Posts tagged ‘death’

Jacksonville parents convicted in their children’s drownings

Markanthony Ibeagwa sat and watched as his wife, clutched by her legal team, was convicted Friday in the June 2010 drownings of their two small children who were left home alone.

Then, it was his turn.

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Judge seals father’s verdict in Jacksonville drownings trial until Tuesday

Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud told jurors Wednesday he will seal the verdict until Tuesday in the trial of a Jacksonville man facing manslaughter charges in the June 2010 drownings of his two children who were left home alone.

Soud took the action in the case of Markanthony O. Ibeagwa as the trial of his wife, Jovita Ibeagwa, starts today.

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FAMU band member’s death spotlights hazing’s prevalence

Hazing in the Florida A&M marching band has been happening for decades, former members from Jacksonville say, but they don’t blame ousted director Julian White for the continuance of the often violent tradition.

Instead, they say he’s been strictly, if unsuccessfully, trying to stop the abuse that national research shows is more prevalent than many people may realize.

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Killing unborn child now murder

(The Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Causing the death of an unborn child in North Carolina can now be considered murder. The "Unborn Victims of Violence Act," which went into effect Thursday, makes the non-medical

Southside traffic death being probed

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is investigating an early morning traffic death on the Southside.

The incident occurred at West Hickory Creek Boulevard and Cascara Drive, according to a police advisory.

Check jacksonville.com later in the day for more details. 

Man charged with beating couple with bat

A North Florida man told deputies that he beat a couple to death with a baseball bat because they owed him money, then drove to the home of one victim's mother trying to get more money while a body was stashed in the trunk, authorities said Saturday.

Jacksonville man dodges death penalty; faces it two more times

Convicted of first-degree murder Nov. 18, a Jacksonville man dodged the death penalty last week and was sentenced Friday to life in prison. But the state is still seeking the death penalty in two other murder cases they are prosecuting him for. Jurors

Jacksonville man dodges death penalty; faces it 2 more times

Convicted of first-degree murder Nov. 18, a Jacksonville man dodged the death penalty last week and was sentenced Friday to life in prison. But the state is still seeking the death penalty in two other murder cases against him.

Jurors took about 15 hours to convict DeShawn Leon Green, 27, in the August 2009 shooting of 28-year-old Willie Golden in a home on West 26th Street.

Prosecutors said Green killed Golden in retaliation of a drive-by shooting on a drug house that Green ran just two streets over from the shooting.

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Foul play suspected in Southside woman’s death

Neighbors at a gated complex off Hodges Boulevard are shocked after a woman in her 60s was found dead in her apartment Friday morning.

Man convicted in Craigslist murder of Navy wife

A 20-year-old man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 21-year-old Navy wife he met on Craigslist.