Year: 2021

‘The whole thing stinks’: Family of pedestrian killed in highway collision with South Dakota attorney general doubts Jason Ravnsborg’s story
Accident

It’s been five months since South Dakota’s attorney general struck and killed a man while driving, but the victim’s family says they still don’t have answers as to whether the state’s chief prosecutor will be criminally charged, KOTA-TV reports. Joseph Boever, 55, died in September after state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg hit him with his vehicle while driving back at …

Murder
February 13, 2021

UPDATE: Cops catch suspect in fatal subway stabbing spree

The suspect believed responsible for four stabbings on the New York subway’s A-train line — two of them fatal — was arrested Saturday in Upper Manhattan, the New York Post reports. The man, who has not been identified, was still carrying a bloody knife and his his shoes were spattered with blood, sources told the …

Murder
February 13, 2021

Tennessee woman dies after former roommate runs over her with a car

A 21-year-old Tennessee woman has been charged with intentionally running over her former roommate with a car earlier this month, fatally injuring the roommate, Metro Nashville police said. Before she died, Amanda Byers, 20, identified Tessa Knapp as the woman behind the wheel of a car that knocked her down and ran over her on …

Murder
February 13, 2021

Missing pregnant woman from Texas found dead in Louisiana

Skeletal remains found Thursday in Louisiana belong to a pregnant Texas woman not seen since the end of November, Beaumont Police said Friday. Kayla Nicole Rice, 33, was reported missing in December by out of state relatives, who said she was six months pregnant at the time. Rice’s body was found Thursday in a shallow …

Murder
February 13, 2021

2 dead in New York subway stabbing spree

New York police believe they’re looking for one suspect involved in four stabbings along the subway system’s A line from Friday morning into Saturday morning, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea says. Investigators are all but certain three of the stabbings — two of them fatal — are connected, PIX11 reports. The first of those happened late …

Police tape
Robbery
February 13, 2021

12-year-old fatally shoots armed robbery suspect: Cops

A 12-year-old fatally shot one of two masked intruders who broke into a North Carolina apartment early Saturday morning, demanded money, and shot a 73-year-old woman. Police identified the slain suspect as Khalil Herring, 19, who died from his injuries at a hospital, the Goldsboro Daily News reported. The woman who was shot, identified as …

Murder
February 13, 2021

Alleged killer who slammed truck into jogger, raped & murdered her is found mentally competent to stand trial

An Arkansas man accused in the gruesome killing of a jogger is fit to stand trial, KARK-TV reports. A psychologist has determined that 28-year-old Quake Lewellyn is competent to be tried in connection with the murder, kidnapping, and rape of 25-year-old Sydney Sutherland. Authorities believe Lewellyn rammed his pick-up truck into Sutherland while she was jogging on …

Child sex crimes
February 12, 2021

Pervy babysitter films herself sexually abusing child, sends videos to her married lover

An American babysitter living in London who filmed herself sexually abusing a toddler and sent the videos to her married lover was sentenced to 17 years in jail this week, DevonLive reports. Paige Poole, 29, conspired with Ross Kingsland, 44, to commit the abuse, prosecutors told Exeter Crown Court. Kingsland was sentenced to 15 years. …