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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 14 June 2017
Ohio man charged in 2 killings is suspect in 3 more slayings

By DAKE KANG Brinkman Jr., who was he couldn’t reach them house, the sheriff’s office lie Pifer, were found Sunday
Associated Press taken into custody early upon their return from a said. night in their home in North
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A Tuesday after a standoff in vacation. It appears they Authorities in Stark County Royalton, about an hour’s
man suspected of killing a Brunswick, south of Cleve- were shot, the sheriff said. had been asked to look drive from North Canton.
mother and her two col- land. Brinkman was watching for Brinkman on Sunday Taylor Pifer was a fash-
lege-age daughters was Maier said Brinkman the house while they were because he was a person ion design student at Kent
charged Tuesday in the worked for 71-year-old away, the sheriff said. of interest in the deaths of State, and Kylie was a bi-
deaths of a married couple Rogell Eugene John and He was charged with two the mother and her two ology student at Bowling
afterward in another city, a 64-year-old Roberta Ray counts of murder, and in- daughters. Green State.
sheriff said. John, whose bodies were vestigators believe the The bodies of 45-year-old It was not known how Tay-
Stark County Sheriff George found in their home in North couple was killed during Suzanne Taylor and her lor or her daughters died,
Maier identified the suspect Canton on Monday after a robbery because there daughters, 21-year-old Tay- investigators said.
as 45-year-old George their son grew concerned were items missing from the lor Pifer and 18-year-old Ky-
Police video shows rescue of kidnap victim bound by chains

By SUSAN BRYAN New Mexico, where po-
Associated Press lice stopped the van. Of-
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ficers reported hearing the
— Newly released video woman screaming for help
shows New Mexico police as they had Morgan and
officers stopping a van that Brown get out of the ve-
was wanted in connection hicle.
with a Nevada kidnapping The woman told New Mex-
and then finding a woman ico State Police investiga-
bound by chains in the tors that duct tape was
back of the vehicle. wrapped around her neck
Video from one of the of- and across her face and
ficer’s cameras shows the that Morgan tried to hogtie
woman alive but shaken. her but she resisted.
“Oh my God, thank you,” Morgan was accused of
she tells the officers, her choking the victim, result-
cuffed hands clenched ing in her losing conscious-
into fists in front of her. This combination of booking photos provided by Santa Fe County Detention Center shows Jack ness. The woman also had
More than a year of plan- Morgan and Samuel Brown, who are charged in a kidnapping case that started in Nevada and cuts and scrapes on her
ning went into the kidnap- culminated in New Mexico. Morgan and Brown have pleaded not guilty to federal kidnapping arms, legs, neck and face.
ping, authorities said. The charges and is awaiting trial in Nevada. Morgan had contacted
woman was stalked by (Santa Fe County Detention Center via AP) the victim a week before
an ex-boyfriend and his video shows the late-night ing “Amazing Grace” while A witness told police the the kidnapping, and the
companion before they traffic stop on Jan. 30 in sitting in the back of the po- woman was put into a two had coffee, court
dragged her away from Espanola. After being un- lice cruiser. Brown is placed white van with Texas li- documents say. Brown was
her apartment in Las Vegas chained and helped out in the back of another po- cense plates. accused of following her
in late January. of the van, the woman lice car and tells officers Police found items of cloth- to learn where she lived
The suspects — Jack Wil- told officers she had been she’s frightened. ing on the way to the vic- and then went door-to-
liam Morgan and com- dragged from her home al- According to a criminal tim’s apartment, and inside door pretending to collect
panion Samuel Brown, who most 12 hours earlier. complaint, Las Vegas po- there was a stun device church donations to pin-
identifies as a woman and “He dragged me out of the lice were called to the and a knife laying on the point her apartment.
prefers to be called Sophie place, and I fought so (ex- woman’s apartment com- floor close to the front door. A search warrant affida-
— have pleaded not guilty pletive) hard cause I was plex after witnesses report- The victim’s purse was still vit filed by New Mexico
to federal kidnapping like, this is how you die,” the ed seeing a woman wear- inside the apartment, and authorities stated that the
charges and are awaiting woman told officers. ing only undergarments there were signs of a strug- woman told investigators
trial later this summer in Ne- After police take Morgan being dragged down three gle. Morgan was going to take
vada. and Brown into custody, flights of stairs. She was Morgan’s cellphone lo- her to a cave to “brain-
Dash and lapel camera video shows Morgan sing- bound and gagged. cation led authorities to wash her to be his wife.”
Judge to decide fate of woman charged with urging suicide

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A he was 18. dead yet,” Rayburn said. came “overwhelmed” by After he exited the truck,
young woman accused of During closing arguments, Carter’s lawyer, Joseph Roy’s suicidal thinking after Carter told him to “get
sending her boyfriend doz- Assistant District Attorney Cataldo, said Roy was in- she initially tried to talk him back in,” prosecutors said.
ens of text messages urging Katie Rayburn said Carter, tent on killing himself and out of it and urged him to In a suicide note that was
him to kill himself when they who’s now 20, told Roy his took Carter along on his get professional help. introduced into evidence
were teenagers “kicked relatives would be fine after “sad journey.” “It was his constant wear- Tuesday, Roy thanked
out his feet from under him” his suicide and she would Cataldo said Carter was ing on Michelle Carter for Carter.
every time he expressed take care of them. struggling with “baggage” over a year and a half of ‘I “I love you and greatly
doubts about taking his Rayburn said Carter scold- of her own at the time. want to take my own life,’” appreciate ur effort and
own life, a prosecutor said ed Roy whenever he be- A psychiatrist who testified Cataldo said. kindness towards me,” Roy
Tuesday. came frightened and for the defense said Carter Roy was sitting in his pickup wrote in a handwritten
Michelle Carter is charged abandoned any plan to kill was suffering from side ef- truck in the parking lot of note in a spiral notebook.
with manslaughter in the himself. “It got to the point fects from an anti-depres- a store in Fairhaven in July “I’ll forever be in your heart
death of Conrad Roy III in he was apologizing to her sant she was prescribed. 2014 as the truck filled with and we will meet up some-
2014, when she was 17 and ... apologizing for not being Cataldo said Carter be- carbon monoxide. day in Heaven.”