GUILTY MO - Zemir Begic, 32, beaten to death, St Louis, 30 Nov 2014

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St. Louis Police, FBI investigating Friday attack on Bosnian woman as hate crime



St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson has called in the FBI to help investigate what he is calling a hate crime because the woman assaulted by three black teens is Bosnian.

The early Friday morning incident occurred in the Bevo Mill neighborhood where earlier this week a Bosnian man was brutally murdered with a hammer by a group of teens.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_d71b49dd-b8a5-5f9c-9803-93b1ffbe56f3.html
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This is so sad! Thank God she's ok.


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Re: Zemir's autopsy

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/12/09/autopsy-shows-hammer-attack-injuries-primarily-to-head/

The injuries were primarily to the head – the fatal ones, at least. There were other injuries to the chest,” says St. Louis medical examiner Dr. Michael Graham.

He says they are still trying to sort out what head injuries may have been sustained by direct blows and potentially falling to the ground.

Graham says it’s not clear, yet, whether more than one hammer was used, or whether Begic was hit after he had fallen to the ground.
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http://www.kmov.com/news/Bosnian-wo...ing-attack-story-faces-charges-285875381.html

According to police, the Bosnian woman claiming to be attacked in early December by three African-American men has been charged with a misdemeanor for making a false report...

According to police, surveillance video from a neighboring business revealed that Dzanic was driving in the Bevo Mill neighborhood during the time of the reported attack, but no other individuals were seen in the video.

When confronted with the video evidence, Dzanic admitted that the attack never took place and stated that she was suffering from emotional issues during the time of the incident.
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Bevo neighborhood is like a lot of South City St Louis: mixed. Like a LOT of urban cores, the city is struggling (and winning!) in places to bring the "Creative Class" of young people, artists, innovators, designers, etc. - the housing stock is extraordinary, solid and cheap - but there are a lot of poor people. And a poor population is associated unfortunately with higher crime rates.

The International Institute on S. Grand not too far away has been around over a hundred years and their charge is to help refugees (not just immigrants but people fleeing danger), to help them carve out a better life in America. Because there are still better areas in South City, because there is already a big population of Bosnians, they have the luxury of speaking their language, buying houses and living near people who understand them naturally, shopping at stores that cater to their preferences, etc. (who wouldn't long for as much "old home" as you could get in a foreign place??), but that can make them look insular.

Because everything is new and frightening, they can appear tense or defensive (again, who wouldn't, in a poor area -- all you can afford?) and some of their customs are alien to the people who have lived there for lifetimes - so there is some conflict. Not a lot, but it's tough being "other".

When you put all those together, and then add in a dash of gang crime, a bit of racial fear or hatred, a feeling of fighting for resources, well, it can be combustible.

5 years ago a nice elderly Vietnamese man and his wife were walking home from grocery shopping IIRC and the man was killed with a blunt object. Senseless kid *****. I suspect this is more of the same. Stupidity fueled with a young, strong body, not enough supervision, a weak inner compass, maybe a little alcohol or drugs, xenophobia.... I dunno, I'm just trying to figure it out too.

But no, on the whole Bevo is a solid working class, mixed population of people who go to work and pay taxes...but it's "affordable" so elderly white people who have lived there for decades live next door to Bosnians who fled the war, who live next door to renters in Section 8, who live next door to squatters, who live next to homeless in the park. In some places.

So don't believe it's just terrible or explosive or out of control - these people who came with nothing have built a reputation as solid citizens work hard, (young gang members - second generations Bosnians growing up in these challenged neighborhoods aside?) who want to live the American dream, even if they come here with different habits and tastes.

Sorry to go on so long. I just know the area and don't want people to believe it is either Heaven or Hell.
 
3500 Minnesota is in the Gravois Park neighborhood - recently the focus of a police task force's special attentions, but it is *not* Bevo. He was not a million miles away, but he was out of his 'hood, lookin' for trouble apparently.

Very different feeling to the 2 areas even tho both appear close enough on a map that outsiders wouldn't think it.
 
April 2017:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/prosecutor-ordered-off-cases-against-teens-charged-in-deadly-bevo/article_5e079675-6e3f-59ad-b99c-80994c6044b6.html

Circuit Judge Bryan Hettenbach granted on Monday Darrian Johner’s motion to remove Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office from his case because Robert Steele, one of her top assistants, is a former public defender who consulted Johner’s public defender about the case.
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Juan Carlos Fabian-Lutz, now 17, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in January and received a 25-year sentence as part of a dual jurisdiction program that requires biannual progress reports until his 21st birthday when he is eligible for probation or parole.

Charges against Darrian Johner, Robert Mitchell and Travis Kidd are pending.
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Second of 4 teens charged in former Waterloo man's death pleads guilty

http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/second-of-teens-charged-in-former-waterloo-man-s-death/article_07f94ed6-2788-56ac-9f9e-cf9b2071d0d3.html

Darrian Johner, 19, pleaded guilty Monday to a reduced count of second-degree murder — also called felony murder — which means someone died during the commission of a felony. Prosecutors dropped an accompanying count of armed criminal action in exchange for his plea.

Sentencing for Johner is set for June 8 before St. Louis Circuit Judge Bryan Hettenbach.

Cases against Travis Kidd and Robert Mitchell are still pending.
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Two more admit roles in 2014 hammer killing of Bosnian man; one remaining teen faces murder charge
Robert Mitchell, 21, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced count of second-degree murder — also called felony murder — which means someone died during the commission of a felony. Mitchell's plea comes nearly two weeks after Darrian Johner, 19, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Johner pleaded guilty to the same reduced charge in March.

Travis Kidd's case is the last of the four still pending, court records say. Kidd, now 19, faces charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action.
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'It's not fair': Waterloo family outraged by plea deals in deadly hammer attack
This week, Darrian Johner was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Johner was originally charged with first-degree murder, but it was reduced in exchange for his plea. A charge of armed criminal action was also dropped as part of the plea.

Begic's brother says the sentences are too light for the crime they committed.
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