Man who had been in a year-long custody battle over his two-year-old son got a shocking news on friday

Dillon Wyckoff who had been in a year-long custody battle over his two-year-old son, Mason Wyckoff got a tragic news on Friday that his little boy had passed away possibly at the hands of his mother. Emergency crews were called to his baby mama’s apartment where they found the deceased toddler alongside his unconscious mother, Stephenie Erickson.

He told the Des Moines Register:

    “He was everything in my world. She had threatened and threatened to do it, and she did it to hurt me. They haven’t proven anything yet, but I know down deep that’s what happened.It’s been a year-long battle with all this stuff, and it’s been going downhill…We prayed and prayed it wouldn’t be this''

Mason’s grandmother, Michel Cunningham, said they had lived in fear for months on end, worrying about Erickson’s mental stability especially after she told Wyckoff he would “never see his son again”:I tried contacting DHS (the Department of Human Services). We’ve dealt with over seven different police departments for over a year. They kept telling us that we had to wait for ‘something to happen.’ And look at what did.
Erickson who was found unconscious beside her 2 year old son was taken to a local hospital and remains in serious condition, though it’s not clear what injuries she sustained or how she got them.
Erickson’s neighbor said she’d “sit outside and smoke and cry” and never really talked to neighbours,
Wyckoff said of his son, Mason He was always fun, always doing something. He was just getting to the age where I could start doing fun stuff with him, I was looking forward to a lot, a lot of fun. What we had is what we had, I don’t regret any moment of it.”Amid an ongoing investigation into the incident, Wyckoff is certain that Erickson killed him.

Source:Des Moines Register:

2 people dead,16 others injured in Florida

Two people have been confirmed dead and 16 others injured after a yet to be identified person opened fire at a nightclub in the Florida city of Fort Myers in the early hours of today July 25th.
The night club was hosting a party for teenagers when the incident occurred. Children as young as 13 years were believed to have been caught in the shooting. Sky News quoted one witness as saying that she heard around 30 gunshots from the scene and believed that these came from a number of weapons. A 14-year-old boy was reportedly one of the victims killed.
Efforts are currently being made to evacuate the injured out of the scene. This incident comes a month after a massive shooting at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida left 49 people dead. A person of interest has been detained.

The Democratic Party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is resigning under pressure

The Democratic Party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is resigning under pressure as  a stunning leadership shakeup as party officials gather in Philadelphia to nominate Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee. Wasserman Schultz’s announcement Sunday follows an outrage over hacked emails suggesting the Democratic National Committee favored Hilary Clinton during the primaries, even though she claimed she was neutral.
In a statement, Wasserman Schultz said she will step down at the end of the four-day convention which begins today. She said she plans to formally open and close the convention, as well as address delegates but didn’t address the email scandal.The leaked emails made the Democratic primary runner-up Bernie Sanders to call for Wasserman Schultz’s immediate resignation
Sanders had repeatedly accused the DNC of backing Clinton during the primaries. He said the 19,000 emails published by the website Wikileaks appeared to confirm his suspicions.
In one leaked email, a DNC official wondered whether Sanders’ religious beliefs could be used against him, questioning whether the candidate may be an atheist.
Sanders pressed for Wasserman Schultz to quit as chairwoman immediately. He also suggested that Clinton’s choice of running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, was a disappointment and that he would have preferred Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals.

    “His political views are not my political views. He is more conservative than I am. Would I have preferred to see somebody like an Elizabeth Warren selected by Secretary Clinton? Yes, I would have,” Sanders told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Monica Brown's husband fathered a child outside wedlock

There were media reports that Monica Brown’s husband, Shannon Brown, had fathered a child with another woman who sent her ‘pregnancy test’ to media houses and sent the baby’s supposed photo as well. Turns out it was all a lie. The lady was never pregnant and made everything up. The Industryonblast which released the exclusive story found out that everything the lady said about Monica’s husband were all lies and apologized to Monica.

A woman and her three daughters have reportedly been attacked in France

A woman and her three daughters have reportedly been attacked for being scantily dressed at a resort in France.
One of the three girls, aged 8, is reportedly fighting for her life after she and her family were stabbed at the French holiday resort in South France, yesterday, July 19, 2016.
The young girls, the older sisters, aged 12 and 14 respectively, and their mother, 46, were attacked at the resort in Garda-Colombe in the Hautes-Alpes near Montpellier.
The family, having come from Nantes, in France’s west, to holiday in the Alps region, were eating breakfast when the culprit, Mohammed B reportedly attacked them
Their attacker is reported to have fled the scene after the attack but has since been apprehended.
Although the police are yet to confirm the motive of their attacker, local media reports that the attacker had revealed that the females had been too "scantily dressed."
The mum and her eldest daughters are reported to have suffered non life threatening injuries although the same cannot be said for the third daughter who was rushed to the hospital following the attack.

Infant found in car after murder-suicide of his parents in Coastal Virginia

The Accomack County Sheriff’s Office says deputies found 20-year-old Elizabeth Madison Ann Jensen of Sanford and 27-year-old Jonan Fabricio Gonzales-Funes of Bloxom both dead from apparent gunshot wounds inside a vehicle on Saturday morning in coastal Virginia.Authorities say the couple was found dead in a car after an apparent murder-suicide with their infant unharmed in the backseat.Authorities say the infant, who was the child of Jensen and Gonzales-Funes, was placed in the care of family members.
Investigators believe Gonzales-Funes killed Jensen before turning the gun on himself.
Authorities say Gonzales-Funes was a correctional officer who had worked for the sheriff’s office since September 2015.

Source: CBS News

A girl goes on a date with herself when she was stood by a boy

Mimi Black, a 21-year-old from Glasgow, Scotland refused to let the disappointment of being stood up dampen her spirits, she decided to have a good time all by herself rather than go home and cry into her pillow. Mimi posted a series of her Snapchats documenting the solo date on her Twitter feed.

Kate Middleton is set to wed again

Kate Middleton’s sister, 32 years old Pippa Middleton and her 40 year old millionaire boyfriend James Matthews were talking a walk when he stopped, dropped on his knee and presented Pippa Middleton a stunning diamond ring from his pocket and asked her to marry him. And she said ‘yes’!James reportedly sought permission from Pippa’s father before proposing to her and she accepted.

17 year old Afghan teenage refugee attacked passengers on a train in Germany

A 17 year old Afghan teenage refugee attacked passengers on a train in Germany on Monday night with an axe, leaving three people in critical condition and 19 others with minor injuries, in what was described by officials as a “probable” Islamist attack. The assailant, armed with a knife and an ax, was identified as a 17-year-old Afghan man living in Ochsenfurt, Bavaria, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said.The attack took place as the train was traveling between stations.
The train made an emergency stop short of the station at Wurzburg-Heidingsfeld and the assailant jumped out of the train, Hench said. Police shot dead the suspect, a 17-year-old as he attempted to flee the scene.

It is quite probable that this was an Islamist attack,” said a ministry spokesman, adding that the attacker had apparently shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) as he stabbed people.
The attacker was said to have been carrying “weapons for slashing and cutting”, according to German media reports, including an axe.

The perpetrator was able to leave the train, police left in pursuit and as part of this pursuit, they shot the attacker and killed him,” said a spokesman for the Wurzburg police

Nick Cannon joined Black Lives Matters protesters outside the Republican National Convention

Nick Cannon joined Black Lives Matters protesters outside the Republican National Convention which started in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday and attacked both the Democratic and the Republican  parties. Nick stood in front of banners and posters calling for justice and an end to shootings of black men by police officers.

  ''We want to be respected. We want to feel safe. We want the American Dream.You are messing with our peace of mind. We can’t operate as Americans when we can’t walk outside and feel safe. We are going to be out here for the entire convention and make sure our voices are heard. My community brought me down here today and the lack of representation for my community brought me down here today'’

Meet the Oldest commerical sex worker in Kenya

The oldest commercial sex worker in Kenya, Rosemary Johns, is surely heading for the Guinness Book of World Records after she told Standard Digital that she has slept with over 5,000 men in her over 30 years of working as a prostitute.
Johns who said is considering retiring from the trade, claims to be a staunch Christian of the Baptist faith and does not miss church service and other programmes while in full sex practice.

Recounting her foray into the world's oldest profession in 1984, Johns, who said she had to sell herself to take care of her children after her husband left her, said:

“I got married at 16, but after some time in marriage, my husband started neglecting us after I gave birth to five children.
When my husband left me, I became a barmaid in Musoma, Tanzania, before relocating to Nairobi where I joined some women along Digo Road where we would wait for clients day and night and charged Sh5 for our services.
The price remained the same for more than five years until it rose to Sh50 and finally over Sh100 in early 2000s, depending on the location.
On a good day then, I could sleep with up to 40 men but on a bad day, I had between five and 10 men. In all, I think I have slept with more than 5,000 men in my career.
Many things have changed in the last 30 years as nowadays, I see young girls joining us here and within days, they would be driving their own vehicles or running businesses.
Unfortunately, some of them steal from customers. They make quick money and invest well, but compared to years back, they are now too extreme even in their dressing. We used to dress nicely without exposing our breasts or butts to attract men.”
Nowadays, we depend on long-term customers. In fact, I had started a small business after getting Sh70,000 loan from a local bank, but fire razed down my house and shop in March.Even my baptismal card and other documents were burnt. That and other problems pushed me back to the business.”

A woman killed by her brother in Pakistan

 The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts angered conservative Pakistan, on Sunday, July 17, admitted to killing her for the family’s ‘honour’.

The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts angered conservative Pakistan, on Sunday, July 17, admitted to killing her for the family’s ‘honour’.
Read more: https://www.naij.com/894001-tragedy-meet-man-no-regret-killing-sister-photos.html

The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts angered conservative Pakistan, on Sunday, July 17, admitted to killing her for the family’s ‘honour’.
Read more: https://www.naij.com/894001-tragedy-meet-man-no-regret-killing-sister-photos.html

The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts angered conservative Pakistan, on Sunday, July 17, admitted to killing her for the family’s ‘honour’.
Read more: https://www.naij.com/894001-tragedy-meet-man-no-regret-killing-sister-photos.html

The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts angered conservative Pakistan, on Sunday, July 17, admitted to killing her for the family’s ‘honour’.
Read more: https://www.naij.com/894001-tragedy-meet-man-no-regret-killing-sister-photos.html

The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts angered conservative Pakistan, on Sunday, July 17, admitted to killing her for the family’s ‘honour’.
Read more: https://www.naij.com/894001-tragedy-meet-man-no-regret-killing-sister-photos.html

Muhammad Waseem, who was arrested late on Saturday, said he gave a “tablet” to Baloch to subdue her and then strangled her in their family home over the weekend. He added that he has no regrets in killing his sister during a press conference organized by the police. Multan City police chief Azhar Akram disclosed to AFP that: “The police arrested Muhammad Waseem, brother of Qandeel Baloch, for killing his sister late on Saturday, Waseem confessed to his crime, saying he killed his sister for honour after her recent objectionable videos, mostly posted on Facebook.”
The killing sent shock waves across Muslim Pakistan and triggered an outpouring of grief on social media for Baloch, whose real name was Fauzia Azeem. In Facebook posts, Baloch, 26, spoke of trying to change ‘the typical orthodox mindset’ of people in Pakistan. She faced frequent misogynist abuse and death threats but continued to post provocative pictures and videos.

A Nigerian man and his girlfriend caught in possesion of drugs in thailand

Police on Thursday, July 7 arrested a Nigerian man identified as Ukwuani Ogochukwu and his Thai girlfriend, Samorn Sutthakaew, 31, on possession of 200g of drugs in Pattaya, Thailand. Pattaya Police Patrol had spotted a white Toyota Altis pulling over in Thepprasit Road. The officers watched as the passenger opened the window and threw out a snack bag.
Although it looked like a regular litter drop the officers noticed the bag was sealed with transparent tape and on investigating, found two bags of Ice weighing approximately two-hundred grams.

The officers alerted other cops who then created a road block. The Toyota was caught at the red lights of Thepprasit and Sukhumvit. The driver turned out to be Ogochukwu, who was with his Thai girlfriend, Sutthakaew, and their one-year old baby. Both denied being drug dealers but failed to convince officers.

They were taken to Pattaya Police Station for further interrogation

Liv Tyler and her fiancé David Gardner welcomed their second child together

Liv Tyler and her fiancé David Gardner welcomed their second child together – daughter, Lula Rose Gardner. The 38-year-old actress announced it on Instagram on Sunday. “Hello! our beautiful baby girl is here. Lula Rose Gardner we are sooooo happy heart exploding with love!” she captioned the first photo of her daughter.Gardner also posted the same photo, along with a message.

“Our gorgeous baby girl has arrived “Lula Rose Gardner” unbelievably beautiful, healthy and thank goodness she looks like her Momma !!!! Truly blessed. Daddies girl….Now the real work starts training her big brothers to all become Ninja’s, Martial Arts Experts & 24-7 Body Guards !!!” he wrote.

The newborn joins brother Sailor Gene, 17 months. Liv is also mom to 11-year-old son Milo from previous relationship.

Trump is at it again

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, under consideration by Republican Donald Trump as a possible vice presidential choice, said on Sunday he favors a woman's right to choose whether to have an abortion.
That stance places Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, at odds with the official Republican Party position, which is firmly anti-abortion.
Asked about his position on abortion on ABC News' "This Week," Flynn, a registered Democrat, said "women have to be able to choose" and that women "have to make the decision because they're the ... ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not."
Trump, the presumptive Republican White House nominee, has said he will pick his vice president before the party's nomination convention opens on July 18. Flynn has been an adviser to the Trump campaign since early this year.
The Washington Post reported on Saturday that Trump is becoming increasingly infatuated with Flynn, who ran the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012-2014 under President Barack Obama, because he believes national unrest and the threat of terrorism may demand a "tough and steady" presence on the ticket.
As a businessman and real-estate developer, Trump also likes the idea of teaming up with another non-politician, the Post reported.
For weeks Trump has conducted a high-profile canvassing of Republican political stalwarts as part of his running mate search, but he has also made clear he is looking at what a military leader would bring to the ticket.A source familiar with the matter confirmed to Reuters on Saturday that Flynn had emerged as a possibility.

According to the source, Flynn is seen as someone who would be able to help Trump in the area of national security at a time of challenges abroad like the threat from Islamic State militants.
Trump is also considering more conventional vice presidential contenders, such as former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, Indiana Governor Mike Pence or New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

Hamza Osama's son has vowed to revenge his father's death

Hamza, 25, has vowed to carry on al Qaeda's fight against the US and its allies in a 21-minute audio message titled "We Are All Osama."
“We will continue striking you and targeting you in your country and abroad in response to your oppression of the people of Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and the rest of the Muslim lands that did not survive your oppression,” SITE Intelligence Group, an organisation that tracks white supremacist and jihadi organisations online, quoted him as saying.

“As for the revenge by the Islamic nation for Sheikh Osama, may Allah have mercy on him, it is not revenge for Osama the person but it is revenge for those who defended Islam,”

US commandos killed Bin Laden at his Pakistani hideout in 2011, the attack which was a major blow to the militant group, which carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.
In March 2003, it was claimed that Hamza and his brother Saad bin Laden had been wounded and captured in Ribat, Afghanistan, but it turned out to be false.in a 2005 video titled ‘The Mujahideen of Waziristan’, Hamza was shown participating in an al-Qaeda assault on Pakistani security forces in the south Waziristan tribal region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In September 2007, it was reported that he was again in the tribal belt encompassing the Pakistan/Afghanistan border region taking a senior role with al-Qaeda forces.

“Hamza provides a new face for al Qaeda, one that directly connects to the group’s founder. He is an articulate and dangerous enemy,” Bruce Riedel of Brookings said.
Hamza was at his father’s side in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks and spent time with him in Pakistan after the US-led invasion pushed much of al Qaeda’s senior leadership there, according to the Brookings Institution.

272 killed in South Sudan

Renewed fighting erupted in South Sudan's capital on Sunday and forces loyal to Vice President Riek Machar said his residence was attacked by the president's troops, raising fears of a slide back into full-blown conflict in the five-year-old nation. 
There was no immediate response from the government of President Salva Kiir to the statement by Machar's spokesman. Kiir's information minister, Michael Makuei, said earlier the situation was under control and urged people to stay at home.
The two leaders, who fought each other in a two-year civil war that started in late 2013, had made a joint call for calm after clashes between rival factions broke out late on Thursday. At least 272 people have been killed in the fighting, a Health Ministry source told Reuters early on Sunday.
A Chinese U.N. peacekeeper was killed and several Chinese and Rwandan peacekeepers were injured, Japan's U.N. ambassador Koro Bessho said on Sunday after the U.N. Security Council was briefed on the situation. Japan is council president for July.The U.N. mission said U.N. compounds in Juba had been hit by small arms and heavy weapons fire.

"The Security Council expressed their readiness to consider enhancing (the U.N. mission) UNMISS to better ensure that UNMISS and the international community can prevent and respond to violence in South Sudan," Bessho told reporters.

He said the 15-member council encouraged countries in the region to prepare to send additional troops in the event the Security Council decides to boost the strength of the nearly 13,500-strong U.N. force. The council also stressed the need for peacekeepers to use all means necessary to protect civilians.
The U.S. State Department on Sunday demanded an immediate end to the fighting in SouthSudan and ordered the departure of non-emergency personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Juba.

"We're extremely worried about what appears to be the lack of command and control over the troops," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on her way into the Security Council briefing, which the United States requested.

A confidential note to the council on Sunday from the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping, seen by Reuters, said: "UNMISS has adopted a proactive posture, conducting patrols within and outside" its compounds and has reinforced the perimeter security to enhance protection for displaced civilians and U.N. staff.
The note said the fighting "involved the use of attack helicopters and tanks" and that the U.N. compounds were in the cross-fire one U.N. Chinese peacekeeper was killed and six were others injured when the armoured vehicle in which they were travelling was shelled.
China's defence ministry issued a statement on Monday condemning the attack, and said it would strengthen safety measures.

 

faces of the killed police officers

A newlywed and a Navy veteran of three tours in Iraq were among the five Dallas police officers killed in a sniper ambush on Thursday night. The victims were identified on Friday by officials, relatives and the media as Dallas Police Department officers Senior Cpl. Lorne Ahrens, Officer Michael Krol, Sgt. Michael J. Smith, Officer Patrick Zamarripa, and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) police officer Brent Thompson.
Seven other police officers and two civilians were wounded in the shooting at the end of a protest over this week’s killing of two black men by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. The Dallas shooter was a U.S. Army reservist who served in Afghanistan.

Transit Police Officer Brent Thompson, 43, worked for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) system since 2009 and was the first officer killed in the line of duty since the transit system formed a police department in 1989, DART.

Thompson spent more than four years in Iraq, working for private U.S. military contractor DynCorp International as a police liaison officer who supervised Americans training and mentoring the Iraqi police force, according to his LinkedIn profile. Thompson got married to a fellow DART officer only 2 weeks ago and also Thompson was also a father and a grandfather from a previous marriage.

Navy veteran Patrick Zamarripa, 32, served three tours in Iraq and was killed in the attack, his family told Reuters. He served in the military reserves as well as working as a Dallas policeman. His uncle, Hector Zamarripa, said by telephone that Zamarripa was a proud Mexican-American who leaves behind a wife, their toddler-age daughter and a stepson. Although he did not speak much Spanish, he went by the name Patricio among his Spanish-speaking friends and relatives


Michael Krol, a 40-year-old officer with the Dallas Police Department, was killed, according to a statement from the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office in Michigan, where Krol worked as a deputy in the jails from 2003 to 2007. “We are saddened by the loss of the dedicated officers in Dallas – one of whom was a former member of this agency – and also the wounding of the other officers,” Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon said in a statement.

Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens, a 14-year veteran with the Dallas police, was one of those killed, the Dallas Morning News reported. Ahrens, a 48-year-old California native, was married to a Dallas police detective and had two children, ages 10 and 8, the newspaper reported.

Michael Smith, 55, also died in the attack. He served in the military as an Army Ranger before joining the Dallas police in 1989. His family said he left behind a wife of 17 years and two daughters, ages 9 and 14.

Micah Xavier Johnson one of the suspected snipers is dead

Dallas police used an explosive device attached to a robot to kill Micah Xavier Johnson , who was a  suspect in the coordinated sniper attack that killed five officers on Thursday night/early Friday morning, in what experts say is a first for U.S. law enforcement

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In a press conference Police Chief David Brown explained that after long hours of trying to negotiate with the suspect, the robot was deployed on the second floor of El Centro College in downtown Dallas early Friday morning.

    “We cornered one suspect and we tried to negotiate for several hours – negotiations broke down, we had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect,” he said. “We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was,” he said. Brown explained that “other options” would have exposed the police officers to great danger.

Suspects of the dallas shooting are been apprehended by the police

This is the face of one of the suspects who shot at 10 police officers during a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas in the wake of 2 black men killed by Police officers. Witnesses say the protest was peaceful and that the shooting started just as they were about to end the protest thats the face of the sniper and  has turned himself in and is now in custody of the police.

A second suspect has also been apprehended after a shootout with the Police. He is now in police custody as well. Dallas Police Chief believe the suspects made bomb threats. SWAT team is securing a suspicious package found near the second suspect.