John Devine 6 years Old & Jon'Tee Devine 5 Years Old

John Devine and Jon'Tee Devine

 

July 15, 2012

 

Louisville, KY

 

Shot to Death

 

The father of two young boys confessed to shooting their mother to death in the great room of her Pleasure Ridge Park home early Sunday morning, then going upstairs to their bedroom and killing his sons as they slept, police said Tuesday.

John Devine, 35, shot himself in the chest after the slayings, said Lt. Barry Wilkerson, commander of the Louisville Metro Police Homicide Unit.

Devine is currently in University Hospital, where he is being guarded by police until he is well enough to be booked into Jefferson Metro Corrections on three counts of murder and one count of burglary, Wilkerson said.

 

 

Mother, 2 sons shot to death in PRP

by Johnny Archer WHAS11.com

Posted on July 15, 2012 at 1:41 PM

 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- A woman and her two young sons were found shot to death inside a Pleasure Ridge Park home early Sunday morning.

The woman and her two sons were identified as 26-year-old Sade Goldsmith, six-year-old John Devine, Jr. and five-year-old Jon'tee Devine. The official cause of death will not be released until Monday, when the autopsies are complete.

“It’s mind blowing,” said David McPhail, who lives near the shooting. “[It’s] mind blowing and sad.”

The Crime Scene Unit along with Metro homicide detectives filled the 6100 block of Maravian Drive off the Greenbelt Highway. Caution tape blocked off the home where neighbors say the victims moved in recently.

“They’ve only lived there a couple of weeks as far as I know,” said one neighbor, Tracie Julius. “The people that lived there previously, I know them. I worked with the woman. They’ve been gone probably a year.”

Family says 36-year-old John Devine, who was also shot, is at University Hospital in critical, but stable, condition at this time. According to family, he is the father of the two boys who were shot and killed.

The four people were found shot just before 6 a.m. Sunday in a neighborhood that locals say is generally peaceful.

“It’s quiet around here,” said McPhail. “Nothing goes on. Nothing happens.

McPhail says he saw the two boys playing just a few days ago.

“My cousin had told me what happened and I was shocked because I saw them playing outside the day before yesterday,” said McPhail. “And now they’re gone. It’s crazy."

Police are not commenting on a possible motive and are not ruling out any possibilities. They say they are not looking for any suspects.

 

 

Father admits to murdering family, confesses after surviving shooting self in chest

 

by Renee Murphy WHAS11.com

Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:04 PM

   

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Police have charged John Devine with murder and burglary in the PRP triple murder.

At the LMPD press conference held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., police say John Devine has been charged with three counts of murder and one of count burglary in the PRP triple murder case.
Police say Devine broke in and shot his ex-girlfriend Sade Goldsmith and their 6-year-old son John and their 5-year-old son Jon'tee over the weekend.

"The anger built up and it was just one moment where it occurred. He didn't go into great detail of all the specifics in the interrogation interview," said Lt. Barry Wilkerson, LMPD Homicide Commander.

The children were sleeping upstairs when they were shot.
"It appears Ms. Goldsmith was shot in the front door. He made entry through the back door. She was found in the great room area and the two children were up in the bedroom area," said Wilkerson.

Police say Devine shot himself in the chest after killing his family. He survived and confessed to police.

Goldsmith's family believed Devine was behind the crimes.

Police say Devine and Goldsmith had a history of domestic violence.

Neighbor's tell WHAS that Goldsmith recently got an alarm system for her house, that's how police were first alerted to the shootings.

Devine is still in the hospital and police are not sure when he will be released to jail.

 

 

Charges filed in triple slaying in Louisville

Posted: 07/18/2012  By: Associated Press

 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville police say a man has been charged with fatally shooting his two boys and their mother.

Police spokeswoman Officer Carey Klain said Tuesday that 36-year-old John Devine is charged with three murder counts and one count of burglary. Devine is accused of breaking into a home in south Louisville early Sunday and killing the boys and their mother.

Officers found the bodies of 26-year-old Sade Goldsmith and her children, 6-year-old John Devine Jr. and 5-year-old Jon'Tee Devine. Police say they found John Devine with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Devine underwent surgery and remains hospitalized.

Police say Devine broke into the back door and shot Goldsmith by the front door near the living room.

Police say he then went upstairs and shot the boys while they were in bed together.

 

 

 

Man accused of killing ex-girlfriend, 2 children appears in court

by WHAS11 WHAS11.com

Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:05 PM

   

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- For the first time a Louisville mother came face to face with the man accused of killing her daughter and young grandchildren.

John Devine was in court Monday morning and was greeted by the victim's family.

Louisville mother Donna Kaye held up pictures of her 6-year-old and 5-year-old grandsons. When Devine looked back that was the first thing he saw.

Kaye says it's something she plans to do at every court appearance. These are the most recent pictures of 6-year-old John Devine Junior and 5-year-old Jontee. Brothers till the end.

 

 

 

Bernard James Revell 7 Years Old

Bernard James Revell

 

 

7-year-old

 

July 6, 2012

 

Brooklyn, NY

 

Beaten with a Hammer

 

Tenika Revell, from New York, has been charged with beating her son, Bernard James Revell, 7, to death with a hammer, because she didn’t want to anyone else to raise him after her death. When dropping appliances into his bathwater didn’t work, Tenika Revell, 40, beat her son Bernard with a hammer, choked him with her hands, plastic bag and a belt in their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment. The mother, dying of breast cancer, tried to kill herself by taking pills after brutally murdering her son. Tenika was ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam and is due back in court next month.

 

 

 

Heartbroken boyfriend says Brooklyn mother didn't want anyone else to raise her 7-year-old son, so that's why she killed him

Tenika Revell charged with beating her son Bernard to death with a hammer. Terrace Johnson says Revell believes she is dying from breast cancer.

By Barry Paddock / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS                                                                                                        Sunday, July 8, 2012, 11:00 PM

The monster mom who beat her 7-year-old son to death believes she is dying from breast cancer — and didn’t want anyone else to raise her boy, according to her longtime boyfriend.
 
“She loved him so much she didn’t want nobody else to have him,” Terrace Johnson said of his longtime girlfriend Tenika Revell, who killed her son Bernard — bashing his head with a hammer — Friday in their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment. She took pills to try and kill herself, but survived.
“She didn’t want her mother or none of them to get Bernard.”
 
Johnson, a newspaper deliveryman, met Revell when Bernard was an infant.
 
“I raised him,” he told the Daily News before showing off Father’s Day cards from the doomed boy. “She took my boy away from me.”
 
About a year after they got together, Revell’s angry side began to emerge, he said. She had done two stints in prison before meeting him after being convicted of attempted robbery and attempted burglary.
 
“I just took the bitter with the sweet,” Johnson said. “I took a gamble.”
 
Revell, 40, took medication for anger management, Johnson said. But her mental health declined rapidly after getting pregnant with his child last year, then having to abort the pregnancy because of her spreading cancer.
 
“That’s when she started really going downhill,” Johnson said. He speculates Revell may have resumed her crack habit, but insists she was a good mother to Bernard, her only child. He would scold her for buying the boy video games and scooters when she couldn’t pay the bills.
 
“She’d spoil him rotten,” Johnson said. “She went all out.”
 
But he admits she was erratic.
 
“She never hit this kid,” he said. “She’d curse at him and yell at him.”
 
Johnson spoke to Revell on the phone the day she killed her child. “She told me, ‘It’s hot, I’m not going outside. Me and Bernard are going to stay inside,’” he recalled.
 
He called later in the day, but no one picked up. “She wouldn’t answer the phone,” he said. “That was strange.”
 
She called him back about 8:15 p.m. He noticed she was breathing heavily. He asked to chat with the boy and she said he was sleeping. “He’s very energetic,” Johnson said. “He’s not one to be sleeping all the time.”
 
When he asked more questions, she grew angry and hung up on him.
 
Later, he would learn that she had already confessed the crime to her mother in Florida. “Tenika called her mother around 7:30 and told her mother that she killed Bernard and was on her way to killing herself,” Johnson said.
 
Revell called 911 and calmly confessed just before 11 p.m. Friday, cops said. Johnson didn’t know the boy was dead until the next morning, when he came to visit and saw the news cameras and police tape.
 
Revell, facing charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child, was awaiting arraignment while continuing to be treated at Woodhull Hospital Sunday.
 
“She took his life,” Johnson said.
 
“She’s got to live with that for the rest of her life.”

‘Dying’ Mom Allegedly Kills Son, 7, Because She Wanted No One Else To Raise Him"

Jul 9, 2012  ByTerrell Jermaine Starr   Newsone.com

 

Brooklyn mom Tenika Revell has been charged with beating her 7-year-old son, Bernard James Revell (pictured), to death with a hammer because she believes she is dying and didn’t want anyone else to raise him after her death, the New York Daily News reports.

 
Tenika’s longtime boyfriend, Terrance Johnson, believes she killed her only child because she believed she is dying from cancer.
 
“She loved him so much she didn’t want nobody else to have him,” Terrace Johnson said of his longtime girlfriend Tenika Revell, who killed her son Bernard — bashing his head with a hammer — Friday in their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment. She took pills to try and kill herself, but survived.
 
“She didn’t want her mother or none of them to get Bernard.”
 
The Tenika, who completed two stints in prison on burglary and robbery charges, was dealing with a number of mental health issues before killing Bernard. Johnson said she also had an “angry side.” But he insists that she showed all of the signs of a good mother. Johnson says that she would buy toys for the boy, even when she couldn’t pay other bills.
 
Johnson spoke to Tenika on the day that she reportedly killed the boy and says her behavior was suspicious. At first, she told him that she and Bernard were staying inside because of the heat. But later phone calls raised his eyebrows.
 
The Daily News has more:

He called later in the day, but no one picked up. “She wouldn’t answer the phone,” he said. “That was strange.”
She called him back about 8:15 p.m. He noticed she was breathing heavily. He asked to chat with the boy and she said he was sleeping. “He’s very energetic,” Johnson said. “He’s not one to be sleeping all the time.”
When he asked more questions, she grew angry and hung up on him.
Later, he would learn that she had already confessed the crime to her mother in Florida. “Tenika called her mother around 7:30 and told her mother that she killed Bernard and was on her way to killing herself,” Johnson said.
Revell called 911 and calmly confessed just before 11 p.m. Friday, cops said. Johnson didn’t know the boy was dead until the next morning, when he came to visit and saw the news cameras and police tape.

The mother has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child. She is being treated at a New York City hospital and awaiting arraignment.
“She took his life,” Johnson said. “She’s got to live with that for the rest of her life.”

 

Killer ma tried electrocution first, say cops

ROCCO PARASCANDOLA    NYDAILYNEWS.COM

Thursday, July 12, 2012

 

The fatal beating endured by a 7-year-old Brooklyn boy was his cancer-stricken mother’s backup plan after an attempt to electrocute him failed, police sources said.

When dropping appliances into his bathwater didn’t work, Tenika Revell, 40, beat her son Bernard with a hammer and choked him with her hands and belt in their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment on Friday.

Revell, who is charged with murder, killed the boy in a desperate bid to spare him the tough life she has endured since being dumped in the streets at about the same age, her lawyer says.

 

She called 911 and told the dispatcher she had killed her child and taken pills in a failed bid to end her own life.

Her neighbors were stunned, describing her as a doting mom who referred to Bernard as “Little B.”

Police sources said Revell had at least 33 prior arrests, including several for prostitution. Revell, who used several aliases, served two separate stints in prison after being convicted of attempted robbery and attempted burglary, records show.

 

Trevor Reynolds 14 Years Old

Trevor Reynolds

July 5, 2012

 

Springfield, MO

 

Shot to Death

A man from Springfield is charged with first-degree murder for the death of his 14-year-old stepson at their home on Thursday afternoon. Falecha Jones, the man's wife and boy's mother, told police she believes William R. Jones shot her son while he was sleeping. The victim was Trevor Reynolds. Jones, 64, is in the Greene County Jail in lieu of a $250,000 bond.

 

 

Man is accused of killing 14-year-old stepson while he slept

Trevor Reynolds, 14, was shot in the chest at his home on Thursday afternoon.

July 06, 2012|by Mike Landis, KY3 News | mlandis@ky3.com

 

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A man from Springfield is charged with first-degree murder for the death of his 14-year-old stepson at their home on Thursday afternoon. Falecha Jones, the man's wife and boy's mother, told police she believes William R. Jones shot her son while he was sleeping.

The victim was Trevor Reynolds. Jones, 64, is in the Greene County Jail in lieu of a $250,000 bond.
City police say Trevor was shot in the chest at 1421 E. Livingston St. Police got the call about the shooting about 1:30 p.m. Thursday from Trevor's mother. Officers had been at the home for reports of disturbances twice on Wednesday night.

According to the probable cause statement used as the basis of the charge, Falecha Jones told police that William didn't like one of Trevor's friends and was mad because the friend was at their home on Wednesday.

The first disturbance that police checked on Wednesday occurred because the friend was in the home. Falecha said she took both boys to a different location. Later, after she and Trevor returned, her son apologized to his stepfather, but they started arguing later.

 

During that second argument, William had a handgun and Falecha said he threatened to kill Trevor. When police arrived that time, they took away a handgun and a rifle -- and Falecha said she thought William had no more guns. She took Trevor to a motel to get him away from William.

After she and Trevor returned to the home on Thursday morning, Falecha told police, the boy and man had no problems. Both went to their respective bedrooms and Falecha said she fell asleep watching television. She said she was awakened by a loud noise that sounded like a firework.

Falecha said she saw William standing in Trevor's bedroom hold a smoking gun. She said she saw blood on Trevor's shirt, lifted the shirt and saw a hole in his chest. She said William walked out of the room, set down the gun, and sat down and smoked a cigarette.

Trevor died at the scene. Police say they found the gun in a plastic bag on the kitchen counter.
Trevor was a 9th grader at Central High School this past school year. Counselors were at the school on Friday to be available to students grieving his death.

Update: 14-Year-Old Killed, Man Arrested in Springfield Shooting

By: KOLR10 Newsroom Updated: July 5, 2012 Updated at 4:55 p.m.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Police are investigating the shooting death of a 14-year-old in northeast Springfield Thursday afternoon.

Officers were called to 1421 E. Livingston around 1:15 p.m. That's just south of I-44 between National and Glenstone Avenues.

A man in his 60s was handcuffed and taken away from the scene shortly after KOLR/KOZL crews arrived at the scene.

A family friend says the victim is Trevor Reynolds, 14, who lived at the home with his mother and stepfather. The family friend says her son was best friends with Trevor, and Trevor had been fighting lately with his stepfather.

"His mom Felicia had called in and said, 'Trevor was shot and wasn't moving.' And then she called back and we were on the way over here and said Trevor was dead," said Melissa Earnhart.
Police confirm the death and are considering it suspicious, and have not filed charges against the man who's in custody.

"We can confirm that of the individuals here, several knew each other," said Cpl. Matt Brown. "We don't believe it to be a stranger incident. We're trying to find out who those people are and see if there was a stranger in the bunch."

There were several people inside the home; they're now being questioned by police.

Officers say they were familiar with the household and had been called there twice in the last 24 hours.

Springfield man who authorities say killed stepson to return to court

William Jones is charged in the shooting death of 14-year-old Trevor Reynolds

October 31, 2012|Posted by Chris Brewer, Digital Media Editor | E-mail: cbrewer@schurz.com / Twitter: @iamchrisbrewer

 

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield man accused of killing his stepson this summer will return to court today.

William Jones is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 14-year-old Trevor Reynolds.

Late last month, Jones pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Investigators say the teen and his stepfather were involved in a number of arguments in the days leading up to the shooting.

They say Jones shot Reynolds once in the chest while the teen was sleeping.

 

Tynisha Carlton 15 months old

Tynisha Carlton

Nov 27, 2007 - March 2, 2009

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

Mildred Carlton had gone to Grady hospital Monday since she was having stomach and back pains most likely related to being pregnant. While she was gone she left her 15-month-old daughter in the care of her live-in boyfriend, 24-year-old Walter Caldwell. Walter is the father of her unborn child, but not her

15-month-old..

Apparently Walter called Mildred Carlton the day and was very vague in his explanation as to what was going on at her home in her absence.

He told her there was an accident with the baby and that he wasn’t in town.

When Mildred came home later that night at 11:30 she found her daughter on her bed, beaten to death, and Walter Caldwell nowhere to be found. She first called one of her roommates and then called 911.

According to the Fulton County Medical Examiner, Tynisha T. Carlton died from blunt force trauma to her torso. She also showed visible bruising on the right side of her face, but it was the harsh blows to her chest and stomach that actually killed her. Police obtained a murder warrant for Walter Caldwell and hunted him down.

 

 

Mom’s boyfriend arrested in toddler’s death

Girl’s beaten body was left on bed

By TIM EBERLY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Atlanta police arrested a 24-year-old man Tuesday evening on charges that he beat to death his girlfriend’s 15-month-old daughter.

Police arrested Walter Caldwell, 24, after he arranged to meet his girlfriend at Underground Atlanta’s food court, said Atlanta police Lt. Keith Meadows.

Caldwell is accused of killing Tynisha T. Carlton on Monday night while the mother, who is seven weeks pregnant, was at Grady Memorial Hospital seeking treatment of stomach and back pains.

The mother, Mildred Carlton, 28, said in a phone interview Tuesday night that Tynisha’s death had left her feeling suicidal.

“I feel hurt,” she said. “I feel like, if I’m by myself, I might wind up killing myself.”

Tynisha died from blunt force trauma to her torso, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. Tynisha also had visible bruising on the right side of her face, Meadows said.

While she went to the hospital, Carlton left her toddler daughter with Caldwell, the father of Carlton’s unborn child, but not Tynisha’s father. Four to five hours later, when Carlton returned home about 11:30 p.m., the door was unlocked and Caldwell was gone.

Carlton found Tynisha on her bed. She thought the child was asleep, she said, until she saw bruising on her face.

“When I touched her, she was real hard,” Carlton said in a phone interview Tuesday night.

She called another roommate and then called 911.

During the day Tuesday, Caldwell, who then was sought by police, called Carlton and told her the baby had an “accident,” Meadows said.

Carlton said she hadn’t noticed any prior abuse between Caldwell and Tynisha. While she worked, Caldwell routinely took care of her daughter, she said.

“She liked him,” Carlton said. “She played with him. She enjoyed him being around her.”

Seven people lived in the couple’s three-bedroom apartment in the 900 block of Conley Road, including another couple and their child and one of Carlton’s two sons.

The apartments are southeast of Hapeville and in the southeastern edge of Fulton County.

 

 

Trevor Noel Jr - 5 years & Lillian Noel 4 months

Trevor Noel, Jr., 5

Lillian Noel, 4-mons

 

 

July 5, 2012

 

Bronx, NY

 

Poisoning

 

Lisette Bamenga, 29, was arrested Saturday in the deaths of her 5-year-old son Trevor Noel Jr. and her 4-month-old daughter Lillian Noel. The children were found shortly before midnight Thursday when police responded to a 911 call of a gas leak. Authorities told CBS New York that Bamenga poisoned the children with windshield de-icing fluid before turning on the gas in her kitchen and slashing her wrists. The two children were pronounced dead at the scene, while Bamenga was rushed to a nearby hospital. Police said she left a note and was attempting a murder-suicide.

 

 

 

 

Lisette Bamenga, NYC mother, arrested for allegedly poisoning 2 kids in double murder-attempted suicide, police say

July 9, 2012 11:29 AM By Casey Glynn  Topics  Daily Blotter  CBSnews.com

 

(CBS/WCBS/AP) NEW YORK - Police say a woman who turned on the gas in her Bronx apartment and slit her own wrists has been arrested in the deaths of her two children.
Lisette Bamenga, 29, was arrested Saturday in the deaths of her 5-year-old son Trevor Noel Jr. and her 4-month-old daughter Lillian Noel.
 
The children were found shortly before midnight Thursday when police responded to a 911 call of a gas leak
.
Authorities told CBS New York that Bamenga poisoned the children with windshield de-icing fluid before turning on the gas in her kitchen and slashing her wrists. The two children were pronounced dead at the scene, while Bamenga was rushed to a nearby hospital.
 
Police said she left a note and was attempting a murder-suicide.
 
Witnesses told CBS New York that they were awakened by the strong smell of gas and heard the children's father, who the New York Daily News identified as rookie NYPD Officer Trevor Noel, banging on the door trying to get inside. Police said Balmenga was distraught over her relationship with the officer.
 
CBS New York reports that witnesses say the children's father lives in Bronx apartment as well.
Published reports say Bamenga was a city schoolteacher. The Daily News reports that she has been charged with two counts of murder.

 

 

Two Children Dead in Bronx Murder, Attempted Suicide

July 6, 2012, 12:41 PM ET   By Sean Gardiner

 http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/07/06/two-children-dead-in-a-murder-attempted-suicide-in-bronx/


A Bronx mother penned a suicide note then gave her two young children a fatal drink containing chemical de-icer before slitting her wrists and turning on the gas on her stove, authorities said.

Neighbors smelled the gas emanating from elementary school teacher Lisette Bamenga’s 9^th floor apartment inside 1500 Noble Ave. in the Bronx and notified building security officials, who called 911 around 11:55 p.m. Thursday. New York City firefighters and police officers responded and took down the locked door.

In the kitchen, they found Bamenga, 29 years old, unconscious on the floor with cut marks on her wrists. Near the mother were the bodies of her five-year-old son, Trevor Noel, and four-month-old daughter, Liliane Noel, officials said.

Authorities also found a note the mother wrote stating that she was taking her children “to a better place,” according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the incident.

That official said Bamenga gave her children the de-icer to drink before unsuccessfully attempting to kill herself. She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she is in stable condition.

Bamenga just completed her first year as a teacher at Public School 58 in Brooklyn, according to the Department of Education. She previously taught from September 2005 to August 2006 at PS 58 in the Bronx.

The father of the two children, Trevor Noel, is a New York City police officer.
 

 

BX. mom 'poisoned' kids in suicide bid to get back at 'cheating' hubby: sources

By LARRY CELONA and JAMIE SCHRAM   NYpost.com

Last Updated: 8:02 AM, July 7, 2012 

 

A city schoolteacher, convinced her cop husband had cheated on her, allegedly murdered their two kids — poisoning them, then sealing their Bronx apartment’s windows with plastic before turning on the gas, sources told The Post yesterday.

Lissette Bamenga, 29 — who slit her wrists in a suicide attempt during the Thursday horror — believed Officer Trevor Noel had gotten another woman pregnant, and she allegedly wanted to punish him by killing 5-year-old Trevor Jr. and Liliane, who was just 4 months old, the sources said.

The children were declared dead at the scene. Bamenga was rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where she remained in stable condition.

 

“You got what you wanted,” she allegedly wrote in one of two suicide notes. “Me and the kids are in a better place now.”

Bamenga also wrote “DNR,” meaning “do not resuscitate,” for whoever found her in the gas-filled apartment at 1500 Noble Ave. in Parkchester.

Noel, who had just finished the night shift at Manhattan’s 28th Precinct, was unable to speak when he arrived at the scene.

Sources said Bamenga believed her husband fathered a child with a woman in Spain — and she was furious.

“In a jealous rage, his wife killed her children and then tried to kill herself,” a law-enforcement source said.

The ghastly final act, however, appeared carefully thought out.

First, Bamenga allegedly fed her kids juice spiked with a de-icer, which is colorless, odorless, sweet — and deadly. Police found a bottle containing de-icer in the apartment.

Then she slashed her wrists. But the wounds weren’t deep enough to be fatal.

Finally, she allegedly sealed off the windows of the ninth-floor apartment with plastic sheets and turned on the gas burners of the kitchen stove.

At around 11 p.m., another tenant called 911 to report the heavy smell of gas.

Firefighters knocked down the door, and EMS workers administered CPR to the 5-year-old on the floor of the apartment hallway, said Davis Rodriguez, 17, who lives on the same floor.

Another neighbor, Gwen Richardson, 71, said she saw Bamenga in the hallway surrounded by firefighters who were trying to get her to respond.

“I could hear them going, ‘Miss, Miss, can you hear me?’ ” Richardson said.

Bamenga, originally from France, moved to the United States from the Democratic Republic of the Congo about 12 years ago and eventually married Noel, 31.

Bamenga taught at PS 58 in The Bronx from 2005 to 2006 before giving birth to Trevor Jr. She returned to work, teaching at Brooklyn’s PS 58 last year while pregnant with their daughter.

 

 

Jada Williams 18 months old

Jada Williams

 

 

 

July 3, 2012

Jackson, MS

 

Child-Abuse

A statement released by JPD spokeswoman Colendula Green said officers responded to Central Mississippi Medical Center in reference to a deceased female child after doctors discovered severe bruising to the child’s body. Jada Williams was pronounced dead at the hospital. Green said the child’s mother, Jasmine Porter, 23, was arrested and charged with felony child abuse. After the autopsy was performed Wednesday and Jada’s death was ruled a homicide, the charges against Porter were upgraded to capital murder. In addition, a capital murder warrant has been issued for Johnny Williams, 28, who is Jada’s father.

 

 

 

Toddler dead, mother facing charges

18-month-old suffered severe bruising, police say

Published 8:09 AM CDT Jul 04, 2012 www.wapt.com

JACKSON, Miss. — A Jackson toddler is dead and her mother is facing charges, police said.

 

Jackson police were called to Central Mississippi Medical Center about 4 p.m. Tuesday. Investigators said 18-month-old Jada Williams was dead at the hospital. She had suffered severe bruising to her body, police said.

 

The child's mother, 23-year-old Jasmine Porter was arrested and charged with felony child abuse, police said.

An autopsy could determine if charges against Porter will be upgraded, police said.

Parents Charged with Capital Murder of Baby

By JFP Staff Last updated on Monday, July 9, 2012 1:24 p.m. CDT  

Jackson Free Press

The Jackson Police Department has charged the parents of deceased 18-month-old Jasmine Porter with capital murder. JPD sent the following verbatim statement this morning:

 

On July 3, 2012 @ approximately 4:00 pm, Precinct 1 officers responded to the Central Mississippi Medical Center (CMMC) in reference to a deceased female child (18 months old). It was discovered that the child had severe bruising to the body. The child’s mother (Jasmine Porter) was initially arrested and charged with Felony Child Abuse.

An autopsy was performed on July, 4, 2012 and the child’s death was ruled a homicide. The charges against the mother were upgraded to Capital Murder. A Capital Murder warrant was issued for the child’s father (Johnny Williams).

On July 6, 2012, Johnny Williams turned himself in to the Jackson Police Department on the Capital Murder warrant.

 

Victim

 

Jada Williams—18 months

Suspect

 

Jasmine Porter —23

Johnny Williams—28 

 

 

Bond denied for father charged in toddler's death

Parents accused in 18-month-old's death

UPDATED 3:01 PM CDT Jul 09, 2012 ww.wapt.com

 

JACKSON, Miss. —

A judge denied bond Monday for 28-year-old Jackson man charged in connection with the death of his 18-month-old daughter.

 

Johnny Williams surrendered to police Friday. He and the child's mother, 23-year-old Jasmine Porter, are charged with capital murder in connection with the death of their daughter, Jada Williams, police said.

Jada Williams was taken to Central Mississippi Medical Center last Tuesday, where she was pronounced dead, police said. She had suffered severe bruising to her body, police said.

 

Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham Stewart said an autopsy revealed indications of prior abuse, including burn scars she said were consistent with scalding from hot water.

Porter was denied bail during a hearing Thursday. She has denied the charges.

 

Aniyah Stephany Batchelor 2 Years Old

Aniyah Stephany Batchelor

 

 

July 3, 2012

Fort Washington, MD

 

Blunt Force Trauma

Police say a 12-year-old boy is being charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a 2-year-old foster child living with his family.

The boy is being charged as a juvenile and his name is not being released. Police spokeswoman Julie Parker says the boy's father called 911 Tuesday night to report the girl was unresponsive. The man performed CPR on the child, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital. Parker says an autopsy confirmed the child, identified as Aniyah Batchelor, died of blunt-force trauma. The 12-year-old, who lives in Fort Washington, was charged Wednesday and made his first appearance in court Thursday. He is being held at the Cheltenham Youth Facility.

 

12-Year-Old Charged In Toddler Aniyah Batchelor's Beating Death

07/05/12 04:24 PM ET

PALMER PARK, Md. — Police say a 12-year-old boy is being charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a 2-year-old foster child living with his family.

The boy is being charged as a juvenile and his name is not being released. Police spokeswoman Julie Parker says the boy's father called 911 Tuesday night to report the girl was unresponsive. The man performed CPR on the child, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Parker says an autopsy confirmed the child, identified as Aniyah Batchelor, died of blunt-force trauma. The 12-year-old, who lives in Fort Washington, was charged Wednesday and made his first appearance in court Thursday. He is being held at the Cheltenham Youth Facility.

 

Preteen arrested in fatal beating of toddler

A 12-year-old boy allegedly beat a 2-year-old foster child to death

Posted Fri, 2012-07-06 12:22 by admin s2smagazine.com

 

A 12-year-old Maryland boy is being charged with second-degree murder for the beating death of 2-year-old Aniyah Batchelor, Tuesday morning.

According to reports from The Washington Post, Aniyah, a foster child who had been living with the family, was beaten multiple times in a single incident and killed.

Prince George’s County police have not released a motive, but the Maryland Medical Examiner’s office confirmed that Aniyah died of blunt-force trauma.

The foster parents were not home when the tragedy took place, and had left the oldest of their biological children, a 15-year-old girl, in charge.

The father was summoned home and called 911 after finding Aniyah unconscious and unresponsive to CPR attempts. She was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

According to Aniyah’s mother, Stephany Cunningham, the toddler had been placed under the care of this foster family in November when (along with Cunningham’s other two children) Aniyah was taken by the state after an incident involving Stephany’s 3-year-old son who was scalded by a bathtub full of hot water.

The 12-year-old boy, who neighbors described as "the sweetest child you'd ever want to know," was charged on Wednesday and is currently being held nearby at the Cheltenham Youth Facility.

—Jacob Rohn



12-year-old charged with murder of toddler
By Paul Duggan and Ovetta Wiggins,

Jul 05, 2012 08:45 PM EDT

The Washington Post Published: July 5
A 12-year-old boy in Fort Washington has been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a 2-year-old girl who was staying with his family as a foster child under the supervision of social services officials, Prince George’s County police said.
The victim, Aniyah Batchelor, had been in foster care since November, according to her mother, Stephany Cunningham, who has two other children, both being cared for by other people. Aniyah, who turned 2 in March, had been placed with a family of five in a house in the 1800 block of Taylor Street, where she was beaten by the 12-year-old boy Tuesday, police spokeswoman Julie Parker said.

Parker would not say whether detectives had determined a motive for the attack, but she said the 12-year-old boy had “beaten the child repeatedly” in a single incident. No weapon was used, she said.
The foster parents, a man and a woman, were not at home at the time of the incident, Parker said. She said the parents have three biological children — girls ages 15 and 4, in addition to the 12-year-old boy — and that the older girl was in charge of the other youngsters when the beating occurred.

Without providing a specific timeline of events, Parker said the foster father “was summoned home” late Tuesday morning, after the beating, and found Aniyah unconscious. He called 911 at 12:09 p.m. As an ambulance headed to the house — a neatly kept brick-front split-level with red shutters and a small front lawn — the father tried to revive Aniyah with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Parker said.
The girl was pronounced dead at a hospital. After an autopsy Wednesday, Parker said, the Maryland medical examiner’s office concluded that the girl was a homicide victim and that the cause of death was blunt-force trauma. Shortly afterward, the boy was charged with second-degree murder.

Second-degree murder, or murder that is not premeditated, is a lesser crime than first-degree murder. Because the boy was charged as a juvenile, police declined to identify him, who they said is being held at the Cheltenham Youth Facility.

Cunningham, 25, of Landover said her other children are a 5-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy. Last fall, she said, she had custody of Aniyah and her other daughter, but her son was being cared for by a relative. Cunningham said she was living in an Adelphi apartment at the time. One day in November, she said, the relative brought the 3-year-old boy to visit her, and a horrible accident occurred.
Cunningham said someone — not her — mistakenly put the boy in a tub filled with scalding water while trying to give him a bath. “He got all burned,” she recalled, sobbing loudly on the phone. “His skin was coming off real bad.”

As a result of that incident, Cunningham said, a Prince George’s County judge removed the two girls from her custody. She said that the 5-year-old girl went to live with a foster family in the District and that Aniyah was placed with the family in Fort Washington.

Foster children in Prince George’s are the responsibility of the county’s Department of Social Services and its parent agency, the Maryland Department of Human Resources. Police referred all questions about the Fort Washington family to Pat Hines, a spokesman for the state human resources agency. Citing privacy rules, Hines would not discuss Aniyah or the foster parents’ history of caring for children under state supervision