Showing posts with label stabbing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stabbing. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Marine with Silver Star stabbed in the neck for being a Marine

Marine who received Silver Star recovering after weekend stabbing
Marine Corps Times
By Hope Hodge Seck
Staff Writer
Sep. 9, 2013

A veteran Marine who received the Silver Star last year is in the hospital after being stabbed in the neck over the weekend. Now fellow Marines from his unit in Afghanistan are rallying to his side.

Philip McCulloch Jr., 25, received a serious knife wound from a stranger outside a waterfront bar in Galveston, Texas, at about 1 a.m. Saturday, according to police reports. He had medically retired from the Marines as a sergeant in April after being pinned with the military’s third-highest combat award in February 2012.

McCulloch’s mother, Theresa McCulloch, said her son had been out with friends and ended up at a bar where another patron, noticing his Marine tattoos, began insulting and harassing him. The bartender eventually threw the unruly patron out, she said, but he waited outside for McCulloch to emerge.

The two fought in the street, she said, and the other man stabbed McCulloch in the neck with a knife, slicing into his outer jugular. As he bled profusely, she said, he gave instructions to a friend on how to staunch the flow of blood with his fingers.
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Friday, July 5, 2013

Man Celebrating Birthday Stabbed Homeless Veteran 70 Times

Sad update
Homeless veteran stabbed 70 times in Doylestown dies

Man Celebrating Birthday Stabbed Homeless Veteran 70 Times: DA
A 21-year-old man is arrested, accused of stabbing a homeless veteran near a train station in Doylestown
By Lauren DiSanto
Friday, Jul 5, 2013

A man who had been out celebrating his 21st birthday is facing charges for allegedly stabbing a homeless veteran 70 times near a Doylestown, Pa., train station, authorities said.

Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler says Doylestown resident Dale “Bugsy” Wakefield was charged with attempted murder and other counts after being arrested Thursday in Baltimore.
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Horror during church service in New Mexico

Man stabs choir members during closing hymns at New Mexico church, police say
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer
NBC News
April 29, 2013

At least four people were stabbed at an Albuquerque, N.M., church when a man went on a rampage during a Sunday service’s closing hymns, police said.

Albuquerque Police Department officials say Lawrence Capener, 24, leaped over pews and lunged at members of the choir just before noon on Sunday. He repeatedly stabbed choir members with a weapon, according to police.

Police officers dispatched to St. Jude Thaddeus Parish discovered that several parishioners had pinned Capener to the floor, according to police spokesperson Tasia Martinez.
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Monday, April 1, 2013

Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier

UDATE 6:40
Brother: Slain Fort Campbell soldier prepared for 'anything'
Apr. 1, 2013
Written by
BRETT BARROUQUERE, Associated Press
By KIM GAMEL,
Associated Press


FILE - In this March 28, 2013 file photo, U.S. Army and Air Force officers say a prayer beside the transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Michael Cable, 26, of Philpot, Ky., to a transfer vehicle at Dover Air Force Base, Del. An Afghan teenager killed Cable in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials said Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) / AP
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Before leaving for Afghanistan, Army Sgt. Michael C. Cable quietly met with several family members and relayed to them the hazards of his upcoming deployment. The meetings were unusual because Cable didn’t talk much about what happened on his previous tour of duty in Iraq.

To Cable’s brother, 42-year-old Raymond Johnston of Owensboro, it now seems like the soldier had an idea he might not survive.

“After learning everything I’ve learned … Maybe he knew about what he was getting into and how dangerous it was,” Johnston said. “He was able to communicate to the family about if the worst was supposed to happen, what we were supposed to do.”

Cable, 26, of Philpot in western Kentucky, died March 24. The Army said he was attacked by enemy forces. Johnston told The Associated Press on Monday that someone sneaked up behind his brother and stabbed him in the neck while he worked guard duty in Shinwar, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. read more here
Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier
By KIM GAMEL
The Associated Press
Published: April 1, 2013

KABUL -- Senior U.S. military officials say an Afghan teenager has killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck.

Two officials said Monday that Sgt. Michael Cable, 26, was guarding a meeting of Afghan and U.S. officials in Nangarhar province when the stabbing occurred.
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Man in custody after stabbing shoppers at Target store

Several stabbed inside East Liberty Target; Person in custody
EAST LIBERTY, Pa. — Authorities took a man into custody after the report of a stabbing at the Target in East Liberty Monday night.
According to police, several emergency crews were dispatched to the store about 5 p.m.

According to Channel 11’s news exchange partners at TribLIVE, a 16-year-old suffered the most serious wounds and was taken to Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville. The rest of the injuries were classified as moderate to minor.

Tyrique Walker told Channel 11’s Vince Sims that he saw the suspect outside the store.
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Monday, March 18, 2013

Disabled veteran murdered in Tennessee

2 charged in death of disabled Tennessee veteran
by Associated Press

ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. — Two people were taken into custody in connection with the slaying of a disabled military veteran in Rogersville, who police believe was beaten and stabbed to death for his medication.

Rogersville Police Chief Doug Nelson told the Kingsport Times News that 52-year-old Roger Hawkins was found dead by a family member on Saturday at his apartment.
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Marine Fights for Life After Stabbing

Marine Fights for Life After Stabbing
Marine Cpl. Jonathan C. Woodard, 23, was stabbed in El Centro, Calif., and is now recovering in San Diego
By Monica Garske
Sunday, Mar 17, 2013

A Marine corporal who was stabbed in the neck on Mar. 10 in El Centro, Calif., is recovering from critical wounds in San Diego, his family confirmed exclusively to NBC 7.

Marine Cpl. Jonathan C. Woodard, 23, is fighting for his life at the UCSD Trauma Center, Woodard family friend Kim Rosales told NBC 7.

Woodard is originally from Waddington, N.Y., and is stationed at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Early last Sunday morning, he was attacked and stabbed by a group of unknown assailants after a night out with a friend and fellow Marine in El Centro, Rosales said.

The Marines were walking back to their hotel after attending a fair in the area when a group of suspects approached Woodward near an alley and allegedly assaulted him, Rosales said.

Woodard sustained multiple stab wounds in the attack, including serious injuries to his neck.

He was transported to a local hospital before being airlifted to the UCSD Trauma Center with critical injuries.

One week after the brutal attack, Rosales told NBC 7 the Marine remains hospitalized in intensive care in San Diego, clinging for life.
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Teen charged in Army veteran's stabbing death in Duluth

Teen charged in Army veteran's stabbing death in Duluth
Mar 14, 2013
DULUTH, Minn. - A 17-year-old Duluth boy is charged with killing a U.S. Army veteran who suffered more than 50 wounds to his head, face, neck and back.
Bryan "Starnes was an Army veteran who served a tour of duty in Afghanistan. The Duluth News Tribune reports his injuries were consistent with the use of a hammer and a knife-like instrument." read more here

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Fort Carson soldier convicted in death of Spc. Brandy Fonteneaux

Verdict In Murder Case Against Fort Carson Soldier
KKTV
Dec 14, 2012

Sgt. Vincinte Jackson was found guilty of non-premeditated murder and not guilty of premeditated murder in the death of Spc. Brandy Fonteneaux Thursday.

Fonteneaux was stabbed 74 times while she slept in her barrack in January. She was also choked.

Jackson blames the slaying on a potent mixture of anti-depressants and alcohol.
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Army Sergeant Gets Life in Colo. Soldier's Death
Spc. Brandy Fonteneaux’s family struggles with her slaying

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Man on trial for stabbing Marine 7 times in fatal attack

Marine's accused murderer claims self-defense, his girlfriend testifies against him
By Claire Galofaro
NOLA.com
The Times-Picayune
December 05, 2012

As Melvin Clay fled the French Quarter after stabbing a decorated Marine seven times on a street corner, he sideswiped a car parked a block away. The exterior cap of Clay's side-view mirror popped off, and he did not stop to collect it.

That mirror cap, a seemingly small piece of evidence found by detectives, was the only thing that would, a month later, connect Clay to the crime.

That Clay stabbed 23-year-old Sgt. Ryan Lekosky around 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 31, 2010 is not in question at his second-degree murder trial this week. He admits that he did. Only he claims self-defense -- that he was first attacked by Lekosky's wife. Frightened when her Marine husband intervened, he used his knife as a last resort.

"This is not a murder. This is not a manslaughter," his attorney, John Thomas, said in his opening statement Wednesday. "This is a man fighting for his life."

But prosecutors painted a very different picture of the moments leading up to the fatal stabbing.

Lekosky, a Texas native assigned to the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, had been to the Marine Corps Ball at the Marriott Hotel on Canal Street. He was walking around 3:30 a.m. with his wife near the corner of Iberville and Dauphine streets.

Clay, prosecutors said, hung out his window as he drove by the couple and shouted obscenities at Lekosky's wife. Clay put his car in park, despite a growing line of traffic behind him, and got out. He pushed the woman onto the sidewalk. The Marine, clad in his dress blues, helped his wife get up, then wedged his body between his wife and the stranger. In return, prosecutors say, Clay stabbed him seven times -- once in the cheek, another in the back and several more times in the chest.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Man flown to hospital after being stabbed at Camp Pendleton

Man flown to hospital after being stabbed at Camp Pendleton
Posted: Oct 24, 2012
Video Report By Angelique Lizarde, Reporter

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - An investigation is underway into a stabbing that may have happened at Camp Pendleton early Wednesday morning.

There were reports that a male victim was stabbed at least once in the neck and had extensive blood loss, according to paramedics. The man was airlifted to Scripps La Jolla Hospital around 1:45 a.m. Mercy Air crews arrived at the hospital around 2:30 a.m., when the victim was wheeled into the emergency room.
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Navy veteran stabbed to death in home

Carson veteran found stabbed to death had kicked drugs, cleaned up his life
Press Telegraph
By Sandy Mazza
Staff Writer
Posted: 09/16/2012

Darrell Rolen's violent death happened on one of the happiest days of his life, and allegedly at the hands of a woman he loved.

It was in his new apartment - the first one the 54-year-old U.S. Navy veteran from Carson had ever rented.

It was done with one of the kitchen knives he had proudly showed off to friends in a cellphone video tour of his one-bedroom place, in which he bragged about his new couch, bed, hats, shoes and cookware.

Like Rolen, his suspected attacker had been homeless and drug-addicted for years. But, unlike him, his friends say, she didn't want to change.

"He got himself all good and cleaned up and living again, and unfortunately the new girl he met was his demise," said Rolen's younger brother, Jimmy Strattion Jr.
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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Army Specialist Brandy Fonteneaux was stabbed 74 times

Houston soldier stabbed 74 times in brutal murder
Jun 01, 2012
By Ned Hibberd, Reporter

HOUSTON (FOX 26)

Seventy-four stab wounds: those are some of the injuries inflicted on a female soldier from Houston, in her own barracks.

The new information comes as her alleged murderer, a fellow soldier, is claiming he suffered from temporary insanity.

"I had to know. I had to see just what this man did to my daughter," said Verona Fonteneaux.

Her daughter, 28-year old Army Specialist Brandy Fonteneaux, was stabbed and choked in her room at Fort Carson in Colorado on January 8.

Plenty of moms would leave it at that. But Verona Fonteneaux needed to know. Everything.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Lance Cpl. Philip Bushong was days away from leaving Marines

Family remembers slain Marine
April 25, 2012
LINDELL KAY -
DAILY NEWS STAFF

The father of a Camp Lejeune Marine killed over the weekend in Washington, D.C., said his son was just days away from leaving the Corps and beginning a new life with his girlfriend.

Lance Cpl. Philip Bushong, 23, died Saturday after being stabbed in the heart with a pocket knife.

The Marine charged with second-degree murder in Philip Bushong’s death has said he acted in self defense. Pfc. Michael Poth, 20, told police the stabbing was because Philip Bushong punched him in the head. Police detectives did not notice any wounds, and Poth did not request medical treatment, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The altercation occurred at around 2:30 a.m. Saturday on the Barracks Row end of 8th Street in southwest Washington, which has several bars and restaurants where Philip Bushong had been a well-known and popular patron, said his father Michael Bushong, of Broad Brook, Conn.
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Original story Marine kills another Marine

Monday, March 26, 2012

N.Y. Officer Stabbed By Former Officer-ex Marine

N.Y. Officer Stabbed By Former Officer
MATTHEW CHAYES
NEWSDAY, MELVILLE, N.Y.

An emergency services police officer suffered a stab wound to his stomach and arm in a Hempstead home Sunday during a confrontation with an emotionally disturbed former correction officer.

March 25--An emergency services police officer suffered a stab wound to his stomach and arm in a Hempstead home Sunday during a confrontation with an emotionally disturbed man, Nassau County police said. The injury is not considered life-threatening, police said.

The man was identified by police as Christopher Sargeant, 32. He is a former correction officer in New York City who was terminated March 12 for a medical disability, according to department spokeswoman Sharman Stein.

Neighbors said Sargeant served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Public records show that in 2001 he lived at the Marine base in Camp Pendleton in San Diego.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Fort Bragg soldier dies after being stabbed in North Carolina

Wichita soldier dies after being stabbed in North Carolina

The Associated Press

courtesy photo

A statement from the 82nd Airborne says 19-year-old Pfc. Keyonn Parkin of Wichita, Kan., died after being stabbed Saturday night in Greenville.

GREENVILLE, N.C. - Greenville, N.C., police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a paratrooper from Wichita who was stationed at Fort Bragg.

A statement from the 82nd Airborne says 19-year-old Pfc. Keyonn Parkin died after being stabbed Saturday night in Greenville.
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Friday, September 30, 2011

Man accused of killing soldier with truck recovering from stab wounds

Man accused of killing soldier with truck recovering from stab wounds
Posted On: Tuesday, Sep. 27 2011 12:47 PM
From staff and wire reports

A South Carolina man accused of hitting and killing a Texas soldier with his pickup truck and then driving away is recovering from stab wounds after returning to the scene of the biker rally where it happened.

Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton said the victim was Sgt. 1st Class Maurice Collier of Fort Hood.

Collier was assigned to the 8th Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade, according to information from Fort Hood.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Names released of couple found dead at Luke Air Force Base Post Office

Glendale police release names of couple found dead at Luke base
by Eddi Trevizo, Lisa Halverstadt and John Genovese on Sep. 20, 2011, under Arizona Republic News


Glendale police have released the names of a Goodyear couple found dead in a post office on Luke Air Force Base.

Gaudioso Gamilla, 62, and Vilma Gamilla, 61, were found with multiple stab wounds about 7 p.m. Sunday, Glendale police said.

It could be a murder-suicide, although Sgt. Brent Coombs, a Glendale police spokesman, said the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office would make that determination.

Officials said the bodies were found in an area where military mail is processed, a spot not accessible to the general public.

Over the weekend, a staff sergeant from Luke Air Force Base contacted Goodyear police to report that his father, a Department of Defense civilian employee at the base post office, was missing. Goodyear officials contacted the base, and military investigators found a vehicle parked outside the post office after business hours, prompting a search inside.
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Couple stabbed to death at Luke Air Force Base Post Office

Couple Stabbed to Death on Luke AFB
September 19, 2011
UPI
A couple were found stabbed to death at a post office at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona Sunday night, authorities said.

Phoenix's KTVK-TV reported Glendale police Detective Jeff Daukas confirmed the victims were a husband and wife. The couple's names had not been released and there was no word on whether authorities were seeking a suspect or what the motive may have been for the slayings.
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