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🚨DISGUSTING: A 12-year-old black boy fatally stabbed a 9-year-old white child at a playground in Grand Rapids #hatecrime https://t.co/BvFR5MfoyY
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A 911 call from a 12-year-old, Jamari on (spelled J a m a r i o n), reported that he had stabbed someone at 5657 Madison and that he had taken pills to kill himself. He said he was fed up with lights, and that the person he stabbed “just came up by you” and “ran off.” He described the weapon as a knife and said the victim was a male; the knife was in the grass. He also stated that he did not know who the person was, and that the other person had arrived with someone named Quinn. He expressed a wish to die and asked for officers to come quickly. He asked if they could take him to jail or kill him, and repeatedly asserted that he did not want to be on earth anymore. The conversation indicated an attempted self-harm intent and a homicide in progress, with ongoing confusion about the involved individuals and location.
Conor Verkerke, a nine-year-old, was killed on a Kentwood playground when he was stabbed multiple times. A 12-year-old has been charged with the attack. The community gathered for a service to remember Conor’s life, described as a life of love and kindness. Fellow scouts attended, including Conor’s little brother, Cameron, who tried to save his life. Conor’s family emphasized compassion over anger. They conveyed that Conor made friends with everyone and urged that the tragedy not deter other kids from being friendly. They expressed empathy for the perpetrator’s family, noting that you cannot always know what children are thinking and hoping the perpetrator receives available help. Conor’s family highlighted that, despite fear, Conor cared for others, and he reassured Cameron that if he died it would not be Cameron’s fault and that he loved him.
Six years later, Jamarion Lawhorn, who stabbed Conor Verkerke at age 12, was released from a youth program and moved to Jenison to live with a woman who runs a prison ministry program. He turned 19 soon and had earned his GED at Everett Youth Academy. The judge described him as rehabilitated and low risk for violence, but with conditions: stay on probation, work with a counselor and a mentor, get a job, and remain under supervision with a review in six months that could continue the probation until he is 21. He will have limited contact with his biological mom and siblings, allowed only in public settings such as restaurants or parks, not at their home. Paula Cresswell has served as a guardian figure, acting as a mother to him. The case’s judge and supporters emphasized cautious reintegration into adulthood.
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Speaker 0: King County 911. Where's your emergency? I have an address. Hello? Do you have an emergency?
5657. Can I have a police officer at 5657 Madison? So it's 5657? Yes. Okay.
And what's happening there? I just stabbed someone. You did? Yes. Who who was it that you just stabbed?
I don't know. I'm fed up with lights. You what? I'm fed up with lights. Okay.
Did you stab yourself? No. Well, I did take a whole bunch of pills pills to kill myself. What's your name? Jamari Laughorn.
What is your first name? Just said locked me up forever. My wife. Okay. Did you because they're me to Jupiter.
I don't wanna be on this earth anymore. Kill me. Okay. That person who's dead, are they there with you? No.
Where are they? I don't know. He ran. He ran off? Did you hurry up and come and get me?
Yeah. We're on the way, but I just I'm gonna ask you some more questions. Can you spell your first name? I didn't understand it. J a m a r I o n.
Okay. And your last name? Laughorn, l a w h o r n. Okay. And you don't know who this person was?
They just came up by you? Nope. Okay. And do you still have the knife? No.
Okay. What did you stab them with? A knife. Okay. Where is that?
In the grass. Okay. So it's out in the grass? Mhmm. And the person who's dead was a male.
Right? Hurry up. Hurry up. Why? What what are you doing?
The person just came. Gonna try they gonna try to beat me. They gonna try to beat me. So hurry up and come kill me or take me to jail or something. And that's me.
How you doing? I'm moving. Give me an electric tray. I don't care how I die. Just in the way.
Okay. Alright. What do you who is who is there with you? Who did you ask the address of? The man.
Come on. Did you ask the address to? Who was that guy? Excuse me. Can I get your name?
Quinn. Quinn? Yep. Okay. Is she is she is he there with you?
Did he see who you stabbed? What's going on? I don't understand what's going on. Yep. Something nice too.
It's something nice. Don't don't do it. Did he get stabbed?
Speaker 1: Did you stab him? They're gonna come and kill me. Yes. I did it. Because I'm still out with life, and I wanna die.
I'm going at home.
Speaker 2: Family and friends gathered today to remember the life of nine year old Conor Verkirky.
Speaker 3: His life was cut short last week when he was stabbed multiple times on a Kentwood playground. A 12 year old has been charged with the attack.
Speaker 2: Today's service showed that his short life will be remembered for a long time. Twenty four Raw WORD News eight's Danny Carlson was there. Danny?
Speaker 4: Brian and Sue, no one who was here today will soon forget nine year old Conor Verkirky or the legacy that the dedicated Boy Scout leaves behind, one of love. Now some of Connor's fellow scouts were among those who turned out to say goodbye. Connor's family asked that we not film today's ceremony, but you can hear the devastation. His fellow scouts held flags, a color guard to say goodbye. Their patches read building a stronger future.
That's now a task they'll have to do without nine year old Conifer Kirkey, a difficult task for fellow scout, the little brother who tried to save his life, Cameron.
Speaker 5: Conor, he was going near you, it's like you could feel all his energy and how kind he was and and it's hard to go through this but he he's he's in a better place.
Speaker 6: And during a time when most would have been consumed with fear, Connor was more concerned about Cameron. He told Cameron, look at me, Cameron. If I die, this is not your fault. I love you.
Speaker 4: And today, during a time when most would have been consumed with anger and hate at the seemingly senseless murder of a nine year old boy, there is understandably some of that. But the bigger message from Connor's family was compassion. We're not angry with Jamarian's mom
Speaker 7: and dad because you can't always know as protective as you want to be with your kids. You still have to give them wings to grow, and you can't always know what they're thinking. More anger with Jamarian in a way. We feel bad for him and we do hope that he gets whatever help that is available that he could get. Anger too that he chose Connor.
Speaker 4: Now another message that we heard today from Connor's family was that Connor made friends with everyone, and that's what he was doing on the day that he was killed. They say that they hope that the tragedy that happened to him doesn't discourage other kids from doing that. Live in Gaines Township, Brian.
Speaker 2: The Top at six tonight, Kent County's youngest killer is now a free man. A little more than six years after his crime, Jamarion Lawhorn was released today.
Speaker 3: A judge ordered that he be released from a youth program to live with a family in Jenison. And news eight's Ken Kolker has covered this case from the very beginning. He's here right now with today's milestone moment. Ken?
Speaker 8: Brian and Sue, it's hard to believe it was six years ago that 12 year old Jamarion Lawhorn stabbed nine year old Conner Verkerke to death on playground. Jamarion turns 19 in two weeks. It started with this 911 call from a 12 year old boy in 2014.
Speaker 0: I just stabbed someone. You did. Who was it that you just stabbed?
Speaker 8: He had stabbed Conner Verkirky, a nine year old boy he did not know in a Kentwood playground because he wanted to die himself.
Speaker 9: People think I'm crazy, but they don't know what they do not know me. If I could go back, would take all the pain and stress rather than take a life.
Speaker 8: The killing exposed a lifetime of abuse at the hands of a mom and stepdad who later went to jail for it.
Speaker 10: He was beaten with an extension cord so brutally as to leave permanent scarring on his legs.
Speaker 8: It also exposed the state children's protective services system that failed to protect his child who would become a killer. At the sentencing, Connor's mom said this.
Speaker 6: I feel like I constantly exist in two worlds, this one and one where Connor is still here.
Speaker 8: Today, she told us she was too distraught to talk. The same judge who had sentenced her son's killer ruled today that he was rehabilitated and grown up enough for freedom with limits. Jamarian has been held and treated at the Everett Youth Academy, the former Muskegon River youth home near Everett, where he just earned his GED.
Speaker 10: Congratulations, Jamarian, on the GED, man. Good job.
Speaker 0: Thank you.
Speaker 11: I'm extraordinarily proud of Jamarion's progress, and I do feel like, he is ready to step into adulthood and be a productive member of society.
Speaker 8: She calls him a low risk for violence. Today, he will move into the home of a woman who runs a prison ministry program and her family in Jenison. That woman, Paula Cresswell, started communicating with Lawhorn several years ago and has filled the role as his mother. Jamarion will also be allowed to spend time with the juvenile detention officer who has played the role of his father. The judge also ordered Jamarion to stay on probation, work with a counselor and a mentor, and get a job.
Speaker 10: He's coming out an adult, a legal adult, but in many ways, he's still a child. He's never had that childhood development, and has been in secure settings for this time. So we're kinda taking a cautious approach, your honor.
Speaker 8: Now the judge ordered he stay on probation, work with a counselor and and a mentor, and get a job. Now the judge will review the case in six months and could end probation then or could keep supervising him until he's 21.
Speaker 3: Ken, does Jamarian still have contact with his biological mom?
Speaker 8: Yeah. That came up in court today that, they will allow him to have some, minimal contact, not at her home with with his mom and siblings, like maybe at a restaurant or a park, but not at their home.
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Black Suspect In Attacks On Numerous Asian Women Found Dead Inside Apartment Elevator #hatecrime https://t.co/k361EQfMKN
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Breaking news on two parallel incidents on the Upper East Side and nearby areas.
Upper East Side case:
- The suspect in a string of attacks on Asian women has been identified as Terrell Shaw (25). He was described by police as randomly attacking Asian women and was believed to be hiding around Madison Avenue and East 66th Street.
- Shaw’s body was found late Monday afternoon inside an elevator shaft at 766 Madison Avenue, hanging from a noose. Investigators spent weeks warning residents to be on alert for him.
- Neighbors and tenants reported repeated encounters with a man matching Shaw’s description, including someone seen breaking into offices and other suspicious activity. Karen Bennett, who works on the 5th floor, said she and coworkers were in regular contact with him and had several run-ins; she provided surveillance photos of a man she believes is Shaw.
- Police notes and online posts linked to Shaw reveal a violent manifesto and threats. In one blog entry, he ranted about harming Asian women, writing, “I will hit over a million Asian women in the face with a stick. Will change history. Every Asian woman by herself must be hit in the face. I may even take a photo before hitting them. The reason is because I don’t think Asian women like me.” He warned that he would take his own life, stating, “actually, I’ve already tied a noose to the bottom of an elevator, and I’m going to wait until someone pushes a button.”
- Residents reported they were unaware a body had been found in the elevator shaft; police presence was noted earlier in the day, but residents said they were not told the reason.
Con Edison incident:
- A Con Edison electrical engineer is under arrest for allegedly stabbing a mother on the Upper East Side. The 36-year-old woman, who is the mother of his child, was stabbed several times around 2:30 p.m. She is in serious but stable condition.
- Shortly after the attack on the mother, the suspect allegedly stabbed two coworkers at Con Edison’s Irving Place headquarters. The injuries to the coworkers are not considered life-threatening.
Summary of key facts:
- Tyrell/Terrell Shaw: identified as the suspect in the Asian-women-attacks case; body found in a Madison Avenue elevator shaft, hanging from a noose; warnings issued in the area; troubling online writings and threats attributed to him.
- Con Edison incident: male engineer (identity not specified in the excerpt) accused of stabbing a mother on the Upper East Side; later stabbed two coworkers at Irving Place; victims’ conditions vary from serious but stable to non-life-threatening injuries.
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Speaker 0: Breaking news. A bizarre end to the search for a man wanted in a string of attacks on Asian women tonight. The suspect's body is found in a Madison Avenue elevator shaft, and a series of rambling writings are discovered outlining his bizarre reasoning. Good evening, everyone. I'm Maurice Duquois.
Speaker 1: And I'm Christine Johnson. The man's last online posting was just four days ago. CBS two's Jessica Schneider has more on this breaking story. She's live on the Upper East Side where his body was discovered. Jessica?
Speaker 2: Well, Christina Morris, police were called to this building, 766 Madison Avenue, at least a half dozen times in the last year amid reports from tenants that that suspect was actually squatting inside this building. Well, just last week, that suspect was identified as Terrell Shaw. They say he attacked Asian women, and tonight, he was found dead inside. Investigators spent the last few weeks warning people to be on alert for this man, 25 year old Tyrell Shaw, who they said was randomly attacking Asian women. In the past week, they pinpointed this block at Madison Avenue and East 66th Street as somewhere he might be hiding out.
Karen DeRosa said officers came to her door asking if she had seen him.
Speaker 3: They just asked if if I I recognize this person. I see them walking around the neighborhood, and I did not.
Speaker 2: Late Monday afternoon, sources close to the investigation say they found Shaw dead inside an elevator shaft hanging from a noose. Karen Bennett works on the 5th Floor of this building.
Speaker 4: This morning when I came in at about quarter of nine, it smelled terrible in the elevator, and it still does.
Speaker 2: Bennett says she and her employees had several run ins with a man matching Shaw's description. She sent us these surveillance photos of a man she believes is Tyrell Shaw breaking into her office this past fall. She says it happened at least six times.
Speaker 4: One of my coworkers encountered him. He just picked up his phone and walked out when he encountered him. Couldn't even stop him.
Speaker 2: Police say Shaw ranted on this blog about his plight to hurt Asian women, writing, I will hit over a million Asian women in the face with a stick. Will change history. Every Asian woman by herself must be hit in the face. I may even take a photo before hitting them. The reason is because I don't think Asian women like me.
And he warned that he would take his own life, writing, actually, I've already tied a noose to the bottom of an elevator, and I'm going to wait until someone pushes a button. And people who live and work in this area say they have no they had no idea that a body was found in the elevator shaft in this Madison Avenue Number 766. They do say that they saw police here earlier today. They weren't told why those police were here. Live on the Upper East Side, Jessica Schneider, CBS.
Speaker 1: Jessica, thank you. A Con Edison electrical engineer is under arrest tonight, accused of stabbing a mother on the Upper East Side and two of his coworkers. The 36 year old woman was stabbed several times around 02:30 this afternoon. She's in serious but stable condition. Police say the suspect is the father of her child.
A short while later, he allegedly stabbed two coworkers at ConEd's Irving Place headquarters. Their injuries are not considered life threatening.