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By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Jan. 6) – There's a lot of news today in the world of accused and convicted murderers, so we rounded it all up. Johnny L. Wicks' Past Homicide First, the man who killed a federal court officer and wounded a U.S. marshal in Las Vegas on Monday had been convicted of killing his own brother in Memphis in 1976, the Los Angeles Times reports. Wicks, 66, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years for the slaying but was paroled in 1981. Aside from the murder, Wicks' rap sheet included a conviction for spousal abuse, an accusation of assault to commit rape and robbery charges. On Monday, Wicks set ...
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By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIn the hours after Stephen Tyrone Johns was gunned down at the U.S. Holocaust Museum last week, his wife of just a year, Zakiah Johns, cried to her pastor over and over, "Pastor, I just want my husband back." Today, Johns' 39-year-old husband was laid to rest in a private ceremony, following a public memorial service that included a lengthy police escort, a 19-flag honor guard, crowds of photographers and more than 500 mourners who gathered to remember him. The day of private heartache and public grief seemed a fitting tribute for a man who was a father, son and husband in life, and in death ...
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