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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Yahoo
Suspect in Riverdale homicide charged with murder, had criminal history
Charges are allegations only. All arrested persons are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. RIVERDALE, Utah () — The man accused of at an apartment complex in Riverdale has been charged with murder. He had a criminal history of threatening and assaulting women with knives. Scott Thomas Myers, 39, was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault, possession or use of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, possession or use of a controlled substance, failure to stop at the command of a law enforcement officer, and interference with an arresting officer. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: 1 dead, 1 in custody after stabbing at Riverdale apartment complex On May 15, the Riverdale Police Department responded to a stabbing at the Greenhill Apartments in Riverdale, according to charging documents. Officers were told that Myers had stabbed a female victim and was locked inside an apartment. A man who was not Myers was also seen leaving the apartment and returning with a bat. Due to concerns that the victim was inside with Myers, officers forced entry into the apartment. They discovered the female victim on the floor with 'several stab/laceration wounds to her torso/chest area.' A 'large knife' with blood on it was near her body. Documents say Myers was not inside the apartment, and officers saw a rear window open, suggesting he had likely fled. An officer located Myers' ID inside the apartment and told all local agencies to be on the lookout for a suspect matching his name and description. Morgan County Sheriff's Office and the Roy City Police Department were able to locate Myers on the viaduct near 600 West Riverdale Road, according to documents. Myers resisted arrest and tried to flee from officers, which led to police using a taser. Tooele man arrested after shooting, killing his two dogs while on LSD According to police, Myers' clothing had mud and what appeared to be blood on it. He also had dried blood on his right hand and lacerations to his wrist and neck. Myers was transported to Ogden Regional Medical Center for an evaluation, then taken to the police station for an interview. Emergency medical responders advised police that Myers had admitted to using methamphetamine and fentanyl. The other male who had been seen at the apartment with a bat spoke with police. He stated that he and the victim traveled to Myers' apartment in Riverdale together. The male told police he was playing a game when he heard a commotion and saw Myers on top of the female victim with a knife, stabbing her. According to police, the man 'yelled at Scott and advanced on him to physically intervene.' This led to Myers trying to harm the man with the knife. The man left the apartment to get a baseball bat from his vehicle and returned to the apartment to see Myers close and lock the door before he could get back in. The male told police he tried to force his way in, but was unsuccessful. Officers served a search warrant on Myers' person and located what they believe to be fentanyl. A criminal history check revealed that he had previous aggravated assault charges filed against him. Death row inmate to be tried again 40 years after Provo woman's death On Oct. 18, 2014, the Clinton Police Department arrested Myers for assaulting a female victim with a knife. He was charged with aggravated assault, violation of a protective order, and unlawful detention. Myers would plead guilty to aggravated assault, and the other two charges were dismissed with prejudice. He was sentenced to 120 days in the Davis County Jail and three years of probation on May 4, 2015. On Dec. 17, 2014, Myers was charged with aggravated assault and domestic violence in the presence of a child for an offense committed on Sep. 8, 2014. The Clinton City Police Department said he had a disagreement with a family member and threatened her with a knife. West Valley man who filmed 2017 assault of 14-year-old girl sentenced to prison Similarly to his previous case, Myers pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, and the charge of domestic violence in the presence of a child was dismissed without prejudice. He was sentenced to 120 days in the Davis County Jail and three years of probation on May 8, 2015. In November 2022, Myers was charged with third-degree felony driving under the influence due to having two or more priors in the past ten years. He was also charged with failure to respond to an officer's signal to stop, reckless driving, driving without an interlock system, and driving on a suspended or revoked license. Myers pleaded guilty to DUI, failure to respond, and reckless driving. The other charges were dismissed with prejudice. He was sentenced to two indeterminate terms not to exceed five years at the Utah State Prison. In March 2023, Myers was charged with another DUI case. He pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, and charges of driving without an interlock system, driving on a suspended or revoked license, and use or possession of drug paraphernalia were dismissed with prejudice. Christine Gallegos' murder case solved after 40 years, SLCPD says For this charge, he was sentenced to an additional indeterminate term not to exceed five years at the Utah State Prison. This was set to run concurrently with his previous prison sentence, meaning they could be served simultaneously. Myers would be released from the Utah State Correctional Facility on parole in August 2024. Since then, no criminal charges have been filed until the murder charge today. Currently, Myers is being held without bail at the Weber County Jail. His initial appearance is set for Monday, May 19, at 8:30 a.m. Student-made film playing in Utah Supreme Court extends block on some Alien Enemies Act deportation flights American basketball player, former Utah State Aggie, arrested in Indonesia for alleged drug smuggling Flicks to watch for a Friday including a 90's throwback with a modern twist Join a self-care challenge resulting in getting yourself a little treat Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man found shot dead behind Mass. high school identified
Authorities have identified a body that was found behind a regional high school in Taunton on Wednesday as 39-year-old Falmouth resident Stephan Myers, according to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office. Myers died of a single gunshot wound, the district attorney's office announced Wednesday night. Taunton detectives and Massachusetts State Police assigned to the district attorney's office began investigating Myers' death early Wednesday morning after his body was found in a construction area behind Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School, the district attorney's office said previously. Investigators suspect that foul play was a factor in his death, but that there is no ongoing threat to the public, the district attorney's office said. Myers is not thought to have any connection to the school. Taunton detectives and the district attorney's office are still investigating Myers' death. No further information has been released. Springfield residents agree downtown location of new courthouse vital for economic development Homeless man faces charges in connection with setting fire to Western Mass. home Legendary filmmaker reveals his choice for 'greatest American film ever made' 'You're on thin ice': Judge warns 'Turtleboy' blogger as prosecutors try to revoke bail Smith Academy, St. Mary baseball teams raise money for 'Michael J. Fox Foundation'
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Yahoo
South Carolina's highest court refuses to stop second firing squad execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. Mahdi's lawyers said his original attorneys put on a shallow case trying to spare his life that didn't call on relatives, teachers or people who knew him and ignored the impact of weeks spent in solitary confinement in prison as a teen. But the state Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that many of those arguments were made in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday's scheduled execution so further hearings could be held. Mahdi, who admitted killing an off-duty police officer in an ambush at the officer's Calhoun County shed, is the fifth person set to be executed in South Carolina in less than eight months. All made final appeals to the state Supreme Court but all were rejected. Mahdi has one more opportunity to live, by asking Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to reduce his sentence to life in prison without parole just minutes before his scheduled execution time. He is to be put to death with three bullets to the heart at 6 p.m. on April 11 at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. But no South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions carried out in the state since the death penalty resumed in the U.S. in 1976. Mahdi, 41, was convicted of killing Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers in 2004, shooting him at least eight times, then burning his body. Myers' wife found him in the shed, which had been the backdrop to their wedding 15 months earlier. Myers' shed was a short distance through the woods from a gas station where Mahdi tried but failed to buy gas with a stolen credit card and left behind a vehicle he had carjacked in Columbia. Mahdi was arrested afterward in Florida while driving Myers' unmarked police pickup truck. Mahdi also admitted to the killing three days earlier of Christopher Biggs, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina, convenience store clerk who was shot twice in the head as he checked Mahdi's ID. Mahdi was sentenced to life in prison for that killing. Mahdi pleaded guilty to killing Myers, leaving a judge under South Carolina law to decide if he would be sentenced to death or life without parole. Prosecutors called 28 witnesses for Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman to hear. The defense called two, according to Mahdi's appeal. The defense's case to spare Mahdi's life lasted only about 30 minutes. It 'didn't even span the length of a Law & Order episode, and was just as superficial,' Mahdi's lawyers wrote. Prosecutors said Mahdi was able to present much more evidence during a 2011 appeal that had to be heard inside a prison because Mahdi had stabbed a death row guard during an escape attempt. A judge rejected the appeal. 'In Mahdi's vernacular, if his mitigation presentation before Judge Newman 'didn't even span the length of a Law & Order episode,' the review of any potential error is in its 24th season,' the state Attorney General's Office wrote in court papers. As a prisoner, Mahdi has been caught three times with tools he could have used to escape, including a piece of sharpened metal that could be used as a knife, according to prison records. While he was on death row, he stabbed a guard and hit another worker with a concrete block, the records show. 'The nature of the man is violence,' prosecutors wrote. Mahdi is to be the second inmate executed by South Carolina's new firing squad after Brad Sigmon chose that way to die last month. The firing squad is an execution method with a long and violent history in the U.S. and around the world. Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America's Old West and as a tool of terror and political repression in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Before Sigmon's execution last month, only three other prisoners in the U.S. had been executed by firing squad in the past 50 years. All were in Utah, most recently Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010. Three prison employees who volunteer for the role will fire high-powered rifles at Mahdi from 15 feet (about 4.5 meters) away, aiming for a target on his heart. Mahdi also could have chosen the electric chair or lethal injection.
The Independent
07-04-2025
- The Independent
South Carolina's highest court refuses to stop second firing squad execution
South Carolina 's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. Mahdi's lawyers said his original attorneys put on a shallow case trying to spare his life that didn't call on relatives, teachers or people who knew him and ignored the impact of weeks spent in solitary confinement in prison as a teen. But the state Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that many of those arguments were made in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday's scheduled execution so further hearings could be held. Mahdi, who admitted killing an off-duty police officer in an ambush at the officer's Calhoun County shed, is the fifth person set to be executed in South Carolina in less than eight months. All made final appeals to the state Supreme Court but all were rejected. Mahdi has one more opportunity to live, by asking Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to reduce his sentence to life in prison without parole just minutes before his scheduled execution time. He is to be put to death with three bullets to the heart at 6 p.m. on April 11 at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. But no South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions carried out in the state since the death penalty resumed in the U.S. in 1976. Mahdi, 41, was convicted of killing Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers in 2004, shooting him at least eight times, then burning his body. Myers' wife found him in the shed, which had been the backdrop to their wedding 15 months earlier. Myers' shed was a short distance through the woods from a gas station where Mahdi tried but failed to buy gas with a stolen credit card and left behind a vehicle he had carjacked in Columbia. Mahdi was arrested afterward in Florida while driving Myers' unmarked police pickup truck. Mahdi also admitted to the killing three days earlier of Christopher Biggs, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina, convenience store clerk who was shot twice in the head as he checked Mahdi's ID. Mahdi was sentenced to life in prison for that killing. Mahdi pleaded guilty to killing Myers, leaving a judge under South Carolina law to decide if he would be sentenced to death or life without parole. Prosecutors called 28 witnesses for Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman to hear. The defense called two, according to Mahdi's appeal. The defense's case to spare Mahdi's life lasted only about 30 minutes. It 'didn't even span the length of a Law & Order episode, and was just as superficial,' Mahdi's lawyers wrote. Prosecutors said Mahdi was able to present much more evidence during a 2011 appeal that had to be heard inside a prison because Mahdi had stabbed a death row guard during an escape attempt. A judge rejected the appeal. 'In Mahdi's vernacular, if his mitigation presentation before Judge Newman 'didn't even span the length of a Law & Order episode,' the review of any potential error is in its 24th season,' the state Attorney General's Office wrote in court papers. As a prisoner, Mahdi has been caught three times with tools he could have used to escape, including a piece of sharpened metal that could be used as a knife, according to prison records. While he was on death row, he stabbed a guard and hit another worker with a concrete block, the records show. 'The nature of the man is violence,' prosecutors wrote. Mahdi is to be the second inmate executed by South Carolina's new firing squad after Brad Sigmon chose that way to die last month. The firing squad is an execution method with a long and violent history in the U.S. and around the world. Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America's Old West and as a tool of terror and political repression in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Before Sigmon's execution last month, only three other prisoners in the U.S. had been executed by firing squad in the past 50 years. All were in Utah, most recently Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010. Three prison employees who volunteer for the role will fire high-powered rifles at Mahdi from 15 feet (about 4.5 meters) away, aiming for a target on his heart. Mahdi also could have chosen the electric chair or lethal injection.
Associated Press
07-04-2025
- Associated Press
South Carolina's highest court refuses to stop second firing squad execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. Mahdi's lawyers said his original attorneys put on a shallow case trying to spare his life that didn't call on relatives, teachers or people who knew him and ignored the impact of weeks spent in solitary confinement in prison as a teen. But the state Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that many of those arguments were made in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday's scheduled execution so further hearings could be held. Mahdi, who admitted killing an off-duty police officer in an ambush at the officer's Calhoun County shed, is the fifth person set to be executed in South Carolina in less than eight months. All made final appeals to the state Supreme Court but all were rejected. Mahdi has one more opportunity to live, by asking Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to reduce his sentence to life in prison without parole just minutes before his scheduled execution time. He is to be put to death with three bullets to the heart at 6 p.m. on April 11 at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. But no South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions carried out in the state since the death penalty resumed in the U.S. in 1976. Mahdi, 41, was convicted of killing Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers in 2004, shooting him at least eight times, then burning his body. Myers' wife found him in the shed, which had been the backdrop to their wedding 15 months earlier. Myers' shed was a short distance through the woods from a gas station where Mahdi tried but failed to buy gas with a stolen credit card and left behind a vehicle he had carjacked in Columbia. Mahdi was arrested afterward in Florida while driving Myers' unmarked police pickup truck. Mahdi also admitted to the killing three days earlier of Christopher Biggs, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina, convenience store clerk who was shot twice in the head as he checked Mahdi's ID. Mahdi was sentenced to life in prison for that killing. Mahdi pleaded guilty to killing Myers, leaving a judge under South Carolina law to decide if he would be sentenced to death or life without parole. Prosecutors called 28 witnesses for Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman to hear. The defense called two, according to Mahdi's appeal. The defense's case to spare Mahdi's life lasted only about 30 minutes. It 'didn't even span the length of a Law & Order episode, and was just as superficial,' Mahdi's lawyers wrote. Prosecutors said Mahdi was able to present much more evidence during a 2011 appeal that had to be heard inside a prison because Mahdi had stabbed a death row guard during an escape attempt. A judge rejected the appeal. 'In Mahdi's vernacular, if his mitigation presentation before Judge Newman 'didn't even span the length of a Law & Order episode,' the review of any potential error is in its 24th season,' the state Attorney General's Office wrote in court papers. As a prisoner, Mahdi has been caught three times with tools he could have used to escape, including a piece of sharpened metal that could be used as a knife, according to prison records. While he was on death row, he stabbed a guard and hit another worker with a concrete block, the records show. 'The nature of the man is violence,' prosecutors wrote. Mahdi is to be the second inmate executed by South Carolina's new firing squad after Brad Sigmon chose that way to die last month. The firing squad is an execution method with a long and violent history in the U.S. and around the world. Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America's Old West and as a tool of terror and political repression in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Before Sigmon's execution last month, only three other prisoners in the U.S. had been executed by firing squad in the past 50 years. All were in Utah, most recently Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010. Three prison employees who volunteer for the role will fire high-powered rifles at Mahdi from 15 feet (about 4.5 meters) away, aiming for a target on his heart.
