Fullerton city council members are holding a special meeting today, Friday, to discuss whether to start an inquiry into 37-year-old Kelly Thomas’s death. His father, a former sheriff’s deputy filed a claim against the police on Thursday.
The claim alleges violation of civil rights, negligence and conspiracy against the city, its police department and the officers that Ron Thomas says caused the death of his son.
Kelly Thomas died five days after officers, responding to a call that someone was breaking into cars, tried to search Kelly’s …

On July 22 jurors convicted Anthony Sowell of 11 counts of aggravated murder and more than 70 other charges including abusing corpses and kidnapping.  Today, Wednesday, those same jurors unanimously voted to sentence Sowell to the death penalty.  Ultimately the decision belongs to Cuyahoga County Judge Dick Ambrose who will give his decision on Friday at 9 a.m.
Sowell’s conviction began in 2009 with the discovery of two victims in his Cleveland, Ohio home. Police executed a search warrant when a woman complained about about being raped by Sowell.  When they …

A Columbia woman and her 5-year-old  son were injured Monday night when she drove her Ford Escape off the bridge into the bank of a creek near Wilcox Road off of Route E. The woman, Elizabeth Klaus, 32, was taken by paramedics to University Hospital, and was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated following the accident.  This was her third arrest for DUI.  The woman’s son, Lucas, who was found outside the SUV was rushed to the hospital by helicopter with serious injuries.  The boy was not in a …

Judge David Rimmer sentenced a Ronnie L. Henley, 50, to 20 years in prison due to a DUI Manslaughter conviction on Tuesday. Henley now faces 20 years in prison, 15 of which go to the DUI manslaughter, 20 for fleeing the scene of a crash involving death, and time for possession of marijuana.
Last year, he was arrested after a traffic accident where he turned in front of a motorcyclist who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Florida Highway Patrol’s investigation says the rear end of Henley’s car ran over the motorcyclist, …

A lawsuit was filed today in federal court in Detroit by a woman who says that two Westland police officers beat her while she was in a holding cell.  The woman is seeking $2 million in damages.
The woman’s lawyer says that a video of the incident that he made public today proves that the officers were not responding to an attack by his client as police allege and that his client is telling the truth.
26-year-old Krystal P. Gardener, of Wayne, said that the officers called her names such as “savage” …

The alleged gunman who injured two students at a Carlsbad elementary school is to be arraigned Wednesday on multiple felony charges of attempted murder.
The gunman, Brendan O’Rourke, 41, is scheduled for arraignment in the Vista branch of San Diego County Superior Court.  He is charged with dressing up in black and screaming incoherently while he attacked and wounded two students at Kelly Elementary School on Friday after climbing a fence on to the school playground.
O’Rourke is being held without bail at the County Jail in Vista.
Thankfully only two students were …

What would you do if you had a chance to avenge someone who molested you? If you were looking them eye to eye after years of living as a victim, would you walk away? Or would you  avenge the crime that happened to you and possibly many others.
Aaron Vargas, 32, claims that his Boy Scout leader Darrell McNeill started molesting him when he was 11-years-old and that he and what happened emotionally tormented him as an adult. So on the night of February 8, 2009 Aaron Vargas drove …

Stephen Wesley, 43, a former substitute teacher at a juvenile probation camp was arrested Tuesday for supervising a series of fights between students in rival gangs, authorities said.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Wesley, 43, set rules and told students not to punch each other in the face to avoid obvious signs of injury.
“Wesley not only allowed the fights to take place but also encouraged them by setting ground rules, including time limits,” Whitmore said. “He directed the minors where to fight in the room.”
Authorities reported Wesley was …

NORTH VERNON, Ind. – Police arrested a 17-year old boy in in connection to the slayings of a husband and wife in southern Jennings County.
Ryan Renfroe of Columbus is in police custody and is facing double murder charges as an adult.
The bodies of Greg and Marguerite Gough were found inside their home in Lovett Tuesday night.
Authorities found a 1987 Chevrolet Camaro belonging to the Gough’s abandoned and wrecked in a ditch in southern Jennings County. When police were towing the car, a witness stopped and told police that they …

Dallas police have issued a warrant for a 19-year-old suspect for a fatal shooting which happened on Monday.
According to police, Alberto Deleon is wanted in the death of Ray Villasenor, 18. Mr. Villasenor was shot on the evening of Oct. 13 during an argument following a car accident in near South Beacon Street, police said. A second person was also wounded in the shooting, police said.