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3 Sebastian River High students charged in dog-shooting burglary

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by TCPalm.com

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A pit bull mix was recovering from surgery performed Monday following gunshot wounds received during a burglary at his home Friday, the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office said.

Charles Ulrich, the owner of 5-year-old Teddy Bear, said the dog spent several hours bleeding and in pain Friday afternoon before Ulrich arrived home and discovered the grisly sight. Teddy Bear was shot in the chest and the shoulder, he said. Ulrich took his dog to the Florida Veterinary League in Vero Beach for treatment.

“I’m convinced it’s a miracle the bullets didn’t hit any major organs,” Ulrich said. “But he’s in a lot of pain.”
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Port St. Lucie homeowners face 11 percent property tax hike

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

PORT ST. LUCIE - In a turnabout decision, the City Council Monday night gave an initial 4-1 vote to increase the property tax rate by 11 percent.

The council also unanimously approved a 2009-2010 revised total budget of $430 million.

A final vote on the property tax rate and budget is scheduled for a 7 p.m. Sept. 28 public hearing at City Hall.

Last week, the council made a last-ditch effort to avoid an earlier proposed 26 percent property tax increase and held a special meeting to discuss using half of the city’s general fund reserves to help offset a more than $18 million deficit in the general fund.
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Anti-violence measures started in wake of two homicides are working in Fort Pierce

Friday, September 11th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

FORT PIERCE — Shelitta Woods calls the past six months “miserable.”

“You got to understand, it’d been like 13, 14 years before I had another child,” Woods said. “It was just me and Lil’ Bo, just me and Lil’ Bo, everywhere I go, me and Lil’ Bo.”

Woods’ 16-year-old son, Torenda “Lil’ Bo” Youngblood Jr., was fatally shot at his bus stop March 9, two days after Demetrius Wells, 18, sustained fatal wounds in a drive-by shooting. Two men also were hit by gunfire during separate shootings between the homicides. (more…)

Stuart slayings claim ‘loving father’ as third victim in murderous rise of violence

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

STUART — Described as a loving father and caring person, Jerome Hutchinson was found early Monday morning face down on the sidewalk leading to his East Stuart residence.

The 24-year-old man had been shot in the chest, the second to die in an exceptionally violent weekend in Stuart. The first was Michael Morrison, 43, found early Saturday morning on his back next to his Jeep at The Crossings at Indian Run Apartments less than four miles away.

Morrison also had been shot in the chest, but police haven’t found a nexus between the two killings, police spokesman Sgt. Marty Jacobson said Monday.
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Man found shot to death outside Stuart apartment

Monday, August 17th, 2009 by Post Staff

A young man was found shot to death face down on the sidewalk leading to his Stuart apartment overnight.

Stuart police report they were called at about 12:03 a.m. to 931 Nassau Ave. for reports of shots fired in the area. They found 24-year-old Jerome Hutchinson sprawled on the sidewalk with a gunshot to the chest. He died there, police report.

Witnesses said they heard three gun shots and saw three or four men run from the scene. Those witnesses said they men then jumped into a silver Ford Escort with tinted windows and “some type of black stripe designs down the sides of the car” and sped away, police reported.

Anyone with information is asked to call Det. Mike Gerwan at 772-220-3918 or Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-800-273-8477.

Fort Pierce man shot in genitals trying to save mom from pistol-whipping attacker

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

FORT PIERCE — About 6 p.m. Tuesday, the U.S. Marshall Fugitive Task Force arrested David Jerome Brown, 48, of the 500 block of North 27th Street in connection with a Monday night attack on a woman and shooting of her son.

Brown was apprehended at the corner of North 27th Street and Avenue G without incident, said Fort Pierce Detective Ben Thayer.

The male victim was shot in the genitals and his mother pistol whipped Monday night in a suspected domestic-related incident before the attacker fled in a pickup truck, according to a police report released Tuesday and a sergeant.
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Armed boy, 14, surrenders to Fort Pierce police after standoff

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

FORT PIERCE — A 14-year-old boy who police say fled from officers, brandished a gun and barricaded himself inside a home Monday afternoon surrendered after a few hours, officials said.

Patrick Casimir of 1105 North 29th Street was arrested just before 5 p.m. after he walked out of the house in the 3000 block of Avenue L with his hands raised, according to Sgt. Dennis McWilliams. No one was injured, and no shots were fired.

Casimir was charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, armed burglary and two counts of resisting arrest without violence, officials said.
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74-year-old man kills himself at Dan McCarty School in Fort Pierce

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

FORT PIERCE — A 74-year-old man reportedly walked onto the campus of Dan McCarty School Tuesday evening and fatally shot himself near the school’s bus pick-up area.

The 1201 Mississippi Avenue campus was empty of students and faculty when the incident occurred, according to Dave Morris, director of security for St. Lucie County schools. The man’s identity was not immediately released, pending notification of next of kin.
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Incoming seventh-graders will have to get newly required vaccine

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

Before incoming seventh-graders step into their first classes this fall, they must brave the sting of a newly required vaccine against whooping cough and two other diseases.

Local health departments are offering the Tdap vaccination against tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis (whooping cough) this summer at health clinics or at residents’ request so students can be prepared for the start of school.

The new state requirement for students to take the vaccine before entering the seventh grade stems from concerns that adolescents and adults immunized against whooping cough in infancy are contracting the disease when they’re older. Before this year, the vaccine for adolescents, licensed in 2005, was suggested but not required. Counties have offered the vaccine every year.
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Police fatally shoot man during domestic disturbance

Sunday, June 14th, 2009 by Post Staff

By LAURA GREEN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
A Port St. Lucie Police officer responding to a domestic call shot and killed a man who police say was armed and a threat to the officers.
At about 1 a.m. Sunday, Manuel Morales’ sister called police to the home at 1513 SE Croquet Street to help her brother, Public Information Officer Tom Nichols said.
When police came to the home where Morales had locked himself in a bedroom and refused to come out, they broke in.
“Manny was armed and he failed to comply with our commands,” Nichols said. “The officers felt their safety was in jeopardy.”
Officer Albert Riccardi shot Morales twice in the left torso and is now on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure, he said. Nichols did not have the full name of the other officer in the room.
Morales was taken to a trauma center where he died.
Nichols would not identify the weapon Morales was holding. Police are still investigating, he said.

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