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Multiple people stabbed at a business in Tallahassee, Florida, by an employee, police say
The suspect was identified by police as an employee of the business. They do not have a motive.
By Minyvonne Burke and Daniela Mencos
Five people were stabbed early Wednesday at a Tallahassee business by an employee armed with a folding knife, police said.
The
suspect, Antwann D. Brown, 41, was taken into custody at around 10:30
a.m. outside of Dyke Industries, where he works, Tallahassee Police
Chief Steven D. Outlaw said at a news conference.
Five
people were taken to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, a hospital
spokesperson told NBC News, correcting information from the hospital
earlier that it received six patients.
One person is in serious condition, according to the spokesperson. The other four patients are in either fair or good condition.
The
stabbing occurred just after 8:30 a.m. When emergency responders
arrived at Dyke Industries, they found "multiple stabbing victims and
provided immediate medical attention," police said.
Just
prior to the stabbing, at about 8:20 a.m., there was a verbal dispute
and Brown was asked to clock out, which he did at around 8:20, the
police chief said.
The police chief said authorities do not know the motive for the crime. "As far as we know it was spontaneous," he said.
He praised employees for trying to hold Brown down on the ground until police arrived.
"Some
of the employees, as he was leaving, armed themselves with whatever
they could ... and actually held him at bay. That delayed his escape,
which was very good for us," Chief Outlaw said at the news conference.
"But he got up and started to leave again, and at some point, the
officer engaged and took him into custody."
When
the teen was found, he weighed 65 pounds, was severely malnourished,
and had to be hospitalized, Crawford County Prosecutor Matt Crall said
Tuesday.
"The child had a very strict ... vegan diet that
basically consisted of almonds, bananas and grapes," Crall said, citing
police reports. "He had to have everything eaten in 30 minutes."
The child was kept under surveillance to keep him from eating anything else, Crall said.
Parents
John P. and Katrina Miller of Crestline were indicted by a Crawford
County grand jury on one count of kidnapping, a first degree felony; one
count of felonious assault, a second-degree felony; two felony counts
of child endangerment, one second-degree, one third-degree; and a
first-degree misdemeanor count of child endangerment.
If convicted on all counts, they face up to 22 years and 6 months in prison, Crall said.
John
Miller, the boy's biological father, also was indicted on a charge of
domestic violence, a first-degree misdemeanor, based on allegations that
"the father committed assault on the child when he wouldn't eat the way
they told him to eat," Crall said. Miller faces an additional six
months in prison if convicted on that charge.
The teen's
biological mother no longer has custody, Crall said. Katrina Miller had
adopted the boy. A 3-year-old child also lived in the home.
"Normally,
you don't think of kidnapping as involving someone's own child," Crall
said, explaining the charges. "But when you knowingly restrain the
liberty of another person for the purpose of terrorizing or to inflict
serious physical harm – that's what happened in this situation. That's
what we're alleging; that we was kept there, he had attempted to flee
once before, he was fleeing when he was found, and he was emaciated to
the point of having been terrorized, and to the point where he's going
to be hospitalized for quite some time."
The felonious assault
charge is for "failing to provide nutrition," Crall said of the
allegations. Normally, people don't think of an assault as being a
failure to do something, but "the statute and the interpretation of it
does include omitting doing a duty ... which causes serious physical
harm."
The third-degree felony count of child endangerment deals
with abusing a child and causing serious physical harm; the
second-degree count relates to torturing or cruelly abusing a child,
Crall said.
The first-degree misdemeanor child endangerment charge concerns the 3-year-old child.
"The degree of harm was not as great," Crall said. "The child was underweight, but not in need of hospitalization."
After
fleeing his home, the child was found by law enforcement at a Galion
home where he had gone to seek help. The residents there called police,
Crall said.
The teen was being home-schooled, he said.
"They
did go to church," Crall said. "The child was very self-conscious about
the way he looked, and he would wear multiple sets of clothing to cover
up the fact that he looked the way he did."
The teen was taken to
Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Crall said, and is expected
to remain there for at least three to four weeks. He said the boy was
being treated for failure to thrive, severe malnutrition and refeeding
syndrome.
"It's when the body rejects food just because it's a
foreign substance at that point," Crall explained.
"They're not used to
it, so they have to re-introduce food to the child."
As an infant,
the child had had leukemia or some other childhood cancer, Crall said,
but had not received follow-up care in quite some time.
The Millers were arraigned Monday in Crawford County Common Pleas Court. Bond was set at $500,000 in both cases.
(those poor babies. Yes, I would call them still babies at that age)
After Her 2 Young Sons Drowned in a Condo Complex Pool, Fla. Mom Is Charged With Manslaughter
KC Baker,People46 minutes ago
Two young brothers died in May when they ventured into a Florida pool
and drowned – and now their devastated mother and her boyfriend are
charged in their deaths.
On May 22, at about 9:30 p.m., police were called to the Silver Palms
Condominiums in North Lauderdale after the bodies of Ja’Kye Joseph, 6,
and Branario Minto, 5, were found at the bottom of an inground pool in
the courtyard of the complex, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a
report obtained by PEOPLE.
Upon seeing the boys submerged in the water, their frantic mother and
other relatives pulled them from the water and began performing CPR as
they called for help, the Broward Sheriff’s Office says in the report.
The boys were unresponsive when first responders arrived.
North Lauderdale Fire Rescue transported the brothers to Northwest Medical Center where they were pronounced dead.
The brothers had been submerged underwater for almost two hours before being found, said detectives in the report.
She said she was sleeping when she believes the pair snuck out, jumped the pool fence and headed into the water.
When Joseph heard screams for help from neighbors, she raced to the
pool to try to save the boys, she told Local 10 News on the night they
died.
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“I tried all I can to do CPR!” she sobbed as she clung to the fence
surrounding the pool where her boys lost their lives. “It didn’t work!”
Still sobbing, Joseph told the outlet, “I will always miss my babies. I’m sorry, Ja’Kye. I’m sorry, Branario.”
She paused and said, “They’re only 5 and 6.”
Surveillance video shows the victims “unsupervised and running to the
pool area at approximately 7:16 p.m.,” the sheriff’s office says in the
statement.
BSO’s Child Protective Investigations Section removed the
victims’ 4-month-old and 1-year-old siblings from the home as part of
their investigation.
On Sept. 3, police arrested John Louis Lynn Jr., 24, of Tamarac, and
charged him with two counts of aggravated manslaughter of a child, the
report says.
Joseph was arrested on a warrant on Saturday at approximately 1 a.m., September 7, by the Lauderhill Police Department.
She is charged with two counts of aggravated manslaughter of a child.
Detectives said Joseph and Lynn failed to provide proper care and
supervision for the brothers, which made them responsible for their
deaths, the report says.
Lynn and Joseph are being held at the Broward Sheriff’s Office Main Jail on a $250,000 bond each.
They have not yet entered pleas. It is unclear whether they have retained lawyers who can comment on their behalf.
Mom Brought Malnourished Teen Son Weighing 42 Lbs. Into Clinic, and Now She’s Charged
Chris Harris,People2 hours 32 minutes ago
A 32-year-old woman has been arrested by Wisconsin authorities
following the death of her 16-year-old son, who had disabilities and was
severely malnourished at the time of his death, weighing just 42 lbs.
PEOPLE confirms that Iraida Pizarro-Osorio is being held on $35,000
bail after being charged with child neglect resulting in great bodily
harm.
Medical examiners have yet to release the official cause of Hector
Pizarro’s death, but an autopsy did reveal the teen was severely
malnourished.
There were also bedsores on Hector’s body, according to officials.
The criminal complaint against Pizarro-Osorio alleges she brought her
son to a community health center last week, and immediately, staffers
noted Hector was so thin, his skeleton was visible through his skin.
An ambulance was called, and paramedics tried unsuccessfully to save the boy’s life.
As detailed in the criminal complaint, investigators allege Hector’s
mother claimed he had autism and suffered from epileptic seizures. The
complaint also alleges she said his weight never surpassed 80 lbs.
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Pizarro-Osorio, who has two other children, allegedly told police she
brought Hector to see a doctor during a recent trip to Puerto Rico, but
that he was not treated because she doesn’t have insurance.
Later, she allegedly confessed she hadn’t been to Puerto Rico and had
misled investigators, afraid child protective services would remove the
children from her custody.
The complaint doesn’t address the physical conditions of her other children.
A motive for Pizarro-Osorio’s alleged actions is unclear.
Pizarro-Osorio has not entered a plea to the single charge she faces, and it was unclear Tuesday who her Legal Aid attorney is.
