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Woman's boyfriend told her to move out of his apartment so she burned it down, killing a 71-year-old man who lived 2 floors above them
Hoodline ^ | August 10, 2026 | Drea Tatum

Posted on 08/12/2026 8:48:08 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

A Milwaukee County judge has sentenced a 28-year-old woman to 24 years in prison for setting a fire that killed her boyfriend's elderly neighbor last year. Rashamba Claybrooks was sentenced this month for her role in the fatal April 2025 apartment fire near 30th and Capitol that left 71-year-old Sam Nash dead after he was found unconscious inside his unit.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: arson; domesticvioelnce; hateline; hoodline; rashamba; wisconsin
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If Mr. Nash is younger than 71, would the sentence have been greater than 24 years?
1 posted on 08/12/2026 8:48:08 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Milwaukee. No mugshot. Well?


2 posted on 08/12/2026 8:50:08 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was always really part of the program. )
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To: Salman

“Rashamba”.....isn’t that enough?


3 posted on 08/12/2026 8:51:21 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: Salman
Rashamba Claybrooks was sentenced this month for her role in the fatal April 2025 apartment fire

Rashamba?

4 posted on 08/12/2026 8:51:31 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Very close to a title of a Three Dog Night song.


5 posted on 08/12/2026 8:53:16 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: V_TWIN

Kind of makes you wonder sometimes, doesn’t it?


6 posted on 08/12/2026 8:53:26 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. 🎤 Father of USAF pilot. ✈️ Aviation is in our DNA)
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To: Salman

If you mean **Rashamba as a person’s first name**, it appears to be **extremely rare**.

I found a U.S. name database that says **fewer than 100** people have had Rashamba as a first name in its records since 1880, and the underlying Social Security data apparently doesn’t show it at all at the usual reporting threshold. ([The Meaning of Names][1])

There is also evidence of **Rashamba as a surname**. Forebears estimates roughly **71 people worldwide** with that spelling in one dataset, though its numbers should be treated as estimates rather than an official census. ([Forebears][2])

Interestingly, **Rashamba** is also the name of a Russian metalcore band, formed in Zelenograd in 2004; that’s probably why the word produces a surprising number of unrelated search results. ([metal-archives.com][3])

So if you’ve encountered **a person named Rashamba**, that’s a genuinely unusual name. If you tell me **where the person is from or whether it’s a first or last name**, I can dig into the likely origin.

[1]: https://www.names.org/n/rashamba/about?utm_source=chatgpt.com “What Does The Name Rashamba Mean?”
[2]: https://forebears.io/surnames/rajsombat?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Rajsombat Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History”
[3]: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Rashamba/3540477390?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Rashamba - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives”


7 posted on 08/12/2026 8:53:29 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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rashamba-claybrooks

8 posted on 08/12/2026 8:53:39 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: PGR88

A “Roomba” in a Hurry.


9 posted on 08/12/2026 8:53:54 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Good SCIENCE is Not Faith BUT Curiosity. )
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To: Salman
I found two of her mugshots. One with nappy hair and the other shaved head.


10 posted on 08/12/2026 8:55:42 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: PGR88

Roomba was already copywrited.


11 posted on 08/12/2026 8:56:09 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Liz

That’s the girlfriend??


12 posted on 08/12/2026 8:57:35 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Mark17

I’ve lived in the deep South all my life.

I know how this is going to sound but at the tender age of 66 I’ve seen black people do the most bizarre things you could ever imagine.

Things no White person would ever think of doing.

Life seems to be very cheap to certain types of people these days so an angry black female setting a building on fire doesn’t really move the needle.


13 posted on 08/12/2026 8:59:12 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: ladyjane

She looked hot with hair…


14 posted on 08/12/2026 8:59:42 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Liz

the man who took her into his life was not thinking with his head.


15 posted on 08/12/2026 9:00:47 AM PDT by ckilmer (`61)
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To: OldHarbor

Ro-Sham-Bo , Rochambeau or roshambo

The old rock paper scissors game by another name.


16 posted on 08/12/2026 9:01:39 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: ladyjane

Wonder what the boyfriend looks like?


17 posted on 08/12/2026 9:03:50 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: ladyjane

“That’s the girlfriend??”

Yeah, imagine coming home to that, wow.


18 posted on 08/12/2026 9:04:38 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now! )
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Rashamba Claybrooks....

Say no more.

19 posted on 08/12/2026 9:09:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
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To: Obadiah
Roomba was already copyrighted.

I've named our Roomba Helen Keller...

20 posted on 08/12/2026 9:09:46 AM PDT by null and void (Trump isn't a pussycat, but he does have nine lives!)
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