Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with an oxygen tube, needed because of his emphysema. Although some in the courtroom were visibly moved by this frail father's appeal, the jury unanimously voted for the death penalty. A critical factor, a juror said later, was that jail officials had recently found an 8-in. homemade knife in King's cell, and this indicated, the jury felt, that he was primed for more violence. Brewer and Berry, King's alleged accomplices, still face capital-murder charges of their own; their trial dates have not yet been...
...Cambridge resident told police that her former roommate entered her apartment and threatened to kill her. She said the man hit her, threw her against a wall, and held a knife to her throat. He then scooped up the woman's 20-month-old baby and threw the child onto a couch, she said. He reportedly then said, "If I don't get you know, I'll get you later." The officers offered to help the woman take a restraining order out against her former roommate, but she refused...
...diagnosis of sickle-cell anemia when she was seven years old, and she continues to suffer from it. (She became a spokesperson for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America in 1996.) The ailment, on her bad days, makes her feel as if she has "a big old butcher knife" stabbing into her joints. Sometimes, she says, the pain is so excruciating that she can't walk or use her arms, and family members and friends have to feed her. "The only two items on my body that haven't hurt are my fingers and my toes," says Watkins...
After an argument Tuesday night, Henderson allegedly pulled a knife and cut the victim in the throat, Pasquarello said...
...Cambridge Police interceded in a domestic dispute at 215 Mt. Auburn Street and arrested Dorothy Blakey. During the dispute, Blakey allegedly began swinging a knife at her husband. When he tried to grab it from her, she reportedly pulled it away, cutting his fingers...