Homeless man stabbed to death with 3-foot sword, suspect arrested

BEN STEIN and EMILY SHAPIRO

Good Morning AmericaNovember 27, 2017

Homeless man stabbed to death with 3-foot sword, suspect arrested (ABC News)

A homeless Florida man was arrested and charged with murder after he allegedly stabbed another homeless man to death using a 3-foot sword, officials said.

Authorities received a 911 call on Saturday afternoon about someone covered in blood lying next to railroad tracks in Lake Worth, about 10 miles south of West Palm Beach, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.

Responding authorities found a man dead from “visible injuries consistent with a violent attack,” the sheriff’s office said. A 3-foot sword was also found near the victim, the sheriff’s office said.

After witnesses and a person of interest were interviewed, George Livingston, 51, was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder, the sheriff’s office said.

It appears that the suspect and the victim, David Beckett, 58, got into an altercation, which led to the stabbing, the sheriff’s office said.

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Both men lived in a homeless camp near the scene of the apparent attack, the sheriff’s office said.

Livingston made a first appearance before a judge Sunday morning and “is being held without bond pending a full hearing to determine whether he can be released from jail,” according to the Palm Beach Post.

It’s unclear whether he entered a plea.

Livingston, a felon with past arrests including aggravated stalking, is not permitted to carry a weapon, the newspaper reported.

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BOTTOM LINE- If somebody needs killing, it can always be done somehow ! Grumpy

This is one of the Dumber things that I have seen in quite a while!

Man arrested in wife’s death says gun accidentally discharged during sex act

John Fitzgerald Gonzalez (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

By Mike Shoro Las Vegas Review-Journal

November 18, 2017 – 12:03 am

Updated November 18, 2017 – 11:04 pm

A man suspected of fatally shooting his estranged wife Thursday morning told detectives he was performing a sexual act on her when the gun went off, according to police documents.
Shortly after 7:50 a.m. Thursday, John Fitzgerald Gonzalez called 911, reporting that his wife, Nicole Nguyen, had been shot in the stomach after a struggle over a gun.
When officers arrived at her home in the 9000 block of College Green Street in the southwestern valley, police said she was found on the floor of her garage next to her vehicle, suffering from a gunshot wound to her left torso.
After the shooting, Gonzalez initially told police he was picking their son up for school at the home when Nguyen pulled out a gun. He said a struggle broke out, and the gun accidentally discharged.
An arrest report for the 53-year-old Gonzalez indicates he later told police he was performing a sexual act on her prior to the subsequent struggle and shooting.
“It is unknown if the sex was actually consensual or if it was coerced by force or threats of force,” the arrest report said.
Gonzalez met arriving officers outside the residence with the couple’s 6-year-old son. The child was uninjured during the incident, police said.
Clark County family records show Nguyen had filed for divorce seven weeks earlier, prompting Gonzalez to move out of their College Green Street home.
But according to his arrest report, he told police Nguyen had recently expressed interest in getting back together. He also told police they had an appointment with her attorney later that day to cancel divorce proceedings.
The two had agreed to meet about 7:30 that morning, Gonzalez said in his police interview, adding he had two guns with him because he was concerned the meeting was an ambush.
Gonzalez told police she reached for the gun during the sex act and the gun fired once; he said he held the gun by the grip and pulled the trigger when she tugged the gun toward her.
“Detectives found his excuse for having brought the gun and keeping it by him during sex implausible,” police wrote in the report, adding they were skeptical of his description of how she reached for the gun.
Gonzalez’s interview with police is the only interview noted in the arrest report.

Too soon!