The Fitzgerald Police Department has identified a suspect of a fatal shooting last week. Herbert Robinson, 16, is wanted for murder after Michael Moore, 26, was shot outside of his home Thursday night. Investigators said the. Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, has been charged with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer after an exchange of gunfire with police, Sept. Rahami was taken to a hospital in Newark, where he. Michael Peterson (murder suspect) - Wikipedia. Michael Iver Peterson. Born. Michael Iver Peterson(1. October 2. 3, 1. 94. Nashville, Tennessee, USOccupation. Soldier, columnist, writer. LaGRANGE — Members of the LaGrange Police Crime Suppression Unit helped capture a murder suspect in a home on Smoot Street just after 2:30 p.m. LaGrange police officers worked with U.S. Marshals and arrested.UPDATE 6/2/16: The suspect, Rimoni Pologa-Seiuli, has been charged with attempted assault. View the full story here. Honolulu police had to wrestle a murder suspect to the ground after he tried to jump from a freeway overpass. Authorities identified Perez as a suspect in the death of Mohammed Robinson, 31, who was shot outside a McDonald's on the night of Aug. NBC station KSNV reported that Robinson was killed during a confrontation after having. Suspect charged with murder in shooting deaths of imam, friend. Suspect linked to an earlier hit-and-run, police say. Derrick Dearman was brought back to Mobile late Monday afternoon. He spent more than an hour being interviewed by Mobile County Sheriff's investigators. He was then led to Metro Jail where he faced more questions. Criminal penalty. Life without parole. Criminal status. Free, waiting retrial. Spouse(s)Patricia Sue Peterson (1. Kathleen Hunt (1. Children. 4Conviction(s)Murder. Michael Iver Peterson (born October 2. American novelist who was convicted in 2. Kathleen Peterson. On December 1. 5, 2. Peterson was granted a new trial. He graduated from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in political science. While there he was president of Sigma Nu fraternity and was editor of The Chronicle, the daily student newspaper, from 1. After leaving Duke, Peterson took a civilian job with the U. S. Department of Defense, where he was assigned to research arguments supporting increased military involvement in Vietnam. In 1. 96. 5, Peterson married Patricia Sue Peterson, who taught elementary school on the Rhein- Main Air Base in Gr. They had two children, Clayton and Todd. In 1. 96. 8, he enlisted in the Marines and served in Vietnam. In 1. 97. 1, he received an honorable discharge with the rank of captain after a car accident left him with a permanent disability. Years later, during a mayoral campaign, Peterson claimed he won a Silver Star, a Bronze Star With Valor and two Purple Hearts. He had all the medals, but said he did not have the documentation for them. He claimed he had received one Purple Heart after being hit by shrapnel when another soldier stepped on a land mine, and the other when he was shot. Peterson later admitted his war injury was not the result of the shrapnel wound in Vietnam, but was the result of a vehicle accident in Japan, where he was stationed after the war as a military policeman. After George's death, the Peterson and Ratliff families became very close. When Elizabeth Ratliff died in 1. Michael's wards. Michael and Patricia divorced in 1. Clayton and Todd went to live with their mother, and Margaret and Martha stayed with Michael, who then moved to Durham, North Carolina. Clayton and Todd later moved in with their father. Peterson wrote three novels based . He co- wrote the biographical Charlie Two Shoes and the Marines of Love Company with journalist David Perlmutt, and co- wrote Operation Broken Reed with Lt. He also worked as a newspaper columnist for the Durham Herald- Sun, where his columns became known for their criticism of police and Durham County District Attorney James Hardin Jr., who would later prosecute Peterson for the murder of his second wife, Kathleen. In 1. 98. 9, Michael moved in with Kathleen Atwater, a successful Nortel business executive. They married in 1. Kathleen's daughter Caitlin joined the extended family that now consisted of Clayton, Todd, Martha, and Margaret. He later claimed that he had been outside by the pool and had come in at 2: 4. Kathleen at the foot of the stairs. He maintained she must have fallen down the stairs after consuming alcohol and valium. Toxicology results showed that his wife's blood alcohol content was 0. The autopsy report concluded that the 4. Kathleen's daughter, Caitlin, and her sister, Candace Zamperini, both initially maintained Michael's innocence and publicly supported him alongside his children, but Zamperini reconsidered after learning of Peterson's bisexuality, as did Caitlin after reading her mother's autopsy report, and both subsequently broke off from the rest of the family. Although forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee, hired by the defense, testified that the blood- spatter evidence was consistent with an accidental fall down the stairs, police investigators concluded that the injuries were inconsistent with such an accident. As Michael Peterson was the only person at the residence at the time of Kathleen's death, he was the prime suspect and was soon charged with her murder. He pleaded not guilty. The medical examiner concluded that Kathleen had died from lacerations of the scalp caused by homicidal assault. According to this medical examiner, the total of seven lacerations to the top and back of her head were the result of repeated blows with a light yet rigid weapon similar to a fireplace poker. The defense disputed this theory, claiming that Kathleen's skull had not been fractured by the blows and nor was she brain damaged, which was inconsistent with injuries sustained in a beating death, according to their analysis. The trial drew increasing media attention as salacious details of Michael's life emerged. Durham County DA James Hardin, Jr. The prosecution contended that the Petersons' marriage was far from happy, suggesting that Kathleen had discovered Michael's alleged secret . Although police investigators discredited this theory. We believe that once she learned this information that an argument ensued and a homicide occurred. It had been a gift to the Petersons from Kathleen's sister but was missing from the house at the time of the murder investigation. Late in the trial the defense team produced the missing blowpoke that they said had been overlooked in the garage by police investigators. Forensic tests revealed that it had been untouched and unmoved for too long to have been used in the murder. A juror contacted after the trial noted that the jury dismissed the idea of the blowpoke as the murder weapon. Her death had been investigated by both the German police and U. S. An autopsy at the time of her death concluded she died from an intra- cerebral haemorrhage secondary to the blood coagulation disorder Von Willebrand's disease, based on blood in her cerebrospinal fluid and reports that she had been suffering severe, persistent headaches in the weeks leading up to her death. The coroner determined that the haemorrhage resulted in immediate death followed by Ratliff falling down the stairs after collapsing. Ratliff and her daughters had gone to the Petersons' home the previous night to have dinner with them, and Peterson had driven them home and helped Ratliff put the children to bed. The children's nanny discovered the body when she arrived the next morning. Peterson was the last known person to see her alive. Before Peterson's trial, the Durham, N. C. The body was then transported from Texas to Durham. Despite police reports that there was very little blood at the scene of Ratliff's death, the nanny, who was the first to discover Ratliff's body in 1. Peterson's trial and testified that there was a large amount of blood at the scene. Another witness testified spending much of the day cleaning blood stains off of the wall. The admissibility of the Ratliff evidence in court was one of the grounds for the subsequent appeal against his conviction, lodged by Peterson's lawyers in 2. Verdict. Despite the jury accepting the murder was a . As one juror explained it, premeditated meant not only planning hours or days ahead, but could also mean planning in the seconds before committing a spur- of- the - moment crime. Peterson was housed at the Nash Correctional Institution near Rocky Mount, until released on December 1. Peterson's appeal was filed by his defense counsel, Thomas Maher, now serving as his court- appointed attorney, and was argued before the North Carolina Court of Appeals on April 1. On September 1. 9, 2. Court of Appeals rejected Peterson's arguments that he did not get a fair trial because of repeated judicial mistakes. The judges did find defects in a search warrant but said they had no ill effect on the defense. Oral argument was heard on September 1. On November 9, 2. Court announced that it affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals. Absent a reconsideration of the ruling or the raising of a federal issue, Peterson had exhausted his appeal of the verdict. On November 1. 2, 2. J. Burkhardt Beale and Jason Anthony, Richmond, Va. On March 1. 0, 2. Peterson's motion was denied by the Durham County Superior Court. Owl theory. The owl theory was raised by Durham attorney T. Lawrence Pollard, a neighbor of the Petersons who was not involved in the case, but had been following the public details. He approached the police suggesting an owl might have been responsible, after reading the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) evidence list and finding a . Peterson's attorneys had determined that the SBI crime lab report listed a microscopic owl feather and a wooden sliver from a tree limb entangled in a clump of hair that had been pulled out by the roots found clutched in Kathleen's left hand. Other media picked it up, propagating the Herald- Sun story, which was later criticized as inaccurate. Advocates of this theory assert that other evidence supports it, namely that the scalp wounds were tri- lobed and paired, consistent with marks left by talons, the feathers are similar to those on owl feet, cedar needles were found on her hands and body indicating she had fallen over outside shortly before entering the house, that Kathleen's blood had splattered up the staircase rather than down, that Kathleen's footprints in her own blood indicated that she was already bleeding before she reached the foot of the stairs and that two drops of Kathleen's blood were found outside the house on the front walkway along with a finger smear on the front door consistent with her pushing the door shut. Advocates also note that owl attacks on people are common in the area, with one victim stating that the impact was similar to being hit in the head with a baseball bat. Deborah Radisch, who conducted Kathleen Peterson's autopsy, says it is unlikely that an owl or any other bird could have made wounds as deep as those on Kathleen's scalp. Radisch's opinion, however, was challenged by other experts in three separate affidavits filed in 2. Alan van Norman wrote . Peterson somehow became entangled. Perhaps the owl got tangled in her hair or perhaps she grabbed the owl's foot.
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