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LAMPASAS COUNTY, Texas — The Lampasas County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting that left 57-year-old William Darrell Crain dead on Thursday, Jan. 18. The sheriff's office says it received a call at about 1:34 p.m. from 28-year-old Alex Shahan Hyatt, explaining the events that led of to the shooting. According to the sheriff's office, Hyatt's stepfather, Crain, showed up to his home located in the 2100 block of Country Road 3790 with a nine-millimeter and a .40-caliber pistol holstered on his hip. Hyatt told the sheriff's office that Crain had allegedly began making threats against him and his mother,...

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – A 41-year-old Altamonte Springs man was arrested in October after he pistol-whipped and shot a PlayStation 4 video game console during an argument with his stepson, according to the police department. Police said the stepson told them his stepfather — Byron Haynes — was yelling at his sister, and the boy intervened. The boy said Haynes told him to “shut the [expletive] up and get out of the room,” according to police. The arrest report shows the boy and Haynes began to argue, and the man retrieved a gun from his bedroom. Police said Haynes began...

The stepfather of Michael Brown has apologized for angry comments he made after the grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who killed his stepson, but said his remarks had nothing to do with the arson and looting that ravaged Ferguson and the surrounding area. Louis Head said Wednesday in a statement that he was full of emotion on the night of Nov. 24, when he yelled “Burn this ----- down!” in a crowd of protesters. St. Louis County police said Tuesday they are investigating Head’s comments as part of a broader inquiry into the arson, vandalism and...

A week before she died a violent death at the hands of her sadistic stepfather, a battered and forlorn Nixzmary Brown confided, "I wish my mommy and daddy were dead." Perry Robinson will never forget those words — or any of the other unsettling encounters he had with the solitary, sad-faced 7-year-old in the park across from her family's apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. The retired paralegal used to see Nixzmary in Tompkins Park while he played with his nieces and nephews — and he "was not surprised" when her lifeless, battered body was found naked on the...

HOUSTON -- A 5-year-old girl's stepfather accidentally shot and killed the child after mistaking her for a burglar, according to law officers. Struck in the chest with a single bullet, Alejandra Hernandez died Sunday after she was taken to LBJ Hospital in Houston. Agun Ortega Pina told police he heard suspicious noises and reached for his gun about 1 a.m. He shot when someone tried to open the door of the bedroom where he and his wife were sleeping. But the person Pina thought was breaking into his bedroom was actually his stepdaughter, who just wanted to be with her...

Kidnap-killing trial starts today Ex-stepdad faces death penalty in strangling of N. Texas girl 08/19/2002 By KELLIE B. GORMLY / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News MILDRED, Texas - Just more than a year after a 10-year-old girl's abduction and slaying devastated this tiny North Texas community, her former stepfather is going to trial on capital murder charges. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in Corsicana for 37-year-old Michael Paul Zoch, who had earlier confessed to killing April Bryant but must go to trial because prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, authorities said. Michael Paul Zoch Mr....

<p>MERCED -- Melanie Willis fought with her former stepfather in the hallway of her home before he shot her to death.</p> <p>"She put up a heroic and valiant fight against him," Merced County Sheriff's Cmdr. Bill Blake said Wednesday. He referred to physical evidence at the shooting scene and on Melanie's body, but he would not elaborate.</p>

Man kills teen stepdaughter, himself Police still searching for motive in Garland murder-suicide 03/23/2002 By NANCY CALAWAY / The Dallas Morning News GARLAND - Investigators were searching late Friday for a reason why a Garland man shot and killed his 16-year-old stepdaughter and then fatally shot himself. Andrea Anguiano, a sophomore at Lakeview Centennial High School, was shot in the head and taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she died about 1:30 p.m. Friday. Jose Gonzales, 31, died Friday morning of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Police said the murder-suicide took place about...

In yesterday's Dallas Morning News, the quot;Texas amp; Southwestquot; section, there was an article with a picture, about a Hot Springs, Ark. photographic exhibit called, quot;Focusing on the Clinton Years.quot;The picture had the following caption, quot;I'm just thrilled that this whole thing is coming together for the president. Bill Clinton was certainly an extraordinary president,quot; said Dick Kelly, Mr. Clinton's stepfather.quot; Again, quot;Dick Kelly, Mr. Clinton's stepfather!quot;Who is Dick Kelly? Where did he come from? Where has he been all these years? What does he know about the White Water crimes and corruption? If Willie and Hillie's brother were out...