Nice Guy Jonathan Ray Pearson Beat the Hell Out of His Girlfriend with Golf Clubs, in Ocala

The room where an Ocala woman was brutally beaten with two golf clubs on Sunday looked like a murder scene.

A blood-soaked mattress was on the floor, surrounded by blood-spattered walls. A few specks of blood dotted the ceiling. More blood, likely spat by the 22-year-old victim, was on the wall near the head of the bed.

Ocala police say the woman was struck at least 10 times with a driver and putter. She was still hospitalized Tuesday, recovering from a seven-hour surgery...


**Blog author note: Aggravated domestic violence? NO!

Attempted murder? Hell YEAH!

What is wrong with the legal system?**

Possessive and Controlling Domestic Abuser Brian Sebastian Kills His Girlfriend and Himself in Utah

A tragic ending to allegedly months of domestic abuse for a Utah County couple; officials say a man shot his girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself.

46-year-old Brian Sebastian and 40-year-old Jeanie White were found by Springville police late Monday night in their bedroom, both with a single gunshot wound to the head.

Police had been called out to the house by Jeanie's daughter, who became worried when she hadn't heard from her mother...

Last Friday, another fight broke out after it's believed Sabastian had discovered Jeanie's plan to move out. ...



**Blog author note: And we say time and time again, the most dangerous time for a victim of violence, is when she decides to leave. Is anyone listening?**

Dedrick Labee II Shot Girlfriend in the Face in Lousiana

A man was charged with attempted murder on Sunday after his girlfriend was shot in the face in an apparent domestic dispute, police said.

The shooting happened in an apartment in Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish Chief Deputy Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

Police said 20-year-old Dedrick Labee II was living with the 20-year-old victim, who was in critical condition at University Hospital in New Orleans after the 10:30 a.m. shooting...

WA sheriff's deputy shot in hand

A Pierce County sheriff's deputy was shot in the hand as he responded to a domestic violence call involving a Spanaway, Wash., woman who said she'd been tied up overnight.

Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says his office got a 911 call Monday afternoon from a neighbor after a 71-year-old woman freed herself, climbed over a fence and asked for help. The spokesman described the woman as the girlfriend of a man at the house.

When two deputies arrived, they were greeted by a man armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, who fired at them. Troyer says the injured deputy was treated by paramedics...

Police in Barrow investigate apparent murder-suicide

North Slope Borough police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Barrow.

Police got a report of shots fired and a woman lying in the street early Saturday morning. They found 19-year-old Frederick Igtanloc and a 16-year-old girl both suffering from gunshot wounds.

Police say Igtanloc shot the girl in the chest and head before turning the gun on himself...

Another one here http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/story/815551.html

Argument preceded murder-suicide

A woman and her boyfriend, found dead Saturday in their Wells Street home had been arguing, police say.

Ronnique Burton, 37, was shot in the head shortly before 3 p.m. by her boyfriend, Michael Jarrell, 31.

Burton was found lying on the floor of a second-story bedroom in the Wells Avenue house. Jarrell was also found lying on that bedroom floor. Both had single gunshot wounds to their heads.

Police said Jarrell shot Burton, then turned the gun on himself....

Some neighbors said they often saw the man and the children playing outside in their yard with other kids from the neighborhood. They said the man was polite and talkative, and the couple showed no signs of a combative or violent relationship.

“He was so nice. He would be so active with his kids, throwing balls and running around,” said Debbye Powello, who lives in an apartment across the street. “He seemed to be a very nice man.”

Randy Gray, who lives a few doors down, said he spoke the man several times and he seemed to get along fine with everyone.

“They were just real nice people,” Gray said...

Police searching for homicide suspect

Louisville Metro Police need your help in finding a man they say brutally killed a Louisville woman.

Police named a suspect. They believe he was her boyfriend and say he has a history of domestic violence.


“We did receive a 911 call in the alleyway at the 2525 Duncan address. Found the body next to a garage there and that’s how the investigation began,” says Lt. Barry Wilkerson with LMPD’s homicide department...

3 found dead in apparent murder-suicide in Calif.

A couple and their toddler son have been found shot to death in their Orange County apartment in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Wednesday.

An apartment manager who hadn't seen the family in several days called police, who arrived Tuesday afternoon to find a 44-year-old man, his 42-year-old girlfriend and their 2- or 3-year-old son each dead with a single bullet wound to the head, Orange police Sgt. Mike Monjaraz said.

Investigators found a gun near the man and a suicide note he had apparently written, Monjaraz said...

California Contractor With Money Woes Kills Girlfriend, Son, Himself in Murder-Suicide

An electrical contractor who was having financial problems shot to death his live-in girlfriend and 3 1/2-year-old son before killing himself, police said Wednesday.

Officers called to an apartment Tuesday afternoon found the bodies of Craig Rubin, 44, and Mary Striley, 42, on beds in separate bedrooms while the body of their son, Jake, was in a high chair in the kitchen, Sgt. Dan Adams said.

Each had been shot once in the head.

Murder suspect has long criminal history

The California native and parolee accused of killing his Muskegon Heights girlfriend Tuesday has a long history of criminal activity stemming back to the early 1980s, authorities said.

But it's unclear whether any of his nine felony convictions rose to the level of physical violence that authorities say led to the death of Dianne Joy Preston-Aguilar, 47, of 3036 Eighth.

The accused, Robert Lee Shine, 49, who lists the same address as his alleged victim, was arraigned Wednesday on the charge of open murder and as a fourth-time habitual offender before Muskegon County 60th District Court Judge Maria Ladas Hoopes...

Woman shot, killed outside daycare in murder-suicide

A Roanoke Rapids man shot and killed his girlfriend in front of a daycare, then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide Friday afternoon, said Police Chief Jeff Hinton.

Authorities said that Dawn Taylor, 38, of Roanoke Rapids, picked up a young child from a daycare in the 800 block of Franklin Street and put the child in her car around 4 p.m....

Broward Sheriff's Office identifies woman killed in Deerfield Beach murder-suicide

Broward Sheriff's Office officials have released the identity of a woman killed in a murder-suicide over the weekend in a retirement community.

The woman victim is Emilia Debrophy, 57, according a news release by the Sheriff's Office late Tuesday.

Debrophy and her live-in boyfriend Francisco Dacunha, 68, were found dead Sunday inside their Century Village condominium in the 1000 block of Farnham N.

Someone who looked through the couple's window that morning saw blood and called 911 to check on the couple...

Police arrest boyfriend suspected of killing Cal State Long Beach student

Police have arrested a 20-year-old Mission Viejo man suspected of killing his girlfriend, authorities said Saturday.

Kate Sue Yi, a 20-year-old Cal State Long Beach student, was found dead in her apartment on the 700 block of Bellflower Boulevard at about 7:20 p.m. Thursday, said Long Beach Police Officer Jackie Bezart.

Bezart said Yi's roommate discovered the body...

Boyfriend arrested for murders of woman, 2 kids

D.C. police have arrested a man for a triple homicide this weekend in Northeast.

Joseph Randolph Mays, 44, was arrested for the murders of Erika Peters, 37, and her two young sons. Police are not releasing the identities of the boys because they are juveniles. Local media outlets say the boys were between the ages of six and 12.

D.C. police describe the case as a domestic dispute and Peter's father tells WTOP that Mays was his daughter's live-in boyfriend...

Boyfriend charged in Olympic High cheerleader's death

Some call it a "secretive topic," a prevalent problem among young people that, this time, may have cost an Olympic High School cheerleader her life.

Police say Charney Watt, 18, died in a shooting Sunday in north Charlotte. Boyfriend Gary Lavon Daniels, 18, faces a murder charge...

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Two dead in probable murder-suicide in Muskegon Township

Authorities were investigating what they said was a probable murder-suicide Saturday night that claimed the lives of a man and a woman inside a Muskegon Township home.

Police were not releasing the victims' names. Neighbors who knew the victims estimated the man was in his mid-40s and the woman in her mid-30s.

Police were called to a home at 332 S. Densmore around 8 p.m. by a person who reported gunshots fired inside the home.

Officers called in the Muskegon County Emergency Response Team -- the county's equivalent of a SWAT team -- because they weren't sure of the situation in the house.

Police said they thought there might have been a person barricaded in the home with a gun and a hostage...

Victorville father allegedly attacks family with box cutter

A Victorville father who police said was under the influence of drugs and alcohol was arrested early this morning after he used a box cutter to threaten his girlfriend and injure his three young children.

Esteban Saracho, 29, nearly severed one of his children's fingers in the attack and left them with "several lacerations to their face, head or neck and their hands," according to a statement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Sheriff's deputies were called to the Red Roof Inn in the 13400 block of Mariposa Road about 1:40 a.m. today. They said Saracho had chased his girlfriend out of their hotel room and threatened her when she hid behind another couple.

When a man from another room emerged with a rifle to apparently stop the argument, Saracho locked himself in his room with his three children -- a 5-year-old, 3-year-old and 7-month-old, the sheriff's department said...

Serial abuser gets 50 years to life for slaying

An El Sobrante man who had a history of terrorizing his former girlfriend was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison Monday for strangling her and stuffing her body in the trunk of his car.

Scott McAlpin, 28, subjected his girlfriend, 22-year-old Anastasia Melnitchenko of San Francisco, to an abusive relationship before killing her Oct. 22, 2005, authorities said. He had been served with nine restraining orders for beating and threatening her before the slaying.

McAlpin beat and strangled Melnitchenko four days after his most recent release from jail for abusing her and within hours of taking her to eat at a restaurant in Pinole...

Man strangles girlfriend to death with bra

A missing Orlando woman was found dead in her apartment early Sunday, the victim of an apparent homicide.

Orlando police were tipped off Saturday that Lolitta L. Flores, 49, may have been killed by her boyfriend, Abdullah A. Khalig, on Feb. 22, reports show. The two had a long history of domestic violence.

Police were notified of the possible murder Feb. 28, when a man told them Khalig confided in him that he had killed Flores by strangling her with a bra...

Man Shoots Girlfriend In Back At Least 5 Times, Police Say

Police said a man told them he shot his girlfriend in the back because he was mad at her on Sunday.

Dwayne Grant, 29, was charged with first-degree murder.

Family members said Grant shot his girlfriend five or six times in the back at unit 2355 in the Huntington on the Green condominiums.

Randy Bowles said his niece, 28-year-old Rahmisha Oliver, had a 3-month-old child. Bowles said he was only feet away from Oliver when she was shot...

Man arrested for murder of girlfriend

A 24-year-old man was arrested in De Rust in connection with the murder of his girlfriend, said Western Cape police on Sunday.

Police spokesman Captain Malcolm Pojie said the man apparently took his girlfriend, also 24, to a church premises around 2am on Saturday.

They had an argument during which the man allegedly hit the woman across the face, causing her to lose consciousness. Pojie said the man then apparently took two stones, threw them at her, hitting her on the head and neck and kicked her several times...