Bronx NY Sept 27 2021 A 25-year-old man has been arrested and accused of fatally gunning down a devout family man on a Bronx street, police said Saturday. Demille Simms was grabbed in Manhattan by the NYPD Warrants Squad on Friday for the May 6 shooting of Abdessamad Essafoui. Simms allegedly shot Essafoui after the two […]
East Orange NJ Sept 24 2021 Authorities have identified a man who was shot dead in East Orange last weekend. Troy Traynham, 59, was shot outside his Chestnut Street apartment on Saturday, according to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, and East Orange Police Chief Phyllis Bindi. Traynham was taken to University Hospital […]
Chester PA Aug 25 2021 A West Chester University security officer and firefighter was killed on Interstate 95 in Wilmington early Sunday when she got out of her car to help at a crash scene, officials said. University and fire officials identified the 25-year-old woman as Cecilia Escobar-Duplan. Escobar-Duplan was driving home from her security […]
Houston TX June 1 2021 A security guard died during an apparent shootout in Houston’s northside overnight Sunday, according to police. It happened at an apartment complex on Greens Parkway where police say there were reports of a party. Two groups started arguing in the parking lot and a shootout ensued, police said. Officers said […]
Portland OR May 25 2021 It’s been nearly two weeks since Multnomah County Sheriff’s River Patrol deputies found the body of Michael Watts floating in the Willamette River. A security guard at LGBTQ clubs and a Freddie Mercury impersonator, Watts disappeared from downtown Portland on the night of May 1. The Portland Police Bureau said […]
Chicago IL May 14 2021 The New Greater St. John MB Church, 3101 W. Warren announced the murder and the funeral service for Julius Barnes, the church’s security guard. Barnes was fatally shot in Humboldt Park on May 2, according to authorities. Barnes, 34, and a 40-year-old man were on the sidewalk in the 800 […]
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. May 6 2021– Miami-Dade detectives are investigating the murder of a 24-year-old officer who worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration. A shooter in a dark four-door Nissan killed Leshonte Jones on Monday at the Coral Bay Cove apartments in south Miami-Dade County’s Naranja neighborhood, police said. “We […]
Baltimore MD May 5 2021 Demetris Henry grew up in West Baltimore’s Rosemont neighborhood, one of nine children and part of a larger family of cousins raised by his mother and an aunt. He graduated high school, got a good job as a security guard and started a family of his own. On April 18, the […]
TACOMA, Wash. Jan 21 2021– When they heard it was Tracey Baker none of his colleagues wanted to believe it. “He had gotten off early that morning, and ran to the store to get some things for his family and never made it home,” said Shavae Labine, Baker’s colleague at Iconic Global Security. The 36 […]
Fort Worth TX Jan 21 2021 “Friday, Friday, Friday. Good ol’ Friday!” That’s how students at Tanglewood Elementary started and ended their last school day of the week for 27 years. And it’s one of the biggest things they’ll remember about Alex Williams, who during those 27 years served as Tanglewood’s campus safety and security […]