Terry Rivera is an accused killer from Texas who is wanted by police for the murder of twelve year old Carlos Fernandez
According to police reports Carlos Fernandez mother and Terry Rivera use to be in a relationship however that ended. Rivera would come to the home and a argument would ensue. Carlos Fernandez was attempting to protect his mother when he would be fatally shot
Apparently Terry Rivera had broken into the Fernandez home days before the murder and stole the gun and threatened his ex partner
Terry Rivera was charged with capital murder, which could carry the death penalty in Texas, however officers so far have been unable to locate him. Police stress that Terry Rivera is considered armed and dangerous
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Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Friday morning that his deputies are working “around the clock” to find the man accused of shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend’s 12-year-old son.
Terry Bryan Rivera, 27, has been charged with capital murder in connection to the shooting death of 12-year-old Carlos Fernandez, according to the sheriff.
“He’s still on the run, he’s still wanted for capital murder,” Gonzalez said. “We’re not going to rest until we find him.”
The shooting happened Monday around 3 a.m. at an apartment in the Cloverleaf area on Alderson Street near Freeport Street.
Originally, officials said Fernandez was sleeping in his bedroom with his two younger half-sisters, ages 6 and 7, when someone walked up to their bedroom window and fired shots. On Friday, Gonzalez clarified that the boy was actually sleeping in the living room and had ran to check on his sisters when he heard noises coming from their bedroom. The sheriff called the boy a hero.
“He ran to the danger,” Gonzalez said. “He ran to check on his sisters, 6 and 7 years old, to protect them. And in some ways, he did because that bullet could have easily injured one of them.”
Fernandez was killed. The boy’s sisters were not hurt. Neither was his mom and another man who was also inside the apartment.
The sheriff’s office told KHOU 11 News they were investigating Rivera for a family-violence incident that occurred on March 1, a few days before Fernandez died. Gonzalez said Rivera had a gun at the time and had assaulted the boy’s mother.
No charges were filed because it was still an open case with the family violence department, according to the sheriff’s office.
Investigators said they were able to recover the grey pickup truck believed to be used by Rivera when the shooting happened.
The sheriff warned that anyone attempting to hide Rivera could also face charges.
“We want to make sure that we do everything possible to capture this coward, the individual that would take this beautiful life from us,” Gonzalez said. “We also want to send a very strong message to anyone that may be hiding him out or assisting him that you too will be filed on.”
Rivera should be considered armed and dangerous, according to Gonzalez.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the sheriff’s office homicide unit or Crime Stoppers.
Carl Walker Jr is an alleged killer from Missouri and the victim is his own sixteen year old son Isiah Walker
According to police reports Carl Walker Jr and Isiah Walker were involved in an argument outside of their St. Louis Missouri home when Carl would pull out a gun and would shoot his son. Someone would eventually call 911 and Isiah would be rushed to the hospital where he would die three days later
Carl Walker Jr after allegedly shooting his son would dispose of the gun and the clothing that he was wearing when the shooting took place. However he would eventually admit to shooting his son
Carl Walker Jr has been arrested and charged with murder
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A Missouri father has been charged with murder after authorities say he shot and killed his son outside of their home after “arguing over personal matters,” then left him in the street and tried to hide the evidence.
Carl Walker Jr. is charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the death of Isaiah Walker, online court records reviewed by PEOPLE show.
Isaiah was 16 at the time of the Jan. 24 shooting, police previously announced. He was found wounded on a St. Louis, Mo., street by someone who alerted authorities, but it is unclear who found him. He died three days later on Jan. 27 from his injuries.
According to a GoFundMe created to help his mother with funeral expenses, Isaiah was a “young man who loved football and playing video games.” The fundraiser added that he was very close to his sister and cousin.
Carl allegedly hid the gun and clothing in a trash can shortly after the fatal shooting, a criminal complaint reviewed by PEOPLE alleges. However, Carl later admitted to shooting his son, authorities allege in the complaint.
He is being held on a $500,000 cash only bond in St. Louis and is scheduled to be arraigned today. An attorney for him was not listed.
A 51-year-old man is facing charges, accused of fatally shooting his teenage son in Jennings in late January.
Carl Walker, Jr. is charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Police say he and his son Isiaih Walker got into an argument at their home in the 9200 block of Cottonwood before they left in his car. A short time later, police say the two were spotted walking back towards their home before Carl Walker, Jr. shot his son. Isaiah Walker was found shot in the 9000 block of Halls Ferry. The shooting happened around 6:20 p.m. on January 24. Isaiah Walker died several days later.
Police say Carl Walker, Jr. was spotted hiding a .45 caliber gun magazine and clothes in a trash barrel. A .45 caliber shell casing was recovered at the scene. Carl Walker, Jr. later admitted to the shooting.
Carl Walker, Jr. is a convicted felon and not allowed to own a gun. He is being held at the St. Louis County Jail on a $500,000 cash-only bond.
Febrio De-Zoysa is an accused killer from Canada who has been charged with the murders of six people including four children
According to police reports Febrio De-Zoysa was living with the Sri Lanka family in Ottawa Canada. On the day of the murder Febrio De-Zoysa would attack the entire family killing Darshani Dilanthika Ekanayake and her four children Kelly, who was two months old; Rinyana, 2; and Ashwini, 4 — and son Inuka, 7.
Another person living at the home, Gamini Amarakoon, would also be killed in the mass stabbing. The father of the children was injured during the attack
Police are still trying to figure out what set off Febrio De-Zoysa. Apparently the family threw the alleged killer a birthday party just days before the mass stabbing
Febrio De-Zoysa, 19, is now facing six first-degree murder charges and one count of attempted murder.
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A family slain in a stabbing rampage at an Ottawa home late Wednesday threw a birthday party for the alleged suspect just days ago, says a religious leader who knew them.
The father who survived the attack in which his wife and four children were killed was in “great shock” on Thursday, said Bhante Suneetha.
The resident monk at Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Buddhist Monastery, which the family attended, said he visited his friend at the hospital.
The father told Suneetha that nothing seemed “wrong” in the lead-up to the attack in which a student living with the family is accused, the monk said.
“They (even) helped him to celebrate,” he told The Canadian Press in an interview. “They organized a celebration of his 19th birthday last week, a few days ago.”
Police were called to the scene of a suburban home in the Barrhaven neighbourhood Wednesday night, where they discovered the bodies of a mother, her four young children and a family friend in the aftermath of a vicious attack.
The dead include Darshani Ekanyake, 35, along with her seven-year-old son, Inuka Wickramasinghe, and her three daughters: Ashwini, 4; two-year-old Rinyana; and Kelly, two-and-a-half months. A family friend, Amarakoonmubiayansela Ge Gemini Amarakoon, was also killed.
The father, identified in court documents as Dhanushka Wickramasinghe, suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Febrio De-Zoysa, a 19-year-old international student who was staying with the family, has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
The victims and suspect are all Sri Lankan nationals, according to police. The baby was born in Canada.
The father told Suneetha that there had been no issues between the family and De-Zoysa before the attack.
De-Zoysa had moved into their basement a month or two ago as he pursued his studies in Ottawa. The father had even met the suspect’s parents in Sri Lanka, Suneetha recounted.
But it seemed not all was well with De-Zoysa.
He was having problems at school and recently dropped out, Suneetha said the father told him. He was also having thoughts of suicide.
A spokesperson for Algonquin College confirmed that De-Zoysa had been a student there and his last semester of attendance had been in winter 2023.
The college’s president, Claude Brule, said in a statement that the college is mourning “along with our community after learning the devastating news.”
The resident monk said that as the father tells it, he came home from a cleaning job late Wednesday night when the alleged attack occurred.
The father resisted and asked if his family had been hurt.
“The murderer said, ‘No, I didn’t do anything (to) them.’ And he released him and went to the kids, and they’re gone.”
Suneetha said the father had part of two fingers cut off, and one has been repaired. He also suffered a slash across his face between his nose and his eye and stab wounds to the chest and back.
Ottawa police Chief Eric Stubbs said on Thursday afternoon that police responded to calls that a man – whom he later identified as the father – was yelling for help outside the house.
He was taken to hospital in stable condition, police said.
The monk said he got to know the family because they had been attending his monastery regularly since arriving in Canada after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their seven-year-old son had even begun religious classes there just last week.
Suneetha said the family came to Canada with so many “dreams and plans.”
He knew them as kind and helpful people who were enthusiastic participants at community events.
While he didn’t know De-Zoysa, Suneetha said he believes many people have not been faring well since the pandemic, and international students in particular have been suffering.
He said the monestary recently gathered a group of Sri Lankan students to offer spiritual support.
“They are in a great stress and anxiety and (they are) homesick when they come,” he said. “We have to address that.”
Suneetha said he’s been getting calls from members of his community from across the country, expressing their shock and sadness.
“This is the first time that we (had) this kind of incident in our community,” he said.
Police said Thursday they were working to understand what motivated the killings.
“We know there are a lot of questions about why this tragedy occurred. This is the focus of our homicide unit as they diligently investigate this tragic crime,” Stubbs said.
“I want to emphasize this was a senseless act of violence perpetrated on purely innocent people. I know our whole community is shocked in mourning this event.”
De-Zoysa appeared in court briefly on Thursday and was ordered not to speak with the surviving father and a handful of other witnesses. The matter was adjourned until next week so he can get a lawyer.
If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, support is available 24/7 by calling or texting 988, Canada’s national suicide prevention helpline.
Barrhaven residents and members of Ottawa’s Sri Lankan community say they are struggling to process the horrific mass killing of four young children, their mother and a family acquaintance.
Their bodies were found in their home in Barrhaven, about 15 kilometres south of Ottawa’s downtown core, on Wednesday night.
Only the children’s father survived. He was injured in the attack with an edged weapon and was taken to hospital.
“We are all shocked, no doubt about that,” said Bhante Suneetha, who met the family at a local Buddhist monastery, and described them as sweet and kind.
“In my life, I haven’t heard of such a tragic moment in our community.”
Into the night, dozens of residents moved by what happened streamed silently into a dark tree-lined park two blocks away from the townhouse.
They lit candles and dropped off flowers and stuffed animals at a makeshift memorial.
On Thursday, police said the family were newcomers to Canada from Sri Lanka.
Dhanushka Wickramasinghe is the injured father.
His wife, 35-year-old Darshani Dilanthika Ekanayake, was killed along with the couple’s four young children — daughters Kelly, who was two months old; Rinyana, 2; and Ashwini, 4 — and son Inuka, 7. Accused was living with family
The body of another man, 40-year-old Gamini Amarakoon, was also found at the scene. Both he and the accused were living with the family, police said.
Febrio De-Zoysa, 19, is now facing six first-degree murder charges and one count of attempted murder.
He was arrested at the home.
Nixsala Antony, who attended the informal memorial at the park near the crime scene, is from Sri Lanka but doesn’t know the family. She said she was “startled” when she heard the news and still feels discomfort.
“They probably had a lot of hopes and dreams,” Antony said. “It’s really sad.” Family described as ‘kind,’ ‘innocent’
Suneetha, a resident monk and director of the Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Buddhist Monastery on Heron Road, said the family came to his temple for events and helped out.
“They are innocent and also very helpful people. It doesn’t matter [who would ask] for help from them.”
He visited the father, Dhanushka, at the hospital on Thursday morning. Part of one of Dhanushka’s fingers was cut off and another finger was repaired with surgery, Suneetha said. He also has cuts on his face, chest and back.
“I cannot say he’s doing well, but he’s a little bit stronger than we thought,” Suneetha said.
“Mentally, he’s in great shock.”
Dhanushka’s family had only been in Canada for about a year, according to Suneetha. Dhanushka arrived first in 2020 after completing his education and getting a work permit.
Last year, Suneetha said, Ekanayake and their three children joined him. She was pregnant.
A representative of Uber confirmed Dhanushka was a driver for them. Suneetha said Dhanushka had also opened a cleaning business.
Hilal Ahmed, an accountant, said he was contacted by Dhanushka last month for bookkeeping services.
Ahmed found Dhanushka to be very polite and accommodating. He called the situation tragic.
De-Zoysa came to Canada from Sri Lanka as an international student, police said.
On Thursday evening, Algonquin College president Claude Brulé confirmed De-Zoysa had been a student there.
The teen’s last semester of attendance was the winter of 2023, Brulé’s statement said.
Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs said Thursday that an “edged weapon” was used in the homicides.
De-Zoysa made his first court appearance Thursday afternoon.
He’s due back in court on March 14. Vigil planned for Saturday morning
“Little kids — they didn’t do anything for this,” said Shanti Ramesh, who lives across the street from the townhouse where the killings happened.
“They come into the world to give something back and this happens? It’s horrible.”
Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Buddhist Monastery said it’s raising donations for the victims’ families.
A candlelight vigil is scheduled Saturday at 11 a.m. in Palmadeo Park, the same park where Thursday’s makeshift memorial was set up.
Funerals will be planned at a later date.
“It will take time for us to digest all this,” Ramesh said.
A month ago Sheldon Johnson appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience and now he has been charged with the murder of Collin Small in New York City
According to police reports the body of Collin Small was found in a Bronx apartment, he had been shot in the head and dismembered with parts of his body still in the apartment
NYPD would use video surveillance and would see Sheldon Johnson entering and exiting the apartment at the time of the murder
Sheldon Johnson who had previously served twenty five years in prison for attempted murder would appear on the Joe Rogan Experience to talk about his work in an anti violence program. Now he is facing charges of murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.
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A man who became an outspoken advocate for rehabilitation and a youth counselor at the Queens public defenders’ office after his release from prison last year was charged with killing a 44-year-old man inside a Bronx apartment building this week, according to internal police reports and two high-ranking law enforcement officials familiar with the case.
The suspect, Sheldon Johnson, 48, was charged on Thursday with murder and criminal possession of a loaded firearm. Mr. Johnson, who served about 25 years behind bars for attempted murder and other charges, appeared last month on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast, where he discussed his incarceration and his work with at-risk youth.
The Queens Defenders declined to comment on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the police received a 911 call around 1 a.m. regarding gunshots inside an apartment building in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, according to the police reports and the law enforcement official.
At least one neighbor told the police they heard two shots from inside a sixth-floor apartment, according to an internal police report. Moments later, the neighbor heard a person shout, “Please don’t, I have a family!”
Then, the neighbor told the police, two more gunshots rang out.
Shortly after hearing the shots, the neighbor saw a man carrying cleaning supplies walk in and out of the apartment. The neighbor did not recognize the man, and told the building superintendent what they had heard and seen. The superintendent called 911 for a wellness check.
When officers arrived at the apartment on Summit Avenue, near the corner of West 162nd Street, they found a man’s torso and a foot inside a plastic storage bin, according to the reports and the official.
Mr. Johnson was seen on surveillance video entering and exiting the building, according to the official and police reports. He was taken into police custody on Tuesday for questioning before his arrest.
Later on Wednesday, the police obtained a warrant to search Mr. Johnson’s apartment in Harlem, according to the law enforcement official. There they discovered the victim’s legs, arms and head in a freezer. The victim had been shot at least once in the head.
Mr. Johnson has spent about half of his life behind bars. In 1997, under the alias Thomas Smalls, he was convicted of criminal possession of stolen property in Manhattan, according to state prison records.
Two years later, Mr. Johnson was convicted of attempted murder, robbery and other charges in Manhattan, according to the records. He served the maximum sentence of about 25 years, and was released last May.
His attempted murder case and long incarceration had prompted public efforts to convince the state to grant him clemency. A fund-raising page on the website newyorkersforclemency.com described him as a “community leader and mentor” as well as a “creative writer and thespian.”
In his own writings and in other media reports, Mr. Johnson described his incarceration as part of a family legacy of crime and punishment. Mr. Johnson’s father also served time in prison, and his son, also named Sheldon Johnson, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in family court in connection with a fatal attack on a Columbia graduate student in 2008, when the younger Mr. Johnson was 12.
On Mr. Rogan’s podcast, Sheldon Johnson described himself as a big shot member of the Bloods who was at “the top of the food chain.” He continued in his leadership role even while behind bars.
In 2005, Mr. Johnson said, he began to rethink the drug dealing, the guns and the gang life. He wanted to leave it all behind.
“My son was growing up hearing stories about my so-called notoriety. I just didn’t want to be that dad,” Mr. Johnson said.
“I said to myself, ‘I’ve been doing bad for so long, I’m going to try to do something good,’” he added. “If all else fails, I could always go back to doing something bad. But let me try. Let me give it a shot.”
Jacob Kubai is an alleged killer from Florida who has been charged in the beating death of his four month old daughter
According to police reports four month old Willow Kubai was rushed to a Tampa hospital in critical condition and unfortunately the little girl would die from her substantial injuries
Willow Kubai had been savagely beaten by her father Jacob Kubai that left her with fractured skull, multiple layers of hemorrhaging to the brain, broken ribs, bruises and scratches. The little girl survived for two days in the hospital before dying
Jacob Kubai would be arrested and has been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, aggravated child abuse and two counts of knowingly abusing a child without bodily harm in the death
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A Florida man is facing multiple charges “for causing the death” of his 4-month-old daughter, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Grady Judd announced Wednesday that Jacob Kubai, 22, is charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, aggravated child abuse and two counts of knowingly abusing a child without bodily harm in the death of his daughter, Willow.
His arrest comes after a joint death investigation with the Bartow Police Department that began on Feb. 22 after Willow was brought to the Bartow Regional Medical Center with “no brain activity and suspicious physical injuries,” according to the sheriff’s office.
The infant girl was stabilized and transported by helicopter to Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, where it was determined that she had a fractured skull, multiple layers of hemorrhaging to the brain, broken ribs, bruises and scratches. She died from her injuries two days later.
Judd said death investigations can “take many months” to complete, but the severe injuries to Willow “left no doubt how she was killed.”
“I don’t know how a father could do this to his child, but I do know he should be locked-up(sic) for as long as the law allows,” the sheriff said in a statement.
During separate interviews with a Polk County detective, neither Kubai or his wife could explain how the baby obtained her injuries.
When recalling his day with Willow before she arrived at the hospital, Kubai allegedly told detectives his daughter was fine while they went to Walmart together between 6:40 p.m. and 7:50 p.m. He said he fed her when they got home and then discovered she wasn’t breathing when he checked on her at around 8:10 p.m.
The sheriff’s office said security footage obtained by detectives showed Kubai alone at a self-checkout register at 6:54 p.m. and when they confronted him with the inconsistency, he “refused to provide any additional information.”
It was determined that Willow was injured while Kubai was her sole caregiver during a three-hour period before she was taken to the hospital. Kubai’s wife was at work at the time and told police that Willow did not have bruising when she left the house.
“The baby was literally beaten to death,” Judd said during a Wednesday news conference. “The only person at home at the time was Jacob.”
The sheriff’s office also said Kubai left the infant alone on at least two different occasions – Jan. 17 and Feb. 22.
An autopsy performed on Willow by the District 10 Medical Examiner’s Office on Feb. 27 revealed “multiple blunt force trauma injuries” to the front of Willow’s head, a swollen and hemorrhaged spine and an acute skull fracture on the back of her head, as well as ten rib fractures in the healing stage.
“Based on the injuries noted, the skull fracture would have been caused by the caregiver at that time. The cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma of the head. The manner of death was ruled as a homicide,” the autopsy concluded, according to the sheriff’s office.
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