Cleveland, OH
Reality sets in for Cleveland mother after boyfriend pleads guilty in death of her son
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A person pleaded responsible to prices associated to the dying of his girlfriend’s little one.
19 Investigates discovered that in line with police, he initially tried to cowl up the crime, however the boy’s post-mortem revealed the reality.
Investigator Hannah Catlett adopted up with the 2-year-old’s mom in what turned out to be a heartbreaking interview.
Final Summer season, Amanda Thadeus was virtually in denial that her boyfriend may have brought on her son’s dying, despite the fact that police had already arrested him for it.
Now that he’s taken a plea deal, actuality has set in.
Thadeus sat subsequent to a teddy bear stuffed together with her son’s ashes as she informed his story.
“My head actually spun, and I busted out in tears,” she mentioned.
Her son, Ryan, was simply 2 years previous final summer season when he died.
“It simply damage actually unhealthy,” Thadeus mentioned.
Thadeus’s boyfriend, Ronald Hicks Jr., was watching Ryan whereas Thadeus was at work.
Police say when Hicks informed them he discovered Ryan unresponsive with a plastic bag over his head, saying the youngsters have been know to play like that previously.
Nevertheless, we found that Ryan’s post-mortem revealed his true reason for dying.
“A reason for dying, blunt pressure impacts to go and neck with mind and neck accidents,” Thadeus learn from the dying certificates; a discovering that doesn’t align with Hicks’s story that the bag is what damage Ryan.
“That’s how like everybody discovered that the suffocation was truly a canopy up,” she mentioned.
We could by no means know what really occurred, how precisely Ryan bought damage, however Hicks lately pleaded responsible to involuntary manslaughter within the case.
“I actually was making an attempt to hope he didn’t do it,” Thadeus mentioned. “However I knew part of me actually thought he did.”
In Thadeus’ lap as she spoke to us, she says, was Hick’s 3-month-old daughter.
Thadeus says she was pregnant with Mavis when bullets got here flying into her home on West thirty ninth Road.
“Seven bullets went via the wall,” she mentioned.
She believes the shooter could have been making an attempt to intimidate her as Hicks’ case moved via the justice system.
“Sure, we known as the police,” she mentioned.
Thadeus says Mavis will seemingly see her dad for the primary time at his sentencing subsequent week.
“That’s one other factor that makes it actually exhausting as a result of I needed him to be there together with her. I needed her to know her dad. And it it hurts. It actually does to know that he’s locked up and he gained’t get to be part of her life,” Thadeus mentioned.
That will probably be an enduring problem, as Mavis additionally grows up with out her massive brother and begins asking questions on him.
“I preserve [the teddy bear] within the bassinet close to his sister. So, she’s together with her brother always,” Thadeus mentioned.
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Cleveland, OH
Cleveland man who allegedly drove through red light, causing deadly accident held on $250K bond
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – The 27-year-old Cleveland man charged for allegedly causing a deadly car accident this month will face a judge Saturday morning.
Gerrod White is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated vehicular assault.
At his arraignment Saturday morning in Cleveland Municipal Court, White’s bond was set at $250,000.
White was also arraigned for a domestic charge, and his bond was set at $50,000.
“He has an extensive history of violence… He not only punched his girlfriend in that incident, he stomped her as well. In regards to the aggravated vehicular homicide and assault, he indicated to officers that he wasn’t going to jail because he ‘always gets off’ and he repeated that multiple times after striking the vehicle head-on resulting in the death of the passenger where she was engulfed in flames and died in the vehicle and the driver was ejected,” the prosecutor said as White shook his head in court on video.
White can also be seen wearing a neck brace while on the video call.
White will be back in court on Aug. 6.
Cleveland police said White was speeding eastbound on St. Clair Avenue when he ran a red light at East 110th Street around 5:30 a.m. on July 21.
White’s vehicle crashed into a Ford Explorer, which was traveling on East 110th Street and had the green light.
The impact caused the Explorer to roll over and catch fire.
The driver, Krystal Mathis-Aaron, was ejected and seriously injured, according to the police report.
Mathis-Aaron’s front-seat passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. She was identified as Lakeitha Simmons, 50.
Minutes before the deadly crash, White also allegedly passed an ambulance that had its lights and sirens activated.
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Cleveland, OH
Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland gets $49M makeover: Can it compete with the big leagues?
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – The newly renovated Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland celebrated its grand opening and expansion on Friday after an 18-month, $49 million project.
The revamped space boasts massive, sun-drenched ballrooms, flexible meeting rooms, and a rooftop terrace with stunning city views.
But the question remains: Can this revitalized venue compete with larger convention centers in cities like Las Vegas and Chicago?
The former Global Center for Health Innovation, once considered a “ghost town,” has been transformed into a modern event space.
A spokesperson for the convention center said the failed Medical Mart project provided an opportunity to “reimagine that space as part of the convention center.”
The county hired a third-party company to assess the best use of the space, ultimately deciding that bigger, more flexible convention space was the key to attracting major events and boosting the local economy.
Mayor Justin Bibb hailed the renovation as “an amazing example of Cleveland’s economic comeback.” The center has already booked 62 future events, showing promising signs of success.
However, Cleveland faces stiff competition. Las Vegas boasts 3 million square feet of exhibit space and hosts over 20,000 conventions annually.
Chicago’s McCormick Place has 2.6 million square feet, and even San Antonio’s convention center offers over half a million square feet.
While the Huntington Convention Center has seen a slight increase in conferences this year, hosting 59 compared to 55 during the same period last year, it remains to be seen whether this makeover is enough to secure Cleveland’s position as a prime convention destination.
19 News will continue to follow this story and assess the impact of this major investment on Cleveland’s economy.
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Cleveland, OH
Kamala Harris could jump-start Democratic turnout in Ohio’s largest cities. Why is she still expected to lose the Buckeye State?
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, won Ohio in both 2008 and 2012 with the help of minority and younger voters in the state’s largest cities.
This year, Vice President Kamala Harris is aiming to become the nation’s second Black president — and the first woman president. But even if Harris can generate the same voter enthusiasm that got Obama elected here, few think she has a shot of winning Ohio in November.
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