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Marni Yang had a history of harassing romantic rivals years before she was charged this week with killing Shaun Gayle’s pregnant girlfriend, authorities said Thursday. [1]

Marni Yang is being held without bond Wednesday, and prosecutors are telling a dramatic story of the murder plot that she allegedly carried out. [2]

Prosecutors say Marni Yang owned a 9-millimeter gun and used it for target practice a couple of months before the murder. [3]

On a dating Web site, Marni Yang, the woman charged with murdering the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle, boasts that she “loves adventure” and is a “classic beauty” with a “great sense of humor and a genuie smile.” [4]

A few months after the murder of Rhoni Reuter — Chicago Bears ‘ Shaun Gayle ’s girlfriend — detectives brought Marni Yang in for questioning. [5]

But that he did apparently help Yang with some firearms training. [3]

The profile on fitness-singles.com displays 16 photographs, some of them professional photographs featuring Yang in a bikini on the beach and in front of a waterfall, others showing underwater coral reef dive scenes. [4]

Reuter was shot three times in her Deerfield condominium on Oct. 4, 2007 when she was 7 months pregnant with a daughter she and Gayle ‘ a star of the Bears’ 1985 Super Bowl championship team ‘ had already named Skylar Reyne. [2]

Yang, 41, was charged Tuesday with two counts of first-degree murder in the 2007 shooting deaths of Rhoni Reuter and the unborn baby girl Reuter was expecting with Gayle, a former Chicago Bear. [...] Over the years Yang sent threatening messages to several of Gayle’s girlfriends and to the wife of a Chicago police officer, authorities said.”She has a pattern of jealousy,” Lake County State’s Atty. [1]

Yang went on to say that she was home during the entire series of events that police were investigating. [5]

A source inside the investigation into Rhoni Reuter’s murder says the Cook County Sheriff’s deputy who was Marni Yang’s business partner did not know anything about the murder or its planning. [3]

At the time, Reuter was 7 months pregnant with a daughter she and Gayle ‘ a star of the Bears’ 1985-86 Super Bowl championship team ‘ had already named Skylar Reyne. [...] Prosecutors said Yang did commercial real estate deals with Gayle, who said on Wednesday that Yang had wanted to date him and resented Reuter. [4]

Yang, 41, is facing first-degree murder charges for allegedly shooting 42-year-old Rhoni Reuter, Deerfield police said. [2]

Sources:
[1] Marni Yang had history of harassing women, authorities say …
[2] Marni Yang Charged In Murder Of Shaun Gayle’s Girlfriend, Unborn Child …
[3] WBBM 780 - Chicago’s #1 source for local news, traffic and weather …
[4] Deerfield Murder Suspect Marni Yang On Dating Profile: ‘Can You Keep Up …
[5] An Alibi For Marni Yang | NBC Chicago

A Chicago woman faces new charges in the 2007 shooting death of the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bears All-Pro safety Shaun Gayle. [1]

Reuter was the girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle. [2]

After prosecutors described what they believed were the machinations of the woman suspected of killing Shaun Gayle’s, an ex-Bears player, pregnant girlfriend on Wednesday, details of the suspect’s life prior to and after the 2007 murder are coming to light. [3]

NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated. [4]

Yesterday, Yang was indicted by a Lake County grand jury of intentional homicide of an unborn child; Reuter was seven-months pregnant with Gayle’s child when Yang allegedly killed her. [3]

Reflecting all the drama of Chicago itself, these photo galleries from the Chicago Tribune Archives capture the beauty and history of this great city. [2]

He played twelve seasons, eleven for the Chicago Bears (1984-1994), and one for the San Diego Chargers (1995). [...] Gayle was in a relationship with Rhoni Reuter, originally of Potosi, Wisconsin. [5]

A woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bears Pro-Bowl safety Shaun Gayle. [1]

In addition, Yang was also indicted on nine counts of first-degree murder in connection to Reuter’s death. [3]

Yang has been arrested by Deerfield police in connection with the deaths of Rhoni Reuter and Reuter’s unborn child. [2]

New charges have been filed against Marni Yang, accused of killing Rhoni Reuter, then-girlfriend of ex-Bear Shaun Gayle. [3]

This biographical article relating to an American football defensive back born in the 1960s is a stub. [...] He was also a member of the “Shuffling Crew” in the video The Super Bowl Shuffle.Gayle attended Ohio State University. [...] It is alleged that Yang was wearing a disguise when she shot and killed Reuter in a jealous rage. [5]

Sources:
[1] Newsvine - shaun-gayle
[2] Yang, Gayle, Reuter — chicagotribune.com
[3] shaungayle : Tag Search Results : Chicagoist: Chicago News, Food, Arts …
[4] Shaun Gayle
[5] Shaun Gayle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Her father, Paul Kruyer, reached out amid his family’s grief to remind other parents to keep a vigilant eye on their children. [1]

Iysha Kruyer drowned while swimming with her sister. [2]

Iysha Kruyer drowned Wednesday night while swimming with her sister in the family pool. [1]

Action News just met with Iysha’s mom, Dr. Annalee Kruyer, earlier this week because Dr. Kruyer is donating her dentistry skills to give a woman in need new teeth for free. [2]

Though Kruyer recalled the firm rules he had in place for his children and the pool, he said he cannot escape the intense guilt he feels over his daughter’s death. [1]

If one less child drowns because THEIR family has felt our grief and become just that much more vigilant… then witnessing our sorrow will be worth the hours, days and future years of heartache. [2]

“If one less child drowns because THEIR family has felt our grief and become just that much more vigilant… then witnessing our sorrow will be worth the hours, days and future years of heartache,” he wrote. [1]

Because if I had just gotten home earlier, if I had warned the kids more, if we had moved already, if I had kept Iysha at the office one more year SHE would still be alive, brightening up each and every minute of my life. [2]

Please don’t blame yourself, God took her for a reason and no matter what you would have done or not have done, it was her time to go so please don’t blame yourself, you will miss her dearly but you will see her again in heaven one day. [...] Just days before the drowning, the station had interviewed Annalee Kruyer about donating her dental services to a woman in need. [1]

It’s a message Bigham says must be told and retold, staying on top of pool safety can make all the difference. [2]

“If I had just gotten home earlier, if I had warned the kids more, if we had moved already, if I had kept Iysha at the office one more year SHE would still be alive,” Kruyer wrote. [1]

In a letter to Action News, Paul Kruyer, Iysha’s father, says he never believed it would happen to him. [...] It happened Wednesday at 5:30pm at a home on San Carlos Creek Lane off College Drive & US 95. [2]

– Iysha Kruyer, 2, drowned Wednesday night while swimming with her sister in the family pool in Henderson, Nev. [1]

Sources:
[1] Paul Kruyer Writes Letter After Daughter Drowns
[2] Father writes heartfelt letter after his 2 - year - old daughter drowns …

* at Home Depot Center: 9:30 a.m., Hood games experience*; 11 a.m., Hometown heroes street*; 12:15 p.m., skateboard park adaptive jam*; 3:30 p.m., skateboard vert amateur; 4 p.m., BMX freestyle street; 5:30 p.m., Moto X Super X adaptive. [...] Women’s skateboarding has two finals Friday, with Moto X and skateboarding big air competitions Friday night. [...] Freestyle Motocross rider Nate Adams wows the crowd at the X Games today. [1]

The skateboarder whose grisly, 40-foot fall to the floor of the X Games mega ramp two years ago drew gasps and became a viral video sensation, won gold Thursday night in the same Skateboard Big Air competition at Staples Center. [2]

On Wednesday, the 41-year-old king of skateboarding became the first action sports star to get a paraffin replica of himself in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. [3]

Freestyle motocross champion Ronnie Renner and supercross racing star Ricky Carmichael, despite coming from vastly different styles of dirt bike riding, shared a gold medal in Moto X Step-Up. [2]

Extreme sports legend Tony Hawk points at his wax figure at the figure’s unveiling Wednesday at Madame Tussauds in Hollywood. [3]

LOS ANGELES (AP) ‘ Jake Brown finally has something else to talk about. [2]

In a McTwist of fate, Hawk left competitive skating ten years ago after becoming the first athlete to complete a 900-degree spin on his board at the X Games in San Francisco. [...] Inspired by an idea hatched by friend and Nine Inch Nails percussionist Josh Freese, Hawk is now selling himself on the foundation’s website (tonyhawkfoundation.org) to raise even more money for his foundation. [3]

GO211 is an Action Sports community that represents athletes within Snowboarding, Skateboarding, Surfing and BMX. [4]

This schedule is subject to change. [5]

Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins won gold in the X Games Skateboard Women’s vert competition Thursday despite a routine full of blown tricks. [2]

The Home Depot Center doors at 10 a.m. [5]

She did manage to successfully land several kickflip indies, a trick that just a few years ago was considered untouchable in women’s competition. [2]

Sources:
[1] X Games finals schedule - Los Angeles Times
[2] Two years after brutal fall, Brown gets X Games gold - USATODAY.com
[3] Hawk keeping eye on action while trying to elevate sport - USATODAY.com
[4] X Games 15 Competition Schedule: BMX News in Action Sports from GO211
[5] UTOPIA OPTICS

The week we went to print with the X Games preview, Pastrana was still working on a double backflip 360 and a backup trick, a backflip 360. [...] TRAVIS PASTRANA UPDATE: Last fall, Pastrana set a goal for himself to compete in as many events at this year’s X Games as he could train for, including BMX Big Air, Super X and Freestyle. [1]

Extreme Athlete And X-Games Gold Medalist Travis Pastrana Warming Up For An Appearance On David Letterman. [2]

ALEX PERELSON UPDATE: The day of our photo shoot and interview with Tony Hawk and Alex Perelson, we asked the two to rap about the 900. [...] The next weekend, Perelson, 18, won the vert contest at the Maloof Money Cup9and $75,0009by landing a 900 in the final jam. [...] Tony talked Alex through the first time he landed the trick, asked questions about his rotation, form and body position on the landing and then offered up as much advice as he could. [...] “I’m calling it the Toilet Paper Roll,” Pastrana says. [...] “It looks like I’m throwing myself like a wet roll of toilet paper and then figuring out the trick on the fly,” he says. [1]

After nearly three months of what he described as intense and often emotional soul-searching, Brett Favre decided to remain retired from the NFL rather than become the Minnesota Vikings’ starting quarterback. [3]

WatchMojo.com interviews stand up speed boarding, street luge/body luge, inline skating, butt boarding/classic luge skateboarding professionals. [2]

Former New York Giants WR Plaxico Burress testifies before a grand jury. [3]

Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Safety Information/Your California Privacy Rights are applicable to you. [...] Alex has been working on the trick for a couple years and was certain he was thisclose to landing it. [1]

Jim Johnson, whose attacking defenses helped the Philadelphia Eagles to one Super Bowl appearance and five NFC title games, has died. [3]

Sources:
[1] XG 15: Magazine Preview Updates - ESPN
[2] Travis Pastrana at Letterman 4 - Associated Content
[3] BlitzCorner