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Police said the man attacked the two people, complete strangers, in broad daylight. The victims were hit about 2:15 p.m. Wednesday in parking lot B-6, according to campus police. The suspect was described as black, about 19 years old, 6 feet 4 inches tall with a slender build, short black hair and a light goatee. He was wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt and blue jean shorts when he was last seen walking north through the parking lot. Witnesses said the man — who could be a student — left the area walking northbound.

A 68-year-old grandfather who was severely beaten on an East Village street Friday night died from his injuries the following day and police are looking for the suspect. Ruan Wen Hui had just dropped off his granddaughter and was walking on East Sixth Street between avenues C and D when a suspect came up from behind, yelled at him and started attacking, officials said. Surveillance video from the scene shows the suspect tossing the man against a wall, then stomping and punching him. After the attack, the assailant is seen walking away. Hui was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical...

An 86-year-old Korean War veteran died earlier this month days after he was beaten and stabbed during a violent home robbery. Carroll Jordan of Chickasaw, Ala., was attacked on Jan. 27 and died 12 days later as a result of complications from surgery. Considering the brutal nature of the crime, two of the suspects charged in Jordan’s death — DeAngelo Terrell Smith, 21, Yasmine Munnerlyn, 19 — sported some curious grins in their mug shots. The third suspect, and Carlos Nottingham, 20, had a more somber look in his official police photo. The three, who have reportedly had past issues...

<p>Four people have been charged in connection with the deaths of three males found in a Detroit house fire last week.</p> <p>Tenisha Jackson, 19; Larry Johnson, 20; Rashawn Johnson, 19; and Keeshon Lake, 19, have all been charged with three counts of first-degree murder; three counts felony murder; two counts armed robbery; and one count of arson. Larry Johnson was also charged for Felony Firearm and Possession of Heroin.</p>

The day of the funeral for a 5-year-old Omaha girl killed by a stray bullet, a national organization declared that Nebraska has the highest black homicide rate in the nation. The statistics that the Washington D.C.-based Violence Prevention Center analyzed do not include the Jan. 15 killing of Payton Benson. The numbers come from 2011, the most recent year for which comprehensive national homicide data is available. But a high ranking is not a one-year anomaly. Thirty black people — including 27 people in Omaha — were killed in homicides in Nebraska in 2011. That translates to a black homicide...

With calls for a day of service to the poor and a renewed commitment to nonviolence, Americans on Monday commemorated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that honors the slain civil rights leader. President Obama and his wife, Michelle, will lead a day of service, according to the White House, and they will be joined by hundreds of thousand of volunteers feeding the hungry in cities, including New York. Parades in honor of King will be held in many places, including Los Angeles.... The King Center, established in Atlanta, Ga., to honor the Nobel Prize winner’s memory and...

New York Teen Arrested In Connection With Videotaped "Knockout Game" Attack On Elderly Woman An upstate New York teenager was arrested yesterday in connection with an online video showing him punching an elderly woman in the head as she exits a Rochester convenience store. Devin Alexander, 16, was busted Wednesday on a probation violation charge, according to a Rochester Police Department spokesperson (who declined to reveal how Alexander, who was on probation for a robbery conviction, allegedly violated terms of his supervision). The teenager is currently in custody.

A mob of teenagers have been caught on tape robbing a convenience store in Bryan, Texas. Surveillance video shows the kids rushing through the store, grabbing everything they can get their hands on as girls are seen twerking and doing the splits outside. The frightening ransacking incident took place Saturday as store clerk Terry Polsgrove, 19, was shutting up for the night.A few teenagers are seen trickling into the Chevron Food Mart, then, all of a sudden, 30 to 40 teenagers are dancing and acting 'crazy' down the aisles and in the parking lot. The surveillance video shows some of...

Robbery charges have been filed against three men arrested in connection with the theft of a dying woman’s wedding ring, taken from her finger, as well as other property stolen from her crashed truck in south Wichita last month, police said. Daquantrius Shaquill Johnson, Quanique Dontrell Thomas-Hameen and Keith Byron Hickles Jr., all of them 19 years old, made their first appearances Wednesday afternoon in Sedgwick County District Court. Each was charged with a single count of robbery of Danielle Zimmerman, who suffered a brain aneurysm while driving her truck in the drive-through lane of the Taco Bell at 3725...

Widow Jamie Schare Friedland told mourners Wednesday she was thankful for the time she had with her knight in shining armor — her husband Dustin, who died to protect her as armed robbers went after their $70,000 Range Rover. The weeping widow of a brave lawyer killed by carjackers at a New Jersey mall said farewell Wednesday to her knight in shining armor. "Dustin was the most chivalrous person," a crushed Jamie Schare Friedland told mourners at a packed synagogue. "He would run to make sure he opened the car door before I got there, for me. There wasn't a...

A Florida man allegedly sought revenge by shooting at his Walmart co-worker's car. Willie Mitchell drove up to the parking lot of a Walmart, pulled a gun and opened fire on his co-worker's vehicle. According to police, Mitchell was angry the car's owner had just been named Walmart's "Employee of the Month." Mitchell allegedly said he believed the victim deserved it and told her "I'm gonna show you."

Carjackers shot and killed a man in front of his horrified wife Sunday in the parking structure of an upscale New Jersey mall. The 30-year-old victim was attacked by two thugs and shot in the head at The Mall at Short Hills in Millburn at around 9:10 p.m. “It was at least two gunshots. People started ducking and panicking,” Rick Ramos, who works at the mall’s California Pizza Kitchen, told The Post. “We had to barricade everyone inside. I could hear a woman screaming her head off. It was brutal. She was shrieking.”

BEAVER COUNTY (KDKA) – An 18-year-old has been charged in the brutal rape and beating of an elderly nun in Aliquippa. Andrew Bullock, of Orchard Street, faces at least 10 charges in the Friday morning attack. The nun serves at St. Titus Church on Franklin Avenue.

An armed robbery case against the Woodland Hills High School starting quarterback will be heard in juvenile court. Harry Randall, 18, appeared before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony M. Mariani this morning for a decertification hearing on his charges. Mr. Randall's defense attorney asked that the case be moved to juvenile court, where the system's focus is on rehabilitation, and supervision must conclude by the age of 21. At the time of the crime, Mr. Randall was 17 years and 10 months old. According to Swissvale police, Mr. Randall and another man, E. W. Richardson, ordered two pizzas to...

On a break from pretending to believe they live in a country bristling with violent white racists, the Non-Fox Media have been trying to debunk stories about the "Knockout Game," in which young black males approach random strangers and try to knock them out with one punch. The left's leading line of defense against the Knockout Game is to argue that young black males have always been violent, so, hey, this is nothing new. You're welcome, black America! In Slate, Emma Roller wearily recounted other episodes of black-on-white violence in order to announce: "The 'Knockout Game' is a myth." Reminiscing...

On a shady cul-de-sac in the Riverdale Homes neighborhood, residents gathered Sunday in the street and talked quietly about the friends who weren't there. "We are all very close. And very torn up about this," said Angelia Brown, 45, referring to the shooting in a northwest Miami-Dade nail salon less than 48 hours earlier that left 10-year-old Aaron Vu dead and his father, Hai Nam Vu, in the hospital fighting for his life.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Police have arrested a 15-year-old and are searching for a second suspect in connection with a “knockout” attack in Northeast Philadelphia earlier this month. Investigators say a 15-year-old male has been arrested and they are searching for a second suspect for their roles in an attack outside a pizza shop in Fox Chase on November 11th. The victim in the November 11th assault told Eyewitness News that he was walking out of a pizza shop when he was attacked. “Someone asked me for a cigarette and by the time I got my hands out my pocket, I...

When a mom and daughter were kidnapped, forced to withdraw money from an ATM, raped, then shot last week, the Indianapolis Star played it by the book: Do not mention the suspects are black. The “book” in this case is written by the Society of Professional Journalists, headquartered just three miles from the scene of the crime. In last month’s issue of the SPJ magazine, the oldest and largest organization of journalists in America reminded its members how they should report racial violence. Don’t. The SPJ story was just repeating what dozens of chapters around the country tell its members...

EXCLUSIVE: Terry McAuliffe has promised voters he is committed to transparency, but in the final days of a Virginia governor’s race he leads, the Democrat has steadfastly refused to explain a complicated financial arrangement involving several family trusts and a union-owned insurance and investment company. For the arrangement... Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/24/mcauliffe-silent-on-union-connected-loan/#ixzz2ijYL0ikj Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter

COLUMBIA, SC — The mother of the man accused of shooting a University of South Carolina student in Five Points says she is praying for the girl to bounce back from a shot that paralyzed her.“I hate the situation,” Juanita Smith said in an interview with The State newspaper Tuesday. “I pray for the young lady every day. He (her son) did not mean to shoot her.”Her son, Michael Juan Smith, 20, is accused to shooting 18-year-old Martha Childress on Oct. 13 as she waited for a taxi, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down.His father, Michael, said his family...