OKLAHOMA ( 12 yr old Girl Home Alone shoots intruder )

Kendra St. Clair, 12, was at home alone in Oklahoma, when loud banging began on the door to her family's home. Soon, the glass shattered and an intruder had entered.
"I was scared and I didn't know what to do next," Kendra told ABC News.
Petrified, she called her mom Debra.
"I said Kendra get the gun and go get in my closet now. And call 911."
The young 6th grader followed her mom's orders to the tee.
The 911 tapes tell the story as it unfolded.
Kendra: "I'm at my house. I'm in my closet. And I ran away from (inaudible) someone's trying to get into my house and I do not know who they are." Dispatcher: "Ok I have a deputy en route, I want you to stay on the phone with me. Ok?" Kendra: "Ok. Please. I think they are in the house."

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Kendra St. Clare, 12-year-old Oklahoma girl, shoots an intruder during a home burglary.

Kendra had taken shelter in a closet, clutching her mother's .40 caliber glock gun while she listened to the intruder make his way around her home.

Kendra: "Please help me. Please." Dispatcher: "Alright, alright. I understand. Do you still have your mom's gun there?" Kendra: "Yes I do. I have it in my hand."
Her fear intensified to sheer terror, when she saw the knob of the closet door beginning to turn.
At that point, that for the first time in her life, Kendra fired a gun.
Police said the bullet traveled straight through the closet door and struck 32-year-old Stacey Jones in the shoulder, scaring him out of the house.
They arrested him a few blocks away and charged Jones with first degree burglary.
"When I had the gun, I didn't think I was actually going to have to shoot somebody," the 6th grader recalled. "I think it's going to change me a whole lot, knowing that I can hold my head up high and nothing can hurt me anymore."
Her mother Debra agrees.
"I think that she did something that most grown-ups wouldn't be able to do in a frightening situation. I think she handled herself amazingly."
Jones was treated at the hospital and released into the custody of authorities. Police said he has not yet entered a plea but that bond has been set for $250,000.

CHINA ( Man SUES wife for being UGLY and WINS ) Won 120,000

Divorces are never pretty, but this one is pretty ugly. A man from northern China divorced and sued his wife for being ugly. He won $120,000 in the lawsuit and has once again made the world question the validity of phrases like “marriage” and “love”.

The northern Chinese man, Jian Feng, married his wife and was reportedly absolutely in love with her. Soon, as will happen, she became pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl, which was when the problems arose for Feng.

He thought the baby was incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified him. The baby resembled neither of her parents, so Feng demanded to know who the father was, because jumping to conclusions about your wife’s faithfulness is the obvious thing to do when you have an ugly baby.

As it turns out, his wife didn’t cheat, but did gloss over the fact that she had spent $100,000 on intense plastic surgery to severely change how she looked before she met him. It’s the kind of thing that can slip your mind on the first date. After his wife revealed this to him, Feng took the only right-minded course of action and divorced and sued her, claiming that she got him to marry her under false pretences. The false pretence presumably being that she was good looking. Incredibly, the (presumably male) judge sympathized with Feng and he won $120,000 in the case.

It’s usually the victim of court cases that you’re supposed to feel sorry for, but it’s kind of difficult to feel sorry for the man who is angry at his beautiful wife for being ugly at some point in her life. If you’re going to feel sorry for anyone, feel sorry for their child, whom will forever be known as the baby that broke her parent’s marriage – with her face.

NEW York ( POLICE Officer arrested for plotting to kidnap,rape and torture )

NEW YORK (AP) -- A city police officer was charged Thursday with plotting to kidnap, rape, torture and kill women he had identified and catalogued on his computer, and then cook and eat their body parts.

Gilberto Valle sent numerous emails and other Internet communications about the ghoulish torture and cannibalism scheme, according to a criminal complaint. There was no information that any women harmed.

"I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus ... cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible," Valle allegedly wrote in one online exchange in July, the complaint says.

The officer was to appear later Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to face kidnapping charges. The name of his attorney was not immediately available.

A search of Valle's computer found he created records of at least 100 women with their names, addresses and photos, the complaint says. Some of the information came from his unauthorized use of a law enforcement database, authorities said.

"The allegations in the complaint really need no description from us," said Mary E. Galligan, acting head of the FBI's New York office. "They speak for themselves. It would be an understatement merely to say Valle's own words and actions were shocking."

There was no immediate response to a message left with the NYPD on Thursday.

Valle met one potential victim over lunch, authorities said.

The complaint alleges that in February, Valle negotiated to kidnap another woman for someone else, writing, "$5,000 and she's all yours."

It says he added: "I will really get off on knocking her out, tying up her hands and bare feet and gagging her. Then she will be stuffed into a large piece of luggage and wheeled out to my van."

Cellphone data revealed that Valle made calls on the block where the woman lives in March, the complaint says. An FBI agent interviewed the woman, who told them that she didn't know him well and was never in her home.

Valle, 28, lives in Queens. He had been assigned to a Manhattan precinct before his suspension on Wednesday.

ARIZONA ( Tom Horne Attorney General under investigation by FBI ) WOW !

Posted: Oct 24, 2012 5:10 PM PDTUpdated: Oct 24, 2012 5:37 PM PDT

By Phil Benson - email

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne

PHOENIX (CBS5) - Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has been ticketed following an investigation for a hit-and-run incident that happened March 27 in Phoenix.
Police cited Horne for one count of leaving the scene of a collision/unattended vehicle, a class three misdemeanor.
The hit-and-run happened about 12:45 p.m. at 202 W. Roosevelt St. and involved property damage only, according to officers.
The investigation was turned over to the Phoenix Police Department by the FBI on Oct. 1.
Horne said that he bumped into someone's bumper while in a downtown parking garage last March. He was driving a borrowed car. Horne said he didn't remember doing it but sent a letter about it to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery.
Horne released the following statement late Wednesday afternoon:

"Today, I have received from the Phoenix Police Department a misdemeanor citation alleging that I apparently caused minor paint damage to the bumper of an unattended parked vehicle while leaving a parking lot on March 27, 2012.

"I first learned of my possible involvement in this incident several months ago, and requested from investigating authorities the name of the owner of the vehicle so I could immediately pay for any damage I may have caused.

"For some unknown reason I received no response. Hopefully, I can now obtain this information or the owner will contact me so I can pay for any damage that I may have unknowingly caused."

The allegation came up during an FBI investigation into allegations that Horne had broken state campaign finance laws.
Montgomery announced several weeks ago the allegations in a planned civil enforcement action stem from the FBI investigation into $500,000 of spending by a group that was led by a Horne ally.
Horne said the allegations are completely false.

WALKER, LA ( 31 yr old man held for gruesome MURDER ) Jeff Reynolds

Officials with the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office says it was a gruesome scene. They responded to an emergency call on Milton Road in Walker, LA around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. They report that a kitchen knife was used to cut the woman's throat and sever her belly and then the baby was forcibly removed from her womb. She was about seven and a half months pregnant.

The woman survived, but the baby did not. At last check, the woman is in critical but stable condition. Her name has not been released. According to reports, when officers arrived on the scene, Reynolds was found kneeling over the victim.

 

Jeffery Reynolds, 31, has been charged with first-degree feticide and second-degree attempted murder.

Deputies and neighbors described the attack as vicious, but added it is hard to put into words.

"I have no words right now on how she must feel losing a child she was pregnant with," said Ana McDonald, whose parents live across the street from the victim. "I've carried a child. "You get attached and someone doing that, I can't explain how she feels right now."

"I've seen crime scenes before, but this one was very challenging," said Sheriff Jason Ard. "They all are, but this one was one that I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. We're doing everything we can to put all the pieces of the puzzle together, so this may take some time and try to get answers. We don't know motive or the cause. We just know we have a man that committed this crime."

Deputies said Reynolds was combative during the arrest. Steele said he did not suffer any injuries, but was taken to a hospital to be evaluated. A toxicology test was run on Reynolds, but the results have not come in yet.

Ard added he has no record of any problems from the home before Tuesday.

Reynolds is being held in the Livingston Parish Jail on a $500,000 bond.

LOS ANGELES ( Gang Member gets Life in Prison for Killing L.A County Deputy )

A gang member pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in the fatal shooting of an L.A. County sheriff's deputy in 2008 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Carlos Velasquez, 28, pleaded guilty to murder and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in the Aug. 2, 2008, slaying of Dep. Juan Abel Escalante, right. The plea was accepted by Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen.
Velasquez was originally charged with capital murder and could have faced the death penalty. He admitted he killed the deputy as he was leaving his parents' Cypress Park home to head to work at the Men's Central Jail.
Escalante was shot in the back of the head as he reached into his car to adjust a child’s car seat.
Deputy Dist. Attys. Phillip Stirling and John Colello say Velasquez wrongly believed he was killing a gang rival and shot the deputy numerous times.
After a joint investigation by the LAPD and the sheriff's department, Velasquez was arrested in December 2008. Three alleged members of the Cypress Park gang, Jose Renteria, Armando Albarran, and Roberto Salazar have also been charged in the killing and their trials are pending.

Escalante had been a member of the sheriff's department for 2½ years and had served in the Army Reserve. He worked at the Men's Central Jail guarding some of the county's most dangerous inmates.He and his family had been living with his parents while waiting to move into a new Pomona home.
The suspects are alleged members or associates of the notorious Avenues gang, which has long feuded with the Cypress Park gang, whose territory includes the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood where Escalante lived.
The Avenues is among the most powerful gangs in the city and retains strong ties to the Mexican mafia, known as the Eme, which is a dominant force in California prisons.
The Cypress Park neighborhood where Escalante grew up had experienced a lull in gang violence in recent years until rival groups began feuding in 2007. The violence led to a raid mostly targeting the Avenues gang by police and federal agents, who stormed an area around Drew Street, about a mile north of where Escalante was killed.

DOWNEY ( SHOOTING 4 people shot ) Business area -3 people fatally wounded

Downey police are investigating a shooting at a business in an industrial neighborhood Wednesday morning.
Authorities did not provide many details, noting that it remains an "active scene." KABC 7 reported that four people were shot. NBC 4 is reporting that there may be three people fatally wounded.

Dean Wright, owner of House of Wright next door, said many police are gathered outside the business, United States Fire Protection Services.
He did not hear gunfire, but was told that a woman was fatally wounded and another was injured.
“It’s just unbelieveable," Wright said. "It’s just horrible.”

EDIT   UPDATE
At least three people are dead and two others have been wounded in shootings in Downey, according to Downey Fire Department Capt. Robert Hohn.
The events surrounding the shooting are unclear, but authorities are working two active crime scenes on Cleta Avenue. One is a home and the other is a business. It is unclear whether the two incidents are related.