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Sam Boyle  |  by crimene.ws. All rights reserved. 17.07 | 19:16

Reports are stating that the reason Jordan Manners was shot was retaliation for a prank.

"He (the gunman) got hit with a firecracker so he shot the guy in the chest with a gun," said Nick Gangapersaud, 16.

The shooter is still on the loose.

He may not be named due to Canada's Youthful Offenders Act which prohibits publishing the names of criminal minors.
From what I've been told by blogger Harding the neighborhood where the shooting occurred is notorious for having a "wall of silence" when it comes to witnesses coming forward.
says the incident stemmed from a fight at a nearby pool.


I'll post more details as they become available.

when I said that we'll find out tomorrow if Alvaro Castillo will face the death penalty or not I lied. The article stated Wednesday and I was thinking today was Tuesday for some reason.

Human error.
Anyway, District Attorney Jim Woodall said today that he will not seek the death penalty against Castillo.

Woodall says Castillo's mother did --not-- want her son to face the death penalty.


Remember that the victim in this crime is Castillo's father. Still justice needs to be served. The best way to do that is with a lengthy stay behind bars.

Tomorrow we should find out whether or not Rafael Alvaro Castillo will be facing the death penalty or not. Castillo shot and killed his father, videotaped the aftermath, then went to Orange High School in Hillsborough, NC and fired rounds at the school. Luckily there was only a few slight injuries.


Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall is expected to announce Wednesday whether Alvaro Castillo, 19, of Hillsborough, will pursue the death penalty or time in prison.
Detectives said Castillo sent a homemade video tape and a letter to a local newspaper the same day of the incident. On the tape, Castillo seems to become animated and agitated when talking about alleged abuse at the hands of his father.


Investigators also said Castillo sent an e-mail about the alleged rampage to the principal at Columbine High School, where two gunmen shot 13 people before killing themselves in April 1999. In the e-mail, Castillo reveals his obsession with that massacre.


Personally I'm rooting for the death penalty but I'll settle for life without parole.

Anything less than that is an injustice.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Beaverton man was sentenced Monday to more than 24 years in federal prison after posing online as a teenage boy dying of leukemia to coerce young girls into sending him sexually explicit images.


Joshua Kistler, 31, chatted regularly with at least nine girls across the country who ranged in age from 12 to 14. He used the condition to gain the girls' sympathy, according to the U.S.

Department of Justice.
He did send them pictures of his stepson, an actual 15-year old, to further his story, authorities said.
Several victims said they loved and trusted Kistler, who asked them to send photos of them nude or perform sexually explicit acts for him in front of Web cams.


The victim whose case led to Kistler's arrest was a Utah girl who started chatting online with him when she was 12.
According to the U.S.

Department of Justice, Kistler told he victim he had cut off contact with another girl because of the victim's jealousy and that the other girl had killed herself. Overcome with guilt, the Utah girl attempted suicide, which drew the involvement of law enforcement.
The girl attempted suicide a second time after the mother tried to stop the relationship.


Kistler also posed as the stepfather of his online character. In one case, a victim and her mother visited the "stepfather" during a family trip, believing the teenage boy was away receiving treatment.
Kistler told agents that he knew what he was doing was wrong and that he'd always "been a collector.

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According to court documents, Kistler had computers that contained files of movies of young women, some taken without their knowledge. He also had thousands of images of child pornography.


What 'they' should do: Is there anyway that 'they' could give him leukemia.

It would be only fitting.
Every time news comes out about this story it gets even more weird.
Michelle Dohm is a grade school teacher from Thurmont, MD.

who was arrested and convicted for sending threatening notes to some students at her school. Even after she had been under investigation it is alleged that she still sent correspondence out to some of the students.
Now the news is that she was in a court hearing today and was ordered to have no more contact with her victims.

It seems that even after her conviction she has contacted some of the students she was accused of threatening.

Prosecutors sought to revoke Dohm's bond and lock her up until her sentencing on June 26th.
Instead, a judge signed a consent order in which Dohm, who is free on bond, explicitly agreed to have no contact with the victims.


This story has become so ridiculously hard to believe that I don't even think Lifetime would make a movie out of it. I'd almost dare to say that Court TV wouldn't either but they have no shame.
I haven't done any posting on the Virginia Tech Review Panel because frankly I think it's a waste of time.

To me it's like closing the barn door after the horses are out. The panel isn't going to be able to go back in time and stop Cho Seung-Hui. This story reaffirms my belief that the panel is a waste of time and money.


Panel member Don Phau has said that violent video games should be banned like heroin because Jack Thompson said that Cho Seung-Hui played Counter-Strike. But what do you expect from a supporter?
We've already covered the fact that no video games were found in Cho's dorm room and there's no evidence that Cho played video games outside of a blurb from the Washington Post that mysteriously disappeared.


With minds like this behind the panel you don't have to wonder why I think this is a huge waste of taxpayer money.

I would put this one behind the cut if I knew how.
BARNEGAT — A 5-month-old girl died Saturday from injuries police say she suffered at the hands of her mother's boyfriend.


The infant, Alivia Foster, was taken Thursday to Ocean Medical Center in Brick by her mother, 22-year-old Shalonda Foster, Ocean County Prosecutor Thomas F. Kelaher said.
After being evaluated, the baby was transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where she died.

Authorities said she suffered numerous broken bones, had bite marks on her body, several deep abrasions on her back and a protruding bruise on her head.
The mother's boyfriend, 24-year-old Shaun Horsey, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. He was being held on $150,000 bail in the Ocean County Jail.


Kelaher said Horsey is not the baby's biological father but lived with the mother and her child in a room at the Barnegat Motel on South Main Street (Route 9). Details of the beating, including where exactly it happened and the whereabouts of the mother at the time, could not be determined.


I would hope that those charges will be amended to, at the very least, second degree murder.

If anyone ever needed killin', it's this piece of garbage.
I will be interested to see how this one plays out, more specifically where the mother was at the time, and why she thought it would be a good idea to leave her child there with "it" (sorry, but "it" doesn't deserve to be referred to as human).

A man tried to hire a hit man to kill his family, including his 7-year-old daughter, even requesting that she be shot in the chest and not the head so there could be an open casket at her funeral, authorities say.


Authorities learned of the plot on Thursday and arrested the man, John Orlowski, on Friday. Orlowski, 49, was scheduled to appear in U.S.

District Court Monday on the murder-for-hire charge.
"Thankfully the plot was uncovered by law enforcement, and three innocent victims avoided a horrible tragedy," U.S.

Attorney Michael Sullivan said.
Orlowski met the man he wanted to kill his wife, daughter and mother-in-law earlier this year while they were both jail inmates, according to court documents.
He approached the man again after they were released, and even gave him a diagram of his wife's house indicating the location of bedrooms "where the targets slept," and a location in the home where he could find a pistol.

Orlowski offered him $2,000 to do the job himself or get one or more of his friends to do it, according to court documents.


Lovely. Kill my kid, but don't damage her face?

Defective Sperm Donor alert!!!


Luckily, the would-be shooter has some morals...


But the man was troubled by the plot, especially the prospect of killing a child, so he told his mother, and she called the FBI. The man was unidentified in court papers, but the documents referred to him as a "self-professed member of the Crips gang."
Working with the FBI, the man met with Orlowski on Friday and taped a conversation in which Orlowski specified how many bullets he wanted in each victim -- one in the chest for his daughter and two each in the head for his wife and mother-in-law, according to authorities.


This is what really gets me...


In January, Orlowski was arrested at his wife's home and charged with violating the restraining order, domestic assault and battery and unlawful storage of firearms. Police seized 121 guns owned by Orlowski.
:-O
121 guns? It's nothing short of a miracle that the family had not already been killed.
One can only hope that the convicts where ever he is jailed right now will take matters into their own hands and save the taxpayers the cost of a trial.

Over a year ago I posted about some that were left at some California high schools that injured a few people. Now the suspect, one Brian Rocha, has been sentenced to almost 10 years behind bars for his actions.

Brian Rocha was sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison for his conviction on three counts of exploding destructive devices, causing bodily injury.

He was also convicted on two counts of possessing explosive devices near a school, and several lesser charges, the Pasadena Star-News reported.
Judge Daniel Buckley expressed sympathy for the 19-year old defendant, but said diverting him from prison would present an unacceptable risk to the public.
"The elephant in the room nobody has mentioned is Columbine and Virginia Tech," the judge said, as reported by the paper.

"What would we do if he did something else, when there were enough red flags raised in this case?"


Wow, a judge who gets it. My fedora is off to you Judge Buckley.

We need more judges like that. On the other side of the argument we have a defense attorney who doesn't get it..

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Rocha's attorney had made a plea for probation, citing his mental state and disability. "He is developmentally disabled, his IQ is marginal, he has a depressive disorder," said attorney Robin Scroggie, the Star-News reported.

"I beg of you to let us rehabilitate him."


If his IQ is so marginal then how was he able to build these elaborate bombs? In the wake of appealing his guilty plea Kenny Bartley has a new attorney.


Kenneth Bartley met with Knoxville attorney Bruce Poston this week. Poston agreed to take over the case from Michael Hatfield.
Bartley was sentenced to 45 years in prison, as part of a plea bargain last month.

However, Poston says that's "no bargain" for Bartley who only faced six more years if he lost at trial.
On July 2nd, Poston will try to convince a judge the teen didn't "knowingly or voluntarily" agree to the terms, and that he turned down a similar offer in the presence of his parents.


Be careful what you wish for Mr.

Poston. If this goes back to trial and you lose 51 years is the minimum of what Bartley is facing.

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Keywords: Alvaro Castillo, Virginia Tech, Ocean County, District Attorney, High School, District Attorney Jim, Cho Seung, Star News, Attorney Jim, Medical Center
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