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TAMPA — A 21-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday after police said he snatched up his ex-girlfriend's 3-month-old son during a fight and then threw the baby from his car on an interstate highway.
The child's lifeless body was found near Interstate 275 north of downtown Tampa early Tuesday. The man, Richard A. McTear Jr., was captured several hours later. Deputies said he is not the child's father.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said McTear was arguing with his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend, Jasmine Bedwell, at her apartment when he began beating her and the child. She reported that McTear threw her son, Emanuel Wesley Murray, down on the concrete, then picked him up and fled in his Chevrolet Impala.
Jason Bird, a news photographer for WTVT-TV in Tampa, spotted the baby's body on his way to work at about 4:30 a.m.
"On the side of the road, I saw something out of the corner of my eye and at first I thought it was a baby doll, and then as I was thinking about it more I thought that was awfully big for a doll," Bird said in an interview on the station.
He turned around and went back to take another look.
"It was laying there with its eyes open," he said. "I couldn't look at it. It freaked me out, but fortunately law enforcement came right away."
"It's hard to find words to describe why someone would do this to a poor, defenseless child," sheriff's Maj. Harold Winsett told reporters at the scene.
Deputies located McTear's car at his home. Witnesses told deputies where he could be found, and he was arrested about four hours later after a foot chase.
McTear also was charged with burglary with a battery, felony battery, aggravated child abuse and kidnapping, said sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter.
McTear had previously been arrested on charges including felony battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and domestic battery by strangulation. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, McTear was sentenced to two years probation in June 2008 on a felony battery conviction. An arrest warrant was issued when he failed to report.
Last month, Bedwell sought an injunction against McTear for domestic violence, but the case was dropped because she didn't appear in court.
In court papers, Bedwell said McTear was violent, often armed and had a drug problem. She said he had forced his way into her apartment and beat her.
McTear had not yet appeared in court and did not yet have an attorney.
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{"commentId":6894825,"authorDomain":"rainkiss"}
Ah, hell.
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#1 - Tue May 5, 2009 1:55 PM EDT{"commentId":6895852,"authorDomain":"sorrelen"}
I heard about this earlier. maddad was giving updates as the story unfolded. Poor child it didn't deserve such violence in it's life...
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{"commentId":6895031,"authorDomain":"eric24"}
OMG. They need to throw this mother f**ker from a car on the highway! What an animal! I hope justice tears you a new one! :(
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- 4 votes
#2 - Tue May 5, 2009 2:03 PM EDT{"commentId":6895543,"authorDomain":"RuthyJObservations"}
It was not the mother who beat the child, but her so called boyfriend, who was not the child's father. He should never be allowed to go free for having done this horrendous crime! Isn't it awful that some women will stay with a man who is violent and abusive? Yet it is not a new story on that level. She needs care and counseling and a lot of help.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":6898226,"authorDomain":"david-ciulla-1"}
let me tell you what will happen..
he will spend a little time in jail... the tax payers will pay for his defense, he will plead insanity... then go to a comfortable hospital where the TAX PAYERS will give me free thats right you dumb liberals FREE health care, free medicine, free food... then he will be evaluated by some LIBERAL doctor that will say.. ohhhh he can go back to society because he is "sorry" for what he did....
Let me tell you what NEEDS to happen... they need to slam him on the concrete, throw him out of a moving race car at 125 miles an hour...
Wait wait... the liberals wont like that because that would be cruel and unusual....
Was it ok for this man to do what he did... Oh thats right... I am sorry... it is only a BABY it is not VIABLE.... we can just call it a new form of abortion!
Sick bastard.
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{"commentId":6898341,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}
ok sorry to say but you take your train of though way off! your strides are too wide!
and yes I would defenately vote for an ammendment to take cruel and unusual from our constitution, but then how cruel would we get. I have come to realize that those words are not there to protect criminals but rather to protect us the populus.
So you would convinct him to death even though from your words you do not belive in abortion! nice!
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{"commentId":6898395,"authorDomain":"david-ciulla-1"}
yes as ironic as it would sound
YES I WOULD...... A child is INNOCENT this man is not...
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":6898496,"authorDomain":"david-ciulla-1"}
Think about it..
This man is cowardly enough to grab a child who cannot fight back, and kill it...
What a dang coward! How about he fight one of us! He would not do that because he is a coward.
Yes I FULLY support the death penality for THESE crimes... and no I donot support abortion, why...?
Because an unborn infant CANNOT commit a crime... people like this can...
He is a scum, he is unviable (however you spell it) What can he give to society but more pain and heartache? Are you willing to give your taxes to pay for his defense... I am not and most on this board will not either...
Get rid of him, he is a usless bag of air!
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{"commentId":6899013,"authorDomain":"kj031056-1"}
David, there should be instances where the death penalty is automatically put into the sentence. This should be one of them. There should be no 3 strikes and your out with this nut.
While, I do not agree with cruel and unusual, I can agree with a needle. I won't lose one moment of sleep over this piece of crap.
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{"commentId":6899235,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}
Are you willing to give your taxes to pay for his defense...
If you would know me, you would know that I fully support thr death penalty, when there is absolutely no reasonable doubtlike it looks like there is here.
"I rather see 100 guilty men go free than to convict 1 innocent one."
Let's not even get into the abortion question here it is off topic anyways. And I never say lets agree to disagree.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":6895287,"authorDomain":"alkimija"}
A better example for the necessity of the death penalty I couldn't think of. How horrific.
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- 4 votes
#3 - Tue May 5, 2009 2:14 PM EDT{"commentId":6898318,"authorDomain":"david-ciulla-1"}
nothing a little rope or electricity would not cure...
better yet, lets burry him alive...
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{"commentId":6903263,"authorDomain":"efucci"}
#3.1: "better yet, lets burry him alive..."
I second that. I think whatever can be done to make this vile bag of scum suffer should be done... there can be no purpose served in allowing him to live one moment longer...
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{"commentId":6895619,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}
I am not surprised of anything anymore I have come to understand that humans are the most evil beings in the universe! How cruel!
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- 3 votes
#4 - Tue May 5, 2009 2:29 PM EDT{"commentId":6896197,"authorDomain":"quispisyummy"}
He needs to be put in general population and everyone in jail and prison, and in the kitchen need to know what this FU@#%R did and he needs a tune-up right when he gets there so everyone knows what to do to scum like him. The unfortunate thing is - our money is going to be totally wasted on this SOB going to trail - denying it all - then most likely saying something like his childhood was horrible so why would we expect him to be any different. Ya well...mama didn't make him cookies so that is why he is a child killer? Ugh, I can hear it already.
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- 1 vote
#5 - Tue May 5, 2009 2:55 PM EDT{"commentId":6896359,"authorDomain":"lamb1029"}
What a despicable human being. I bet he feels better about himself after taking his rage out on a defenseless newborn. I have a very hard time with stories like this.
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- 2 votes
#6 - Tue May 5, 2009 3:03 PM EDT{"commentId":6896580,"authorDomain":"eric24"}
Agreed.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":6911486,"authorDomain":"Ocnaol23"}
Me too. :(
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{"commentId":6896566,"authorDomain":"KJAkers"}
How sad my prayers for the mother and family
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#7 - Tue May 5, 2009 3:10 PM EDT{"commentId":6896784,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}
for the mother, nah! she did not even show up to court, with the violence he showed towqards her before, she should seen womething tragic could happen.
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{"commentId":6897023,"authorDomain":"KJAkers"}
Yes for the mother, I was abused by my ex and it is harder then you think to get out of that kind of a relationship.
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{"commentId":6897254,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}
see thats something that I simply do not understand, I am not judging first understand that, but if the mother was been abused, has a kid, how in the world does she not think that the abuse is not going to transfer to the child, or does she think she can protect it, and if this is the case does she not see all the crap that abuset do on the news.
I am sorry Kj, this something I don't think I will ever understand, and hope I never do!
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{"commentId":6897405,"authorDomain":"KJAkers"}
It is hard for me to understand and I lived it, I fell for the Im sorry it will never happen again, and the if you just wouldn't make me so mad. Someday I will write my story maybe it will help some understand
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":6898385,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}
great idea, I have still not read a story where everything is said, everyone hides something! maybe your explantion would help some get out of that sort of situation, and people like me that don't get it.
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{"commentId":6903342,"authorDomain":"efucci"}
#7.4: "Someday I will write my story maybe it will help some understand"
I hope I get to read it. I was abused, too, by my ex. We had no kids, which turned out to be a blessing, but I know the dynamics of abuse and I don't get it, either. I do believe that abusers cannot reform... I've never heard of it, anyway... abusers are sociopaths, narcissists, totally self-absorbed, and they also feel impotent, thus they have to pick on someone who cannot fight back. It makes them feel powerful... and they do not understand why they do what they do, nor how destructive it is.
Funny, but abusers seem to think they can beat someone into loving them... insane, yes, but that is what they seem to believe...
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{"commentId":6911532,"authorDomain":"Ocnaol23"}
HCG76 -- you should do research on abuse and women/children. When you are continually abused you do not believe that there is a way out. You feel trapped. You feel worthless. I could go on, but the best bet is for you to do your own research.
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{"commentId":6897907,"authorDomain":"patsym546"}
OMG that poor child! I know it is "hard" to get out of an abusive relationship for some people, but I sure as he11 would get out before any of my children would get killed. For me? The first slap or hit and I would be gone. Period.
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- 1 vote
#8 - Tue May 5, 2009 4:08 PM EDT{"commentId":6899231,"authorDomain":"swordofapocalypse"}
{"commentId":6899272,"authorDomain":"aehalkias"}
They must have been arguing outside as the story states he threw the baby down on the concrete and then picked the baby up. Where were the neighbors? You mean to tell me no one heard, or no one wanted to get involved? Where are this girls parents, she is only 17?
God works in mysterious ways and I can not begin to understand all that happens here on earth. I have to believe the child is better off where he is now.
With that said I have to say I would volunteer to throw the man from a car myself!
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#10 - Tue May 5, 2009 5:12 PM EDT{"commentId":6899389,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}
come on people, thats all you would do throw him out of something, come use some imagination!
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#11 - Tue May 5, 2009 5:18 PM EDT{"commentId":6900309,"authorDomain":"teerose0779"}
First of all it sad that poor defenseless children that do not ask to be brought here have to pay for the parents actions. I agree with another poster, where in the hell was the girls parents when they're daughter and grandson were being abused and then again when it came time to go to court to see to it this sorry excuse for a human being could not harm the mother and child again... This poor little angel lost his life and it could have all been avoided. If you take a look at his prior arrests they consist of felony battery and domestic violence by strangulation and assault with deadly weapon. I mean hello is anyone paying attention why in the hell is someone like this released on probation? I mean I've heard of 2nd chances but eventually you have to realize that some people dont change. I mean after the 1st ten arrests you would think they would stop giving him a slap on the wrist. I pray for this child and I know he is in Gods hands now so he will never have to suffer again.
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#12 - Tue May 5, 2009 6:11 PM EDT{"commentId":6900434,"authorDomain":"cheffie38"}
i am so angry i cant comment on this...
check my poll out in my articles, thas how friggin mad i am !!
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- 3 votes
#13 - Tue May 5, 2009 6:19 PM EDT{"commentId":6900857,"authorDomain":"aim2pleaz"}
This article demonstrates that he had some serious issues going on. The baby was only 3 months old and the killer was not the father......sounds like that was part of the problem. He took it out on the baby to hurt the girl, now he has to live in prison with people worse than him. He sounds like a real bully and too bad that young lady had to lose the baby to lose him. He'll find out what kind of bully he really is where he is going.
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- 1 vote
#14 - Tue May 5, 2009 6:45 PM EDT{"commentId":6901160,"authorDomain":"kj031056-1"}
I'm not sure there are people worse than him.
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{"commentId":6901235,"authorDomain":"aim2pleaz"}
Have you seen "Lock up" on MSNBC. He'll go in like a lion, and come out like a lamb if he ever gets out.
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{"commentId":6901294,"authorDomain":"KJAkers"}
In response to #14 Mizdelight
That is my thoughts exactly. It may cost the tax payers money but put him in prison for the rest of his life without possibilty of parole, in general population, let him see what a bully is, people like him are hated among the prison population.
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#15 - Tue May 5, 2009 7:12 PM EDT{"commentId":6901562,"authorDomain":"aim2pleaz"}
It's going to suck being him for a long, long time. He's already has a criminal record, but it doesn't say that he's served prison time before. Now is his chance to prove how strong he is physically, mentally, and emotionally.........IT'S TIME TO PLAY WITH REAL PLAYERS NOW.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":6904724,"authorDomain":"cjnae2002"}
when I read this story and saw it on the news I welled up with tears just seeing this take place in my mind then the guy who found the baby said his eyes were open, I cant even imagine the pain that must have been on that baby's face, that expresion forever locked on his beautiful face,I pray that God please remember this beautiful child and give him life again some day, as for the murderer, he will definitely reap what he has sown, and in his cell, they should put pictures of this poor baby's face all over the walls so that he can forever be reminded of why he is being punished so brutally, and let it slowly eat away at him till the day he dies
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- 2 votes
#16 - Tue May 5, 2009 11:45 PM EDT{"commentId":6907045,"authorDomain":"ckfeather79"}
I agree Tertrimama: May the child rest in peace. I could not believe that this happened. When I watched the evening news I was shocked. What a low life, disgusting man to do such a thing. His brain is not right. When I saw a pic of him it made me sick.
Why do women have to hook up with such losers. Stay home and raise your baby, protect their soul from harm. No woman needs a man like this scum. Your better off without one.
May he get what he deserves.
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- 1 vote
#17 - Wed May 6, 2009 8:15 AM EDT{"commentId":6911584,"authorDomain":"Ocnaol23"}
While I totally agree that women need to be ever vigilant in raising their children, mothers are also women and MOST of us are responsible and put our children first.
I was a single mother when I met my husband. Please, please do not define us by these horrific animals.
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{"commentId":6928724,"authorDomain":"teerose0779"}
ok just a little update on the scum of the earth baby killer.... He is being protected by the system. They put him in his own cell away from everyone... they say 4 his own protection... Well who in the hell was protecting and looking out 4 that poor little innocent baby... No one was there to keep him safe from this sick scum so why in the hell should he recieve any kind of protection.. Let all those guys up there know what he did and let them have at him.... What is wrong with this country when someone like this S.O.B. can be protected in jail but a innocent little 3-4 month old baby has to die by his hands... I'm ashamed of our Judicial System!!!
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#18 - Thu May 7, 2009 8:26 AM EDT{"commentId":6951275,"authorDomain":"aim2pleaz"}
Tee:
They are trying to keep him alive long enough to convict him, when he gets to prison all the babying will stop. They've got to make it look like they are trying to protect him. Don't be ashamed of the judicial system because they are just going through the process. You don't want this guy to get off because his rights were violated correct? He will get his just due and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it. I do understand your sentiment, I don't understand why this has to be a long drawn out process. He's not denying his role, lets get this show started.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":6928893,"authorDomain":"re-mf72"}
There is so much violence against children in this country,that it sickens you.I'm watching the local Wilkes barre news and some @!$%# has been arrested for shaking a baby so hard that it died.His lawyer is claiming he had an invisible friend named Barney(I @!$%# you not)But it won't do him any good in this state.Life without parole.Now if that guy in Tampa did that here,I think we would execute him and I'm pretty sure Florida will too.
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- 1 vote
#19 - Thu May 7, 2009 8:41 AM EDT{"commentId":6943801,"authorDomain":"shawnthelawyer"}
There was a case somewhat like this some years ago in Massachusetts. The guy threw the baby against a wall and killed it; then he tried to patch the wall. He got caught while the paint was still wet. He got lucky in court, a hung jury because one of them was blankly staring out the window waiting for a "sign from God". At the second trial, the jury didn't wait for the coffee to get cold before convicting him. So should it be for this guy, and maybe even quicker. Sure, he's nuts and violent and if society gets true justice, he'll become suicidal pretty soon. A lesson for all those dumb as a rock women who like "bad boyz".
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#20 - Thu May 7, 2009 5:35 PM EDT{"commentId":6947247,"authorDomain":"KJAkers"}
I heard when asked why he did it he said something about being part of the game
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#21 - Thu May 7, 2009 8:16 PM EDT{"commentId":8453103,"authorDomain":"LegalPrincess"}
I can understand being in an abusive relationship, but when you have a child, it becomes something different all together....the abuser better watch their ass!!! I would be like a mother lioness when it came to my baby, and all of that poor helpless me has to go somewhere. I dont think the girl was in a strong enough place to do that, doesnt sound like she had family support or anything like that...theres another thing that I do in relationships, and its called background check.....this guy needs to go to prison, and all the inmates should be told what he did. He will get his, just like ole Jeffrey Dahmer. I put all freaks in the same category. At least Dahmer didnt go after children.
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#22 - Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:53 PM EDT{"commentId":10413272,"authorDomain":"breelaboy"}
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