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Alonzo Mingo Murders 3 In Minnesota

Alonzo Mingo is an alleged killer from Minnesota who has been charged with a triple murder in a home invasion robbery

According to police reports Alonzo Mingo would dress up as a UPS worker and one of his accomplices would be holding a box. They would make their way into the home where Mingo would fatally shoot 42-year-old Shannon Patricia Jungwirth, her husband, 39-year-old Mario Alberto Trejo Estrada, and her son, Jorge Alexander Reyes-Jungwirth in front of two younger children before fleeing

When Officers arrived at the scene they would find the bodies of the three victims and two children who were under the age of five years old who were not hurt in the home invasion

Using surveillance video inside of the home officers would be able to watch Mingo execute the victims

Alonzo Mingo would be arrested and has been charged with three counts of murder along with an assortment of other charges

Alonzo Mingo News

A Minnesota man accused of killing three people inside their Anoka County home was a former UPS worker who appeared to wear a company uniform as he carried out the fatal shootings last Friday, court records show.

Alonzo Pierre Mingo faces three counts of second-degree murder, according to a criminal complaint filed in Anoka County Court. He did not enter a plea during a hearing Monday, and he’s being held in the county jail in lieu of $5 million bail. No attorneys were listed for Mingo on Tuesday, and the presiding judge denied his request for a public defender.

His second court appearance is scheduled for February 8, according to court records.

Police went to the home after a 911 call “captured a female in the background of a possible domestic situation,” according to a statement of probable cause written by a detective with the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office.

Officers found three dead victims, identified by the sheriff’s office as Shannon Patricia Jungwirth, 42; her husband, Mario Alberto Trejo Estrada, 39; and her son, Jorge Alexander Reyes-Jungwirth, 20. Two children under the age of 5 who were also at the home were not harmed, police said.

Surveillance video shows a blue Nissan Altima parking outside the home at 12:21 p.m. and three suspects exiting the vehicle and approaching the house, according to the probable cause statement. Two of them were “wearing clothing similar to UPS delivery driver uniforms,” and one was “carrying a cardboard box as if he is delivering a package” as he entered the home, the document states.

Separate surveillance recordings from cameras inside the home showed Mingo holding two adults at gunpoint and demanding money, the probable cause statement says. Later, the video captures a woman being shot at point blank range.

Surveillance footage shows the three suspects exiting the home at 12:28 p.m. and leaving in the vehicle, which was registered to Alonzo Mingo. He was arrested several hours later while leaving his home in the same vehicle.

Alonzo Mingo denied having ever worked at UPS while being questioned by detectives, but investigators found “UPS delivery uniform tops and a UPS vest” in a backpack in his car. Police ultimately confirmed Mingo was employed by UPS until early January, the statement says.

A UPS spokesperson confirmed Alonzo Mingo had worked for the company “for a short time” as a seasonal employee.

“His temporary employment ended in mid-January,” the spokesperson said. “As this is an active investigation, we will defer to investigating authorities for additional questions.”

A prosecutor notified the judge in a filing Monday that they intend to ask for a sentence above the normal guidelines if Mingo is convicted, saying, “The victims were treated with particular cruelty for which the defendant should be held responsible.”

Mingo pleaded guilty to a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm in an unrelated case and was sentenced in November 2020 to a 57-month prison term, court records show. He was let out on supervised release in February 2023.

Attorneys who represented him in his federal case did not immediately respond to requests for comment from CNN.

The shooting remains under investigation, the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/us/minnesota-delivery-driver-uniform-killings-suspect/index.html

Justin Mohn Murders Father In PA

Justin Mohn has been arrested in Pennsylvania and has been charged in the brutal murder of his father Michael F. Mohn

According to police reports the wife of Michael F. Mohn would call police to tell them that she had found her husband deceased. When police arrived they would discover a horror scene. Michael Mohn had been decapitated and his head was found in a plastic bag near the bathroom. Officers would find an assortment of evidence to the horrific murder

Justin Mohn became an immediate suspect and would be located two hours later and placed under arrest

Apparently before he fled the murder scene Justin Mohn would post a video on YouTube where he basically showed off his fathers head

Justin Mohn would be charged with murder and abuse of a corpse

Justin Mohn News

A Pennsylvania man has been charged after his father was found beheaded inside their family home Tuesday night in Middletown Township, Bucks County.

The victim’s son, identified as 32-year-old Justin Mohn, has been charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse, among other charges, according to police

Mohn is accused of not only beheading his father, identified as Michael F. Mohn, but also posting the video of him committing the act to YouTube.

Officers responded to the 100 block of Upper Orchard Drive around 7 p.m. after reports of a decapitated body after the victim’s wife came home to discover him beheaded and covered in blood.

When officers arrived, they found the victim’s body in the first-floor bathroom and his head inside a plastic bag in a kitchen pot placed in a first-floor bedroom, according to a police affidavit.

Officers said they also found bloody rubber gloves in a bedroom on the second floor, as well as a machete and a large kitchen knife in the bathtub.

“As far as the crime itself, it’s not something we typically see here,” said Middletown Township Police Captain Pete Feeney.

The wife then told police her husband’s white Toyota Corolla and her son were both missing.

Police said the more than 14-minute long YouTube video, titled “Mohn’s Militia – Call to Arms for American Patriots,” showed Justin Mohn picking up his father’s decapitated head and identifying him by name. Police said it appeared Mohn was reading from a script as he railed about the government.

Mohn referred to himself as a militia leader and called his father a traitor to the country for being a federal employee for 20 years.

He also spoke about President Joe Biden and threatened multiple federal agencies in the gruesome YouTube video while reading from a script.

“There’s plenty of evidence to process, I’m sure they’ll be reviewing that video,” Feeney said.

The video was viewed at least 5,000 times before being taken down.

Police said they were able to track Mohn by pinging his cell phone and he was taken into custody in Fort Indiantown Gap in Lebanon County, about 100 miles from the crime scene.

It is unclear why he was in that area.

There is a National Guard training base there and on its website, it is referred to as “America’s busiest National Guard Training Center.”

“I think the neighborhood can rest easy because I think they were a little uneasy for a while before they knew where the person of interest was,” Middletown Township Police Chief Joseph Bartorilla said.

Bartorilla said the son lived inside the home on Upper Orchard Drive in Levittown.

“That was upsetting, so very very upsetting in our neighborhood. In any neighborhood,” said Ellen Stupak, from Middletown Township.

Mohn, who also was arrested on a weapons possession charge, was arraigned early Wednesday and held without bail. He is scheduled for a hearing on Feb. 8. A spokesperson for the Bucks County district attorney’s office said they did not expect to comment publicly about the case Wednesday.

An attorney for Mohn wasn’t listed in court records Wednesday morning and a message seeking comment on his behalf was left at a phone listing for him. The court clerk’s office said it had no record of a lawyer representing him.

A motive for the killing is still under investigation.

https://6abc.com/justin-mohn-levitttown-middletown-township-pa-father-killed/14373700/

Justin Mohn Video

Kenneth Eugene Smith Execution Scheduled For Today

Kenneth Eugene Smith is to be executed today, January 25 2024. unless the Supreme Court steps in

According to court documents Kenneth Eugene Smith and John Forrest Parker were paid a thousand dollars to murder the wife of Rev. Charles Sennett, Elizabeth Sennett. The woman would be found dead she had been badly beaten and stabbed to death

Rev Charles Sennett would never go to trial as he was found dead with a gunshot wound to his chest.

Kenneth Eugene Smith and John Forrest Parker would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

John Forrest Parker was executed in 2010

Kenneth Eugene Smith execution if it goes through is suppose to be done using nitrogen gas which is controversial as it has been untested in recent history on humans. Smith who was almost executed before however the execution would be stopped after authorities failed to find a good vein for the lethal injection process

Kenneth Eugene Smith Execution

Kenneth Eugene Smith News

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt Alabama from proceeding with the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas to carry out the death penalty on convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, who survived a botched lethal injection in 2022 that helped prompt a review of the state’s death penalty procedures.

The justices denied Kenneth Eugene Smith’s request to stay his execution, which is scheduled for Thursday, and declined to hear his legal challenge contending that a second execution attempt by Alabama – after the first failed attempt caused him severe trauma – would violate the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

No justice publicly dissented from the decision.

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is separately contesting the legality of Alabama’s nitrogen gas protocol on Eighth Amendment and other grounds. That litigation still could come to the Supreme Court, potentially giving the justices another opportunity to decide whether to halt the execution. A judge ruled against Smith concerning the protocol on Jan. 10. The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision on Wednesday.

Kenneth Eugene Smith’s attorney Robert Grass declined to comment.

A majority of the Supreme Court’s justices in 2022 cleared the way
, opens new tab for the first attempted execution of Smith, who was sentenced to death for his role in a 1988 murder-for-hire plot. The nine-member court’s three liberal justices dissented from that previous decision.

Alabama’s gassing method – called nitrogen hypoxia – was designed to deprive Smith of oxygen by placing a mask connected to a cylinder of nitrogen over his face.

Kenneth Eugene Smith’s botched execution was the third consecutive instance in which Alabama officials encountered problems or delays inserting intravenous lines for a scheduled lethal injection, with two of the executions, including Smith’s, eventually called off, according to court filings.

The problems prompted Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, a Republican, to announce a review of the state’s execution procedures. Officials completed the review a few months later, saying they obtained new equipment and would add to the pool of available medical personnel for executions.

Smith in May 2023 challenged Alabama’s plan for a second execution attempt, asserting in state court that it would violate the Eighth Amendment after the first attempt, according to his lawyers, caused him severe physical and psychological pain, including post-traumatic stress disorder.

State officials during that first execution attempt repeatedly tried but failed to place the necessary intravenous lines or a central line in his collarbone area before calling off the execution after 11 p.m. Smith’s lawyers have characterized the experience as torture and said that it “exposed him to the severe mental anguish of a mock execution.”

Lower courts in Alabama dismissed Smith’s challenge. Smith’s lawyers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene, calling Alabama’s nitrogen-gas protocol “recently released and untested,” and “a novel method of execution that has never been attempted by any state or the federal government.”

Alabama Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall in a filing called the method “perhaps the most humane method of execution ever devised.”

Ivey set Smith’s execution to take place within a 30-hour time frame beginning at 12 a.m. on Thursday and expiring at 6 a.m. the following day.

Smith was convicted in the 1988 killing Elizabeth Sennett after he and an accomplice were hired by her husband Charles Sennett, a Christian minister who had taken out a large insurance policy on his wife, according to prosecutors. She was stabbed repeatedly and beaten with a blunt object.

Charles Sennett later committed suicide. Smith’s accomplice also was convicted and sentenced to death, with the execution carried out in 2010.

The U.N. human rights office on Jan. 16 called on Alabama to halt the planned execution, saying it could amount to torture and violate American commitments under international law.

U.S. states that still allow the death penalty have found it increasingly difficult to obtain barbiturates used in lethal-injection execution protocols, in part because of a European ban preventing pharmaceutical companies from selling drugs to be used in executions. Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma have introduced new gas-based protocols.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/supreme-court-declines-halt-first-us-nitrogen-gas-execution-alabama-case-2024-01-24/

Officer Felipe Hernandez Charged With Murder

Las Cruces police officer Felipe Hernandez has been charged with murder for the shooting of Teresa Gomez

According to police reports Las Cruces Officer Felipe Hernandez would pull over Teresa Gomez on a traffic stop. During the interaction Hernandez demanded that Teresa Gomez get out of the vehicle and threatened to use a taser if she did not. Teresa Gomez would comply Hernandez would focus on her passenger Jesus Garcia who was known to trespass in the area.

Teresa Gomez would be allowed to get back in her car. Once inside she attempted to drive away and Felipe Hernandez would fire three times into the vehicle, striking the woman and killing her

Felipe Hernandez would later say that the shooting took place as he was in fear for his life. Unfortunately for him the entire incident would be caught on body cam

Felipe Hernandez would be charged with second degree murder with a firearm enhancement

Felipe Hernandez Video

Felipe Hernandez News

The Las Cruces police officer who shot and killed a 45-year-old woman during an officer-involved shooting last October has been charged with 2nd-degree murder and was arrested Tuesday.

The officer identified as Felipe Hernandez is being charged with second-degree murder.

Hernandez remains on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

Hernandez turned himself in Tuesday morning.

“The DA office came to that determination after reviewing all the evidence submitted by the officer-involved shooting task force,” said Doña Ana County District Attorney Gerald Byers.

“From the very beginning of Mr. Hernandez’s interaction with Ms. Gomez, the ability to manage protocol is non-existent. His interactions with her, just on a human level, was exceptionally subpar and did not meet the standards that LCPD demands of its officers,” said Byers.

Byers said his office looked to see if there was justification for Hernandez to use his firearm.

“There was no necessity for him to use deadly force,” said Byers. “We looked at self-defense. There was no self-defense.”

At about 4:45 a.m. on Oct. 3, a Las Cruces police officer made contact with 45-year-old Teresa Gomez, along with a passenger in her vehicle, near the 1300 block of Burley Court.

In the body cam video, Hernandez an 8-year veteran officer shot at least three times at Gomez while she was trying to run away.

Before the shooting happened, the officer asked Gomez to step out of the car so he could ask her questions which at first she denied before complying.

Gomez told the officer she was at a public housing after hours visiting a friend named Butterfly. The officer then went on to explain that she was trespassing.

The officer also noted the passenger in the car was also a frequent trespasser in the area.

As the video goes on, Gomez asks if she can sit back down in the car.

The officer who was writing down the information said yes but instead Gomez started the car and tried to drive away.

The officer shot three rounds.

Gomez was taken to an area hospital where she died.

Jesus Garcia, 38, the passenger in Gomez’s vehicle, was not injured. He was subsequently arrested on misdemeanor and felony warrants.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/las-cruces-officer-who-shot-killed-woman-in-officer-involved-shooting-charged-with-2nd-degree-murder-teresa-gomez-felipe-hernandez

Carlos Watts Jr Charged In Heather Kelley Murder

Carlos Watts Jr is an alleged killer from Michigan who has been charged with the murder of Heather Kelley

According to police reports Heather Kelley was reported missing in December 2022. Heather vehicle was later found abandoned and set on fire. Kelley who was the mother of eight children remains have not been found

Now police in Michigan have charged her boyfriend Carlos Watts Jr with her murder

Carlos Watts Jr who is a convicted felon was just released from prison six months before the disappearance of Heather Kelley. The two would begin a relationship soon after his release

Carlos Watts Jr is currently in jail on other charges

Carlos Watts Jr News

Carlos Watts Jr., 38, has been charged with the murder of a Portage mother who went missing in December 2022.

Heather Kelley, 35, is a mother to eight children and was last seen in December 2022. Her car was later found abandoned. It had been set on fire, and investigators found her clothes and blood inside.

The Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office shared additional details about those charges Wednesday morning and disclosed the FBI and other federal investigators have assisted in the case.

Investigators have not recovered Kelley’s remains, but feel they have enough probable cause to charge the man she had been in a relationship with.

“It’s the evidence in total in this case,” Prosecutor Jeff Getting said about why his office decided to charge Carlos Watts Jr. in her killing.

If convicted of open murder, he faces life without parole.

Watts Jr. is currently in federal custody for an unrelated case. Court proceedings to bring him back to face these charges are pending.

Watts Jr. had been previously convicted of drug and gun charges and began his supervised release from prison in July 2022.

During the second half of 2022, Watts Jr. had a relationship with Kelley. According to court documents, the two planned to move in together and Watts Jr. tried to support her and her children while they were together.

Kelley was last seen leaving her home at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. Police said she was last heard from about an hour later when she called her children around 10:20 p.m. and said she would be home shortly.

Kelley never returned home and her truck was found abandoned near the intersection of Sprinkle and E. Michigan the next day, the sheriff’s office said.

Authorities asked the public to keep an eye out for her and indicated there was evidence she may have been the victim of a violent crime.

On Feb. 8, 2023, the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office said the case transitioned to a homicide investigation.

Authorities have not shared how Kelley died.

The Sheriff’s Office also said the person of interest in the case, who has been confirmed to be Watts Jr., was in custody elsewhere on an unrelated charge.

https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/investigations/heather-kelley-missing-portage-mom-update/69-0903bdfd-1711-4d1b-9ecb-a7f9520990be

Carlos Watts Jr More News

Recently released federal court documented say the boyfriend of a missing mother of eight from Portage murdered her hours before he escaped from a halfway house.

Carlos Watts Jr. has not been charged in the disappearance of Heather Kelley, 35, but on Tuesday, the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office announced it will provide an update on the case at a Wednesday morning press conference.

Kelley’s body has not been found but investigators believe she was killed.

missing Portage mother
Recently released federal court documented say the boyfriend of a missing mother of eight from Portage murdered her hours before he escaped from a halfway house.
Portage Police Department / U.S. District Court – Western District of Michigan Southern division
By: Marisa Oberle
Posted at 9:30 PM, Jan 09, 2024
and last updated 10:16 PM, Jan 09, 2024

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Recently released federal court documented say the boyfriend of a missing mother of eight from Portage murdered her hours before he escaped from a halfway house.

READ MORE: Prosecutors to deliver update on missing Portage mother Heather Kelley

Kelley’s body has not been found but investigators believe she was killed.

READ MORE: Disappearance of Portage mother of 8 now considered a homicide case