Word: ward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday, Laverne Ward, 24, rang up his old girlfriend Deborah Evans, 28. Evans, a welfare mother with three children and another on the way, had moved away from Hanover Park, a drug-infested Chicago suburb frequented by Ward, to try to rebuild her life in middle-class Addison. A few hours later, Ward, along with his cousin, Jacqueline Williams, 28, and her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, 22, turned up at Evans' apartment at 675 Swift St. According to relatives, Ward was high on crack. Evans let them in, and a brief argument ensued. Prosecutors charge that Caffey then shot Evans...
...three then got down to their purported business: taking Evans' unborn baby boy, whom she'd planned to name Elijah. Police say that Caffey and Williams were going to claim the child as their own. (Williams' tubes, one of Ward's friends explained, had been tied after having given birth to three children.) Others say that Ward wanted the boy for himself, and boasted shortly after the murder that he had just had a baby boy. Either way, prosecutors believe the three acted in unison inside Evans' apartment, with Caffey allegedly using scissors and a knife to perform...
Leaving behind Evans' 19-month-old son Jordan, who police believe is Ward's biological son, the threesome fled with the newborn and his brother Joshua, 8. Police later learned that Joshua reached out for help, telling an adult about the murders and charging that Ward had been involved. His captors then allegedly tried poisoning and strangling Joshua before stabbing him to death. Police found his body in an alley in the suburb of Maywood...
...rear bedroom. Late Friday night, police tracked down Williams and Caffey, who had Elijah with them. Since July, say prosecutors, Williams had been feigning pregnancy and a delivery date that coincided with Evans'. "[Williams' family] had a baby shower for her, and she never was pregnant," recalls Ward's friend. Williams told prosecutors she and Caffey longed for a lightskinned baby boy--presumably the sort of mixed-race infant that was about to be born to the white Evans. Though police believe that Ward sired Elijah, as well as Jordan, Evans' boyfriend Edwards, who like Ward is African-American, says...
...particular gene--known as nef, for negative factor--that it is hard to imagine how the gene could perform any useful function. And sure enough, while the Sydney virus retains the ability to infect T cells--white blood cells that are critical to the immune system's ability to ward off infection--it makes so few copies of itself that the most powerful molecular tools can barely detect its presence. Some of the infected Australians, for example, were found to carry as few as one or two copies of the virus for every 100,000 T cells. People with aids...