Brother arrested after bodies of sister, her boyfriend found in trash bags

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A suburban Detroit man wanted by police in the slayings of his sister and her boyfriend has been arrested at an Ohio library. Clinton Township police say Robert Marzejka was arrested Wednesday, three days after the victims’ bodies were found in trash bags. He’s charged with first-degree murder in Macomb County.

Police say Marzejka was arrested without a struggle at a library in Cincinnati. He’s being held Thursday at the Hamilton County, Ohio, jail while awaiting an extradition hearing Friday.

The bodies of 18-year-old Danielle Marzejka and 19-year-old Seren Bryan were discovered Sunday in a shed in Clinton Township.

MLive reports Danielle Marzejka and Bryan were last seen alive Aug. 23. Danielle Marzejka’s father filed a missing person report when he hadn’t heard from her two days later.

The next day, Danielle Marzejka’s brother — not the one charged — noticed an odor coming from a small storage unit near the back of the family’s property. He cut open a black trash bag and saw an arm.

Police determined the bodies belonged to Danielle Marzejka and Bryan before announcing that they were searching for Robert Marzejka.
The Macomb County Medical Examiner’s Office hasn’t officially released the cause of death.

Clinton Township police Capt. Richard Maierle told People that motive for the slaying is a mystery.

“What possessed him to do it?” Maierle says. “We don’t have any idea.”

According to court records, Robert Marzejka was the subject of a petition for forced hospitalization due to mental illness in February 2015.

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Wisconsin parents arrested after teen dies during 40-day religious fast

A father and mother were arrested in Sauk County, Wisconsin after their teenage son died and another child were hospitalized following what the father described as a weekslong religious fast.

The father walked to the Reedsburg police station Sunday to report the death of his 15-year-old son, according to police Chief Timothy Becker. When police arrived at the family’s home they found the dead teen and an extremely emaciated 11-year-old boy. The mother was also found to be emaciated.
Becker said the father told police he was a minister affiliated with Cornerstone Reformation Ministries and that the family had started a religious fast on July 19. Investigators do not believe the father is a minister and made up the name of the ministry, Becker said.
“There’s no IRS number, no corporation,” he said.

No food was found in the house and police had to force their way into the home because doors were padlocked on the inside. The younger boy and his mother were brought to the hospital. The mother refused treatment, citing religious reasons, and was taken to the Sauk County Jail.
The parents were being held on possible charges of neglecting a child causing death and neglecting a child causing great bodily harm, the chief said. They could appear in Sauk County Circuit Court Tuesday afternoon.

The 11-year-old was placed into protective custody at Children’s Hospital in Madison. Becker said the parents are eating while jailed in Baraboo. Reedsburg, a community of about 10,000, is located approximately 130 miles (209 kilometers) west of Milwaukee.

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Homeless Samaritan suing couple who raised funds to help him

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. — A homeless man whose selfless act of using his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of a stranded motorist in Philadelphia got him worldwide attention is suing the couple who led a $400,000 fundraising campaign to help him.

Johnny Bobbitt says he’s concerned that Mark D’Amico and Katie McClure have mismanaged a large part of the donations raised for him on GoFundMe. The New Jersey couple denies the claims, saying they’re wary of giving Bobbitt large sums because they feared he would buy drugs.

Bobbitt’s lawsuit contends the couple committed fraud by taking money from the fundraising campaign for themselves. He’s seeking undisclosed damages, and his lawyers want a judge to appoint someone to oversee the account.

Couple who raised $400,000 for homeless man who helped them now say they won’t give him the money. “Giving him all that money, it’s never going to happen. I’ll burn it in front of him.” https://t.co/Ghy5nmyTQW

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) August 24, 2018

A hearing on the lawsuit is scheduled for Thursday.

McClure set up the online fundraiser page as a way to give back to Bobbitt, who came to her aid when she ran out of gas on an Interstate 95 exit ramp late one night. It raised more than $400,000 in funds donated by more than 14,000 people.

Bobbitt walked a few blocks to buy McClure gas. She didn’t have money to repay him at the time, but sought him out days later to give him the money, and visited him a few more times to bring food and water. They later appeared on shows like “Good Morning America” and were interviewed by the BBC.

But the relationship has since gone sour.

Christopher C. Fallon, one of Bobbitt’s lawyers, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the legal action was taken after D’Amico ignored multiple requests for a full accounting of the money raised by the GoFundMe campaign.

“He’s really left us with no choice but to go forward,” said Fallon, one of two pro bono lawyers from Cozen O’Connor in Philadelphia whom Bobbitt retained last week.

McClure and D’Amico have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing or misusing any of the money. D’Amico has said Bobbitt spent $25,000 in less than two weeks in December on drugs, in addition to paying overdue legal bills and sending money to his family.

The couple also bought Bobbitt a camper with some of the funds and parked it on land McClure’s family owns in Florence. But Bobbitt became homeless again after D’Amico told him in June that he had to leave the property.

During an appearance Monday on NBC’s “Megyn Kelly Today” show, D’Amico told Kelly there was well over $150,000 left of the donations.

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Couple’s love story started with a CPR kiss

(CBS) — Andi Traynor and Max Montgomery’s relationship nearly ended before it even started. They met through Facebook: Montgomery posted an invite asking friends to train with him for a marathon paddleboard event in New York City and Traynor answered.

After their fourth paddle session, Montgomery felt a burning sensation in his chest.

“I kept saying just make it to the car, make it to the car and I said I need to put the board down and I put the board down and then boom that was it,” Montgomery said.

Montgomery went into cardiac arrest — he didn’t have a heartbeat for 17 minutes.

“I checked for a pulse and I didn’t feel a pulse,” Traynor said. “I just — I thought he was dead.”Traynor — a doctor — got down on her knees administering CPR and mouth-to-mouth.

“I ran 10.4 miles the night before — I had no idea I was gonna have a heart attack,” Montgomery said. “Luckily I was with someone who knew CPR. Without it I’m not here.”

“CPR kept his brain alive so that he could be who he has always been,” Traynor said.
It took six defibrillator shocks from the EMTs to get his heart beating again, but Montgomery says if it wasn’t for Traynor he wouldn’t be standing here today.

“That first kiss being CPR was obviously very magical because here I am and I’m very grateful that I’m able to experience further kisses,” Montgomery said.

“I got the opportunity to share life with him and it doesn’t seem awkward or anything that was our first kiss,” Traynor said.
The couple is now sharing their story in hopes of saving lives.”

Anything can happen at any time to anyone,” Montgomery said. We’ve helped start bringing this short 5-10 minute lifesaving instructions to teach people who to give CPR, to call 911, how to get an AED device.”

“We want to empower people to do a lot of things but especially to know they have the power to save a life, too,” Traynor said.
The whole incident was caught on a camera by a photographer who was recording bird migratory behavior.

Source:https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/08/27/couples-love-story-started-with-a-cpr-kiss/

Parents Outraged After Their Son Is Punished for Referring to His Teacher as ‘Ma’am’

Teretha Wilson and McArthur Bryant raise their 10-year-old son Tamarion to call their elders “ma’am” and “sir,” but that politeness got the fifth grader in trouble from a teacher at his preparatory school.

The North Carolina parents told ABC-13 that they had Tamarion moved to a different classroom at North East Carolina Preparatory School in Tarboro after his teacher punished him for calling her “ma’am.”

Tamarion had returned from school on Tuesday with a punishment he had to have signed by his parents. He went on to explain that he had continued to repeatedly call his teacher “ma’am” despite her requests not to, and was told to write the word “ma’am” written on a piece of paper four times per line on both sides as a penalty.

“He had a look on his face of disappointment, shame,” Bryant told ABC-13. “At the end of the day as a father, to feel kind of responsible for that…knowing that I have been raising him and doing the best that I can, it’s not acceptable.”

Wilson went on to explain that Tamarion had recently been in the hospital for seizure-related activity, and had been suffering from memory loss and hallucinations.

A man thought female drivers were ‘incompetent’ — so he shot them, police say

Nicholas Dagostino hated female drivers, authorities say, so much so that he shot them while they were driving.

Police in Texas linked Dagostino to two recent shootings in which women said they were shot in the arm. Both incidents happened during the day, within a few miles of each other in the Katy area of Harris County, west of Houston. And both involved a suspect — Dagostino — who claimed that he shot the women in self-defense, according to criminal complaints.

But social media ramblings indicate that Dagostino “held a very dim view of women,” thought female drivers were “incompetent,” and that their sole purpose “is to give birth to male children,” investigators wrote in court documents.

Dagostino, 29, is facing two felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

His defense attorney, Kenneth Mingledorff, said that statements police made about Dagostino’s hatred of women are merely assumptions.

“There’s a lot being said. Nobody knows that for a fact,” Mingledorff told The Washington Post on Saturday. “I’ve seen no evidence of that at all. A lot of assumptions are being made, and we’ll work through all that.”

He added that his client needs psychological help, though he did not elaborate.

Bank worker texted ‘go signal’ before 2 men tried robbing $75G from woman, officials say

An employee at a Texas bank allegedly texted a “go signal” to a duo of thieves in order to launch a plot to steal $75,000 from a woman on Friday — a violent attempted robbery captured in shocking surveillance footage.

Shelby Taylor Wyse appeared in court Wednesday, the third person arrested in connection with the violent robbery at Wallis State Bank in Harris County, KTRK reported. Wyse faces a charge of second-degree robbery. Travonn Johnson, who is dating Wyse, and David Dowell Mitchell were also arrested in the case.

Wyse is accused of sending a message to tip off Johnson and Mitchell that a woman had withdrawn $75,000. The unidentified woman had gone to the bank to withdraw the cash for “legitimate business reasons,” officials said. Video shows the woman being followed by two thieves — identified by police as Johnson and Mitchell — from the bank to a gas station her family reportedly owned.

SHOCKING VIDEO SHOWS THIEVES ATTEMPTING TO STEAL $75K FROM WOMAN BEFORE RUNNING HER OVER

Surveillance video showed Wyse watching the woman withdraw the cash, then send a text message to Johnson that officials believe was a “go signal.”

**Travonn Johnson, left, Shelby Wyse and David Dowell Mitchell were arrested in connection with a violent robbery. (Harris County Constable Precinct 4)**

In another video, taken at the gas station, the thief cops say is Mitchell is seen attacking the woman and attempting to rip her purse away. The woman’s husband, who was in the store at the time, then runs out and attempts to stop the robbery.

It’s at this point, prosecutors say, Johnson arrived and began beating the couple. Officials say Johnson then got back into a car and ran over the couple before fleeing the scene — without the money.

Mitchell was arrested shortly after the robbery occurred. Johnson and Wyse were taken into custody earlier this week.
Johnson and Mitchell both face a charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.

Officials traced the license plate number of the car one of the thieves fled the gas station in and reportedly found it was a rental vehicle under Wyse’s name. She allegedly told officers the car was stolen Friday morning, but she’d never reported the incident. Prosecutors said they’re working to obtain a search warrant for Wyse’s phone.

Sen. John McCain, who defied death in the skies over Vietnam, endured years of torture in enemy captivity and embarked on a storied political career that brought him to the precipice of the presidency, has ended medical treatment for the brain cancer he has fought for 13 months, his family said Friday.

“John has surpassed expectations for his survival. But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict,” the statement said, making clear that McCain’s life is near its end.

The news prompted an outpouring of sympathy and acclaim for McCain, 81, who has served six terms as a Republican senator from Arizona. The tributes came from Republicans and Democrats who had together held out hope that McCain might beat the grim odds posed by his aggressive form of cancer, glioblastoma, and perhaps return to Washington and retake his perch as elder statesman and embodiment of his personal motto: “Country first.”

Born into a military family on Aug. 29, 1936, in Panama, John McCain followed his family’s tradition by joining the U.S. Navy. During the Vietnam War, he was captured by North Vietnamese forces and held as a prisoner of war from 1967 to 1973. He stayed in the Navy after his release, but soon entered politics and went on to serve as a congressman and then senator from the state of Arizona. In 2008, he was the Republican nominee for president but lost the election to Barack Obama. At the age of 80, he won his sixth term in the Senate in 2016.

The Arctic’s thickest sea ice is breaking up for the first time on record

The sea ice off the coast of northern Greenland is normally some of the thickest in the entire Arctic, with ridges of ice piled as high as 70 feet in some places.

And despite the rapid retreat of sea ice across the region due to climate change, this harsh corner of the globe was expected to be the last to retain year-round sea ice cover.

But recent satellite imagery shows that some of the Arctic’s oldest ice has been replaced by miles of open water for the first time on record, surprising scientists and ice monitors.

“This was the area that was seen as the last bastion, where we’d see these changes come last, but they’ve arrived,” said Walt Meier, a senior research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

How the breakup happened

Hurricane Lane floods homes as some swim in powerful waves

HONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Lane weakened Friday as it headed toward the Hawaiian islands, but it still brought torrential rains that immersed a city in waist-deep water and forced people to flee flooding homes, while others jumped off seawalls with boogie boards into the turbulent ocean.

As many dealt with flooding and even brush fires, swimmers and surfers ignored warnings from authorities and plunged into powerful waves at Oahu’s famed Waikiki Beach, which was closed.

Emergency officials said repeatedly over loudspeakers: “Please get out of the water! It’s very dangerous!” Honolulu’s mayor pleaded with tourists that they were putting themselves in danger as the storm churned closer.

The National Weather Service downgraded the storm to a Category 1 with winds of 74 to 95 mph as it headed north toward the islands. It was expected to veer west, skirting the islands, but still threatened to bring heavy rains and strong, gusty winds statewide, meteorologist Gavin Shigesato said.

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