72-year-old Marine Corps veteran died of "egregious neglect" at Minnesota "Care Center"

Ex-care center owner charged with manslaughter in Marine veteran’s death

The Associated Press
By: Steve Karnowski
September 24, 2019  

The second-degree manslaughter count cited the case of a 72-year-old Marine Corps veteran, identified only as R.M., who died last October of septic shock, an untreated urinary tract infection and other complications resulting from improper medical care and neglect. The investigators said doctors and nurses who treated him at a Duluth hospital just before his death found a “filthy” catheter and a 1-square-foot pressure sore on his tailbone that was draining a “foul smelling liquid,” a wound they said resulted from “utter, complete neglect.”

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MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s attorney general’s office said Tuesday that it has charged 10 people with 76 criminal counts following an investigation into the death of a 72-year-old man and what it described as egregious neglect of other patients at a northern Minnesota care center.

The most serious charges include racketeering, swindling and manslaughter counts against Theresa Lee Olson, 43, the former owner of the now-closed center, Chappy’s Golden Shores in Hill City. Olson is also accused of bilking the state’s Medicaid program out of nearly $2.2 million. The facility had been the subject of repeated disciplinary and administrative actions by the Minnesota Department of Health and the Department of Human Services, the attorney general’s office said.

“My office is holding these defendants accountable for what we believe we can prove is systematic, intolerable abuse and neglect that in one case led to death, not to mention widespread fraud, theft, and other charges that hurt everyone,” Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement.
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Man Pleads Guilty Year After Matthew Pearce Was Killed

Salem man pleads guilty to manslaughter in Iraq veteran's shooting death
by KATU.com Staff
Wednesday, July 13th 2016

SALEM, Ore. - A 34-year-old Salem man pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges for the shooting death of a former Oregon National Guard soldier and Iraq veteran last year.

Nicholas Ransom, 34, pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession of a firearm and 2nd-degree manslaughter. Charges of murder, first-degree manslaughter, and unlawful use of a weapon charges were dismissed as part of his plea agreement.

Ransom was charged with shooting 30-year-old Matthew Pearce during a physical fight on July 15, 2015.
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Fort Knox Soldier Charged After Fatal Accident

Fort Knox soldier dies in Friday night crash; another soldier charged with DUI, manslaughter 
WDRB News
Posted: Dec 19, 2015

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One person was killed and two others were seriously hurt after a crash in Radcliff, according to Radcliff Chief of Police Jeff Cross.

Chief Cross tells WDRB the crash happened Friday at 11:15 p.m.

He says a vehicle hit a home in the 900 block of North Logsdon Parkway in Radcliff.

Officials with the Hardin County Coroner's Office say the man killed is Derrick Cleveland 23, of California. He is a soldier currently stationed at Fort Knox.

Chief Cross says no one inside the home was injured, but two people were inside at the time of the crash.

The third passenger, 48-year-old Stanley Crawford, is still at University Hospital. He is a former military member.
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Student Faces Manslaughter Charges After Encouraging Suicide

Off topic but you hear this kind of thing all the time. If you are looking for help, and feel worse afterwards, you are not asking the right person. This student texted and encouraged suicidal friend to do it.

High School Student Charged With Manslaughter Friend's Suicide
Authorities say Michelle Carter encouraged Conrad Roy III to commit suicide
NECN News
By Katelyn Flint
February 27, 2015

A young woman who says she tried to help a Massachusetts teen before his 2014 suicide now faces manslaughter charges after text messages allegedly revealed that she encouraged him to take his own life. Court documents from New Bedford court outline a deeper look into the death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy, a student from Fairhaven and Mattapoisett.

In July of 2014, Fairhaven Police found Roy's body in his car parked behind a store. They believe he committed suicide by means of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Now, 18-year-old Michelle Carter of Plainville is facing involuntary manslaughter charges, having been indicted as a youthful offender.
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Chaplain at Maine VA killed wife

Is this a case of redemption or example of a deeper problem? The VA would not hire a Chaplain like me even though I was trained, ordained, and at the time I was trying to work for the VA, insured. I gave up because I did not meet their requirements of training. While they seem to not want to break the rules, this Chaplain was allowed to work for them. It should depend more on the way he lives his life now. If he can find forgiveness for what he had done in the past, that can be a priceless message.

Convicted killer’s hire as chaplain at Togus concerns federal officials
The chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee said the hiring means the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs must ‘look very closely at their hiring practices.’
By Michael Shepherd
Staff Writer
April 11, 2014

TOGUS — The chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee said Friday that the panel is concerned by a loophole that allowed VA Maine Healthcare Systems-Togus to hire a chaplain who killed his wife without Togus officials knowing of his conviction.

The remarks from U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., came after a tour of the hospital and surrounding buildings on its campus with U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud of Maine’s 2nd District, the top committee Democrat.

The comments were in response to a March story in the Kennebec Journal about the past of James T. Luoma, a Pentecostal minister and Vietnam veteran who is now the head chaplain at Togus.

In 1986, he was convicted of murdering his wife, Sherry, in Ohio, but an appeal led to a new trial, a guilty plea to manslaughter and a shorter sentence. A model inmate by all accounts, Luoma left prison in 2004 and became an ordained minister.

By 2011, he had a chaplain job with the federal Department of Veterans Affairs in Dayton, Ohio. In October, Luoma, now 63, was hired to lead Togus chaplains.
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Former soldier guilty of manslaughter of wife

Former soldier guilty of manslaughter of wife
October 25, 2012 CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.

(AP) — A jury in Clarksville has found a former Fort Campbell soldier guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of his wife after he testified that he shot her multiple times when she provoked him. After deliberating for nearly five hours, the jury on Thursday found Jonathan Downing guilty of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, instead of a more serious first-degree premeditated murder charge read more here

Fort Bragg soldier charged with killing retired Sgt. Major Raymond Thompson

Fort Bragg soldier charged with killing retired Sgt. Maj. in North Carolina

By Associated Press, Published: October 7

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A Fort Bragg soldier has turned himself in to authorities to face charges in the shooting death of a retired sergeant major in North Carolina last month.

Fayetteville police spokesman Gavin MacRoberts said Friday that 41-year-old Staff Sgt. Clyde Terrell Cobb turned himself in on Thursday. He is charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of retired Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Thompson.
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Baltimore Cop guilty of manslaughter in death of Marine

Officer Guilty Of Manslaughter In Marine Shooting Case, Victim’s Family Speaks Out
June 9, 2011 11:59 PM
BALTIMORE (WJZ)— Guilty of manslaughter—not of murder. That’s the judge’s decision for the city police officer on trial for the shooting death of a Marine.

Gigi Barnett explains the victim’s family is happy with the verdict.

Despite Officer Gahiji Tshamba not being found guilty of the harsher first- or second-degree murder charges, the family is calling the verdict a victory.

The judge spared Tshamba a murder conviction, but said he believed he was drunk and that he never should have pulled out a weapon when a man touched his female friend’s buttocks. He found him guilty of manslaughter and a felony handgun crime.

Tshamba was driven off in a correction van minutes after a judge found him guilty of the felony crimes. He faces 30 years in prison for killing unarmed Marine Tyrone Brown outside a nightclub in Mount Vernon.
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Officer Guilty Of Manslaughter In Marine Shooting Case

Bliss soldier shot to death while home on leave

Bliss soldier shot to death while home on leave
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Oct 20, 2009 5:31:44 EDT

BLUM, Texas — A West Texas woman has been charged with manslaughter in the weekend shooting death of an Army soldier on leave from Iraq, authorities said Monday.

Hill County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyons said Pvt. Cody Ryan Patterson, 20, suffered an apparent gunshot wound to his chest at a home in Blum, about 40 miles north of Waco. He was pronounced dead early Saturday morning.
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Couple charged in 2-year-old girl's python-related death

Couple charged in 2-year-old girl's python-related death
The mother of a Sumter County girl asphyxiated by a Burmese python and the woman's live-in boyfriend were charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the death, officials said Monday. Read more...



Father of python victim supports charges against mom, boyfriend

American contractor gets probation in revenge killing in Afghanistan

This sounds like justice. Could you imagine seeing what he saw? I hope he gets help to cope with it.

American gets probation in revenge killing

He was military contractor in Afghanistan when colleague was set on fire
updated 4:08 p.m. ET, Fri., May 8, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former military contractor avoided jail Friday for the revenge killing of a handcuffed Afghan detainee who had doused one of the contractor's colleagues with gasoline and set her on fire.

Don M. Ayala, 46, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge that normally would carry up to eight years in prison. But U.S. District Senior Judge Claude Hilton decided a sentence of probation was justified under the horrific circumstances that led Ayala to shoot and kill Abdul Salam in the village of Chehel Gazi on Nov. 4.

"The acts that were done in front of this defendant would provide provocation for anyone" who witnessed the scene, Hilton said. "This occurred in a hostile area, maybe not in the middle of a battlefield, but certainly in the middle of a war."
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Soldier's bail $100000 in Parkland shooting death

Soldier's bail $100000 in Parkland shooting death
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA

TACOMA -- Bail has been set at $100,000 on a decorated Fort Lewis soldier who was arrested following the fatal shooting of a friend.

Twenty-three-year-old Sgt. Christopher Thomas Green remained in custody after the court hearing Tuesday for investigation of first-degree manslaughter.
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Sgt. Jose Nazario fate in hands of jury now

Fate of ex-Marine accused in Iraqi prisoners' deaths now in jury's hands
The panel in Riverside began deliberations this afternoon in Jose Nazario's trial. Earlier today, jurors heard a tape in which Nazario appears to admit ordering the 2004 killings in Fallouja.
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 28, 2008
A federal jury in Riverside began deliberating this afternoon in the trial of former Marine Sgt. Jose Nazario, who is charged with manslaughter, assault and use of a firearm in the alleged execution of four unarmed Iraqi prisoners.

The case against Nazario is highly unusual. It is the first time under a little-known 2000 law that a former member of the military is being tried in federal court in an alleged crime committed in combat. Nazario has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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Sgt. Jose Nazario on trial in US because of Sessions' bill

Next time congress decides to do a bill like this the better think clearly about how it will effect the troops. This wouldn't have happened without Sessions' bill.

Civilian Court Tries Case
From the Fog of War
Ex-Marine Is Accused Under Law
Aimed at Contractors; Questions in Fallujah
By NICHOLAS CASEY
August 19, 2008; Page A1

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Jose Luis Nazario was a Marine Corps sergeant in Iraq in November 2004, when he found himself leading a squad through three weeks of house-to-house fighting in the city of Fallujah.


At one point, members of his team say, they entered a house and found unarmed men hiding under a staircase. Those men, according to testimony of some in Mr. Nazario's squad, didn't leave the house alive.

Two of Mr. Nazario's squad now await a military court-martial for allegedly killing unarmed men there. Mr. Nazario, however, left the Marines in 2005 with an honorable discharge and a medal of valor. By exiting the Marines, he also left the jurisdiction of military prosecutors.

Yet, in a trial scheduled to begin Tuesday, Mr. Nazario will nonetheless face manslaughter charges for allegedly participating in the Fallujah killings. The charges have been filed not by the military, but by civilian prosecutors in a federal court in Riverside, Calif. They are invoking a little-known law that allows U.S. courts to pursue overseas combat crimes that were traditionally beyond their grasp.

Mr. Nazario's prosecution surprised even some of those who crafted the law. "I don't think any of us at the time the legislation passed were contemplating that a potential criminal act that occurred while a person was on active duty in combat would be tried in a civilian court," says Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Alabama Republican who introduced the law. While he says Mr. Nazario shouldn't escape trial, Mr. Sessions says such a matter would be better handled by the military, were that possible.
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Bliss soldier charged with intoxicated manslaughter

Bliss soldier charged with intoxicated manslaughter

Posted: June 14, 2008 09:27 PM EDT


EL PASO -- A Fort Bliss soldier is behind bars and one woman is dead after an early-morning crash Saturday.

Rodriguez Kemp, 19, allegedly plowed into four women with his pick-up truck as they were leaving the Chit Chat Lounge near the intersection of Dyer and Truman in Central El Paso.

Kemp -- a soldier stationed at Fort Bliss -- is charged with intoxicated manslaughter and two counts of intoxicated assault.

Police officials said the collision happened shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday.

According to Investigators, the four women were crossing Dyer right in front of the bar when they were struck by the soldier.

Claudia Lopez, 28, of the 12000 block of Saint Lawrence, was rushed to William Beaumont Army Medical Center. She died moments later.

Erika James, 26, of the 12000 block of Roadhouse; and Licia Kim, 28, of the 1900 block of Ratner were taken to Thomason Hospital with serious injuries.

Lashanda Delaney, of the 10000 block of Bob Stone, received non-life threatning injuries.

"When he realized he hit them, he came out with his hands up, he sat on the ground and that's when the police took him inside the club," said Leon Holt, who was walking the women to their cars across the street.

Holt told ABC-7 he kept on repeating the early-morning scene in his mind throughout the day.

He was holding one of the women by the hand and then she was no longer with him. "When I looked up, she let my hand go. So I don't know what's going on," said Holt, "I look to see what's going on or where she went. When I looked up, she was flying down the street."
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Canada:Surprise pleas in killing of homeless man Paul Croutch

Surprise pleas in Moss Park killing

Two of three accused in attack on homeless man plead guilty to manslaughter in his death


Apr 18, 2008 04:30 AM
Rosie DiManno
Columnist

"What the hell happened last night?"

– Corp. Jeffrey Hall, the morning after a killing.

They bent their heads and wept, two ruined young men who admit beating a homeless person to death, an unresisting stranger, for no reason they can recall.

One remembers the episode through an alcoholic haze and does not disavow it, if purportedly mystified by his own brutality.

One claims to have no memory of the horrific incident at all, which provides a useful buffer against conscience.

A third – serious doubts raised about his involvement in the original, incomprehensible, staggeringly cruel assault on a recumbent street person – accepts culpability as an accessory after the fact.

They didn't mean to do murder – a common refrain from defendants – which was the charge originally levelled against the trio of army reservists in the unprovoked pounding that took the life of 59-year-old Paul Croutch in the early morning hours of Aug. 31, 2005 at Moss Park.

Following a preliminary hearing, the charges were knocked down to second-degree murder, plus assault causing bodily harm against a witness to the frenzied attack.

Yesterday – the triumvirate standing shoulder-to-shoulder – Hall and Brian Deganis pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter, as accepted by Crown Attorney Hank Goody, Mountaz Ibrahim to the accessory charge, all three going down on assault causing bodily harm against Valerie Valen, the woman who was booted and punched for trying to intervene.

And none of it makes any more sense now than it did nearly three years ago. Croutch – a fragile human being bundled in plastic bags against the rain – is dead, apparently because he drew the white-hot, booze-fuelled wrath of bullies with malice on the brain and an absence of pity in the heart.
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