On a dark scary evening, Lloyd Wickliffe was working as a security guard in a McDonald’s on Halsted Street on Chicago’s far South Side. At a little past eight, during an armed robbery attempt, Wickliffe was killed by a shotgun blast, and another security guard, Alvin Thompson, was wounded. The attackers, Edgar Hope and Andrew Wilson, did not get any money, but they stole the handguns the guards were carrying. Alton Logan was home asleep, nowhere near the robbery. Later he wounded guard, Thompson, was questioned and correctly identified Edgar Hope as one of the shooters. Thompson misidentified Edgar Hope as one of the shooter. Thompson misidentified the second shooter as Alton Logan. The police found two other witnesses to say the same. A few
He has been charged of four accounts of first-degree murder, seven accounts of attempted murder, one account of illegal position of fire arms. The motive is still unknown. It 's also still unknown whether or not if the shooter has specfic targets or if was a random shooting. The 17-year-old suspect is in custody.
Twenty-three days is a long time to stay in and worry about being next on the shooters list. “The day of October 2, 2002, the beltway snipers began terrorizing people (Fbi.gov).” The beltway snipers, who are they, what crime did they commit, and theories of why they committed the crime is what this paper is about. The beltway snipers were, “John Muhammad, 41 and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 (Fbi.gov.)”
As to the direction the shots came from, the witnesses were undeniably divided. To explain this, it is important to understand not only the fragile nature of eyewitness testimony-particularly during moments of highly elevated stress, but also problems with eyewitness descriptions of gunfire in particular, as well as difficulties raised by specific conditions at the scene of the crime. The authoritative textbook, Firearms Investigation Identification and Evidence, states, "It is extremely difficult to tell the direction [from which a shot was fired] by the sound of discharge of a firearm." The authors go on to note that "little credence" should be placed in such testimony.15 Not only that, but as Charles Manson-prosecutor and later JFK-assassination author Vincent Bugliosi puts it, "Dealey Plaza resounds with echoes, the multistory buildings on the north, south, and east sides making it a virtual echo chamber. "16
He first told the police that he fired the gun blindly while
From 1976 to 1977, the streets of New York City were engulfed in fear that was a result of a single serial killer attacking random, innocent victims. David Berkowitz, commonly known as ‘The Son Of Sam’ was responsible for the deaths of 6 people and leaving several other injured as a result of his ruthless attacks. David catapulted New York City into a panic when he began targeting college students and couples at random using his infamous .44 caliber handgun. He had made claims that his neighbor had been telling him to kill and that he received these messages through his neighbor Sam Carr’s dog. He had believed that he was merely a messenger, and that it was his job to carry out the killings as he was instructed to do by Carr’s dog.
The shots that were fired were too fast to just be one person because the bolt action rifle that was supposedly used couldn’t fire that fast even professional shooters that we tested couldn't do that and the shots that were fired came out in less than 10 seconds. The text says that there was also a police killing the same day too but the two eyewitness descriptions were
It was two years ago. Two long agonizing years that i had to deal with the agony of my son being hung in the Springfield Square. “Stop,” the officer screams, “put that food back!” December 5th 1906 my son Austin Girth made the horrible mistake of stealing food from the local market. Austin was only 13 at the time he stole the food.
It’s scary how fear can take the place of everything else in someone’s mind, even a person’s sense of judgement. Fear changed the life of a former SEAL trainee. Dustin Turner, (also known as Dusty) and Billy Joe Brown were accused and convicted of murdering Jennifer Evans in Virginia on June 19, 1995 at a nightclub. Many people see this tragic night differently, but the truth is, only those three-people witnessed this and only two are alive to tell their stories. Sadly, two people aren’t always going to have one same situation.
A historical event that happened in my lifetime that had an impact on my life is the Walmart shooting in Thornton. Scott Ostrem was a forty-seven year old terrorist who had shot and killed three people in the Walmart in Thornton Colorado, on November 1, 2017. According to Scott’s step sister, after a party in 1988 where Scott had ingested sixteen doses of LSD, and when he had come home “he was terrified. He had voices in his head. Demons.
Gary Kinder’s book, Victim: The Other Side of Murder, offers a disturbing record of the murder and attempted murder of five individuals in a murder/robbery planned by an individual who should have never been free to commit such a heinous crime to begin with. Kinder’s book allows the reader to essentially get into the heads of the people who must experience the fallout of this devastating event, and offers a unique perspective on how the indirect victims of crime can be impacted just as direct victims are. The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences of a father, Byron Nasibitt and his son Cortney Naisbitt; one an indirect victim of crime and the other, a direct victim, both of whom were forced to deal with the devastating effects
Journalist and author, Dave Cullen, in his book, Columbine, redefines how his readers understand the Columbine tragedy. His purpose is to illustrate the misconceptions Americans have of the shooting by explaining how these misconceptions came about and became rooted in Americans’ minds, although they were so unbelievably wrong. Cullen creates a blunt tone in order to get straight to the facts to show who Eric really was. Through his use of rhetorical devices in this passage, Cullen unravels that Eric was not a bullied outcast like so many believe, but a psychopath.
One striking example of the Milwaukee police department’s incompetence in this particular chain of working-class murders is the Konerak Sinthasomphone incident. Sinthasomphone was a Laotian 14-year-old who Dahmer had lured back into his apartment (). At one point, he managed to escape through the front door and wander into the streets, dazed (it was later found out he was lobotomized), naked, and beaten (Worthington 2). Two women found him and called the police, reporting a badly injured child walking the streets, unable to speak properly (2). Officers John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish arrived at the scene as Dahmer rushed over to make up a fake explanation (1).
I INTRODUCTION TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT It is somewhere around three a.m. in the morning. You wake up to an empty, cold room, no larger than 60 square feet, with nothing but four walls surrounding you. You are stripped, handcuffed and taken about 30 feet outside your cell where you are allowed a brief shower.
In “The Fourth State of Matter” Jo Ann Beard portrays a perspective of the shooting of the physics department at the University of Iowa that not everyone knows about. A look at the relationships and some of the tension with the shooter and the people the shooter interacted with. The man responsible for the shooting at the University of Iowa was a Chinese doctoral student who worked in the physics department with the people he had shot, and the shooter was referred as Gang Lu. Ever since Lu had been working there, he had never enjoyed the company and presence of his fellow co-workers.
In A Letter Home, 1,000 Ohio National Guardsmen are pointing innocent college students at gunpoint, and this is the outbreak. “By now you know the end of it all from the news. Four Kent State students died, and nine students were wounded” (6). These are two of the many similarities found in this story, but there are also many differences as