From WNDU:

The family of a 2-year-old that was shot last night has set up a memorial fund to help the family. To donate just go into any 1st Source Bank.

The South Bend community is in shock after a 2-year-old boy was shot and killed while playing outside.

Police say the call came in just after 6 p.m. in the 1000 block of Campeau Street.

Family members have identified the victim as John Swoveland Jr. Police say he was playing with his older sister in the front yard of their aunt’s home when the shots rang out.

“Gang bangers want to shoot at each other? OK. That’s still not right,” said Lt. Dave Wells, assistant commander of Metro Homicide. “But, when you have a little 2-year-old kid on a sunny day playing outside in front of his house and he can’t even play out there without fear of a drive-by shooter killing him? It’s ridiculous.”

Police interviewed witnesses and collected evidence Wednesday night, trying to determine what happened.

Police now say the shooting is connected to another shooting a little over one block east, near the intersection of Campeau and Arthur. Police responded to the shooting near Campeau and Arthur Streets and discovered that no one had been injured. Metro Homicide said Thursday an argument may have occurred between two rival groups which escalated into shots fired.

Metro Homicide believes one group ran from the other group westbound. Investigators say they believe, from evidence, that once the group fled, then shots were still fired, and a stray bullet hit 2-year-old Swoveland Jr.

It is incredible that these people can literally murder babies and the media is just like “oh, too bad.”

Yet when a black thug – Trayvon Martin – violently attacks a Latino and tries to beat him to death and the Latino defends himself, the media goes hysterical about alleged White racism.

There is nowhere that the Jewish control and manipulation of the media is more clear than in the area of racial violence.

A 10-month-old baby died on Friday night after his mother’s boyfriend allegedly beat him.

Eddie Widdick, 23, of Jermyn, Pennsylvania was charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of his girlfriend Ashley Nelson’s child on Wednesday for allegedly bludgeoning the boy so badly he suffered deep brain injuries, hemorrhages in both eyes, bruises on the head and torso, and a rib fracture.

An autopsy will be performed on the baby Silas on Monday and more charges will be filed against Widdick following the autopsy, First Assistant District Attorney Gene Talerico said Saturday. He also said that homicide charges are likely.

Widdick frantically called Ashley Nelson on Wednesday morning to say ‘he didn’t do it’ but that Silas was not ‘breathing right.’

Seven minutes after he called his girlfriend, Widdick called 911 to tell police that the baby had fallen out of his crib, reported The Times Tribune.

The baby was taken from Rear Delaware Avenue in Olypahnt and was flown to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.

Widdick later admitted that he dropped baby Silas down a flight of stairs and ‘forcefully put him in his crib.’

Silas had a twin sister, whom Lackawanna County Children and Youth Services removed along with 6 other children under the age of 13 who had bruising and signs of possible abuse.

Ms. Nelson has not been charged and Mr. Widdick is being held at Lackawanna County Prison with a bail of $150,000.

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The mother of a the teenager convicted of murdering a 13-month-old Brunswick boy was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for her role in the case.

Karimah Elkins was convicted of providing a false alibi, evidence tampering for getting rid of the gun, and possession of a firearm by convicted felon. She has 30 days to appeal the sentence.

Her son, DeMarquise Elkins, was sentenced to life for shooting and killing Antonio Santiago while his mom was pushing him in a stroller in March 2013. The boy’s mother, Sherry West, was also shot.

“I feel content about the decision,” West said of Karimah Elkins’ sentencing. “I feel that she had plenty of chances to correct her mistakes and she just didn’t want to.”

Karimah’s arrest came after she and her sister Katrina made inconsistent statements to police, according to investigators. Her son is spending the rest of his life in prison and she will see some time behind bars as well.

Police said Karimah and her sister Katrina were not honest with them, and that’s why they were arrested.

Prosecutors said evidence from Elkins’ mother led investigators to a pond where they found a revolver.

“They made statements that were inconsistent with previous statements, with future statements, inconsistent with evidence,” said Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering.

Dominque Lang, the other teen charged in the killing, had a pretrial hearing Tuesday.

Judge Stephen Kelley is allowing Lang’s maturity, personality and mental ability to be examined to see if the case should be moved to juvenile court. Lang was 14 years old at the time of the shooting.

“He was there and he was as big of a threat to me and my baby as the shooter,” West said. “And he had time also walking down that long road of Ellis Street to decide to run, and he did not want to run away and call the police while that boy was shooting me two times before he shot my baby.”

A city man raped a girl over several years, fathered a child with her, then killed the newborn baby, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The allegations come in the form of a new indictment filed against Herman Robinson, 38, formerly of Lenox Road. He faces a host of charges, including murder and predatory sexual assault, that could put him in prison for life if he is convicted.

Robinson is accused of raping the child beginning in 2006 when she was 11 years old and continuing through December 2013.

In March 2010, prosecutors allege, he helped the girl deliver the baby, then took the baby and killed it.

“Our investigation shows us that he, over approximately six years, sexually abused a child known to him,” prosecutor Tracey Brunecz of the Schenectady County District Attorney’s Office said. “That individual became pregnant by him and, upon the birth of the child, he killed the baby and disposed of the baby’s body.”

She said no one other than the girl and Robinson are believed to have known about the pregnancy or the birth and death of the baby.

The investigation began in December when the girl disclosed that she had been sexually abused, Brunecz said. She then disclosed to authorities how she gave birth at Robinson’s residence on Albany Street and told them what happened after.

Brunecz on Wednesday would not disclose such details as how the baby was killed, how long after the birth, whether the young mother saw it happen or what happened to the body afterward. The birth and murder are alleged to have happened on the same day.

Robinson appeared Wednesday morning in Schenectady County Court on the indictment. His formal arraignment is tentatively set for Monday. He is being held at the Schenectady County Jail without bail.

Representing Robinson in court was attorney Lauren Mack, who declined to comment afterward.

In court, Mack told visiting Judge Richard Giardino that the morning’s appearance was the first Robinson had heard of the murder charge. She described Robinson as “in shock.”

Brunecz said later that Robinson was aware of the allegations and was questioned about them by Schenectady police after his initial arrest in December. She declined to give Robinson’s responses.

Robinson has been in custody since Dec. 13, when police charged him with raping the girl. They then continued the investigation, resulting in added counts of murder and predatory sexual assault against a child.

Both the murder and predatory sexual assault counts carry the same possible sentence, 25 years to life in state prison. If convicted of both, he could face a total of 50 years to life. If convicted of other rape charges, the minimum sentence could be lengthened further.

Robinson is accused of sexually abusing the child beginning as early as September 2006 at his former residence in Mont Pleasant, according to the indictment.

He is accused of continuing the abuse there until February 2008. The allegations from Mont Pleasant are the basis for the predatory sexual assault count and another count of first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child.

He then is accused of raping her in June 2009 at his former residence at 1205 Albany St., using threats instead of physical force.

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A 23-year-old Minneapolis man is in custody after severely assaulting an 18-month-old child and a woman last week, according to Minneapolis Police.

On the evening of Jan. 25, police officers responded to the report of a domestic assault in progress on the 5700 block of Sander Drive. While responding, officers were notified of a “serious threat” to the toddler at the same location.

When officers arrived, they made contact with a man who resisted officers’ attempts to get into the residence. Once inside, officers located the young girl with severe injuries. The mother of the victim was also located and had also suffered assault injuries.

The young victim was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center and is currently in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with facial injuries, a severely fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and a severe brain injury.

The suspect, identified as Hussein Osman Birre, was arrested after the incident. Police say that as Birre was being taken from the home, he said, “She’s an angel. She’s an angel now.”

Birre was taken to the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center and now faces a felony count of first-degree assault and a misdemeanor count of domestic assault.

The night 14-month-old Ryan Hacke was killed was nearly two decades ago, but for his family, it’s still a vivid, terrifying memory.

“It was just horror,” said Ryan’s father, Tom Hacke.

Tom Hacke was driving the car, with Ryan and his 3-year-old brother, Matthew, as passengers. They were stopped at a red light behind his wife, Mary Beth, in Homestead when Vaughn Mathis started shooting.

“There was just this ‘pop’ in the windshield of the car and the bullet actually grazed me, and I looked up and I saw the perpetrator standing on the corner with two hands on the gun, and he was just squeezing the trigger,” said Tom Hacke. “I just remember flames shooting out and my immediate reaction was to scream to my children ‘duck.'”

“The whole time I’m looking in my rear view mirror because everything went in slow motion, and I’m thinking, ‘Please don’t let anything happen to my husband and my babies,'” said Mary Beth Hacke.

Tom Hacke said when the gunfire stopped, he realized Ryan was hit in the eye.

“I was just trying to holler back to Ryan, holding his hand, saying, ‘Hold on, hold on, buddy. Just live, just hang on,” said Tom Hacke.

Mary Beth said walking into the emergency room was her most terrifying moment.

“I saw my husband on the floor, with only the wall to hold him up. My 3-year-old was on a chair with such fear in his eyes,” said Mary Beth Hacke. “A nurse was comforting him and I’m searching for Ryan, and I’m screaming, ‘Where is my Ryan?'”

Ryan died two days later. Vaughn Mathis was convicted of killing the boy, but 17 years later, he’s up for parole.

The Hackes have been collecting signatures on a petition and asking people to “like” their Justice for Ryan Hacke Facebook page. They will travel to Harrisburg Feb. 18 to make a statement to the parole board, asking it not to release the convicted killer.

They are one of the first in Pennsylvania to be allowed to address the parole board. In September 2013, the board began allowing victim impact statements.

The Hacke family said they will carry their petition, along with letters from the community, to make a statement. They said the community’s support has been their strength all of these years.

“I want to say ‘thank you’ from the bottom of my broken heart,” Mary Beth Hacke said.

A woman who stood by as her boyfriend beat his two-year-old niece to death was sentenced to prison on Tuesday morning.

Andrea Mitchell will serve six years behind bars for watching her boyfriend, Denzel Turner, beat little Kayla Turner so severely that she died.

It happened last March at an apartment at the Bear Creek complex in Bedford Heights.

Mitchell actually caught a break in the case, charges were lowered from aggravated murder to involuntary manslaughter in a plea deal that saved her many more years in prison.

Kayla’s anguished mother, Lakeshia Turner, addressed Mitchell in court, and showed her the little girl’s morgue photo.

“You see this right here? It goes from this sexy, pretty right here. You see these pictures right here? To this. And I’m supposed to forgive you…for what? Forgive you for what? Do you see what you all did.”

Denzel Turner has since pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter, one count of felonious assault and four counts of endangering children. He faces a harsher penalty, but his sentencing has been delayed pending the outcome of psychosocial evaluation.