Christopher Roney was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murder of a police officer. According to court documents Roney would shoot and kill a police officer during a bank robbery. The police officer, Philadelphia Police Officer Lauretha Vaird was the first female officer to be murdered on duty in Pennsylvania history. Christopher Roney would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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Parole Number: 916DJ Age: 52 Date of Birth: 12/15/1969 Race/Ethnicity: BLACK Height: 6′ 04″ Gender: MALE Citizenship: USA Complexion: DARK Current Location: PHOENIX
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On this day in 1996, Hilltop Hustler and Steady B affiliate Cool C shot and killed Philadelphia Police Officer Lauretha Ward in a brazen bank robbery attempt that landed him and Steady B behind bars with life sentences. Coll C, whose real name is Christopher Roney, was originally sentenced to the death penalty but was granted a stay of execution.
Along with Steady B and Philly rapper Mark Canty, the “Glamorous Life’ rapper attempted to rob the PNC Bank in Feltonville, PA but instead exchanged gunfire with police after a silent alarm was tripped. As the trio exited the bank, Roney exchanged fire with another police officer before he and Canty dropped their weapons at the scene and fled in a stolen minivan driven by Steady B.
Christopher Roney was arrested on October 30, 1996 and charged with first degree murder. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection, however, Roney has been granted two stays of execution since his death warrant was signed in January 2006.
Jeffrey Williams was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of a police officer. According to court documents Jeffrey Williams was driving a stolen vehicle and when Houston Police Officer Troy Blando attempted to arrest him a struggle ensued and the Officer was fatally shot in the chest. Jeffrey Williams would be convicted and sentenced to death. Jeffrey Williams was executed by lethal injection on May 15, 2013
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A Houston man condemned for the slaying of a police officer shot while trying to handcuff him during a car theft arrest 14 years ago was put to death Wednesday evening.Jeffrey Demond Williams, 37, received lethal injection just over an hour after his last-day appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed. Asked to make a final statement, Williams spoke quickly and angrily, beginning with “You clown police,” and accused them of “killing innocent kids, murdering young kids.”
“Y’all are getting away with murder all the time,” he continued. “When I kill one or pop one, y’all want to kill me.” He ended his brief tirade by saying: “God has a plan for everything. … I love everyone that loves me, I ain’t got no love for anyone that don’t love me.” He briefly picked up his head as the lethal drug took effect, then took several deep breaths and began gently snoring. Williams was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CDT, 26 minutes after lethal drug began, making him the sixth Texas inmate executed this year.
Williams’ lawyers had appealed to the nation’s highest court to block the punishment after lower courts rejected their arguments that Jeffrey Williams was failed by his previous attorneys. Williams was convicted of fatally shooting 39-year-old Houston officer Troy Blando while Blando was handcuffing him on May 19, 1999. Williams shot Blando with a gun he had tucked under his shirt. Blando was watching a motel where car thefts were suspected when he saw Williams drive up in a Lexus that was reported stolen in a carjacking nine days earlier. Prosecutors say that after shooting Blando, Williams fled the scene but only made it about a block before he was captured. Blando’s cuffs were hanging from one of his wrists. “I have no sympathy for him,” Ray Hunt, president of the Houston Police Officers Union, said after standing outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit with a couple dozen officers and supporters, several on roaring motorcycles, while the execution was carried out inside. “Continuing to the very end ridiculing the police just shows what kind of thug he is.”
In their appeal, Williams’ attorneys contended his execution should be postponed so that the courts can further review their claims that he received substandard legal help at his trial that influenced the jury’s decision to sentence him to death. They also said he received “grossly deficient” counsel early on in the appeals process because his attorneys then didn’t address the poor job his trial attorneys had done. Attorneys for the state opposed any delay, contending Williams’ arguments were rejected by the courts, including the Supreme Court, in earlier appeals.
Jeffrey Williams’ fingerprints were found on the Lexus and also on Blando’s vehicle, evidence showed. When arrested, Williams was carrying the 9 mm pistol determined to be the murder weapon. At his trial, his lawyers tried to show Williams was unintelligent, had emotional problems and didn’t deserve to die. Evidence showed Williams gave investigators five taped confessions the day he was arrested. Williams said he fired in self-defense, feared Blando could have been a carjacker and didn’t know Blando was an officer. In another confession, he acknowledged knowing he was shooting a policeman.
Court records show Blando, although in plain clothes, was carrying his badge around his neck. “Troy was a great investigator,” said Jim Woods, who worked with Blando in the police auto theft division. “He had a great wealth of knowledge, was very dedicated. He’d take on the hard cases as well as the easy ones. “He loved to go out and chase car thieves. Unfortunately, that was probably his demise.” Testimony and confessions also linked Jeffrey Williams to four robberies, another shooting and an attempted robbery. Williams became the 498th Texas prisoner put to death since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. At least eight others have executions scheduled in the coming months.
Alexander Polke was sentenced to death by the State of North Carolina for the murder of a police officer. According to court documents Alexander Polke would shoot and kill Randolph County sheriff’s deputy Toney Clayton Summey when the Officer attempted to serve an arrest warrant. Alexander Polke would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.
The court procedings of a man accused of murder in the death of a Randolph County Sheriff’s deputy ended Monday.
Alexander Polke pled guilty last week to the first-degree murder of Deputy Toney Summey and was awaiting sentencing.
Jurors were selected last week for the punishment phase of the case after Polke elected to plead guilty and by-pass his trial.
The sentence came down today before the case ever made it the the trial phase.
The two deputies had gone to Polke’s home to serve assault and threat warrants on him April 27, 2003. Authorities contend Polke scuffled with the deputies, took Summey’s gun and shot both officers killing Summey.
Former Police Officer Kim Potter has been charged with 2nd degree manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright. According to reports Kim Potter during the attempted arrest of Daunte Wright would pull out a gun and fatally shoot the Minnesota man. Kim Potter who in body cam immediately reacted stating that she thought that she had pulled her taser. This recent police shooting in Minnesota has set off a series of riots that have taken place since the Daunte Wright shooting. Of course this is during the time that former police officer Derek Chauvin is on trial for the George Floyd murder. Kim Potter resigned from the police force the day after the Daunte Wright shooting
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Potter was arrested late Wednesday morning by agents with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the bureau said. She was booked into the Hennepin County Jail, online records show.In Minnesota, second-degree manslaughter applies when authorities allege a person causes someone’s death by “culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another.”Someone convicted of this charge would face a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $20,000. CNN has sought comment from Potter’s attorney, Earl Gray.Wright’s death Sunday in Brooklyn Center, which then-Police Chief Tim Gannon said appeared to be the result of Potter mistaking her gun for her Taser as Wright resisted arrest, has roiled a metropolitan area scarred by other police-involved deaths and reignited national conversations about policing and the use of force.
Protests, some violent, have taken place each night in and around Brooklyn Center. Wright’s family had called for charges against the officer.
Randall Mays was sentenced to death by the State of Texas for the murders of two police officers. According to court documents Randall Mays would shoot and kill Tony Ogburn and Paul Habelt as they were responding to a domestic call. Randall Mays would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
A Texas judge has withdrawn a death row inmate’s execution date amid questions that he may not be mentally competent to be put to death.
On Thursday, less than two weeks before Randall Mays’ scheduled Oct. 16 execution, Judge Joe Clayton of Henderson County withdrew the death warrant. Mays’ attorneys had filed a motion to find him incompetent for execution because he was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia and believes he is to be executed because he has a renewable energy design that threatens oil companies.
Clayton said in his order that he stopped the execution to “properly review all medical records submitted.” The U.S. Supreme Court has long held that for an execution to be conducted, the inmate must know that they are about to be executed and why.
Mays, 60, was sentenced to death in 2008 after killing two Henderson County sheriff’s deputies in a standoff that began with a domestic disturbance call, according to court records. Mays and his wife were yelling, and a neighbor said Mays was shooting at her, on their property in Payne Springs, a small town southeast of Dallas.
At first, deputies said Mays was calm and polite, and that his wife told them to leave because they were “just having a spat.” When the neighbor wanted to press charges for the gunshots and a deputy attempted to arrest Mays, however, his face changed, court briefings state. He ran inside with a rifle , but continued talking with deputies through a window and at one point outside for about 20 minutes, telling them he feared the deputies would kill him.
Mays then shot two deputies, Tony Ogburn and Paul Habelt, in the heads, killing them. Another deputy was shot in the leg but survived. Mays surrendered after he was shot himself.
In 2015, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Mays’ first scheduled execution because of competency questions, but ultimately the same Henderson County judge found he was fit for execution. A reason for that finding, Mays’ lawyers claim, was because the Texas prison system had not diagnosed or treated Mays for any relevant mental illness at that time.
That has since changed. In 2018, prison mental health officials diagnosed Mays with schizophrenia and other disorders and prescribed him antipsychotics, the lawyers wrote in a motion last month.
A forensic psychiatrist who visited Mays before also said that as of August, his cognitive functions and delusional beliefs have worsened. Mays had trouble staying on topic, quickly veered conversation to comments that the guards were poisoning the air vents and was frequently incoherent.
Mays’ execution was the second stopped this week. On Friday, the execution of Randy Halprin, set for Oct. 10, was halted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
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