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Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Deadly DC Sniper Shootings Case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider Virginia’s plea to reinstate the life- without-parole sentence of a man who as a teenager par- ticipated in sniper shootings that terrorized the Washing- ton, D.C., region in 2002.
The justices said they will take up the state’s appeal in the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 when he and John Allen Muham- mad fatally shot 10 people in Maryland, Virginia and Washington. Malvo was sentenced to life-without-pa- role terms in Virginia and in Maryland, and Muham- mad was sentenced to death and was executed in 2009.
Malvo was sentenced to four life terms for crimes he committed in Virginia. But the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled last year that while Malvo’s life- without-parole sentences were legal when they were imposed, Supreme Court de- cisions that followed altered sentencing requirements for juvenile offenders.
The appeals court judges
LEE BOYD MALVO
said a resentencing would determine whether Malvo qualifies as “one of the rare juvenile offenders” who can be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole be- cause his “crimes reflect per- manent incorrigibility.” They said if his crimes instead “re- flect the transient immatu- rity of youth” he’s entitled to a sentence short of life with- out parole.
The Supreme Court will review that decision. As is typical, the justices did not make any comment in agree- ing to hear the case, which likely will be heard in the fall.
Daughters Of Mother Shot And Killed Outside Bank Say Boyfriend Lured Her There
Daughters are mourning a mother shot and killed out- side a metro Atlanta bank.
"You could be here today gone tomorrow and you never know. Love isn't sup- posed to hurt," Audrey Turner told Channel 2's Michael Seiden.
Police say 45-year-old Ty- nesha Evans, of Alpharetta, was shot and killed Saturday at a Wells Fargo branch.
Othniel Inniss, 58, was arrested at the scene.
As a single mother of four, Evans always made sure to lead by example. Her three daughters told Seiden how their mother was not only an accomplished author but she also worked a full-time job in the healthcare industry but she recently fell on hard times. That’s when her family says Inniss offered to help.
“He had previously told her he was going to assist. So I guess he asked to meet her at the bank," Sharadiant Turner said.
But before she met up with him at the bank, she dropped off one of her daughters at the store.
“I wanted to get groceries and come out and she’s gone and I called her and asked her where she was and she said she had to meet him,"
TYNESHA EVANS
Sharadiant Turner said. Inniss has been charged with murder and aggravated
assault with a firearm. “She’s awesome. She’s the
best thing I could ever have in my life," Shakemia Turner said.
Investigators said an armed witness heard the shot and jumped into action, hold- ing the Alpharetta man at gunpoint until officers ar- rived.
“I do thank him. I really do. Because again, he would’ve got away," Audrey Turner said.
Tyler Perry Steps
In To Help Family
Family members who lost their mother in a shooting at a bank are getting help from Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry.
After hearing the family's heartbreaking story, Perry contacted the family and of- fered to help.
"It was a call I wasn't even going to answer. I said, 'Well, let me answer it to see who it is.' I answered and the person on the other end said, 'This is Tyler.' I said, 'Who?' He said, 'This is Tyler.' I said, 'Tyler who?' and he said, 'Tyler Perry.' At that point, I just broke down crying," said Evans' daughter Au- drey Turner.
Perry offered to fly their mother's body back to her home state of Wisconsin, where family and friends will hold her funeral.
He's also promised to take care of tuition for Sharadi- ant Turner, who is a fresh- man at Spelman College in Atlanta.
"I'm going to do what she wanted me to do. She started me on math and now I’m going to get to graduate with a mathematics degree from Spelman College without debt, it means everything," Sharadiant Turner said.
DNA Match Leads To Arrest In 1999 Alabama Slaying, Rape Case
DOTHAN, Ala.— A DNA match found through a ge- nealogy website has led to an arrest in the killings of two teen girls nearly 20 years ago, Alabama authorities said.
Coley McCraney, 45, of Dothan, was arrested Satur- day on rape and capital mur- der charges in the 1999 deaths of 17-year-olds Tra- cie Hawlett and J.B. Beasley, according to Dale County jail records.
The girls left Dothan the night of July 3, 1999, to at- tend a party, but never ar- rived. They were found the next day in the trunk of Beasley’s car alongside a road in Ozark, each with a gunshot wound to the head. A different suspect was cleared after his DNA didn’t match that from semen found on Beasley.
Last year’s arrest of “Golden State Killer” suspect Joseph DeAngelo in Cali- fornia was a factor in prompting the small Ala- bama police department to send their evidence to a firm that does DNA analysis, Ozark Police Chief Marlos
COLEY MCCRANEY
Walker told ABC News. After decades without any big breaks, California police identified DeAngelo as a suspect by using genealogy websites to identify potential relatives of the killer based on DNA collected at a crime scene. DeAngelo now faces more than two-dozen counts of murder and kidnapping in what prosecutors describe as a killing in spree in a half- dozen California counties in the 1970s and 1980s.
Ozark police and Dale County sheriff’s officials planned a news conference on Monday.
Gunman Kills 3 On Dutch Tram, Mayor Says Terror Likely
UTRECHT, Netherlands — A gunman killed three peo- ple and wounded five on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday morning in what the mayor said ap- peared to be a terror attack, touching off a manhunt that saw heavily armed officers with dogs zero in on an apart- ment building nearby.
Authorities immediately raised the terror alert for the area to the highest level, and Dutch military police tight- ened security at airports and key buildings in the country. A few hours after the shoot- ing, Utrecht police released a photo of a 37-year-old Turk- ish-born man they identified as Gokmen Tanis and said he was “associated with the incident.” The photo showed a bearded man aboard a tram in a blue hooded top.
DUTCH TRAM ATTACK
The attack came three days after 50 people were killed when an immigrant-hating white supremacist opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during Friday prayers. There was no immediate indication of any link between the two events.
Utrecht Mayor Jan van Zanen said three people were killed, and police put the number of wounded at five.
“We cannot exclude, even stronger, we assume a terror motive. Likely there is one at- tacker, but there could be more,” van Zanen said
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