Steve Gerecke's Home: A Case Study

On August 2, 1990, 2:00 am the victim Yanira Correa was walking with a group of her friends on 164th street and River Avenue in the Bronx. The defendant Julio Fernandez went up to Miss Correa, and asked her to go back to the park and talk to his brother, she refused to go back. Fernandez than began to fire a handgun in the air, a boy from Correa’s friend group said to Fernandez “ why don’t you shoot at us?” He fired a couple of shots towards the group before going back to the park. About 15 minutes later the group reached Grand Concourse and 164th, Fernandez showed up in a cab, he got out of the car with a gun in his hand. He fired three shots directly at the group, hitting Correa in the chest. He was spotted shortly getting rid of a dark blunt object from his pants and putting it in the trashcan. After showing up at the scene police recovered a 9-millimeter automatic weapon from the garbage can. Fernandez was arrested in the park and charged with attempted murder in the second degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree, also criminal possession of a weapon. The prosecution

Victim Ronald Logan testified before the Court that on January 30, 2016 about 5:30 p.m., he was sitting inside of his car outside the Decatur Apartments listening to music when a male, Kilo, approached his car asking if he had changed for a $10.00. Kilo then jumped into the backseat of his car on the passenger side without his permission and pulled out a gun pointing it to the back his head demanding that he “give him everything that he had.” Victim Logan stated that he reached into his pants pocket and gave him $200.00-$300.00. Kilo then instructed for him to crank the car up and drive off. As victim Logan drove out of the apartment complex, Kilo fired a shot in his back causing him to crash into a house a few houses down from the apartment

On November 3rd in Marksville, Lousisana a 6-year-old boy was shot to death by two marshals. His name was Jeremy Mardis, who is autistic, was shot five times in the head and chest who was sitting in the front seat of Chris Few, the Father, pickup truck. Chris was also struck by the marshal, but was said to be in fair conditions. The two marshals Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, and Derrick Stafford, 32, were the two officers that shot around 13 to 18 rounds that led to Chris Few with losing his son Jeremy Mardis. This event led to an enormous discovery of problems in this small town of 5,500 residents.

Just recently, a middle-ages man has been captured by the local police. Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Thomas Gilliland reported to the Houston Chronicle, ‘…that the relationship between Conley and the victims — who ranged in age from 6 to 50 — remains unclear.’ After the discovery, deputies applied capital murder to the bodies of six-children—ages 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 13. A David R. Conley was allegedly involved in an upset with the deputies that ended after the accused killer was persuaded to give in to the demands of the Harris County authorities. On a tip, deputies entered the residence to confront the abusive killing. However, according to sources—at a news conference Sunday afternoon—Chief Deputy Rim Cannon announce that the degree of

Back on October 3, 1974 at approximately 10:45pm two Memphis police officers were on patrol and received a complaint from dispatch to respond to a burglary in progress (Tennessee v. Garner, 1986). Officers Leslie Wright and Elton Hymon took the call and responded to the location in question (Tennessee v. Garner, 1986). After arriving, a neighbor told the two officers she heard glass breaking next door and “they” were breaking into the home (Tennessee v. Garner, 1986). While officer Wright radioed back to dispatch the situation, officer Hymon proceeded to the backyard of the home (Tennessee v. Garner, 1986). Hymon then heard a door slam and seen a person running across the lawn towards a chain link fence, later identified as Edward Garner

Three black males were reported to have robbed a gun store in Strawberry. A single pearl handled pistol and a box of money was stolen. One boy was caught, his name is T.J Avery, and he is currently in jail. The convict tried to blame local citizens R.W and Melvin. He claimed,”They the ones got me in it”. His friend Cassie Logan’s thoughts on this are,”They wouldn’t do that to ole T.J!” His trial has not yet been held.

The FBI is investigating a fatal Kansas bar shooting in which the gunman named “Adam Purintan” allegedly told his victims to ‘get out of my country” as a hate crime, the FBI said on Tuesday. Grillot who was a bystander trying to protect the men from India. He told the suspect that he needed to leave and was no place to be acting like this at a family restaurant He then drove 70 miles to an Applebee’s in Clinton, Missouri and opened up to the bartender and told him that he had just shot two Iranians and he was on the run from police and was looking for a hideout, the bartender then “asked” the employee’s in the back but instead called the dispatchers. Officers arrived at 11:43 P.M., and the suspect gave himself up without. Incident, the affiliate

Edgar M. Welch, 28 of Salisbury, N.C, fired a rifle on Sunday inside a pizza restaurant in Washington. The restaurant was accused of child abuse based on false stories written by anonymous author. Many of their employees were threatened because of the fake stories about the restaurant. Welch came into the restaurant with a rifle and fired it around 3pm. He told the police that he heard about the online conspiracy about Comet Ping Pong restaurant and wanted to self investigate according to Eric Lipton. Nobody was hurt from this accident but Edgar Welch was arrested. When police search Welch’s car, they found two additional firearm.

In 1985, Memphis police officers were dispatched to a “prowler inside” call. Once officers arrived on scene, there was a women standing on her porch gesturing officers towards the adjacent home. The women told the officers she heard breaking glass and that someone was breaking into the home next door. An officer then went to the back door of the home and heard a door slam and observed someone running across the backyard. The fleeing suspect, later identified as Edward Garner, stopped at a 6 foot high chain link fence at the edge of the back yard. The officer with the aid of a flashlight was able to observe Garner’s face and hands and saw no obvious signs of a weapon. While Garner was kneeling down the bottom of the fence the officer yelled out “Police, Halt” while taking a few steps towards Garner. Garner than began to climb the fence and the officer believing that if Garner got over the fence he would avoid being captured, the officer shot him. The only thing on Garner was 10 dollars and a purse taken from the house.

David Leon Riley was pulled over by a police officer for driving with expired license plates. Once pulled over for operating the vehicle without valid registration, the officer discovered that Riley also had a suspended license. Following police policy for suspended licenses, the officer impounded Riley’s car. At that point another officer performed a mandatory inventory search of the car that led to the discovery of two handguns under the hood of the vehicle. Police proceeded to arrest Riley for the possession of loaded firearms. The arresting officer also found and seized a cell phone in Riley’s possession along with items associated with the “Bloods” street gang. Photographs and videos accessed on the cell phone connected Riley to the

In the summer of 1994 an Illinois woman’s buzzer rang at her apartment complex in Waukegan. She went downstairs to check after nobody went upstairs to her apartment. As soon as she reached the door downstairs, two men forced her into a dark colored sedan, kidnapped her, and raped her. Distraught after her attack, the victim wandered until she ultimately found a Seven Eleven close by and the police were called. When the police arrived, the victim said she was attacked by two Hispanic men that looked to be in their mid-twenties and a bit taller than her height of five feet and seven inches. The car that she was forced into was described as dark colored, older, having four doors and tinted windows. The victim’s boyfriend saw Angel Gonzalez’s car in the apartment complex parking lot and it matched the characteristics that the woman used to describe the assailant’s car. Police later stopped Gonzalez’s car and the victim acknowledged that the car was the one she described. She was then asked if Gonzalez was one of her attackers, and she was certain that he was, despite her being in the backseat of the police car while he was in front of it. Not only was he not close enough for her to get a clear view, but he also had facial hair and a birthmark, both characteristics that she did not use to describe her attackers. This led to Gonzalez being in police custody for interrogation where they did not allow him to sleep. When he was interrogated, he

The police response to juvenile gun crime was because the youth crime during the 1980s and 1990s caused a shift in the justice system to a more punitive, “get tough” approach to dealing with violent juvenile offenders. In this change to decline the gun violence and homicides in recent years: “ Dealing with these crimes to demand quick action, many police

The victim has suffered from a severe stroke that left him paralyzed on the left side of his body and he's unable to answer simple questions. Mr. White is total care and requires a 24-hour caretaker for his daily needs. The victim lives in the home with his wife and two adult children; the adult children appear to have cognitive delay but Mrs. White has no mental limitations. Mrs. White manages the fianances and the upkeep of the home. The White's home is very poor and in deplorable condition. There is a spider and roach infestation, there are holes in the floor of the home that cats come in, animal feces is all over the floor, and there are dirty diapers all over the home. Mr. White is fed properly, but he's left in soiled diapers until a

On a cold rainy Saturday in December, just two days before Christmas, in 2006 Andy Sandness set out to do some grocery shopping on his day off from work. Everything was going as planned until an announcement came over the speaker at Piggly Wiggly saying “Attention shoppers please do not panic and take cover immediately.” Naturally panic immediately broke out all over the store as gunshots rang through the produce aisle. Babies were crying, mothers were covering their children, elderly people were struggling to move to a safe place, and food was flooding the aisles. Sandness, a local rancher and volunteer firefighter/emt sprung into action. He alerted authorities and located the shooter. “A million thoughts ran through my mind in the seconds

Early on the morning of August 22, 2010 in rural Port Colborne, Ontario, three masked men were captured on a surveillance camera, shouting death threats and attempting to set ablaze a farmhouse while the owner was trapped inside. Fearing for his life and the destruction of his property, owner Ian Thomson, a licensed gun safety instructor and firearm expert, fired several warning shots in the direction of his assailants with a legally owned .38 caliber revolver. The perpetrators, who were known to police, quickly fled the scene and only a while later faced criminal charges and imprisoned. Ironically, while the evidence corroborated that Mr. Thomson acted in self-defense, when police arrived at the scene instead of being commended for