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4A FLORIDA TODAY, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003 22. Brian Gilliem, 44 This list does not include traffic-related homicides such as those caused by accidents. Source: State Attorney's OfficeCompiled by James Dean and J.D. Gallop.

This list is compiled by the State Attorney's Office and includes cases in which charges of murder and manslaughter have been filed. It also includes police-related shootings that have been deemed justifiable homicides by the State Attorney's Office. Gilliem Date: Oct. 1 Arrests: Levan Cle-venger, 52 Location: Palm Bay The case: Police say Clevenger, a successful real estate agent, drove to Brian Gilliem's home in Palm Bay and turned her car's headlights off while she drove up to the home. She walked out and had a discussion with Gilliem in the driveway and then opened fired, police said.

I.Kevin Fulmore, 3 6. lanay McGregor, 2 12. Colleen Francis Wells, 55 17. Terrance M.Jefferson, 28 Date: Shaken Feb. 28, died March! Arrested: Jonathan Nathaniel Walker, Date: Aug.

16 Arrested: Gene Lewis 22 Location: Titusville The case: Police say 22-year-old Gene Lewis Jr. had been in a dispute over a woman with Clevenger Date: Beaten Jan. 18, died Jan. 19. Arrested: James T.

Robinson, 24; Myr-iam Joseph, 21. Location: Merritt Island The case: Investi Location: Palm Bay The case: Officers Date: March 29 Arrested: David Bruce Wells, 35, first-degree pre-meditated murder Location: Cape Canaveral The case: Investigators performing a welfare check found Colleen Wells' body in the Cape Canaveral condominium she shared with her son. She had been beaten multiple times with a baseball bat, strangled and stabbed, investigators said. Family members said David Wells, a 35-year-old transient, lived a tor Jefferson Fulmore gators say 24-year-old James T. Robinson struck his girlfriend's 3-year-old son, Kevin Fulmore Lanay said Walker was McGregor baby-sitting his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter Feb.

28, when he shook her violently and caused a 10-inch skull fracture. Walker and his girlfriend rushed the uncon 28-year-old Terrance M. Jefferson for more than a week when he shot him with a rifle in the parking lot of the Sun Coast Apartments Aug. 16. Witnesses said the men got into an argument.

Lewis returned to his apartment and fired several rounds with the rifle. Lewis had contacted tured lite as a result of mental illness. Both he and his mother had tilinn I 23. Andrea Nolan, 38 Date: Oct. 1 Suspect Brian Rappe, 44 Location: Palm Bay The case: A murder-suicide.

Police think Brian Rappe stabbed Andrea Nolan to death, wrapped her in a blanket and placed her in the bathtub. He then hanged himself from an eighth-floor railing at the Best Western hotel on State Road A1A in Cocoa Beach, police said. A hotel employee found his body Oct. 1. 24.

scious cnna to Palm Bay Community Hospital. She was airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando, where she died March 1 Walker told police he m. 1 medication to treat police earlier in the week saying he was concerned that he had a gun. He claimed that he fired the weapon in self-defense, but police said Jefferson was not schizophrenia and were prone to disagreements, family in the stomach in their Merritt Island apartment Jan. 18 as a form of discipline.

Fulmore suffered ruptured intestines, and died from complications the next day. Robinson was arrested Jan. 22 in Maryland, and Myriam Joseph, 21, was arrested nine days later. Robinson David Wells members said. 13.

Belvan Barnes, 20 Homicides jump to 28 Homicides, From 1A patterns," said State Attorney Norm Wolfinger, whose agency reviews cases involving homicides. "But some of these are ones where you couldn't have spotted them, these are more or less on the fringe," he said In at least nine domestic situations, anger boiled over and led to slayings, authorities said That includes a brother who stabbed a brother, husbands who shot their wives, a son who beat and strangled his mother, and a father who filled his home with fumes from his vehicle to kill his two daughters, authorities said. The last case illustrates the difficulty in knowing when or if a situation will turn violent. Authorities said 60-year-old Muhamad Raja, a Pakistani native, kept an immaculate home for his two daughters, Rabia, 10, and Muna, 5. The physical therapist was a widower who lost his wife two years earlier.

Family members had been concerned about his mental state after her death, but only after investigators found the three dead in their Palm Bay home from carbon-monoxide poisoning were the depths of Raja's depression known. Investigators later suspected that he feared he was not able to continue caring for his two daughters. The Raja case was one of four murder-suicide cases to take place in Brevard this year. Homicides, as did much of violent crime, declined in the months following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, but the rates seem to be returning to normal, said University of South Florida professor Donna Cohen. She specializes in aging and mental health studies.

"The world is becoming increasingly stressful. After 9-11, people were coming together, but with that behind us, you can see a level of normalcy returning," Cohen said Brevard's 28 homicides this year do not a record By far, 1986 remains the most violent year on record in the county with 42 slayings, said Assistant State Attorney Michael Hunt Many of those were drug-related when cocaine fueled much of the violence. Meantime, the State Attorney's Office has focused efforts on reducing gun-related crimes and continuing domestic violence outreach programs aimed at educating victims. "I do believe there are things we can do. What we do today could determine who gets killed tomorrow," Wolfinger said, pointing to one pro Lewis armed.

Walker found McGregor having a seizure, but did not call 911. 7. Paula McCroy, 16 Date: Stabbed March 1 died March 4 Date: May 7 Arrested: Vidal Santiago, 20 Location: Sharpes The case: Delvan Date found: Oct. 29 Arrests: None Location: Along Pluckebaum Road The case: Investigators found a skull and other hu- Joseph 1L Arrested: Vincent Rolle 19 18. William Burge, 50 Date: Aug.

19 Arrested: Philip Guccione 18; Ryan John Jastrow, 19 Location: Melbourne The case: Police say William "Dollar Bill" Burge, a 50-year-old homeless man, died after two teenage friends attacked him and another homeless man while they sat near a conven ji Barnes, 22, died mxJA May 7 after being 2.GeorgeD.Jupln,4fl Location: Melbourne The case: A failed murder-suicide, Melbourne police said Vincent Rolle, 19, chased 16-year-old Paula McCroy and tackled her to the ground March 1 in the Roxy 10 movie theater on Palm Bay Road. He then cut her throat with a utility Date: Jan. 21. Arrested: Jody Bowman, 33. Location: Micco.

The case: Sheriff's Barnes stabbed in the abdomen with a homemade knife during a gang-related fight involving dozens of inmates at the Brevard Correctional Institution in Sharpes. Barnes was serving a four-year sentence for a Miami conviction for robbery and Van Tran man remains belonging to Hein Van Tran off of the pavement along Pluckebaum Road near the sheriff's work farm. So far, no motives or suspects have turned up in the death. Tran has connections to a neighborhood in northeastern Orlando known as "Little Vietnam" a tightly knit community along Colonial Drive. 25.

Jennifer Tuttle, 41 tr.V deputies found i -j a 40-year-old George Jupin D. Jupin's body with several gun knite betore wounding himself and leaving the scene. Police think the two were dating, but it was not known what sparked the incident. McCroy died from her injures shot wounds under a quilt in the bedroom of his girlfriend's Micco home. Jody Bowman, 33, had called a friend in New Jersey to say some burglary.

He died while being airlifted to the hospital. Vidal Santiago, who is already serving a 30-year sentence on an unrelated murder, was charged with second-degree murder. Guccione ience store in tne early hours of Aug. 19. A witness tola police one of the teens kicked Burge in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious.

Burge was found dead later that morning outside a church. Philip Guccione 18, of Melbourne, and Ryan John Jastrow, 19, of North Fort Myers, were charged with second-degree murder and aggravated battery. Rolle Santiago Date found: Nov. 23 Suspect David Zo-line Location: Port St. Inhn JSC thing was wrong, and her two daughters, ages 3 and 11, told investigators she was acting strangely for a couple of days.

Bowman's attorney said she was act- -i-i I 1 Ia I The case: A mur- Iihiiitiihii1- Jastrow March 4. DCF said McCroy was involved in a DCF investigation on Jan. 21 involving allegations of abuse and abandonment, and had run away from a homeless shelter. 8. Christopher Keevis, 1 Date: Injured March 11, died March 12 Arrested: Daniel Paul Keevis, 22 Location: Cocoa The case: Police say 22-year-old Daniel Paul Keevis was caring for his girlfriend's 13-month-old son, Bowman 1,1 seii-uerense.

3. David Hamman, 28 19. Carlos Perez, 19 14. Keith Poore, 39 Date: May 24 Arrested: Luchreasy Reese, 21 Denise Anderson, 16 Location: Merritt Island The case: I nvestigators say 21 -year-old Luchreasy Reese and 1 6-year-old Denise Anderson, both of Titusville, had stolen a $60 designer bikini from the Burdines store at Merritt Square Mall when Tuttle der-suicide. Inves tigators think that two-time DUI offender David Zoline shot and killed Tuttle a week after he was arrested in a chase involving Brevard County sheriff's deputies.

He then killed himself. Tuttle, investigators say, had been upset about the incident that drew news media attention. 26. Michael Brady, 2 .7 ft Date: Jan. 27.

Arrested: Robert Shannon Walker II, 31; Leigh Valorie Ford, 33. Location: Valkaria The case: Mel- Date: Aug. 27 Arrested: Henry Lee Jones, 40 Location: Melbourne The case: On Aug. 27, a maid at the Super 8 Motel on Perez 1 Hamman bourne resident David Hamman's body was found beaten and shot in the face outside a park west of Palm unnstopner Keevis, at a Cocoa motel when he called 911 because the baby was having trouble breathing. The medical examiner said the baby died from blunt trauma to the head, possibly from being Date: Dec.

5 Arrested: Tabitha Brady, 19 Location: Merritt Island The case: Tabitha Brady had changed guards tried to, stop them from driving away. Sheriff's deputies said what started as a minor shoplifting incident escalated to first-degree murder when the women ran over 39-year-old Cape Canaveral resident Keith Ponre. the fa- mm- 1 Rau Mfoarinn nnth- Reese U.S. 1 found the body of Carlos Perez wrapped in a bloody comforter in a second-floor room. Police say Perez checked into the motel the day before after travelling from Fort Lauderdale, where he was living after a recent move from Pennsylvania.

Perez was seen in a car with another man in the Fort Lauderdale area that morning, police say. Police have identified Daniel Keevis Michael the toddler's diaper Brady and put him back to sleep before going to bed in another room. Michael Brady wandered out of his trailer home through an unlocked 4i-f therofa I 13-year-old who I 1 was working as a shaken violently, and Keevis was charged with attempted murder and aggravated child abuse. DCF investigated three prior allegations of abuse against Christopher's mother, Tasha Cunningham, 22, and other boyfriends. ing but white athletic socks.

Investigators found a trail of blood leading from the second-floor apartment in which Hamman helped Robert Shannon Walker mix Crystal Meth. Walker was arrested in Suwannee County; his girlfriend Leigh Ford, 33, also was arrested. security guard for two months while studying criminal justice. 40-year-old Henry Lee Jones as a suspect in the slaying; Jones was arrested in Broward County in connection with the murder of an elderly couple in Tennes- Anderson Walker door and was later found floating face up in a drainage ditch. Investigators said Brady was negligent in watching the child and charged her with 9.

Rabia Raja, 10, 10. Muna Raja, 5 Ford Tabitha aggravated man-Brady slaughter. 15. Joyce Fallis, 62 Date: June 7 Arrested: Robert J. Stayton, 38 Location: Palm Bay The case: Police say Joyce Falls' mother discovered her 62-year-old daughter's body beaten and wrapped in a blanket.

Robert J. Stayton, 38, has been charged with grand Date: March 16 Suspect Muhamad Raja, 60 Location: Palm Bay The case: A murder-suicide. Palm Bay police found the bodies of 60-year-old Muha gram that has a victim of domestic violence take a class before allowing charges to be dropped. It's about education," he said. Even with such efforts, homicides leave behind families that take years to heaL Lynn Hollern, 40, was sleeping in his room Dec.

5 when his 2-year-old grandson left the trailer through a door with a broken lock. The child, wearing only a diaper, was later found floating in a drainage ditch just yards from his home. A tearful Tabitha Brady, 19, told investigators that hours before she had gotten up to give the toddler water before going back to sleep. She was charged with aggravated manslaughter in what investigators said was a neglect case. Investigators, adding Brady was the caretaker and that the child was dependant on her, said she had been warned several times by neighbors to watch her child as he previously had wandered out in the street Hollern, however, thinks the drowning was simply an accident "She's a real good person.

If just a tragedy what happened, I mean, how many kids a year drown in Florida?" he said Those people don't get charged with murder." For investigators, the year has been hard. Gary HarrelL who has investigated homicides for eight years at the Sheriffs Office, said the most difficult cases involve children. "To me, because I've got children, these cases are tougher," Har-rell said. "You often see your children in them. You just think about what a tragedy because they'll never have a chance to run or play." The most difficult part of working child homicides may just be attending the autopsies, he said.

"You see total innocence lying on a metal table," said HarrelL who has five children. "If heartbreaking." Homicides by year Homicides increased to 28 in 2003 from 17 in 2002. Rabia Raja mad Raja and his two daughters, Rabia, 10, and Muna, 5, in their home on March 16, apparently dead 27. Kenneth Hines, 29 Date: Dec. 12 Arrested: Alfredo Roca-Morena, 24, and Anthony Fernandez, 24 Location: Cocoa The case: A shooting at a residence at the Apache Trailer Park in Cocoa left Kenneth Hines dead and two other people seriously injured.

Police think the shooting stemmed from a robbery attempt. Investigators said Fernandez committed suicide at the jail. 4. Andrea Anna-Ucia Best, 26 Date: Feb. 8.

Suspect Peter Best, 38. Location: Titusville The case: A murder-suicide. Titusville police said Peter and Andrea An-na-Licia Best were experiencing marital problems and had recently separated, in part because Peter struggled to keep a job. Police said Peter Best, 38, shot his 26-year-old wife in the head while she slept, then dressed her body, called 911 twice and turned the gun on himself. Their four children, ages 3, 5, 6 and 7, were taken into custody by DCF.

5. Christopher Sonnenberg, 19 theft after police said he took Fallis' car. Police said Stayton had been living in Fallis' home for up to a week, and he is the main suspect in her death. Stayton from carbon-monoxide poisoning. Police think the case is a homicide-suicide.

Investigators think Raja, a physical therapist who was depressed after his wife's death two years earlier, killed his daughters and himself. 16. Kenneth Heiss, 40 7 Jones see. 20. William Lee Washington, 28 Date: Sept.

17; died Sept. 20 Arrests Nonepolice related Location: Melbourne The case: Police say William Lee Washington, 28, of Orlando tried to run over an officer trying to detain him Sept 17 in connection with the theft of beer from a gas station. Officer Randall Combs traced Washington's blue pickup truck to the parking lot of the Daily Bread soup kitchen, where police said Washington refused to get out of the pickup and drove toward Combs. Combs, an eight-year veteran of the Melbourne police, fired five shots at the pickup, two of which struck Washington in the head and arm. Washington died at Holmes Regional Medical Center, Melbourne, three days later.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated the shooting. The State Attorney's Office ruled it as a justifiable homicide. 21. John Albert Dunn Date found: Sept. 18 Arrested: None Agency: Brevard County Sheriff's Office The case: Investigators ruled this case a justifiable homicide that stemmed from a confrontation between Dunn and another man.

Muhamad Raja Date: June 7 Arrested: Ronald James Hydle, 26; Marie Fallon, 24 Date: Stabbed Feb. 22, died Feb. 23. Arrested: David Snnnpnhern I 11 Richard Chapman-Baker, 48 i rffes, Location: Melbourne Ty. i I The case: Police Fernandez Heiss say 28-year-old Ronald J.

Hydle I V' 1 Location: Cocoa kJL I The case: Nine stabbed Kenneth Heiss, 40, more than 20 times with a butcher knife during a robbery attempt in Heiss' Christopher Sonnenberg Date: March 15 Arrested: None Police related Location: Cape Canaveral The case: Two Brevard County Sheriff's deputies responded March 15 to a call teen-year-old Christopher Sonnenberg and his wife of six months, Deanna, were at home watching a movie when his 20-year-old brother David Sonnen 31 Chapman Baker 35 homicides 28 homicides 13 28. Ed Wilson, 59 Date: Dec. 15 Arrested: on one Location: Palm Bay The case: The body of Ed Wilson of Palm Bay was found in his home, the victim of a shooting. Police said Wilson's wife had come home in the evening to find her husband dead on the living room floor. There were no signs of forced entry.

Investigators are focusing on Wilson's efforts to sell a $5,000 diamond ring through a classified ad and whether it may have been a motive in the killing. Hydle 30 lcfflicides I neighboring apartment early June 7. Investigators say 24-year-old Marie Fallon planned the attack with Hydle, provided him with socks to cover his hands and helped dispose of bloody clothing and the knife. The couple were arrested shortly after the attack in connection with another robbery and were charged the next day in the berg arrived looking for a party. Police said what appeared to be a brotherly scuffle over money and a ride home turned deadly when David plunged a pocket-knife into his brother's chest.

Christopher died from 48-year-old Richard Chapman Baker, who was threatening to kill himself with a gun on the beach near his Cape Canaveral home. Investigators said that as the deputies tried to disarm him, Baker fired a shot from his pistol that burned Deputy Mitchell Boshnack's hand. When Baker aimed the gun again at Boshnack, investigators said Deputy Brett Moore shot Baker, who died en route to the hospital. David Sonnenberg 10- '93 '95 '97 '99 Source: State Attorney's Office '01 '03 'As of Dec. 29.

about eight hours later at Wuesthoff Medical Center, and David later turned himself in to police. Fallon T.J. Standish, FLORIDA TODAY.