IN BRIEF
GRANDDAUGHTER SLAYING
Boulder City resident punished in girl's death
A 50-year-old Boulder City man accused of shaking his 7-month-old granddaughter to death was sentenced Thursday to spend life in prison with the possibility of parole after 10 years.
Clark County District Judge Donald Mosley sentenced Ray Jenks for the July 2007 slaying of Alyssa Rose May Jenks. Jenks had earlier pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the killing.
"People don't understand that you don't shake babies," Chief Deputy District Attorney Vicki Monroe said.
Deputy Public Defender Scott Coffee, Jenks' attorney, said his client was a "somewhat simple" man who worked as a busboy for the past six years. Coffee said that Jenks had no criminal history and that another family member was initially suspected in the slaying. Jenks could have denied involvement but took responsibility, Coffee said.
A grandmother of the girl, Sheila Teer, said the baby was "limp like a little rag doll" after being shaken. The girl was taken to Boulder City Hospital and then transported to University Medical Center. She died two days later.
Tiffany Teer, the girl's aunt, said she hopes Jenks never gets out of prison.
"I don't think this man deserves to see the light of day or be around children," she said.
BASIC HIGH SCHOOL
Murder charges filed in killing of teacher
Two brothers face murder, robbery and other charges in the slaying of a Basic High School choir teacher.
Jose Antonio Delatorre, 18, and Juan Enrique Aguirre, 17, appeared Thursday morning in Henderson Justice Court to hear the counts filed against them in the death of 32-year-old Matthew Cox.
Aguirre, one of Cox's choir students, was charged as an adult.
The teens beat and choked Cox to death in his car after playing video games at his house, according to a police report.
They placed his body on a couch and stole his household electronics, including a Wii video game system, a laptop computer and an iPod, the report said.
In his interview with police, Aguirre said Cox made sexual advances toward him the night of the slaying.
DECEMBER SHOOTING DEATH
Traffic slaying suspect to remain behind bars
The 50-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a man at a traffic stop in December appeared in court Thursday morning and will remain behind bars.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joe Bonaventure Jr. denied bail for Ralph Fuller, who is accused of killing 48-year-old Michael McDaniels on Dec. 16 at the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Owens Avenue.
Authorities said Fuller and McDaniels were in a dispute over drugs. Las Vegas police said McDaniels fired a handgun into Fuller's mother's house before Fuller shot and killed him.
THEFT ACCUSATION
Alabama police officer agrees to extradition
A fugitive police officer caught in Las Vegas agreed Thursday to be extradited back to Alabama, where he will face charges that he stole $2,500 from his police department.
Sgt. Faron White, 48, of the Decatur Police Department, told District Judge Douglas Smith that he would not fight extradition.
"I want to go back to Alabama," he told the judge.
Alabama authorities have 30 days to pick him up from the jail, or he could be released.
He is accused of staging his disappearance and stealing $2,500 in confiscated drug money.
