooters On The Line. Abusers Of The Badge 05:48     He was then taken to Madison Street Jail where he was booked on charges of first-degree murder. To make comments go to: http://www.murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com   Source: Deborah Stocks  ABC15.com for updates.

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Audrey first met Christopher King in October of 2004 when she worked as a physical therapist at a Valley clinic. 

He was a patient there.  But it wasn't until he saw her picture on MySpace.com several years later, according to police reports that he tried to contact her.

Audrey told ASU police that she was very clear "she was not interested in dating him." 

That, police say, started an assault of vicious e-mails and phone calls that "became progressively threatening and obscene in their content."

A police log, obtained by the ABC15 Investigators, details the phone calls.

On January 29th, a police log detailed a phone call made by King. 

"You're going to get ****** up, you whore," he said to Audrey.

In a police interview, King confessed to creating a bogus "Craig's List" account, and writing that Audrey was a prostitute and looking for customers.

King was charged with three misdemeanor counts, including ARS 13-2921, the cyberstalking law, created in 1999.

Cyberstalking is nothing new. 

In the late 1990s, then U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno warned of how criminals can use the internet to terrorize their victims.

"The internet is like your house," she said. "If you open the door and you leave that door open, you know that anyone can walk through the door," said Sgt. Russ Skinner, with the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office. 

Now, with technology like Key Tracking and GPS systems, it can be easier for stalkers to pinpoint their victims, wherever they are, said Chrysalis Community Relations Director Lorie Simms.

Key-tracking records every stroke on your keyboard and GPS systems can be activated on your cell phone and car.

In another real-life situation to take in. Sue share a child with her ex-husband. E-mail is the only way they connect.  However, she claims he uses it to berate her and her parenting skills.

"You picked up our daughter 20 minutes late, " he wrote.  "You didn't give her the school lunch." 

Even in this day and age, cyberstalking cases are hard to prosecute. 

Gail Thackeray, counsel for the Arizona Attorney Generals office, said cyberstalking cases "are time-consuming, require subpoenas from internet providers, and your average cop doesn't know how to deal with the cases," she said "Some internet providers don't keep records."

It's head and shoulders above what it used to be like, she said. "But there's still more that needs to be done," she added.

Here's a third real-life situation. Karen left her husband years ago.  But she feels the internet still keeps him in her life, whether she likes it or not.  After filing orders of protection against him, changing her name and social security number, she logged onto her classmates.com account only to find a friend say, 'We know where you live'.

"At that moment, you get the sinking feeling, like here we go again," Karen said.

Experts say it's important to call police, file an order of protection, and get everything documented, even if that means taking pictures of text messages, instant messages, and anything your stalker sends your way. 

If the cyber attack comes from a stranger, contact your internet provider directly. 

Try to suspend any contact with that person.  Experts say an e-mail, or any response, sometimes fuels their anger.

"It's all about control," said domestic violence legal advocate Brady Clevenger.  "Domestic violence is not about beating anyone up.  They can beat you up emotionally or financially by withholding a paycheck," he said. 

Christopher King pled guilty to one count of harassment and received a $1,000 fine.  But for many victims, it doesn't stop there.

"I feel like I'm being held in a tub of water.  Just when I come up, (I hear from him again)," said Karen.

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NEW YORK CITY

 PHOTO: Kathryn Faughey in Aug. 2005.

Detectives have studied Kathryn Faughey's e-mails and phone calls, but aren't able to look through her work files because of federal privacy laws. Investigators have theorized that the vicious murderer could be one of Faughey's patients.

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the department was trying to petition the court, through the district attorney's office, to access Faughey's records. He wasn't sure how long the effort would take.

Also Friday, police shed more light on events leading up to the stabbing of a psychologist in her office, saying the killer was in a waiting room with another patient for nearly a half hour before the bloody attack.

Kelly said the slasher arrived at 8 p.m., telling the doorman he had an appointment with a psychiatrist in the building, Dr. Kent Shinbach, then sat in the waiting room with another of Shinbach's patients until she went into his office around 8:30 p.m.

Sometime after that, the killer entered Faughey's office and attacked her. Shinbach came to her aid, but was assaulted and robbed.

The killer then tried to force Shinbach's patient, who had been in Shinbach's office during the attack, into a bathroom; she kicked at him and he fled through a basement door, Kelly said.

It wasn't clear if the suspect was injured; blood was spattered on the walls and pooled on the floor of Faughey's office. Blood also was found on the basement door, police said.

The federal privacy law in question requiring a court's involvement to obtain medical records is known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and mandates that doctors, hospitals and insurance companies protect patients' confidentiality.

Generally, that means a subpoena is needed to access medical records in situations like a murder case. Patients are allowed to sue if they choose to fight the subpoena.

Adding to the difficulty in unraveling the mystery is that Faughey didn't sound worried about her safety in the hours before she was butchered in her office, according to a friend who exchanged e-mail messages with her that evening.

On her mind, though, was another member of their circle of guitar enthusiasts, a man she had offered help with personal problems. Faughey mentioned him in her last message, sent only about half an hour before the killing, said her friend Don Hurley.

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Detectives interviewed the man, William Kunsman, Thursday in Pennsylvania. He was not considered a suspect, but the development showed how determined investigators were to track down any clues into the mystery slasher.

The killer slashed Faughey 15 times with a meat cleaver and a 9-inch knife in her Manhattan office Tuesday evening.

Investigators continued probing for evidence Friday, removing nine boxes from Faughey's office.

Kunsman met Faughey, 56, at a guitar camp several years ago, and they were friends, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Click here to view surveillance tape and video report from MyFOXNY.com.

Kunsman was found through Faughey's recent e-mail records, which contained messages about his personal problems, the law enforcement official said. Pennsylvania state troopers picked him up at his home without incident at around 4:30 a.m., and he was let go eight and a half hours later, after he asked for a lawyer, the official said.

"The reasons they had for questioning me were valid," said Kunsman, of Coplay, Pa., adding that he was "extremely saddened" to hear of Faughey's death. "I've been in more contact with Kathryn lately. I've been speaking to her a lot lately on the phone and by e-mail. I guess that's what led them here."

Kunsman, who is married with six children, last spoke to Faughey on Tuesday afternoon but declined to say what their conversation was about. "That's personal. She was just being a friend," he said.

Hurley, who knew Faughey through an online club for people interested in C.F. Martin & Co. guitars, said he and Faughey traded e-mail messages on the evening of her death about a variety of topics, including Kunsman. Hurley, a recently retired Sunday Times of London reporter, said Faughey had reached out to Kunsman after he "lost his way a little bit" and offered some help.

In her last message, sent about 30 minutes before the killing, Faughey mentioned Kunsman but gave no indication that she was concerned about her safety, or that she was expecting any visitors that evening.

Hurley said he found it hard to believe Kunsman had anything to do with the attack, a view echoed by Faughey's husband, Walter Adam. He told reporters Kunsman was a friend of the couple.

Kunsman did not appear to be injured; police initially indicated that the killer might have suffered wounds from the struggle.

Kunsman said the detectives never referred to him as a suspect during the questioning. "The reason it took so long is so they could ... verify what I was telling them was the truth," Kunsman said.

"I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't even heard the news about Kathryn. It didn't become clear to me until during the questioning what had happened," he said.

The suspect left behind several clues, dropping two bags near the basement door through which he escaped. The bags were filled with adult diapers, women's clothing, rope, duct tape and eight knives apparently not used in the attack, police said.

The diapers were of a type not widely distributed but available near Bethlehem, Pa., officials said.

Police recovered three other knives at the scene of the killing, including the 9-inch knife and the meat cleaver.

The suspect told the East 79th Street building's doorman he had an appointment with Shinbach, a 70-year-old geriatric psychiatrist. At some point, the suspect went into Faughey's office and started to attack her, police said. When Shinbach responded to her screams, the attacker stabbed him, pinned him to the wall and stole $90 from his pocket.

Shinbach was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center with slash wounds on his head, face and hands. The hospital declined to release any information about Shinbach on Thursday; police believed he remained in serious but stable condition.

Faughey, a licensed psychologist, described herself as a specialist in cognitive behavioral therapy. It focuses on changing thoughts that cause feelings or behaviors.

She was also an avid guitar player. In the past few years, she had attended several of the group's get-togethers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere and had become fast friends with some of her fellow Martin enthusiasts. 

Former deputy jailer Monique Johnson pumped six bullets into Memphis police officer Tony Hayes two years ago because she was either an uncontrollably jealous woman or a victim of domestic abuse desperately trying to defend herself. http://www.amazon.com/Defending-Our-Lives-Domestic-Violence/dp/0385484410/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208150645&sr=8-1

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MIAMI -- A former Miami police officer accused of raping at least three women was sentenced Wednesday morning to 10 years in prison and 10 years of probation.

Michael Ragusa, 32, was off duty when he allegedly picked up the women while driving around in his police cruiser near his home in Miami Beach.

While he would have faced charges in connection with all three women, the State Attorney's Office said it was preparing to charge Ragusa in three other cases. However, in agreeing to the written plea, assistant state attorney Jorge Cueta said some of the victims were reluctant to testify.

"The victims in a lot of these cases have been traumatized enough and they don't want to expose themselves to a trial," he said.

Ragusa's attorney, Milton Hirsch, said Ragusa understood that a conviction could send him to prison for life.

"He understood that we had multiple cases, each with multiple counts," Hirsch said. "Conviction on any one count in any one case would mean life imprisonment. He realized that that's just not worth it."

Ragusa's parents were in court but declined to speak to reporters after Judge Rosa Rodriguez accepted the agreement.  Email your comments to: http://www.murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com

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If this bunch of looney's from the Phelp Church "hates" the United States so much then why isn't someone offer them plane tickets to Iraq? Today, they protested the funeral of the victims from the city hall shooting in St.Louis which includes the Kirkwood Police Officer Funeral.  The police site from the line of duty, a private police officer site, posted the church's press release ...................  

Kansas Nut jobs to Picket Kirkwood Officers' Funerals

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One of the very first comments from officers arrested after a domestic violence incident is "she is just trying to make trouble".  And very often that is the basis of their defense to remain on the police department.  Anyone who is violent, in particular those who are in law enforcement bank on the fact that usually no one will believe the victim because the accused officer has a great crime fighting record on the streets.  And it is difficult when you are an officer with whom you are on the streets with every day to believe they are capable of any violent act, what so ever.  But, fellow officers and the rank and file within police departments must consider the "combat, war-like mentality" of their crime fighters.  Almost similar to those who go to war and return home, often unable to fit back into a normal life environment.  Officers see the worst human tragedies unfold right before their eyes, every day they are on the job.  How would you expect anyone in their shoes to live?  The old street beat cop before prohabition, most likely does not exist.  There are a new breed of officers, who along with their families deserve the tools to effectively deal with their violent aftermath of being an officer.  Does that require a new way to defuse the problem, yes it most certainly does.   

Boston Globe: In retrospect, Boston Police Department officials said, they should never have allowed Officer Leonard F. Brown to carry his gun.

Brown, they said, shouldn't have had it last summer, while his former wife had an active restraining order against him. Specifically, he shouldn't have had it July 26, when he was accused of flashing his department- issued .40-caliber Glock to a former in-law during what has been described as a vodka- infused tirade, saying, "Do you know who you're [expletive] with?"

"We missed him," Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said in an interview.

But while Brown may be the most egregious example, he is hardly alone. The Boston Police Department - unlike the State Police - has repeatedly allowed officers accused of domestic-related threats or violence to continue carrying guns, a Globe review has found. The department allows the practice, usually with more restrictions than Brown had, so that officers can continue working regular patrol shifts and detail shifts at nightclubs and construction sites.

Yet that policy runs counter to a recommendation from an internal Police Department committee, which said in 2005 that all officers subject to restraining orders should be stripped of their weapons for the duration of the orders.

The internal committee also found that the department's in-house counseling program for officers accused of domestic violence was lacking.

But since 2003, only one officer was sent to an enhanced counseling program, and the department forfeited $40,000 from a federal grant it received to set up the improved counseling. Officers are sent to the old, in-house program that the committee had viewed as inadequate.

After learning of the Globe's findings, Davis said last month that he planned to launch a fresh review of the department's policies for handling officers accused of domestic violence. He said he also planned to revise Police Department regulations so that no one is allowed to carry guns when they are subject to restraining orders.

The department has recently grappled with domestic violence controversies within its ranks. Davis came under fire in December when he punished a police lieutenant found to have punched his girlfriend in a Baltimore bar with a five-day suspension, rather than termination. The commissioner said at the time that he felt firing Lieutenant David Murphy would spur a protracted court battle with the officer that would cost taxpayers too much money, and ultimately Murphy would win his job back.

Last week, Randolph police arrested a Boston police officer, Windell Josey, and charged him with assaulting his girlfriend in their Randolph home. Josey is a detective in the Boston Police Department's domestic violence unit.

When judges issue restraining orders against Boston police officers, the officers' guns are immediately confiscated and stored at the Police Department range. But officers typically appeal to get their weapons back so they can continue working, on duty and on details, private jobs that can add tens of thousands of dollars a year to their income.

Boston police officials have authorized 10 officers out of 26 who were the subjects of domestic violence-related restraining orders since January 2005 to continue patrolling city streets with their weapons. Nine of the allowances came with a restriction: the officers were required to turn in their guns to supervisors before heading home. They were supposed to sign them out at the beginning of their shifts, and sign them back in at the end.

He then pulled out his gun and asked "if she wanted to know what was going to happen to her," and hit her in the back of the head with the weapon, causing her to start bleeding, the affidavit states. She also told investigators that Mireles held his gun out of the car window and fired several rounds.

After the shooting, Mireles drove to a construction area, and his wife thought he was going to kill her, according to the affidavit. It stated that once there, he told her "No one will ever know."

According to the affidavit, Mireles' wife did not report the incident until January because she did not want her husband to lose his job and she thought the couple would work things out.

Mireles has been with the Police Department for about 18 months. On Friday detectives obtained an arrest warrant charging Mireles with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was arrested Friday night without incident, according to the police.

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The Police Department has an early warning system in which any report of a domestic disturbance involving an officer is reviewed by a sergeant. If the allegations are sustained, the case goes before two committees that make recommendations to the chief of what should be done.

Mireles was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal and administrative investigation, said police officials.  Please email comments to: AbuseofTheBadge@aol.com

In the Chicago Sun-Times today, Mary Mitchell's column makes a great point in this horriffic tragedy of five murdered Lane Bryant customers.

Who's helping Tinley Park killer hide?
Mary Mitchell: While grieving families go through the painful process of burying five women who were killed in Lane Bryant's Tinley Park store, the police are still on a manhunt for a deranged shooter. Deranged is the best way to describe a person who turned a robbery into a heinous crime.

A composite sketch of the gunman in last week's deadly shooting at a Tinley Park clothing store. (Sketch courtesy of Tinley Park Police Department

Update: Tinley Park police Saturday released a composite sketch of the gunman in last week's deadly shooting at a Tinley Park clothing store.

In a statement, police described the gunman as a black man, 25 to 35 years old, clean shaven with his hair arranged in three to five thick, puffy corn rows. A single braid, sporting light-green beads, hung down the right side of his face. He is large-framed, with his weight proportionate to his height, and was last seen wearing black jeans with rhinestones on the back pocket, a dark jacket and a gray knit cap.

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GALVESTON — The search continued today for a woman charged with child endangerment in the death of her infant son.

Caren Kohberger remained at large, while the father of her son had been in the Galveston County jail on $1 million bond since Tuesday night.

Kohberger, 27, is wanted on a charge of endangering a child issued in Brazoria County, where authorities allege she let Travis "T.J." Mullis leave their Alvin home with Alijah shortly after 4 a.m. on Jan. 29, even though Mullis had told her he was unstable and could "do something" to the child.

A couple found the boy’s body near Galveston’s East End, about five hours after Mullis left the mobile home in Alvin.

Kohberger later told police that she told Mullis to take Alijah with him because Mullis had disappeared for days at a time at different points of their relationship, and she thought the child would serve as an anchor to ensure he returned home soon.

Later that day, a woman police later identified as Kohberger called the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office and Galveston Police Department, saying she believed the dead child she saw on TV news reports was her son.

Three days later, the child’s father, Travis "T.J." Mullis walked into a Philadelphia police station and surrendered. He told investigators there that he had stomped on the baby’s head until his skull caved in because the boy would not stop crying, according to police reports.

Mullis has relatives in nearby Maryland and apparently spoke with them, as well as a figure police described only as "a mentor" immediately before turning himself in.

Investigators Thursday said they suspected Kohberger was in New York. However, Brazoria County Criminal Disrtrict Attorney Jeri Yenne said Friday that officials were still unsure of the wanted woman’s whereabouts.

As the search for Kohberger continued, Galveston County officials continued their probe of the infant’s death, ruled a homicide by blunt force trauma to the head.

Galveston County Criminal District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk filed a motion Friday morning to require Mullis to submit to the collection of a DNA sample.

Officials likely would compare the sample with evidence collected in the case. Evidence cited in the motion included "a child carrier seat and base, shoes, clothing and vehicle as evidence associated with the murder of the child, Alijah Mullis."

Mullis faces a charge of capital murder. Officials with the district attorney’s office said Mullis’ case was still ongoing and that no decision had been made on whether to seek the death penalty.

Kohberger’s charge carries a possible jail term of 180 days to two years, as well as a fine of up to $10,000.

Mullis faces another charge, also stemming from claims of erratic behavior on Jan. 29, just hours before he took Alijah from his home for the last time. An 8-year-old girl, daughter of a couple Mullis and Kohberger had lived with, told officials in Brazoria County that Mullis had gotten her out of bed about 2:30 a.m. that morning and had driven her to a nearby school playground. There, the child said, he had told her to take off her pants and then tried to remove them himself when she would not.

Investigators said that Mullis himself called his mother on Jan. 29 and recounted the attack on the girl, saying he "snapped out of it" when she started crying and stopped trying to undress her. He drove her home without further incident, according to Brazoria County records.

The girl’s claims led Brazoria County officials to charge Mullis with enticing a child, which carries a possible prison term of two to 10 years.

Kohberger had told police that Mullis’ excitable state had come about because he was "having flashbacks" to being sexually abused as a child, according to the affidavit that supported her arrest warrant in Brazoria County. Police said they later found records of a relative being convicted of molesting Mullis and spending time in prison more than a decade ago.

Yenne asked that anyone who knew Kohberger’s whereabouts call her office, 979-864-1230, or the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office, 979-265-9310.

In the past seven days, the nation has witnessed an epidemic.  Killers right in our own backyards, too close to home, using deadly force and murder as a solution to their problems.  It is obvious we have a new breed of criminals who through their anger and outrage over situations beyond their life skill  and coping abilities have a death wish not only for themselves, but, for anyone within their range. 

MALL MURDERS  On Saturday, February 2, 2008, five innocent women bound, gaged and tied up in a lane bryant store.  The police have yet to release a composite sketch of the shooter and one victim who police have placed in protective custody will live out that tragic day every waing moment of her life. Anyone with information was being asked to contact the Tinley Park Police Department at 708-444-5368.

15 Year old-TEENAGER MURDERS ENTIRE FAMILY On Sunday February, 3, 2008, in Maryland Baltimore County police have charged a 15-year-old Dulaney High School student with first degree murder in the deaths of his father, mother and two younger brothers. Nicholas W. Browning was arrested at about 1 a.m. this morning after confessing to the murders of his parents and siblings, police said today at a 11 a.m. news conference in Towson. Police said Nicholas had an argument with his father, John W. Browning, Friday night and that he took his father's handgun and shot his father, as well as his mother, Tamara Browning, and brothers, Gregory Browning, 13, and Benjamin Browning, 11. Another neighbor, Robert Owens, said John Browning was "a wonderful person, a Scoutmaster, a lawyer, a wonderful guy."

According to the Royston, Mueller, McLean & Reid Web site, he was born in Baltimore and graduated from James Madison University, receiving his law degree from the University of Baltimore.

The Web site says: "His practice focuses on real estate law and commercial and corporate law with emphasis on sales, acquisitions and reorganization of businesses, employment, franchises, lending and bankruptcy law.


Father Murders His Wife and Baby On Monday, February 4, 2007, KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man sought by police after his wife and her infant daughter were found shot to death was arrested Monday at a motel in Texas, where the couple's 3-year-old son was found safe, police said. Andrew Anthony Guerrero, 23, was jailed in Denton, Texas, said Denton police Officer Jim Bryan. Police found his estranged wife, Nicolette Lyons-Reed, 23, and her 8-month-old daughter, Leah Lyons-Reed, shot to death Sunday in their home in Kansas City, Kan., and issued an Amber Alert for the boy, Seth. ``The boy was in good condition,'' Bryan said. The boy was put into the custody of Child Protective Services.

Deadly Gun Battle In Los Angeles  On Thursday, February 7, 2008, he believed an elderly Latino woman lived there alone for as long as he has lived in the neighborhood. He used to give her peppers from his yard, Jones said.
Jones said police came banging on his door around 10:30 p.m., while his sons, 6 and 12, were asleep, telling him his family needed to evacuate. Shortly afterward, Jones said, he heard four or five bangs that sounded like flash grenades and smelled gas.The standoff began shortly after a man in Winnetka called 911 saying he had gunned down three relatives. It ended early Thursday -- more than eight hours later -- with a single round from a police sniper who killed the suspect as he emerged from his burning house firing a barrage of bullets. In between, two highly decorated Los Angeles Police Department officers were shot, one fatally.

The LAPD was deeply shaken by the nightlong siege in an otherwise quiet San Fernando Valley neighborhood. Officer Randal Simmons, described as "the rock" of the elite SWAT team, became the first member in its four-decade history to die in the line of duty, taking a gunshot to the neck as the unit stormed the house in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue hostages and end the conflict.