This article is about the murder of a mother her four children. The prime suspect of this case is Joshua Steven Durcho of El Reno. He is 25 years old and has a previous record of car theft as a juvenile and was sentenced to four years in prison in 2003 for unlawful possession of marijuana. He was released in February 2007, records show. El Reno is about 25 miles west of Oklahoma City, where this incident happened. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown said, "The victims' bodies were found Monday by an officer who went to the apartment in this central Oklahoma community to check on the welfare of the occupants." The victims of this horrible murder are Summer Garas, 25; daughters Kirsten Rust, 7; Autumn Rust, 6; and Evynn Garas, 3; and son Teagin Rust, 4. The neighbors in the apartment complex said they heard a loud bang and that the police came around 4:00 p.m. Their kids used to play with the girls and boy who were wrongfully murdered but now can't.I don't understand what this guy was thinking... I don't think anyone can justify what he did. No one should be able to and if they can... watch your back around them. The stories that I have been reading about are now beginning to worsen and not only disgust me but disappoint me. This guy was obviously a messed up person and because of his mistakes 5 people are dead and 4 of them hadn't even lived past the age of 7 yet. What a shame. I truly hope he is caught and pays the consequences of his stupid actions. When something like this happens I don't know if the killer knows that it just doesn't affect the person or people that they kill but all surrounding people as well. It also ruins the killers life too... don't they know that with technology where it is today that it is dang near impossible to slip one by the criminal investigators? I wonder how this Durcho guy can sleep at night and if so... when will the realization of what he has done hit him? This isn't the movies people can't just go around killing people. People like Joshua Steven Durcho need to be stopped and taught a lesson... I am not sure how to teach someone like him a lesson but nonetheless I still believe that it needs happen. I believe this is my last blog... and I am sad to say it. I can no longer say until next time, but instead thanks for listening.
~Charlie~
According to this article, Danny Platt confessed, told police where to find the child's body and will be booked with first-degree murder of Ja' Shawn Powell, his son. This man was angry over having to pay child support for Ja' Shawn Powell. "He had said he would kill either his wife or his child before he paid child support," which he recently had been ordered to do, Police Superintendent Warren Riley said. Riley said he did not know the amount of child support and would not describe how the boy was killed, saying the coroner would do that after the autopsy was complete. The coroner's spokesman did not immediately return a call. Platt's story never really added up according to the police making him a suspect from the very beginning. His story went like this: three men with dreadlocks and AK-47 rifles had piled out of an SUV and kidnapped Ja' Shawn shortly before midnight Friday. Personally I think the story is not believable at all and supposedly so did the police. Eventually Platt confessed and told the police where to find the body of his two and a half year old son. Riley said that the mother is in a safe place and it seems like everything in this case is finally figured out.
This article talks about how an Ecuadorian man died a week later after a viscous beating by a group of New York city attackers. The immigrant was viciously beaten by a group of men yelling anti-Hispanic slurs and anti-gay slurs. The man was supposedly walking arm in arm with his brother when the attack occurred. Spokesman Francisco Moya said, "Jose Sucuzhanay died late Friday at Elmurst Hospital as his mother was en route from Ecuador to see him". Unfortunate is all that can be said for the Sucuzhanay family. The assault occurred early on December 7Th... my birthday by the way. The man was a 31 year old real estate broker and his brother Romel was or rather is 38. The police are trying to find 3 suspects but they are hard at task. Police said, "The attackers jumped out of the car and smashed a beer bottle over Jose Sucuzhanay's head, hit him in the head with an aluminum baseball bat and kicked him." The saddest part of the whole story is, "his mother, Julia Quintuna, obtained a humanitarian visa late this week to visit her injured son. She landed Saturday only to learn that he had died," Moya said.
This article is about how an 8 year old child shot his own dad and another man. He not only shot them but killed them each with several shots from a single-shot, bolt-action .22-caliber rifle. The kid shot his father, 29-year-old Vincent Romero, and 39-year-old Timothy Romans, who rented a room in the family's two-story home in the small eastern Arizona community of St. Johns. The boy had been keeping track of how many times he was spanked and when the thousandth one came he flipped a switch and pulled the trigger. The problem in court is... basically court wasn't made for an 8 year old charged with murder. It is obvious according to this article that the boy planned these murders and even his grandma said if an 8 year old is capable of doing something like this it is definitely her grandson. From what this article says the kid was a trouble maker and not really normal and nice like most 8 year olds. They are unsure of what is going to happen to the kid as of now but unfortunately for him the law allows prosecutions of juveniles age 8 and above as adults (But at the same time in Arizona, those convicted as juveniles can only be held until they turn 18.). Nonetheless the kid is in big trouble. In spirit of the holidays he was allowed a 48-hour furlough to spend Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday with his mother.
This article is about how a prison decided to use teleconferencing instead of a court appearance for multiple murder suspect Joshua Komisarjevsky. It costs the state of Connecticut $1,600 every time this guy shows up in court according to this article. He is a high security inmate, facing charges of murder, rape and arson from a 2007 home invasion in which a woman and her two daughters were killed in Cheshire. It is expensive for this guy to go to court because at every appearance he has to have a special detail of corrections officers and two state troopers accompany him. This whole teleconferencing thing is being used in 10 other states as well: Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee. It supposedly saves on high fuel prices and accompaniment helping out the tight state budgets. It also improves on public safety which can never be a bad thing. The article quotes Connecticut Corrections Commissioner Theresa C. Lantz when she argues for teleconferencing with inmates by saying this, "It's vehicles, it's gasoline, it's maintenance of those vehicles, it's the driver plus another officer for security purposes, it's all the work that is involved in taking an inmate out of a facility, putting them in a secure vehicle, transporting them to another location." Opposing the argument are the inmates, some say they would rather plead their case in person and that it isn't as fair and doesn't give them their best or fairest chance.