Second parent charged in death of abused 2-year-old St. Paul girl Liz Sawyer, Star Tribune
Prosecutors have charged a second parent in connection with the death of their 2-year-old daughter, who was found fatally beaten on the family s St. Paul porch last month.
John Vang, 42, was charged via summons in Ramsey County District Court on Thursday with felony child endangerment related to previous acts of abuse toward Melody Vang.
The child s mother, 29-year-old Ciashia Lee, told police she d lost her temper and repeatedly struck Melody, causing fatal traumatic head injuries, after the toddler s cries woke a sleeping infant on Jan. 10, charges say. She remains jailed on second-degree murder charges.
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LiHong Linda Burdick spun a rare talent into a successful business.
For 30 years, the master seamstress operated Lotus Cleaners & Tailors in Eden Prairie, tending to customers formalwear. Burdick could stitch together an outfit or a wedding dress from scratch and developed an intimate knowledge of her loyal clientele. When people walked in, she knew who they were and she knew exactly how they wanted their shirts starched, said her son, Keith Bartram of Maple Grove.
Burdick, of Chaska, died Jan. 17 of complications from COVID-19. She was 72.
Born in Tainan, Taiwan, as the youngest of nine children, Burdick came of age during a time of great uncertainty in the region. At 21, while working in the cafeteria at a local Air Force base, she fell for an American GI stationed there during the Vietnam War. The young couple immigrated to the U.S. in the late 60s.
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An 11-year-old boy shot five times alongside his mother and teenage sister implicated the man who did it before dying at the hospital, according to murder charges.
TeKeith Syvone Jones, 26, was charged Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court with three counts of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of his ex-girlfriend, D Zondria Wallace, 30, and her two children, La Porsha, 14, and Ja Corbie, 11. Jones remains jailed in lieu of $5 million bail.
In a police interview, Jones eventually confessed to the shooting but gave inconsistent answers on the motive. Jones didn t know why he killed them, charges say, but claimed he was trying to save them.
Murder charges pending for suspect in St. Paul triple homicide Relatives have identified the 26-year-old as the victim s ex-boyfriend. February 1, 2021 9:32pm Text size Copy shortlink:
The man jailed on suspicion of gunning down a pregnant woman and her two children in their St. Paul home Saturday was a jealous ex-boyfriend who displayed increasingly threatening behavior leading up to the killings, relatives said.
In a scene that Chief Todd Axtell described as hellish, first responders on Saturday afternoon found D Zondria Wallace, 30, and her 14-year-old daughter, La Porsha, dead inside the apartment in the 700 block of Jessie Street in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood. Her son, Ja Corbie, 11, died a few hours later at Regions Hospital. Wallace was two months pregnant.