Posted March 27th, 2009 by minortopics | via www.myfox8.com
A woman and her fiance are facing first degree murder charges in the death of the woman’s 4-year-old cousin who was living with them. The couple have pleaded innocent.
Tonya Williams and fiancee Anthony Duncan made their first court appearance Thursday since being arrested Wednesday in Winston-Salem.
Their arrest happened on the same day Kalli Martin was buried, according to the family.
“Tonya has told me she did not do it,” said Mary Dobson, who was in the Guilford County courtroom Thursday afternoon. “I believe her and if I didn’t believe her I would be the first one to tell you.”
Police were called to their home at 1405 Caldwell St. March 17 after Martin was unconscious and nor breathing. She died a short time later at Moses Cone Hospital.
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Posted April 25th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.foxnews.com
Note to criminals — do not bring your 1-month-old son with you when you’re being chased by the cops, he’ll only slow you down.
Timothy Hartford Jr., 38, and Ashley Smith, 26, are suspects in the Thursday shooting deaths of a man and woman in Winston-Salem, N.C., police said. The victims were a 77-year-old Meals on Wheels volunteer and a man she was serving lunch. Another volunteer, the dead woman’s husband, was wounded.
The suspects’ 1-month-old son was with them during the chase and ensuing standoff and was taken into the custody of child protective services. He was not injured, Virginia State Police Sgt. Michelle Cotten said.
A state police officer saw Hartford and Smith’s vehicle in Suffolk at about 2 a.m. Friday and attempted to stop it. Smith drove on and police pursued the vehicle into Norfolk and used road spikes to shred its tires, officials said.
The couple pulled into a shopping mall parking garage and were negotiating with police, but didn’t surrender until about five hours later.
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