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Her Name Was Janese Talton-Jackson and She Was Killed Because She Said No - The Root →

According to the police report, Janese was at Cliff’s Bar, located in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood. As the bar neared closing, she was approached by Charles Anthony McKinney, who apparently was interested in her. The interest wasn’t reciprocated, and she left. McKinney allegedly followed her outside, was rebuffed again and then shot her in the chest. She was declared dead at the scene. She was 29.

Pa. Mother Fatally Shot After Reportedly Rebuffing Man’s Advances →

Woman killed by man she refused to talk to at a bar.

Man Throws Woman's Puppy out 3rd Story Window After She Refuses His Advances →

A man broke into his ex girlfriend’s 3rd story apartment when she wasn’t home and threw her puppy out the window to its death. The woman had rejected his advances earlier that evening. 

NYC Man Who Attacked Asian Women Blamed Them for Rejecting Him

“In less than 350 days, I talked to nearly 1500 Asian Women and none of them took time out of their day to say hello,” Shaw wrote on June 17 in a post called “Why I decided to leave earth.” “I became furious. I never agreed with violence, but I knew the only way I could overcome that sense of rejection-would start by assaulting the Women that carelessly rejected me.”

http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/06/nyc-man-attacked-asian-women-for-rejecting-him.html

They Threw Drinks All Over Us

It was early evening and a group of six of us (all female) were walking to a bar for a drink after work. A big black 4x4 drove past and slowed down alongside us. The windows were then rolled down and the 3 men inside started hitting on us, and asking us to go for drinks with them.

We said no, thank you. They aggressively hurled abuse at us, calling us sluts, and telling us we were all ‘ugly’ anyway. They sped up to drive on, at which point my friend disgustedly stuck her middle finger up at them as they drove off.

They saw this, reversed, wound down their windows and threw fruit juice all over us. As ridiculous as it sounds, as a group of 25-30 year old women, we were terrified at being both verbally and physically threatened by 3 anonymous men, for no other reason than we weren’t interested in going for drinks with them.

They sped off laughing, and we all stood there in fearful silence and abject disbelief at what had just happened.

Man arrested on the muder of his ex girlfriend

“Although the affidavit states Zahirniak admitted to being in the house only at the time that he discovered her body, Detective Joseph Scaramucci said Zahirniak has altered his story and now claims he was present around the time of her death.

The affidavit also references a March 21 incident in which Zahirniak was arrested on aggravated assault charges. Reed-Goates was being transported to the hospital after he allegedly assaulted her, and he tried to “strike the ambulance with his vehicle.” He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after the incident.

When he was released from jail, he texted Reed-Goates that he was “going to rape and kill her” in retaliation for his arrest, the document states.”

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/police/west-man-arrested-on-murder-charges-affidavits-show-earlier-threats/article_708d8530-c76e-5495-ad86-520d2e1dde54.html

Here’s a good one. My friend went out a couple of nights ago, and was attacked outside of a bar by a man she didn’t know, for… being a woman? She has two black eyes, and a broken nose. The bar has not come forward with any security video, thank god a cab driver witnessed the attack and waited with her for the police to come.The bar served her with a trespass notice.

Here’s a good one. My friend went out a couple of nights ago, and was attacked outside of a bar by a man she didn’t know, for… being a woman? She has two black eyes, and a broken nose. The bar has not come forward with any security video, thank god a cab driver witnessed the attack and waited with her for the police to come.

The bar served her with a trespass notice.

Ex-Husband conceals identity, attempts murder

This is not getting enough media coverage, and the trial is coming up soon.

“The victim called 911 at about 9:15 a.m., stating that a man wearing a blond wig, black hat and black clothing came into her home uninvited, according to the complaint. The victim later told police the man didn’t speak and she didn’t recognize him as her ex-husband, according to the complaint. She said she and her ex-husband were in the midst of a custody dispute, according to the complaint.”

“She said she was struck in the head with a hard object about 15 times while she was in the home, according to the complaint. The man then began choking her and she played dead. The man tied and untied her arms, tied her legs, put a blindfold over her eyes, wrapped a towel around her face, placed several pills in her mouth and used a tube to pour a liquid into her mouth, according to the complaint. He dragged her across the floor and she told police she heard him cleaning. When he took her keys and went out the back door, she locked both doors and called 911, according to the complaint. When he came back to the house and couldn’t get back into the home, he went into her detached garage, according to the complaint.“

http://current.mnsun.com/2014/11/hopkins-man-charged-with-attempted-murder-of-edina-resident/

When my mom learned what happened she told me “that’s what you get when you choose to dress that way.”

One summer’s evening I was alone walking back home from seeing a movie at the cinema when two guys catcalled me from across the street. This always makes me feel uncomfortable, but they were relatively far away, so I ignored them. But then they decided to cross the street to talk to me, I kept walking hoping to outspeed them, with no success.

“Hey girl, why you ignoring me? Where you going? Coming home with us?” Guy 1 said approaching me. I Iooked away, kept walking and wondered if I should start running. By the time they were standing in front of me I heard Guy 2 say those dreaded words: “yo! It’s a dude!” (I’m a trans woman and was still transitioning at the time). Virtually instantly I felt Guy 1’s fist punch my face, bruising my cheekbone and hitting me backwards, making me dizzy. Thank god I had an umbrella with me to defend myself, because without it I would not have been able to prevent getting totally beaten up.

I made eye contact with one woman who passed by, but she looked away and cut the corner. Luckily for me a second passerby, an older gentleman, came to my aid and chased the men off, asking me if I was okay. I nodded, just wanting to get away, going home, be safe. Maybe I should have thanked him, but I was too shocked to do so.

When my mom learned what happened she told me “that’s what you get when you choose to dress that way.”

Renee Neganiwina, 26, murdered by ex-partner.

“A man has been charged with second-degree murder after the death of a woman in a house fire in the city’s northern industrial core. Police identified the victim as Renee Neganiwina, 26, whom firefighters found in the upstairs bedroom of the Kenilworth Avenue North home Wednesday evening.

…  Joseph Snelgrove, of Hamilton, has been charged with second-degree murder and remanded into custody. The 38-year-old surrendered to Toronto police at about 4 a.m. Thursday. He was returned to Hamilton, where police interviewed him.                                                   

Snelgrove had been in a relationship with Renee for about a year and lived with her in the Kenilworth house, which is between Beach Road and Burlington Street East near the National Steel Car plant.”

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5527561-man-charged-with-homicide-in-hamilton-fire-death/#.VRR6dknHuWQ.facebook