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Windsor Teen Killed Days Before 17th Birthday

A boy shot and killed in Hartford Wednesday morning would have turned 17 on Friday. A 16-year-old Windsor boy was found dead with several gunshot wounds after a crash in Hartford early Wednesday morning and police are investigating his death as the city’s eighth homicide this year.

Police responded shortly before 1 a.m. after getting a 911 call reporting a crash at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Sigourney Street.

The pedestrian who called 911 told police that a vehicle went through the traffic light on Sigourney Street, crossed Albany Avenue and crashed into a parked vehicle in the church driveway lot, police said.

When officers arrived to the scene, they said they found an unresponsive man in the driver’s seat of the vehicle suffering from at least one gunshot wound. Police later identified him as 16-year-old Felipe Lopez, of Windsor. Lopez was the only person inside of the vehicle at the time, police added.

Lopez was transported to St. Francis Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. His death marks the eighth homicide in Hartford in 2019."My son was only 16, he would have been 17 on Friday. This shouldn’t happen to anybody’s kid out […]

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HARTFORD — Hartford police say they are investigating the killing of a 16-year-old Windsor teen, Felipe Lopez, overnight in the city.

The teen’s family told media outlets this morning they never imagined their young son would fall victim to a shooting.

“He was such a good boy,” his father, Juan Lopez, told the media while standing in front of the Albany Avenue crime scene where his son was found dead just a few hours before.

His family said that Felipe Lopez, the father of a five-month-old daughter, would’ve turned 17 on Friday.

Windsor School Superintendent said that grief counselors were on site today at Windsor High School and at LP Wilson Community Center to help students or residents cope with the tragedy.

Police tweeted that the teenager was found inside a crashed vehicle just before 1 a.m. today.Lopez was shot multiple times, police reported, at least once in the torso.The Hartford Police Department’s Major Crimes Division is investigating the homicide.Police said there was no indication any of the bullets struck the car. They are reviewing area cameras and ShotSpotter devices. It’s possible Lopez was shot in another location and then crashed some blocks away in an attempt to flee, police said during a press […]

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Cheo McCoy. Photo by Oklahoma City Police Department. An Oklahoma man wanted in connection to a February homicide was recovering Wednesday at an Arkansas hospital after purportedly eating narcotics that were in his car during a traffic stop the previous night, police said.

The El Dorado Police Department said officers arrested Cheo McCoy, 44, of Oklahoma City during a traffic stop around 11 p.m. on Tuesday in the 5500 block of North Smith Street.

El Dorado police spokesman Lt. Christopher Lutman said McCoy gave officers a fake name, and that they found drug paraphernalia, as well as K2 –– a synthetic form of marijuana — in his vehicle. Police said they believe McCoy ingested drugs either before or during the stop.

Lutman said shortly after officials booked McCoy into the Union County jail he began having medical problems. “He went downhill real quick,” the spokesman said.

Police later learned McCoy had an arrest warrant stemming from the shooting death of 39-year-old Matt Bowens at an Oklahoma City apartment on Feb. 10.

Other than some pain, Lutman said McCoy was “on the uphill swing” and was awake and speaking to officers in a local hospital Wednesday morning.The 44-year-old also faces local charges for allegedly giving […]

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A 13-year-old Texas girl has died after slipping into a coma following a fight with three teens who jumped her as she walked home from school — one of the assailants kicked her in the head as she was being held down by the others, police and the girl’s mother said.

Kashala Francis, a student at Attucks Middle School in Houston, died Wednesday morning at Texas Children’s Hospital, where doctors discovered a tumor in the back of her head that may have been exacerbated by the fight she was involved in on Thursday afternoon, her mother, Mamie Jackson, told ABC station KTRK-TV in Houston .

It remained unclear and pending an autopsy if injuries from the fight caused Kashala’s death or if she died as the result of the tumor, police said. Kashala Francis, 13, of Houston, shown in this undated photo, slipped into a coma just days after she was jumped by a group of girls and kicked in the head while walking home from school. Victor Senties, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department, said the incident is being investigated as a homicide, pending an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

"Until the autopsy is finished, we won’t know," […]

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