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Martin Muniz Murders 4 In Cleveland Shooting

Martin Muniz is a man from Cleveland Ohio who has been charged with four counts of murder after a horrific family dispute. According to police reports Martin Muniz would open fire inside of the Cleveland home which would leave 69-year-old Miguel Gonzalez, 34-year-old Angelic Gonzalez and her 16-year-old son Jayden Baez as well as 48-year-old Anthony Boothe. An 8 year old girl is fighting for her life in hospital.

Martin Muniz who is the nephew of Miguel Gonzalez and the half brother of Angelic Gonzalez would go from room to room in the home shooting each family member in the head. Cleveland police would arrest Martin Muniz and charge him with multiple counts of murder

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The FOX 8 I-Team has learned that a fourth person has died after a Friday shooting in which five family members were shot, and a suspect has been charged.

Martin Muniz, 41, of Cleveland, is now facing three counts of aggravated murder. More charges could be filed. He is due to be arraigned Tuesday in Cleveland Municipal Court.

Initially, a shooting rampage in one home along Mack Court on Cleveland’s west side left three people dead and a man and a child fighting for their lives in the hospital.

Muniz’ criminal affidavit alleges he shot each of the five family members in the head, and each in different rooms of the house.

On Sunday, we confirmed the adult in the hospital, 48-year-old Anthony Boothe, had also died.

An 8-year-old girl remains hospitalized in critical condition, according to the affidavit.

Three other people were pronounced dead at the scene and identified Saturday by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner:

Jayden Baez, a 16-year-old boy

Angelic Gonzalez, a 34-year-old woman, and Baez’ mother

Miguel Gonzalez, a 69-year-old man, and Angelic’s father

Police said Saturday that Muniz is the nephew of 69-year-old Miguel Gonzalez and half-brother to 34-year-old Angelic Gonzalez, both killed. The 16-year-old Baez is the son of Angelic Gonzalez.

Police responded to the home at about 8 p.m. Friday for a report that multiple people were shot

“Preliminary information indicates that Second District zone car officers were flagged down by the male suspect who indicated that the five victims had been shot and where they were located. The suspect was detained at the scene,” reads a Saturday news release.

More officers were dispatched to the scene, where they found the five victims, and rendered aid until EMS arrived. The 8-year-old girl and her father were taken to a hospital but Baez and Miguel and Angelic Gonzalez were pronounced dead at the scene.

“It’s something you don’t want to see. Even people that don’t live around here, you hear what happened and hearts just dropped,” neighbor Ashley Green told FOX 8.

She described the family as peaceful and kind.

https://fox8.com/news/i-team/mack-court-shooting-suspect-charged-4th-victim-dead-police-confirm/

Savanna Dawson and Kyrios March Jr Wanted For Murdering Infant

Savanna Dawson and Kyrios March Jr are wanted by police in Columbus Ohio for the murder of an eight month old infant. According to police reports the eight month old infant was brought to the hospital after someone called 911 saying the child was not breathing. The infant would die soon after arriving at the hospital.

During the following investigation it was discovered that the infant had several broken bones and assortment of injuries. Now Savanna Dawson and Kyrios March Jr are wanted by police in Ohio. When questioned by police Savanna Dawson told police she had no idea how the infant suffered his injuries and blamed other children in the home.

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Two people have been charged with the murder of an 8-month-old baby boy in North Linden.

Savanna Dawson, 23, and Kyrios March Jr, 24, have both been charged with murder, Franklin County Municipal Court documents show. Warrants have been filed for their arrest.

Officers found the boy at a home in the 2400 block of Hiawatha Street after a 911 caller told dispatchers their son was not breathing around 6:30 p.m. Monday.

The baby was rushed to Nationwide Children’s Hospital where he died a short time later.

According to court documents, doctors at Nationwide Children’s Hospital notified the Columbus Police Homicide Unit after numerous broken bones were found.

Dawson was taken to the Columbus Police Headquarters to give a statement. According to court documents, Dawson said she did not know how the 8-month-old received so many broken bones and blamed other children in the home.

An autopsy of the baby was conducted by the Franklin County Coroner’s Office on Jan 11. Doctor Armstrong told detectives that the child had a brain bleed and several bruises on the subdermal skull. Armstrong ruled the cause of death as a homicide caused by blunt force trauma, according to court documents.

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The Columbus Division of Police is searching for a mother and her boyfriend charged with the death of her 8-month-old boy.

On Monday, officers were dispatched to the 2400 block of Hiawatha Street in the North Linden neighborhood around 6:30 p.m.

Upon arrival, officers found an injured baby who wasn’t breathing and was transported to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in critical condition. The baby was pronounced at 6:51 p.m., according to police.

Franklin County Municipal Court records say the Columbus Police Homicide Unit was contacted after doctors found numerous broken bones. Some of the broken bones were healing fractures and the right leg was an acute fracture, which occurs suddenly from direct trauma.

Savanna Dawson, 23, and 24-year-old Kyrios March Jr. were taken to Columbus Police Headquarters and told detectives they did not know how the injuries occurred.

The couple suggested their other children may have caused the injuries. Dawson and March were released as detectives continued the investigation.

The Franklin County Coroner’s Office conducted an autopsy and found the baby had a brain bleed and several bruises on his skull, court documents say. The coroner’s office ruled the boy’s cause of death as a homicide caused by blunt force trauma.

There were other children in the home at the time of the infant’s death and they are now in protective custody, according to police.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Dawson and March. Police believe that the couple may have fled the Columbus area and that March has ties to Michigan.

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/crime/couple-charged-baby-death-homicide/530-fe06aa29-24c5-4a4b-823e-518c07823e3a

Bethel Bekele Murders Dollar Store Employee

Bethel Bekele is a man from Ohio who has been charged with the murder of a Dollar Store employee. According to police reports Bethel Bekele entered a Dollar Tree in Upper Sandusky Ohio and would stab the employee 22-year-old Keris L. Riebel to death. When police arrived at the scene they would find Bethel Bekele gone however he would later drive himself to the police station and turn himself in. Bethel Bekele has been charged with murder. Right now there does not appear to be a prior connection between Bethel Bekele and Keris Riebel.

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A Dollar Tree employee in Northwest Ohio is dead after being murdered with a machete while working on Sunday.

The incident happened in Upper Sandusky just before 4:30 p.m. on New Year’s Day.

Upper Sandusky police said they were called to the store after a man was spotted waving a machete around inside the store.

Officers arrived and found a cashier, identified as 22-year-old Keris L. Riebel, dead.

Police charged 27-year-old Bethel M. Bekele, who currently resided in Upper Sandusky, in connection with the attack.

Police Chief Jared Lucas said, “Bekele entered the store with the machete, approached Riebel, and struck her numerous times with the machete.” Other people were in the store at the time.

The police chief said Bekele drove to the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office afterward. That’s when deputies approached his car and he surrendered to them.

Family members said online that Riebel had recently been married, in October, and had recently graduated from college. She’s from Nevada, which is about 15 minutes from Upper Sandusky. Relatives who answered the door at her family home did not want to talk.

Little is known right now about Bekele. He’s got no apparent criminal record and police are still investigating the relationship between Bekele and Riebel. Bekele had an address in Upper Sandusky at an apartment complex. Neighbors recognized his face, but knew nothing about him, including his name.

Bekele is being held at the Wood County jail in Bowling Green. The police chief in Upper Sandusky said the Wyandot County jail did not have the available bed space for him. He is charged with one count of murder. His court date has not been set.

It is unclear what, if any, relationship existed between the victim and the suspect or what the motive was.

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George Wagner IV Guilty Of 8 Murders

George Wagner IV has been convicted of eight murders that took place in Ohio in 2016. According to court documents George Wagner IV along with other family members planned the murders of the Rhoden family, the motive is believed to be over the custody of a child. Hanna May Rhoden, 19; Kenneth Rhoden, 44; his brother Christopher Rhoden Sr., 40; and Christopher’s ex-wife, Dana Rhoden, 37. Also killed were two of the Rhodens’ other children, Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 20, Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16, and Gary Rhoden, 38, a cousin. The eighth victim was Hannah Gilley, who was engaged to Clarence Rhoden. Needless to say the death penalty is on the table for this case.

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An Ohio man accused along with his family members of the 2016 massacre of another family was found guilty of multiple murder charges Wednesday.

A jury convicted George Wagner IV in the murders of eight people, seven of whom were members of the Rhoden family, who were all shot to death in April 2016 at four crime scenes in around the small town of Piketon, Ohio.

In addition to eight counts of aggravated murder, George Wagner IV was also convicted of tampering with evidence and conspiracy, Judge Randy Deering announced.

The verdict “brings us one step closer to achieving justice,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday. DeWine was the state’s attorney general at the time of the killings.

The victims were Hanna May Rhoden, 19; Kenneth Rhoden, 44; his brother Christopher Rhoden Sr., 40; and Christopher’s ex-wife, Dana Rhoden, 37. Also killed were two of the Rhodens’ other children, Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 20, Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16, and Gary Rhoden, 38, a cousin.

The eighth victim was Hannah Gilley, who was engaged to Clarence Rhoden.

George Wagner IV is one of six members of the Wagner family who have faced charges related to the case.

In 2018, a grand jury in Pike County also indicted his father George “Billy” Wagner III, his mother Angela Wagner and his brother Edward “Jake” Wagner, on several offenses, including eight counts each of aggravated murder with death penalty specifications. Two grandmothers of the Wagner family were also charged in an alleged cover-up of the crime, DeWine said at the time.

“We believe that the Wagners conspired together to develop an elaborate plan to kill the eight victims under the cover of darkness and then carefully cover up their tracks,” DeWine said in 2018.

Jake Wagner struck a plea deal last year when he agreed to life in prison without parole, CNN affiliate WKRC reported. The plea was entered on the fifth anniversary of the killings, according to the outlet.

Additionally, Jake Wagner was charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor over sexual contact with one of the victims, Hanna May Rhoden, when she was 15 and he was 20, prosecutors said at the time. Jake Wagner is the father of her older daughter, who was staying with the Wagners on the night of the killings, prosecutors said.

Angela Wagner pleaded guilty last year to lesser charges and at least 30 years in prison, according to WKRC.

“Our society reveres mothers for taking care of their children and teaching them to do the right thing, even when it’s hard. But by actively plotting the murder of an entire family and encouraging her own kids to carry out the violence, Angela Wagner abjectly failed in her responsibilities,” current Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said in a September 2021 statement on her plea agreement.

“Today, the Rhoden and the Gilley families could take some comfort knowing that George Wagner has been convicted, and he will be punished as well his brother Jake and his mother Angela,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday during a news conference.

Billy Wagner has pleaded not guilty and is set to go on trial later this year, per WKRC.

“Billy Wagner’s fate will also be determined, and I will remain steadfast in my belief that everyone who was involved in these murders will get what they deserve,” DeWine said.

The massacre rattled the small community of Piketon, home to about 2,000 residents and located roughly 80 miles east of Cincinnati. The Wagners are from South Webster, about a 30-mile drive southeast of Piketon.

At one of the four crime scenes, police found a 4-day-old baby next to his slain mother. That child, along with a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old, survived.

Authorities at the time said the suspects spent months planning the killings and left traces behind.

Prosecutors hadn’t disclosed a motive at the time but alluded to the custody of a child that may have played “a role in this case.” The Wagners were also accused of forging custody documents, prosecutors previously said.

“They left a trail: The parts to build a silencer, the forged documents, the cameras, cell phones – all that they tampered with, and the lies,” Pike County Sheriff Charles S. Reader said at the time of their arrests.

The governor on Wednesday thanked law enforcement involved in “this very difficult and complicated case.”

“They helped uncover nearly 5,000 pieces of evidence. They put this case together. They figured out what at the time seemed like such an implausible motive – the custody of a child – for the murder of eight innocent people, but they did it,” DeWine said.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/us/ohio-piketon-massacre-george-wagner-verdict/index.html

Heidi Matheny Murders 93 Year Old Grandmother

Heidi Matheny is a woman from Ohio who allegedly murdered her 93 year old Grandmother in order to get out of paying her nursing home bills. According to police reports Heidi Matheny would push her Grandmother, Alice Matheny. from behind and drowned her in the kitchen sink. To make sure that she was dead Heidi Matheny would then put her into the bathtub to ensure that she was dead. Heidi Matheny who has confessed to police has been charged with murder

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An Ohio woman allegedly admitted to drowning her elderly grandmother to avoid nursing home bills.

Heidi Matheny, 35, was arrested for the murder of her 93-year-old grandmother, Alice Matheny.

The granddaughter allegedly admitted she took her grandmother to a doctor’s appointment, where a doctor told them the elderly woman needed to be in a nursing home, something they could not afford and insurance would not cover, according to the Eaton, Ohio, police report

Heidi said they left the appointment and enjoyed ice cream together.

Back at the house, Heidi allegedly described to officers how she walked up behind her grandmother while the 93-year-old woman was doing dishes and pushed her head into the sink, holding her there “until the bubbles stopped,” according to the police report cited by WDTN.

The 35-year-old allegedly said she then brought her grandmother to the bathtub to make sure she was dead.

“It’s nothing that she did,” Heidi allegedly said during a police interview. “She’s not – She’s the perfect freaking grandma.”

“According to the confession, she was just tired of taking care of a grandmother,” Eaton Police Division Chief Steven Hurd said. “It’s difficult not to take this to heart when you have a 35-year-old granddaughter who allegedly drowned her grandmother of 93 years of age in the bathtub.”

After the deed was done, Heidi left the apartment through a window and walked to the nearby sheriff’s office.

The Eaton Police Division said officers were dispatched to the 300 block of East Somers Street on a report of a possible homicide at approximately 5:54 p.m. on Tuesday.

Upon arrival, officers found Alice Matheny dead in the bathtub as Heidi had described.

The granddaughter was arrested and booked into Preble County Jail on a murder charge. Though, the police department said formal charges are pending from the Preble County Prosecutor’s Office.

The grandmother was transported to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office for an autopsy.

Police said there are currently no other suspects, though the case remains under investigation.