Suicide Attempts San Bernardino County

A two-thirds vote on property tax increases is the only safeguard homeowners have against the ever-present and always greedy political forces that would drive those taxes to levels unreachable by most residents. Since roughly a third of the people living in California are actually living in homes they own, it seems reasonable that they have a voting voice equal to the two-thirds of non-taxpaying residents who find it quite easy to vote for property increases, especially for "good" causes.

A 2-year-old boy died a day after being severely burned when his despondent father set their car ablaze while they were inside, a hospital nursing supervisor said. The boy suffered burns over 85% to 90% of his body. He died Wednesday evening, said Joy Flint, a nursing supervisor at San Bernardino County Medical Center. The boy's father, Harold Stewart, 21, suffered burns over 55% to 60% of his body and was in critical condition, Flint said.

A confrontation involving a Bloomington man who was shot and killed by a deputy is being investigated by San Bernardino County homicide detectives, a spokesman said. It was the sixth shooting by law enforcement officers in the county in as many weeks, authorities said. Deputies called to the scene of a stabbing found Moises Acevedo, 24, stabbing himself with a knife, Deputy Jerry Bulf said. When they ordered Acevedo to drop the knife, Acevedo threatened them and a deputy shot him, Bulf said.

In yet another campus shooting, a Rialto High School freshman put a gun to his head and shot himself as other students were arriving for Friday morning classes. The boy, a 15-year-old freshman who had transferred to the school in January, was listed in critical condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center. A San Bernardino Police Department spokesman said the youth is not expected to survive.

A man apparently distraught over a breakup with his girlfriend was critically burned when he doused himself with lantern fuel and set himself aflame in her frontyard, authorities said. Philip Vance was listed Sunday in critical condition at San Bernardino County Medical Center, nursing supervisor Helen Ramirez said. He suffered burns over 90% of his body at 4 p.m. Saturday, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Bulf said.

Orange County prosecutors filed murder charges against an Inglewood man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend. Brian Keith Framstead, 29, was in critical condition at San Bernardino County Medical Center with burns over much of his body, suffered when he doused himself with gasoline and set his car afire near Victorville. "We could arraign him right in the hospital room, but I'm not even sure he's coherent," Deputy Dist. Atty. Charles J. Middleton said.

A 2-year-old boy died a day after being severely burned when his despondent father set their car ablaze while they were inside, a hospital nursing supervisor said. The boy suffered burns over 85% to 90% of his body. He died Wednesday evening, said Joy Flint, a nursing supervisor at San Bernardino County Medical Center. The boy's father, Harold Stewart, 21, suffered burns over 55% to 60% of his body and was in critical condition, Flint said.

Brian Framstead was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the killing of Tammy Davis of Stanton, his former girlfriend and the mother of his child, after she ended their stormy relationship. Framstead, 30, of Inglewood, who drove into the desert and set himself on fire after the killing, took a deep breath as the clerk read the words that could imprison him for 30 years to life: guilty of using a firearm in a premeditated murder.

Terrified, 19-year-old Tammy Marie Davis cowered in the doorway of a darkened house just before midnight on Friday night. "Help me! Help me!" she yelled, banging on the door of a stranger's house. Seconds later, a point-blank shotgun blast killed her. Some 19 hours later, the murder case took a bizarre turn when the only suspect--the victim's ex-boyfriend and the father of her child--set himself afire in a car near Victorville while being pursued by California Highway Patrol officers.

In yet another campus shooting, a Rialto High School freshman put a gun to his head and shot himself as other students were arriving for Friday morning classes. The boy, a 15-year-old freshman who had transferred to the school in January, was listed in critical condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center. A San Bernardino Police Department spokesman said the youth is not expected to survive.

A man apparently distraught over a breakup with his girlfriend was critically burned when he doused himself with lantern fuel and set himself aflame in her frontyard, authorities said. Philip Vance was listed Sunday in critical condition at San Bernardino County Medical Center, nursing supervisor Helen Ramirez said. He suffered burns over 90% of his body at 4 p.m. Saturday, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Bulf said.

Darryl Henley, former Ram football star and convicted cocaine trafficker, faked a suicide attempt in jail here after learning that he faced two more drug trafficking charges and allegations that he plotted the assassination of a federal judge, according to the U.S. Marshal's office in San Bernardino.

Brian Framstead was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the killing of Tammy Davis of Stanton, his former girlfriend and the mother of his child, after she ended their stormy relationship. Framstead, 30, of Inglewood, who drove into the desert and set himself on fire after the killing, took a deep breath as the clerk read the words that could imprison him for 30 years to life: guilty of using a firearm in a premeditated murder.

A two-thirds vote on property tax increases is the only safeguard homeowners have against the ever-present and always greedy political forces that would drive those taxes to levels unreachable by most residents. Since roughly a third of the people living in California are actually living in homes they own, it seems reasonable that they have a voting voice equal to the two-thirds of non-taxpaying residents who find it quite easy to vote for property increases, especially for "good" causes.

Hanging his head and fighting tears, Brian Framstead on Wednesday recounted the last minutes of his girlfriend's life as she crouched on a stranger's doorstep, cowering before the shotgun in his hand. "I heard a noise," Framstead testified in almost a whisper. "I turned real fast to see if someone was coming out from the door. . . . When I turned, the gun went off."

Brian Framstead, on trial for murdering his girlfriend because she jilted him, testified Tuesday that she hurt and angered him by lying about her activities and whereabouts in the weeks before her death. Addressing jurors in Santa Ana Superior Court for the first time, Framstead recounted the ups and downs of his stormy love affair with Tammy Davis, 19. When he takes the stand again today, he is expected to describe how he fatally shot Davis in a quiet Huntington Beach neighborhood on Jan.

Darryl Henley, former Ram football star and convicted cocaine trafficker, faked a suicide attempt in jail here after learning that he faced two more drug trafficking charges and allegations that he plotted the assassination of a federal judge, according to the U.S. Marshal's office in San Bernardino.

As authorities prepared Sunday to lodge murder charges against him, a former Garden Grove man who allegedly shot his ex-girlfriend to death and then set himself on fire over the weekend was given a "50-50" chance at survival.

Brian Framstead, who made headlines last year when he killed his girlfriend and set himself on fire, so passionately needed a happy, stable family life that he murdered the young woman because she broke off their relationship, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday. His face and head covered with burn scars, Framstead stared blankly ahead as lawyers sketched conflicting portraits of him on the opening day of his trial in Orange County Superior Court.

Twenty-one months ago, Debbie Armantrout's daughter was alive and Jackie Framstead's son was a free man. And then, in a flash of midnight gunpowder, all that changed. Brian Framstead is in jail, accused of murder, and Tammy Davis, Armantrout's 19-year-old daughter and the mother of Brian Framstead's child, is dead.