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Gage Park stabbing: Audio between city police dispatcher and officer

Hours after six bodies were discovered Thursday in a Gage Park bungalow, Noemi Martinez waited by the phone nearly 1,000 miles away in Texas, still not sure whether the victims were family members her husband had just visited over Christmas.
"This is shocking, and I don’t know what to think,” she said. “We’re trying to find out what’s going on.”
Finally, about four hours after police found the bodies of five adults and one child around 10 years old, Martinez was resigned to the idea that they were her relatives. But she still had many questions about what happened inside the brick bungalow in the 5700 block of South California Avenue.
“We’re still trying to figure it all out,” she said through tears. “We don’t know what happened.”
Police say the six victims were found throughout the home around 1:05 p.m. after a co-worker of a man who lived there called 911, police said. The victims appeared to have been stabbed, but police were waiting for autopsies.
The co-worker told police the man had not shown up for work Wednesday or Thursday, interim police Superintendent John Escalante said at a news conference near the home. From outside, an officer saw "what they believed to be a body" inside on the floor, he said. The officers entered and discovered the bodies in different locations in the home.


Escalante said there were "signs of trauma to the bodies.” Responding to a reporter's question, Escalante said there was no indication anyone inside had committed suicide, though police had not ruled out anything.
Investigators were being careful and thorough as they “collect as much evidence as possible," he said.
The Chicago Lawn District added patrols in the area, but Escalante said he did not think there was a threat to the community. The deaths were "contained within the residence," he said, without explaining.
Martinez said a couple in their 60s lived downstairs in the bungalow with their son, in his 40s. Their daughter, in her 30s, lived on the second floor with her two children, one around 9 and the other in his teens.
Martinez said by phone that she feared the entire family was dead, but she was having problems getting answers from police. Her description of the family -- one matched by neighbors -- does not match the description of victims given by police, who said five adults and one child had been found slain.
Police could not explain the discrepancy Thursday night.
Martinez said she and her husband planned to drive to Chicago as soon as possible. "My husband's mother is distraught. She has lost her brother. She's here in Texas, so we're driving her there as soon as we can. The police said they need us."
The father of the two children who lived in the house is in Mexico, Martinez said.
She described the grandparents as devoted to their children and grandchildren. The grandmother "was always a stay-at-home wife and mother who loved taking care of her grandkids," Martinez said.  Their son "treated those boys like they were his own. They were his nephews, but people thought they were his sons. He was close to them."
Through the years, the grandparents allowed relatives to stay in their spacious house until they could get on their feet. Martinez said she and her husband had stayed there.
"We were close because we were together," she said. "My husband was just there with them for Christmas. He had a good time, and was just chilling with his uncle and cousins. Nothing seemed to be wrong.
"They were great people, and we don't know who would want to harm them," she said. "Our entire family is in shock, and we can't believe this happened."
A neighbor across the alley, Orlando Almanza, said his 13-year-old son played with the older of two boys. They went to school together at Carson Elementary School.
"Those kids played soccer in the alley a lot," he said. "My son played with them a couple times."
Teens on the block said they played with the older boy but hadn't seen him in a few days.
"I was wondering when he was coming back," said a classmate, Aaron Villazana, 13. "Last time we saw him was Monday, and he left after an early dismissal. He was kind of sad-looking and I asked him why was he sad and he said he was just tired."
Another classmate, Jesus Andrade, 13, said he noticed the older boy acting out of character lately when he tried speaking with him as he walked in the neighborhood.  "He was just quiet, with his head down and not listening to what I was saying," Jesus said.
The older boy had recently gotten his photograph taken for graduation at Carson Middle School. He enjoyed playing soccer and competed in a youth league on the Chicago Red Wings.
Down the block, Rosa De La Torre wept on the porch of a home just outside the police tape after she spoke with investigators. One of the victims was her friend, the police confirmed to her.
Her son Hugo De La Torre, 13, said she had been calling family members asking if they'd heard from the woman after news broke about the bodies being discovered.
"My mom is just really sad because one of her friends is the victim," Hugo said.
Another neighbor, Markita Williams, told reporters she knocked on the door Wednesday to get someone to move a van on the street but got no answer.  She said her son was a friend of a child who lived in the home.
The block is lined with bungalows, most of them red brick. Gage Park High School is a few blocks away.
Lisa Adams, 31, lives about half a block from where the bodies were found.  She moved on the block from Richton Park about 2 1/2 years ago.
"Never had any problems," she said. "It's quiet over here. No problems. No shootings. None of that.
"I thought a construction worker had gotten hurt at first," she said, because work is being done on the street.
As police expanded the crime scene, students and families were guided around the tape.
Later, when crowds thinned and eventually dispersed, Chicago police detectives combed through the back alley, peering into garbage cans and shining a flashlight in behind the home.
When a van arrived around 8 p.m. to bring taking the bodies away, an evidence technician in a white jumpsuit lifted open the door to the garage behind the home. Workers then carried a white body bag on a stretcher from the garage to the back of the van.

New York officials issued indictments for a black gang known as “No Love City,” an offshoot of the “Folks” gang. The vicious street gang was responsible for terrorizing the Black community through murder, gun violence and drug activity. The gang ruled the streets for over two years until Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced the indictments.
According to Thompson, “These defendants caused a wave of terror throughout the streets of Brooklyn with no regard for human life. Some of these shootings happened in front of children.” The DA’s office issued 76 indictments that include 10 shootings that left one person dead and 10 wounded, including an innocent senior citizen who was left paralyzed by a stray bullet. Fifteen of the suspects are young Black men between the ages of 18 to 27. Two of the suspects remain at large and one is awaiting extradition from New Jersey. The group faces a host of other charges that include conspiracy to commit murder and weapons possession, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Visuals from last Sunday of the accident site in Bengaluru where a Tanzanian student was allegedly assaulted by mob

vehicle of the Tanzanian student was destroye

At first, Sarah Nakintu was grateful to her friend for alerting her to job opportunities in marketing and retail in Dubai.
Nakintu, a 27 year-old woman from the Ugandan capital Kampala, trusted her friend, who had worked in the United Arab Emirates and seemed successful with plenty of money.
She followed her friend's instructions. Present a valid passport to the recruiter who would organise airline tickets and a visa. Once the documents were in order, Nakintu paid the recommended "token of thanks" to her friend - $200 (Sh20,604) in cash.
Nakintu (who requested her real name not be used) was advised to only keep her boarding pass to Kigali, Rwanda, in sight and hide her connecting pass to Dubai as immigration officials stop migrants who bypassed government recruiting agencies to seek employment.
But when Nakintu was met at Dubai airport by a Ugandan woman going by the name Jane Saad, she was told to hand over her passport and then informed she would be working as a sex escort.
"From the start I was terrified and tried to protest but she threatened us and said there were no alternatives as she had invested a lot of money in our trip," Nakintu told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"Slowly we resigned and started following her instructions."
Nakintu is just one of thousands of women every year to be trafficked into sex slavery, with the Australia-based anti-slavery campaign group Walk Free estimating there are 36 million people trapped in modern-day slavery around the world.
Duped by other women
Like many others, Nakintu said she had not suspected her friend or other women from her own country would trick her into sex work and this approach meant she had let her guard down.


An annual report on human trafficking by the US State Department in 2015 commented on the network of Ugandan women coordinating the sending of Ugandan women for sex exploitation.
It listed the top destination countries as Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Kenya.
On her first day in Dubai, Nakintu

was told that she owed Saad around $8,000 (Sh824,200) in recruitment fees that had to be paid back in instalments as well as costs for accommodation and meals.
The cost was high for a newly-arrived immigrant. A bed in a room housing up to three women typically costs Dh1500 (US$400, Sh41,210).
To meet the target income, Saad told her she had to entertain about 10 men in the first two days.
In addition to turning over her passport, Nakintu had to undergo a witchcraft ritual during which she swore to hand over her income to her pimps with the threat of death in 10 days if this order was defied.
The US State Department Trafficking in Persons 2014 report noted that sex traffickers had been using voodoo rituals and violence to coerce Ugandan women into trafficking schemes.
"The pimps were ruthless women who sold our passports and return tickets to old prostitutes who wanted to retire and return to Uganda," said Nakintu.
Nakintu was moved by Saad to Abu Dhabi where sex workers can earn more as she was deemed a good sale for higher-end clients.
There she met another Ugandan woman, identified as Maydina, who had worked her way up from being a night club prostitute in Abu Dhabi to a pimp married to a high-level business executive.
Tricking the clients
Maydina told Nakintu that the secret of wealth in Abu Dhabi's sex work was white male clients - and to ensure she got their phone numbers supposedly for repeat business.
A few days after the first encounter, the worker would call the client to say she was pregnant, demanding cash not to expose his identify or $10,000 (Sh1 million) to return to Uganda for an abortion.
The sex workers could then continue the ruse, asking their clients for more money because of medical complications.
Nakintu said new workers were expected to target three men in their first month with these schemes and few women resisted because this was often the only way they could repay their debt.
"We were just desperate," said Nakintu.
Nakintu managed to leave
Abu Dhabi in May last year having been there for just short of a year and having paid off most of her debts. She returned to Uganda, devastated by the way she had been tricked and mistreated.
Some of her roommates did not hesitate in becoming recruiters themselves once back home, targeting other young women in Uganda tired of limited wages and high unemployment.
"Pimping was easy as one would ask friends to look for victims and pay that friend $100 (Sh10,300) for each victim they brought on board. I refused to do this," Nakintu said during an interview in a small shop she now runs in Kampala selling household goods.
The US State Department lists Uganda as a Tier 2 nation in its annual trafficking report, meaning its government does not fully comply with the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act's minimum standards, but is making significant efforts to do so.
Moses Binoga, the police commissioner who heads the Uganda National Counter Human Trafficking Task Force, said the government has boosted vigilance on all exit ports to protect vulnerable young women such as Nakintu from sex trafficking.
Last year, the government stopped about 300 young women from exiting the country after ascertaining that they were being sent abroad specifically for the sex trade.
Binoga, whom the US State Department has recognised for his efforts to combat human trafficking, said the government had also prosecuted and convicted several traffickers but it was complicated to combat the problem.
"The main challenge we have is that although we can prosecute traffickers on Ugandan soil we don't have jurisdiction to prosecute those in the receiving states," he said.
"Also when we're prosecuting traffickers we have to distinguish between victims coerced into sex trade and those who agreed to a deal to go to Arab states and work as prostitutes."

There are some amazing facts about men that would blow off your mind. We’ve brought you some amazing and interesting facts about women, now it’s time to get some amazing facts about men.
Enjoy some facts about men below
1. Men’s brains are 10% larger than women’s brain, but this doesn’t make them any smarter than women.
2. Men spend more on their fiancés than their wives. A Valentine’s Day poll found that on average, men spend about $154 on their fiancés, and spend $136 on their wives.
3. Men first wore high heels before women. Men wore heels around the 1600s, women only began to wear them to look masculine.
4. Men lie twice as often as women in a day. Men lie about six times a day.
5. A survey found that men spend almost a year of their lives staring at women
6. Men waste gallons of fuel every year driving around rather than asking for directions.
7. A man spends almost six months of his lifetime shaving.
8. According to a study, men with attractive wives report higher levels of satisfaction in their marriages.
9. A man walks about 7% slower when with his wife or girlfriend, but speeds up when with other men.
10. Men sweat twice as much as women.
11. According to a UK study, men need at least two guys fun nights a week to stay healthy.
12. The man who kisses his wife goodbye before going to work on average earns a higher income than the man who doesn’t.
13. Men tend to be less promiscuous when women are scarce.
14. According to a study, men are more likely to say “I love you” first before a woman.
15. Contrary to popular beliefs, studies have shown that men are not more flatulent than women

The Iron Order Police Gang struck once again in Denver this past weekend, this time pursuing a confrontation with members of the Mongols MC, a veteran based club of motorcyclists with an established history since 1969 who participate in the pursuance of unity amongst clubs in America.
Here is a never before released unedited photo of the corrections officer and everyone who was there when he fired the only shots that day. how can anyone look at this disgusting creature and not be sickened that he wasn’t even arrested?

A demented Manhattan woman burned her live-in boyfriend with hot oil, repeatedly stabbed him and then locked him in their bedroom while he begged her to call 911, police sources said.
Myeshia Hawkins-Taylor, 38, kept Carlton Adams, 52, locked in the bedroom they shared in a Harlem apartment for about 36 hours and took his phone away, cop sources said.
She finally called 911 Sunday at about 12:30 p.m. because “she thought he was going to die,” one source said. Adams was in the burn unit at Harlem Hospital, in stable condition.
“She was tired of all the stuff he does. She was tired of his nonsense," a police source said.
Felixia Camacho, who rented a room to the couple, came home to the horror at her W. 144th St. apartment Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend out of town. Camacho found Hawkins-Taylor outside, on the phone with police.
“There was a lot of blood. Fingerprints with blood were on the floor,” Camacho said.




She needed the help of a handyman to clean up the apartment.
"They were fighting because she wanted more money and over his cheating," Camacho said. “I never thought she’d do something crazy like that.”

The pair had been in a “domestic partnership” since April 2015, according to Hawkins-Taylor's Facebook page.

Chris Brown's chances to spend time with his daughter may have just gone up in smoke.
The troubled hip-hop star's ex-girlfriend, Nia Guzman, believes the "Run It" singer is responsible for giving their 1-year-old daughter asthma by frequently smoking in front of her, TMZ is reporting.
Guzman has reportedly filed paperwork to alter Brown's visitation rights — requesting that he either hire a full-time nanny or lose the right to spend time with Royalty altogether.
It's unclear whether Guzman believes Brown has been smoking marijuana or tobacco in front of their daughter, though he has been known to use both extensively, according to the gossip website.


  Guzman claims Royalty reeks of smoke every time she returns from a visit with the singer, and she is requesting that a judge ban Brown from smoking — or consuming drugs or alcohol — in front of their child. She also wants Brown to be subjected to random drug testing.
Brown has a history of substance abuse, and TMZ reported in November that the singer’s friends and family are concerned he might lose custody of Royalty because he often drinks codeine-based sizzurp in front of her.
These alleged parental issues serve as the latest dilemmas for the much-maligned Brown.
The "Say Goodbye" crooner pleaded guilty to assaulting singer and then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009, and three years later, his entourage got into a bottle-throwing altercation with fellow artist Drake and his posse at a New York nightclub.
Brown was also arrested for three separate crimes in 2013 — including allegedly shoving a woman at an Anaheim nightclub.
This long line of bad behavior has forced the popular artist to cancel several shows — as both Canada and Australia denied his visa requests last year due to his criminal background.
Then last month, Brown was investigated by authories for allegedly punching a women in the face at a Las Vegas hotel — but authorites later ruled he won’t be charged.

Dar es Salaam. Manispaa ya Kinondoni imepewa Sh3.5 bilioni za kujengea kiwanda cha kuchakata takataka ili kutengeneza mbolea baada ya meya wake kufanikiwa kuishawishi Halmashauri ya Mji wa Hamburg nchini Ujerumani.

Kiwanda hicho kitajengwa Mabwepande nje kidogo ya Jiji la Dar es Salaam.

Akizungumza na wanahabari jana ofisi kwake, meya huyo kutoka Chadema, Boniface Jacob, ambaye alikuwa pamoja na mwakilishi wa mji wa Hamburg, alisema maandalizi ya ujenzi wa kiwanda hicho yataanza baada ya mwezi mmoja.

Alisema kwa siku Kinondoni inazalisha takataka tani 2,026 na zinazopelekwa dampo ni tani 700, huku 1,326 zikibaki katika maeneo mbalimbali, hivyo kiwanda hicho kitakuwa kinachukua tani 500 ili kupunguza wingi wa takataka hizo.

Katika mahojiano na gazeti hili mapema wiki hii, meya huyo alisema alifanya kazi kubwa ya kuushawishi mji huo kufadhili mradi huo.

Jacob ambaye pia ni Diwani wa Ubungo, alisema kiwanda hicho kitakamilika Juni mwakani na kutoa fursa ya ajira kwa vijana watakaokuwa wakikusanya takataka na wale watakaokuwa eneo la uzalishaji.

“Baada ya mwezi mmoja tunatarajia kuanza ujenzi huu. Kinondoni na Humburg ni kama kaka na dada, ndiyo maana walituambia tutafute ardhi na watasimamia gharama za ujenzi,” alisema Jacob.

Mwakilishi wa mji huo, Dk Florian Koelsch alisema halmashauri hiyo ina furaha kutekeleza mradi huo kwenye Manispaa ya Kinondoni, kutokana na uhusiano mzuri wa muda mrefu uliopo kati ya halmashauri hizo mbili.

“Malengo yetu ni mawili; la kwanza ni kupunguza takataka katika manispaa hii, pili ni kuhakikisha takataka hizi tunazozichukua zinazalisha mbolea itakayowasaidia wakulima wa Tanzania kuzalisha mazao yao kwa ufanisi,” alisema Dk Koelsch.     

The HIV virus are becoming immune to the medicine Tenovir in 60 percent of cases among several African countries according to the survey, conducted between 1998 and 2015.
The study, led by University of London, the associate approximately 2,000 people who have the virus world.
The leader of the study Dr. Ravi Gupta has said that its results sparked widespread concern.
The work kukamilisha.Ilianza iliochukua four years in 2012 and iliwalinganisha patients of the disease in Africa and those living in Europe.
While these patients were divided into two groups, the study revealed that in Africa 60 percent of patients were not incurable and medicine in Europe Tenovir with that number dropping to 20 percent.

These findings are published in the Lancet about disease transmission, said that management m'baya of these drugs as well as the greater the need to use it with similar standards are possible because of this problem.
'' If the same rates of the drug not be used, the virus can respond to the drug and have immunity ', Doctor Gupta told the BBC.
'Tenovir is important medicine in the fight against HIV, so it is worrying to see the amount of HIV that are immune to the drugs'', he added.
The study also says that the virus in the protection against Tenovir can be transmitted from one person to another.

SEZs were established in Tanzania in 2006 to promote quick and significant progress in economic growth, export earnings and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Among the benefits the SEZs offer to investor are exception on corporate and withstanding tax for the first ten years, on custom duties for any good used for purposes of development of infrastructure, on value added tax (VAT) on raw materials, capital goods and administrative vehicles, and unconditional transferability of profits, dividends and loyalties abroad.

by Adam Fleischer 1/21/2016 After a lengthy break from releasing new music, Iggy Azalea returned in 2016 with “Azillion.” The song, which she has previously called a “buzz track” and “viral record,” was meant to launch the rollout for her upcoming album, Digital Distortion. But, according to Iggy, there’s a major roadblock in adding momentum to the song: Her label.
In a series of tweets early Thursday (Jan. 21), the rapper said that Virgin EMI doesn’t think the reponse to the song wasn’t “good enough” to make a video shoot worthwhile. She specifically called out Ted Cockle, the president of the label, and said that she hopes to make the switch to Def Jam (she’s on DJ in the U.S. and Virgin EMI in the U.K., which share Universal Music Group as a parent company).
In almost two weeks, the track, which you can stream below, has just under 900,000 plays on Soundcloud.

Tyga’s found himself a fine, fine Kylie Jenner substitute.
Hard to ignore it … the chick really looks like she could be Kylie’s body double. Of course, the question … is she a Kylie-authorized stand-in or is Tyga staffing up on his own?
She could be a potential singer for his label — like that 14-year-old girl. If so, at least he’s not texting this one. Best to keep it in the open

Places of worship are quite awe-inspiring.
With great architecture and positioning, many tourists are quite drawn to certain destinations mainly to get a feel of the monumental place of worship located there.
Think Taj Mahal or Vatican City – these places attract throngs of tourists and travellers.
In the spirit of Ramadan and all that it stands for, Jovago.com brings you this amazing list of the largest mosques in Africa whose history often date back to prehistoric times, these mosques aren’t mere buildings but hold much more value and relevance.
Here are interesting list of Top 6 Largest Mosques in Africa

1)Al-Azhar Mosque, Cairo



Built in the prehistoric times, this mosque covers about 85,000 sq ft. Its name translates to mean ‘the mosque of the most resplendent’, this is reminiscent of its beauty and splendour. With a capacity of up to 20,000 people, this is definitely one of the largest of its type on the African continent. It continues to stand as symbolic of Islamic Cairo.

2) Grand MosqueConakry 


Built in 1982, this grand mosque definitely lives up to its name. It is regarded to as the 4th largest mosque in Africa and the largest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Within its walls and premises, the mosque could accommodate more 20,000 worshipers. The mosque also incorporates a Camayanne Mausoleum which houses some prominent citizens like Samure Ture and Sékou Turé amongst others.

3)Emir Abdelkader Mosque, Constantine




Since 1994, Algeria has been home to this historic mosque. Its architectural style is pristine in execution. Not only is it breathtaking from the outside, the interior could make a believer out of an atheist. It could accommodate up to 15,000 worshipers.

4)Ghaddafi National Mosque, Kampala


Relatively new in comparison to the others, this religious edifice located on the Kampala Hill was completed in 2006. In fact, it was commissioned by the deceased but legendary Libyan president Muammar Ghaddafi as a gift to the Ugandan country and also one to advance the cause of the muslim population. It is now referred to as the Ugandan National Mosque.

5)Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca


Since 1993, Greater Casablanca, Morocco has been home to this 970,000sq ft mosque. It is outrightly the largest mosque in Morocco and Africa! It ranks as 7th in world rating. With the tallest minaret, it looks out onto the Atlantic Ocean. Over a 100,000 worshipers can be gathered within its walls and premises!

6)Masjid Mosque, Durban


Dating back to 1881, it was the first of kind to be built in Durban. With its eight minarets, this mosque is capable of accommodating up to 6,000 worshipers. It is renowned as the oldest and largest in the Southern Hemisphere.