| MOTHER AND CHILD STABBED TO DEATH - A Mother and daughter
were stabbed to death yesterday in Pinch, Kanawha County, allegedly by the
woman's husband.
Kanawha County Sheriff's Department spokesman Lieutenant Jess Bailes
didn't specify whether the eleven-year-old girl is the daughter or the
stepdaughter of the suspect.
The suspect called 9-1-1 early yesterday saying he had stabbed his wife and
child.
When emergency services arrived they found the girl's body on the porch and
the mother's inside the apartment.
The suspect was calm and cooperative and was taken into custody.
MAN STABS PARAPLEGIC GIRLFRIEND 233 TIMES - An Ohio man has been
convicted for a second time of killing his paraplegic girlfriend in a Wheeling
motel room by stabbing her 233 times.
A jury deliberated 10 hours over two days this week before convicting Yassir
Abdelhaq of Lakewood, Ohio of first-degree murder.
They recommended Abdelhaq be sentenced to life in prison without mercy.
The original conviction was overturned by the West Virginia Supreme Court
because an investigating police officer was on the grand jury that indicted
Abdelhaq in 2000.
Dana Tozer was found in a Wheeling motel bathroom in November 1999.
WAL-MART SUED FOR SELLING GUN - The family of a man who killed his sister
before committing suicide is suing Wal-Mart for selling David Mendez a rifle and
Berkeley County because deputies did not take the firearm from him the day
before the killings.
Mendez was a paranoid schizophrenic and manic depressive and had not
taken his medication for days before the apparent murder-suicide.
Martinsburg Wal-Mart employees sold him a Savage .243 caliber rifle despite
Mendez "exhibiting bizarre and suspicious behavior demonstrating his mental
instability."
The lawsuit says deputies responding to a call from a shooting range did not
take the rifle from Mendez even though he told them to arrest him and that he
had not been taking his medication.
The next day Mendez killed his 20-year-old sister Alicia Mendez and himself
with the rifle.
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