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Crime
Burglary Suspect Targets Dollar Stores
Man Arrested After Attacking McDonald’s Worker
A 40-year-old man de- scribed as a transient was ar- rested after he grabbed a McDonald’s employee. He is also accused of kicking an- other employee in the stom- ach as he exited the business.
The incident took place on Sunday evening at the McDonald’s, 4595 34th Street, S., in St. Petersburg.
According to the video posted on the Internet by an- other customer, Daniel Willis Taylor grabbed Ms. Yasmine James, 19, by the
National Crime
Murders In Chicago Have Decreased For The Second Consecutive Year
Chicago, often depicted as a city riddled with violence and murder, has reported a decline in homicides for the second consecutive year.
According to the Chicago Police Department, murders decreased 27 percent in 2018. There were about 557 mur- ders reported last year, com- pared to 648 murders in 2017. One of the city's blood- iest years, 2016, had 762 homicides.
While the decrease is sig- nificant, Chicago still re- ported more murders than New York City. The big apple had 283 murders from Janu- ary 1 to Dec. 23.
Chicago Police Superin- tendent Eddie Johnson previously said the high crime spike was due in part to "emboldened offenders who acted without a fear of penalty from the criminal jus- tice system.”
The department also noted there was a decline in shootings, robberies, burgla- ries, car theft, and carjack- ings. The department did not specify if rapes were down.
Johnson attributes the significant decrease to more help from federal agents, bet- ter technology and a concen- trated effort to build trust within the community.
“Are we where we want to be? Of course not," he said to The Chicago Tribune. “I do think we are taking steps in the right direction.”
DANIEL WILLIS TAYLOR
shirt as she stood behind the counter. At that point, Ms. James, reportedly a former boxer, defended herself, striking Taylor several times before a co-worker separated them.
Sources said that the video has been viewed more than 2 million times.
Taylor was located at a different location and charged with two counts of battery, police said.
The video is posted on the Sentinel webpage.
Tampa Police are cur- rently searching for a suspect who has burglarized at least four businesses. The burgla- ries began at the beginning of December 2018.
According to police, the man is described as a Black man with a mustache and goatee. He is 6 feet tall with a medium build.
In all four cases, he has smashed the front glass door or a window to get inside. During the last two burgla- ries, he was able to take mer- chandise out of the stores. Nothing was reported miss-
ing during the first two bur- glaries.
The burglaries took place as follows: December 5th, Family Dollar, 10404 North Nebraska Avenue; December 14th, Family Dollar, 1727 E. Busch Blvd.; December 16th, Dollar Tree, 5100 North Florida Avenue; and Decem- ber 28th, Dollar General, 2400 E. Busch Blvd.
Anyone with information about the burglaries is asked to contact Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay at 1-800-873- TIPS, or online at www.crimestopperstb.com.
Shoots At Black Family In
BURGLARY SUSPECT
Manhunt After White Man
Texas Walmart Parking Lot,
Killing 7-Year-Old Girl
In a case that is being dubbed as blatantly racist by many, a Black Houston family was met with a string of bul- lets on Sunday (December 30) inside a Walmart parking lot. The unexpected incident resulted in one fatality: 7- year-old Jazmine Barnes.
According to The Associ- ated Press, the toddler was in the car with her mother, La- Porsha Williams, and her three sisters when the gun- man, an unidentified white man, pulled up beside them in a red pick-up truck and opened fire.
Barnes was pronounced dead at the scene of the crime, while her mother was wounded and is expected to recover, fully. The shooter fled the scene immediately following the shooting.
While the exact cause of the shooting remains a mys- tery, the attacker was de- scribed as a bearded white man in his 40s. There is cur- rently a manhunt in place for the unidentified shooter as
JAZMINE BARNES
there is reportedly no infor- mation recorded on his li- cense plate or the exact model of his vehicle.
Williams immedately called 911 following the attack
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against her family. "Someone who
does something like that will even- tually talk about it, and we need anyone with informa- tion to come forward," Hous- ton Sheriff Major Jesse Razo said of the incident, ac- cording to KTRK. "I urge whoever did this, turn your- self in, because we will find
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