Jeremiah Blanks is an alleged killer who has been charged with the murder of former Clemson wide receiver Diondre Overton in Greensboro North Carolina last month
According to police reports Diondre Overton was visiting his hometown of Greensboro when he was fatally shot at what has been described as a loud party.
Police in North Carolina working with US Marshals would announce the arrest of Jeremiah Blanks in Michigan
Jeremiah Blanks will be extradited back to North Carolina to face murder charges
Police are still trying to figure out what was the motive behind the fatal shooting
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A 20-year-old man was arrested in Michigan and charged with first-degree murder in last month’s fatal shooting of former Clemson receiver Diondre Overton, police in North Carolina said Tuesday.
Jeremiah Diago Blanks is believed to have slain Overton at a gathering in the former player’s hometown of Greensboro, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Guilford County Sheriff Danny H. Rogers said detectives traveled to Michigan and got help from the U.S. Marshals Service in arresting Blanks.
Police did not disclose further information about Blanks or a potential motive for the slaying. He was being held in the Oakland County Jail in the Detroit suburb of Pontiac, Michigan, pending extradition to North Carolina.
Overton, 26, was found on the morning of Sept. 7 after deputies responded to reports of a loud party. He was given medical care but died at the scene.
Overton played for Clemson from 2016 to 2019 and was part of national title teams after the 2016 and 2018 seasons.
He had 52 catches for 777 yards and seven touchdowns for the Tigers.
News of Overton’s death came a few hours before the Tigers’ 66-20 victory over Appalachian State on Sept. 10. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney stopped to pay tribute at Overton’s plaque during the team’s entrance to the stadium.
“He truly was one of the sweetest, spirited kids that we’ve had come through here and, again, truly a great teammate,” Swinney said that night.
Megan Sattizahn is an alleged killer from North Carolina who has been charged with the murder of her nine month old daughter
According to police reports Megan Sattizahn was seen walking around naked in her neighborhood and someone called 911. When police arrived they would follow Megan back to her home where they would discover the body of nine month old Samantha Sattizahn
When questioned by police Megan Sattizahn would admit to murdering her daughter which she described as a mercy killing. Sattizahn would also admit to attempting to kill the little girl months before by poisoning her
Megan Sattizahn would be arrested and has been charged with murder
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A mother has been arrested and charged in the death other 9-month-old daughter, Samantha Sattizahn.
On Friday July 12th, around 4:54 a.m. deputies with the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of suspicious person near Section House Road.
Upon arrivals, detectives say they encountered a woman, identified as Megan Sattizahn who appeared disoriented. Deputies say they followed this woman to her residence on Tanglewood Drive.
When deputies arrived, they discovered a 9-month-old infant dead inside of the residence.
A news release confirmed that the infant was the daughter of Sattizahn.
Deputies say foul play is suspected. Foul play is suspected. Sheriff’s Investigators are consulting with the District Attorney’s Office and are awaiting autopsy results.
Sattizahn was admitted to a local hospital at the time of the suspected murder.
As a result of the investigation, Sattizahn has been charged with murder, and is being held in the Catawba County Detention facility under no bond.
Megan Sattizahn has her first appearance in Catawba County District Court on July 22nd
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A woman has been arrested and charged with murder for the death of her 9-month-old daughter in Catawba County.
Megan Stack Sattizahn, 39, is in the Catawba County jail with no bond. She’s accused of killing her daughter, Samantha Sattizahn, on July 12
Channel 9 has learned that mother was also involved in a 2017 nationwide search involving another daughter that started in the Charlotte area.
Authorities were called around 5 a.m. that day for a suspicious person walking without clothing on Section House Road, north of Conover. They found Sattizahn, who seemed to be disoriented. She ran off and they followed her to a nearby home along Tanglewood Drive and found the baby girl’s body inside.
Deputies said Sattizahn was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation. They announced her arrest on Friday, seven days after they were called to the home.
According to court documents, Sattizahn admitted to deputies that she killed her daughter, describing it as a “mercy killing.” The search warrant also describes how Sattizahn allegedly tried to poison her daughter back in December saying “God told her to,” but that attempt was never reported to authorities.
Back in 2017, Sattizahn, who went by Megan Stack, was accused of picking up her 8-year-old daughter from elementary school and then couldn’t be located for days. At the time, police said Megan Stack’s emotional state and recent behavior left them with serious concerns for their safety.
Days later, mother and daughter were found safe in Missouri.
Channel 9′s Dave Faherty tried to talk with Sattizahn’s husband on Friday but he declined to comment. He also reached out to the Department of Social Services to see if they’ve had any involvement in the case after what happened in Charlotte.
Sattizahn is scheduled for a first court appearance on Monday.
Avantae Deven is an alleged killer from North Carolina who has been charged in the murders of her two adopted children
According to police reports officers in Fayetteville North Carolina had been investigating Avantae Deven as her two adopted children had not been seen in years. After the investigations the officers declared that the two children, Blake Deven, 15, had not been seen since 2022 and London Devne had not been scene since 2019
Social workers would interview the other three children in the home who spoke of the abusive treatment they had suffered at the hands of Avantae Deven
Avantae Deven has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of concealment of death, one count of kidnapping related to London Deven’s death, and two counts of felony child abuse related to Blake Deven’s death
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A 63-year-old North Carolina woman accused of abusing two of her adopted children has been charged in their deaths.
The two children, Blake and London Deven, haven’t been seen for years.
Fayetteville police say evidence shows they are both deceased.
Avantae Deven was arrested on Wednesday. She’s facing charges that include first-degree murder, concealment of death, kidnapping and child abuse.
Investigators say the abuse included starvation.
London was last seen in 2019, but police say her adoptive mother never reported her missing.
Blake hasn’t been seen since 2022, but Deven didn’t report him missing until earlier this year.
Deven is being held at the Cumberland County Detention Center without bond.
The woman said she hadn’t seen her son for over a year.
“He told me he was going to a Buddhist retreat and never called back,” she told the emergency dispatcher in a recently released 911 call.
That call was made in January. Now, her son has been missing for 632 days.
In an over eight-minute recording punctuated with sighs, a story peppered with inconsistencies emerges in the 911 call. The woman, 63-year-old Avantae Deven, first says her 17-year-old son disappeared a year ago, then says it was “around the holidays” between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2022. She later says she doesn’t have the phone number he last called her from, or even the phone where she received the call.
Police would eventually find that by the time she first made a missing person’s call on Jan. 19, 2024, that boy — Blake Deven of Fayetteville — had been missing since Aug. 1, 2022. The Fayetteville Police Department announced his disappearance in a March 28 news release. A week later, the case got a new twist: Police announced a female relative of Blake’s, 27-year-old London Deven, was also missing.
And then one more revelation: Police announced on April 12 that skeletal remains were discovered at an undisclosed location during the investigation. Investigators say they are awaiting test results from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that may identify the deceased.
As the search for them approaches the one-month mark, Cumberland County residents are asking: what happened to Blake and London?
Who’s involved
According to Fayetteville Police Department news releases, court documents and police reports, the key people tied to the case include:
Blake Deven, 17, the adopted son of Avantae Deven. He has not been seen since Aug. 1, 2022.
London Deven, 27, a “female relative” of Blake. According to the incident report, she has not been seen since June 6, 2019, with the most recent photo available to investigators dating back to 2007, when London was about 12. London’s age was initially listed in news releases as 28, but Chief Kemberle Braden clarified she is 27 in a press conference earlier this month. Police have so far declined to clarify how she is related to Blake.
Avantae Deven, 63, the adoptive mother of Blake and London. Police said her family relocated to Fayetteville in 2015, although it’s not clear from where or why.
Leonie Maxwell, 95, the mother of Avantae Deven. Court records show she has been placed in the custody of Cumberland County Adult Protective Services after Avantae Deven failed to respond to multiple contact attempts by officials from Cape Fear Valley Hospital, where Maxwell is currently in the ICU. Records show Maxwell lives with her daughter at her Berriedale Drive home in Fayetteville.
What we know
Before the Devens moved to Fayetteville, it appears Avantae Deven was living in Buncombe County — IRS tax records show her living in Enka, an unincorporated community there, while she was the registered agent for a nonprofit called the Infinity Institute from 2011 to 2016.
The Infinity Institute was established in Nevada by Robert Adams, a teacher of a philosophy of Hinduism called Advaita Vedanta, in 1996, according to the nonprofit’s website and Nevada state records.
Property records show an LLC created in New Mexico owns Avantae Deven’s Berriedale Drive home. According to records from the New Mexico Secretary of State’s website, Avantae Deven registered the LLC, called Nelson & Johnson, under a Sedona, Arizona, address in September 2016. The LLC’s purpose was listed as “gatherings for various artists [sic] showings and book sharing/readings.”
According to police records, the first chapter in the Deven family mystery came to light Jan. 19, 2024, when Avantae Deven called 911 at 1:17 p.m. to report her teenage son was missing.
“I need to file a missing person’s report,” she tells the dispatcher.
Avantae Deven goes on to say that her 17-year-old son, who will turn 18 on May 10, 2024, is missing. She describes him as white with “blondish-brown” hair but adds that she can’t recall what he was last wearing, according to a recording of the 911 call.
She last saw him a year ago, she guesses.
“It was around the holidays, after December,” Avantae Deven says. “It was between Thanksgiving and December.”
When the operator asks if Avantae Deven thinks her son has run away, she replies that she believes he has.
“He is generally religious, and he used to go back and forth about a Buddhist retreat, and meditation, things like that,” Avantae Deven says. “My daughter did that once for six months, and she called, so I thought, OK. He’s very independent and high-strung and very bossy, so it’s not very unlikely of his character.”
Avantae Deven tells the operator her son doesn’t have any medical or mental health conditions, apart from being diagnosed with static encephalopathy when he was younger. According to the Child Neurology Center, static encephalopathy is permanent brain damage often associated with exposure to alcohol in the womb.
Throughout the call, Avantae Deven struggles to answer the operator’s questions, saying she doesn’t know where Blake called her from but that he was last seen at a store “on Pamalee, Ramsey.” It’s unclear what store Avantae Deven was referring to. She says in the 911 call that she believes the store has closed since Blake’s disappearance.
An incident report tied to the case says Blake was last seen Aug. 1, 2022, at 1 p.m., meaning he would have been 16 at the time. The address on the report is for the Ramsey Street Walmart.
Police have not released any details about what transpired in the time between Avantae Deven’s report Jan. 19 and the Fayetteville Police Department’s first news release March 28, saying only that “several members of Blake’s family” reported they had not seen him in years during “a separate police investigation.”
Court records show Avantae Deven was also facing another problem at home: Her mother, Leonie Maxwell, 95, had sustained an anoxic brain injury in November 2023, rendering her nonverbal and nonresponsive and in need of “round-the-clock care.”
At some point, court records state, Maxwell was admitted to the cardiac ICU at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and placed on a ventilator.
“[Maxwell’s] daughter, Avantae Deven, has not been responding to calls from medical staff concerning necessary medical decisions for [Maxwell] since March 27, 2024,” a petition to place Maxwell in emergency protective care states. “Cape Fear Valley Medical Center sent a welfare check to Ms. Deven’s home on March 30, 2024 and no one answered the door.”
A next-of-kin listed for Maxwell also did not respond to calls, according to the petition.
That’s when DSS officials stepped in, requesting to temporarily make emergency decisions in Maxwell’s care and appoint her a guardian ad litem — a guardian chosen by the court — on April 10. That same day, court records show, DSS also asked the court to freeze Maxwell’s financial assets and grant officials permission to inspect her financial records.
“Upon information and belief, [Maxwell] has a bank account with Wells Fargo containing a sum in excess of $15,000,” the petition states. “[DSS] is unaware of the extent of [Maxwell]’s assets at this time; however, [Maxwell] is unable to resist financial exploitation and is in need of protective measures at this time.”
The order granting DSS’s request states officials believe Avantae Deven may have been financially exploiting her mother. The petition notes that Avantae Deven’s home “has been searched by law enforcement multiple times” in connection with London and Blake’s disappearances.
Reporters from CityView and The Fayetteville Observer were not allowed into a court hearing regarding Maxwell’s case Wednesday afternoon. Court officials said that particular courtroom is “always closed” for confidentiality reasons. An attorney with the North Carolina Press Association’s hotline told CityView keeping a courtroom perpetually closed is illegal, noting that a judge must issue a written order each time explaining why the courtroom should be closed.
What’s next
Police announced on April 12 skeletal remains were discovered on an undisclosed date at an undisclosed location — but confirmed they were not found at the Berriedale Drive home. The remains were sent to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for testing, according to a news release, which could take months. As the public awaits the results, the Fayetteville Police Department has largely kept quiet about the case.
Public Information Officer Rickelle Harrell declined to answer any questions sent by CityView Tuesday, writing, “[A]t this moment, the Fayetteville Police Department does not have any further information to provide regarding your inquiries. While it’s not easy to admit, it’s important to acknowledge that this investigation is still in progress.”
In response to questions sent by CityView, an FBI spokesperson said they did not “have anything to provide” beyond the Fayetteville Police Department’s news releases. Avantae Deven and the next-of-kin listed for Maxwell on court documents could not be reached for comment.
Tamyiah Anderson is an alleged killer from North Carolina who has been charged with the murder of Brendy Resendiz
According to police reports Tamyiah Anderson was allegedly driving her car drunk when she came upon a group of people. An altercation would take place between Anderson and the group
Tamyiah Anderson would get back into her vehicle and would drive straight at the group killing Brendy Resendiz and dragging another victim for some distance. Anderson would crash her vehicle into a mobile home and would soon be arrested
Now Tamyiah Anderson faces murder charges for the death of Brendy Resendiz as well as felony assault with a deadly weapon with the intention to kill
Tamyiah Anderson News
On Friday, June 21, 2024 at 10:48 p.m., Deputies and State Troopers responded to a traffic accident on the 2400 block of E. Simpson Rd., Green Level, N.C. Once on scene, Officers discovered that four people in the roadway had been struck by a vehicle.
The driver was identified as Tamyiah Lakerria Anderson. Deputies were told that Ms. Anderson drove to the E. Simpson Rd. residence where a physical altercation took place with other people there.
Witnesses told Deputies that Ms. Anderson then got into her vehicle and struck four pedestrians, two of whom were dragged by the vehicle killing Brendy Janet Garcia Resendiz, 22, of Graham. The other victim who was dragged was seriously injured. Two other victims had minor injuries.
Ms. Anderson crashed her car into a concrete barrier at a nearby mobile home park. Ms. Anderson was transported to the hospital where she was treated for minor injuries and released.
Both the ACSO and NCSHP charged Ms. Anderson with the following;
ACSO Charges
Name: Tamyiah Lakerria Anderson
Charges: 1ct: 2nd Degree Murder
3cts: Felony Assault With Deadly Weapon With Intent To Kill
NCSHP Charges
1ct: Driving While Impaired
1ct: Possession of Open Container of Alcohol
1ct: Resist, Delay, Obstruct Officer
1ct: Driving Left of Center
1ct: Seatbelt Violation
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A woman is facing a murder charge after she ran her car into four people leaving one dead, according to deputies.
The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office said they and State Troopers responded to a crash on the the 2400 block of E. Simpson Road in Green Level Friday shortly before 11 p.m.
When law enforcement arrived, they discovered four people in the road had been hit by a car.
Deputies said they were told that the driver, Tamyiah Lakerria Anderson, 21, had driven to a home on E. Simpson Road where a fight happened with other people in the area.
Witnesses told deputies that Anderson then got into her car and hit four pedestrians, two of whom were dragged by the vehicle, killing Brendy Janet Garcia Resendiz, 22, of Graham.
The other victim who was dragged was seriously injured.
Two other victims had minor injuries.
Deputies said Anderson then crashed her car into a concrete barrier at a nearby mobile home park.
WFMY News 2 went to the area where authorities said the crash took place. Some neighbors said they saw the suspect, Anderson, disoriented and hurt.
“She was conscious and crying, she was just talking about how her arm and her leg hurt a lot,” Alyanna Lara recalled.
“She was shaking and said her head was hurting,” Virginia Gonzalez said.
Both neighbors said they did not see the deadly events that allegedly happened up the road, but they recall East Simpson flooded with law enforcement that night.
Anderson was taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries, she was then released.
Deputies said Anderson was charged with:
One count of second-degree murder
Three counts of felony assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill
State Troopers charged Anderson with:
One count of Driving While Impaired
One count of Possession of Open Container of Alcohol
One count of Resist, Delay, Obstruct Officer
One count of Driving Left of Center
One count of Seatbelt Violation
Joshua Biles the twenty year old from North Carolina has been charged in connection with the death of teenager Bailey Carver
According to police reports Joshua Biles would tell police that he moved the body of seventeen year old Bailey Carver however he could not remember where he put it
After an extensive search the body of Bailey Carver has been located and now authorities are waiting on an autopsy to determine how the teenager died
So far Joshua Biles has been charged with obstruction and concealing a death and remains in custody
Police in North Carolina are remaining pretty tight lipped regarding the death of Bailey Carver other than saying a search of the home revealed evidence that the teen suffered obvious wounds
Now we need to wait on the autopsy results to see if Joshua Biles will face additional charges
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Police in North Carolina announced the remains of a missing 17-year-old have been found after several days of searching.
Investigation confirmed the remains were those of 17-year-old Baylee Carver, who was reported missing by police Friday. Her body was found around 4:55 p.m. Tuesday in Cabarrus County, north of Highway 49 and Route 601. An autopsy will be conducted, WBTV reports.
“We offer our deepest condolences to the loved ones of Baylee Carver. As they mourn their loss, our hearts are with them during this difficult time. The Albemarle Police Department is grateful for all of the assistance and resources provided throughout the course of this search. The investigation is still ongoing,” said Albemarle Police Chief Jason Bollhorst.
Police received a call for service early Friday at a house on Floral Drive in Albemarle. Once there, detectives determined Carver was dead, but her body was not at the home.
As the investigation continued, police arrested and charged 20-year-old Joshua Biles. He told officers that Carver, his girlfriend, was dead, and he had disposed of her body using a red Honda Civic
Over the next several days, 21 law enforcement agencies and workers from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) spent more than 50 hours and covered over 1,000 miles searching for Carver’s remains in Cabarrus, Stanly and Rowan counties. Drones, K-9s and GPS were all used in the search.
“Every time we go out, we treat it as if it’s our own child,” NCMEC’s Lisa Briggs said. “We’re getting tired. We’ve been going at this a long time. We keep that at our heart. That’s what we try to do.”
Biles is charged with felony obstruction and concealment of death. He appeared in court Monday and is being held on a $250,000 bond.
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