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Shamaiya Hall Murders 3 Children In Texas

Shamaiya Hall is a woman from Italy Texas who would stab five children murdering three of them . According to police reports Shamaiya Hall would stab five of her children killing three of them. The three children who past away are all elementary school age. Turns out back in 2017 Shamaiya Hall would stab her sister’s boyfriend.

According to reports the five children were under care of the Child Protective Services and Shamaiya Hall was to have no contact with the children. However when Child Protective Services learned that Shamaiya Hall was having unsupervised visits with her five children she would react by stabbing the young children killing three of them

Turns out that back in 2021 Shamaiya Hall twin sister Troyshaye Mone Hall would fatally stab her own daughter who was seven years of age. Troyshaye Mone Hall would be placed at a Texas State Hospital.

Shamaiya Hall has been charged with three counts of murder

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Police arrested a mother in Italy, Texas, after she allegedly stabbed three of her children to death and and injured two more of her children Friday, sources told WFAA.

Sources said three elementary school-aged kids were found dead inside a home near Stafford Elementary School in the small Ellis County town on Friday afternoon.

Child Protective Services confirmed to WFAA that all five children were siblings.

Now, we’re learning more about who the mother – identified as Shamaiya Hall – is and her criminal history. This is not the first time she’s been arrested for allegedly stabbing someone, and it’s not the first alleged fatal stabbing tied to her family, either.

Hall, according to arrest records obtained by WFAA, is a 25-year-old resident of Forney, Texas. She had been previously arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing her sister’s boyfriend in 2017.

The children had been previously placed by CPS under the guardianship of another relative.

Sources with CPS told WFAA that Hall allegedly stabbed her children when a CPS worker, who suspected the mother was having unsupervised visitations with her children, arrived at the scene to check on her unannounced.

Hall’s twin sister, Troyshaye Mone Hall, was arrested for allegedly stabbing and killing her 7-year-old daughter in June of 2021, according to an arrest affidavit. In October of 2021, Troyshaye Mone Hall was ordered to go to North Texas State Hospital in Vernon.

Shamaiya Hall has been charged with three counts of capital murder.

Who is Shamaiya Hall? Mom suspected of killing kids in Italy, TX | wfaa.com

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A mother is in custody in Italy, Texas, after she allegedly stabbed three of her children to death and and injured two more of her children Friday, sources told WFAA.

The mother has been identified as 25-year-old Shamaiya Hall.

Sources said three elementary school-aged kids were found dead inside a home near Stafford Elementary School in the small Ellis County town on Friday afternoon

Two other children were injured and were transported by helicopter to a local hospital with stab wounds. Their conditions are unknown.

Child Protective Services confirmed to WFAA that all five children were siblings.

Sources with CPS told WFAA that Hall allegedly stabbed her children when a CPS worker, who suspected Hall was having unsupervised visitations with her children, arrived at the scene to check on her unannounced.

The children had been previously placed by CPS under the guardianship of another relative.

The Ellis County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that CPS had been at a home on the street where the crime took place, and then quickly called 911 for help.

There is no current additional threat to the greater community, officials said.

CPS provided WFAA the following statement: “We are shocked by this incomprehensible tragedy, and already working with law enforcement to investigate how this happened, and why,”

Added Ellis County Judge Todd Little in a statement of his own: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and citizens of Italy.”

Italy ISD said in a statement that counselors will be available at the school on Monday morning. Any family or community members can also seek counseling on Monday morning at Central Baptist Church main campus, the district said.

An active investigation remains ongoing at the scene.

3 children found fatally stabbed in Italy, Texas home | wfaa.com

Domenico Gigante Murders 4 In Florida

Domenico Gigante is a man from Florida who has been arrested and charged with four murders including his fifteen year old daughter. According to police reports Domenico Gigante was attempting to rebuild a relationship with his daughter however she would have nothing to do with him. Domenico Gigante would respond by shooting her and three other people dead.

Police have identified the four victims as Glenda Terwilliger, 63; Michael Andrew Watson, 36; Constance Marie Terwilliger, 35; and Constance’s daughter, Kiarra Terwilliger, 15. Domenico Gigante who has a long violent criminal history has been charged with four murders

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A Florida man with “an extremely violent past” is accused of fatally shooting four family members, including his own 15-year-old daughter, at a home early Wednesday, authorities said.

Domenico Claude Gigante, 36, of Rockledge, is charged with four counts of premeditated first-degree murder in the deaths of Glenda Mae Terwilliger, 63, Michael Andrew Watson, 36, Constance Marie Terwilliger, 35, and 15-year-old Kiarrra Terwilliger, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said.

Two children, ages 6 and 9, were at the home in Cocoa, Florida, at the time of the shootings but were unharmed. One of the children had called for help using video chat, and the recipient of that call drove to the home and called 911, the sheriff’s office said.

Sheriff Wayne Ivey told reporters Gigante has a long history of violence, which includes hurting and killing animals.

“This is an extremely violent individual with an extremely violent past,” Sheriff Wayne Ivey said. “This individual should have never been out on our streets.”

Ivey said Gigante was previously arrested for domestic violence and battery in 2005 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault in 2012.

Gigante was also previously arrested on several counts of animal cruelty in 2008. Ivey told reporters that the murder suspect had killed a dog by slamming the animal’s head onto a table and breaking its neck and stabbed another dog.

Gigante was the biological father of Kiarra Terwilliger and had formerly been in a relationship with her mother, Constance Marie Terwilliger, according to investigators.

While a motive was not immediately clear, Ivey said detectives believe the incident was domestic and isolated.

Florida man arrested after 4 found shot dead inside home, including his 15-year-old daughter | Fox News

Mayor Patrick Wojahn Charged With Child Porn

Patrick Wojahn use to be the Mayor of College Park Maryland that is until he was arrested for possession of child pornography which not only comes with its own steep penalties it also led to him resigning. According to police reports Patrick Wojahn became a suspect after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children altered police that someone in the county was distributing child pornography through a social media account. After an investigation Patrick Wojahn would be arrested and has been charged with 56 counts related to child pornography. 40 counts of Possession of Child Exploitative Material and 16 counts of Distribution of Child Exploitative Material.

Needless to say when the news broke that the Mayor of College Park had been arrested it caused quite a stir and soon after Patrick Wojahn would formally resign from the position.

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Patrick Wojahn, the mayor of College Park, Maryland, was arrested Thursday morning on charges of possession and distribution of child sex abuse material, Prince George’s County Police said.

Wojahn, 47, has resigned from his position as mayor, according to a news release from the city.

“Last night, after business hours, Mayor Patrick L. Wojahn submitted his letter of resignation as Mayor of the City of College Park, effective immediately on March 2,” the release said. “Mayor Wojahn has served in this position since 2015 and on Council since 2007.”

News4’s Tracee Wilkins broke the story on Twitter Thursday morning.

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#Breaking: College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn is being investigated for possession and distribution of child pornography after a search warrant was issued according to sources close to this investigation, he is now in police custody. pic.twitter.com/LyHfKjLA4D— Tracee Wilkins (@TraceeWilkins) March 2, 2023

According to a news release from Prince George’s County police, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notified police of a suspicious social media account operating in the county on Feb. 17.

“The image and videos,” which the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children believed to be child sex abuse material, “had been uploaded to the social media account in January of 2023,” the release said. “Through various investigative techniques, PGPD investigators discovered the social media account belonged to Wojahn.”

Police served a search warrant on Wojahn’s home Tuesday and found “multiple cell phones, a storage device, a tablet and a computer,” the release said.

Wojahn was taken into custody Thursday morning and was “charged with 40 counts of possession of child exploitative material and 16 counts of distribution of child exploitative material,” police said.

The investigation is still ongoing, police said.

It is unclear if Wojahn has an attorney.

The City of College Park posted a link to Wojahn’s resignation letter on the same webpage as their official release.

“While this investigation does not involve any official city business of any kind, it is in the best interests of our community that I step aside and not serve as a distraction,” Wojahn said in the letter, dated March 2.

College Park will hold a special election within 65 days to elect a new mayor. Until then, “Mayor Pro Tem Denise Mitchell will serve as presiding officer” of the city.

College Park Mayor Resigns, Arrested for Possession, Distribution of Child Porn – NBC4 Washington (nbcwashington.com)

Teen Xavier Lewis Guilty Of Tiana Richardson Murder

Xavier Lewis was a fifteen year old from Florida when he shot and killed Tiana Richardson during a drug deal gone wrong. According to court documents Xavier Lewis invited Tiana Richardson over to his home to purchase marijuana but something went wrong and the teen killer would pull out a gun and fatally shoot Richardson. Xavier Lewis would be arrested shortly afterwards and would be tried as an adult. Xavier Lewis would be found guilty of murder.

When it came down to sentencing Tiana Richardson family wanted the teen killer to spend the rest of his life in prison however the judge would sentence the now seventeen year old to forty years.

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A basketball coach, a grandfather, a teacher and a mother had to strike a balance between highlighting the good and the bad about the 17-year-old boy convicted of murder.

A lifetime of trauma made Xavier Lewis impulsive and reactive, they said, which is how he found himself here, in criminal court, in the first place. But he was smart, too, and a leader — capable of being rehabilitated.

His best chance at that was in prison, said Circuit Judge Cymonie Rowe. She sentenced the teen Wednesday to 40 years for killing 32-year-old Tiana Richardson in December 2020. The penalty was more than a decade longer than his public defender asked for and two decades fewer than the prosecutor did.

Neither reacted immediately. One of Lewis’ friends flashed four fingers at the others, his eyebrows raised. Forty? They nodded.

Hannah Phillips, Palm Beach Post

Fri, March 3, 2023 at 7:44 AM EST

WEST PALM BEACH — A basketball coach, a grandfather, a teacher and a mother had to strike a balance between highlighting the good and the bad about the 17-year-old boy convicted of murder.

Neither reacted immediately. One of Lewis’ friends flashed four fingers at the others, his eyebrows raised. Forty? They nodded.

Xavier Lewis called Richardson to his Boynton Beach neighborhood near Federal Highway and Gateway Boulevard to buy marijuana from her on Dec. 26, 2020. Gunfire cut the deal short and left Richardson dead behind the wheel, her girlfriend screaming and fleeing down the street while Lewis ran in the opposite direction – back to his home, where he stashed the gun in the garage.

Boynton Beach police arrested Lewis at Atlantic High School, where he was a freshman, two weeks later.

“I’m not a bad person,” Xavier Lewis told the judge Wednesday, reading aloud from a letter his classmates at the jail helped him write. “I just made a regrettable decision.”

There was never a debate over whether Xavier Lewis, then 15, pulled the trigger. Ballistics evidence, witness testimony and the teen’s own statements put him in the back seat of Richardson’s car, firing once into her head, then again and again into her back. The question was why.

Assistant Public Defender Renee Sihvola said Lewis pulled the trigger because he feared for his life — a fear she said stemmed from previous trauma and the presence of Richardson’s own gun in the car. Assistant State Attorney Jo Wilensky said Lewis lured Richardson to his neighborhood intent on killing her.

Jurors rejected the self-defense theory, but they didn’t believe Lewis planned to kill Richardson, either. They landed instead on second-degree murder with a firearm, sparing Lewis an automatic life sentence but leaving his fate up to the discretion of the judge.

Annie Richardson asked Rowe to issue the maximum penalty. Her daughter was easy-going and in the prime of her life, she said — the middle child of a large family, a self-taught mechanic, a soon-to-be homeowner, and now a gaping hole in their lives.

“His family can still talk to him, and get all the love and affection that I’ve been robbed of,” Richardson said between tears. “I can’t get that anymore.”

Wilensky asked Rowe to sentence the teen to 60 years in prison — not life — to account for his youth and troubled upbringing. Sihvola called the recommendation a “de-facto life sentence.”

She urged Rowe to sentence Lewis to 25 years instead, insisting that the emotional immaturity and lack of impulse control that drove his actions at 15 weren’t permanent. A teacher from the jail testified that she’d watched Lewis grow as a person and a student during his two-year stint there.

Like the jury, Rowe’s decision seemed to split the lawyers’ wishes down the middle

Evidence of a troubled childhood, in addition to Lewis’ age, intellectual capacity and mental and emotional health, persuaded her against sentencing him to life in prison, she said. Rowe added that she believes prison time will help rehabilitate the teen, “who seems to be doing well” while incarcerated.

Lewis’ friends sent a chorus of “good lucks” his way as the bailiffs began to handcuff him. His grandmother, Lily Head, called out her grandson’s name, just like she had when he’d been convicted. Her voice was weaker this time.

“Xavier,” she said. “It’s going to be all right.”

A Boynton teen convicted of murder asked the judge for mercy. Here’s what she decided. (yahoo.com)

Brett DiBiase Pleads Guilty To Fraud

Former WWE wrestler Brett DiBiase has plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the federal government. According to court documents Brett DiBiase would plead guilty after authorities learned that he used money that was intended for poor families in Mississippi for other purposes. Now Brett DiBiase is facing five years in federal prison plus a $250,000 fine.

Brett DiBiase plead guilty in 2020 to State charges for basically the same thing however his sentencing was delayed as authorities were going after other people involved in the scam

Brett DiBiase who is the son of WWE legend Ted DiBiase competed in the WWE for three years until a knee injury would end his wrestling career.

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A former pro wrestler pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge related to misspending of welfare money that was supposed to help needy families in Mississippi, one of the poorest states in the U.S.

Brett DiBiase faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine for his plea to conspiracy to defraud the federal government.

He pleaded guilty in December 2020 to a state charge of making false representations to defraud the government. State sentencing was delayed, and DiBiase has been cooperating with state and federal investigators looking at others in the case, Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens said.

Owens and Mississippi Auditor Shad White announced DiBiase’s federal guilty plea.

“I applaud our federal partners for continuing to pursue federal charges for each and every individual responsible for stealing from Mississippi’s most needy and vulnerable citizens,” Owens said Thursday. “This case is far from over and both the state of Mississippi and the U.S. government will continue to pursue all those involved in this fraud, regardless of their position or standing.”

White said the auditor’s office will continue to assist prosecutors as they decide who will face criminal charges.

“I’m pleased that our work uncovering the largest public fraud in state history continues to result in convictions,” White said.

John Davis, who was Mississippi Department of Human Services executive director from 2016 to mid-2019, pleaded guilty last September to state and federal charges tied to misspending of money through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program.

Davis’ state court charges were mostly tied to welfare money spent on DiBiase, including $160,000 for the former wrestler’s drug rehabilitation in Malibu, California.

Davis, DiBiase and four other people were indicted on state charges in the welfare misspending case in February 2020.

Two of those indicted, a mother and son who ran a nonprofit organization and an education company, pleaded guilty in April 2022 to state charges of misusing welfare money, including on lavish gifts such as the first-class airfare for Davis. Nancy New and Zachary New ran the organization that funneled welfare money for DiBiase’s drug rehab. They agreed to testify against others.

The welfare scandal has ensnared high-profile figures, including retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre, who lives in Mississippi. Favre has not faced criminal charges but is one of more than three dozen defendants in a civil lawsuit that the current Human Services director filed to try to recover some of the welfare money wasted while Davis was in charge.

Welfare money helped fund pet projects of the wealthy, including $5 million for a volleyball arena that Favre supported at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, the state auditor said. Favre’s daughter played volleyball at the school starting in 2017.

Ex-wrestler pleads guilty again in Mississippi welfare fraud (yahoo.com)