
Firefighters' killer used same weapon as in Connecticut shooting
Florida Crime News
WEBSTER, N.Y. -- The ex-con who lured firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of gunfire left a typewritten note saying he wanted to burn down the neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said Tuesday.
Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday that 62-year-old William Spengler, who served 17 years in prison for the 1980 hammer slaying of his grandmother, armed himself with a revolver, a shotgun and a semiautomatic rifle before he set his house afire to lure first responders into a death trap before dawn on Christmas Eve.
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Another man killed after being shoved in front of New York subway
Florida Crime News
NEW YORK (AP) ? A mumbling woman pushed a man to his death in front of a subway train on Thursday night, the second time this month someone has been killed in such nightmarish fashion, police said.
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1 killed, 3 seriously injured in post-New Year accident on Jacksonville's Southside
Florida Crime News
A 20-year-old Central Florida woman is dead and three others seriously injured following a single vehicle crash just after midnight New Year?s Day near the intersection of Beach and Kernan boulevards.
Dara Michelle Kusiv, a passenger in a 2003 silver Dodge Ram driven by Sean Frederik Franke, was pronounced dead at the scene after Franke?s truck ran off the road and struck a large overhead sign post, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Kusiv?s address is listed as Longwood, Fla.
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Flagler authorities: Plane with 5 believed aboard crashes into Palm Coast home
Florida Crime News
A small plane with five passengers crashed into a Palm Coast home around 2:20 p.m. Friday according to the Flagler County Sheriff?s Office.
A neighbor who heard the crash said the plane apparently dove into the house on Utica Path, and that four of five people inside the home were shaken but not injured.
?There?s no broken trees so he nose-dived straight down,? said Jeff Sheeley, who lives five houses from the crash site.
He said it did not appear anyone in the plane was rescued. The house was destroyed, he said.
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Crime Watch: Clay County property crimes Dec. 31-Jan. 6
Florida Crime News
Two shotguns, two rifles and a paint ball gun were stolen from a Middleburg mobile home during a recent burglary, according to the latest Clay County Sheriff?s Office property crimes reports.
Here are the full reports, for Dec. 31-Jan. 6:
Thefts
Dec. 31
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Ex-boyfriend charged in death of Valdosta State student
Florida Crime News
VALDOSTA, GA. | The former boyfriend of a Valdosta State University freshman found dead in a campus study room in November has been charged with murder, officials said Friday.
Darien Joseph Meheux, 18, of Lawrenceville was taken into custody late Thursday night at the Schley County Sheriff?s Office in west Georgia, said GBI Special Agent Steve Turner. Meheux turned himself into authorities after learning that a murder warrant had been issued, Turner said.
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Watch: N.Y. to pass nation's toughest gun law
Florida Crime News
New York lawmakers agreed to pass the toughest gun control law in the nation and the first since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, calling for a tougher assault weapons ban and provisions to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill who make threats.
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Crime Watch: Clay County property crimes Jan. 14-17
Florida Crime News
Four new tires that had just been installed on a vehicle were stolen off the vehicle in the parking lot of an automobile repair business in Orange Park, according to the latest Clay County Sheriff?s Office property crime report.
Here is the full report, for Jan. 14-17
Unarmed Sudden Snatching Robbery
Jan. 14
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