DNA evidence helped authorities charge a South Side man in connection with an unsolved 25-year-old homicide.
Authorities identified the victim as Shelia Johnson, 24, who was found stabbed to death in her apartment on March 17, 1984, in the 5800 block of North Winthrop Avenue on Chicago's North Side.
Authorities could not discuss the circumstances that led to the stabbing. But first-degree murder charges were lodged against 44-year-old Melvin Green of the 1500 block of West 87th Street, police said.
The Chicago Police Department's cold case squad revisited the case in 2008 and were able to obtain evidence, which was submitted for DNA analysis. A DNA match led police to Green, who was subsequently taken into custody, police said
Court information for Green was unavailable.--http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/
Saturday, February 6, 2010
MILLIONAIRESS KILLS HER BABY IN HOTEL ROOM,But failed to successfully commit suicide)
A multimillionaire mom fed her 8-year-old son a fatal dose of pills, then spent the night with his body inside a ritzy midtown hotel before a failed suicide try, police said.
Gigi Jordan was "babbling incoherently" after police kicked in the door of her $2,300-a-night suite at The Peninsula hotel to find her son Jude faceup on the bed and foaming at the mouth, police sources said.
Jordan, 49, was surrounded Friday by hundreds of prescription drug pills and a rambling note expressing her love for the small boy who police say died at his mother's hands.
"I can tell you the only true happy moment in my life was when Jude was born," she wrote. "He was all the love I ever had in my life.
"He was the only thing that made me feel life was something of beauty, ever."
A police source said Jordan used a sofa to block the suite's bathroom door.
Jordan "has made statements implicating herself in her son's death," said Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.
The dead boy's father, reached at his California business, was staggered by news of his son's death and the criminal charges against his ex-wife.
"Is she in custody?" asked Emil Tzekov, whose five-year marriage to Jordan ended in 2006. "I'm very shocked about the whole situation."
Tzekov told the Daily News that he hadn't seen Jordan or his son for more than a year. The couple married in 2001, just six days after her divorce from pharmaceutical company executive Raymond Mirra.
Jude was born in July 2001, four months before Jordan's second marriage.
"That's my son," said the shaken Tzekov. "I don't know if I can talk about this."
Jordan, a native of Belgium, arrived at the five-star Fifth Ave. hotel on Wednesday night with her only child, a boy Tzekov's neighbors described as autistic.
The former pharmaceutical company president paid the bill in cash, ordered room service and didn't leave the room for two days, sources said.
Not even the cleaning crew had access to the suite, which was filled with nearly 1,000 pills and pill bottles when the dead boy was discovered.
The "Do Not Disturb" sign was still on the door when police arrived around noon, summoned an hour earlier by a relative in Belgium who had received terrifying e-mails from Jordan.
"She's telling the aunt ... she is going to kill herself and her kid," a police source said. The aunt then faxed the e-mails to police at the 20th Precinct.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/
Gigi Jordan was "babbling incoherently" after police kicked in the door of her $2,300-a-night suite at The Peninsula hotel to find her son Jude faceup on the bed and foaming at the mouth, police sources said.
Jordan, 49, was surrounded Friday by hundreds of prescription drug pills and a rambling note expressing her love for the small boy who police say died at his mother's hands.
"I can tell you the only true happy moment in my life was when Jude was born," she wrote. "He was all the love I ever had in my life.
"He was the only thing that made me feel life was something of beauty, ever."
A police source said Jordan used a sofa to block the suite's bathroom door.
Jordan "has made statements implicating herself in her son's death," said Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.
The dead boy's father, reached at his California business, was staggered by news of his son's death and the criminal charges against his ex-wife.
"Is she in custody?" asked Emil Tzekov, whose five-year marriage to Jordan ended in 2006. "I'm very shocked about the whole situation."
Tzekov told the Daily News that he hadn't seen Jordan or his son for more than a year. The couple married in 2001, just six days after her divorce from pharmaceutical company executive Raymond Mirra.
Jude was born in July 2001, four months before Jordan's second marriage.
"That's my son," said the shaken Tzekov. "I don't know if I can talk about this."
Jordan, a native of Belgium, arrived at the five-star Fifth Ave. hotel on Wednesday night with her only child, a boy Tzekov's neighbors described as autistic.
The former pharmaceutical company president paid the bill in cash, ordered room service and didn't leave the room for two days, sources said.
Not even the cleaning crew had access to the suite, which was filled with nearly 1,000 pills and pill bottles when the dead boy was discovered.
The "Do Not Disturb" sign was still on the door when police arrived around noon, summoned an hour earlier by a relative in Belgium who had received terrifying e-mails from Jordan.
"She's telling the aunt ... she is going to kill herself and her kid," a police source said. The aunt then faxed the e-mails to police at the 20th Precinct.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/
California Man who alledgedly used a wired hanger to kill his girlfriend in 2008,is found to be incompetent to stand trial for the murder (article does not give much detail)
Man who used wire hanger to kill girlfriend found incompetent
From wire service reports
Posted: 02/05/2010
SAN FERNANDO - A 30-year-old man accused of using a wire hanger to kill his girlfriend in her Granada Hills home was found incompetent to stand trial, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office said today.
Michael Allen Watkins will be sent to Patton State Hospital, according to Jane Robison of the District Attorney's Office.
Watkins is accused in the Dec. 2, 2008, slaying of 45-year-old Terra Yvonne Trice, who was found dead in the kitchen of her home in the 17000 block of Ridgeway Drive.
Officers interviewed neighbors -- who had called both firefighters and police to report a disturbance at the residence -- and then went to the 8700 block of Independence Avenue, where Watkins was arrested, authorities said.
He has been jailed since then.---http://www.dailybreeze.com/
From wire service reports
Posted: 02/05/2010
SAN FERNANDO - A 30-year-old man accused of using a wire hanger to kill his girlfriend in her Granada Hills home was found incompetent to stand trial, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office said today.
Michael Allen Watkins will be sent to Patton State Hospital, according to Jane Robison of the District Attorney's Office.
Watkins is accused in the Dec. 2, 2008, slaying of 45-year-old Terra Yvonne Trice, who was found dead in the kitchen of her home in the 17000 block of Ridgeway Drive.
Officers interviewed neighbors -- who had called both firefighters and police to report a disturbance at the residence -- and then went to the 8700 block of Independence Avenue, where Watkins was arrested, authorities said.
He has been jailed since then.---http://www.dailybreeze.com/
Alabama-14 year old boy shot and killed at school
(CNN) -- A ninth-grade student was in custody Saturday and charged with murder after he allegedly shot a classmate in the back of the head at their northern Alabama middle school, authorities said.
The shooting happened during a class change around 1:45 p.m. Friday at Discovery Middle School in Madison, just west of Huntsville, police said.
"I was walking down the hallway and just saw a whole bunch of kids start screaming and running, telling me there was a gunshot, (that) there was a kid that got shot in the ninth grade," seventh-grader Paxton Schremsher told CNN affiliate WAAY-TV.
Ninth-grade student Todd Brown, 14, died after being taken to a hospital in Huntsville, Madison Police Chief Larry Muncey said. No one else was hurt, CNN affiliate WAFF-TV reported.
Police said it was an isolated incident between Brown and the alleged shooter, though they said the motive was still unclear. One student, however, said he may know the reason.
"It was some discussion about gang-related things and the shooter just got fed up with it," student Jeremy Tuttle told WAAY.
The shooting happened in the hallway just outside the band room, WAAY reported, and immediately sent students running for cover.
"I was in the ninth-grade hallway and I just heard a loud pop, and it sounded like a gun. People started running," student Tyler Renn told WAFF.
"People started running toward the classrooms, so I just ran in a classroom and everybody was under the desks and the lights were off," ninth-grader Joshua Murphy told the station.
The school resource officer held the shooter and the school nurse stayed with the victim until the authorities arrived, said Madison City Superintendent Dee Fowler.---http://www.cnn.com/
The shooting happened during a class change around 1:45 p.m. Friday at Discovery Middle School in Madison, just west of Huntsville, police said.
"I was walking down the hallway and just saw a whole bunch of kids start screaming and running, telling me there was a gunshot, (that) there was a kid that got shot in the ninth grade," seventh-grader Paxton Schremsher told CNN affiliate WAAY-TV.
Ninth-grade student Todd Brown, 14, died after being taken to a hospital in Huntsville, Madison Police Chief Larry Muncey said. No one else was hurt, CNN affiliate WAFF-TV reported.
Police said it was an isolated incident between Brown and the alleged shooter, though they said the motive was still unclear. One student, however, said he may know the reason.
"It was some discussion about gang-related things and the shooter just got fed up with it," student Jeremy Tuttle told WAAY.
The shooting happened in the hallway just outside the band room, WAAY reported, and immediately sent students running for cover.
"I was in the ninth-grade hallway and I just heard a loud pop, and it sounded like a gun. People started running," student Tyler Renn told WAFF.
"People started running toward the classrooms, so I just ran in a classroom and everybody was under the desks and the lights were off," ninth-grader Joshua Murphy told the station.
The school resource officer held the shooter and the school nurse stayed with the victim until the authorities arrived, said Madison City Superintendent Dee Fowler.---http://www.cnn.com/
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