We have twice previously reported on Jemel Barber, 23, who shot and killed 40-year-old Tyrese Clark. 2 died in a robbery, gunfight spree in Lexington. Shooter pleads in 1 case by Jeremy Chisenhall | November 16, 2021 | 7:44 AM EST | Updated: 4:16 PM EST A Central Kentucky man has pleaded guilty in one […]
The killing, the 33rd of the year in the City of Brotherly Love, was, as most are, totally senseless. A man accused of beating a woman to death with pipes inside an Old City office was charged with murder Jeffrey Stepien, 48, is accused of killing Samantha Maag, 31. He is being held without bail […]
Even in a conservative state like Kentucky, we have some soft-on-crime prosecutors! ‘Remorseful about what happened.’ Lexington man facing murder charge takes plea deal by Jeremy Chisenhall | Thursday, January 6, 2022 | 10:04 AM EST A Lexington man has accepted a plea deal in a 2020 deadly shooting which will see him serve 10 […]
As both of my regular readers know, I check the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page every weekday morning, to get the latest homicide numbers in the City of Brotherly Love. I was somewhat surprised that, after reporting 547 homicides through 11:59 PM on Thursday, December 23rd, the police reported ‘only’ 549 through Sunday, […]
We have previously noted the hypocrisy of the Lexington Herald-Leader in refusing to publish the mugshot of Brent Dyer Kelty, a man previously convicted of “several prior felonies in Fayette County since 2010,” in their story about him being indicted for the murder of an infant, but publishing the photo of Gracyn Dawn Courtright, one […]
That didn’t take long. It was just this morning I wrote about the city tying its second-place record of 499 homicides, set just last year. 500th homicide: Woman, 55, fatally shot in South Philly It was the city’s 500th homicide so far in 2021, matching the worst year on record. by Robert Moran | Wednesday, […]
David S Cohen is a professor Thomas R. Kline school of law at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, and perhaps that explains things; he’s getting too much of his information from the wildly slanted Philadelphia Inquirer. In addressing the verdicts in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, he wrote, in Rolling Stone: The Rittenhouse Verdict and a Supreme […]
William Teach noted New York Times columnist Tom Friedman’s paean to fear: When you see how hard it’s been for governments to get their citizens to just put on a mask in stores, or to get vaccinated, to protect themselves, their neighbors and their grandparents from being harmed or killed by Covid-19, how in the […]
The Lexington Herald-Leader adheres to the McClatchy Mugshot Policy, which begins: Publishing mugshots of arrestees has been shown to have lasting effects on both the people photographed and marginalized communities. The permanence of the internet can mean those arrested but not convicted of a crime have the photograph attached to their names forever. Beyond the […]