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National Crime
Memoriams
IN MEMORIAM
Weekend Results In 53 Shot; 11 Dead
ChiRaq Violence Over Christmas
FLORETTA HODGE
Momma, we miss you dearly.
From all of us.
IN MEMORIAM
CECIL E. NEDD, JR. 10/11/56 – 1/1/14
Gone, yet not forgot- ten. Although we are apart, your spirit lives within us, forever in our hearts.
Love, your family.
IN MEMORIAM
ARTHUR BILLINGSLEY, SR.
To our beloved father, it has been 6 years since you’ve been gone.
Your children, Arthur, Jr., John Lee and Johnnie Bell Billingsley and family love you and miss you.
Violence over the Christmas weekend surged in Chicago when a shooting left two brothers dead and five wounded, raising the city's shooting total to more than 50 as of Monday.
The brothers —
James Gill, 18,
and Roy Gill, 21 — attended a family Christmas party in Chicago's East Chatham neighborhood when a gun- man fatally shot them Sun- day night. WLS-TV reported that James was shot in the head and died at the scene. His older brother was shot
A woman who was shot is taken to an ambu- lance by members of the Fire Department.
Brothers, James Gill, 18 and Roy Gill, 21.
multiple times and died at a hospital.
Eleven of the 53 people shot over the weekend died Monday from their wounds and others remain in serious or critical condition.
Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago Police Department spokesman, said in a state- ment to the Daily News that "the majority of these shoot- ings and homicides were tar- geted attacks by gangs
against potential rivals who were at holiday gatherings."
The city has seen more than 700 homicides in 2016 compared to 500 reported homicides last year, accord- ing to police statistics.
Is Social Media The Cause?: Teens Across Country Have Massive Fights At Malls
Woman Who Stabbed Transgender Man On Subway Because He Was Black Claims Self-Defense
Stephanie Pazmino lives in a shelter for women with psy- chiatric problems.
Christmas is supposed to be a time of peace and to- getherness. And while that may’ve happened on Sunday, Monday, (December 26) was quite different.
Everything from fist fights to threatened gunfire hap- pened at at least eight malls across America on Monday. In Cleveland, Beechwood Mall went into lockdown after a reported large group of juveniles cause a distur- bance. It was originally thought that gunfire rang out, however that was later disputed.
At the Jersey Gardens Mall in Elizabeth, New Jer-
sey, a shopper yelled “shots fired” after they heard a chair being slammed during a brawl. The mall was evacu- ated, however it turned out to be a false alarm.
What wasn’t a false alarm though was what went down in Manchester, Connecticut. Police there ran to the scene of a fight that broke out amongst reportedly “hun- dreds” of teens. The Shoppes at Buckland Hills mall ended up being shut down for the remainder of Monday.
Monroeville, Pennsylva- nia, Aurora, Colorado, Fayet- teville, North Carolina, Tempe, Arizona and Mem- phis, Tennessee also saw their own share of violence at malls in their respective cities.
NEW YORK --- The Man- hattan woman charged with stabbing a transgender black man in a racially-charged Christmas night subway at- tack acted in self-defense, her lawyer said last Tuesday.
Stephanie Pazmino, 30, is accused of cutting up Ijan Jarrett, 44, on a No. 4 train in East Harlem Christ- mas Day after declaring that she didn’t want to “sit next to black people,” sources said.
But Pazmino’s lawyer Elsie Chandler told a Manhattan Criminal Court judge that the homeless woman resorted to violence only after Jarrett “tried to take out her eyes with his nails and fingers.”
In making her point, Chandler gestured toward a mark near Pazmino’s right eye.
Pazmino “acted only in self-defense,” Chandler said. “This was an unfortu- nate incident on the subway at Christmas time where lots of people lose their tempers.”
Pazmino lives in a shel- ter for women with psychi- atric problems, her lawyer said.
Judge Ushir Pandit-Du- rant set Pazmino’s bail at $4,000 cash/$7,500 bond. She’s charged with assault in the second degree and crim- inal possession of a weapon.
Pazmino slashed the vic- tim with a “sharp object used for cleaning fingernails,” ac- cording to the criminal com- plaint.
Jarrett told the Daily News he was heading home from the New Jersey hair salon where he works when he offered his seat to Pazmino.
Pazmino refused, but Jarrett got up anyway so that she could sit beside her friend.
Jarrett said that Pazmino started attacking him without warning just after she stood to exit the train.
He suffered stab wounds to his face, hand and arm.
Scene at mall in Minnesota.
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