Madelyn Abisai Mejia-Gallo has been charged with the murder of a six month old infant. According to police reports the six month old infant was brought to a Louisiana hospital and it was discovered the little boy had suffered severe head injuries. Due to the nature of the injury police were called to the hospital. The six month old infant would die at the hospital. The child’s mother, Madelyn Abisai Mejia-Gallo, would be arrested and has now been charged with murder.
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The Covington Police Department has arrested a woman accused of killing her own child.
Madelyn Abisai Mejia-Gallo, 28, of Covington, was arrested after being accused in the death of her 6-month-old child.
Mejia-Gallo was taken into custody in New Orleans Saturday night after an arrest warrant was issued for second-degree murder.
Mejia-Gallo is currently being held at the Orleans Parish Prison as a fugitive from Covington.
According to Covington police, the investigation began Wednesday, when officers and detectives responded to an area hospital in reference to a child arriving to the emergency room with severe head trauma.
Police say the child was later transported to another facility with more advanced care.
Covington police said based on evidence collected and statements gathered during the investigation, detectives believe that the injuries to the child happened at the hands of his mother.
Detectives were told on Saturday that the child died from his injuries.
Detectives said they traveled to New Orleans and assisted the New Orleans Police Department with Mejia-Gallo’s arrest.
After her 6-month-old son died from apparent head trauma, a Covington infant’s mother was arrested Saturday in New Orleans, authorities said.
Covington police announced the arrest of 28-year-old Madelyn Abisai Mejia-Gallo, saying she has been booked on suspicion of second-degree murder. The department said the woman was apprehended in New Orleans on Saturday (March 26).
Police said the child was taken Wednesday to the emergency room of a North Shore hospital with “severe head trauma,” before being transferred to a New Orleans hospital for more advanced care.
The child succumbed to the injuries Saturday, however, and investigators determined the injuries were inflicted by his mother. Detectives from Covington joined NOPD officers in arresting the woman in New Orleans
If charged and convicted of second-degree murder, Mejia-Gallo would face a mandatory lifetime prison sentence.
William Devonshire has been charged with the murder of Kelliann Ripley in Sarasota Florida. Now William Devonshire is no stranger to the court system as he was convicted of a murder in Delaware back in 2005. William Devonshire who allegedly murdered Kelliann Ripley and left her body at a boat ramp in Centennial Park at the North Tamiami Trail. Kellianne Ripley body was found late February 2022. William Devonshire who was initially arrested for trespassing, possession of cocaine and possession of paraphernalia has been charged now with murder.
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William Devonshire, 52, has been arrested and is facing charges of Murder in connection to the death of Kelliann Ripley, 48, of Sarasota.
The family of Ms. Ripley shared with Sarasota Police Department detectives over the weekend they are allowing Ms. Ripley’s name to be released publicly.
“This case was solved using science and technology but it was also solved thanks to the non-stop dedication and hard work of Sarasota Police officers and detectives,” said Sarasota Police Department Interim Chief of Police Rex Troche. “The men and women of our agency sacrificed their nights, weekends, and time away from their families to make sure justice was brought in this case,” said Troche.
On February 25, 2022, Sarasota Police officers responded to a wooded area in the 1100 block of North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. On February 26, 2022, the 12th District Medical Examiner’s Office determined Ms. Ripley’s death was a result of homicidal violence caused by blunt force trauma and manual strangulation. Evidence collected from Ms. Ripley’s autopsy was submitted to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) for analysis.
On March 15, 2022, Devonshire voluntarily gave a buccal swab to Sarasota Police officers. A buccal swab is a q-tip swab inside a person’s mouth for DNA comparison. Devonshire was arrested on Friday, March 25, 2022, by Sarasota Police Department officers in Pioneer Park, 1260 12th Street, Sarasota, on charges of trespassing, possession of cocaine, and possession of paraphernalia.
On Saturday, March 26, 2022, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) contacted the Sarasota Police Department to share Devonshire’s DNA was a match to swabs collected from Ms. Ripley during her autopsy.
Sarasota Police detectives believe Devonshire is a strong suspect in a homicide that happened on March 10, 2022, in the 1900 block of North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Sarasota Police detectives are continuing to follow leads in the March 10th homicide.
Detectives believe the two homicides are connected because of facts and evidence found in both cases. Detectives are continuing to investigate if the suspect and victims knew one another.
The Sarasota Police Department would like to thank several law enforcement partners who assisted with the investigation including FDLE, the FBI, the State Attorney’s Office of the 12th Judicial Circuit, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, and the Attorney General’s Office.
Devonshire has criminal histories in New Jersey, Maryland, Indiana, Ohio, Delaware, and Florida including charges of assault, aggravated harassment, disorderly contact, battery, burglary, and trespassing.
He was charged in 2003 and convicted in 2005 of murder in Delaware. Devonshire is currently being held at the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office jail on no bond.
A Sarasota man was arrested in connection to the death of a woman whose body was found near the Centennial Park boat ramp on North Tamiami Trail in late February.
William Devonshire, 52, of Sarasota, was arrested Friday on charges of trespassing, possession of cocaine and possession of paraphernalia, according to the Sarasota Police Department.
Officers said they also found probable cause to charge Devonshire in connection to the Feb. 25 homicide of a 48-year-old Sarasota woman.
Police previously warned citizens to be vigilant after two women were found dead on the same road weeks apart.
The department said no additional details will be available until a Monday press conference.
Megan Hargan has been found guilty by a Virginia jury for the murders of her mother and sister. According to court documents Megan Hargan was deep in debt and decided the best way to pay off her debts is by killing her mother and sister and staging the double murders as a murder suicide. Police arrived at the scene and found 23-year-old Helen Hargan and her mother, 63-year-old Pamela Hargan dead from gunshot wounds. Police initially thought that Helen Hargan had shot and killed Pamela Hargan before killing herself however an arrest over a year later would shake the community to the core when Megan Hargan was arrested for the double murder. Megan Hargan would be convicted of the double murder in March 2022.
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A Fairfax County jury delivered a guilty verdict Monday against a woman accused of killing her own mother and sister in 2017. Megan Hargan, 35, was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder, and two counts of using a firearm in committing a felony.
In July 2017, Fairfax County Police were called to a home on the 6700 block of Dean Drive, in McLean, Virginia, after receiving a 911 call that a person may have been murdered. When police got to the scene, they found two bodies inside the home: 23-year-old Helen Hargan and her mother, 63-year-old Pamela Hargan
Detectives initially believed that Helen Hargan had killed her mother with a rifle before killing herself.
However, in November 2018, police would make an arrest in the case that would change the investigation completely.
Authorities charged Megan Hargan, of Monongalia County, West Virginia, with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in committing a felony. Fairfax County Police accused Hargan of killing her sister and mother and staging the incident to appear as a murder-suicide.
In 2018, Pamela’s sister, Tammy North, said she felt Hargan was motivated by jealousy and greed.
“I believed from day one that she did it,” she said.
North added that Pamela Hargan had bought Helen a house she was due to move into just before the pair were killed.
“Megan Hargan attempted fraudulent money transfers from her mother’s account on the day of the murders,” said Fairfax County Police Department Major Ed O’Carroll.
Now, Hargan has the choice to have her sentencing determined by the jury, or to have a judge decide her sentence.
“We in Fairfax County have no tolerance for such disregard for human life and I am committed to addressing crimes of this magnitude with the seriousness they merit,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said following the jury’s verdict. “We will be asking for a substantial sentence that reflects the seriousness of the crime.”
According to Descano’s office, Megan Hargan pleaded her innocence throughout the case. She was represented by public defenders. WUSA9 reached out to Megan Hargan’s representation for comment but has yet to receive a response.
A McLean, Virginia, woman is guilty of killing her own mother and sister inside their home nearly five years ago, a jury ruled Monday.
Megan Hargan was found guilty on all counts, including first-degree murder, in the shooting deaths of her mother, 63-year-old business executive Pamela Hargan, and her sister, 23-year-old Helen Hargan.
Megan Hargan leaned her head on her attorney’s shoulder as the verdict was read. Her sister Ashley Hargan, who testified against her, cried.
The jury is expected to recommend a sentence later Monday after hearing more evidence. Ashley Hargan will speak. Twenty years to life in prison is possible for each of the two first-degree murder convictions.
Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said prosecutors would seek a significant sentence.
“We in Fairfax County have no tolerance for such disregard for human life, and I am committed to addressing crimes of this magnitude with the seriousness they merit,” Descano said in a statement. “We will be asking for a substantial sentence that reflects the seriousness of the crime.”
Prosecutors and Megan Hargan’s defense attorneys laid out dramatically different accounts of what happened on July 14, 2017.
Prosecutors argued money was Megan Hargan’s motive and that she attempted fraudulent money transfers from her mother’s accounts on the day of the killings and the previous day, as she closed on a new home.
Defense attorneys described a murder-suicide, claiming that Helen Hargan shot her mother and then herself.
Crime scene tape surrounded the Hargan home in the 6700 block of Dean Drive the day the mother’s and daughter’s bodies were found. Fairfax County police discovered a gruesome scene that included a rifle wedged between Helen Hargan’s legs.
Police initially described the women’s deaths as a murder-suicide. But the investigation suggested a more chilling family tragedy.
Police arrested Megan Hargan in November 2018 — more than a year after the killings — and said they had determined that she gunned down her mother and sister and then staged the scene to frame her sister as the shooter.
Megan Hargan’s defense attorneys argued that case was a murder-suicide and Helen Hargan was responsible. Helen Hargan called her boyfriend and said Megan killed her mom, attorneys said in closing arguments. Then, they argue, she killed herself.
Prosecutors pointed to the single, point-blank gunshot wound in the top of Helen’s head. She was found in a bathroom with the .22-caliber rifle wedged between her legs, with the muzzle pointing up.
“Someone put the gun to the top of her head and pulled the trigger, and it went straight down to her neck. That’s how you get a wound like that,” the prosecutor said.
Megan Hargan’s defense attorneys told jurors that Helen put the gun to her own head and fired using her toes. She wore a sock to avoid leaving evidence on the trigger, they said.
The defense argued Helen was upset after her mom cancelled plans to give the 24-year-old a new house, and because her mother disapproved of Helen’s boyfriend. Also, another sister, Ashley Hargan, said in a recorded police interview that Pamela Hargan had suspected Helen of drug use and had planned to hold an intervention. She told detectives her youngest sister had previously attempted suicide.
Megan Hargan’s young daughter was in the home at the time of the shootings.
Andrae Daniels has been charged with the stabbing murder of Alicia Arnone in New Jersey. According to police reports Alicia Arnone had filed numerous protection orders against her ex boyfriend Andrae Daniels however they went ignored. Andrae Davis would go over to Alicia Arnone home in Leonia, New Jersey and stabbed the woman to death. Andrae Daniels has been charged with ith first-degree murder, and possession of a weapon
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A man was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in Leonia, New Jersey on Sunday.
Thirty-nine-year-old Andrae Daniels was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, and possession of a weapon, according to Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella.
The arrest comes after the prosecutor’s office and Leonia police department investigated the death of 35-year-old Alicia Arnone.
The police department got a call from an apartment complex at 147 Grand Avenue near Overpeck Preserve Saturday morning that a resident may have been the victim of a stabbing.
When officers arrived, they found Arnone dead from an apparent stab wound.
Daniels is currently being held at the Bergen County Jail.
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A Lodi man was arrested Saturday in connection with a woman fatally stabbed in a Leonia apartment Saturday morning.
Andrae Daniels, 39, was charged with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a weapon after being arrested the day of the stabbing, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release.
Police found Alicia Arnone, 35, dead with a stab wound in a Grand Avenue apartment in Leonia after receiving a 911 call at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Daniels is currently in the Bergen County Jail awaiting his first court appearance. Prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Liz Rebein said there no court date has been set.
Shedrica Odessa Smith is a woman from Detroit who was just charged in a fatal hit and run where she allegedly ran over Tiffany White with her SUV. According to police reports Shedrica Odessa Smith was watching two groups of neighbors fighting when she jumped in her SUV and looked like she was driving away however Smith would aim her SUV at a group of people. Tiffany White was able to push her child out of the way before she was fatally struck and run over. Shedrica Odessa Smith would leave the scene.
When the Detroit police arrived they found Tiffany White deceased with tire marks on her body. Shedrica Odessa Smith would be arrested and has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to murder in connection with the hit-and-run.
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A 31-year-old woman has been charged with murder after a mother of six was reportedly intentionally hit with a vehicle during an altercation in Detroit, officials announced Saturday.
Around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 20, Detroit police say that a woman was “viciously attacked” by a driver who apparently intentionally ran over the woman amid an ongoing altercation on Manning Street, near 7 Mile Road and Hayes Street. The woman — identified as 40-year-old Tiffany Watson-Vance — was reportedly found lying in the street with tire marks around her body by responding officers, according to prosecutors.
Police reported that two groups of people were gathered at the location Sunday due to an ongoing argument that escalated into a fight. The driver accused of intentionally striking Watson-Vance is said to have driven away from the scene at a high rate of speed, circled the location, drove over the grass and ran into the 40-year-old woman.
“It appears that the victim was a bystander, but she was clearly in the path of the vehicle, and there was no attempt by this person of interest to avoid her,” Detroit police Chief James White said. “There was no attempt. It was direct.”
The driver then fled the scene, officials said.
On March 22, a person of interest reportedly turned herself into police and was questioned, but ultimately released. Detroit police announced Friday, March 26, that the driver accused of the fatal hit-and-run had been arrested.
The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office on Saturday charged Shedrica Odessa Smith, 31, with one count of first-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to murder in connection with the hit-and-run. She is expected to be arraigned Saturday morning.
Officials say there was a young child near Watson-Vance who was also nearly struck by the driver amid the altercation.
The woman wanted in connection with a fatal hit-and-run Sunday on the city’s east side has been arrested, police said.
Shedrica Odessa Smith, who police said is also known as “Shay,” was taken into custody by Detroit police officers, officials said. They said they are not releasing any further information.
White was killed when a motorist drove a vehicle into a crowd of onlookers at a neighborhood brawl about 8:30 p.m. Sunday near State Fair Avenue and Hayes, according to authorities.
They said White pushed her child out of harm’s way a split-second before she was struck by the vehicle, a 2020 gray or silver Nissan Murano with a Minnesota license plate FDY246.
Police said they believe White was one of several people who had gathered near Manning and Crusade on the city’s east side to watch a fight between two groups of neighbors, officials said.
At some point, a vehicle sped away but circled the location, driving over the grass and striking the victim, police said.
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