Deshawn Thomas is a man from St. Louis Missouri who is seen on video executing a homeless man. According to police reports Deshawn Thomas would walk up behind the victim, David Saldana, and fatally shoot him in the head.
The two men had an altercation earlier that saw David Saldana being shot in the back allegedly by Deshawn Thomas. As David Saldana was sitting on the curb following the first time being shot Deshawn Thomas would struggle with his gun before walking up behind Saldana and firing the fatal shot.
The brazen murder was caught on videotape which is currently circulating and seen by a number of witnesses. St. Louis police were able to arrest Deshawn Thomas and he currently being charged with murder. The murder has a lot of people questioning if St. Louis is out of control.
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Police have arrested 23-year-old Deshawn Thomas in connection to a shooting downtown on Monday. A shocking video, allegedly of the shooting, was posted to Twitter Monday night before being removed.
The video seems to show a shooting that occurred in broad daylight at the 700 block of North Tucker Boulevard.
The police said that they received a call for a shooting shortly after 10:10 a.m. on Monday relative to a man in his 40s who was shot in the head. Police said the victim argued with the alleged shooter at a nearby Shell station before the shooting. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
Video of the shooting was posted by an account called “Ponzi Slayer,” @ponziSTL, who professes to be a U.S. Marine and a gun enthusiast who gives a thumbs down to “Biden/democrats.”
His video was then shared by KMOX reporter Kevin Killeen, and subsequently reshared by former KMOV reporter Chris Nagus, before it was taken down by Twitter
Ponzi Slayer then reposted the video on Twitter, as well as sharing a link to a version that was still live on Facebook as of press time.
“Twitter took down this video I posted yesterday so I’ll post it again,” he wrote. “Doesn’t show the murder on camera so stop censoring it. Btw 10 am today #kimgardner supporters are gathering downtown. Meanwhile a young girl lays with her legs amputated and crushed pelvis 1 mile away in the hospital from a thug Kim and her cronies let back on the street when he should been in jail. Show Kims pals this ???? from yesterday.”
Ponzi Slayer wrote on Twitter that the people recording the video heard a gunshot and, after calling police, began filming what was happening on the sidewalk. The video shows two men, one seated on the curb and the other standing near him, while the person filming talks about having heard a gun shot. The standing man is struggling to reload his weapon. The seated man either doesn’t notice or seems unconcerned.
After about 30 seconds, the man with the gun abruptly holds his arm out, puts the gun to the seated man’s head and fires.
“Oh my god. He just fucking killed him,” says the individual filming the incident.
The terrifying video matches the details in an SLMPD incident report, and Crab’s Landing, which is visible in the video, is at 701 North Tucker Boulevard. According to the incident report, after the shooting, the suspect fled on foot and was observed entering the library on Olive Street, where the suspect was taken into custody without incident.
Sheborah Thomas is a woman from Texas who was just sentenced to forty years in prison for the murders of her two children. According to court documents Sheborah Thomas would drown her two children, 5-year-old daughter Kayiana Thomas and 7-year-old son, Araylon “Ray Ray” Thomas. After killing her two children Sheborah Thomas would hide the bodies underneath her neighbors home. Sheborah Thomas would tell a friend that she killed her children and had to leave town. After the friend would learn where the bodies were located the police were called and Sheborah Thomas would be arrested
After seven years in jail Sheborah Thomas would eventually plead guilty to two counts of murder and would be sentenced to forty years in prison.
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A Houston, Texas mother pleaded guilty on Monday to drowning her two children in 2016, in exchange for 40 years in prison.
Harris County district attorney Kim Ogg announced the plea agreement made with Sheborah Latrice Thomas on Tuesday, nearly seven years after the crime occurred.
Sheborah Latrice Thomas pleaded guilty on Monday to drowning her two kids, Kayiana and Araylon Thomas, in 2016. (Harris County and FOX 26 Houston )
“This mother knew what she was doing, she knew it was wrong, and we vowed to seek justice for these two children,” Ogg said. “This plea agreement means that family members will not have to testify, and this woman cannot appeal her conviction or the sentence
The DA said Thomas first drowned her 5-year-old daughter Kayiana Thomas in the bathtub of their home in southeast Houston on Aug. 12, 2016.
Once Kayiana was dead, she placed her body on a bed, Ogg said. Thomas then called her 7-year-old son, Araylon “Ray Ray” Thomas, to the bathroom and drowned him.
Sheborah Latrice Thomas pleaded guilty to drowning her two children, 5-year-old Kayiana Thomas and 7-year-old Araylon Thomas. (FOX 26 Houston)
The next day, Thomas stashed the children’s bodies in a trash can behind the house and went to her place of employment to get her paycheck early.
The DA also said Thomas was unable to leave town, so she dug a hole in the ground for the bodies, which was not big enough. So instead, she rolled the bodies of her children under a neighbor’s house.
Thomas began packing up the house and throwing things out when she told a friend that she drowned her children and needed to leave town.
According to Ogg, the friend said he thought Thomas was joking, but when he realized she was not joking, he asked more questions, and she showed him where the bodies could be found.
Thomas’s friend notified the police about the incident.
In 2001, Houston mother Andrea Yates drowned her five children ranging in age from 7 years to 6 months in the bathtub of her family’s home. She was eventually found not guilty by reason of insanity in July 2006 and sent to a state mental hospital.
Former NFL running back Zac Stacy was sentenced to six months in jail for a brutal assault that was caught on video. According to court documents Zac Stacy was observed on video throwing the mother of his child around her home. The woman who was assaulted on two occasions would tell police that Zac Stacy would beat her on her legs, punched her in the head and threw her into a television set all while there young child was in the room.
Zac Stacy would plead guilty to to one count of misdemeanor domestic violence battery and two counts of misdemeanor criminal mischief. No word on when the six month jail sentence is to begin
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Former NFL running back Zac Stacy was sentenced to six months in prison for domestic violence, stemming from an attack on an ex-girlfriend.
Stacy, 31, was arrested in November 2021 at an Orlando airport after an aggravated battery and criminal mischief warrant was issued.
The ex-girlfriend and Stacy share an infant child.
As part of a plea agreement, Stacy pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal mischief and the battery charges were dropped. He was also sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to have no contact with the victim.
Stacy was arrested after Oakland (Florida) police responded to an emergency at the victim’s home Nov. 13, where officers found that she “appeared to be emotionally distraught with tears in her eyes.”
TMZ published a video of the alleged incident, which was captured on the victim’s home surveillance system.
A subsequent affidavit stated that an Oakland police detective watched the video and observed Stacy “strike the victim twice to the back of her head with the first strike with an unknown object in his hand.”
The victim suffered suffered “a contusion to her face, bruises to her torso, contusion to her left leg, and abrasions to her right leg,” according to the officer.
Stacy played in the NFL for three seasons, with the St. Louis Rams and the New York Jets.
Brendan Depa is a seventeen year old from Florida who attended Mantanzas High School who attacked a teachers aide for taking away his Nintendo Switch. According to police reports Brendan Depa who stands six feet six and pushes nearly three hundred pounds would attack Joan Naydich, 57, because she took away his video game. Brendan Depa would come flying out of the classroom and bowled the fifty seven year old woman before striking her several times knocking her unconscious.
Now Brendan Depa has been charged with aggravated assault and will be prosecuted as an adult so is facing thirty years in the Florida Prison System. Brendan Depa who had been arrested three times before on assault charges is being held on a one million dollar bond.
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Brendan Depa, the 17-year-old Matanzas High School special education student captured in surveillance video brutally attacking Joan Naydich, a paraprofessional at the school, was charged as an adult Friday by the State Attorney’s Office.
Brendan Depa had originally been charged with aggravated battery causing bodily harm after the Feb. 21 incident, but as a juvenile. He was booked at Flagler County jail then transferred to a Department of juvenile Justice jail in Daytona Beach. Such charges typically result in limited time in detention, and probationary terms. (See: “Matanzas High School Special Education Student Arrested in Attack of Teacher Aide.”)
A sheriff’s spokesperson said Sunday evening he was now held at the county jail, on $1 million bond.
The adult charge is a first degree felony, exposing Brendan Depa to up to 30 years in prison. But his competency to stand trial will likely be an issue.
The State Attorney’s decision follows on the heels of cascading reactions in Flagler and across the country to the assault. On one hand the assault provoked outrage and revulsion at the violence of the act as depicted in the video, in a school hallway: the attack left Naydich unconscious as Depa continued to pummel her with close-fisted punches to the head and back. The mother of two was hospitalized, drawing outpourings of sympathy, and a GoFundMe account set up on her behalf had raised over $43,000 as of today.
“Please be comforted knowing she is home and recovering,” her daughter posted on the public page of the account a day after the incident. “This incident has reached areas of the world I never thought possible, with love and support pouring in from all. As her daughter, it’s heartwarming to see the community rally behind her recovery, near and far.”
On the other hand, because Brendan Depa is a student with special needs, whose emotional and behavioral self-control are in question, mental health and special education advocates have appealed for more measured reactions against the student. Because of federal privacy laws, the school district is barred from releasing any information about the student’s status, including whether he is in special education, though only special education students work with paraprofessionals at school.
Reportedly, the student is on the autism spectrum. He is also–in his own words, quoted in his arrest report–a resident at a group home, making him a ward of the state, possibly as a result of a parent losing parental rights.
Sue Urban, a mental health advocate in Flagler whose son Nicholas took his own life in 2018, soon after graduating from Matanzas High School, has spoken on behalf of Depa before the Flagler County School Board and in a video she posted on social media that has since been picked up by media outlets abroad, in tandem with accounts of the attack.
“By no means do I condone violence towards teachers in any way, shape or form, and I want to make that very, very clear,” Urban says in the brief video she took in her car, sending her best wishes to the teacher and stressing her support for law enforcement. With equal force, she said she was very upset “that this is being portrayed that this child is a threat, and that this is all on him. This is not this child’s fault. He is not a threat.”
She had implored the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office to remove a release it had posted on its Facebook page about the incident–by then the release had led to news reports about the incident in all local media–and called it not an issue with law enforcement, but “a mental health issue. This is a problem with our system. It is broken.”
Stephen Furnari, a Flagler Beach attorney who chairs the district’s Exceptional Student Education Parent Advisory Committee on Sunday described the State Attorney’s decision as “a very harsh stance.”
Qualifying his statement by noting the limited amount of information at this point, Furnari said: “If in fact the student had known behavioral issues, and if some portion of this was a situation at the school where the school district has some negligence because of some failure in their own system, then it would seem to me an overly harsh approach in terms of how to deal with this situation, from a legal perspective.”
The incident was the subject of discussion both at the end of a Flagler County School Board workshop on Tuesday and again at that evening’s business meeting of the board. The board has agreed, at the instigation of Board member Christy Chong, to discuss the possibility of opening–or rather re-opening–an alternative school for disruptive students. The district had just such a school for many years, but closed it a few years ago.
Charging Brendan Depa as an adult may placate a large segment of the public reaction demanding action against the student. But it comes with its own risks: an individual must be deemed competent to stand trial before proceeding. It is likely that his defense attorneys will immediately ask for a mental evaluation. Still: Absent a clear inability of the defendant to weigh the severity of the charges and understand court proceedings, Florida sets a very high bar for incompetency.
A Florida judge sentenced a teenager with autism to five years in prison for beating a teacher’s aide unconscious, rejecting calls from the teen’s family and special needs advocates for alternatives to incarceration given Brendan Depa‘s age and disabilities.
Depa, now 18, pleaded no contest to aggravated battery on a school employee for the February 2023 attack on Matanzas High School paraprofessional Joan Naydich. The brutal attack was caught on school security cameras, generating national headlines and sparking debate over the appropriate punishment for a student with special needs.
The video showed Depa chasing Naydich down a hall, shoving her to the ground, then kicking and punching her in rapid succession. Naydich testified that a teacher’s talk of taking away Depa’s Nintendo Switch appeared to trigger his fury.
Flagler County prosecutors charged Depa as an adult, which meant he faced anywhere from probation to 30 years in prison. Because Depa was 17 during the attack, Judge Terence Perkins had the option of sentencing him as a juvenile to less time in a community-based setting, such as a group home or his parents’ home, or a juvenile facility, where he would have been released at age 21.
Depa’s adoptive mother, Leanne Depa, urged the judge to “let him come home with me,” pledging to keep watch over him and follow his treatment plan. The judge also heard from two men with backgrounds in working with children with special needs who reached out to Depa to offer support after learning of the attack. One of them, retired special education teacher Eugene Lopes, said he had seen significant progress and maturation in Depa since he started tutoring him in jail. Lopes and pledged to continue supporting Depa “for the long haul,” especially if he is sentenced to community-based options.
Paraprofessional and school community officer Jerome Powell, who has an adult son with autism, said he would be willing to adopt Depa and take him into his home if the terms of his release called for a residence in Flagler County since Depa’s parents live in Hillsborough County.
Expert witnesses for the state and the defense testified Depa’s attack was a manifestation of his autism spectrum disorder. They differed on the “intentionality” of Depa’s conduct and what type of setting would best serve Depa in helping him mature and manage triggers for his violent outbursts.
Dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit with his wrists cuffed, Depa sunk his head into his hands as the judge explained his reasoning before issuing his sentence: 60 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised probation.
Perkins said he considered Depa’s age and disorder but was ultimately swayed into sentencing him as an adult by the “senseless, extreme violence” of the attack and other incidents in Depa’s past. Perkins also said he had “no confidence” that the juvenile system could provide Depa with “sufficient treatment” before his release in two years at age 21.
“He must be considered dangerous for the purpose of sentencing,” Perkins said. “This violence is related to issues outside his autism spectrum disorder.”
Flagler County prosecutors asked the judge to sentence Depa as an adult to seven years in prison with at least 10 years of probation, citing his history of violent behavior and the attack on Naydich. Naydich — who worked as a lunch lady for 17 years in Flagler County schools who became a paraprofessional in 2022 — testified in the hearing’s first day in May to the lasting affects of the attack, including five broken ribs, hearing, vision and memory loss, and the loss of a job she loved due to post-traumatic stress.
Despite years of close monitoring in group homes and in a class for students with special needs, Depa “has shown he is incapable of abiding by societal rules,” Assistant State Attorney Melissa Clark said Tuesday in her closing argument.
“Everyone wants to see Mr. Depa succeed but first we need to deal with what he did and there are consequences for what he did,” Clark said. “He almost killed a woman. He should be punished for that.”
Depa’s lawyer, Kurt Teifke, argued Depa’s age, disability and progress since his arrest suggested a community-based setting would best serve his needs.
Teifke called two expert witnesses to support his position. Autism disorders specialist Kimberly Spence said she believed Depa was “neurologically compromised” and a prison setting would not offer him the intensive, specialized treatment he needs on a consistent basis to grow and thrive.
“Incarcerating him will not change the factors that precipitated his behavior,” Spence said.
Spence said Depa’s school records indicated staff failed to recognize his triggers or employ recommended strategies from his behavioral plans on the day of the attack and in other instances. Naydich herself testified that she had not seen Depa’s behavioral plan or been made aware of his triggers or intervention strategies.
Forensic psychologist Dr. Julie Harper, who specializes in in juvenile brain development, said the smaller staff to person ratio in a juvenile facility compared to prison would make it a better placement for Depa.
“There’s plenty of evidence that he’s not operating at the typical level of 17- or 18-year-old,” Harper said. “He’s early on in treatment… and because he’s early on he has a lot of growth and changes to come.”
Jared Smith-Bracy is a twenty one year old man from Alabama who has been charged with four counts of murder. According to police reports Jared Smith-Bracy was arrested earlier in the day after his Grandparents called police after he broke a door in their house.
After Jared Smith-Bracy was bonded out of jail he would head straight back to his Grandparents home after he grabbed a gun from a friend. Jared Smith-Bracy would fatally shoot his Grandmother, brother and friend. Jared Smith-Bracy would then beat to death his Grandfather with a pickaxe.
Jared Smith-Bracy would be arrested and has been charged with four counts of capital murder. Jared Smith-Bracy has plead not guilty by reason of mental defect.
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Daphne Police have identified the suspect and victims in a quadruple homicide that happened Wednesday night on Melanie Loop.
The suspect, Jared Tarant Smith-Bracy, 21, admitted he killed the four victims and has been charged with four counts of capital murder.
The victims were Jeremy Smith, 27, Barbara Smith, 72, and Leonard Smith, 80 — the suspect’s brother and grandparents. A fourth victim, Sheila Glover, 70, was a family friend. Police said three victims found in the backyard were shot and bludgeoned with a pickax, and the grandfather was also bludgeoned inside the home.
Investigators said Smith-Bracy was arrested at the home earlier in the day for criminal mischief. After he bonded out, he was driven back to the house by another person. A witness said he got out of the car after taking a gun from the driver and immediately forced his way into the home. The witness then heard gunshots and called police. It is believed the three in the backyard were shot first, then Smith-Bracy went back into the house and bludgeoned his grandfather, then returned to the backyard and bludgeoned the three victims he had already shot.
Smith-Bracy is being held in the Baldwin County Jail without bond.
A judge has denied bond for a man accused of killing his grandparents, his brother and a family friend in south Alabama.
Jared Smith-Bracy, 21, is charged with four counts of capital murder in the deaths Wednesday night in Daphne. He met briefly with his two court-appointed attorneys before the Friday bond hearing, and they entered a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or mental defect on his behalf, WKRG-TV reported.
Baldwin County Chief Assistant District Attorney Teresa Heinz asked for no bond, and the judge granted that request. But the judge said that could change as the investigation continues, the television station reported.
Police have said Smith-Bracy fatally shot his 72-year-old grandmother, Barbara Smith; his 27-year-old brother, Jeremy Smith; and 71-year-old family friend, Sheila Glover, whose bodies were found in the backyard of his grandparents’ home. He then used a pickaxe to beat his 80-year-old grandfather, Lenard Smith, to death inside a bedroom in the house, police said, according to WPMI-TV.
Smith-Bracy lived with his grandparents, who called police Wednesday morning because he had broken a door, WPMI-TV reported. He was charged with criminal mischief and got a ride home from a friend around 5 p.m. that day after bonding out of jail, police said. He then grabbed the friend’s handgun and began firing after forcing his way into the home, Daphne police Sgt. Jason Vannoy said.
“The person who drove him there in the car, I’m not sure that he used the exact phrase, ‘out of the blue,’ but that’s how I would characterize it,” said Vannoy.
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