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One of the most watched recent murder cases in the Philadelphia area in years wound to a close on Wednesday with David "DJ" Creato, 23, admitting to killing his three-year-old son, Brendan, in October 2015. He pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the case after a 10-day trial on a first- degree murder charge ended in a hung jury and mistrial in May. THE LATEST:   DJ Creato admits he killed son Brendan , takes manslaughter plea deal Here's a day-by-day timeline of the significant events surrounding the case. TUESDAY, OCT. 13, 2015:   David “DJ” Creato reports his son,  Brendan, missing  around 6 a.m. He suggests the three-year-old may have opened the door and left the second-floor apartment they shared. A large community-wide search in Haddon Township ends three hours later when a K-9 located the boy’s lifeless body in Cooper River Park . A death scene investigator from the office of medical examiner   Dr. Gerald “Buck” Feigin  goes to the  scene and subseque...

SIERRA VISTA — A man has been arrested for murder after admitting to police he strangled his roommate and hid his body in a suitcase in the bedroom closet. Keith Allen White , 50, was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence after police responded to Garden Plaza Apartments at 100 E. Golf Links Rd. on Monday night. Sierra Vista Police received a call at 9:13 p.m. Monday from a resident of the apartment, who reported that White had admitted to killing his roommate, Brian Cook, who is also a relative of the caller. Officers responded to the scene and spoke with the caller before making their way to White’s apartment on the north side of the complex. When they arrived, “he’s got the windows down and a fan blowing the odor of human decomposition out of the apartment,” said Sierra Vista Sgt . Sean Brownson, a detective with the Special Operations Bureau . Through the open windows of the apartment, officers could see multiple empty liquor bottles , White sitt...

HILLSBORO, OR — Two Portland teens were arrested over the past 24 hours on suspicion of attempted murder in Hillsboro last week, according to Hillsboro police spokesman Lt . Henry Reimann. Cristin Octavio Magana -Ponce, 19, was arrested early Friday at his Portland residence with help from the Portland Metro Gang and Crisis Negotiation teams and Portland Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT). He was lodged at the Washington County Jail on charges of conspiracy to commit two murders. His 17-year-old associate, whose name will not be formally released until he's officially charged with the Measure 11 crime, was arrested Thursday night in Portland. According to police, Hillsboro officers began their investigation Aug. 12 after being called to an apartment complex at 102 S.E 11th Pl., off East Main Street and about one block from the Hillsboro Police Department , where gunfire was reportedly heard shortly before 1:30 a.m. Officers at the scene learned there had been a teen ...

MONTEBELLO, Calif. (KABC) -- A man suspected of killing his estranged wife , who was eight weeks pregnant , was shot and killed in an officer- involved shooting in Montebello Friday. Around 2:40 p.m., Montebello police officers were involved in a shooting with a male suspect in the 2900 block of West Via Corona. He was shot and pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff 's Department. Authorities identified the suspect as 26-year-old Christopher Diaz.Diaz was suspected of killing 28-year-old Roxann Acosta after confronting her in an apartment in the 12000 block of West Victoria Avenue on Aug. 6. Authorities had been looking for Diaz. Witnesses of the shooting said police in two SUVs were following a vehicle that Diaz was in. Police said the vehicle was being driven by a woman and that Diaz was the passenger. Richard, a witness to the scene, said Diaz ran from the vehicle after he discovered he was being followed. "They were right on his tail....

Ray Hensley Jr . Charleston police arrested on Tuesday night an East End man who allegedly spray painted “Black Lives Matter” on the Clay Center the previous night. Detectives arrested Ray Hensley Jr ., 36, for destruction of property, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court . Hensley, who is white, also was charged with obstructing, two counts of shoplifting, and trespassing, according to a news release. Sgt. J.A. Hunt said, in a news release, that police expect to file more charges “once a more detailed examination” of other graffiti sites is completed. Police had said, in a news release earlier Tuesday , that they found graffiti on both the Clay Center, at 1 Clay Square, and Fox’s Pizza, on Ruffner Avenue, near Smith Street. The graffiti appeared to match in paint color and was similar in writing style, police had said. Police received a tip that Hensley had “Black Lives Matter” spray painted on a cardboard sign on the front porch of his Dixie ...

Three suspects arrested in Bristol narcotics investigation . Photo courtesy Bristol Police Dept . Bristol, R.I. —  Bristol Police Chief Josue Canario announces the arrest of three individuals as a result of a narcotics investigation by Bristol Police over the past several months. During the course of the investigation 36-year-old Kenny Savinon of Bristol was identified as the primary target of the investigation. As a result of the investigation Bristol Police were able to secure an arrest warrant for Savinon. Court authorized search warrants for four properties under the control of Savinon were also obtained. On August 24, 2017 while Savinon was entering his business, Get Liquidated at 15 Gooding Ave, Bristol Police officers approached Savinon and took him into custody without incident. Bristol Police then executed the court authorized search warrants of Savinon’s apartment at 26 Bay View Ave , 1st floor, his business at 15 Gooding Ave, a 2nd floor apartment at 145 Franklin S...

A 43-year-old Lubbock woman was indicted Tuesday, accused of helping her 26-year-old husband kill himself last month. Nicole Goin is charged with a state jail felony count of aiding suicide , which carries a punishment of six months to two years in a state jail. Goin reportedly told a Lubbock police detective she provided the prescription pills her husband, Matthew Goin, took the night he killed himself, according to an arrest warrant released Aug . 1. Lubbock police responded to a July 26 check welfare call at a residence in the University Club Apartments at 5540 19th St. Matthew Goin’s mother told a dispatcher her daughter-in-law told her Goin had taken several pills and was unresponsive. Responding officers found Matthew Goin in the bedroom. He was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS. Three days after Matthew Goin’s death, police responded to a domestic disturbance involving Nicole Goin and her mother-in-law that began when Nicole Goin reportedly revealed the events that l...

Landon K. Johnson. Photo: Weber County SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 22, 2016 (Gephardt Daily) — Salt Lake City Police have announced an arrest in the homicide of Eric Padilla, the 18-year-old man who was shot and killed at a Salt Lake City apartment complex on Sept. 17. The suspect has been identified as  Landon Kavani Johnson , 20. Johnson is charged with one count each of aggravated robbery and murder, both felonies, and a misdemeanor charge of failure to appear on a citation. Johnson was arrested at about 5 p.m. today, according to SLCPD Lt. Robin Heiden. Heiden said she believes he was taken into custody without incident. Police have stated that Johnson was found to be in possession of items taken during the home invasion robbery at the Sky Harbor Apartments near 1820 West and North Temple. It was previously not made public that the incident was a home invasion. The victim was reported to have been visiting a friend who lives at the apartment complex . At about 9 p.m. Sept. 17, ...

LAWRENCE — A man and woman who live 46 miles away in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, were among 43 people teams of detectives arrested on Wednesday during another targeted drug suppression sweep throughout the city.  Teams of local detectives, state troopers and federal agents descended on various neighborhoods in Lawrence in the third organized operation of its kind this summer.  Previously, 80 arrests were made in July and August during similar sweeps. Wednesday's operation may be the last such operation involving local , state and federal authorities this summer, said police Chief James Fitzpatrick .  Detectives from Lawrence, Methuen, Andover and North Andover along with state troopers, county correctional officers and federal agents were involved in Wednesday's efforts, police said.  Randy Cheever, 26, and Hallie Wilson, 28, both of 16 Mobile Coach Lane , Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, were both arrested and charged with heroin offenses after an investigation in the ...

BRISTOL, RI— Police raided four properties in Town on Thursday in connection with the arrest of Kenny Savinon, 36, of Bristol. According to police Chief Josue D. Canario, Savinon, who runs Get Liquidated at 15 Gooding Ave., was the main target of a narcotics investigation that spanned several months. He was taken into custody Thursday on his way into his business. Police searched Get Liquidated and three other addresses after obtaining court- authorized search warrants . K-9 units from the Bristol County Massachusetts Sheriff ’s Office and Middletown Police Department assisted in the search. His first-floor apartment at 26 Bay View Ave ., a second- floor apartment at 145 Franklin St., and a first floor apartment at 34 Central St. were also searched. During the searches, Bristol Police located and seized over 2 ounces of suspected cocaine, approximately 3 grams of heroin, approximately 1 gram of fentanyl, several jars of marijuana, 10 mature marijuana plants , 3 vials of suspected s...

Three people, including a 10-year-old child, are dead after what police are now calling a murder/suicide inside a Woodhaven apartment on Monday. According to police, dead are 49-year-old Sharry Multop and her grandson, Christopher Baltzer. Police said Terry Lee Wyatt , 62, was the woman’s boyfriend and shot them inside his apartment at Marsh Creek Village Apartments in the 25000 block of Marsh Creek Blvd . before turning the gun on himself. “He shot himself in the chin/head, so all three had wounds to the head,” Detective Lt. Scott Fraczek said. The bodies were discovered at about 7:45 p.m. when the boy’s mother returned to the apartment with her 8-year-old daughter just after the shooting occurred. Police said the boy’s mother lived there with her two children, her now-deceased mother and her great-grandmother. Fraczek said the great-grandmother was inside the apartment at the time of the shooting, but in a different room and was not injured. Police received several 911 calls about h...

A North Little Rock man fatally shot at a Little Rock apartment complex last month identified his killer in a "dying declaration" to detectives, according to a court affidavit released Thursday . Steven McPherson, 43, reportedly identified Jasper Lamar Singleton in a police photo lineup before he died from his injuries at UAMS Medical Center on July 27. McPherson was shot multiple times in his chest at Big Country Chateau Apartments that night. Authorities searched for Singleton, 19, for weeks before U.S. marshals found and arrested him Wednesday at Rodeway Inn & Suites at 2401 W. 65th St., according to an arrest report. Singleton, who is nicknamed "Fugi," was charged with first-degree murder. He pleaded innocent in the case Thursday morning in Little Rock District Court . [INTERACTIVE: Map details all Little Rock, North Little Rock killings in 2017] Judge Hugh Finkelstein set bail at $500,000. Two people besides McPherson said Singleton was at the apar...

'Your home is wherever you stop and that's what's really, really cool about that whole idea' Rain patters on the roof of John Salhany's 2006 Mercedes Sprinter van as he points out the half-finished ceiling of tongue-and- groove pine paneling that will eventually continue down the walls over layers of plywood and reflective insulation. Items strewn in the hollowed back include a dusty climbing rope , a road bike and a six-pack of Upslope Brewing Company 's Citra Pale Ale . All his essentials will soon have their places once the van build-out is complete, when Salhany will have a bed big enough to accommodate all 6 feet, 2 inches of him, a countertop with a sink and drawers, and maybe even a backsplash with the cutout of the mountains — amenities like that of a house. "I have a lot of friends who are buying houses right now who are just getting to that age, all on the East Coast and I'm just like, how do you guys know where you want to live?" said...