DV In The News Takes DV Theory to the Street.
July 13th, 2025 --
"DV In the news: Man started deadly Chicago fire because ex-girlfriend was dating friend: Prosecutors - Washington Times"
"By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times - Sunday, July 13, 2025
Chicago prosecutors on Saturday said a man accused of killing four people by torching an apartment building started the blaze after learning his friend and his ex-girlfriend were dating.
Cook County prosecutors said Lontray Clark, 23, tossed a Molotov cocktail into the apartment complex last month and started a deadly fire that also injured four people, including a boy who is still fighting for his life. Mr. Clark’s ex-girlfriend and his friend escaped the fire.
Among those killed was pregnant mother Regina Brown Henry, 32; her son Jayceon Henry, 5; and Ms. Henry’s 28-year-old sister, Destiny Brown Henry. Authorities said Brad Cummings, 76, also died in the fire."
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Sun, Jul 20
Utah mother admits to luring husband to his death in fake self-defense plot with family
"A Utah woman admitted to conspiring to kill her husband with the help of her mother and brother, making the fatal shooting look like an act of self-defense.
Kathryn Restelli, 37, pleaded guilty to a reduced count of murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the death of Matthew Restelli, 34, her estranged husband who was shot dead at her family’s residence in American Fork last July, local KSL reported.
The mother of two told the court that she lured her husband to her mother’s home on July 12, 2024, with the promise of reconciling their relationship, telling him he was free to walk into the home unannounced.
Restelli and her family had set things up in such a way that they would accuse Matthew of breaking into their house, allowing Kevin Ellis, her brother, to shoot him and make a claim of self-defense, according to the plea statement.
Officers who arrived at the scene testified that they found Matthew with a knife in his hand, but its placement seemed unusual and raised doubts about the family’s self-defense claim.
Police said Matthew was gripping the knife in the wrong direction and that the weapon was in his right hand — despite the fact that he’s left-handed and that a bullet wound was centered on the wrist holding the blade.
Restelli’s mother, Tracey Grist, called 911 after the shooting, but the call from inside the house came minutes after a neighbor had already notified police, setting off more alarm bells.
Diane Restelli, Matthew’s mother, said her son was concerned after his wife took the kids and family truck to stay with her family in Utah.
Matthew had agreed to drive from his California residence to American Fork to pick up his family because Restelli told him she could not rent a vehicle to come back, Diane told the court.
Despite promising Matthew that the family would drive back together, police said Restelli had not packed anything for the supposed trip.
Restelli had also put a tracking device in Matthew’s truck to monitor his arrival and stayed in touch to make sure he would get to the house so her family would be ready to act, she admitted.
Grist allegedly prepared the home for the murder, which included covering the living room couch to prevent it from getting blood stains.
Along with pleading guilty to reduced count of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, Restelli was also hit with a Felony discharge of a firearm charge.
She is set to return to court on Sept. 9 for her sentencing, where she faces a maximum of life in prison."
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"UC Berkeley professor killed in Athens: Suspect claims he ‘did it all for’ victim’s ex-wife, leaked police confession reveals | CNN"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/20/europe/greece-murder-uc-berkeley-professor-jeziorski-intl
"UC Berkeley professor killed in Athens: Suspect claims he ‘did it all for’ victim’s ex-wife, leaked police confession reveals.
CNN-- On the morning of July 4, an American marketing professor was walking towards his ex-wife’s house in Athens to pick up their two young children. It should have been an unremarkable, if strained visit – the couple had apparently been disputing the terms of custody arrangements.
But Przemyslaw Jeziorski never made it to the front door.
In broad daylight, in this typically quiet, suburban neighborhood of Greece’s capital, he was shot multiple times at close range, according to police. Jeziorski died where he fell, police said, his body riddled with gunshot wounds seen in grim photographs taken in the immediate aftermath.
As eyewitnesses rushed to his aid, the masked gunman fled.
The alleged perpetrator, arrested 12 days later: His ex-wife’s new partner. The motive, he told police: to prevent Jeziorski from taking away her children.
“I did it all for (her) and our children so that we could have a normal life without problems,” he said, according to a transcript of a statement he made to police in the aftermath of his arrest for premeditated murder as well as illegal possession and use of a weapon."
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"UN concerned by Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for dress code violations"
UN concerned by Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for dress code violations - ABC News
"The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the Taliban's arrest of women and girls for alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code"
"ISLAMABAD -- The United Nations on Monday expressed concern about the Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for their alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code.
In May 2022, the Taliban government issued a decree calling for women to show only their eyes and recommending they wear a head-to-toe burqa. The Taliban, which returned to power in 2021, has cracked down on the way women dress and behave in public, notably through morality laws forbidding them to show their faces outside the home.
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan said it was concerned by the arrest of “numerous” women and girls in Kabul between July 16 and 19, who authorities claimed had not followed instructions on wearing the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf.
“These incidents serve to further isolate women and girls, contribute to a climate of fear, and erode public trust,” the mission added, without details including the number of arrests or the ages and where they have been held.
The U.N. mission urged the Taliban government to “ rescind policies and practices ” that restrict women and girls’ human rights and fundamental freedoms, particularly the ban on education beyond sixth grade.
A Taliban representative was not immediately available for comment.
In January 2024, the country's Vice and Virtue Ministry said it had arrested women in the Afghan capital for wearing “bad hijab.” A ministry spokesman, Abdul Ghafar Farooq, did not say how many women were arrested or what constituted bad hijab.
The U.N. mission said at the time it was looking into claims of ill treatment of the women and extortion in exchange for their release.
The Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021 following the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces. Since then, the Taliban administration has sought international recognition while enforcing its interpretation of Islamic law. In July, Russia became the only country to grant formal recognition."
"Suspected Kentucky church shooter had a domestic violence hearing the next day"
Kentucky church shooting suspect had an upcoming domestic violence hearing | AP News
"By BRUCE SCHREINER
Updated 4:55 PM MDT, July 14, 2025
The man accused of killing two women in a shooting rampage at a Kentucky church after wounding a state trooper had been expected in court for a domestic violence hearing on Monday, a local official said.
In a chilling account of Sunday’s attack, Star Rutherford, a relative of the two slain women, said Guy House went to the Lexington-area church looking for one of her sisters but was told she wasn’t there.
He declared: “Well I guess someone’s going to have to die then,” and shot her mother, 72-year-old Beverly Gumm, in the chest. Rutherford spoke to the Lexington-based broadcaster WKYT-TV. House later killed Christina Combs, who media reports said was another of Rutherford’s sisters. Two men were also critically wounded, police said Monday.
House went to Richmond Road Baptist Church seeking the mother of his children but his domestic violence hearing did not involve her, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported, citing Rachael Barnes. She identified Gumm and Combs, 34, as her mother and sister.
Matt Ball, a deputy clerk for family court in Fayette County, confirmed to The Associated Press that House had been scheduled for the domestic violence hearing on Monday."
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