A 60-year-old Oklahoma City, OK woman was mauled to death by a family pit bull on Wednesday night, CBS-affiliate WTVR reports[1]. SEE ALSO: Why Gay Marriage Won’t Stop Black Voters[2] Nellie Davis (pictured above), moved into her granddaughter’s home where the attack to place after receiving a heart transplant and recovering from a subsequent illness. A thunderstorm in the area may have made the dog turn violent. “She had a long illness, from Mother’s Day until a month ago, and finally she had a chance to come home,” the victim’s husband, Cleveland Davis, Sr., told WTVR. “You know, I have a heavy heart. She’s always been there for me.” SEE ALSO: Meet The Women Of The Root 100[3] When police arrived at the scene, they struggled to contain the dog. Unfortunately, they put it down. “You have to understand, the scene was quite gruesome, OKC Police Capt. Dexter Nelson said. “The lady died a horrific death.” Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! Here is more from WTVR: “Pit bulls n ...
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for shooting his mother dead in their Bronx apartment on Wednesday and tossing her body on the street like a piece of trash afterwards, the New York Daily News reports[1]. He was charged with murder, manslaughter and gun possession charges. Darwin Jackson was taken into New York Police Department custody after he identified his mother’s body and spitting on the ground, according to witnesses at the crime scene. “He said, ‘Oh my God, that’s my mom,’ and he spit and walked away,” neighbor Sonia Carrion told the Daily News. “He actually spit.” Jackson was calm at the sight of his dead mother while his 7-year-old sister, Ashley, was “hysterical,” according to witnesses at the scene. The teen reportedly shot his mother, Tihesha Savage, 34, during an argument over his late nights out of the house, according to a report by the New York Post[2]. He then allegedly folded his mother’s body into a bin and dragged it down several flights of stairs from their f ...
HOUSTON — Mental illness prompted Brian Claunch (pictured) to get rid of his own left arm and leg. Then, despite his disabilities, he spent the better part of a decade finding opportunities to run away from residential care facilities, preferring to live on the streets. SEE ALSO: Man, Once On Death Row, Arrested For Allegedly Killing His Wife[1] Yet in recent months, the 45-year-old man who was in a wheelchair and had paranoid schizophrenia seemed to settle into some stability, staying put, taking his medications. That all abruptly ended this past weekend in a confrontation with police in which a Houston police officer fatally shot Claunch. Despite his history of harming himself, Claunch’s criminal and mental health backgrounds don’t indicate he was violent toward others. John Garcia, owner of the Healing Hands Assisted Home Care facility, where Claunch was living and where the confrontation with police happened, recalled a loving but also at times quarrelsome man. Watch Garcia talk about ...
