An artist redition of alledged Flint MI serial killer. If you see this man, get away and call 911.
see
http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/expert-michigan-serial-killer-is-learning-how-to-kill/19584066[trb]
This article is a morphed archive of media coverage on this event. The link directly to this page follows.
http://goodmorningflint.blogspot.com/2010/08/evil.html
COMMENT:
What our communities have felt was fear of the unknown assailant and random violence to ourselves and families. This has been a new expierence for me. There are members of our community that feel this fear every day in their neighborhoods. Public saftey must be our number one concern. The community should take note that their communication with the police solved , as it appears so far, this crime. We all should communicate openly with the police during all criminal investigations. That will make our communities safer.
Terry Bankert 08/12/2010
UPDATED 8/12/10 a.m.
Breaking: Suspected serial killer arrested in Atlanta [24]
-
Authorities told the AJC that Michigan officials alerted airport authorities that the man was at Hartsfield-Jackson. He was intercepted at a gate but it was not known if he had passed through the security checkpoint in Atlanta or if he was changing planes and did not have to clear security here, authorities said.
APD was one of several law-enforcement agencies that cooperated on the arrest at 9:45 p.m.
"He was definitely trying to leave on a flight from Hartsfield," police spokesman Carlos Campos said. "We're strictly holding him for Michigan authorities."[23]
--
The man was arrested on charges unrelated to the slashing spree that has left five people dead and others wounded in Michigan, Ohio and Virginia, officials said."While this is a key step in the investigation, there are are still many issues that need to be addressed before we identify this individual as the person responsible for this horrific crime spree," the Leesburg, Va. police said in a statement.[22]
---
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/police-arrest-suspect-in-serial-stabbings-case-in-atlanta-20100812-mr
[21]
The Fox News affiliate in Detroit, quoting its counterpart in Atlanta, said the suspect was arrested late Wednesday by federal air marshals as he was attempting to flee the country.[20]
We know they have executed search warrants in Flint, Burton, and Grand Blanc.
Sources say they found the suspect’s car in Grand Blanc.
Genesee County Authorities will be holding a press conference Thursday morning.[19]
FLINT, Mich. -- Police say they have a man in custody in connection with the Flint-area serial stabbing case.
Media report outlets out of Detroit said the suspect worked at the King Water Market party store in Beecher, located just north of Flint.
Officers used surveillance video from the store -- located on West Coldwater Road -- to confirm the man previously worked at that store, WDIV Local 4 reported.
The man was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia.
He is accused of attacking 20 men in Michigan, Ohio and Virginia since May 24, killing five and wounding the others.
The first 16 attacks happened in and around the working-class city of Flint.
A Michigan State Police task force, which includes the FBI, received more than 460 tips.[18]
UPDATED 8/11/10 P.M.
...he passed a man he says is similar to the description of the serial killer released by police, except the suspect appeared to be younger.The suspect said nothing to the victim before stabbing him. He then hopped into a truck driving by another man to take off, the victim said. The man was able to drag himself back to McLaren after the attack, said his sister,...[17]
UPDATED 08/11/2010
UPDATE 08/10/10 9:30- KILLERS CAR CAUGHT ON VIDEO SEE IT AT
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/loudoun/police-search-for-suv-driven-b.html
This EVOLVING article on the Flint Serial Killer is written by Flint Divorce Attorney Tery Bankert, 810-235-1970.It will be updated as new articles are written.
Last update 08/10/10 9 pm
see
http://goodmorningflint.blogspot.com/2010/08/evil.html
Authorities said the man they think is responsible for at least 18 assaults in the Flint area of Michigan and Leesburg, Va., has been spotted driving a dark green SUV with tan or gold paneling.
Leesburg police, who said the vehicle's image was capured on surveillance video, described it as a Chevrolet Blazer and said it has two grapefruit-sized dents in the hood.[16]
UPDATE 08/10/10 9 PM
The FBI's Detroit office on Tuesday joined the hunt for a serial killer believed to be responsible for the deaths of five men in and around Flint, Mich., as well as attacks on more than a dozen others in the Flint area and as far away as Leesburg, Va., in recent days.[15]
The most recent victim, a 49-year-old, was found dead in Flint at 2:30 a.m. Monday, bringing the number of attacks to as many as 20.[15]
Another Flint resident, a 26-year-old man, came forward Monday to say he was attacked on July 27 by a person fitting a police description of the suspect. [15]
In Ohio, a 59-year-old custodian taking a cigarette break outside the Toledo church where he works was stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen Saturday. He is in the hospital and is expected to survive. Both men said their attacker got out of his car and asked them for directions before stabbing them.
[15]
UPDATE: 08/09/10 12:30 PM-State Police said that, based on interviews with victims who survived stabbing attacks, they believe the killer drives a 1995 to 2006 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer, GMC Jimmy or similar type of vehicle. It’s believed to be two-tone green over beige or gold and has four doors.
UPDATE 08/09/10 4 pmLeesburg, Virginia police believe man responsible for Flint stabbings may be responsible for stabbings there. [10]
We have new information at this hour regarding the serial slasher, the man police say is responsible for killing five people, and wounding eight others in various attacks that have taken place in and around Flint since May.[10]
Now investigators in Leesburg, Virginia believe the same man maybe responsible for three attacks there in the past week. [10]
None of the attacks in Virginia has been deadly.[10]
The Leesburg police chief tells ABC12 that in one of the attacks a hammer was used, and in the other two, the victims were stabbed.[10
In the 13 cases here in Mid-Michigan, all of the victims except one were black. In Virginia, all three of the victims were African-American.[10]
Leesburg police say the suspect in their cases closely resembles the composite sketch of the suspect here, and that the vehicle is similar as well.[10]
The last attack in Michigan was Aug. 2, Price said. The first attack in Virginia was a day later. The first attack in Virginia occurred when a 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the back while jogging down a street in Leesburg. Two days later, a 67-year-old man was stabbed — also in the back — while sitting on steps of his apartment complex. The man lost a kidney but is expected to make a full recovery. And Friday, a 19-year-old victim was attacked with a hammer while walking through a shopping center parking lot.[12]
The Police in Toledo, Ohio, were also investigating whether a stabbing Saturday that critically injured a church janitor, a black man, could be linked to the serial stabber.[12]
Authorities plan a press conference for 4 p.m. today at the Genesee County Prosecutor’s Office to update the public on the investigation. State Police 1st Lt. Patrick McGreevy said police are still working to find the killer, but he said no other information would be released before the news conference today at the offices of county prosecutor David Leyton.[9]
FLINT SHORT ON POLICE AND SERIAL KILLER IN MIDST.
The already shorthanded police department in Flint, Mich., has a big problem on its hands — a serial killer who is roaming the streets at night and randomly and repeatedly knifing lone men he encounters. [5]
A news conference is scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Michigan State Police post in Flint at 810-732-1111 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-422-5245.
[6]
Despite the painful cutbacks, Walling said the slimmed-down force is up to the challenge of finding the killer.[5]
“By having a 130-plus officer force and the partnership with the state police, we have the ability to take on very difficult, sophisticated cases like this,” he said. “The impact has really been slower response to low-priority cases.”[5]
But Ed Jacques, services director for the Police Officers Association of Michigan, said the cutbacks can’t help but hamper the investigation.[5]
He said the city of approximately 110,000 residents, despite its high crime rate, had a significantly lower ratio of officers compared with similar-sized cities.[5]
PATTERN ACKNOWLEDGED
Detectives have been investigating the attacks since they started, but a pattern only became apparent on Tuesday, a day after 49-year-old Arnold Minor was found slain along a Flint street, Johnson said. That led to the announcement that a serial killer might be on the prowl in the working-class city ravaged by economic turmoil, budget problems and police layoffs.[5]
ONE SUSPECT
Police said they want to talk with Derek S. Williams, 40, about the case. Investigators on Saturday still were looking for Williams, a parole absconder who is wanted by the state Department of Corrections. [11]
WHERE TO CALL IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION
Anyone with information is asked to call Flint police at 810-237-6800 or Crime Stoppers at 800-422-JAIL.
732-1111[suggested by the mayor]
NATIONWIDE SEARCH
Nationwide hunt for serial killer[1]
August 7, 2010; Police are conducting a nationwide search for a serial killer suspected in the killing of 13 men in Michigan.[1]
TACIAL MOTIVATED WHITE ON BLACK KNIFING
FLINT, Michigan: A knife-wielding serial killer has been attacking men in Flint since May, killing five people and wounding eight in what could be racially motivated assaults.[2]
VICTEM COUNT 13
All but one of the 13 victims was black, said Lieutenant T.P. Johnson, and survivors have described their assailant as a young, white man.[2]
At least 13 men — all but one African-Americans — have been stabbed repeatedly by a young, muscular white man since mid-May, and five of them have died from their wounds, according to police in the financially strapped auto manufacturing city. Ten of the attacks have occurred in Flint, with the other three taking place in nearby townships. [5]
FLINT PREDOMINATELY A BLACK CITY
But Flint is a predominantly black city, and investigators were unsure if the suspect was targeting black people or whether the victims were chosen at random.[2]
CITY OFFICALS DO NOT LABEL ATTACKS RACIST
City officials have not labeled the attacks as racial in nature, though they say that there does appear to be a pattern in the selection of victims, the Detroit Free Press reported Friday. In addition to being black, most of the victims have been old, disabled, small of stature or otherwise vulnerable, it said.[5]
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE
Michigan State Police announced today that the suspect appears to be targeting men walking alone in the late night to early morning hours. All of the victims have been black, except for one. Police advised that the suspect could be anywhere and may have left the state.[1]
State police are heading a task force assembled to try and capture the killer.[5]
That assistance is a godsend, as Flint’s “Thin Blue Line” is looking a little threadbare as a result of recent budget cuts and a high crime rate.[5]
DESCRIPTION OF ATTACKER AND HOW HE DOES IT
The attacker, described by surviving victims as muscular and around 5-foot-11 to 6-foot-2, in many cases first lured his victims to his car by appearing to have car trouble or needing directions.[3]
He then began stabbing the victims, all of whom are described as smaller men. In two cases they were people with special needs.[3]
"He is trying to hurt people who are helping him," said Flint Police Lt. Tim Johnson.[3]
Flint police said the victims were all outside alone at night. Survivors have said the attacker approached them under the pretense of needing directions or help with a broken-down vehicle.[5]
"He then pulls a knife and attacks them without saying anything more," Flint police Lt. T.P Johnson told The Associated Press on Friday.
[5]
There have also been instances when the killer walked up to his victim and began stabbing without warning. Other than descriptions by surviving victims, Johnson said, police currently have no leads.[3]
The suspect is described as a large white male, between 5 feet 11 inches to 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing between 180 to 210 pounds. The suspect is muscular in build with light colored hair and a goatee.[1]
Survivors have said the attacker approached them under the pretence of needing directions or help with a broken-down vehicle.[2]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Note the bar bell ear piercing in his left ear.[trb]
DECEASED VICTIM ARNOLD MILLER
The latest victim, Arnold Minor, 49, was stabbed to death Monday morning in Flint, Michigan.[1]
VICTIMS,
MAY 24 DAVID MOLTEY,DECEASED
JUNE 21 EMMANUEL DENT DECEASED
JULY 26 DARWIN MARSHALL DECEASED
JULY 30 FRANK KELLYBREW DECEASED
AUGUST 2 ARNOLD MILLER DECEASED PATTEREN ACKNOWLEDGED
3 VICTEMS ARE HOSPITALIZED
The five victims who did not survive are David Motley on May 24; Emmanuel Dent on June 21; Darwin Marshall on July 26; Frank Kellybrew on July 30; and, in the most recent attack, Arnold Miner on August 2.[3]
The crimes have occurred in all parts of Flint, not just African-American neighborhoods.
Three victims are still hospitalized.[3]
ATTACK NOT PART OF PATTERN
The Michigan State Police Flint Post said law officers met Saturday to take a close look at the latest attack, but a Flint police sergeant who declined to identify himself said there is a suspect in the case and no apparent link to previous attacks.[6]
The Flint Journal reported that a man in his 40s was in critical condition after apparently being stabbed around 2:30 a.m. Saturday at Sunset Drive and Ballenger Highway in Flint. He was listed in critical condition at a hospital in Ann Arbor, the newspaper reported.[6]
Read more: Stabbing in Flint not one of serial attacks | freep.com | Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/20100808/NEWS06/8080451/1001/News/Stabbing-in-Flint-not-one-of-serial-attacks#ixzz0w0uv1m3s
FLINT -10 OTHER COMMUNITIES -3
Michigan State Police are leading a task force investigating the attacks. Ten have been in Flint, about 50 miles northwest of Detroit. Three others were in nearby communities. [4]
FRANK KELLYBREW
On July 30, the body of 60-year-old Frank Kellybrew was found not far from the Flint Township motel he had called home for about 10 months.[4]
The manager of Hometown Inn said Kellybrew had walked to the other side of Interstate 75 to buy some things from a gas station. The next morning his body was found by sanitation workers corralling trash barrels near a restaurant.[4]
Kellybrew didn't stand out any more than the other tenants at the motel, which rents quite a few rooms on a month-to-month basis, manager John Henson said Friday.[4]
He liked watching television in the motel lobby or having a cup or two of coffee.[4]
"He was a nice guy; kept to himself," Henson said. "If he didn't know you, he would just avoid you and have nothing to do with you."[4]
In his short time at the inn, Kellybrew enjoyed walking over at night, after business hours, to the restaurant near the freeway.[4]
"He would sit on the bench at night," Henson said. "He'd just go over there, and sit and relax. It's pretty quiet over here at night when everything closes."[4]
KNIFE
''A knife is a very personal weapon,'' Lt Johnson said. ''To stab somebody repeatedly there has to be some rage.''[2]
FLINT
Flint is the birthplace of General Motors and was once a powerful auto manufacturing town, but its economy and population have steadily declined over the past few decades and have led to cuts in police and fire protection.[4]
MAYOR DAYNE WALLING
Mayor Dayne Walling on Friday urged residents to watch out for each other and to remain vigilant.[4]
"You have somebody in your life who is vulnerable, look out for them," he said.[4]
VICTEM MINOR
Bob Katrinic, a 59-year-old white man from Burton who runs a leather goods business, spoke to a reporter Friday afternoon only a few feet from where Minor was killed. Katrinic said he's taking precautions.[4]
FLINT POLICE
The city — ranked no. 5 on a list of U.S. cities with the highest crime rates released last week — indefinitely laid off 40 police officers in March, a move precipitated by lower than anticipated tax revenues. [5]
And Mayor Dayne Walling told msnbc.com on Friday that the budget for fiscal 2011, which began July 1, projects another cut of 10 officers from the department, which now has 135 officers — though he hopes to save most of those positions with federal grants and a deal with a local private college to expand patrols around the campus. The department also was hit by a budget cut of $445,488 last year — forcing it to leave five jobs vacant.[5]
MULTIPLE POLICE JURISDICTIONS
Numerous Police agencies are working together in the efforts of capturing the suspect.[1]
"We are trying to get a handle on this guy. We want, No. 1, for our citizens to be safe," Johnson said.[8]
CALL STATE POLICE
If you have any information, please call the Michigan State Police at (517) 332-2521 ..[1]
SOURCES
[1]
http://www.examiner.com/x-62225-Little-Rock-Crime-Examiner~y2010m8d7-Nationwide-hunt-for-serial-killer
[2]
http://www.smh.com.au/world/killer-targets-men-20100807-11pbh.html
[3]
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/06/michigan.stabbing.deaths/?hpt=T1
[4]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hay2h1rhkXe_p6SVF88wZU63TGDwD9HE8HP00
[5]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38597704/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
[6]
http://www.freep.com/article/20100808/NEWS06/8080451/1001/News/Stabbing-in-Flint-not-one-of-serial-attacks
[7]
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7598283
[8]
http
://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/06/michigan.stabbing.deaths/index.html?hpt=T1
[9]
http://www.freep.com/article/20100809/NEWS06/100809020/1322/Car-info-released-for-suspected-serial-slasher
[10]
http://goodmorningflint.blogspot.com/
[11]
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/07/frank_kellybrew_60_identified.html
[12]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5irfe65muYT9Aks_AYCEx8xr7xwVAD9HG8HHG1
[13]
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/10/michigan.multiple.stabbings/
[14]
http://www.freep.com/article/20100810/NEWS06/100810021/Cops-Flint-slasher-tally-grows-by-1
[15]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703435104575421900892799196.html
[16]
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/loudoun/police-search-for-suv-driven-b.html
[17]
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/08/victim_of_stabbing_near_mclare.html
[18]
http://www.wnem.com/news/24603981/detail.html
[19]
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/police-arrest-suspect-in-serial-stabbings-case-in-atlanta-20100812-mr
[20]
[21]
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/police-arrest-suspect-in-serial-stabbings-case-in-atlanta-20100812-mr
[22]
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/suspect-in-serial-killing-590315.html
[23]
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/suspect-in-serial-killing-590315.html
[24]
http://www.examiner.com/x-3284-Detroit-Top-News-Examiner~y2010m8d12-Breaking-Suspected-serial-killer-arrested-in-Atlanta?#comments
[trb]
This article is a morphed archive of media coverage on this event. The link directly to this page follows.
http://goodmorningflint.blogspot.com/2010/08/evil.html
Sphere: Related Content
Posts
