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Cards Of Thanks/Memoriam
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CARD OF THANKS
BETTY JEAN WILLINGHAM
We would like to express our sincere gratitude and love to everyone for your comforting prayers, cards, visits, phone calls, flowers and many other acts of kindness throughout our time of sadness and sorrow.
May God bestow His grace and mercy upon each of you. We thank you so very, very much.
Mental Illness Is Real: Mom Who Pushed Her Toddler On Swing For 2 Days Charged With Homicide
Romechia Simms was charged this week with the death of her 2 year old, Ji’Aire Lee.
Man Who Spent 29 Years On Death Row Dies Of Lung Cancer
The death of a toddler whose lifeless body was found in a swing being pushed by his mother in May has been ruled a homicide.
Investigators in Maryland say 3- year-old Ji'Aire Lee died from dehydration and hypothermia after he was put in the swing on May 20 and found by cops two days later, it was revealed Tuesday.
However, his mother Romechia Simms was not charged with murder pending an investigation by the office of the state's attorney, NBC Washington reports.
Ji'Aire and Simms were dis- covered by Charles County sheriff's deputies at Wills Memorial Park in La Plata after a neighbor who had
seen them the night before called the police.
Simms suffers from depression and bipolar disorder and had 'some kind of psychotic episode' in the park, her mother, Vontasha Simms, 47, said.
She had also suffered a mental breakdown in February and does not remember what happened in the park at the time her son's death, family members told the Washington Post.
At her son's funeral, 24-year-old Simms--who was hospitalized for four days following her son's death--sang 'This Little Light of Mine' alongside the boy's father, James 'Donnell' Lee, 29, and other mourners in early June.
NEW
ORLEANS,
LA ---
Glenn
Ford, an
exonerated
convict who
spent al-
most 30
years in
solitary
confine-
ment for a murder he did not commit, died early Monday in New Orleans at the age of 65.
Shortly after being exonerated and released from Angola on March 11, 2014, Ford found out that he had lung cancer. Support- ers told the news site that he died at 2:11 a.m.
Ford was found guilty of the 1983 murder of Isadore Roze- man, 56, a jeweler and watch- maker for whom Ford did some yard work. Ford had always in- sisted that he was innocent.
Last March, State District Judge Ramona Emanuel va- cated his conviction and sentence after new information was uncov- ered backing up his longtime in- sistence that he was not there when Rozeman died and was not involved in the death in any way.
His supporters have said that he was the longest-serving death row inmate in the U.S. Despite his decades in prison, Attorney General Buddy Caldwell's of- fice filed a petition in an attempt to stop Ford from receiving com- pensation for his time wrongfully spent in prison. The Attorney General's office claimed that Ford did not meet the law's "fac- tually innocent" provision.
A district court judge agreed with Caldwell in a ruling three months ago, saying that Ford knew about a plan to rob Roze- man and did not try to stop it, and also took and sold items that were stolen during the robbery.
GLENN FORD
CARD OF THANKS
WILLIE JAMES PRINGLEY, JR.
The family of Willie James Pringley, Jr., would like to thank everyone who showed an act of kindness during the pass- ing of our loved one.
The phone calls, text mes- sages, cards, flowers, and food didn’t go unnoticed!
Special thank you to Elder Theodis Lane, Greater New Salem P. B. Church, and Wilson Funeral Home.
IN MEMORIAM
PANCHETA L. JOHNSON
We miss you and we will continue to remember you.
Loving you always, the Johnson, Singleton, Carswell, and Jackson families.
Violence And The Internet Can Get You Arrested
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- A viral video of a 17-year-old Philadelphia teenager being brutally beaten by a group of teens has led to the arrest of five people.
Jerome Baston, 18, and four teen boys were arrested after someone brought the video to the attention of Martin Luther King High School, where the victim is a student. The video was posted on Media - TakeOut. After the incident occurred, the alleged attackers were bragging about it on sev- eral social media sites. The video opens with the student being surrounded by attackers and repeatedly punched and kicked. The attackers can be heard laughing at the victim as he lies curled in a ball. At one point the boy steadies himself on his feet, only to be hit in the face with an object.
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