Volusia County, Florida, deputies responding to a 911 call from a terrified 12-year-old girl found her mother unconscious from a heroin overdose, with their car parked on the grass beside Interstate 4, the sheriff’s office said Friday. Two other children, a 7-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy, were also in the minivan Thursday night with …
A Florida teen is accused of offering money to have a high school employee killed, prompting police to arrest the student, WFTS-TV reports. The teenager, 18-year-old Nicholas Godfrey, has been charged with attempting to solicit murder after sending an Instagram message to another student at Fivay High School in Pasco County, Florida. Godfrey indicated that …
A New Jersey man is accused of unintentionally killing a teen while the two were having sex in a vehicle, the Daily Voice reports. Michael T. Gaffney, 21, was arrested early Saturday and charged with reckless manslaughter in connection with the death of 19-year-old Francis Victoria Garcia. The death occurred while the two were in the back seat …
Police in Dallas are looking for a man who shot a pregnant store employee as he unsuccessfully tried to rob a CVS near Southern Methodist University, NBC DFW reported. The woman, said to be about 8 months pregnant, was shot twice and rushed to Presbyterian Hospital, where doctors delivered her baby. Both were in critical …
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder in the Halloween shooting of a 7-year-old girl who police believe was caught in the crossfire of a Chicago gang shooting, ABC7 reported. A 31-year-old man, who was shot in the hand, was believed to have been the target, police said. The teen has been charged …
A 3-year-old boy died Saturday morning, two days after an apparently under-the-influence driver killed his father and seriously injured his mother while they were trick-or-treating in Long Beach on Halloween night, the Long Beach Post reported. Joseph Awaida, 30, died of his injuries on Friday. Raihan Dakhil, 32, was identified as the mother by a …
An inmate who escaped the Morgan County Jail in Alabama on Sunday may be with a 16-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen since Monday, authorities say, according to WHNT. While they have no confirmation that Kaleb Gillespie, 30, and Peyton Ledlow are together, Moulton Police Chief Lyndon McWhorter and Morgan County Sheriff Ron Puckett have …
Colorado prosecutors called Kelsey Berreth’s mother to the stand on Friday, the first witness in the murder trial of rancher Patrick Frazee, accused of killing Berreth, with whom he had a child, on Thanksgiving Day last year. Kelsey Berreth is missing and presumed dead. Frazee pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including first-degree murder, tampering …
Two bodies found buried together at a South Texas beach last week have been identified as a missing New Hampshire couple. The Kleberg County Sheriff’s Office announced that the Nueces County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victims as 48-year-old James Butler and his wife, 46-year-old Michelle Butler. Authorities are treating the deaths as homicides, according …
Authorities believe the 39 people who died in a refrigerated truck in England last week were all Vietnamese nationals, the Associated Press reports. Investigators initially thought the victims may have been from China. “At this time, we believe the victims are Vietnamese nationals, and we are in contact with the Vietnamese government,” Tim Smith, the …
Five men in Spain have been acquitted of raping an unconscious 14-year-old girl because the allegations did not meet the country’s legal definition of the crime, which requires that a victim fight back, CNN reports. The suspects instead were convicted of a lesser charge under Spanish law because an element of rape requires a perpetrator …
One of a set of infant twins hospitalized last week with broken bones and head trauma died on Thursday, and the babies’ father — already charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child — has been charged with manslaughter, ABC7 reported. Jonathan Melendez, 27, was arrested on October 25, two days after …
