Articles tagged Family
LONG KEY, Florida – Police have been looking for Paul Michael Merhige, 35, after shooting four of his family members to death during a Thanksgiving gathering. Killed were Merhige’s 6-year-old cousin, Makayla Sitton, his twin sisters, Carla Merhige and Lisa Knight, 33, and an aunt, Raymonde Joseph, 76. Merhige’s brother-in-law Patrick Knight and Clifford Gebara, 52, were wounded. America’s Most Wanted had featured him already, but this past Saturday someone saw a promo piece for that night’s upcoming episode – an episode featuring Merhige. The man was Paul Pfaff, co-owner of the Edgewater Lodge on Long Key and he recognized Merhige as the man who checked into their remote motel on Dec 2nd and had been living as a hermit there ever since. They called AMW with their information and within hours, police were busting into Merhige’s room. He was tased and taken without incident. He had altered his appearance and his room contained a noose and three tanks of helium hooked up to a plastic bag. He is being held in isolation in the mental health unit of the Palm Beach County Jail, awaiting his Feb 1st court appearance. He was ordered held without bond, accused of four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. Good job, AMW and Paul Pfaff. I watched that episode Sunday, and what this man did was absolutely heinous. [Read more...]
Tags: America's Most Wanted, Crime, Family, gun, Murder, Paul Michael Merhige, Shooting, Thanksgiving
Pueblo, Colorado – Deputies had to Taze a 10-year-old boy after being called to his foster home where he was reportedly destroying property. The boy threatened deputies with a pipe and a stick, and threw a piece of wood at them. Once they had him cornered, he got his ass Tazed. The boy’s foster father supports the deputies’ action. “A two-foot piece of pipe can do a lot of damage, I don’t care who is swinging it. If they go and try and tackle him and try and take it away from him, even if he doesn’t hurt them, they’re probably going to hurt him a lot worse than the tazer did. I think what they did was right. I’m completely behind what they did,” said Daniel Bilby, foster father. The boy was not hurt and was booked into Pueblo Youth Center on suspicion of menacing with a deadly weapon. [Read more...]
Tags: Family, foster care, Foster Parents, tazer
JUPITER, Florida – Police are looking for Paul Michael Merhige, 35, after a shooting in a Florida home left four of his family dead. Police say that approximately seventeen people were at a home celebrating Thanksgiving when at around 10 p.m., shots were fired. Killed were Merhige’s 6-year-old cousin, Makayla Sitton, his twin sisters, Carla Merhige and Lisa Knight, 33, and an aunt, Raymonde Joseph, 76. Merhige’s brother-in-law Patrick Knight and Clifford Gebara, 52, were wounded. Police say that sometime after Thanksgiving dinner, Merhige left the home and returned later with a handgun. “We know the suspect had an ongoing resentment toward family members and at some point in the evening left the residence for a short period of time, then returned and started shooting without warning,” Police Sgt. Scott Pascarella told ABCNews.com. The nature of the problem is not known or whether the victims were specifically targeted. [Read more...]
Tags: Crime, Family, Florida, gun, handgun, Holidays, Murder, Paul Michael Merhige, Shooting, Thanksgiving
The projectionist could’ve run this film backwards, and I don’t think I would’ve noticed. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant is a Hollywood attempt to massage author Darren Shan’s 12-part saga of vampires and teenagers into a viable, cash-cow franchise. Spanning the first three novels, Assistant doesn’t tell a story as much as it hurls everything that isn’t nailed down against the wall to see what sticks. Labored and often tedious, the picture is a friendly stab at Burtonesque macabre antics, but director Paul Weitz is in way over his head trying to juggle huge portions of the grotesque and the epic. 16-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) is an average teen with good grades and a love for spiders. Finding a flyer for the Cirque du Freak sideshow, Darren decides to attend with impulsive best friend Steve (the limited Josh Hutcherson), finding [Read more...]
Tags: action, adventure, chris massoglia, drama, Family, fantasy, frankie faison, Harry Potter, Horror, jane krakowski, John C. Reilly, josh hutcherson, ken watanabe, kristen schaal, michael cerveris, orlando jones, patrick fugit, Paul Weitz, ray stevenson, Salma Hayek, thriller, Universal Pictures, Vampire
Panama City Beach, FL – As if small children aren’t enough of a black hole of need, nature comes along and plays another cruel joke on the able-bodied by saddling them with the elderly. One day you are thanking your lucky stars that your babies are finally able to use the toilet without assistance and next thing you know, you are having to invest in adult diapers for your parents. Life seems so unfair sometimes. It’s a good thing that most of us love our families enough to gladly put up with this inconvenience. After all, they took care of us and allowed us to live when we were screaming toddlers and snotty teens, the least we could do is return the favor. Or at the very least hire someone to return the favor for us – someone like Geraldine Shockley, a caretaker hired by 94 year-old Bessie Borth and her family. Oh wait, Shockley wasn’t a great caretaker. Actually, she was a pretty shitty one. Borth was found dead, and it wasn’t from natural causes. [Read more...]
Tags: Family, Florida, Geraldine Shockley, Murder, Panama City Beach, Panama City Beach Florida
