THANKS, LORRAINE for this exposee on all of these cases of DV against bw. I know there are many others, but bw who are dating ex-cons or married to them must really read this and ask themselves: Could this happen to me? And if the answer is "NO," then they should be able to explain CONVINCINGLY why it can't happen to them.
You said:
"We don't want to admit that a 5th grader can form "intent" but look a 12 year-old (in Maryland) killed his mom and little brother and all he will get is juvenile detention until he is 18. He stabbed and beat them both to death --- a 12 year-old bully who was destined to have a rap sheet a mile long and lengthy prison stays. He was the neighborhood bully and the adults and kids steered clear of him."
Monday, May 28, 2007
Shukura Akilah Abdullah Aleem
Murdered May 28, 2007
~Age 21
~Hometown: No fixed address
Police approached Jerry Levon Banks, 28, at a Middle River, MD shopping center the morning of May 28, 2007 because he had blood on his hands and shirt. Banks told police he thought he had killed his girlfriend. He then led them to the basement of a nearby house where they found the body of 21-year-old Shukura Akilah Abdullah Aleem. It appeared she had been strangled following an argument. Banks had cuts on his wrists, believed to be self-inflicted.
The couple had no fixed address. They were staying the night at the house in Middle River at the invitation of the home's owners, who did not hear the argument and were unaware of the murder until police arrived.
Banks, whose previous record includes one theft arrest from 2005, was charged with Aleem's murder. Denied bail, he is being held at a local hospital pending commitment to a state psychiatric facility.
Sources
Baltimore Co. Police news release, May 29, 2007
Baltimore Sun, May 29, 2007
WBAL Radio News, May 30, 2007
The Examiner, May 30, 3007
~Posted June 3, 2007
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Tarneshia Jones
Murdered January 6, 2009
~Age 19
~Hometown: Milledgeville, GA
Tarneshia Jones, 19, had a son while still in high school but, nevertheless, graduated in 2008 and was pursing a college degree when her life was cut short. On January 6, 2009, police say, Darian Napier, Jones' former boyfriend and the father or her son, shot Jones in her Milledgeville, GA home and then turned the gun on himself. Both died at the scene.
Daquavious Napier, the couple's 2-year-old son, was at daycare at the time of the incident. He is now in the care of Jones' family.
Jones and Napier - high school sweethearts who recently broke up - had a tumultuous relationship according to news reports. Napier was on probation for simple battery stemming from a November 2008 incident in which he grabbed the wheel of a car Jones was driving causing it to crash. Jones' father said he didn't think the relationship involved physical violence, but a cousin described Napier as obsessed with Jones. Napier reportedly once said if he couldn't have Jones then no one could.
Friends say Napier had recently been depressed. The local sheriff believes this played a role in the murder-suicide.
Napier, who went by the nickname D-Nate, had been an all-region basketball player in high school. He was employed by Chik-fil-A. In addition to the child he had with Jones, he leaves another son.
Jones, known to friends as MuMu, was a freshman at Georgia Military College where she hoped to obtain a degree in nursing. She also was employed by Office Max.
Tarneshia Jones*, Darian Napier
*Picture from her Facebook page
Sources
The Baldwin Bulletin, Jan 6, 2008
Macon.com/The Telegraph, Jan 6, 2009
Macon.com/The Telegraph, Jan 7, 2009
WMAZ-TV, Jan 7, 2009
Union-Recorder, Jan 8 2009 [obit-hers]
Union-Recorder, Jan 9, 2009 [obit-his]
~Posted January 17, 2009
A fund has been established for Jones and Napier's son. Donations to the Daquavious O. Napier Trust Fund can be made at Exchange Bank in Milledgeville, GA. [Source/Obit]
Monday, January 5, 2009
Yoranda Ntahomvukiye
Murdered January 5, 2009
~Age 56
~Hometown: Nashville, TN
Five months after Yoranda Ntahomvukiye, 56, and her husband Pascal Gahungu, 63, immigrated to the US from Africa, she was dead and he was incarcerated for her murder. Police say Gahungu stabbed his wife to death in their Nashville, TN apartment on January 5, 2009 following an argument.
Two of the couple's adult children and a 7-year-old granddaughter were home at the time. The couple's 20-year-old son attempted to intervene and was almost stabbed himself in the process.
A language barrier initially complicated the situation for police. After locating a translator, however, police reportedly extracted a confession from Gahungu. Charged with criminal homicide and attempted criminal homicide, he remains held on $1.25 million bond.
Originally from Burundi, the couple fled that country in the 1970s, living in Rwanda and Tanzania before their recent arrival in Nashville. Six of their nine children live in the US. 
Yoranda Ntahomvukiye; Pascal Gahungu
Sources
Nashville Police media report, Jan 6, 2009
WTVF-News Channel 5, Jan 6, 2009
WSMV TV News, Jan 6, 2009
~Posted January 20, 2009
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Darlene Sloan
~Murdered December 25, 2008
~Age 50
~Hometown: Forest Park, GA
In the wee hours of December 25, 2008 Bobby Sloan, 60, and his wife Darlene Brown Sloan, 50, were returning from a nightclub when they got into an argument. It was then, police say, that Mr. Sloan pulled out a handgun and shot Mrs. Sloan in the head. She died at the scene.
The Sloans, from Forest Park, GA, were visiting her relatives in South Carolina at the time of the incident. The shooting occurred in Charleston, SC. Mrs. Sloan attended high school in nearby Walterboro, where her mother still lives.
Mr. Sloan is being held in Charleston on charges of murder and possession of a firearm during commission of a crime.
Mrs. Sloan worked as a manager at McDonald's. She leaves one son (presumably from a previous relationship) and two grandchildren. 
Bobby Sloan
Sources
WCBD-TV, Dec 25, 2008
Post and Courier, Dec 25, 2008
Post and Courier, Dec 26, 2008
Post and Courier, Dec 27, 2008
Community Times Dispatch, Jan 1, 2009 [obit-cached]
~Posted January 18, 2009
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Veronica Williams
Murdered November 20, 2008
~Age 28
~Hometown: Baltimore, MD
As Veronica Elizabeth (Graves) Williams, 28, was leaving a Baltimore, MD courthouse on November 17, 2008, a just-obtained temporary restraining order against her estranged husband in hand, she was stabbed repeatedly by the very man the order was to protect her against, Cleaven 'CJ' Williams, 33. An off-duty officer witnessed the attack and tried to stop it, first by tasing Mr. Williams and, when that didn't work, shooting him. Both Mr. and Mrs. Williams were rushed to the hospital. He survived. She did not.
Mrs. Williams' Jehovah's Witness faith precluded treatment with blood transfusions, though it is not clear it would have saved her anyway given the extent of her injuries. After several days in a drug-induced coma, during which she suffered a stroke and a miscarriage, Mrs. Williams died on November 20th.
The Williams met in 1998 when both attended Hagerstown Junior College. They married in 1999 and opened a barbershop together shortly thereafter. The 3 children that followed were home schooled by Mrs. Williams, who also assisted her husband in the barbershop.
Looking back, Mrs. Williams' family members say Mr. Williams seemed overly possessive from the start, but problems in the couple's relationship were not apparent until January 2005. That was when Mr. Williams choked, beat and pistol whipped his wife, and also shot a bullet at the floor near her feet. He pled guilty to second degree assault for the incident and received a 3-year suspended sentence and probation. (The couple's barbershop burned to the ground the day after the beating. The fire was deemed arson, but no one was ever charged.)
Although Mrs. Williams left the state for awhile afterwards, fearing for her safety, the couple eventually reconciled. By October 2008, however, Mrs. Williams decided she wanted to leave her husband. When she told him, he reportedly pinned her down and cut off all the hair on the back of her head. He then ordered her to leave their house, subsequently destroying some of her property. Mrs. Williams cited this behavior when requesting a restraining order in November, although she did not live long enough to reap any benefit from the order.
Mr. Williams was a barber by trade, although not regularly employed when his wife was killed. At that time he was serving as president of the Greater Greenmount Community Association in East Baltimore. Ironically the organization has a focus on stopping violence.
Mr. Williams is now incarcerated pending a trial in the murder of his wife. At a January 2009 arraignment he entered a not guilty plea on the first degree murder and deadly weapons violations charges against him.
Mrs. Williams, who was affectionately called 'V,' worked as a hair stylist. Comments left on the online guestbook accompanying her obituary described her as beautiful inside and out, loving, peaceful, warm, family oriented, and a devoted mother.
The couple's three children, Isis, Malik and Asia, ages 8, 7 and 5 respectively, are in the custody of Mrs. Williams' cousin.
Veronica Williams; Cleaven WIlliams
Sources
WBAL-TV, Nov 18, 2008
WJZ-TV, Nov 22, 2008
Baltimore Sun, Nov 19, 2009
Baltimore Sun, Nov 22, 2008
The Herald-Mail, Nov 25, 2008
Fayetteville Observer, Nov 30, 2008 [obit]
Baltimore Sun, Dec 14, 2008
Baltimore Sun, Jan 16, 2009
YouTube tribute video
A fund has been established for the Williams' three children. Donations can be made to the "Children of Veronica Williams Assistance Fund" at any Bank of America branch. [Source 1, 2]
Tragic case http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7457089
Promising young intellectual South African immigrant victim to her dbr boyfriend.
Boitumelo 'Tumi' McCallum
Murdered August 2, 2007
~Age 20
~Hometown: New York, NY
"He didn't want her to be her. He wanted her to be his," said a friend about Boitumelo 'Tumi' Arabella McCallum's sometime boyfriend Michael Cordero. It appears this desire was behind the death of McCallum, 20, in her mother's Greenwich Village apartment on August 2, 2007. Cordero, 23, has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing.
Although he has since pled not guilty, at the time of his arrest Cordero reportedly confessed he showed up uninvited at the apartment and strangled, punched and suffocated McCallum after an argument. Her body was found several days later, after neighbors reported a foul smell. McCallum's mother, a New York University professor and South African activist, was in South Africa at the time.
McCallum herself was born and spent her childhood in South Africa before moving with her family to New York City in 1999. She met McCallum, a New York City native, through mutual friends about 5 years prior to her death. Their friendship evolved into an on-and-off romantic relationship after a few years. Letters the couple exchanged suggest Cordero required frequent confirmation of McCallum's feelings for him.
When McCallum left to attend Mills College in Oakland, CA, the two remained in contact. It appears Cordero spent spring 2007 living with McCallum in California, but returned to New York in May with McCallum following sometime later when summer break started.
Cordero's family says he was trying to get his life together, but was struggling. Cordero grew up in the projects and dropped out of high school. He has several arrests on his record for misdemeanor offences and has spent time in drug rehab. Spurred on by McCallum's educational successes, however, Cordero obtained his GED. He most recently worked as a store security guard.
Described as outgoing and smart, McCallum excelled at dancing, art and writing. Volunteering as a prison advocate with Justice Now may have revealed her true calling, though. She reportedly had a passion for social justice, possibly stemming from growing up the child of a white father and black mother under South African apartheid. In the wake of McCallum' death a Justice Now spokesperson said, "Her sharp political insights, her intense commitment to social justice, her quiet assuredness, and her generous spirit are a great loss to all of us."
Michael Cordero with Tumi McCallum
Sources
New York Times, Aug 7, 2007
NY Daily News, Aug 7, 2007
New York Times, Aug 8, 2007
NY Daily News, Aug 8, 2007
NY Daily News, Aug 8, 2007
NY Daily News, Aug 10, 2007
NY Daily News, Aug 10, 2007
Visions to Peace Project [blog], Aug 10, 2007
The Weekly (Mills College paper), Sept 4, 2007
~Posted December 9, 2007
Aisha Hendricks
Murdered July 8, 2007
~Age 35
~Hometown: Oakland, CA
Police were called to the Oakland, CA apartment Jesus Jihad, 55, shared with his wife, Aisha Hendricks, 35, the afternoon of July 8, 2007 because the two were arguing. Officers did not speak with Hendricks because she left before they arrived. They spoke with Jihad and, according to reports, followed up with family members later and were told the argument had been resolved. That evening, however, the couple got into another argument. It ended with Hendricks dead from 10 stab wounds and Jihad under arrest on suspicion of her murder.
Jihad is also accused of attempted murder in the stabbings of Hendricks' sister, Emma Bowers, 25, and son, DeAnthony, 15. (One report gives the teen's age as 17 and refers to him as Bowers' son.) DeAnthony was reportedly stabbed in the face when coming to the aid of his mother. Jihad's motive for stabbing Bowers, who lived downstairs from the couple, was not reported. He stabbed her several times in her apartment after first stabbing Hendricks in his apartment. He then returned to his apartment and stabbed Hendricks additional times when she yelled at him to stop stabbing Bowers. Both DeAnthony and Bowers are expected to recover.
Jihad and Hendricks met about three years ago. They had been married for two years.
Jihad 's criminal record includes convictions for a 1973 murder and a 1993 rape. He was sentenced to life for the murder, but paroled after 17 years. He served 10 years of a 17-year sentence on the rape charge, which required him to register as a sex offender. Hendricks is said to have known of the murder conviction, but she may have been unaware of the rape conviction. Because of the previous murder conviction, the current charges against Jihad are considered to be with 'special circumstances,' which means the state can seek the death penalty against him.
Jihad legally changed his name from Jesse R. Crisp at some point after his murder conviction. News reports indicate that the stabbings occurred on his 55th birthday and that his family offered to get a cake to celebrate, but he declined.
Sources
The Oakland Tribune, Jul 9, 2007
CBS-5 TV, Jul 10, 2007
The Oakland Tribune, Jul 10, 2007
~Posted July 10, 2007
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