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Lawrence Reed, 22, is a murder suspect in the death of Marco McMillian, a mayoral candidate. Reed was found in McMillian’s crashed SUV on Tuesday morning and was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment. Coahoma County Sheriff’s Office has reported that Reed is in good condition.

McMillian’s body was discovered on Wednesday near a levee between communitities Sherard and Rena Lara in the northwestern Mississippi’s Delta region. McMillian’s body was taken to the capital, Jackson, for an autopsy.

Officials have not yet commented on why or how McMillian was killed. “It’s too early in the investigation to know what the motive is,” stated Will Rooker, Sheriff’s Office spokesman .

Alberto Morales, 42, who allegedly stabbed a Florida detective multiple times during transportation, disappeared and authorities initiated a manhunt which began Monday. Early Saturday, authorities located the escaped prisoner in Grapevine near Dallas, nearby a home where someone stole jewelery and men’s clothing. He was shot and killed.

Morales was arrested in Nevada in 2008. He was brought to Miami, where he was jailed pending a 2003 case alleging burglary, kidnapping and sexual battery. In December, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, which was to run consecutive to a Nevada sentence.

According to a Miami-Dade Police Department, prior to landing in Houston, Morales began “acting erratically,” and thus, he and the detectives were not allowed to board their connecting flight, it said.

Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp who was shot inside his home in South Africa. Pistorius was a national hero known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs. Steenkamp was a Jamaican model who graduated from law school in her home town in Jamaica. She spoke out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women. Steenkamp was shot four times in the

Ms. Steenkamp’s publicist comments that Steenkamp and Pistorius had a “healthy, fabulous relationship.” On her Twitter account, Steenkamp posted a message on Wednesday alluding to Valentine’s day on Feb. 14 and saying: “What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow???” She also mentioned a South African reality TV show and described herself as “SA Model, Cover Girl, Tropika Island of Treasure Celeb Contestant, Law Graduate, Child of God.”

South Africa has one of the world’s highest rates of violent crime, and break-ins by armed robbers are relatively common. Legal handgun ownership is also common, with some restrictions.

An Illinois family lawyer is being tried for the 2009 murder of his former client, Nova Henry, whom he represented in a child-support case against a former Chicago Bulls basketball player, Eddy Curry.

Subsequent to an agreement to represent Henry, the defendant-lawyer began an intimate relationship with her which lasted for two years. Shortly after the end of their relationship, Henry, 24, and her 10-month-old daughter were found dead in their Chicago home. Henry and her daughters death was discovered close in time to the lawyers discovery of her attempting to hire another lawyer who would be assisting her is contesting $24,000 in legal fees of the defendant-lawyer.

Other evidence allegedly tying the defendant-lawyer to the slayings includes a bullet found in his vehicle that matched the murder weapon and a claim that Henry’s 3-year-old surviving son told his grandmother that the defendant-lawyer committed the murders.

Nehemiah Griego, 15, suspected of murdering his parents and three siblings in their New Mexico home told authorities he planned to subsequently kill more people in a “populated area.” Griego expressed his wishes to continue killing others after killing his family and then be gunned down while exchanging bullets with authorities.

Authorities say he killed his family with an assault rifle. When they arrived, they found an AR-15 assault rifle and a .22 caliber rifle. Griego initially lied to police and stated that he arrived him from a friends house to find his family murdered, but he soon confessed to the murders. At some point, he said he took a picture of his dead mother and emailed it to his girlfriend, who either called 911 or told a family member who did.

Griego was not registered as a student with the Albuquerque Public School District, but police could not confirm if he had dropped out or was being home-schooled.

Melvin A. Ehrlich, 52, is a pediatric dentist being charged with possession and distribution of child pornography according to a news release from the Middlesex district attorney’s office.

Ehrlich was arraigned Thursday in Framingham District Court on three counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of distribution of child pornography.

He was arrested Wednesday and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment.

Jacob Roberts, 22, wore a hockey-like face mask and opened fire on holiday shoppers Tuesday at the Clackamas Town Center in Happy Valley, Oregon. He killed two people and then took his own life.

Roberts Facebook page led to an interview with Brittany Curry, 21, who claims to have dated Roberts for five months last year. She said Roberts told her that his mother died at childbirth and he never met his father; that he left his maternal aunt’s home at age 14. According to Curry, Roberts wanted to be a firefighter and was taking classes at Clackamas Community College.

Roberts Facebook interests lists “shooting” as one of his 10 interests, along with camping, sleeping, rafting, BMX, sushi and spending money. He had been working as a cook at Big Bertha’s gyro eatery in Portland for more than two years. He commented about his job on Facebook: “Right now I work at the most badass gyro shop in town. I am one of the few people that can say I love my job and actually mean it.”

George Zimmerman’s defense team have maintained their client’s innocence, saying Zimmerman was badly beaten and acted in self-defense. They have challenged key pieces of the prosecution’s case.

One of the most potentially essential pieces of evidence deals with the screaming in the 911 phone call. Determining who was the person screaming for help may be crucial in concluding who was the aggressor.

The murdered teenagers father, Tracy Martin, has said he is “positive” the pleading voice is that of Trayvon. However, Zimmerman’s lawyers request a second interview with Sanford police investigator William Erwin, who overheard the teen’s father say the screaming voice was not that of his son and the defense lawyers have filed a motion to that effect.

A brother and sister were found in a Manhattan apartment fatally stabbed and nine days later a New York nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, was charged with the double-murder.

Ortega was arrested and charged with first and second-degree murder in each of the October 25 stabbing deaths. Ortega now remains at Weil Cornell Medical Center being treated for stab wounds authorities believe to be self-inflicted.

On Saturday afternoon, Ortega was interviewed by New York police detectives at Weil Cornell Medical Center. She was questioned about what happened last month while she was watching over the two murdered children.

Martha Moxley was beat to death with a golf club outside her home in 1975 and Michael Skakel, the nephew of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, was tried and convicted as an adult twenty-seven year after the commission of the crime. Skakel was 15 at the time of the murder and is now 52 year old.

The 15-year-old’s body was found after a night of partying with Skakel, his older brother and other teenagers in a prosperous gated community in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Martha Moxley’s mother, Dorthy, expresses her wishes that Skakel serve a the 20 year minimum without parole. Additionally, John Moxley wrote a letter to the parole board describing the toll his sister’s murder had taken on his family and asked that Skakel’s parole be denied.