Tag: murder

Giovanni Melton's former foster mom reveals troubled history A father allegedly shot his 14-year-old gay son, with police attributing the killing in part to the boy’s sexual orientation. Henderson police in Nevada say 53-year-old Wendell Melton shot and killed his son Giovanni in the morning of Thursday 2 November. Sonja Jones is Giovanni’s former foster mom and said Wendell always had a thing against his son’s sexuality. She told 3 News: ‘He hated the fact that his son was gay. ‘I’m sure that inside...

Gabriel Fernandez was allegedly beaten, burned, bitten and starved before his death. A man accused of torturing his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son to death did so because he through the child was gay, a prosecutor has said. 32-year-old Isauro Aguirre, of Palmdale, California, has been charged with the murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez with a special circumstance of torture. The boy’s mother, Pearl Fernandez, also faces trial. During opening statements on Monday (October 16), Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor on Jon...

Baby was just 18 months when she died A gay fitness instructor is accused of assaulting, abusing and murdering his 18-month-old adopted daughter. Matthew Scully-Hicks, 31, is accused of inflicting serious injuries on baby Elsie before her death. A part-time personal trainer from Delabole, Cornwall, he denies murdering the baby. Cardiff Crown Court heard Wales Ambulance Service received a call from Scully-Hicks at about 6.20pm on 25 May. He reported Elsie was unresponsive. Receiving first aid from paramedics, she was taken to the University...

It appears that neighbors ignored Pottinger's cries for help. Dexter Pottinger, a Jamaican fashion designer and gay activist who became known as the “face of Pride” in the nation, was found stabbed to death Thursday in his Kingston home. Police said Saturday that they have arrested a suspect and expect to bring charges, the Jamaica Observer reports. A neighbor reported hearing screams of “Help!” and “Murder!” from Pottinger’s house early Wednesday morning but did not immediately notify police, according to another paper,...

"Whether it’s an increase in reporting, an increase in violence, or some combination thereof, it should be a wake-up call." We’ve still got more than a third of the year left, but a new report revels that more LGBT Americans have been killed so far in 2017 than in all of 2016. According to National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, there have been 33 homicides so far linked to the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity. That works out to more than...

Early Sunday morning, a Florida man was murdered after he came to the defense of his gay friends. He’d been dining with his friends before a drunk homophobe followed them out of the restaurant and onto the street to harass them. The suspect, Nelson Hernandez Mena (above), reportedly became angry after one of the victim’s gay friends asked for the phone number of a man Mena was eating with. Multiple witnesses said that Mena aggressively came after the group, shouting, “If...

Prosecutors say Jason Marshall tortured and suffocated Peter Fasoli before setting his flat on fire. A computer repairman who was believed to have died in a fire was actually murdered by a man he met online, jurors in London heard the week. Prosecutors allege Jason Marshall, 28, lied his way into the home of Peter Fasoli in 2013 with the promise of a threesome with another man. Instead Marshall tortured the 58-year-old Fasoli and smothered him to death, setting fire to...

Confession: 'I loaded the dead body in the car and I threw it to sea' 35-year-old navy officer Ciro Guarente confessed to murdering 25-year-old gay activist Vincenzo Ruggiero today (29 July). Ruggiero went missing 7 July in the area of Giugliano in Italy, with friends and family desperate to find him. But shocking video footage showed Guarente moving Ruggiero’s body into the back of his car, so he had to confess. In his confession, Guarente said: ‘Yes, I killed Vincenzo because he had...

RIP Karar Noshi Actor Karar Noshi was reportedly kidnapped and killed in Baghdad, Iraq for ‘looking gay’. A graduate student of Baghdad University’s College of Fine Arts had a large following online due to his long blond hair and fashionable style. Many called him the ‘Beauty King of Iraq’. Noshi’s body was dumped on a street in central Baghdad, Kurdistan 24 are reporting, with evidence ‘he had been tortured and viciously stabbed’. People have posted a picture claiming it to be his body’s...

Guy Hedger was fatally wounded during a burglary over the weekend. A man was shot dead in front of his partner after at least two burglars broke into their home in southern England. Guy Hedger, a 61-year-old marketing executive, was fatally injured in the early hours of Sunday morning at the couple’s home in Dorset in what is believed to have been a planned burglary. Simon-Pierre Hedger-Cooper, 48, is being supported by family, friends and police in the traumatizing aftermath of his...

Sean Cody model faces life in prison A gay-for-pay porn star was found guilty for brutally stabbing his wealthy lover to death. Mario Romo, who started his career at Sean Cody as ‘Francisco’ in 2010, was charged with the death of Texas retiree Jake Clyde Merendino in 2015. The 52-year-old had named the then-25-year-old Romo – legal name David Enrique Meza – as his heir before the killing. A San Diego jury found Meza guilty of murder, and of conspiring to obstruct justice...

RIP Jonas Correia dos Santos A gay teen was shot and killed in Brazil on Monday night (27 March). Jonas Correia dos Santos was killed in the village of Chá do Pai Gonçalo, in the eastern Brazilian state of Alagoas. He was just 18 years old. According to Brazilian media, he is the third gay man to be killed in the state in 2017. So far, authorities have not named a suspect in the crime. They have also not said whether it is being treated...

All four gay men murdered were aged between 21 and 25. Grindr serial killer Stephen Port was handed a life term in prison for murdering four young gay men. The 41-year-old chef was convicted on Wednesday of the murders of Anthony Walgate, a 23-year-old from Hull, Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Slovakia, Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham. Justice Openshow gave him a whole-life sentence on Friday morning. In all, he was found guilty of a total of 22...

When Paul Jefferies’ corpse was discovered, investigators counted over 40 injuries on the customs official, including a slashed throat. As The Standard reports, the 52-year-old was found naked with a tea towel tied around his head. He was slumped across the kitchen floor at his home in East Sussex, where he’d moved from London after a romantic relationship dissolved. On February 23, 18-year-old Ben Bamford murdered Jefferies with intent to rob him in order to pay off a £400 drug debt. During his trial,...