Woman Condemned

GREENSBORO — The new year started on a deadly note, with an aggravated assault in Greensboro that left three people dead — two of them children. Police identified the victims in the triple slaying as 61-year-old Jerry Griffin, 10-year-old Mkenzie Denise McKinney and 2-year-old Serenity Taliem Rose. All three were shot, according to Ron Glenn, a spokesman for the police department. Brittany Christina McKinney, 28, of Greensboro is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths, police said in a news release. She is scheduled to appear in court Thursday afternoon. Officers responded about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday to a welfare check in the 3600 block of Sweet Birch Drive in southeast Greensboro. A relative had contacted police to request the check, Glenn said. Two victims were found dead at the scene, Glenn said, and a third victim was taken to a hospital, where that victim later died. Glenn would not say which victim was taken to the hospital. McKinney is a relati

A 26-year-old woman has been sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison for her role in a central Iowa homicide. Jaycie A. Sheeder on Thursday was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the 2018 death of 38-year-old Jeremy McDowell in Newton. McDowell's body was found in a car Sheeder was driving after he had been badly beaten by another man with a bat. The sentencing came after her attorney's motion for a new trial was overruled, court records show. Dean Stowers, Sheeder's lawyer, said a new trial was needed for multiple reasons, which include allegations of inappropriate questioning of witnesses by a prosecutor during the trial and the allegation that her last counsel was ineffective. Stowers replaced a public defender in the case. The motion was resisted by the state and denied by the court Thursday. Sheeder was also sentenced to 25 years in prison for first-degree robbery and two years in prison for being an accessory to murder after the crime.

Elizabeth took her 13-month-old son, Casen Caine Case, with her as she went dumpster diving in her hometown in Limestone County, Alabama on October 4th,. She took her son and went out foraging on a Friday evening and when she returned home around 6 a.m. on Saturday, she left Casen in the car. Temperatures flew over 90 degrees that day. Elizabeth's mother arrived at the home after 1 in the afternoon and found the young boy unresponsive in the sweltering heat. She brought him in the house and tried to revive him in the shower to no avail. Case was initially charged with felony murder and aggravated child abuse, but a Limestone County grand jury returned the more serious charge after hearing evidence, District Attorney Brian Jones told The News Courier. “We had a detailed presentation to the grand jury, and they felt (the upgraded charge) was warranted,” Limestone County District Attorney Brian Jones said. Case is being represented by Athens attorney Harlan Mitchell. Case