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Man stabs minor at party, mom tries to delete evidence: Cops

homesafetytechpros — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:25:30 +0000

John and Krystal Kingkade (Walton County Sheriff’s Office).

A weekend party in Florida turned violent when a 21-year-old man allegedly stabbed a minor victim several times before his mother tried to destroy evidence by ordering witnesses to delete videos that showed the incident, cops say.

The Walton County Sheriff’s Office in Florida’s Panhandle received a 911 call just before 10 p.m. on Saturday from the victim’s friends as they drove the victim to the hospital, a press release said. Deputies met with the caller and victim at Grady Brown Park. Paramedics took the victim the rest of the way to the hospital.

Witnesses told cops they were at a party in the 100 block of Portland Park in Freeport when the suspect, John Byron Kingkade Jr., stabbed the minor with a knife in the head and neck area. There was also a video showing the incident, deputies said.

Cops arrested Kingkade on charges of aggravated battery and child abuse. Deputies then discovered that the suspect’s mother, Krystal Rabon Kingkade, allegedly told witnesses to delete their videos from the incident. She was arrested for tampering with evidence. She has since posted a $15,000 bond and was released from the jail on Sunday. Her son remains at the Walton County Jail.

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Woman stabs boyfriend over using home as wedding venue: Cops

homesafetytechpros — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:15:11 +0000

Inset: Kailee Brantner (Brookfield Police DepartmentWITI/YouTube). Background: The area where Kailee Brantner lived with her boyfriend in Brookfield, Wisconsin (WITI/YouTube).

Armed with a large kitchen knife with a pink handle, 22-year-old Wisconsin resident Kailee Brantner allegedly attacked her boyfriend last week — plunging the blade into his neck and slicing him open on his arms and chest — during a disagreement over using their house as their future wedding venue, cops say.

“The defendant attacked him without warning,” Brantner’s criminal complaint alleges, according to local Fox affiliate WITI. “(Brantner) had woken up to text messages and screenshots between the defendant and his mother, and this caused an argument.”

Brantner, a mom from Waukesha County, was charged Friday with a count of first-degree recklessly endangering safety using a dangerous weapon in a domestic abuse situation for the Jan. 29 incident, according to online court records. She posted bond and is now required to stay at least 1 mile away from her boyfriend.

According to the local newspaper The Waukesha Freeman and WITI, Brantner told police she was talking with her boyfriend and his mom about “using their house as a wedding venue” before the stabbing occurred.

“(The victim) had woken up to text messages and screenshots between the defendant and his mother, and this caused an argument,” the complaint says.

It’s unclear what was said in the text messages, only that they made Brantner feel “uncomfortable” and pertained to using their home as a wedding venue, according to police. Brantner, who has a daughter, allegedly told her boyfriend she didn’t want him around the child anymore.

Authorities say Brantner came home early from work last Wednesday and attacked her boyfriend immediately and “without warning.”

The two of them allegedly fought back and forth after Brantner brandished the kitchen knife and attacked him with it.

Police say she swung the weapon at him multiple times and sliced him open on his left bicep, right and left sides of his chest, and the left side of his neck.

Brantner and her boyfriend each admitted to assaulting each other after the incident.

Investigators reported seeing red marks and a cut on Brantner’s nose afterward. She is accused of chasing her boyfriend around their home with the knife as he was attempting to pack up his things to leave. Brantner described what went down as a “heated, physical altercation” during her interviews with police. She told cops her boyfriend threatened her that day — saying, “she was not going to win and laughed that she was going to get her daughter taken away,” per the complaint.

Brantner faces up to 30 years behind bars if convicted. She’s due back in court on Feb. 13.

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Man stabs girlfriend as victim’s daughter is home: Affidavit

homesafetytechpros — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 01:05:15 +0000

Makinson Devalcin (Osceola County Jail).

A Florida man is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death with a kitchen knife while the victim’s daughter was home and on the phone with 911.

Makinson Devalcin, 45, faces charges in the death of Enese Pierre, court documents said.

She was killed on Sunday. An affidavit outlines the allegations.

Deputies responded to a town house in Davenport on a stabbing call. The victim’s daughter said her stepfather was armed with a rifle and said her mother — later identified as Pierre — had been stabbed and bleeding, court documents said.

Deputies found the suspect at the top of a staircase, lying face down at the entrance of a bedroom. He had a cut on his neck and was unconscious but still showing signs of life and was hospitalized, the affidavit said.

In the bedroom on the bed, deputies found Pierre dead from a stab wound to her neck, covered in blood. A bloody knife lay on the floor, authorities said.

A roommate told deputies she heard screaming and woke up, went to the master bedroom, and saw the victim bleeding, but when the roommate tried to go inside, the defendant pushed her away, and she went back downstairs, investigators said.

The victim’s daughter said her mom came home around 1:40 a.m. and told her goodnight. Later, she said she heard her mom yelling, “Help! He is trying to kill me,” the affidavit said.

She got up from bed and exited her room, walking toward her mom’s room. As she neared the master bedroom, she could hear her mom yelling for help, according to court documents.

As she got near the room, she could see her mom was injured and bleeding. Her mom told her to call 911, the documents said.

When she returned to her mom’s room, she said there was more blood on the bed around her mom, and her mom was no longer speaking, the affidavit said.

She said her stepfather got up from the bed, grabbed a knife and said, “no one messes with me,” according to the document.

The knife found in the bedroom appeared to belong in the kitchen, as the sheath for this knife was in a kitchen drawer, investigators added.

The affidavit does not say when or how the defendant was cut and wounded.

He was being held without bail.

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Bus driver stabs rider in head during dispute, both arrested

homesafetytechpros — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 19:29:54 +0000

One of the southbound B41 buses that Ian Bascombe was driving when he stabbed passenger Quentin Branch (News 12/YouTube).

An MTA bus driver on his Friday afternoon route in New York City attacked and stabbed a passenger with a knife — plunging it into their head and leg — after getting into a “verbal dispute” and punched by the rider over making a stop, cops say.

Ian Bascombe, 58, was allegedly driving a southbound B41 bus near Foster and Flatbush Aves. in Brooklyn, New York, when passenger Quentin Branch, 33, asked him to pull over to drop him off, according to the New York Police Department.

“The passenger wanted to exit at an unauthorized stop,” NYPD officials tell Law&Crime.

Police sources told the New York Post that Branch, a “known transit offender recidivist,” claimed he boarded the wrong bus and wanted to get off. Bascombe allegedly kept driving to try and find a safe place to pull over, prompting Branch to attack him.

“I’m going to break your jaw” Branch allegedly said to Bascombe before socking him in the left eye, the Post reports.

The assault happened at around 12:30 p.m. and led to Bascombe brandishing a knife to stab Branch with multiple times, according to police. He was transported to Kings County Hospital in stable condition and survived.

Both men wound up being arrested and charged for the incident, with Bascombe catching two counts of second- and third-degree assault and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon; Branch got hit with one count of second-degree harassment and two counts of second- and third-degree assault.

“Violence on buses puts New Yorkers at risk and is not acceptable,” said Frank Annicaro, NYC Transit’s senior vice president for buses, in a statement to local media outlets. “Pending internal review, this Bus Operator is being withheld from service.”

Bascombe is described by the New York Daily News as a 20-year vet with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.His attack on Branch is one of several incidents to happen this year involving MTA employees in New York and other major cities.

Last week, an MTA cleaner was arrested and charged for allegedly cutting a man at the Atlantic Ave.-Barclays Center subway stop in Brooklyn. In November, a female MTA employee was allegedly shot in Los Angeles by her ex-boyfriend.

The violence has sparked protests from MTA workers, who have asked for better security.

“Metro doesn’t care about its drivers,” a longtime employee told the Los Angeles Times in May. “We are all expendable.”

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Rapist granted early release allegedly stabs woman in park

homesafetytechpros — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:15:02 +0000

Left: Bernard Abney allegedly appears in surveillance footage; Right: the defendant appears in a booking photo. (Foley Police Department)

An Alabama man arrested after the stabbing and attempted rape of a woman in a park earlier this month was granted early release from prison on a prior rape conviction from nearly two decades ago, authorities say.

Bernard Christopher Abney, 40, is currently charged with a Sex Offender Registration Notification Act violation, according to Mobile County Sheriff’s Office records reviewed by Law&Crime.

The defendant is also the prime suspect in the stabbing of a 21-year-old woman who was attacked in Heritage Park during the late afternoon on Jan. 17, according to a series of press releases and wanted posters issued by the Foley Police Department on Facebook.

After releasing several different images alleged to be Abney culled from various surveillance videos, he was arrested on Saturday.

“We are relieved that he is in custody and appreciate all the hard work by the many agencies involved as well as the media and citizens of our local communities,” Foley Police Chief Thurston Bullock said in a press release.

At around 5:40 p.m. last Wednesday, a woman ran to a local business and said she had been attacked. After the initial 911 call, police described her as having suffered “non-life threatening injuries” including “stab wounds to the left forearm, left torso and left thigh.”

The incident is alleged to have occurred along the Wilbourne Antique Rose Trail, just east of Alabama State Route 59, police said.

The trail itself is highly landscaped and lined with hundreds of roses, according to a recreation website, and runs through Heritage Park and downtown Foley, near the city’s central business district.

“We have learned that the suspect was around the park before the assault,” police said in an update. “At this point in the investigation, the victim does appear to be a random target of opportunity.”

In multiple photos posted by law enforcement, the man eventually identified as Abney appears to be riding a blue bicycle and wearing dark-colored clothes and a beanie. Police highlighted the man’s clothes and method of transportation, first referring to him as “a person of interest.”

“Detectives have eliminated several individuals in this case and continue to follow up on all leads,” Foley police wrote in a third update.

Bullock said Abney turned himself in on Saturday night, according to Mobile-based Fox affiliate WALA.

Court documents obtained by the TV station and AL.com reportedly show that Abney was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of rape in the second degree in 2005.

In that earlier case, which occurred in 2003, Abney is alleged to have raped a 16-year-old girl at gunpoint in a vacant lot after she and her friend refused to give him and another man their phone numbers. Abney was originally charged with first-degree rape and credited with over a year’s worth of time served when he took the 2005 plea deal.

The defendant was originally slated for release eligibility on July 2, 2023, AL.com reported.

In 2021, a sentencing reform measure intended to address understaffing and overcrowding expedited early release schedules for certain inmates. This measure allowed Abney to be considered for such release in January 2023. On Jan. 31, 2023, he was released along with 369 other state prison inmates, according to AL.com.

Overall, Abney’s release schedule was expedited by some six months.

Abney will be charged with one count of assault in the second degree and one count of attempted rape in the first degree, police said.

Still, local officials in Foley took the opportunity to blast the prison reform law — while thanking law enforcement.

“I am very proud of our police force and the team effort to bring it to a close with an arrest,” Foley Mayor Ralph Hellmich said. “These types of crimes are extremely rare in our community but when they occur, they cause great anxiety. It is no surprise to me that our men and women closed this difficult case quickly.”

“I am, however, disappointed in our state system for allowing an early release of a person who has not been rehabilitated into society,” the mayor added.

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