Ryan Lenora Brown
By Ryan Lenora Brown
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News Suspected killer just ‘flipped out’ before killing 104 year-old L.A. Iranian Jewish man
Los Angeles police are investigating the mental health of the suspect in the brutal bludgeoning murder of 104 year-old Youssef Mahboubian. “In my opinion, he snapped that day,” Detective Steve Castro of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Valley Bureau homicide division told the Forward. “He flipped out.” The suspect, 47-year-old Adam Dimmerman, =was arrested on…
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News The End of Jew-hannesburg?
On a sunny November afternoon in downtown Johannesburg, Samuel Radebe, a pastor and self-proclaimed prophet, sat on a chair draped in a leopard skin and exorcised demons. One man, rail thin in a tattered yellow shirt, writhed violently in front of Radebe on the floor as his wife shakily explained into a microphone that he…
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