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Blair Robinson and Kenya Reed pleaded guilty today in connection with the death of their son Alex Robinson and the home of astonishing squalor in which they lived with two children. Robinson whipped, kicked and beat the 2-year-old to death on Christmas Eve. Reed watched. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced the pleas Thursday. Robinson pleaded guilty to one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree, a class “B” Violent Felony, Reed pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of Endangering the Welfare of a Child in connection with the death and the living environment that was discovered in their Yonkers home on Christmas Eve. At 8:14 p.m. Dec. 24, 2016, Robinson walked into the emergency room at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers carrying his 2-year-old son and reported to the staff that the child was not breathing. Hospital personnel observed that the child was lifeless and had no pulse. They were never able to revive him and he was prono...

Blair Robinson and Kenya Reed pleaded guilty today in connection with the death of their son Alex Robinson and the home of astonishing squalor in which they lived with two children. Robinson whipped, kicked and beat the 2-year-old to death on Christmas Eve. Reed watched. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced the pleas Thursday. Robinson pleaded guilty to one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree, a class “B” Violent Felony, Reed pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of Endangering the Welfare of a Child in connection with the death and the living environment that was discovered in their Yonkers home on Christmas Eve. At 8:14 p.m. Dec. 24, 2016, Robinson walked into the emergency room at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers carrying his 2-year-old son and reported to the staff that the child was not breathing. Hospital personnel observed that the child was lifeless and had no pulse. They were never able to revive him and he was prono...

After setting fire to a house in 2015, a Fairview Heights man was sentenced to nine years in prison. Michael C. Newton, 25, pleaded guilty to aggravated arson July 27 , almost two years after he was charged with setting the fire. Belleville police and fire departments responded on Nov. 4, 2015, to a fire at the 200 block of N. 46th Street at the Plaza Apartments, according to court documents. Prosecutors said Newton knew someone was home in the apartment buildings at the time of the fire. Newton also was convicted of domestic battery and residential burglary, all unrelated charges. He’ll serve his five-year sentence for burglary and 100-day sentence for the domestic battery concurrently with his arson sentence .

Michael Roy Nelson, 46, was convicted of a misdemeanor assault charge and received a stay of adjudication for a felony terroristic threat charge stemming from an April 10, 2016, incident in which he attacked his son and father. He was sentenced Monday , Aug. 21, by Pennington County District Court Judge Kurt Maben . Nelson was initially charged with two counts of attempted arson, a felony, but those charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement. A stay of adjudication is not a conviction, but means the case is pending while Nelson is on probation. The charge will be dismissed if he makes it through a five- year probation period . Nelson will be allowed to serve his 90-day sentences in two 45-day periods, court records show , and can spend 30 days of the sentence on house arrest. Witnesses told police Nelson used a match to light an ether can and spray flames at his son, which lit his son's sweatshirt on fire. The dispute allegedly arose from a disagreement over family member...

A “person of interest” in the recent shooting of a woman at a Benton City apartment was arrested Thursday in Pasco. Christian M. Hernandez, 24, was picked up at 6:30 p.m. by the Benton County sheriff ’s gang enforcement team . Hernandez, who’s also known as “Lil Criminal” and “Phat Boy,” is being held on investigation of illegal gun possession and a hold from the state Department of Corrections. Mariah Coronado, 22, was shot in the back Aug. 18 at an apartment at Eighth Street and Della Avenue. Several other people were in the apartment at the time. Investigators have said it wasn’t clear if the shooting was an accident. Coronado was picked up by an acquaintance and driven to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. Deputies responded to the hospital after being alerted by medical staff about a gunshot victim. Hernandez is a convicted felon who is not allowed to own or be in control of a gun. He pleaded guilty in January to methamphetamine possession, residential burglary and ba...

The following story appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on October 26, 2006, the day after Danny Rolling was put to death. Also included are photos covering the period from the time of the murders to the day of Rolling execution . Rolling Executed By Chris Tisch, Tamara Lush and Shannon Colavecchio-Van Sickler Times Staff Writers STARKE – The drab brown curtain between killer and survivors opened at 5:59 p.m. Wednesday. Danny Rolling lay on a gurney. A prison official asked Florida 's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy if he had a last statement. Rolling responded with a twangy hymn, apparently self-penned. "He who flung the stars into heavens above, created the oceans, mountains, eagles and doves," he sang. "None greater than thee, Oh Lord, none greater than thee." Family members of his eight victims - five in Florida and three he was linked to in Louisiana - clutched each other, rolled their eyes or shook their heads. One family member later ...

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. -- A mother and her young son were found dead in an apartment complex on French Road in Cheektowaga, according to Cheektowaga police . The bodies of Raina Voll, 30, and her son Leo Klinger , 7, were discovered by Cheektowaga police officers around 6 p.m. Thursday. Earlier that day, police found Voll 's other son, a 2-year-old, abandoned in stroller near a church four miles away. Through investigation, police found out that the boy lived in Kingswood Apartments, where the bodies of his mother and his brother were found. Police believe Voll was in a relationship with the man charged in connection with her and her son's death. Shane Stevenson pleaded not guilty to two counts of second-degree murder. He was denied bail and will be in court again next week. Stevenson is not the father of either child, police said. "To see what another human being can do to another person, especially a 7-year-old is traumatic. Most of our officers have kids of their own. It...

MOUNT VERNON — A fourth suspect in the Aug. 1 shooting death of a Mount Vernon man was arrested Monday afternoon in Kennewick. The U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force , in conjunction with the Benton County Sheriff ’s Office, arrested the man at 2:30 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Fourth Street , Mount Vernon Police Lt . Chris Cammock said. He is one of four people arrested in connection with the death of 38-year-old Jason Boyes. Advertisement The man was arrested without incident and will be held on a second- degree murder charge , Cammock said. The others being held in connection with Boyes’ death are Isaac Manuel Carrasco Jr ., 21; Hayden John Allen Picaman , 19; and Angel Lopez-Rueda, 18. All pleaded not guilty Aug. 10 to one count each of second-degree murder. Carrasco and Picaman are both being held on $1 million bond. Lopez-Rueda is being held on $500,000. Court records show that Boyes was watching TV at his apartment in the 2300 block of Kulshan View Drive with his girlfri...

Shane Stevenson, 31, was arraigned Friday in Cheektowaga Town Court on two counts of second-degree murder in the slaying of a woman and her 7-year-old son Thursday. No bail was set. Stevenson pleaded not guilty. He did not say anything else in court. Raina Voll, 30, and her 7-year-old son, Leo Klinger, were found dead at their home in the Kingswood Apartments in Cheektowaga Thursday evening . Police would not say how the two died. Another child, a 2-year old, was found safe behind a nearby church, police said. Police were originally called at 2:45 p.m. Thursday to 2628 Union Road about a report of an abandoned child in a stroller. Through police work, police were able to find out where the 2-year-old lived, about four miles away, said Cheektowaga Assistant Police Chief James J. Speyer Jr. Cheektowaga police went to Kingswood Apartments, a U-shaped complex of two-story dwellings at 1331 French Road, between Borden and Transit roads. That’s when they discovered the bodies. “It was so...

A trail of blood allegedly led police from a woman’s bludgeoned corpse to a Long Island man ’s apartment — and now he has been charged with beating her to death with a hammer after a Craigslist sex-for-cash rendezvous. Raphael Oyague, 36, of Baldwin, pleaded not guilty to the murder Thursday after being walked out of Nassau County Police Headquarters . “The encounter was for sex,” said Capt. John Azzata, commanding officer of the Nassau County Police Homicide Squad , according to CBS New York. “There was supposed to be compensation for that sex. There was an argument that ensued, and our subject hit our victim with a hammer multiple times ,” he said. Cops say Oyague had contacted the 25-year-old woman on Craigslist and met her Tuesday night. Police did not release her name. Oyague allegedly killed her in the apartment and, at around 10 p.m., carried her body down a staircase and out of his building. He allegedly dumped her in a grassy area behind his apartment, Newsday said. Her bod...