Thomas James Niarhos Charged With Murder

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Thomas James Niarhos is an alleged teen killer from Pennsylvania who has been charged with the murder of Jeremiah Waylon Hawkins, 39.

According to police reports Thomas James Niarhos was involved in an altercation with Jeremiah Waylon Hawkins as Niarhos believed that Hawkins had sexually assaulted his girlfriend behind a dumpster.

The fifteen year old Thomas James Niarhos would pull out a gun and fatally shoot Jeremiah Waylon Hawkins in the face. Niarhos would be detained at the scene by a witness and soon after was placed into custody by the Pottstown Police Department

Thomas James Niarhos has been charged as an adult in the murder of Jeremiah Waylon Hawkins

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A teen has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting and killing a man in Pottstown Wednesday afternoon, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office said.

According to court documents, officers responded to South Hanover Street at Security Plaza around 12:07 p.m. and found a man – later identified as 39-year-old Jeremiah Waylon Hawkins – with a gunshot wound to his head.

Hawkins was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead, officials stated.

Officials said the suspect – later identified as 15-year-old Thomas James Niarhos of Stowe – was held by a witness and immediately taken into custody by police.

A gun was recovered from the scene and officials said it was later determined to belong to Niarhos’ father.

Upon further investigation, detectives discovered that a fight had ensued between Niarhos and Hawkins.

Surveillance video showed that Niarhos had extended his arm out toward Hawkins and in return, Hawkins swung a tire attempting to knock a gun out of Niarhos’ hand, according to officials.

Officials said Niarhos then fired a single shot at Hawkins, fired another round, dropped the gun and was then detained.

An autopsy report stated that Hawkins had been shot once in the side of his face at close range, officials said.

According to court documents, Niarhos has now been charged as an adult with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, possessing a firearm by a minor, possessing an instrument of crime and other charges.

Officials said Niarhos is being held at the Montgomery County Youth Center with no bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 11:30 a.m., Nov. 30.

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/15-year-old-charged-with-murder-in-deadly-shooting-of-man-in-pottstown/3704738/

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A 15-year-old from Stowe who is the son of the executive director of the homeless advocacy agency Beacon of Hope has been charged with first-degree murder in the daylight shooting of a homeless man just yards from the borough police station.

Thomas James Niarhos of East Race Street is accused of shooting 39-year-old Jeremiah Waylon Hawkins, who was experiencing homelessness, near the Norfolk Southern train tracks at South Hanover Street and Security Plaza, which is also the hub for the Pottstown Area Rapid Transit bus routes.

The motive in the shooting may be related to an alleged sexual assault of Thomas James Niarhos’ girlfriend four months earlier, according to investigators.

Court records indicate Thomas James Niarhos told police on July 13 that Hawkins had raped his 16-year-old girlfriend, whose name has been withheld, behind the dumpster in Security Plaza near the Norfolk-Southern railroad tracks. Police investigated that accusation but received no cooperation from the girl’s family, and her mother told police the next day the family did not wish to press charges.

Police were dispatched at 12:07 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 22, and arrived to find Hawkins lying on South Hanover Street with an obvious gunshot wound to the head, according to a press release issued jointly Saturday morning by Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele and Pottstown Police Chief Michael Markovich.

Hawkins was transported to Pottstown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Thomas James Niarhos was being held by witnesses when police arrived and he was immediately taken into custody by police.

Several witnesses told police Thomas James Niarhos dropped the gun after shooting Hawkins and started running through Security Plaza toward the parking lot of The Blue Elephant restaurant before he was restrained by bystanders until police arrived.

A .40 caliber Smith & Wesson semi-automatic firearm was recovered on the scene, according to the press release issued by the D.A.’s office. Detectives later determined the firearm belonged to the defendant’s father, who declined to make a statement to MediaNews Group when contracted on Saturday.

However, the accused’s father, told police he kept his gun in a locked nightstand in his bedroom, but kept the key in another location in the bedroom, according to court records. He told police he found a note in his son’s bedroom saying he planned to run away, along with a packed bag of clothing and a phone charger.

A joint homicide investigation by Pottstown Police and Montgomery County Detectives found through multiple witness interviews and review of surveillance video that Thomas James Niarhos had sought out Hawkins, and the two males were standing close together arguing when Niarhos extended his arm toward Hawkins.

Hawkins, who was on a bike and holding a spare tire, swung it at Thomas James Niarhos attempting to knock the gun out of his hand, but Niarhos fired a single shot at Hawkins’ face, and the victim fell immediately. Niarhos fired a second time, then dropped the firearm and walked away, when he was detained by bystanders, the press release said.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, as Niarhos was being escorted to the police station, an officer’s body camera recorded him shouting at first responders trying to save Hawkins, “he’s a rapist, don’t be sorry for him” and “he raped a 15-year-old girl, don’t help him.”

An autopsy was conducted on Hawkins’ body by Dr. Khalil Wardak, a forensic pathologist with the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office, which found that Hawkins had been shot once in the side of his face at close range.

Dr. Wardak determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was homicide.

Niarhos was charged as an adult with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, possessing a firearm by a minor, possessing an instrument of crime and other charges.

Niarhos was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Margaret Hunsicker on Nov. 22. No bail is available for first-degree murder, and he was remanded to the Montgomery County Youth Center.

Anthony Colavecci, who is also experiencing homelessness, told MediaNews Group Wednesday after the shooting that Hawkins, whom he called “Jay,” was his former roommate “and he saved my life. I slipped in the bathroom and I kept saying I was fine, but he insisted that the ambulance take me to the hospital.”

Colavecci said Hawkins had become addicted to drugs in the last few months.

“I keep trying to tell myself I don’t care, but there are people who will miss him and I’m one of them,” Colavecci said.

A preliminary hearing for Niarhos is scheduled for 11:30 a.m., Nov. 30, before Magisterial District Judge Scott T. Palladino.

The case will be prosecuted by Assistant Chief of Trials Lauren Marvel and Assistant District Attorney Anne O’Connell.

The accused shooter’s father has come to be well-known in the borough since 2020, first as the executive director of the first Al’s Heart Warming Center that operated a winter nighttime warming center for those experiencing homelessness when the COVID epidemic forced area churches which had performed this function to cease operations.

For two years Niarhos, who previously experienced homelessness himself, ran the center out of the former St. Aloysius parish school on North Hanover Street. When that arrangement ended in 2022, the agency, now named Beacon of Hope, operated a warming center in St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, which brought them into conflict with the borough as a zoning violation that was ultimately withdrawn.

Niarhos has been the local face of the agency through its efforts to use $1.3 million in federal COVID funds to win the 2022 zoning approval for the construction of a permanent 45-bed shelter at Glasgow and West High streets along the western border of the borough

Kaitlyn Coones Murders Nicole Jones In Ohio

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Kaitlyn Coones is an alleged teen killer from Ohio who has been charged with the murder of her boyfriend’s mother Nicole Jones

According to police reports seventeen year old Kaitlyn Coones and thirty three year old Jeremy Jones were living together in the home of Nicole Jones without her knowing about it. It has been reported the seventeen year old girl would sneak in through his bedroom window

Kaitlyn Coones would give her boyfriend five hours to murder his mother Nicole Jones as Coones believed that the mother was standing in the way of their relationship. The five hours would pass and Coones would give him an additional hour. When that hour passed Kaitlyn would attack the woman with a rock causing her death

The pair would take the body from the home and placed it in a dumpster before fleeing the country. The body of Nicole Jones has not been found

The pair would eventually would be arrested and extradited back to Ohio where they face a host of charges. Kaitlyn Coones has been charged with murder however her lawyer is claiming that she is a victim of Jeremy Jones. It sounds like when their trials begin they will blame each other for the murder

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An Ohio girl, 17, accused of killing her 33-year-old boyfriend’s mother with a rock in May, appeared in court for the first time Friday, according to local news.

Kaitlyn Coones allegedly killed Jonathan Jones’ 53-year-old mother, Nicole Jones, inside the woman’s Sylvania Township home — only after she gave him an ultimatum to do it himself, prosecutors revealed for the first time on Nov. 17.

“Kaitlyn had told Jonathan that they needed to do something about his mother because she was preventing them from being together,” Sylvania Township Detective Albright said of his interview with Coones, according to Cleveland 19.

Investigators believe the 17-year-old foster child had been living in Jonathan’s room in his mother’s house before the murder, Cleveland 19 reported.

Prosecutors said Coones would climb in through Jonathan’s bedroom window so that his mother would not know she was living in her house.

On the day of Nicole’s murder, Coones allegedly gave her boyfriend five hours to kill his mother himself. After five hours had passed, she gave him another hour before allegedly taking the crime into her own hands, ABC 13 reported.

While Nicole was looking in the refrigerator, the 17-year-old allegedly strangled her and bludgeoned her in the head with a rock while Jonathan was in the living room, prosecutors testified, according to ABC 13.

The suspects then allegedly purchased trash bags and a tarp, which they used to wrap Nicole’s body, and cleaned up the crime scene before traveling to a nearby apartment building, where they discarded the victim’s body in a dumpster. Investigators reportedly do not believe her body will ever be recovered, according to ABC 13.

Stark County Children’s Services had reported Coones missing from state custody in April.

After Nicole’s murder in May, local police named her son as a suspect in Coones’ disappearance. Law enforcement soon obtained information leading them to believe the pair fled to Mexico.

U.S. Marshals apprehended Jones in Mexico on May 8 and located Coones, who was later charged with aggravated murder, murder, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse, according to ABC 13.

Coones’ attorney, Ann Baronas, is reportedly arguing that Coones is Jonathan’s victim, the outlet reported.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-teen-accused-killing-older-boyfriends-mother-rock-asking-him-do-himself-report

Frank Deleon Jr Murders Diamond Alvarez

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Frank Deleon Jr was a seventeen year old teen killer from Texas who would fatally shoot his ex girlfriend Diamond Alvarez

According to police reports Frank Deleon Jr and Diamond Alvarez, 16, had broken up recently after she learned that Frank was cheating on her with another woman. Deleon would set up a meeting at a park where Diamond Alvarez was walking her dog. The teen killer would shoot the young woman over twenty times causing her death

Frank Deleon Jr would be arrested and would ultimately plead guilty and be sentenced to forty five years in prison with no chance of parole for 22 years

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Chaos filled the courtroom Tuesday morning after a murder suspect pleaded guilty to killing his teenage girlfriend last year.

Frank DeLeon Jr., 19, agreed to spend 45 years in prison for the January 2022 murder of Diamond Alvarez, who officials say was 16 years old at the time.

DeLeon was out on bond while the case made its way through the courts. The trial was supposed to start Monday, but he did not show up after defense attorneys said he was involved in a car accident on his way to the courthouse and had to go to the hospital.

Because he was not in court Monday, an arrest warrant was issued and DeLeon was taken into custody later that day. He appeared in court Tuesday morning shackled with his arm in a sling.

Moments after Anna Machado, Diamond’s mother, gave an impact statement to the court on Tuesday, she and another family member rushed toward DeLeon before being restrained.

ABC13 cameras were rolling when the trouble started just after Diamond’s mother, Anna Machado, gave a victim’s impact statement on the stand. In her comments, she called DeLeon a monster, saying his mother, who was in the gallery, had raised him to be that way.

After that, Machado and another family member rushed toward DeLeon before being restrained by court officials.

The fight lasted for a few minutes before order was restored and the courtroom cleared.

During a press conference after the hearing, the district attorney did not take questions about the fighting, just detailing what’s next in the case.

Machado, on the other hand, apologized for her actions during court. Family members said they were satisfied with the 45 years.

On Thursday, there will be a formal sentencing and Diamond’s aunt is planned to give an impact statement.

DeLeon will not be eligible for parole for at least 22 and a half years.

https://abc13.com/diamond-alvarez-frank-deleon-jr-murder-suspect-guilty-plea/13928636/

13 Yr Old Derek Rosa Charged With Murder

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Thirteen year old Derek Rosa is an alleged teen killer from Florida who was charged with the murder of his mother Irina Garcia

According to court documents 13 year old Derek Rosa would call 911 and tell operators that he had stabbed his mother, Irina Garcia, to death while she was sleeping. Officers would rush to the scene in Hialeah Florida and discovered the body of 39-year-old Irina Garcia with multiple stab wounds to her neck.

Officers would place Derek Rosa into custody and now the thirteen year old teen killer is facing murder charges

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A 13-year-old boy was taken into custody at an apartment complex in Hialeah in connection to the fatal stabbing of his mother, police said.

According to Hialeah Police, officer’s responded to the juvenile’s 911 call confessing to the murder from inside Apartment 201 along the 200 block of West 79th Place, late Thursday night.

“Right now, we’re all in disbelief,” said Hialeah Police Lt. Eddie Rodriguez

Police said the teen called 911 at 11:31 p.m.

“He called right away; he called after he did it and pretty much turned himself in over the phone, I guess you could say,” said Rodriguez.

When officers arrived at the apartment, they instructed the teen to come out with his hands up. A neighbor’s cellphone was recording as he was immediately taken to the ground.

As the teen was cuffed by one officer, the rest entered the unit.

“Now that 13-year-old, has been taken into custody, he is facing some very serious charges,” Rodriguez said.

According to the arrest report, the mother, 39-year-old Irina Garcia, “was found on the bedroom floor by Hialeah Police patrol officers with multiple stab wounds to the neck.”

Rodriguez said the victim’s body was just inches from a newborn.

“Next to a crib. Inside of that crib, a 14-day-old baby that thank goodness was not hurt,” he said.

The suspect, identified as Derek Rosa, was charged with second-degree murder. He appeared in court Friday afternoon.

A judge agreed to give the teen secure detention for 21 days.

Officers told 7News that the teen was an honor roll student at iMater Charter Middle/High School, located at 651 W. 20th St. They aren’t aware of any history of problems or mental illness.

“It’s a very tragic, sad story, and now we’re just in the process of talking to family members to see if they can shed some light on this,” Rodriguez said.

Officers said that the suspect’s stepfather also lives at the home, but was not there at the time of time because he is a trucker. He is making his way back to South Florida.

An investigation into the murder is underway.

https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/13-year-old-boy-arrested-admits-to-fatally-stabbing-mother-at-hialeah-apartment/

Layton Lester Teen Killer Murders Guard

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Layton Lester was a fifteen year old teen killer from Georgia who was convicted of the murder of his Great Aunt and now is accused of the murder of Correctional Officer Robert Clark

According to court documents Layton Lester and accomplices would break into the home of his Great Aunt Lorrine Bozeman who would be murdered during the robbery.

Layton Lester would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison for malice murder, a concurrent term of 20 years for armed robbery, and terms of 20 years for burglary to run consecutively to the murder sentence and five years for the firearm count to run consecutively to the burglary sentence

Now Layton Lester is accused of the murder of Correctional Officer Robert Clark. Clark was escorting Layton out of the dining hall at Smith State Prison when Layton would attack the guard with a homemade weapon. Another inmate attempted to help Clark and would be assaulted in the process.

Layton Lester would be taken into custody and now faces the death penalty

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MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: SMITH STATE PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: LIFE

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A Smith State prisoner is facing more time after attacking another inmate and killing an officer.

Correctional Officer Robert Clark, 42, was reportedly escorting two inmates from the dining hall at the prison on Sunday when one, identified as Layton Lester, assaulted him from behind with a homemade weapon.

Officials say the other inmate, Marko Willingham, tried to step in and help Officer Clark. That’s when Lester attacked him too, sending them both to the hospital.

The inmate who tried to help is still recovering. Clark, who had only just begun working at the state prison in April, was pronounced dead.

“The entire GDC team is mourning the loss of one of our own, and we collectively express our deepest condolences to Officer Clark’s family and friends,” said Commissioner Tyrone Oliver. “We will support them as they navigate this tragedy over the coming days, weeks and months.”

Lester has been charged in both assaults and the resulting death of Clark. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, he was being held at the prison for various crimes, including murder.

https://news.yahoo.com/gdc-inmate-murders-correctional-officer-234747721.html

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A Tift County man on trial for the robbery and murder of his great aunt two years ago is found guilty.

Layton Lester, who was 15 at the time of his arrest, was tried as an adult.

Lester faced multiple charges including murder, two counts of felony murder, armed robbery, burglary, and possession of a firearm during a crime.

Three other people are also charged in the case â” 18-year-old Shurrod Rich, 17-year-old Rodney King, and 22-year-old Neddrick Green.

None of them have gone to trial.

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