MINNEAPOLIS—A man punched his estranged wife and stabbed her 70 times in the chest and head before his 13-year-old daughter pulled him away, disarmed him and fled with the knife, police said Saturday.
The fatal attack came about one week after the suspect was charged with assaulting the same woman. He had been released without bail on the condition that he not contact her.
Billy Nash, 46, of Minneapolis was charged Friday with first-degree murder, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. He was ordered held on $1 million bail.
Online court records didn't list an attorney for Nash on Saturday. A message left at the Nash home wasn't immediately returned.
Police identified the victim by the initials P.N. The Star Tribune of Minneapolis identified her as Pauline Nash, 42.
Billy Nash had been charged March 24 with misdemeanor domestic assault for allegedly kicking and slapping his wife and dragging her by the hair after she refused to have sex with him.
He was released from the Hennepin County jail two days later and ordered not to contact his wife. Judge Regina Chu allowed his conditional release because he had no prior domestic-assault convictions and because Pauline Nash said "this has never occurred in the past," according to a court transcript.
But he violated the no-contact order almost immediately, said Brittany Nash, 18, the fifth of the couple's sixth children.
"He shouldn't have been out. If he just got done abusing her, why would you let (him) out of jail two-three days later?" she told the Star Tribune. "That doesn't make any sense to me."
Chief Hennepin County Judge James Swenson released a statement defending Chu's decision to release Billy Nash.
"Judge Chu has spent much of her judicial career working on the issue of domestic violence," Swenson said. "She cares passionately about protecting victims of domestic violence, and for her, the death of this morning is a particularly sad and tragic occurrence."
Brittany Nash said she awoke to hear her mother's terrified screams Friday about 3 a.m. She ran to her mother's room and found her father attacking her, the criminal complaint said. Brittany Nash dialed 911 as her 13-year-old sister grabbed the bloody knife and fled.
Police found Pauline Nash bleeding in the bedroom. She was taken to a hospital where she died.--http://www.boston.com/
Saturday, April 3, 2010
MAN FOUND BEATEN TO DEATH OUTSIDE HIS CHICAGO APARTMENT
April 3, 2010 (BLUE ISLAND, Ill. ) (WLS) -- A 20-year-old man has been found beaten to death outside his suburban Chicago apartment.
The Cook County medical examiner's office says Dominick Brunson was pronounced dead at a Blue Island hospital early Friday.
Authorities say he was the victim of a battery.
Friends and neighbors say Brunson had been involved in several fights and arguments in recent weeks.
Darryl Goodman, a friend, says Brunson was jumped outside a store about two weeks ago and suffered broken ribs. It was not clear whether Brunson reported the incident to police.
Brunson had been a ward of the state since his parents died when he was younger. (ABC-WLS)
The Cook County medical examiner's office says Dominick Brunson was pronounced dead at a Blue Island hospital early Friday.
Authorities say he was the victim of a battery.
Friends and neighbors say Brunson had been involved in several fights and arguments in recent weeks.
Darryl Goodman, a friend, says Brunson was jumped outside a store about two weeks ago and suffered broken ribs. It was not clear whether Brunson reported the incident to police.
Brunson had been a ward of the state since his parents died when he was younger. (ABC-WLS)
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN FOUND DEAD IN CHICAGO
Man found dead in Lawndale neighborhood
April 3, 2010 4:52 PM
Chicago police are investigating the apparent fatal shooting of a man in the Lawndale neighborhood this morning as a homicide, officials said.
The unidentified man, who is in his 20s or 30s, was found dead in a back stairwell of a building on the 3400 block of West Douglas Boulevard, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Anne Dwyer.
Police were called to the scene at 7:50 a.m. and found the man, whom they believe sustained multiple gunshot wounds, Dwyer said.
A spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said they believe he sustained gunshot wounds, but a formal cause of death is expected after an autopsy scheduled for Sunday.---http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/
April 3, 2010 4:52 PM
Chicago police are investigating the apparent fatal shooting of a man in the Lawndale neighborhood this morning as a homicide, officials said.
The unidentified man, who is in his 20s or 30s, was found dead in a back stairwell of a building on the 3400 block of West Douglas Boulevard, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Anne Dwyer.
Police were called to the scene at 7:50 a.m. and found the man, whom they believe sustained multiple gunshot wounds, Dwyer said.
A spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said they believe he sustained gunshot wounds, but a formal cause of death is expected after an autopsy scheduled for Sunday.---http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/
SWEET DREAMS--My Best Friend 7---In search of......
Wow Bernice thinking back on all of the things that we went through makes me miss you even more and I am praying that we do get the chance to reconnect.I made some very poor decisions when I chose to go and meet my boyfriend despite my abusive husband at that time.My best friend Bernice couldn't watch my children that day after all and I decided to leave and meet with my boyfriend anyway.We met at a local downtown hotel and spent the entire afternoon together.I had left my babies with my abusive husband that afternoon and had every intention of going back home, but decided that I did want to prove to my abusive husband that I didn't want to be in this marriage ANY LONGER.I thought by my bold behavior he would let me go.Needless to say it didn't work out that way.As night fell I started to get more and more afraid that my abusive husband would kill me.He told me that I had driven him to rob that tavern and that there was NO way he would allow me to take his kids away from him.I was terrified to go home and even more so after someone came and knocked on our room door pretending to be security.We could hear the person turning the doorknob and trying to open the door.After they failed to get in,it got really quiet and we assumed the person was gone.I was petrified now and kept putting off the inevitable,I had to go home and face my abusive husband.We called the police and they told us that "I would have to face my husband sooner or later".Back then abuse laws were not in effect like today.A husband still had the law on his side as far as abuse went.Anyway the next morning I called for a taxi and went home.I had barely made it out of the taxi,when my CRAZED abusive husband came running down the stairs with a baseball bat yelling"I'm gonna kill you bitch!!! he dropped the baseball bat before he got to me and grabbed me,I had tried to run but he had a firm hold of my blouse.He yanked me around as if I were a ragdoll and punched me with all his might in my mouth,I can't remember if he hit me again or not because there was blood everywhere and all I remember is my boyfriend's sister running across the street to help me,she had called police.It happened right in front of my Parent"s house,my childhood home.I felt my mouth and my two front teeth were barely hanging on and later fell out.I remember my abuser running away before the police got there.After that everything else is a big blur and to this day,a lot of events that followed,I do not remember......
Foster Dad Charged with six new counts of sexual assault
FARMINGTON — A foster father who previously faced 85 counts of criminal sexual penetration against a minor was arrested Thursday and charged with six new counts of the same crime after a different victim videotaped one of the incidents.
Todd Mortensen, 45, confessed only to the recent assaults, which reportedly took place between March 22 and 30 in Mortensen's home, where the 12-year-old victim lived as a foster child, San Juan County Sheriff's Capt. Tim Black said. The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department removed the child from the home.
Mortensen was booked at the San Juan County Adult Detention Center on six charges of second-degree criminal sexual contact of a minor younger than the age 13. He is not facing the previous 85 counts dismissed by prosecutors in 2005, but the District Attorney's Office is looking into the old case, District Attorney Rick Tedrow said.
Mortensen, a nurse at San Juan Regional Medical Center since May 2008, resigned Thursday, hospital spokesman Dennis Mathis said.
"He did not work with children," said Mathis, who declined to say in which department Mortensen worked.
Mortensen is a former foster parent, but he has not held a license with the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department for several years, said Romaine Serna, spokeswoman for the department.
Mortensen and his wife, Lisa, have had dozens of foster children in their home over the years. They adopted several of them, including one still living
in the home.
"He was licensed and did adopt children through Children, Youth and Families Department," Serna said of Mortensen. "The individual that studied the family did not have any concerns at the time. They passed all the clearances and residence checks."
The 85 charges filed in 2003 are public record and are accessible on the state's court records Web site, nmcourts.com.
The 12-year-old victim was not fostered through the Children, Youth and Families Department, Serna said. She believes the arrangements were conducted privately with another family.
Mortensen had two more female foster children living in his home at the time of his arrest, Black said.
"We are pulling the other two 16-year-old girls out and turning them over to CYFD because we don't know why they are there," Black said. "They were not officially placed by CYFD and we don't know exactly where they belong."
CYFD is conducting an investigation into Mortensen's background and is cooperating with law enforcement, said Serna, who said she was unaware of the 85 charges of criminal sexual penetration in 2003.(lc-sun)
Todd Mortensen, 45, confessed only to the recent assaults, which reportedly took place between March 22 and 30 in Mortensen's home, where the 12-year-old victim lived as a foster child, San Juan County Sheriff's Capt. Tim Black said. The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department removed the child from the home.
Mortensen was booked at the San Juan County Adult Detention Center on six charges of second-degree criminal sexual contact of a minor younger than the age 13. He is not facing the previous 85 counts dismissed by prosecutors in 2005, but the District Attorney's Office is looking into the old case, District Attorney Rick Tedrow said.
Mortensen, a nurse at San Juan Regional Medical Center since May 2008, resigned Thursday, hospital spokesman Dennis Mathis said.
"He did not work with children," said Mathis, who declined to say in which department Mortensen worked.
Mortensen is a former foster parent, but he has not held a license with the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department for several years, said Romaine Serna, spokeswoman for the department.
Mortensen and his wife, Lisa, have had dozens of foster children in their home over the years. They adopted several of them, including one still living
in the home.
"He was licensed and did adopt children through Children, Youth and Families Department," Serna said of Mortensen. "The individual that studied the family did not have any concerns at the time. They passed all the clearances and residence checks."
The 85 charges filed in 2003 are public record and are accessible on the state's court records Web site, nmcourts.com.
The 12-year-old victim was not fostered through the Children, Youth and Families Department, Serna said. She believes the arrangements were conducted privately with another family.
Mortensen had two more female foster children living in his home at the time of his arrest, Black said.
"We are pulling the other two 16-year-old girls out and turning them over to CYFD because we don't know why they are there," Black said. "They were not officially placed by CYFD and we don't know exactly where they belong."
CYFD is conducting an investigation into Mortensen's background and is cooperating with law enforcement, said Serna, who said she was unaware of the 85 charges of criminal sexual penetration in 2003.(lc-sun)
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