Saturday, October 31, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Teen shot by police a suspect in girlfriend's slaying
KERRVILLE — Police are investigating whether a teenager shot dead by officers after brandishing a gun at a local park early Monday had killed his girlfriend, whose body was discovered at her home here about the same time.
Mario Ramirez, 17, died at Peterson Regional Medical Center of wounds suffered about 12:54 a.m. when, police say, he was shot by officers responding to a disturbance call at Guadalupe Street Park.
As that deadly encounter occurred, officers discovered the body of Ramirez's girlfriend, Linda Lopez, 20, at her home in the 400 block of Barker Street, Kerrville police Capt. David Knight said.
Knight said no one witnessed the shooting of Lopez, but he described Ramirez as “the prime suspect” in her death and suggested jealousy as a motive.
Autopsies are pending in Travis County on Lopez and Ramirez, who each were shot multiple times.
Knight did not identify the four officers — now on administrative duty — who shot at Ramirez when he reportedly pointed his handgun at them.
He said the Texas Rangers will investigate the officer-related shootings. The department also will conduct an internal review of the incident.
Knight said the “unfortunate events” unfolded after police received a 911 call at 12:50 a.m. from a man, as yet unidentified, who reported that an armed altercation was expected to occur at Guadalupe Street Park.
Responding officers found nothing but noticed an older-model Ford drive by and park about 150 yards away, Knight said.
The driver, later identified as Ramirez, emerged and walked toward the officers with a gun in his hand, Knight said, and the four officers fired when he refused to drop the gun and pointed it at them.
Police said they were checking to see if Ramirez fired his weapon.
At 12:51 a.m., police logged a 911 call from Lopez's 12-year-old brother, who reported Lopez was bleeding at their home. With police busy at the park, Kerr County sheriff's deputies responded to that call.
Neighbors of Lopez and Ramirez expressed shock over their violent deaths. Knight said the couple had an 8-month-old boy who, along with Lopez's brother, is being cared for by relatives.
“It's so sad,” said Mary Reid, who described Ramirez as “very nice, very respectful.”
Well-wishers left flowers and crosses on Lopez's porch.
“She was a good girl,” said Luis Chavez, 17, who recalled seeing Ramirez at the Lopez home almost daily.
“His parents were here today,” he said Monday.
Mario Ramirez, 17, died at Peterson Regional Medical Center of wounds suffered about 12:54 a.m. when, police say, he was shot by officers responding to a disturbance call at Guadalupe Street Park.
As that deadly encounter occurred, officers discovered the body of Ramirez's girlfriend, Linda Lopez, 20, at her home in the 400 block of Barker Street, Kerrville police Capt. David Knight said.
Knight said no one witnessed the shooting of Lopez, but he described Ramirez as “the prime suspect” in her death and suggested jealousy as a motive.
Autopsies are pending in Travis County on Lopez and Ramirez, who each were shot multiple times.
Knight did not identify the four officers — now on administrative duty — who shot at Ramirez when he reportedly pointed his handgun at them.
He said the Texas Rangers will investigate the officer-related shootings. The department also will conduct an internal review of the incident.
Knight said the “unfortunate events” unfolded after police received a 911 call at 12:50 a.m. from a man, as yet unidentified, who reported that an armed altercation was expected to occur at Guadalupe Street Park.
Responding officers found nothing but noticed an older-model Ford drive by and park about 150 yards away, Knight said.
The driver, later identified as Ramirez, emerged and walked toward the officers with a gun in his hand, Knight said, and the four officers fired when he refused to drop the gun and pointed it at them.
Police said they were checking to see if Ramirez fired his weapon.
At 12:51 a.m., police logged a 911 call from Lopez's 12-year-old brother, who reported Lopez was bleeding at their home. With police busy at the park, Kerr County sheriff's deputies responded to that call.
Neighbors of Lopez and Ramirez expressed shock over their violent deaths. Knight said the couple had an 8-month-old boy who, along with Lopez's brother, is being cared for by relatives.
“It's so sad,” said Mary Reid, who described Ramirez as “very nice, very respectful.”
Well-wishers left flowers and crosses on Lopez's porch.
“She was a good girl,” said Luis Chavez, 17, who recalled seeing Ramirez at the Lopez home almost daily.
“His parents were here today,” he said Monday.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Boyfriend Charged In Teen's Beating Death
Friday, August 11, 2006
ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- A 21-year-old man is accused of beating his 19-year-old girlfriend to death with a baseball bat Thursday night then dumping her body into a pool.
According to the Clay County Sheriff's Office, Joshua Maulsby was arguing with Alicia Kay Castaneda at his home on Epsilon Court, between Kingsley Avenue and Doctors Lake Drive in Orange Park, just after 9 p.m.
After the woman reportedly threw shoes at Maulsby, he allegedly hit her with his fist. According to the arrest report, he then went out to his car and got a baseball bat, went back inside and struck Castaneda several times in the head.'
Maulsby told investigators that he thought Castaneda was dead, so he dragged her out the back door and threw her into the pool.
A some point, Maulsby's mother pulled Castaneda out of the pool and tried to give her CPR, then called police.
Maulsby was still in the house when deputies arrived and took him into custody. The arrest report said Maulsby had an abrasion on his right hand and blood splattered on his legs and feet.
Maulsby was charged with murder and booked into the Clay County Jail.
"Alicia was extremely bright, friendly, funny, generous, sensitive, compassionate, warm and loving," Castaneda's mother, Gwen Harvey, said in a statement. "Her beauty radiated inside and out. We all adored her more than words can ever say."
The couple were both graduates of Orange Park High School, where he was a star wrestler and she had an interest in journalism, which she was pursuing at the University of Central Florida.
"They'd been almost inseparable for the last nine months -- spending time together," Maulsby's father, Ken, said Friday.
The elder Maulsby said he spoke out so the public knows his son is mentally ill.
"I think he realized he did something, but I don't really think he understood the repercussions," Maulsby said.
ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- A 21-year-old man is accused of beating his 19-year-old girlfriend to death with a baseball bat Thursday night then dumping her body into a pool.
According to the Clay County Sheriff's Office, Joshua Maulsby was arguing with Alicia Kay Castaneda at his home on Epsilon Court, between Kingsley Avenue and Doctors Lake Drive in Orange Park, just after 9 p.m.
After the woman reportedly threw shoes at Maulsby, he allegedly hit her with his fist. According to the arrest report, he then went out to his car and got a baseball bat, went back inside and struck Castaneda several times in the head.'
Maulsby told investigators that he thought Castaneda was dead, so he dragged her out the back door and threw her into the pool.
A some point, Maulsby's mother pulled Castaneda out of the pool and tried to give her CPR, then called police.
Maulsby was still in the house when deputies arrived and took him into custody. The arrest report said Maulsby had an abrasion on his right hand and blood splattered on his legs and feet.
Maulsby was charged with murder and booked into the Clay County Jail.
"Alicia was extremely bright, friendly, funny, generous, sensitive, compassionate, warm and loving," Castaneda's mother, Gwen Harvey, said in a statement. "Her beauty radiated inside and out. We all adored her more than words can ever say."
The couple were both graduates of Orange Park High School, where he was a star wrestler and she had an interest in journalism, which she was pursuing at the University of Central Florida.
"They'd been almost inseparable for the last nine months -- spending time together," Maulsby's father, Ken, said Friday.
The elder Maulsby said he spoke out so the public knows his son is mentally ill.
"I think he realized he did something, but I don't really think he understood the repercussions," Maulsby said.
Teen charge in beating, raping of girlfriend-Madison, WI
A Madison teenager has been charged with beating and raping his girlfriend in a five-hour attack in his apartment on North Street, after which the girl told Madison Police detectives she thought she was going to be beaten to death.
Mitchell G. Lambert, 17, was charged Tuesday with two counts of sexual assault, false imprisonment, disorderly conduct and two counts of battery for the assault which allegedly took place on March 23, and a separate count of battery for allegedly beating the victim on March 16 in the same apartment. Lambert was originally charged with disorderly conduct in the case but when the victim told detectives of the sexual assault the first complaint issued against Lambert was dismissed and he was charge in a second complaint filed Tuesday with the sexual assaults and additional counts.
The 16-year-old girl was able to get away from Lambert as the two were walking down North Street after the March 23 beatings, when she said she was going to approach a man who was standing outside a home on North Street and ask him for a cigarette. Instead the victim told the man she had been beaten by her boyfriend and the man took her into the home and called police. Lambert, meanwhile, was beating on the door with a 12-inch copper pipe, the complaint says, until police arrived and arrested him.
When detectives talked to the girl again in April she told them of the horrific beating she received on March 23 and the rapes she endured under threats that she said Lambert made. She told detectives that Lambert "repeatedly punched her with clenched fists with a lighter in his had, striking her extremely hard," the complaint says. She said Lambert hit her "all over my body," the complaint says, including in the face, head and back.
Lambert kept the victim on a bench in the basement and each time she told him she wanted to leave and would get up from the bench he would punch her in the head. After several such incidents Lambert took his clothes off and ordered the girl to perform a sex act on him, punching her when she at first refused to comply, the complaint says.
The victim later told detectives that "she was fearful the defendant was going to beat her to death," so she did what he asked. Later he removed her clothes and forced her back onto the bench and raped her, the girl told detectives.
At some point during the five hours, Lambert also bit the girl's thigh hard enough to leave bite marks, and when she sought refuge as they were walking to get some food, the girl had three large lumps on her face from the beatings, police said. The girl said Lambert had been either drinking heavily or using drugs before the attacks, both on March 16 and March 23. Police said they smelled a strong odor of intoxicants on Lambert when he was arrested on March 23.
Mitchell G. Lambert, 17, was charged Tuesday with two counts of sexual assault, false imprisonment, disorderly conduct and two counts of battery for the assault which allegedly took place on March 23, and a separate count of battery for allegedly beating the victim on March 16 in the same apartment. Lambert was originally charged with disorderly conduct in the case but when the victim told detectives of the sexual assault the first complaint issued against Lambert was dismissed and he was charge in a second complaint filed Tuesday with the sexual assaults and additional counts.
The 16-year-old girl was able to get away from Lambert as the two were walking down North Street after the March 23 beatings, when she said she was going to approach a man who was standing outside a home on North Street and ask him for a cigarette. Instead the victim told the man she had been beaten by her boyfriend and the man took her into the home and called police. Lambert, meanwhile, was beating on the door with a 12-inch copper pipe, the complaint says, until police arrived and arrested him.
When detectives talked to the girl again in April she told them of the horrific beating she received on March 23 and the rapes she endured under threats that she said Lambert made. She told detectives that Lambert "repeatedly punched her with clenched fists with a lighter in his had, striking her extremely hard," the complaint says. She said Lambert hit her "all over my body," the complaint says, including in the face, head and back.
Lambert kept the victim on a bench in the basement and each time she told him she wanted to leave and would get up from the bench he would punch her in the head. After several such incidents Lambert took his clothes off and ordered the girl to perform a sex act on him, punching her when she at first refused to comply, the complaint says.
The victim later told detectives that "she was fearful the defendant was going to beat her to death," so she did what he asked. Later he removed her clothes and forced her back onto the bench and raped her, the girl told detectives.
At some point during the five hours, Lambert also bit the girl's thigh hard enough to leave bite marks, and when she sought refuge as they were walking to get some food, the girl had three large lumps on her face from the beatings, police said. The girl said Lambert had been either drinking heavily or using drugs before the attacks, both on March 16 and March 23. Police said they smelled a strong odor of intoxicants on Lambert when he was arrested on March 23.
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