A 30-year-old man was stabbed to death early Tuesday in a domestic incident at an eastern New Orleans apartment, police said.
Terrance Walker, of New Orleans, died from stab wounds to his chest and back, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner’s office. Police classified the death a justifiable homicide.
Officers were sent to an apartment in the 7000 block of Martin Drive about 1 a.m. after Walker’s girlfriend’s family called police, according to a daily New Orleans Police Department log. It wasn’t immediately clear what led the family to call officers, an NOPD spokeswoman said. Once inside, police found Walker’s lifeless body.
The girlfriend, whose name wasn’t available, wasn’t arrested because the homicide was deemed justifiable, police said.
Cocoa, Florida — A 42-year-old Cocoa mother faces a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after deputies said she ordered her 14-year-old daughter to alert an acquaintance as she was being handcuffed on drug charges.
Susan Suchocki was also charged with possession of cocaine base, possession of paraphernalia following a traffic stop at Golfview Boulevard and the Port St. John Parkway, reports show. She will have an Aug. 9 court hearing on the charges.
Brevard County sheriff’s deputies spotted the woman driving a car on Monday with an expired license and ordered her to pull over to issue citations. Deputies asked the woman if they could search her car and Suchocki, traveling with her daughter, agreed.
Police have not released the name of the victim of the Sunday stabbing because relatives have not been notified.
Police said two men were involved in an argument outside the house and the argument escalated.
The man who was stabbed was helped into a car by a friend who drove away from the residence.
A short time later the man got out of the car at SW 51 and Shartel, where he collapsed and died, police said.
Humberto Leal Garcia Jr., a Mexican national convicted of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in 1994, was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening in Texas.
The case’s flurry of legal appeals and pleas for clemency were prompted by an international dispute over the rights of the foreign-born on American death rows.
The Supreme Court earlier denied a stay of execution for the convicted killer, despite opposition from the Obama administration and the Mexican government.
Leal was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. CT (7:21 p.m. ET), according to a corrections spokeswoman.
“I am sorry for everything I have done,” Leal said at the Huntsville facility before he was executed. “I have hurt a lot of people.
05 Jul
Posted by Alana Grimley as Crime and Justice
Special interest groups are donating money to causes supported by California’s Latino legislators potentially buying influence without any public disclosure.
The Latino Legislative Caucus two years ago stopped revealing which Capitol interest groups give hundreds of thousands of dollars to a nonprofit group it controls.
As California’s fastest-growing minority group, Latinos have rising political clout. Twenty-three Latino Democratic lawmakers are in the legislative caucus, whose work extends to sponsoring community events through its foundation.