Jarques Butler is an accused teen killer who has been charged with the murders of three people during a suspected robbery in Alabama
According to police reports Jarques Butler would enter Tienda Los Hermanos to rob the small grocery store and in the process would shoot Daniel Lopez, 20; Romero Lopez, 40, George Elijah Jr., 50. George Elijah Jr and Daniel Lopez would be pronounced dead at the scene with Romero Lopez passing away shortly after at the hospital
A large reward would be offered to find the person responsible for the triple murder and eventually Jarques Butler would be arrested and has been charged with multiple counts of capital murder. Since Butler is eighteen years old the death penalty could be on the table
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The Montgomery Police Department has charged an 18-year-old man with two counts of capital murder in a June 4 triple homicide at a local grocery that shook the community.
Police identified Jarques Butler as a suspect in the triple homicide that killed George Elijah, Jr., 50, Daniel Lopez, 20, and Romero Lopez, 43, all of Montgomery, MPD Maj. Saba Coleman confirmed. Officers have not clarified which men Butler is charged with killing.
“Montgomery police continue to do excellent work bringing those who commit the worst offenses in our city to justice.,” Mayor Steven Reed said. “This case is far from over, and I have faith our officers will bring everyone involved in this heinous crime to justice. We encourage anyone with information to come forward and assist MPD, regardless of your legal status. Your help is crucial in keeping our community safe.”
The shootings happened after what leaders described as a robbery at a Troy Highway business called Tienda Los Hermanos. It was part of a string of at least five robberies targeting Latino businesses in the area that keep a large amount of cash on hand, said Felix Montelara, an advocate in the community.
At about 1:39 p.m. Tuesday, the police tried to make contact with Butler in the area of East Fifth Street, but he fled on foot. Officers as well as the Alabama Law Enforcement Aviation Unit located Butler and arrested him, Coleman said.
Butler is in the Montgomery jail without a bond. Police did not immediately release any other information.
Police in Tennessee have charged a seventeen year old teen killer with the murder of Trinity Bostic
According to police reports Trinity Bostic was reported missing in June 2024 and her body was discovered on July 3 2024 along a Tennessee road, Vietnam Veterans Boulevard and New Shackle Island Road, by a Tennessee Department Of Transportation worker
Police are releasing very few details regarding the investigation however they have stated that a seventeen year old has been charged with first degree murder. They have not yet released the name of the suspect due to his age however I would imagine once he is charged as an adult his name will be made public
Police in Hendersonville Tennessee is asking the public for any information they may have regarding the murder of Trinity Bostic
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Police in Tennessee have arrested a 17-year-old male in connection with the murder of a teen girl who went missing last month and whose remains were found July 3 along a busy Middle Tennessee road.
The Hendersonville Police Department arrested the 17-year-old male from Westmoreland, Tenn., who is currently being held in Sumner County Detention, police said Saturday in a news release. Police charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Trinity Bostic.
Bostic, 17, was reported missing in nearby Macon County on June 29. Her remains were found on July 3 in Hendersonville by a Tennessee Department of Transportation subcontract worker. The worker found her body while picking up trash along the road in a wood line near Vietnam Veterans Boulevard and New Shackle Island Road, police said.
Police have said they suspected foul play in the ongoing investigation. The death investigation is “essentially a homicide investigation,” Sgt. Nicholas Edwards told USA TODAY on Friday. The department did not provide any additional information about the arrest.
Bostic’s cause of death remains under investigation, pending an autopsy, police said.
The Hendersonville Police Department asks anyone with any information about the case to contact the department at (615) 822-1111 or the Hendersonville Crime Stoppers at (615) 594-4113. Tips may also be submitted using the P3 Tips Mobile Application.
Bricen Rivers is an alleged killer from Tennessee who has been charged with the murder of his ex girlfriend Lauren Johansen
According to police reports Bricen Rivers had been arrested and charged with kidnapping and a brutal assault of Lauren Johansen back in December 2023. Even though family members would tell the Judge that their daughter life would be in danger if Rivers was let out of jail the Judge would eventually lower his bond and Bricen would be able to bond out
Just days after being released from a Tennessee jail the body of Lauren Johansen would be found mutilated and wrapped in trash bags at a Mississippi cemetery and Bricen Rivers would be arrested and charged with his murder
As part of his release Bricen Rivers was suppose to stay in Tennessee and be fitted with an ankle monitor, both of which he completely ignored. A security camera at the residence of Lauren Johansen was disabled and her front door was open as well as her car was missing. By the time they were able to track down her car it was too late as it was located at a cemetery in Mississippi where her body would be found
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Days after a woman’s ex-boyfriend bonded out of jail in Nashville, Tennessee, without an ankle monitor, despite her family’s insistence in court that her life would be in danger unless he remained in custody, 22-year-old Lauren Johansen was found dead Wednesday in her own car in a Mississippi cemetery, “mutilated” and wrapped in sheets and trash bags.
This is the series of events that was recounted by Lauren’s father Lance Johansen in an emotional interview with local ABC and CBS affiliate WLOX. The reported orthopedic surgeon said that family begged a Nashville judge not to let 23-year-old Bricen Rivers out of jail, but the court allowed it, and then his daughter was murdered as a result.
Lance said that he appeared in court and urged Judge Cheryl Blackburn not to let Rivers out of jail during a pending aggravated kidnapping, aggravated stalking and coercion of a witness case from December 2023, because he was certain the defendant “was going to kill” Lauren, who was the victim in the pending case.
Blackburn, whose competency has been questioned in recent months by local defense lawyers, lowered Rivers’ bond from $250,000 to $150,000, records show. It’s unclear exactly when the defendant was released, but it was a matter of days before Johansen’s death, and prosecutors reportedly said they objected to the bond lowering.
Rivers allegedly ignored a requirement to stay in Davidson County, Tenn., ignored a requirement to get an ankle monitor, and was subsequently arrested and charged with Lauren Johansen’s murder across state lines.
The WLOX news segment aired a message that Lance Johansen said he received from the Davidson County District Attorney’s Office on July 1 telling him that Rivers was out of jail.
“This is Bailey calling from the district attorney’s office in Nashville. Bricen Rivers was released from custody. He was supposed to report straight to a GPS company and be put on a GPS monitor and he was not to leave Davidson County,” the recording aired on the news said. “But as soon as he was released, he did not report to that GPS monitoring company, and he has not been heard from. I wanted to make sure Lauren is safe.”
By that point, it seems, it was already close to too late to save Lauren. The father said that he texted Lauren and got a response that didn’t sound like her. Then, in the early morning hours of July 2, he saw that the tracking feature on Lauren’s Life360 location sharing app was no longer active.
The story only got worse from there.
Lance told WLOX that he reported his daughter missing to police in Hattiesburg soon after he learned that a security camera at a home where Lauren lived with her sister was no longer functioning, that the front door to the residence was open, and that Lauren and her car were not there.
The grieving father said that by the time Lauren’s car was found via OnStar on Wednesday afternoon in “the middle of the cemetery” in Harrison County, he knew that “she was dead.”
But he could not have been prepared for what he saw next.
“When we got there, her car was in the middle of the cemetery and she was in the back of the car wrapped up in sheets and trash bags. She was basically beaten to death,” Lance Johansen reportedly told WLOX. “Her face was smashed in, her head was smashed in, she was brutally beaten to the point she couldn’t see out of either eye when she finally died and there was multiple holes in her head. I helped the coroner lift her body out of the car. It was just mutilated.”
“Everything she did, everything she touched turned to gold — except for this guy,” he added.
Rivers allegedly ran off when cops arrived at the cemetery and was arrested in the woods several hours later.
Jail records reviewed by Law&Crime show that Bricen Rivers was booked with a $1,000,000 bond not long after midnight on July 4.
Colby Stokes is an alleged killer from Louisiana who has been charged with the murder of his Grandparents
According to police reports Colby Stokes would shoot his Grandparents Beverly and Carley Stokes inside of their home. Beverly Stokes would die after being rushed to the hospital and Carley Stokes would die inside of the residence
Apparently following the double shooting Colby Stokes would walk to a neighbors home where he confessed to the murders
Colby Stokes would be arrested and has been charged with two counts of first degree murder, cruelty to animals, felon in possession of a firearm and aggravated battery
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A Washington Parish man accused of killing his grandparents Wednesday afternoon is facing upgraded charges.
Deputies say Colby Stokes approached his neighbor and admitted to shooting his grandparents.
The neighbor called 911 and waited with Stokes while deputies responded to the scene.
When deputies arrived, they found two victims who had gunshot wounds.
The man died at the scene. A woman was taken to the hospital, where she later died.
Stokes was originally facing two counts of second-degree manslaughter. However, on Thursday, the sheriff’s office upgraded his charges to two counts of first-degree murder.
He is also facing charges of cruelty to animals, being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and aggravated second-degree battery.
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A man and woman were shot and killed Wednesday in the small Washington Parish town of Mount Hermon. According to the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office, the couple’s grandson confessed to shooting them.
WPSO dispatchers got the call Wednesday afternoon. The caller told them their next-door neighbor, 23-year-old Colby Stokes, had come over and told them he killed his grandparents. When deputies arrived, Stokes told them the same thing.
They found Beverly and Carley Stokes at their home. Both had been shot. Carley Stokes was pronounced dead at the scene, while Beverly Stokes was taken to a hospital where she died a short time later.
Sheriff Jason Smith, who was sworn in less than a week ago, told WWL Louisiana Colby Stokes also confessed to the shooting on video. He added that Stokes was not a stranger to the Sheriff’s Office.
“He’s been in and out of jail,” he said, referencing “past mental health” struggles and “some drug and alcohol abuse.” In 2018, WPSO posted Stokes’ photo on Facebook with a description of a recent arrest for a burglary, in which multiple firearms were stolen. He was 17 at the time.
Now, he is facing two murder charges for the deaths of his grandparents. ”This family, they’re on both sides of this,” said Smith, “not only have they been victimized by it, they’ve also perpetrated it, so it’s a very difficult circumstance to be in.”
WWL Louisiana spoke with a family member who said neither he nor any others wished to speak on camera.
Through a family friend, they passed on the message that “they are dealing with the loss of two wonderful people and just trying to process… they ask prayers at this time for everyone involved. It is a tragedy that no one should have to face.” They also provided several photos of Beverly and Carley Stokes, which show them with their arms wrapped around each other, smiling.
Sheriff Smith said he is from Mount Hermon as well and knew Carley Stokes personally. “He was very personable,” he said. “He was a former Marine, like myself, so we would always talk about that, he had worked for WST for years. He was well-known and well-liked.”
Stokes will be booked and charged with two counts of 2nd-degree murder
Jason Kendall is an accused killer from Las Vegas Nevada who has been charged with the murder of an escort
According to police reports Larissa Garcia was rushed to the hospital after being found unresponsive in a Las Vegas hotel room. The woman would die from her injuries days later
Apparently Jason Kendall would contact 911 and would tell the operator that a woman was overdosing in his hotel room. When security investigated they would find Larissa Garcia with a cut to her jaw. An autopsy would later reveal no drugs nor alcohol were present in her system
Jason Kendall would be identified as a suspect and he would turn himself in to Las Vegas police
Jason Kendall would be charged with murder, sexual assault, and battery by strangulation to commit sexual assault.
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A 35-year-old man is facing a murder charge after a woman died nine days after she was found unresponsive in a hotel room, Las Vegas police said Saturday.
Jason Kendall turned himself in at the Metropolitan Police Department’s headquarters on Friday, according to a press release.
Officers responded to Spring Valley Hospital at about 6:10 p.m. on June 12 after the woman, the victim of a possible battery, had been transported there, police said.
The woman had been found unresponsive in a hotel room in the 4300 block of West Flamingo Road, police said. Police did not identify the hotel by name, but the Palms is at 4321 W. Flamingo Road.
The woman, who had been in critical condition, died on June 21, police said.
Metro homicide investigators took over the case and police said they were able to identify Kendall as the suspect in the death.
The woman’s identity is expected to be released by the Clark County coroner’s office.
According to court records, Kendall faces charges of open murder, sexual assault, and battery by strangulation to commit sexual assault.
Court records indicated that Jason Kendall appeared in court Saturday and remained in custody at the Clark County Detention Center, with another court appearance set for Tuesday.
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