Philadelphia police are looking for an “armed and dangerous” man they say threatened his former employer and police officers, NBC 10 reports. Michael John Altomari, 31, had an argument with his girlfriend in the city’s Mayfair neighborhood and then left after loading up several firearms in a duffel bag, police said. The girlfriend said Altomari …
Former college football player and current Portland, Oregon, high school coach Keanon Lowe bravely disarmed a shotgun-wielding student in a classroom full of students and then calmly hugged the boy and talked with him until police arrived, and the school’s video cameras caught most of the scene. Angel Granados-Diaz, dressed in a long trench coat …
An Indiana woman who plowed into three young children waiting at a bus stop last year was found guilty Friday of reckless homicide, criminal recklessness, and criminal recklessness causing bodily injury. NBC 16 reports that 24-year-old Alyssa Shepherd plowed a pickup truck into four children, killing three of them, during an early morning incident in …
Colorado authorities arrested a man suspected of murdering a woman whose body was discovered in a suitcase that had been tossed into a dumpster, the Denver Post reports. Police in Pueblo, Colorado, announced shortly before 6 p.m. Friday that Anthony “Antonio” Cuevas, 36, had been taken into custody. A witness captured the arrest on video …
Police now believe the young man may have jumped out of a car to try and escape assailants, who caught up to him
A Dallas probate judge signed a temporary restraining order on Friday against Atatiana Jefferson’s family, stopping her funeral and burial and giving full authority for the services to her father, Marquis Jefferson, WFAA reported. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her nephew in her home on October 5 when she was shot and …
Authorities in Georgia are investigating a possible homicide after a legally blind elderly woman was found dead in her home on Tuesday. A neighbor who spoke with WFXG on the condition of anonymity said he heard screams come from Elizabeth Thompson’s Augusta home the morning of her death. A police report detailed that officers were …
A 15-year-old girl is in jail in Rhode Island, charged with killing a 68-year-old grandmother whose family was reportedly trying to adopt her, the Providence Journal reports. Heavenly Arroyo, originally of Rochester, New York, was arrested on October 6 and charged with stabbing Ana Vazquez as many as 20 times in her Fall River home, …
A Los Angeles jury on Friday recommended the death sentence for Michael Gargiulo, who was convicted in August in the deaths of two women and the brutal stabbing of a third, who survived, KNX1070 reported. Prosecutors called Gargiulo, 43, the “Hollywood Ripper” for the Los Angeles-area killings of Ashley Ellerin, 22, on February 22, 2001, …
UPDATE Suspect caught on camera tossing dead woman into dumpster identified, arrested for murder: Reports Original Story Colorado authorities are asking for help in identifying a woman and suspect who dumped her body in a dumpster at a Pueblo car wash. CBS 11 reports that the incident happened at a dumpster behind a car wash …
An Indiana man who admitted to drugging a 5-year-old girl’s cereal before he filmed himself sexually assaulting her learned this week that he will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. Eric Weiler, 46, was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to production and possession of child pornography …
A former Florida nanny who gave birth to an 11-year-old boy’s baby was convicted of sexual battery on Wednesday. Tampa Bay Times reports that 28-year-old Marissa Mowry was a parents’ worst nightmare. She’s pictured above at the age of 22, when she sexually assaulted a young boy at least 15 times in 2014. Mowry was …
