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Mother charged with murder after allegedly tossing daughter into Hillsborough River

Shakayla Denson faces first-degree felony murder, aggravated child abuse and grand theft auto charges.
TAMPA, Fla. – A 26-year-old mother was charged with murder charges after detectives said she waded into the Hillsborough River and dropped her 4-year-old daughter in.

Shakayla Denson, of Tampa, was charged with first-degree felony murder, aggravated child abuse and grand theft auto charges, Tampa police said.
Denson is accused of stealing a car from an auto repair shop, then parking the vehicle on North Rome Avenue, police said. Then she walked into the river at about 4 p.m. and left her daughter, Je’Hyrah Daniels, in the water, police said.

“The TPD dive team went to the scene at North Rome Avenue and West Aileen Street,” police said. “At approximately 4:30 p.m., a dive team member discovered an unconscious child submerged about 75 feet off shore.”

Je’Hyrah was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Denson was apprehended while walking not far from where the child was dumped in the river, Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan said.

Denson has previous arrests for driving with a suspended license and theft charges dating back two year ago.
“Unfortunately at this point, there are a lot more questions than answers,” said Dugan, who called the situation a “completely tragic event.

“It’s a crazy world we live in,” he said.

We’re following this breaking story on 10News. We’ll continue to update this story on wtsp.com, our mobile news app and Channel 10.

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Police chase ‘dead’ driver’s truck on foot to save his life

A police officer became a hero in just minutes after saving the life of a “dead” driver in South Carolina.

After the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office received a report about a truck driving erratically on Wednesday, a narcotics officer spotted the vehicle.

The officer noticed that an elderly male was driving the truck — who appeared to be having a medical issue, according to Fox News.

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Duck boat victims: 9 family members among 17 who died

(CNN)The sinking of a duck boat near Branson, Missouri, took the lives of 17 people, including nine members of one family. The amphibious vehicle went down in about 40 feet of water Thursday during rough weather at Table Rock Lake.

The Stone County, Missouri, Sheriff’s Office released the names of all victims early Saturday.
Here’s what we know:

9 in family killed

The sheriff’s office listed nine victims with the surname Coleman, from Indiana. The list included four children, the youngest aged just 1.

They were: Angela (45), Arya (1), Belinda (69), Ervin (76), Evan (7) , Glenn (40), Horace (70), Maxwell (2) and Reece (9).

Speaking to CNN International on Friday afternoon, Gov. Mike Parson said, “One lady lost nine of 11 members of her family. … I had a chance to talk to her, and it’s difficult to find the right words to say other than your thoughts and prayers are with her.”
The woman’s 13-year-old nephew also survived, the governor said.

Steve and Lance Smith
Steve Smith, a vacationing retired teacher from Osceola, Arkansas, and his teenage son, Lance Smith, died in the lake, said Glenn Oakes, a church elder at the Osceola Church of Christ.

Oakes said he was informed of the deaths by in-laws of the Smiths. Oakes said Smith was a church deacon in their 35-member congregation. “It was a great loss for the church,” says Oakes.

Smith’s daughter, Loren, reportedly suffered a concussion in the incident, but was rescued and was taken to a local hospital. Pam Smith, the girl’s mother, was on shore at the time of the accident. Lance Smith was 15 years old and his father was 53, police said.

Robert ‘Bob’ Williams
Williams, 73, was the driver on the duck boat.
“He’d talk to anybody,” his widow, Judy Williams, said Friday in a phone interview. “He made an effect on many lives. He would give up his life for somebody. That’s the kind of man Robert was, is.”

His grandson, Victor Richardson, told CNN: “He was a God-fearing man; he was very humble. He was the calmest spirit you could ever meet.”

Bob and Judy Williams were married for more than 30 years and lived in Branson, Richardson said.

William and Janice Bright
This husband and wife from the small town of Higginsville, Missouri, near Kansas City, died in the Branson accident, Karen Abbott, Williams Bright’s sister, told CNN affiliate WDAF.

The couple had three children, Abbott said: “My great nieces and nephews now have no grandparents.”

Police said Janice Bright was 63 and her husband was 65.

Leslie Dennison
The Stone Country Sheriff’s Office said Dennison was 64 and from Illinois.

William Asher
Asher was from Missouri and was 69, the sheriff’s office said.

Rosemarie Hamann
The sheriff’s office said Hamann was 68 and from Missouri.

CNN’s Dave Alsup contributed to this report.

Source : https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/us/missouri-duck-boat-incident-victims/index.html

US Postal worker found dead in California after delivering mail in extreme heat, family says

A longtime U.S. Postal worker was found dead in her truck on Friday after delivering mail when temperatures reached nearly 120 degrees in Southern California, her family said.

Peggy Frank, 63, was found unresponsive in her truck around 3 p.m. Friday in Woodland Hills, FOX11 reported. Paramedics arrived at the scene and pronounced the grandmother dead after several attempts to revive her.

The exact cause of death was not released, but Frank’s family believes heat exhaustion may have led to her passing. Friday was Frank’s first day back on the job after she was placed on medical leave for a broken ankle, her family said.

Frank had been working for the U.S. Postal Service for 28 years.

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