A 23-year-old African has been charged on suspicion of having entered into a 92-year-old Swedish woman’s home on Christmas Eve and having practiced a bestial rape on her.

The elderly woman had just arrived home from the traditional children’s Christmas celebration when the 23-year-old man knocked on the door and somehow tricked his way into the residence in Töreboda in Västergötland.

Once inside, he allegedly pushed down the 92-year-old woman onto the floor, took stranglehold on her and said he would kill her if she screamed. The woman made an effort to resist by trying to claw the African on his face, but he managed to tear off her pants and panties and pushed her into the shower.

The rape attempt halted when the 92-year-old managed to lock herself in the bathroom and to persuade the man to leave the residence.

But just an hour later, the 23-year-old went back into the home again – and then resistance was futile. First he allegedly pushed the woman over and then he dragged her out into the bedroom. Once there, he forced the 92-year-old to stand on arms and legs on the floor, after which the suspect repeatedly tried to introduce his penis into the victim’s vagina, and then rape her anally.

The African must also have encouraged the old woman to masturbate him and had his penis at the woman’s mouth, at the same time trying to pry open her mouth with his hands.

The brutal rape stopped only when the phone rang. The perpetrator asked the 92-year-old woman whether she had called the police, and warned her of what would happen (if she did):

“If you did, then you must know that tomorrow I will come with a knife”.

The rape became known only in the evening, when her children came to pick her up for the midnight mass. The police managed to arrest the 23-year-old after just a few hours later.

He was already on the wanted list for having committed another rape on a 40 year old woman in November. At that time, too, he allegedly got into the woman’s home, threw her down on the floor and raped her. While raping her, the African allegedly punched several times the 40-year-old woman on her face and asked her if she “wanted to die”.

The 23-year-old Kenyan national already has a long criminal record. He began his career as sex offender at the age of 15, when he was convicted of attempted rape. He is also convicted of other crimes such as assault, harassment, threatening police officers, drug trafficking, burglary and assault with knife.

In a separate case, the District Court of Falu has recently prosecuted him for assault and extortion after he threatened an individual that he would burn down his house.

Police investigating the fatal shooting of a man in a West End nightclub on Boxing Day have released pictures of two people they would like to talk to.

Officers are appealing for information on the whereabouts of Danny Walker, 32, and Gavin Allen, 30.

The public are asked not to approach the men but to call the police on 999 if they see them.

31-year-old Hassan Isman Omer died after being shot several times in Avalon nightclub on Shaftesbury Avenue in the early hours of 26th December.

Northshore authorities have released information on the suspect they say shot eight people after a Christmas night dispute in Slidell’s Olde Town.  Two victims died.

“Slidell Police and U.S. Marshals are on the hunt for 22-year-old Jamieon Chatman, who is responsible for the Olde Town shooting that left two dead and six wounded.  Chatman is wanted for two counts of second degree murder and six counts of attempted second degree murder,” Slidell Detective Daniel Seuzeneau said in a news release.

The detective also released some more information about the crime.

“According to witnesses, as the bars were closing, a fight broke out near the intersection of First Street and Cousin Street.  During the altercation, several gun shots were fired into the crowd resulting in eight people being struck by bullets.  Two of the victims have died as a result of their injuries.  Earlier yesterday afternoon, the two victims are identified as 22-year old Errol Scott and 23-year-old

Mark Womack, both of Slidell.  Scott was pronounced dead at the scene and Womack later died at a local hospital around 11:00 a.m. yesterday morning.”

Cops hope that someone will turn the suspect in to authorities and claim a reward.

Chief Randy Smith says, “We are asking for help from our community to assist us with putting this criminal behind bars.  As I mentioned yesterday, anyone caught assisting Jamieon Chatman will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Seuzeneau released information on the reward:

Currently Slidell Police and U.S. Marshals are actively looking for Chatman and are asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of Chatman to contact the Slidell Police Department at 985-643-3131 or Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.

Crimestoppers President and CEO Darlene Cusanza stated, “Due to the severity of this incident and the hope to bring a swift arrest, Crimestoppers has increased its reward from $5,000 up to $7,500 with up to $4,000 cash reward paid upon the arrest of the suspect and the remaining up to $3,500 upon indictment.  Callers must contact Crimestoppers directly to be eligible for this cash reward.  (504 822-1111 or 1 877 903-STOP, www.crimestoppersgno.org, Smart phone app TIP SUBMIT)  Callers remain anonymous and do not have to testify to receive the reward.”

An death investigation of an Evansville man has been ruled a homicide.

Autopsy results revealed that 33-year-old Nicholas Mathew died from blood loss caused by multiple stab wounds to the neck.

His body was found in his apartment in the 1100 block of Hatfield Drive on Christmas Eve.

Police say 24-year-old John Vernon Jackson, Jr. is a suspect in the murder. We’re by authorities that Mathews’ credit cards were found on Jackson.

He is being held in the Vanderburgh County Jail on charges of stabbing and robbing an Evansville cab driver.

He is also accused of cutting a gas station clerk during a robbery last week.

A prominent New Jersey doctor well known for taking in foster kids was rocked by an unthinkable horror — when one of his adopted children ­allegedly stabbed another to death in their home.

“Rest peacefully, angel,” Dr. Robert Gallo wrote on his Facebook page with a picture of his daughter Teia, 20.

Her foster brother, Travis Gallo, 17, allegedly stabbed her repeatedly with a kitchen knife at around 5:30 p.m. Thursday in front of two other siblings at their Washington Township home, sources said.

Their brother called 911, while another sister fled the home with no shoes on, sources said.

“You could hear people screaming,” a neighbor said. “It was a nightmare.”

Teia and Travis had both been adopted by Gallo, an OB-GYN, as children. The patriarch also adopted Teia’s biological sister, Destiny, and has nine kids of his own.

The physician told The Post he was at a loss to explain the tragedy that stunned his tranquil suburban neighborhood.

“He snapped,” Gallo said. “We still have a lot of unanswered questions.”

Travis Gallo was arrested at the scene and pleaded not guilty to murder as a juvenile in a Hackensack court Friday afternoon, officials said.

Prosecutors may still charge him as an adult for the slaying.

Teia’s sister, Destiny Gallo, grieved with her father on his Facebook page in a heart-wrenching post on Friday.

“She was so beautiful daddy,” she wrote of the Paramus Catholic HS graduate and Dominican College student. “She walked in your footsteps. You were her inspiration without a doubt and she loved you.”

Dr. Gallo said the family will help one another through the grief.

“We’re pretty strong people,” he said. “There’s a lot of love in this family. We’ll get through this.”

Sources said that Travis Gallo frequently fought with his sister and that the disputes sometimes turned violent.

The big-hearted doctor took Travis in at age 3 for what was supposed to be a temporary arrangement until he could find the tot a permanent home.

But Gallo grew attached to the boy and decided to keep him permanently.

“After you have them in your house for a year and they call you Mommy and Daddy, it’s very difficult to turn them away,” he said.

Teia, who friends said had a boyfriend in the Army, was brought into the expanding household at age 4 with her sister.

A trove of pictures on Dr. Gallo’s Facebook page shows the grinning clan vacationing everywhere from Southern California to Bermuda to Manhattan’s Little Italy.

“They are just a beautiful family, very kind, very decent,” a neighbor said. “This is all just shocking.”

One set of photos taken the day before the murder, on Christmas, shows Teia smiling broadly with her siblings.

While Christmas shopping on Dec. 16, 1989, Julia Ashe lugged an armload of bags out of Bradlees in Waterbury, Conn., and discovered she had a flat tire.

Miraculously, a man appeared and offered to help.

But he was no good Samaritan. He was shopping too, in a sense.

For two days, he had been lurking in his own car in that lot, waiting for lone women shoppers to arrive.

Twice, he used a valve stem remover to deflate a tire on the car of likely victims, then offered to change the flats when they returned from shopping.

The first two potential targets declined his help.

His third target, Ashe, a 22-year-old University of Connecticut student, did not. Who could blame her? It was 18 degrees.

As he slapped on Ashe’s spare tire, the man said his own car had broken down and asked for a lift to a gas station. She agreed.

But once in the car, the man directed Ashe to drive to a wooded pull-off barely a mile from the store, beside a dam on City Mills Pond. Though well-concealed, the spot is a stone’s throw from busy I-84.

As traffic whizzed by, he ordered Ashe into the back seat. He rifled her pocketbook, taking $300, and then raped her.

But the horror was just beginning.

He gagged Ashe and bound her mouth, hands and feet with fiberglass-reinforced tape. He carried her to the dam, then shoved her off the wall. She fell 23 feet and landed on a concrete apron covered with eight inches of water.

Julia Ashe, petite but feisty, would not die easily.

Thrashing in the icy water, she maneuvered her body to a metal shard on the dam and cut her wrists and ankles free, gouging her skin in the frantic process of trying to stay alive. Still gagged and missing a shoe, she moved toward shore.

Her tormentor was waiting there.

He had watched from above as she freed herself, then scrambled down the bank to finish the job.

He seized her by the hair and held her face-down in the water until she stopped kicking.

He returned to Ashe’s car and took clothing that she had purchased as Christmas gifts. He then walked back to Bradlees, got in his car and drove home, pausing at the dam to confirm that his quarry was dead.

Her fiancé reported Ashe missing that night, but her body would lie undiscovered for days.

Meanwhile, detectives in the Waterbury area were closing in on a serial sex fiend.

Sedrick Cobb, 27, of nearby Naugatuck, had been arrested that June in an attempted rape in his hometown.

While that case was pending and Cobb was free, he became a suspect in two more sex assaults, in Naugatuck on Dec. 13 and in adjacent Oxford on Dec. 15.

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A woman has been charged with murder following a deadly Christmas Eve stabbing in Galivants Ferry, according to Lieutenant Robert Kegler with the Horry County Police Department.

The Horry County Police Department’s Facebook page confirmed 55-year-old Connie Louise Highsmith has been charged with murder. She has been booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center.

According to Sgt. Strickland with Horry County Police someone called 911 around 3:01 p.m. Tuesday to report a stabbing in a home on Methodist Rehobeth Road.

When officers arrived at the home they found a man deceased, Sgt. Strickland said.

The man’s death was the result of a domestic dispute and a woman, who was inside the home, is in custody for questioning according to Lt. Robert Kegler with Horry County Police.

Horry County Deputy Coroner Tony Hendrick said the deceased man was 52 years old and from Galivants Ferry.

Hendrick said an autopsy to determine cause of death will be performed on Thursday and the man’s name will not be released until then.

WMBF News will provide updates as they are available.

Three felons were arrested Wednesday after they stole children’s Christmas presents and other valuables from a home in Seminole County, the Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

A deputy on patrol saw three men loading large bags into a Ford Explorer parked in the driveway of a home on Westchester Drive in the Druid Hills Estates neighborhood near Maitland about 11 a.m., authorities said.

The deputy followed the sport utility vehicle, which refused to pull over and crashed into a brick wall to avoid stop sticks investigators had placed in the road, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The driver, David Smith of Sanford, who turns 25 on Sunday, was trapped in the SUV and treated at Orlando Regional Medical Center before being taken to the Seminole County Jail.

He was released from prison in June 2012 after serving a nearly five-year sentence for an aggravated assault and armed burglary in Orange County. He is on drug-offender probation out of Dixie County.

The other two men, Quinton Chambers, 24, and Shamoule Bridges, 20, ran away but were caught by a sheriff’s dog, investigators said.

Deputies found the Christmas gifts, cash, jewelry, a stolen handgun, burglary tools and drugs in the SUV, they said.

Chambers and Bridges, both of Apopka, were being held on charges of armed burglary, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, possession of burglary tools, grand theft, grand theft of a firearm, possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to sell and possession of drug equipment.

Bridges also is wanted in Orange County on a charges of improper exhibition of a firearm, Seminole jail records show.

Smith is being held on the same charges, plus fleeing and eluding police and driving without a valid license.

He also was being held on a violation-of-probation charge out of Dixie County, where he was convicted of a currency violation and placed on four years of probation after his prison release.

Police say a U.S. Postal Service worker was making deliveries when robbers held him at gunpoint and stole several packages from his mail truck.

The incident happened around 7:20 p.m. Tuesday in the 1100 block of Georgina Drive, near I-94 and Harris Drive in Ypsilanti Township.

The postal worker told police he was walking back to his mail truck when he was approached by a man who then brandished a handgun.

According to police, the gunman forced the worker to the ground and took the vehicle’s keys so he could open the rear door to the mail truck. At this point, police say another male suspect came to the truck. The two suspects then removed several packages before fleeing on foot.

The suspect armed with the handgun is described as a black male, 6′ tall with thin to medium build, wearing a blue and gold waist length jacket. A description of the second suspect was not available.

Police say they’re not sure exactly how many packages were stolen from the truck, nor what their contents were. The U.S. Postal Inspectors are working jointly with the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office on the investigation.

A $10,000 reward is being offered by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact police at 734-973-7711, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK UP, or the U.S. Postal Inspection Service at 1-877-876-2455.