Career criminal, 32, allegedly beats 76-year-old man to death at Chicago bus stop. But he's reportedly just getting started.



A 32-year-old career criminal allegedly beat to death a 76-year-old man at a Chicago bus stop Monday night, WLS-TV reported.

But his night of crime reportedly was only beginning.

The station noted that he has a lengthy criminal record spanning nearly two decades.

Surveillance video shows two people standing at a bus stop near 95th and Halsted Streets on the city's south side, the station said.

WLS noted that the silent clip shows the 76-year-old man hitting the 32-year-old suspect, but it's unclear what led to that altercation. However, the 32-year-old retaliates, punching the 76-year-old and shoving him to the ground, the station said.

The station added that it paused the video at that point because what follows "is too disturbing," noting that the 32-year-old goes on to "beat and kick the victim multiple times, before eventually walking away."

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WLS said Chicago police responded to the area around 9:15 p.m., found the 76-year-old victim on the ground with apparent trauma to the head, and took him to a hospital, where he later died.

With that — according to a police report the station said it obtained — the same suspect carjacked an SUV from a nearby McDonald's.

A 60-year-old grandmother told WLS she was in the restaurant when the suspect entered her vehicle while her grandchildren — a 3-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy — were in the backseat. The station said the suspect threatened to shoot the children and ordered them out of the SUV.

WLS, citing the police report, said the suspect took off in the green Kia Telluride. However, the SUV's owner told the station she tracked the vehicle's location through the girl's iPad still inside it.

Soon the suspect crashed the SUV in Schererville, Indiana, and police arrested the driver, the station said. Schererville is about 35 minutes southeast of the initial crime scene on the south side of Chicago.

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WLS said it's not naming the suspect because he hasn't yet been charged with a crime in the case, but the station noted that he has a lengthy criminal record spanning nearly two decades.

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A 2019 case in Cook County charges the man with robbery and aggravated battery.

Court documents show that prosecutors say he repeatedly hit a man and then stole his bike in south suburban Glenwood.

He also pleaded guilty and served jail time for a 2015 robbery in Matteson and was charged with resisting arrest in 2010.

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Cops make arrest after grandmother is groped on her front porch in broad daylight. Suspect is a young teen.



Blaze News last week reported on a disturbing incident in Louisville, Kentucky, involving a grandmother who was alone on her porch in the middle of the day when her home surveillance camera captured a young male getting off his bike, walking up her driveway, and approaching her on the porch of her home.

As WLKY-TV reported, the male asks 78-year-old Jan Fletcher, "Is somebody in there? I don't want to wake them. Is somebody in there?"

'I want an apology for him doing it.'

Fletcher responds, "Yeah. Why?"

The station said the male was asking for directions to a well-known neighborhood park. But then the male got all the way onto the porch, walked behind Fletcher, and acted as though he was dusting something off her rear end.

But WLKY said the male soon repeatedly and violently groped Fletcher until she was able to stop him.

“I was so mad that it happened,” Fletcher recalled to the station during an on-camera interview. “I was thinking, 'What could I have done different?' But I don't know what I could have done differently.”

Her granddaughter Jessica Powell-Page was understandably horrified and told WLKY that "she didn't deserve that" and that the incident was "unacceptable.”

Well, Louisville Metro Police Department said police arrested a 13-year-old male Friday in connection with the incident and charged him with third-degree sexual abuse, WLKY said in a follow-up story.

Police said the male doesn't live in the neighborhood where the incident occurred, the station added.

Despite the disturbing encounter, Fletcher noted to WLKY in its initial report that she's lived in her neighborhood for 55 years and has felt safe — and that she's not going anywhere.

“I've been asked if I'm afraid to sit here on my porch, and I’m not,” she noted to the station defiantly. “I want him to know you're not scaring me. Absolutely not. So every day that it's nice weather, I will be on my porch.”

Following the arrest, Fletcher told WLKY, "I want an apology for him doing it."

"I really hate that these young people are out here doing stuff. I hate it; it's sad. ... What enjoyment do they get out of doing stuff? I don't understand it," Fletcher added to the station.

Louisville police told WLKY that "the elderly are often the victims of scams, harassment, and home invasion, which often start with suspicious questions at the door." Police also offered the following tips, the station said.

Trust your instincts. If a person or situation makes you feel uneasy, trust your gut feeling. Acknowledge the potential threat and take action to stay safe.
Take note of your surroundings. Pay attention to potential hiding spots for an attacker, such as alleys, doorways, large bushes, or between parked vans. When walking past these areas, give them a wide berth.
Look for warning signs. Stay alert for suspicious behaviors, like someone following you on foot or in a vehicle. If you notice this, change directions, cross the street, or enter a business to signal that you have noticed them.

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Video: Grandmother is alone on her front porch during day when male comes up, asks for directions. That's not what he wants.



Jan Fletcher, 78, was alone during the day recently when her home surveillance camera captured a young male getting off his bike, walking up her driveway, and approaching her on the porch of her south Louisville home, WLKY-TV reported.

The male asks Fletcher, "Is somebody in there? I don't want to wake them. Is somebody in there?"

Fletcher responds, "Yeah. Why?"

'She didn't deserve that.'

The station said the male was asking for directions to a well-known neighborhood park. But then he got all the way on the porch, walked behind Fletcher, and acted as though he was dusting something off her rear end.

But the situation grew scarier.

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WLKY said the male repeatedly and violently groped Fletcher until she was able to stop him.

“I was so mad that it happened,” Fletcher recalled to the station during an on-camera interview. “I was thinking, 'What could I have done different?' But I don't know what I could have done differently.”

Her granddaughter Jessica Powell-Page was understandably horrified and told WLKY that "she didn't deserve that" and that the incident was "unacceptable.”

Louisville police told the station they're investigating the incident but haven't yet identified the male.

Despite the disturbing encounter, Fletcher noted to WLKY that she's lived in her neighborhood for 55 years and has felt safe — and that she's not going anywhere.

“I've been asked if I'm afraid to sit here on my porch, and I’m not,” she noted to the station defiantly. “I want him to know you're not scaring me. Absolutely not. So every day that it's nice weather, I will be on my porch.”

Louisville police told WLKY that "the elderly are often the victims of scams, harassment, and home invasion, which often start with suspicious questions at the door." Police also offered the following tips, the station said:

Trust your instincts. If a person or situation makes you feel uneasy, trust your gut feeling. Acknowledge the potential threat and take action to stay safe.
Take note of your surroundings. Pay attention to potential hiding spots for an attacker, such as alleys, doorways, large bushes, or between parked vans. When walking past these areas, give them a wide berth.
Look for warning signs. Stay alert for suspicious behaviors, like someone following you on foot or in a vehicle. If you notice this, change directions, cross the street, or enter a business to signal that you have noticed them.

WLKY added that those with information regarding the incident can offer anonymous tips at 502-574-5673.

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Thug carjacks a grandmother as her 6-year-old grandson looks on. But crook soon gets his comeuppance.



A 66-year-old grandmother traveled to an Aldi grocery store on the South Side of Chicago one afternoon earlier this month — and she had her 6-year-old grandson in tow, CWB Chicago reported.

After parking in the Aldi lot, the grandmother pulled her purse from the trunk of her black 2024 Buick SUV, and she and her grandson began walking toward the grocery store, the outlet said, citing a detention proffer from Cook County prosecutors.

Gilmore got away in the victim's SUV, prosecutors told the outlet, adding that surveillance video captured the June 8 incident in its entirety.

But what began as an everyday shopping trip soon took a terrifying turn.

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Prosecutors told CWB Chicago that 18-year-old Keshawn Gilmore confronted the grandmother with a black handgun and demanded the grandmother's keys and even "grappled" with her as her young grandson stood nearby.

Gilmore got away in the victim's SUV, prosecutors told the outlet, adding that surveillance video captured the June 8 incident in its entirety.

The suspect soon ran out of luck, however.

License plate readers on the Dan Ryan Expressway picked up the stolen SUV around 4:30 p.m., CWB Chicago said, adding that Chicago police spotted the vehicle around 30 minutes later near 19th Street and Albany.

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Gilmore was behind the wheel, prosecutors told the outlet, adding that two passengers also were in the vehicle.

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When officers tried to stop the vehicle, Gilmore allegedly sped off, running red lights and stop signs. But the chase ended two minutes later when Gilmore crashed at 3200 South Kedzie, ejecting a juvenile passenger from the SUV’s back seat. All three occupants, including the juvenile, fled. But cops caught Gilmore, still wearing the same clothing seen in the Aldi video, officials said.

Police allegedly found a Glock handgun on the driver’s floorboard, its “distinct shape” matching the weapon in the store video, and a second handgun on the passenger floorboard, prosecutors said in a detention petition.

Judge Shauna Boliker ordered Gilmore detained as a safety risk, the outlet said, adding that he faces charges of aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated fleeing, aggravated possession of a weapon, unlawful transportation of a stolen vehicle, and resisting police.

The Cook County Sheriff's Office on Thursday told Blaze News that Gilmore was still in custody with no bond listed.

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Grandmother protecting herself and her 4-year-old grandson shoots auto theft suspect who broke into her home, cops say



A New Mexico grandmother protecting herself and her 4-year-old grandson shot an auto theft suspect who broke into her home Friday night.

What are the details?

Albuquerque police said they tried to pull over a stolen truck near Central and Cypress around 8 p.m. and used spike strips to flatten the tires, the Albuquerque Journal reported, citing a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.

Police told the paper the truck was “on its rims” and crashed into a curb near Candelaria and Rio Grande NW.

The driver ran into the neighborhood, and police made a perimeter to search the area, the Journal said.

A woman who was with her 4-year-old grandson told police she heard someone inside her home, the paper said, adding that she confronted the male who “appeared to be angry” and told her he “just needed her keys.”

The woman told police she thought about arming herself but “did not know if she had time to use the weapon” if the intruder also had a gun, the paper reported, citing the complaint.

The woman told police she took the intruder to a “bowl of keys” in the kitchen, and the male took several keys and left, the Journal reported.

Police said the woman told them she then grabbed a gun and took her grandchild into a bedroom — but she said she discovered the intruder back in her hallway “demanding more keys," the paper said.

With that, the woman told police she pointed the gun at the intruder and “told him to get out” — but he began approaching her instead, the Journal said, citing the complaint.

The woman told police she was scared “he would kill her or her grandchild,” and she shot him once, the paper reported.

The woman told police the intruder fell to the ground and began “crawling through the halls asking for water,” the Journal said, adding that the woman said she “put pressure on his wound until police arrived.”

The woman called 911 around 9:30 p.m., arriving officers detained the burglar — identified as 32-year-old Joseph Rivera — at the home, and the woman gave police the gun she used to shoot him, the paper said.

Police told the Journal that Rivera is charged with burglary, attempted burglary, and auto theft, and will be booked into jail after he's released from the hospital.

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Rivera is currently on pretrial release in a July 2023 case in which he was found in a stolen vehicle with fentanyl, cocaine and heroin on him, according to court records. At the time, Rivera told police that “his personal life and caring for his family has been incredibly difficult” as he struggled with undiagnosed mental health issues and addiction.

A warrant was issued in that case when he didn’t show up for a court hearing in October.

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Grandmother charged after 2 baby grandchildren die in her care in less than a year, daughter says her mother 'needs to go to prison'



A Florida grandmother is facing criminal charges after her two grandchildren died while under her care. The daughter of the accused woman is demanding that her own mother be sent to prison following the deaths of her two young children.

Kaila Nix asked her mother to babysit her 7-month-old daughter Uriel Schock for two hours as she went to a hair appointment on Nov. 22, 2022. Tracey Nix, a former school principal, gladly agreed to babysit her grandchild.

The 65-year-old grandmother went to lunch with her friends and then drove home with Uriel in the backseat of her Lexus SUV. Tracey went inside her home – where she talked to her dog and practiced piano for a "long time," according to WFTS-TV.

One of Tracey's grandsons visited her, and "all of a sudden" it "came across her head" that she left baby Uriel in the SUV, according to the complaint affidavit.

Tracey told detectives that she "just forgot" that Uriel was in the backseat.

Temperatures reached 90 degrees outside Nix's home in Wauchula, and the windows were rolled up on the SUV.

Her husband, Nun Ney Nix, ran to the car, and began performing CPR on the baby. However, it was too late — Uriel died from the extreme heat.

Shockingly enough, another one of Tracey's grandchildren also died under her care less than a year earlier. Days before Christmas 2021, Kaila's other child died while Tracey was supposed to be watching 16-month-old Ezra.

On Dec. 23, 2021, Nun Ney Nix called the infant's father, Drew Schock, and told him, "Something happened to Ezra."

Drew informed Kaila about the situation involving their son.

Kaila rushed to her parents' home — driving as fast as 85 MPH on country roads. She became distracted by a helicopter landing near her parents and ran through a stop sign. Kaila, who was six months pregnant at the time, was involved in a head-on collision with another car.

"All of my airbags went off, I don’t remember how I got out, but I got out and started running to my parents' house and at this point, I don’t have shoes. I’m just running," Kaila told the news channel. "That was my desperation to get to my son."

Kaila said that her doctor advised her to avoid any stressful situation that could cause her to lose her pregnancy.

"They withheld information from me, per my request, per my doctor’s advice, that any information that would work me up or make me emotionally distressful would be harmful to my unborn child," Kaila explained. "And I knew in that moment that as much as I loved him, that she was a real life, and she was coming, and it would be wrong of me to lose her over him, and hurt her and take her."

When she was supposed to be watching Ezra, Tracey had reportedly fallen asleep while her husband was running errands. Tracey found the infant boy lying face down in knee-deep water at a pond near her home. She attempted to resuscitate Ezra with CPR, but he was unresponsive and already dead.

Kaila and Drew never saw the incident report on how their son died under the supervision of Tracey.

A deputy allegedly informed Kaila, "I was told unless I believed that my mom held my son’s head under the water and intentionally killed him, that there is nothing else that they can do about my son’s death."

Schock said, "And that it actually just f***ing happened twice. In our lifetime."

Kaila added, "There wasn’t a moment to get a grip of the death of my son before there was the life of my daughter."

She said that she named her daughter Uriel because it means "God is my light" in Hebrew.

The state attorney's office said there wasn't enough evidence to establish culpable negligence and told ABC Action News, "In cases involving the accidental drowning of a toddler, Florida appellate courts have stated that a one-time lapse of judgment would not establish culpable negligence of the caretaker."

However, Nix was charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of Uriel Schock.

Tracey's attorney, William Fletcher, said that the grandma is "totally devastated." He added that there are "no winners here."

If Nix is found guilty, she could be sentenced to between 12 and 30 years in prison.

Schock said, "I want justice for my son. I want justice because he didn’t get that. And now I got to sit here and expose this. That way, I don’t let what happened to my son happen with my daughter. And just get off scot-free because I couldn’t live with that as a parent."

Kaila declared, "If I’m objective — she needs to go to prison. As her daughter, it kills me to say it. As their mother, I demand it. I will fight for them."

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Grandmother survives after being accidentally shot by 6-year-old granddaughter



A 57-year-old woman says that her 6-year-old granddaughter accidentally shot her, according to the North Port Police Department in Florida.

The incident occurred on Thursday when the young child got a gun that was in a vehicle and accidentally shot it, hitting the woman.

"Shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday, NPPD was called to the 4200 block of Tollefson Avenue for a reported accidental discharge of a firearm in a moving vehicle. A 57-year-old woman reported that her 6-year-old granddaughter got ahold of a firearm in the backseat of the vehicle and accidentally fired a single shot through the driver seat, striking her in the lower back. The weapon was originally located in a holster, tucked in the back pocket of the driver seat, beneath a seat cover," the police department noted in a Facebook post.

"The grandmother was able to drive home and receive assistance. After calling 911, the grandmother was airlifted to Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota with non-threatening injuries. Detectives immediately began an investigation. An interview of the child was conducted by those with the Child Protection Center in North Port. All other parties involved were also questioned. At this time, the explanations corroborate an accidental discharge," the post states.

North Port Police Chief Todd Garrison urged people to ensure that kids cannot gain access to guns.

"This is an unfortunate example of the importance of gun safety. Please take appropriate measures to make sure children cannot access firearms. This could have been much worse, not only for the grandmother, but for the child. Thankfully, it appears that everyone is going to be okay," Garrison said, according to the Facebook post.

The department's post describes the matter as "an ongoing investigation."

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Grandmother in Oklahoma accused of beating 3-year-old granddaughter to death, leaving her in a trash bin



An Oklahoma woman is in custody today facing first-degree murder by child abuse charges for the death of her 3-year-old granddaughter.

According to the police, 61-year-old Becky Vreeland of Oklahoma City had recently been granted custody of three grandchildren, all under 5 years old, including 3-year-old Riley Lynn Nolan. Then, late last month, Kyle Nolan, Vreeland's son and the father of the children, went to Vreeland's home to visit. When he inquired about Riley, he was told that she was sleeping. He then went looking for her and discovered her lifeless body in a trash can.

“We ended up finding her, we ended up finding her in the recycle bin,” said Nolan. “I can’t sleep at night. Every time I close my eyes, I just think about her.”

An official statement from Oklahoma City PD claims that when police arrived, they found Riley "in a residential trash receptacle" and that she "had obvious signs of trauma to her body."

They also claimed that she had been dead for some time before her body was discovered.

"The child had been dead for a period of time at least," MSgt. Gary Knight told reporters. "It hadn't just happened."

Riley's death has devastated her family and the local community.

“I just don’t understand what could have provoked anything and then once I found out how it happened, it killed me,” Nolan said. “And on top of it, I lose my mom, too.”

“I’ll always love my mom,” Nolan continued. “That’s my mom. She raised me. She did everything for me, and that’s why I never dreamed something like this could happen.”

Kyle Nolan had just been released from custody himself when he went to visit Riley and her two siblings at Vreeland's home. He and the mother of the children were arrested for child neglect last August when the two older Nolan kids were found wandering a mobile home park unattended.

Vreeland's neighbor, Marsha Brannum, is similarly bewildered by the events.

"I could have been some more assistance for her if she was having trouble," Brannum said. "That kind of shocks me. I don't understand it because she seemed like a very hardworking grandmother, and I could hear her play with the children in the backyard. I wish I had paid more attention."

One woman claims she did pay more attention and that she reported her concerns about Vreeland to DHS, to no avail. The woman, who remains anonymous, said, "This 100% could have been prevented and something needs to be done about this.”

“Her behavior was very impatient with the children, definitely not a normal grandmother situation,” said the woman.

“It's like you’re really helpless because you sound all the alarms, call all the people, and let them know and even have news stories about situations they are involved in, and nobody does anything.”

Vreeland denies killing Riley and insists that Riley fell into the garbage can. She was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday. Her bond has been set at $5 million.