Joshua Davis Ford, 16, Charged In Death Of Andrew "Drew The Chef" Billingsley, Criminal Complaint Document Puts New Spin On The Facts...

Facebook photo used under First Amendment Fair Comment and
Criticism, blog post by John Hoff

A criminal complaint has been released by authorities naming the 16-year-old juvenile suspect in the unpremeditated murder of Drew Billingsley, click here for a copy. 

I shouldn't be surprised there are new twists on the facts, but it always catches me, just a little, how friends of the victim seem to instinctively distort the reality of what happened in the first draft written by the mass media.

In particular, there are revisions to the topic of what Drew Billingsley was doing right before the murder...

"Henry Love" Has Felonious Past, But Unknown If This Is Same "Henry Love" Who Was Associated With Murder Victim Lolitta Malone Of 2311 Queen Ave. N.

Creative stock photo, (knife manufactured by Hesco, photo taken at Forward 
Operating Base Gardez, Afghanistan) blog post by John Hoff

Late last night, as news hit of a murder at 2311 Queen Ave. N., I was publicly griping about how there weren't enough facts to get much of a handle on the story. Well, now there are facts I can unearth, but the problem is connecting those facts to murder victim Lolitta Marie Malone.

So I will present the facts I have.

Malone was involved in an eviction action in Hennepin County Court quite recently along with somebody named Henry Love. Since Malone and Love are both listed together as defendants against landlord James Swartwood, it would appear...

Details Are Few And Far Between At 2311 Queen Ave. N., Address Featured In "B Roll" During Story About Recent Murder...

Creative stock photo, (teddy looks out upon the mean streets) blog post
by John Hoff

Riddle me this: Why would the mainstream media report about a murder in North Minneapolis and go out of their way to say it happened on the 2300 block of Queen Ave. N. and not mention the specific address?

But then, in the "B roll" footage for the story, the camera focuses on "2311" as the street address? (Click here for that story) 

Whatever.

Well, if that address is of interest, let's dig into that address. Keeping in mind that much depends on whether the choice of "B roll" has any logic or was just a picture to flash across the screen...