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Student Suspended After Posting
Teen Fatally Shoots Sister, 13, After Birthday Hug
Tedra King was shot in the back of the head by her older half-brother Martaevious San- tiago.
FLORIDA CITY, FL —- A teenager has been charged with aggravated manslaughter after he fatally shot his younger sister in the back of the head — mo- ments after she gave him a birthday hug.
According to police, 13-year- old Tedra King hugged her half-brother Martaevious Santiago in the kitchen of their Florida City home last Tuesday and then walked away. Santi- ago was celebrating his 17th birthday.
As the teen girl was leaving the room Santiago pointed a loaded semi-automatic handgun at her and pulled the trigger.
The bullet struck King in the back of the head, killing her.
According to Miami Herald, authorities said Santiago called 911.
Santiago and King were al- legedly “goofing around” and her fatality was “an accident.”
He’s no stranger to gun vio- lence.
Early last year, Martwan Santiago, 15, the teens’ brother, was shot four times while playing outside his apart- ment. One bullet went through his spine and paralyzed him from the waist down.
A week before Christmas, Martaevious was shot in the leg. His friend was shot in the head and survived.
The family believes it was an accident and think Santiago made a terrible mistake.
"I know from the bottom of my heart that he loved his sister and that he would never do any- thing to his sister intentionally," King's father Tedrick told CBS Miami. "As far as him being charged with her death, I don't agree with it because he's been punished enough by the fact that he knows what he did."
T. D. Jakes Protege Resigns After His Wife Reveals His Alleged Affair With Goddaughter
Shirnae McFarlane and husband, Arthur and Pastor and Mrs. Chris Hill.
‘2 Slaves For Sale’ On Craigslist
Using Classmates’ Photos
CLAY COUNTY, FL —- A white male student at Fleming Island High School was re- cently suspended and trans- ferred to an alternative school after the Clay County, FL school district confirmed that the teen posted a racist Craigslist ad about two of his classmates being slaves for sale.
The ad, which showed two black students, offered “Two Slaves for Sale-$470” and was geographically tagged to Flem- ing Island Plantation.
The ad, which was taken off the website, showed the stu- dents sitting at school desks with the caption:
“Two healthy negro slavegals for sale. Good condition and hard work ethic! If you need another pair of hands around the farm/house, you’re in luck!”
Skye Fefee, one of the girls in the photo, said she first
saw the image when a friend sent it to her on Snapchat. By then, it had been shared and passed around by several stu- dents at the school.
“I feel disturbed by it,” Skye, a senior, told CNN. “It shows me that there is still a lot of racism in this school.”
Officials did not release his name.
DENVER, CO —— A new scandal rocked the church world last week and its one closely connected to Bishop T.D. Jakes.
A married Denver pastor has resigned after allegations that he was cheating with his mar- ried godchild. Chris Hill, a Jakes protegé who is pastor of the The Potters House Church Of Denver, left his post.
The resignation came two weeks after Jakes’ ministry confirmed with The Christian Post that Hill had been nixed from the International Pastors & Leadership Conference on April 27-29 at Jakes’ The Pot- ter’s House of Dallas in Texas.
Several weeks ago, Joy Hill, Chris Hill’s wife of more than 20 years, alleged in a mass text message to church members that she was able to verify that her husband carried on an affair with a person
some reports called, a church employee and other reports that she is their young god- daughter, Shirnae McFar- lane, who got married to Arthur McFarlane III on September 26, 2014.
“FYI Pastor called the police on me tonight because I yelled at him asking him to leave the house tonight and he wouldn’t.
I was upset because he won’t stop having an affair with Shirnae, and I can’t live like this anymore. They’ve been having an affair for SEVERAL months, and he finally admit- ted it, (after I hired a private investigator to have them fol- lowed over the past 6 weeks).
Shirnae McFarlane’s husband, Arthur McFar- lane III, has since updated his relationship status on Face- book to “Separated” while his wife’s status remains “Mar- ried.”
Another Arkansas Inmate Executed; U. S. Judge Blocks 3rd One Minutes Before
GRADY, AR ——Jack Jones, 52, and Marcel Williams, 46, were scheduled to die at 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. CT respectively on last Mon- day.
Arkansas executed one in- mate Monday night, but a judge halted a second lethal in- jection minutes later, after at- torneys claimed the man gulped for air and his death provided proof the state's pro- tocol amounts to cruel and un- usual punishment.
The legal development, which came after the U. S. Supreme Court denied Marcel Williams' final appeals, brought into doubt Arkansas' push to conduct the nation's first double execution since 2000. Williams' death war- rant was set to expire at mid- night.
Jack Jones received a lethal injection earlier Monday evening that lasted 14 minutes. The state was set to execute Williams about an hour later, but U. S. District Judge Kris- tine Baker halted Williams' execution until she issues an- other order on the new appeal.
In the emergency filing, Williams' attorneys wrote that officials spent 45 minutes try- ing to place an IV line in Jones' neck before placing it elsewhere. It argued that Williams, who weighs 400 pounds, could face a "tortur- ous" death because of his weight.
Intravenous lines are placed before witnesses are allowed access to the death chamber.
The eight Arkansas death row inmates that were slated to die in April. Top row: Jack Harold Jones Jr., (was exe- cuted); Marcel Williams, Stacey E. Johnson, Ledell Lee (was executed). Bottom row: Jason F. McGehee, Kenneth Williams, Don Davis and Bruce Earl Ward. Jones, was executed last Monday night. Ledell Lee was executed Thursday week.
Arkansas' attorney general says the attorneys' account of the Jones execution was “in- accurate."
An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the execution said Jones moved his lips briefly after the midazolam was administered, and officials put a tongue depressor in his mouth intermittently for the first few minutes. His chest stopped moving two minutes after they checked for con- sciousness, and he was pro- nounced dead at 7:20 p.m.
Williams was scheduled to be executed at 8:15 p.m. last Monday after the U. S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeals, but Baker's order placed that on hold.
The state had originally planned to execute eight men in 10 days.
Georgia Cops Face Battery Charges In Beating Of Handcuffed Man
Officer Robert McDonald and Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni.
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — - The two Georgia police offi- cers who brutally beat and stomped a handcuffed black man, are facing criminal charges.
Officer Robert McDon- ald, 25, and Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni, 42, are charged with battery, a misdemeanor (really?!), as well as violation of oath of office, which is a felony.
According to 11 Alive, the Gwinnett County District At- torney’s office gave them until the close of business Thursday to turn themselves in. Their bonds are set at only $15,000— so they’ll more than likely make that and return to their homes.
“It bothers me for a lot of rea- sons both professional and per- sonal,” District Attorney Danny Porter said.
As previously reported, they were both terminated after videos showed their violent traffic stop of Demetrius Bryan Hollins on April 15. McDonald was seen kicking Hollins while he was hand- cuffed and Bongiovanni was seen pulling him out of a car and punching him.
A lawyer for Bongiovanni said that the defunct officer de- serves his job back because the punch was actually a “police tactic” to get Hollins to turn around.
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