Navajo NATION ( 4 murdered in 12 hour period) Police ask for help

Four people were found murdered in the Kayenta area in one 12-hour period that started on Thursday night and stretched into Friday.
The four victims were killed in three separate and unrelated incidents, according to information from the FBI.
“To have four murders in one district in 12 hours would probably be unusual in New York City, so to have that many murders in the Kayenta District is unusual,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge MacDonald Rominger.
The small community on the Navajo Nation is about 25 miles south of Monument Valley and has a population of around 5,200.
The first homicide was reported on Thursday night in Kayenta, with one victim reported dead at the scene and another transported to the Flagstaff Medical Center for treatment. The second two homicide reports came in almost simultaneously on Friday, according to FBI officials.

Two people were killed in an apparent double-homicide at Inscription House and the other suspected homicide was reported at Black Mesa.
All of the murders were within the Kayenta District. FBI officials say they are now working with the Kayenta Police Department and the Kayenta Department of Criminal Investigations to track down leads.
“We have no one in custody in any one of the three homicide cases, but we’re tracking down all logical leads at the present time and were awaiting some further information from the medical examiner’s office,” said Rominger.
Eric Betz can be reached at 556-2250 or ebetz@azdailysun.com.

PAKISTAN ( 14 yr old GIRL more COURAGE then most ADULTS) Malala Yousufzai

Taliban Say They Shot 14-Year-Old Pakistani Girl Who Exposed Their Cruelty

by Mark Memmott, National Public Radio

October 9, 2012

"Shooting attacks happen every day in Pakistan," as NPR's Philip Reeves reports from Islamabad.
But the shooting of a 14-year-old girl who became nationally known after she documented the Taliban's cruelty in Pakistan's Swat Valley has caused particular shock in that country, he tells our Newscast Desk.
The Pakistani Taliban are claiming their fighters carried out today's attack. According to Philip, "officials say Malala Yousufzai was outside her school when a gunman approached, and opened fire, injuring her and at least one other child."

Pakistan's Dawn newspaper says it has been told by a spokesman for the Taliban that the girl was targeted for spreading "anti-Taliban and 'secular' thoughts among the youth of the area." Malala, Dawn says, was "hit by couple of bullets to her neck and head." While hospitalized, she is said to be "out of danger." She may, though, need to be sent overseas for treatment.
The Taliban reportedly say they'll target her again.

As Philip reminds us, "Malala is a national figure. She lives in Swat Valley and was there several years ago when the Taliban took control and began burning down girls' schools. The Pakistani army rolled in, in 2009, to retake the area. Malala wrote an anonymous diary, broadcast on the BBC, about life under the Taliban. She advocated education for girls, and defied the militants' ban on this by secretly going to school with her books hidden in her clothes. Her bravery was recognized last year when she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize."

SAN DIEGO( MOTHER gets 15 yrs in prison for beating 9 yr old to DEATH) Crystal Cardenas

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego mother who tortured her daughter with punches, kicks and insults for 17 months, until her blows killed the 9-year-old last year, was sent to prison Tuesday for a term of 15 years to life.

Elizabeth Holloway is shown on Christmas Eve 2010 at a family party. The 9-year-old died Jan. 17, 2011, after a blow to her body by her mother, Crystal Cardenas. — Family photo

Willie Holloway Jr. speaks in San Diego Superior Court on Tuesday during the sentencing of his daughter's mother, Crystal Cardenas, in the girl's killing. Elizabeth Holloway was 9 when she died. — K.C. Alfred

San Diego Superior Court Judge Eugenie Eyherabide sentenced Crystal Cardenas, 27, for the second-degree murder of Elizabeth Holloway.

 

Faced with a torrent of scorn and anger from family members in the downtown courtroom, Cardenas bowed her head and cried at times.

Elizabeth’s father, Willie Holloway Jr., wiped tears from his eyes, looked at Cardenas and told her, “I don’t know how you could do this to her. I just want justice. I’m going to leave it in God’s hands.”

He then turned and bolted from the room.

His father, Willie Holloway Sr., told the judge he felt partly to blame for not knowing what was happening to his granddaughter.

“Who would stoop that low to do that,” he said.

TUCSON Az ( ROAD Rage man DIES SHOT) Gotham city -Police need help

An incident of road rage was elevated to a homicide case overnight when a man died of injuries from the Oct. 4 shooting.
David Uribe, 22, died Monday night at a local hospital. Tucson Police Department investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in the shooting, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson police spokeswoman.

The night of the shooting, Uribe was a passenger in a white pickup truck headed west on East 22nd Street about 7:30 p.m. When the driver stopped at the intersection of 22nd Street and South Tucson Boulevard the occupants of a red passenger car “began to engage in an altercation with the occupants of the white pickup truck,” said Hawke, who did not know the nature of the confrontation.
Both vehicles continued in the same direction and near the intersection of East 21st Street and South Highland Avenue someone in the red car shot at the pickup truck. More shots were fired near the intersection of East 21st Street and South Mountain Avenue before the red car sped away.
Anyone with information can call 911 or 88-CRIME.

DALLAS ( Mother who SUPER glued 2 yr old to wall) Faces Life in prison

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas woman who super-glued her 2-year-old daughter's hands to a wall also beat the girl so badly that she suffered bleeding on her brain, a doctor testified Monday during the mother's sentencing hearing.

Elizabeth Escalona faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty in July to attacking her daughter, Jocelyn Cedillo, last September. Police say the 23-year-old mother attacked the toddler due to potty training problems.

UPDATE : Judge throws book at her (99 years in prison) justice served.

During a sentencing hearing that began Monday, prosecutors presented gruesome photos and details of the attack.

Jocelyn was hospitalized for about one week with injuries that included bleeding on her brain, a fractured rib, severe bruises and others likely caused by direct blows, according to Dr. Amy Barton, a former child abuse specialist at Children's Medical Center of Dallas.

"When I think about the time involved in that and what that scene must have looked like, it's overwhelming," Barton said.

Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Abel Lopez, who interviewed Escalona after the attack, showed a bottle of super glue taken out of the family's apartment as well as a section of an apartment wall with Jocelyn's handprints.

The sentencing hearing is scheduled to continue Tuesday. Escalona's attorney, Angie N'Duka, said she hadn't decided if her client would take the stand. A state district judge will decide her punishment.

MEXICO (Salvador Alfonso Martinez ARRESTED) Los Zetas "The Squirrel"

The Navy presented Salvador Alfonso Martínez Escobedo, "Ardilla", alleged regional commander of Los Zetas in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, considered responsible for more than 320 executions, including those of the narcofosas of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, and the "release" of than 280 inmates in the last two years.

During their presentation in the la Subprocuraduría de Investigación Especializada (SIEDO), Martinez Escobedo spent time 'mugging" to mass media

The zeta leader, arrested on October 6 in Nuevo Laredo, hours after an attack on Marines in the city, had been imprisoned in Veracruz in 2008, but was released by a group of assassins, reappearing the same year in the dispute for the places of Durango and Chihuahua.

Martinez Escobedo, 31 years of age, is held responsible for killing with his own hands 50 people in several States of the country, as well as the recent "release" of 131 inmates of the criminal of Piedras Negras and the 151 prisoners of prison again Laredo, so far largest evasion in criminal in the country.

TUCSON Az (Man Capsized Boat) Night Fishing-Rescued by Fire Department

A 58-year-old man was rescued by firefighters after he fell into Kennedy Park Lake Sunday while night fishing.
Several 911 calls were received about 6:30 p.m. from the park reporting that someone out on the lake was yelling for help, said Capt. Jeff Langejans, a Tucson Fire Department spokesman.
Firefighters arrived within four minutes to the lake at the park, 3700 S. Mission Road, and learned that a man had lost his only oar and when he tried to grab it from the water he fell into the lake, Langejans said.

When he tried to climb back into the boat, the boat capsized and the man held onto the boat and began yelling for help, said Langejans.
One firefighter put on a floatation device and swam out to the man who was about 50 feet from the shoreline. The firefighter aided the man and both made it back to shore, Langejans said.
The rescue took eight minutes. The man, who did not suffer any injuries, was treated at the scene, and firefighters assisted him in getting home, Langejans said.
Langejans said water activities should not be done alone. He said if no one had heard the man yelling for help, the incident "could have resulted in a tragic ending."