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Robert Cotter Teen Killer Murders Father And Brother

Robert Cotter was an eighteen year old teen killer from Fresno California who called police to say his fifteen year old brother murdered their father and then killed himself. However when police arrived at the Fresno residence it soon became obvious that something else was at play. Robert Cotter who attempted to blame the double murder on his fifteen year old autistic brother however soon his story had some major holes in it. The fifteen year old brother Brian Cotter would die at the hospital a day later while their father Patrick Cotter was pronounced dead at the scene. Robert Cotter would be arrested days later and would later be convicted of the double murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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A California man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the double-slaying of his brother, who has autism, and his father, which he then tried to cover up as a murder-suicide.

Robert Cotter, now 19, initially tried to convince authorities his younger brother,15-year-oldBrian Cotter, fatally shot his father, 53-year-old Patrick Cotter, inside their Fresno mobile home. He called authorities himself the night of the killings, which occurred in May 2021, claiming Brian then turned the firearm on himself, according to KFSN.

For months, it appeared Robert would get away with the gruesome crime, but officers combing through his internet history found searches on topics like how to make murder look like a suicide. The Fresno Police Department, in a statement, also revealed that his account was “inconsistent with the physical evidence obtained during the investigation.”

Authorities said Robert, then 18, waited for both victims to fall asleep before first shooting his father, and then turning his attention to Brian.

“His brother woke up, started to run away and he pulled his brother by the collar and shot him in the head,” said prosecutor Daniel Walters.

Robert initially pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but confessed his crimes shortly after being arrested. His attorney, Emily Takao, argued that Robert had a difficult and traumatic life.

He was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders plus 50 years to life for using a gun.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-fresno-man-murder-brother-20220622-bilqdofnong4rkzvwjd7pqwhg4-story.html

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An 18-year-old is in custody, accused of killing his father and brother.

Police were called to a shooting on W. McKinley Ave. on Monday, May 17th.

When they got there they found 53-year-old Patrick Cotter dead from a gunshot wound.

Officers also found Cotter’s 15-year-old son, Brian, suffering from a gunshot wound.

Brian was take to CRMC where he died days later in the ICU.

Detectives interviewed 18-year-old Robert Cotter, who was in the mobile home at the time of the shooting.

Robert told investigators that his 15-year-old brother shot his father, then turned the gun on himself.

After an extensive investigation, homicide detectives and the Fresno County Coroner’s Office, determined that the statements made by Robert were inconsistent with the physical evidence.

Robert was arrested on Friday for the double murder of his father and younger brother.

Detectives says Cotter admitted to planning and acting out the brutal murders.

He was booked into the Fresno County Jail on two counts of murder

https://kmph.com/news/local/detectives-say-murder-suicide-in-fresno-was-really-a-double-homicide

Sherri Papini Pleads Guilty To Fake Kidnapping

Sherri Papini the California woman who arranged her own fake kidnapping has plead guilty avoiding a trial. According to court documents Sherri Papini would disappear in November 2016 and would remain missing for three weeks until she was “found” badly injured. Sherri Papini would tell police that she was taken by two Hispanic women at gunpoint. Turns out Sherri Papini was at an ex boyfriend home and all of the injuries that she suffered were self inflicted. Fast forward six years and now Sherri Papini has plead guilty to making false statements and mail fraud. When she is sentenced it is doubtful that Sherri Papini will receive much jail time however she does owe over three hundred grand in restitution.

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d time with an ex-boyfriend has accepted a plea deal according to the Sacramento Bee.

William Protnova, who began handling Sherri Papini’s defense on March 24, told the Bee that Papini had agreed to plead guilty to lying to a federal officer and mail fraud. Papini was charged in a criminal information filed today in the U.S. District Court with thirty-four counts of mail fraud and one count of making false statements. In a plea agreement, also filed today, Papini agreed to plead guilty to a single count of mail fraud and one count of making false statements

According to the criminal complaint filed in this case, on Nov. 2, 2016, Papini was reported missing, and extensive searches were conducted for her in Shasta County and California as well as in several other states.

The Department of Justice says at that time, Papini told law enforcement officers and others that she had been abducted and held by two Hispanic women at gunpoint and held against her will. She also provided details of the alleged abductors to an FBI sketch artist. Based on her account, law enforcement agencies were on the lookout for Hispanic women matching Papini’s description. The investigation eventually showed, however, that this was a false narrative Papini fabricated.

The DOJ says that in truth, Papini had been voluntarily staying with a former boyfriend in Costa Mesa and had harmed herself to support her false statements.

Papini issued a statement through her attorney expressing remorse. “I am deeply ashamed of myself for my behavior and so sorry for the pain I’ve caused my family, my friends, all the good people who needlessly suffered because of my story and those who worked so hard to try to help me,” Papini said in her statement. “I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done.”

According to investigators, Papini’s application to the California Victim Compensation Board resulted in approximately 35 payments totaling over $30,000.

The charge of making false statements to a federal law enforcement officer carries a maximum statutory penalty of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Mail fraud charges carry a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

https://krcrtv.com/news/local/sherri-papini-accepts-plea-deal-admits-kidnapping-was-a-hoax

Ike Souzer Teen Killer Murders Mother

Ike Souzer is a teen killer who was just thirteen years old when he stabbed his mother to death in California. According to court documents Ike Souzer would stab his mother. Barbara Scheuer-Souzer. multiple times in Garden City California. Before she died Barbara Scheuer-Souzer would identify her attacker as her own son. Ike Souzer would be sentenced as a juvenile however he would make news twice in the last five years with an escape from a secure juvenile detention center when he was fifteen years old and fleeing from a halfway house in April 2022. Ike Souzer would be recaptured after both escapes.

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An 18-year-old convicted of voluntary manslaughter after he stabbed his mother when he was 13, and already escaped from Orange County Juvenile Hall, is once again on the loose, with the Orange County District Attorney calling him a dangerous and violent criminal.

The Orange County District Attorney released a brief warning to the public Friday, saying Ike Souzer was released to a Santa Ana halfway house, but cut off his electronic monitor.

Souzer had been at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange.

The public announcement said Souzer was “at large after being released on electronic monitoring.”

The DA warned anyone who comes into contact with Souzer should call 911.

The DA also said Souzer was convicted of attacking three correctional officers in December.

He was ordered to wear an electronic monitor for the rest of his sentence. It was set to expire on July 9, 2023 before he went missing from the halfway house.

He is described as being 6 feet tall and weighing 200 pounds, according to inmate records

He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2017 death of his mother in Garden Grove.

Someone called and reported that they had seen Barbara Scheuer-Souzer suffering stab wounds in her stomach in front of the home in the 11000 block of Gilbert Street, Garden Grove police said at the time.

She told officers she had been attacked by her 13-year-old son.

She was taken to the hospital but later died that night, police said.

He was found at a shopping center a half mile away shortly after Scheuer-Souzer was found injured.

In 2019, Souzer was taken back into custody after he escaped from juvenile hall in Orange in the middle of the night.

He escaped from a locked housing unit and scaled a barbed-wire fence, officials said at the time.

He was found the next day at a McDonald’s.

According to inmate records, he was released to the halfway house April 13, 2022, and was to be monitored electronically, but he escaped on the same day.

The DA did not provide any other comments when NBCLA reached out.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/ike-souzer-orange-county-dangerous-stab-mother/2870990/

Pierre Haobsh Will Die In Prison For Han Family Murders

Pierre Haobsh will spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of the Han family murders which took place in 2016. According to court documents Pierre Haobsh would murder Dr. Henry Han, his wife, Jennie, and their 5-year-old daughter, Emily. After the brutal murders Pierre Haobsh would wrap the bodies in plastic and leave the bodies in the garage. Pierre Haobsh was eligible for the death penalty however the use of capital punishment in California is basically on hold as the State has failed to execute anyone since 2006. Pierre Haobsh was sentenced to multiple life sentences and another 75 years on top of that so needless to say this monster will die in prison

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Pierre Haobsh, the man found guilty of murdering the Han family in 2016, was sentenced in Santa Barbara Superior Court on Friday to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, followed by 75 years to life in state prison, according to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office.

“He has no possibility of ever being released,” Supervising Deputy District Attorney Ben Ladinig told News Channel 3-12. “He will literally die in prison.”

Ladinig explained that the three life sentences are for each of the murders that Haobsh, 32, committed in 2016 when he killed Dr. Henry Han, his wife, Jennie, and their 5-year-old daughter, Emily, in their Goleta Valley home, wrapping them in plastic and leaving them dead inside of the garage.

The 75 years to life in state prison that will follow the three life sentences were for gun use causing death, Ladinig said.

Haobsh filed a motion for a new trial, saying that his previous public defenders were ineffective and didn’t disclose all of the evidence, Ladinig said.

Judge Brian Hill also denied that motion on Friday, determining that Haobsh’s arguments for the new trial had no merit, according to Ladinig.

Haobsh was found guilty of the murder charges on Nov. 24, 2021, though his sentencing was delayed by a few months while Hill determined whether or not to dismiss Haobsh’s previous public defenders from the case.

‘He will literally die in prison’: Pierre Haobsh sentenced for 2016 Han family murders

Teacher Amanda Quinonez Charged With Lewd Acts With Student

Amanda Quinonez is the latest teacher who has been charged with having a relationship with one of her students. According to police reports Amanda Quinonez who was a teacher at the Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Eastvale, California who allegedly sent explicit photos of her self to the underage student and as well have a physical encounter with the teen. Amanda Quinonez was put on administrative leave and has been charged with felony count of lewd acts with a child, one felony count of distributing harmful material to a minor, and one misdemeanor count of molesting a child

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A Riverside County high school teacher was arrested this week on suspicion of sending sexually explicit photos to an underage male student.

Amanda Quinonez, 30, a teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Eastvale, was arrested Tuesday, according to the county sheriff’s department. She was released from custody Wednesday after posting a $50,000 bail.

The Riverside County district attorney’s office has not yet decided whether it will file charges in the case. Sheriff’s Sgt. Edward Soto said the investigation is ongoing.

According to a letter sent to parents, the school immediately notified law enforcement once it was made aware of a possible “inappropriate relationship.

Principal Dr. Greg Anderson said the Corona-Norco School District has a “zero-tolerance for any behavior that endangers our students.”

Quinonez was hired as a language arts teacher at the school in 2016. In addition, she coached boys and girls water polo and swimming. This year, she was listed only as a girls water polo coach, according to a spokesperson at Eleanor Roosevelt High School.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-14/riverside-county-teacher-arrested-suspicion-sending-explicit-photos-student

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teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Eastvale was arrested on Tuesday, April 12, on suspicion of committing lewd acts with a student.

An investigation was launched by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department after allegations were brought to school administration’s attention of an inappropriate relationship between a student and an employee, the Corona-Norco Unified School District said in a statement.

Sheriff’s officials said Amanda Quinonez, 30, allegedly committed lewd acts with a student and gave him “harmful matter… which included explicit photos of a sexual nature.” She was booked on a felony count of lewd acts with a child, a felony count of distributing harmful material to a minor and a misdemeanor count of molesting a child.

“This news is disheartening and upsetting to us all,” the district’s statement said. “Corona-Norco Unified School District along with Eleanor Roosevelt High School has zero-tolerance for any behavior that endangers our students.”

Quinonez was arrested Tuesday while on school grounds, according to authorities. She posted bail on Wednesday, and is set to appear in court at the Riverside Hall of Justice on June 14.

Amanda Quinonez was placed on administrative leave and Eleanor Roosevelt parents were notified of the situation, the district said.

Crisis counselors were available on campus Wednesday for staff and students