NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 15-year-old Edgewater boy surfing near the South Jetty was bitten on the left foot by a shark after stepping on it while falling off his surfboard, the Volusia County Beach Patrol reported.
Emotions ran the gamut during the trial of Russell Charles Bradshaw, the cold-blooded 22-year-old Edgewater killer who beat, strangled and finally slashed the throat of 21-year-old Lisa Memro of New Smyrna Beach before having sex with her lifeless body the night of Sept. 25, 2006. And more emotions are on the way as the same 12 jurors who pronounced him guilty of captal murder Monday will have a say in his punishment next week: Rot in prison for the rest of his life or spend years on Death Row awaiting a death sentence by way of lethal injection.
A Volusia County jury returned a guilty verdict of first-degree murder against Edgewater resident Russell Charles Bradshaw after deliberating less than three hours this afternoon in the Sept. 25, 2006, throat-slash slaying of 21-year-old Lisa Memro. The jury will return next Monday to the Volusia County Courthouse in DeLand to hear evidence during the sentencing portion of the trial before determining whether he receives life in prison or death by lethal injection. Bradshaw showed no emotion when the verdict was read as well as a second guilty verdict to sexual abuse of a dead body.
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| Tia McDonald teaches sisters science in a book she gave to them at Burger King in Daytona Beach. |
I have recently made a sad and surprising discovery and that the amount of homeless and needy people in Volusia County. Did you know that its estimated that there are more than 1,000 children, and over 3,000 adults homeless just in our little county of Volusia?
When there are so many people with no place to go, where do you go? How can you raise a family on the side of the road, or behind a business? I have a huge heart for the homeless. I feel very badly for them and will do anything I can just to lend a helping hand.
Circuit Judge James R. Clayton sent the jury into the jury room to begin deliberations at 11:41 a.m. to determine guilt or innocence for 22-year-old Russell Charles Bradshaw, charged with capitl murder in the Sept. 21, 2006, throat-slash slaying of 21-year-old Lisa Memro of New Smyrna Beach.
In the Book of Acts, the 10th chapter, we find a very interesting event in the early Christian church. A gentile requested Peter, the leader of the first church in Jerusalem, a Jewish church, to come and visit and explain the Gospel to him and his family. Reading verses 34-43, we hear the words of Peter and the effect of his vision corresponding with the vision of Cornelius.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 63-year-old Titusville woman was clinging to her life at Halifax Medical Center after the Honda trike motorcycle she was on with her husband collided with a mini-van earlier today in the 3000 block of North Dixie Freeway, New Smyrna Beach police reported.
DELAND -- Jurors heard the accused killer's own admission for the first time earlier today on a recording of a 911 call he made that he was responsible for the murder of a young New Smyrna Beach woman that turned out to be a literal bloodbath.
DELAND -- Seven women and five men have been selected to hear evidence today at the capital murder trial of an Edgewater man accused of murdering 21-year-old Lisa Memro of New Smyrna Beach on Sept. 25, 2006, and then having sex with her corpse.
