In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, July 2nd, 2017 was:
CHRISTINE McKINNON
Minnetonka MN
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
6/26/17
Brittany Marie Thompson
Brittany Whitley
Brandy Williams
Diane Hamric
Nai Merri
Paula Rousseau
Dean Bruss
Christina Domingue
Mary Ann Cody
Christy Hawkes
Tina Mimick
Kendra George
Eleazar Ruiz
Trish Musgrave
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Alicia Smith
Nelle Bailey
Beth Epley Minton
Jennifer Mason
Vickie Gipson
Jennifer Marie
Deborah Farris
Hollie Jahnke
Lotorya Patrick
Mikayla Oakes
Monica Stewart
Kim Avery
Anggie Marie
6/27/17
Jennifer Marie
Nai Merri
Kelly Jo Francisco
Jennifer Ramlet
Nelle Bailey
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Kim Floyd
Emily Rice Bowersock
Beth Epley Minton
Brittany Michelle
Jennifer Fremont
Susanne Killion
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Nancy Scharnhorst
Brooke Scott
Anggie Marie
Jamie Shapiro
Geri Rus
Tara Lennox
Pam Johnson Rowland
Anna Nichols
6/28/17
Deborah Farris
D Shanel Collins
Tonya Velazquez
Dave Miller
Sara Biason
Jennifer Mason
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Alisa Jones
Dan Maloney
Lori Heim
Amanda Rosario
Heather Jacques
Dana Dilaura
Christy Hawkes
Emily Rice Bowersock
Carol Yemola
Paula Rivers
Misty Dawn Moores
Glenna Zanaglio
Dena Baji
6/29/17
Trish Hysell
Andrea Timms
Mike Adamski
April Ashcraft
Michelle Abbott
Amber Hawkins
Priscilla Shimp
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Amber McGrath
Jill Nauyokas
Chris Blythe
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Khadijah Carter
Vickie Gipson
Alexandria Fields
Yvette Mesta
Shelley Ann Peoples
Michelle Cervantes
Susanne Killion
6/30/17
Juanita Williams-Jones
D Shanel Collins
Jill Nauyokas
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Dawn Raasch
Laurie Griffith
Isis Sample
Melissa Barnes Walker
Susanne Killion
Tabitha Sinks
Jade Good
Jennifer Mapes
Crystal Hazelwood
Christine McKinnon
Ambreen Rouf
Kendra George
Melissa Turner Baker
Jeff Gough
Sheila Carvell
Shona Johnson
Dean Bruss
7/1/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Deborah Farris
Nancy Scharnhorst
Michelle Hughes
Judy Custer
Tonya Velazquez
Sarah Harrison
Amanda Rosario
Crystal Dougherty Merrill
Jackie Hicks
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Kristina Harris
Jane Peterson
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Rebecca Honey Graham
Kimberly Foster
April Ashcraft
Christine McKinnon
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Diane Hamric
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Melissa White
7/2/17
Kimberly Snyder
Kelly Jo Francisco
Christine McKinnon
Juanita Williams-Jones
Jacqlyn Gummert
Mary Ann Cody
Jennifer Ramlet
Cheryl Hall
Sheri Boydston
Diane Hamric
Mal Rivera
Sheila Carvell
Michelle R. Carlino
Cheryl Golden
Mya Murphy
Nikki Wooton
Cynthia Smith
Michelle Hughes
Misty Dawn Moores
Rebecca Fauteux
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It’s been estimated that hundreds of tower blocks in England could be covered in similar cladding to Glenfell Tower. So far tests have revealed that combustible cladding has been found on at least three tower blocks across the UK.
Prime Minister Theresa May had ordered inspections of 600 high-rise buildings across Britain, after a massive fire in Grenfell Tower left at least 79 people dead and over 70 injured. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. Workers were seen removing highly flammable cladding from a tower in North London. The materials are similar to those used in the Grenfell high-rise, despite the fact the cladding is banned in the U.S. and Europe.
The June 14th fire started in the 24-storey, 220-foot high tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, west London. The tower contained 127 flats, with 227 bedrooms. The fire started in a faulty fridge-freezer in a fourth-floor flat. The building’s recently added exterior cladding is believed to have played a role in the speed at which the fire spread.
Documents show that aluminium composite material (ACM) was used in Grenfell Tower’s rainscreen cladding. ACM is essentially a sandwich of two aluminium sheets with materials for insulation inside. ACM panels often have a polyethylene core, which can be highly flammable. It is not yet clear whether this material was used in Grenfell Tower’s cladding.
Hundreds of firefighters and 45 fire engines were involved in efforts to control the fire which burned for 60 hours until it was finally extinguished. Many firefighters continued to attempt to control pockets of fire on the higher floors after most of the rest of the building had been gutted. Residents of surrounding buildings were evacuated due to concerns that the tower could collapse, though the building was later determined to be structurally sound.
Prime Minister Theresa May announced a $5 million fund for victims of the fire; all those made homeless were to receive an initial down payment of $5,500, with each household to be given at least $500 in cash and $5,000 paid into an account. On June 21st, the government announced that 68 new flats in the same borough as Grenfell Tower are to be made available to survivors of the fire.
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The gunman who killed three men at a UPS facility in San Francisco and then killed himself has been identified as 38-year-old Jimmy Lam. The victims were Wayne Chan, 56, and Benson Louie, 50, both of San Francisco; and 46-year-old Michael Lefiti of Hercules, California. Two others were shot but survived the Wednesday morning shooting at the UPS San Francisco Customer Center.
Officers responded to a report of an active shooter about 8:55 a.m. local time at the UPS package sorting and delivery facility. When officers entered the building, they found the suspect armed with an assault pistol. The suspect immediately killed himself and no officers fired their weapons during the incident.
Lam, had worked as a driver for the Potrero Hill facility which employs 350 people. He was wearing his uniform during the shooting spree and opened fire on coworkers during a morning meeting for UPS drivers. Joseph Cilia, with a local Teamsters union that represents UPS workers in San Francisco has stated that Lam filed an internal grievance in March saying he was working excessive overtime. Cilia told the Associated Press that Lam did not seem angry when he filed the grievance.
A police official said it appears that Lam felt disrespected by co-workers, but it’s not clear if that was the motivation for the bloodshed. Lam appears to have targeted the three drivers he fatally shot. Shaun Vu, a senior UPS driver, has said Lam also struggled with personal issues and was depressed a few years ago. Vu said that Lam had shown improvement but seemed troubled a few weeks ago-which was around the time he filed the grievance.
Another UPS driver Leopold Parker, who witnessed the shooting, said that he was standing a few feet behind Benson Louie during the morning meeting when Lam walked up and shot Louie in the head. Lam then glanced at Parker but walked the other way so Parker jumped into the cab of his truck and later ran to the roof of the building.
Parker said drivers at the warehouse generally got along and didn’t mind working there. If they did have a problem with colleagues, they would talk to them or ignore them. He also stressed that drivers spent much of their time alone in their trucks, so they had limited interaction with their colleagues. He recalls that Lam sometimes complained about the workload but he never suspected that he would turn violent.
Other witnesses said that Mike “Big Mike” Lefiti was fleeing from the building as Lam followed him into the street and shot him. Mike McDonald, an area resident was walking home from work when he found Lefiti face down, bleeding profusely from the back. McDonald stayed with him and tried to comfort him until help arrived. McDonald said that in his final moments, Lefiti spoke lovingly about his three children. “He said he loves his family, he loves his children and that he didn’t do anything to this man.”
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According to state and county data, drug overdose deaths surged in 2016, killing nearly 60,000 Americans last year. It is an alarming 19% increase over the 52,404 recorded in 2015 and the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States. All evidence suggests the problem has continued to worsen in 2017. The epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse means that for Americans under the age of 50, drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death.
The New York Times compiled estimates for 2016 from hundreds of state health departments and county coroners and medical examiners. The initial data points to large increases in drug overdose deaths in states along the East Coast, particularly Maryland, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Maine. The Times analysis suggests that the exponential growth in overdose deaths in 2016 didn’t extend to all parts of the country. In some states in the western half of the United States, overdose deaths may have leveled off or even declined.
The Times data showed that heroin and fentanyl-related deaths are still increasing across the United States – particularly in the Northeast and Midwest. The death rate from synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, surged 72% in 2015, and heroin death rates increased nearly 21 percent.
In Ohio, overdose deaths increased more than 25% in 2016, largely driven by Cook County, where 1,091 of the state’s 3,310 overdose deaths were reported. Last week, the state of Ohio filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical industry, accusing drug manufacturers of aggressively advertising opioids and lying to both doctors and patients about the dangers of addiction.
The Drug Enforcement Agency wrote in a 2016 report detailing what the organization calls a global threat “The United States is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis, with law enforcement reporting and public health data indicating higher availability of fentanyls, increased seizures of fentanyls, and more known overdose deaths from fentanyls than at any other time since the drugs were first created in 1959.”
California had the largest total number of overdose deaths at 4,659 in 2015, followed by OH with 3,310, which like West Virginia has been hard hit by the epidemic. The Drug Abuse Warning Network estimated that misuse or abuse of narcotic pain relievers were responsible for more than 420,000 emergency department visits in 2011, the most recent year for which we have data.
Experts warn a key factor of the surge in deaths is fentanyl, which can be 50 times more powerful than heroin. Fentanyl has been popping up in drug seizures across the country. It is usually sold on the street as heroin or drug traffickers use it to make cheap counterfeit prescription opioids. Fentanyls are showing up in cocaine as well, contributing to an increase in cocaine-related overdoses.
Research suggests that since heroin and opioid painkillers, (including prescription ones) act similarly in the brain. Opioid painkillers are often referred to by some doctors as “heroin lite” and taking one (even “as directed”) can increase one’s susceptibility to becoming hooked on the other.
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Two men died and a third is recovering after being stabbed on an Oregon train while defending two teenage girls from harassment. Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, has been charged with two counts of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, first-degree assault, three counts of unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of intimidation.
According to witness accounts and the arrest affidavit, Christian boarded a MAX light rail train on Friday, May 26, at 4:19 p.m. at the Rose Quarter stop. He then went on an anti-Islam tirade directed at two African-American teenagers on board — one who was wearing a traditional Muslim hijab. Christian shouted for the teens to get out of his country and to go home.
After making several threatening comments about “decapitating heads,” several men stepped in to diffuse the situation. Frightened, the two teens moved to the back of the train while other passengers told him he couldn’t treat people that way.
Videos from the train camera and a passenger’s phone showed Christian “making a sudden move” toward one of the victims, Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, of Portland. Namkai-Meche responded by standing up as Christian shouted into his face “Do something!” Another passenger, 21-year-old Portland State University student, Micah Fletcher stood up as well and Christian shouted “Do something!” as he shoved Fletcher in the chest.
This is when Christian appears to pull a folded knife from his pocket that he concealed in his hand, the affidavit said. Fletcher shoved Christian so hard the suspect lost his balance. Fletcher told Christian to get off the train and Christian shouted “hit me again”.
Video shows Christian swinging his arm and stabbing Fletcher in the neck. He then stabbed Namkai-Meche twice in the neck. Ricky John Best, 53, of Happy Valley moved forward to intervene and was stabbed in the neck. Namkai-Meche had sat down to try to stop the bleeding from his wound when Christian pushed Best into him and stabbed both men again.
When the train came to a stop Fletcher who was clutching his neck, exited the train as passengers on the platform tried to help him. He was treated for his injuries and released by the hospital. Fletcher said in an interview that his injuries missed being fatal by one millimeter.
Ricky Best fell to the floor and two men rushed over to start CPR but the veteran and father of four, died at the scene. Namkai-Meche lay on the floor as passengers-including one of the teens he defended-reassured him and tried to stop the bleeding. He later died at the hospital.
The train video showed Christian grabbing his belongings and a bag dropped by the Muslim teenager and leaving the train while waving his knife as he got off the train. He threatened several people on the platform with his knife and tossed the teen’s bag onto the freeway as he exited. Several witnesses followed Christian and directed responding police officers to his whereabouts.
After his arrest, Christian admitted to drinking Sangria before and while on the train. He has what appears to be an extremist ideology with an affinity for Nazis and political violence, according to his social media postings.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, June 4th, 2017 was:
CHRISTINA MONTES
San Antonio, TX
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
5/29/17
Paula Rousseau
Diane Hamric
Amy Conyers
Althea Thomas
Tracy Shafer
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Kayla Clemons
Amy Stonger
Alicia Smith
StefJohn McClain-Sampson
Shannon R Garrett
Jessica Miller
Sheila Carvell
Dena Baji
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Anna Nichols
Amanda Kyrie’ Ayala
Trish Musgrave
Tera Wardrip
Michelle Hughes
Kelly Jo Francisco
Megan Hackworth
Luis Vazquez
Jade Good
5/30/17
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Mary Mcmenamy
Jennifer Ramlet
Juanita Willaims-Jones
Kelly Jo Francisco
Glenna Zanaglio
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Krissy Brislin
Deborah Farris
Cheryl Hall
Tonya Velazquez
Lauren Bradley
Nai Merri
Geri Rus
Luis Vazquez
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Darbie Brown
Michelle Webb
Kayla Hernandez
Lauren Bradley
Leslie Wagner Hobson
5/31/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Deborah Farris
Kimberly Snyder
Jennifer Ramlet
Michelle Hughes
Jacqlyn Gummert
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Darbie Brown
Emilie Edwards
Mary Achio
Heather Marie Stacy
Cassandra Berholtz
Anna Nichols
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
LaKishia Wagers
Charlotte Dennis
Myranda Medlin
Brittany Marie Thompson
Mikey Mellor
Tonya Velazquez
Cassandra L. Penley
6/1/17
Jessica Miller
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Cheryl Hall
Jennifer Ramlet
Jacqlyn Gummert
Taschia Miller
Brittany Michelle
Jade Good
Kelly Jo Francisco
Nelle Bailey
Brittany Marie Thompson
Amanda Peters
Tera Wardrip
Misty Shallcross
Jonnalyn Gates
Michelle R. Carlino
Anggie Marie
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Shannon R Garrett
Brandy Williams
Traci Anderson
6/2/17
Daniela Hernandez
Valerie Kuehn
Christy Hawkes
Brittany Michelle
Tera Wardrip
Nitasha Shank
Jennifer Mason
Mary Achio
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Abby Cox
Deborah Farris
Nai Merri
Jennifer Lang
Emilie Edwards
Andrea Timms
Mya Murphy
Misty Dawn Moores
Sean Stover
Fitch Donna
Joanie Waterman
Bronnie Harrison
Stephanie Caldwell
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Sara Biason
Melinda Dreier
6/3/17
Deborah Farris
Juanita Williams-Jones
Jennifer Mapes
Kimberly Snyder
Shannon R Garrett
Priscilla Shimp
Nitasha Shank
Jackie Poole
Joleen Renee
Danii Muniz McGlothin
Lauren Bradley
Christina Montes
Nelle Bailey
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Susanne Killion
Laurie Griffith
Belinda Haas
Christine McKinnon
Dawn Raasch
6/4/17
Heather Marie Stacy
Brittany Whitley
Anna Nichols
Kathleen Hickman
Deborah Farris
Tonya Velazquez
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Mary Achio
Alisa Jones
Shannon R Garrett
Kayla Hernandez
Jodi Stevens
Phyllis Hines
Nelle Bailey
Valerie Kuehn
Lotorya Patrick
Eleazar Ruiz
Karyn Koehler
Carol Yemola
Dawn Miller Majors
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
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The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to reinstate President Trump’s second attempt at a travel ban on all refugees and citizens of six majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States. The Justice Department has vowed to challenge the appeals court ruling and take it to the Supreme Court.
The court ruled 10-3 to uphold a ruling from a district court judge in Maryland that blocked a portion of the order that temporarily banned travel to the United States by nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. In the majority decision, Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote that Trump’s executive order uses “vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.”
Judge Gregory listed televised interviews and numerous statements made at political rallies that, in the court’s view, indicated the true intentions of the order. He cited a rally statement in which Trump called the second order a “watered down version” of the first order as well as a televised interview with Rudy Giuliani who said that Trump had asked him to devise an immigration ban within the bounds of legality.
The judge wrote that a reasonable observer would likely conclude the order’s “primary purpose is to exclude persons from the United States on the basis of their religious beliefs”. The government argued that Trump’s comments on the campaign trail should not be taken into account since they occurred before he took office on Jan 20. The appeals court rejected that view, saying they provide a window into the motivations for Trump’s action in government.
The appeals court questioned a government argument that the president has wide authority to halt the entry of people to the United States. They were reviewing a March ruling by Maryland-based federal judge Theodore Chuang that blocked part of Trump’s March 6 executive order barring people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days while the government put in place stricter visa screening. A similar ruling against Trump’s policy from a Hawaii-based federal judge is still in place. The Hawaii judge’s ruling also blocked a section of the travel ban that also suspended refugee admissions for four months. The San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is still reviewing that decision.
The Trump administration has argued that the temporary travel ban is a national security measure aimed at preventing Islamist militant attacks. “That’s why it’s not a Muslim ban”. The countries were not chosen because they are predominantly Muslim but because they present terrorism risks, the administration has said.
After the 4th Circuit Court ruling, Attorney-general Jeff Sessions said in a statement that the government would seek a review of the case at the Supreme Court. White House spokesperson Michael Short said “These clearly are very dangerous times and we need every available tool at our disposal to prevent terrorists from entering the United States and committing acts of bloodshed and violence,” adding that the White House was confident the order would ultimately be upheld by the judiciary.
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Twenty-two people were killed and 116 injured after a suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device at an Ariana Grande concert held in the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. The explosion occurred as people were exiting the arena after the show ended. Concert-goers and parents waiting to pick up their children were in the arena’s foyer when the bomb went off. The dead included ten people under the age of 20, the youngest an eight-year-old girl. Days later, 75 people remained hospitalized, 23 of them, including five children, in critical condition.
The sold out show was part of Ariana Grande’s 2017 Dangerous Woman Tour where up to 21,000 attended. As news of the explosion quickly spread, residents and taxi companies in Manchester offered free transport or accommodation to those left stranded at the concert. Nearby hotel became a shelter for children separated from parents in the aftermath of the explosion. Many local temples, businesses and homeowners offered immediate shelter to victims as they waited for news of missing loved ones.
The day after the attack, Prime Minister Theresa May raised the terror threat level from severe to critical. A critical threat level means that it is believed another attack is imminent. It also means members of the British military will be deployed throughout the country to supplement its police forces. Nearly 4,000 soldiers were deployed nationwide in the wake of the bombing. ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombing which is the 13th deadly terrorist attack in Western Europe since the beginning of 2015.
The bomber was identified as 22 year old Salman Ramadan Abedi, a British Muslim who was born in Manchester to Libyan-born refugees. Abedi was allegedly reported to authorities about his extremism, by as many as five people, including community leaders, neighbors and possibly family members.
Authorities had investigated him but did not consider him high risk at the time. Authorities have revealed that Abedi had returned to the UK from Turkey four days prior to the attack. French interior minister Gérard Collomb said that Abedi may have been to Syria, and had “proven” links with ISIS. Manchester police believe Abedi used student loans to finance the plot, including travel overseas to learn bomb-making.
Police have conducted several raids and detained a total of eight people in connection to the attack and said they were investigating a “network” as the probe intensified. Authorities have confirmed that Abedi’s father and younger brother have been arrested in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The brother was suspected of planning an attack in Libya and was said to be in regular touch with Salman. Investigators believe his brother was aware of the plan to bomb the Manchester Arena, but not the date. According to a Libyan official, the brothers spoke on the phone about 15 minutes before the attack was carried out in Manchester.
Abedi’s father, Ramadan Abedi was born in Libya but fled under fear of arrest by the brutal regime of Moammar Gadhafi in 1993. He won asylum in Britain, where his sons were born. Abedi later returned to Libya and works as an administrator for the government, which has been in disarray since Gadhafi was toppled in 2011.
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A federal judge in Mississippi has sentenced a Gulfport man to 49 years in prison for murdering a transgender teenager, in the first-ever hate crime prosecution involving a transgender victim. Joshua Vallum, 29, plead guilty in the 2015 killing of 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson and was sentenced to life in prison in July 2016 by an Alabama judge. The Department of Justice later decided to pursue hat crime charges. He was sentenced under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Vallum, a long time Latin Kings gang member, was arrested just days after the murder when his own father reported the crime to police. He initially told investigators that he blacked out and killed Williamson when he discovered she was transgendered. Several witnesses stepped forward saying that Vallum knew she was transgendered and the two had been in an 8 month relationship.
He later admitted that his motive for the killing was fear of being killed once fellow gang members found out. Jeanie Miller, Williamson’s roommate testified that Vallum once told her and Williamson that his gang would kill both Vallum and Williamson if Williamson’s transgender status was discovered. His brother Jacob saw him on the night of the murder covered in blood and testified that Vallum told him: ‘Well, it was my life or his.’
Prosecutors say Vallum killed Mercedes Williamson after the end of their relationship, because a friend learned that she was transgender, a fact Mr. Vallum kept hidden from friends and family while they dated. On May 30th, Vallum lured Williamson into his car in Alabama and drove her 50 miles to his family home near Lucedale, Mississippi. He then shocked her with a stun gun and stabbed her in the body and head with a pocketknife. When Williamson tried to run into the woods, Vallum chased her down and beat her to death with a hammer.
Vallum confessed to his father Bobby Vallum on June 1st that he had murdered and buried Williamson on the rural property. Bobby Vallum took the information to police, leading to Josh Vallum being charged with murder. Williamson was one of at least 21 transgender people murdered in the U.S. in 2015.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, May 28th, 2017 was:
LAURIE GRIFFITH
Novi, MI
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
5/22/17
Cheryl Hall
Deborah Farris
Brandi K Chaney
Teena Sierson
Alexandria Fields
Tiffany Banks
Tabitha Sinks
Marcy Coull
Karen Bondehagen
Kristina Harris
Nai Merri
Darlene Whyte
Valerie Kuehn
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Jacqlyn Gummert
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Anna Nichols
Kimberly Snyder
Jessica Jenry
Cassandra Berholtz
Misty Dawn Moores
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
5/23/17
Jonnalyn Gates
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Kristina Harris
Chrissy Kim
LaKishia Wagers
Annette French
Terri Llexxes
Andrea Timms
Joanie Waterman
Kristina Rosson
Jennifer Downing
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