18-year-old Winnipeg gang associate — once accused of beating a stranger to death on the street during a chance encounter — is now being charged in a near-fatal stabbing whilefree on bail from the initial at tack. Paul Cherewick, 30, died on May 24, 2008, nine days after he was beaten with a baseball bat following an argument with a 16-year-old stranger. Police arrested the teen — who is linked to the Manitoba Warriors street gang — days later and charged him with second-degree murder. The youth was released on a $10,000 surety and several conditions, including a nightly curfew, in 2008. The same accused, now 18, was arrested on Jan. 1 after allegedly stabbing a 25-year-old man following a Winnipeg house party. The victim was taken to hospital in critical condition but has since been deemed stable. The teen, who remains in custody, has been charged with aggravated assault and breaching his youth bail conditions.
''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an...
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