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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Hopes grim missing woman is still alive
HARRISON Twp., Montgomery County - Hope is fading a 47-year-old woman missing since last week is still alive.
Deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, Jan. 5, searched a creek near the home of Linda M. Shockley on East Nottingham Road.
Shockley’s family reported her missing on Dec. 29, but said she had been missing since Christmas Day. They said Shockley had no warm clothes or identification on her and she might be off her medication, investigators said.
“We are going to expand our search and notify neighboring states,” Chief Deputy Mike Nolan said. “We are still hoping to find her, but we are also realistic since it has been a week.”
Temperatures have hovered near or below freezing in the week Shockley has been missing, with wind chills falling below zero degrees at night.
Nolan said Shockley is manic depressive and her family is hoping she is staying somewhere safe. She is described as a white female about 5-feet, 160 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
She was last seen wearing blue jeans, an orange sweater and beige boots. Anyone with information of her whereabouts should immediately call 225-STOP.
TweetOngoing racial dispute erupts into violence
DAYTON - A 40-year-old man who police said has been arrested numerous times for racially-related crimes now faces felony charges for allegedly trying to hit his neighbor with a shovel because he is black.
Kurt D. Riddlebarger is in Montgomery County Jail on felony ethnic intimidation and assault charges after police said nearly a six-month-long dispute escalated on Dec. 26 with him attacking his neighbor in the 200 block of Ashwood Avenue.
“Apparently this is an ongoing dispute that started in June over Mr. Riddlebarger’s issues with his neighbor’s race,” Lt. Patrick Welsh said.
Welsh said Riddlebarger uttered racial slurs while trying to strike his 51-year-old neighbor with a shovel. The male victim was able to flee unharmed and called police.
“The complainant has a protection order against Mr. Riddlebarger and we responded to the scene because he violated that order,” Welsh said.
Jail records show Riddlebarger has been arrested four times in the last six months on ethnic intimidation and/or menacing charges. All those arrests were related to the ongoing dispute with his neighbor, Welsh said.
Riddlebarger faces two to eight years in prison if convicted of the felonies, but first the case must go before a Montgomery County grand jury. A date for that hearing has not been set.
TweetVeteran shot running from bus stop robbery
DAYTON - A 66-year-old military veteran is recovering from a gunshot wound to the arm after he fled from two men who robbed him at gunpoint.
Officers responded to the 1600 block of Germantown Street Monday, Jan. 4, about 9 p.m. and found William M. Woods bleeding from his arm, according to a police report.
Woods said he was talking to someone on his cell phone at a bus stop near the DeSoto Bass apartments when he noticed two men approaching, the report stated. The men waited for Woods to get off the phone and then said “Give me everything you got,” the report stated.
Woods said he noticed both men had small pistols and said his military experience helped him determine they were real weapons, the report stated.
He handed the gunmen his backpack, which contained a book, his work uniform and a water bottle, the report stated. Woods, who works at the VA Medical Center, turned to run and heard two shots, the report stated.
A stinging sensation in his arm caused him to take off his coat and Woods noticed a gunshot wound in his arm, just above the elbow, the report stated.
Medics transported him to a local hospital where he was treated for the wound and released. Woods said he might be able to describe the gunmen if he saw them again, but did not have many details of their appearance.
Anyone with information about the shooting should call 333-COPS.
TweetOngoing domestic dispute leads to theft of man’s ashes
DAYTON - An ongoing domestic dispute that has involved police at least four times in the last three weeks took a bizarre turn with the theft of a man’s ashes Sunday, Jan. 3.
Officers responded to the 100 block of North Garland Avenue Sunday after Lacey Strader, 21, reported the father of her child, Michael Kincaid had taken off with their son and an urn containing her father’s ashes, according to a police report.
Strader said she woke up just before 10 a.m. after hearing some commotion in her kitchen and came out of her bedroom to find Kincaid in her home, the report stated.
The couple began to argue and Strader told Kincaid she was calling police, the report stated.
Strader said Kincaid grabbed an urn containing her father’s ashes and left, the report stated. She said Kincaid was also supposed to drop off their son, but left with the boy.
The child was later returned to Strader’s relatives, but not the urn, the report stated. It appears police are going to let a judge work out the ongoing dispute as the couple already had a court date scheduled for Jan. 14 to deal with another domestic violence issue, the report stated.
Strader was ordered into the city prosecutor’s office for a meeting on Wednesday, the report stated.
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