My wife, Altanya and I were recently the recipients of The 2013 Community Service Award for Advocating against Domestic Violence for survivors and their children. The award was presented by New Creation Ministries International, Inc., out of St. Albans, Queens, NY. at the Jericho Terrace in Mineola at their 1st Annual 2013 Domestic Violence Awards Benefit Banquet. The theme was "A Night Of Unity!" We both echoed our reasons behind the passion of why we do this work, "We are COMMITTED to strengthening our community and saving lives..one at a time!" We dedicated the award to the memory of Diane Lesley Parker, A Domestic Violence victim, other Domestic Violence victims and to everyone who has survived this epidemic that is destroying our families and our communities. We'll continue to bring awareness, through intervention and advocacy and hold every offender ACCOUNTABLE. Thank you, Pastors Adam and Tshonge Inalegwu for allowing us the privilege of being one of your honorees at this event. We're humbled and grateful to serve our community in this sensitive capacity. God bless you!
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Black women are most often killed by a gun and almost always by someone they know Washington, DC — Black women face a disproportionate share of fatal domestic violence in America, according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC) report When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2011 Homicide Data. In 2011, 492 black females were murdered by males at a rate of 2.61 per 100,000, compared to a rate of 0.99 per 100,000 for white females. The annual report is released to coincide with Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. The study covers homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender, and uses data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report. This year’s report applies to 2011, the most recent year for which data is available. Here are some of the report’s findings related to black females murdered by males: • Where the relationship could be determined, 94 percent of black females killed by males knew their killers. Nearly 15 times as many black females were murdered by a male they knew than were killed by male strangers. • Of the black victims who knew their offenders, 52 percent were wives, common-law wives, ex-wives, or girlfriends of the offenders. Ninety-three percent of the homicides were intra-racial. • Firearms, especially handguns, were the most common weapons used by males to murder black females. When the murder weapon could be identified, 51 percent of black female victims were shot and killed with guns. Within that group, 82 percent were killed with a handgun. • In homicides where the age of victims was reported, 12 percent of black female victims were less than 18 years old (55 victims), and five percent were 65 years of age or older (22 victims). • The vast majority of homicides of black females murdered by males were not related to any other felony crime. Most often, black females were killed by males in the course of an argument. In cases where the circumstances could be identified, 87 percent were not related to the commission of any other felony. “The sad reality is that women are nearly always murdered by someone they know,” said VPC Legislative Director Kristen Rand. “Already, many elected officials and community leaders are working tirelessly to reduce the toll of domestic violence. Yet despite these efforts, the numbers remain unacceptably high. We need new policies in place from local communities to the federal government to protect women from harm.” “Nine women each week are shot to death by their husband or intimate partner,” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. “That's nearly 500 domestic gun violence deaths each year — more than twice the number of servicewomen killed in military conflicts since the Korean War. We urgently need better policies that protect women and their families from this senseless violence. No American, adult or child, should live in a perpetual state of fear. It’s inhumane.” Nationwide, a total of 1,707 females were murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents in 2011, at a rate of 1.17 per 100,000. The study also ranks each state based on the homicide rate for females murdered by males. In 2011, South Carolina led the nation with a rate of 2.54 per 100,000. Below is the complete list of the 10 states with the highest rates of females murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents in 2011: Please view the full report to find additional details on the study, including data on the murder of black females. To view the full report, please visit http://www.vpc.org/studies/wmmw2013.pdf.
PA- Philadelphia homicide investigators say a mother and son found dead in their burned out apartment on Howell Street Saturday morning is being ruled a double homicide, and now, sources say, authorities are questioning the woman’s boyfriend. Police have Carlos Rivera in custody, officials said Tuesday morning. Double murder and other charges are being filed at this time. Police say the woman, Atlanta Deveney, 35, was choked and beaten, and her child, Elijah Rosado, 12, was stabbed in the neck and chest before the apartment caught fire. Atlanta Deveney's neighbors heard sounds of a violent struggle Saturday morning, including a woman's screams. Then they heard nothing, but smelled smoke. Police said Monday that Deveney's boyfriend, Carlos Rivera, choked and beat to death the 35-year-old woman inside her Wissinoming apartment and fatally stabbed her 12-year-old son, Elijah Rosado, possibly as the boy tried to help his mother. To conceal his crimes, police said, Rivera torched the apartment and prevented neighbors from trying to douse the flames. "He was outside while neighbors were trying to get inside to put the fire out," Homicide Capt. James Clark said Monday during a news conference at Police Headquarters. "He was telling them, don't go inside, saying, 'I'll go in, I'll take care of it.' But he never did." Rivera, who has a rap sheet for violent arrests, fled the house on the 4600 block of Howell Street before police and firefighters arrived just before 9 a.m. Police had him in custody Tuesday morning. Firefighters found Deveney's and her son's bodies in a closet under a mattress, Clark said. While investigators were "still putting together the pieces of the crime," Clark said Rivera might have turned on Rosado when the child tried to stop him from attacking his mother. "One theory is that he was physically assaulting the mother," Clark said, "and that the son came and tried to come to her aid, and with that, he pulled out a knife and violently stabbed and killed the little boy." Authorities said Rivera had an outstanding warrant for a gunpoint robbery against Deveney about three months ago. Clark said Deveney had a longtime abusive relationship with Rivera, who was not Rosado's father. Despite the couple's past, Rivera was seen helping Deveney when she and her son moved into the Howell Street apartment just last week, Clark said. Now, police believe he murdered the woman and her child just days later. Carlos Rivera, who has a rap sheet for violent arrests, fled the house on the 4600 block of Howell Street before police and firefighters arrived just before 9 a.m. Firefighters found Deveney's and her son's bodies in a closet under a mattress. While investigators were "still putting together the pieces of the crime," Clark said Rivera might have turned on Rosado when the child tried to stop him from attacking his mother."One theory is that he was physically assaulting the mother," Homicide Capt. James Clark said, "and that the son came and tried to come to her aid, and with that, he pulled out a knife and violently stabbed and killed the little boy." Some related articles: http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/atlanta-deveney-and-teen-son-elijah-rosado-identified-as-bodies-found-under-burning-mattress-59729/ http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/10/07/fatal-house-fire-in-wissinoming-being-ruled-a-double-homicide/ http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/10/08/double-murder-charges-filed-in-wissinoming-house-fire/ Chicago, IL- After her ex-boyfriend's brother was attacked with a pipe and knife, and then decapitated, Daisy Gutierrez called her father and told him that she had "fixed the problem," authorities say. Then, Cook County prosecutors contend, Gutierrez's new boyfriend dismembered the body, and her father spent three hours digging a hole in the family's Southwest Side backyard before placing the victim's body parts in plastic bags and burying them. The remains of the man, identified as Jose Reyes, were buried there for nearly five months until police obtained a search warrant and dug up the yard Friday. At a Sunday bond court hearing, Cook County Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil ordered Gutierrez, 19, held in lieu of $2 million bail on a charge of first-degree murder. Bail was set at $500,000 for her father, Salvador Gutierrez, 56, who is charged with concealing a homicide. Daisy Gutierrez's current boyfriend, with whom authorities said she fled to New Jersey after the slaying, has not been charged, prosecutors said Sunday. The plot unfolded May 21, when Gutierrez and her boyfriend decided to lure Reyes to her home in the 8300 block of South Scottsdale Avenue, Assistant State's Attorney Heather Kent said. Gutierrez has two children — a 2-year-old and a 1-year-old — with Reyes' brother, relatives and prosecutors said. As part of the plan, Gutierrez told her family to leave the home, said prosecutors, who contend that she invited Reyes over while her boyfriend prepared to attack him. Reyes had "expressed his own interest" in Gutierrez and had called her in the past, Kent said. Jealousy was a potential motive, she added. When Reyes arrived, Gutierrez led him to her bedroom, where she began to undress, authorities said she later told them. Then Gutierrez's boyfriend kicked in the door and attacked Reyes, slitting his throat and later decapitating him, Kent said. Afterward, Gutierrez called her father, who returned home and watched the boyfriend dismember the body, Kent said. Salvador Gutierrez, who works as a busboy in a local restaurant, dug a hole in the backyard and buried the remains, authorities contend. The next day, Daisy Gutierrez and her boyfriend left town, prosecutors said. Soon after, Reyes' family started peppering his Humboldt Park neighborhood with fliers, looking for information on the Honduran native's disappearance. Reyes, whose age was listed by authorities as 28, though his family said he was 30, moved to Chicago five years ago in hopes of improving his life, according to his family, who identified him as Jose Reyes Ramos. The oldest of four children, Reyes worked in construction and sent most of his money back home to Tegucigalpa, where he has family, his brother Jorge Moncada Ramos said. Reyes had planned to return to Honduras in December to help take care of his sister, who has been sick for the past eight months. "He was the nicest guy you could ever meet," said David Martinez, 31, a neighbor and friend. "He didn't deserve what happened to him. The cruelty … that's bad, that's gruesome. Who does that?" Through an interpreter, Moncada Ramos said there was never a relationship between his ex-girlfriend and brother, adding that Daisy Gutierrez started harassing his brother over the phone after Moncada Ramos changed his number. She wanted revenge because Moncada Ramos ended their three-year relationship in January, he said, adding that her family had also threatened to kill his relatives. Daisy Gutierrez "did this to make me suffer," Moncada Ramos, 28, said Sunday as he stood on the block where his brother lived. "She threatened me a lot." Daisy and Salvador Gutierrez were arrested Friday afternoon, the same day detectives searched the family's home. Prosecutors said the two admitted to their roles in the crime. An autopsy on Saturday showed that Reyes died of multiple sharp force injuries from an assault. In bond court, Daisy Gutierrez's public defender requested that she be held in the jail hospital because she is three months pregnant. In addition to two children with Moncada Ramos, Daisy Gutierrez has a 3-year-old child, her lawyer said. Moncada Ramos said the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has custody of his two children, but the agency declined comment. After his brother disappeared, Moncada Ramos said he immediately suspected his ex-girlfriend was involved. When he confronted her over the phone, she cried and told him multiple times that she had no idea what happened to his brother, he said. Moncada Ramos said his grandmother died Friday, the same day he learned detectives had found his brother's body. He said he is trying to focus on getting his kids back and raising money to send his brother's ashes to their native country. "Right now, there's a lot of problems," he said. "I don't know how to send him to Honduras." Please click here to read the whole story. Used by permission. Offenders Salvatore Gutierrez and his daughter, Daisy Gutierrez, dismembered Jose Reyes Ramos, took his body parts, placed them in plastic bags and buried him in their backyard. |
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