A Virginia police officer was charged with a misdemeanor this month after he left his loaded service weapon on his sofa for five hours, before his 2-year-old son picked up the gun and fatally shot himself. Stefhone Christian McCombs Sr, 25, was charged on February 8 with allowing access to firearms by a minor in …
Ex-Eatonton police officer Michael Seth Perrault was instead found guilty of murder and sentenced to life without parole.
The owner of a Mississippi auto repair shop was arrested Thursday after he allegedly shot and killed a customer when the two argued over repairs. Stanley Eckhoff, the 47-year-old owner of Stanley Tire and Auto in Hazlehurst, has been charged with the murder of Christopher Buie, 49, WLBT reports. Police said the two argued over …
Hampton, Virginia, Police Chief Mark Talbot updated his community Friday on the search for 4-year-old Codi Bigsby, telling a town hall that police are treating the case as if it’s their own child missing. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the toddler vanished overnight late last month while in the care of his father, Cory Bigsby. Cory …
A 26-year-old Texas woman reported missing last week was found dead this week beneath a home in Fort Worth. Marissa Grimes’s parents reported her missing from Arlington on February 16, saying they hadn’t seen her since February 12, according to KDFW. Police have named 24-year-old Valerian Osteen, who was previously released on bond in a …
The search for a missing West Virginia baby who disappeared as a newborn is still active, according to police. Angel Nichole Overstreet was reported missing on May 25, 2021, from Huntington, West Virginia. However, police say the infant’s whereabouts cannot be confirmed since May 8, 2021, CBS 13 reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, investigators questioned …
Just weeks before he is scheduled to be sentenced, Jussie Smollett has asked a judge to throw out his conviction or order a new trial on charges related to accusations that he staged a hate crime and lied to police about it, TMZ reports. Attorneys for Smollett filed a motion in court on Friday arguing …
New Jersey State Police credit social media with helping identify a woman found dead at the beginning of the month on the shore of a waterfront park. Police released a digital sketch of the woman, whose body was found at Waterfront Park in Carteret on February 2, earlier this week. **UPDATE** As a result of …
The decomposing body of an East Harlem woman was found Friday afternoon in a plastic container across the street from a Bronx storage facility. Police identified the body as that of 35-year-old Nisaa Walcott, who worked as a beautician, the New York Daily News reported. According to WABC, the body was found by a passerby …
A retired police officer who shot and killed a man over a spat in a movie theater has been acquitted of murder. Jurors deliberated for just three and a half hours before handing down the verdict in the trial of 79-year-old Curtis Reeves, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Prosecutors had charged Reeves with second-degree murder …
More disturbing allegations have surfaced about the horrific abuse of a 4-year-old Texas boy who died from starvation last year, KSAT-TV reports. As Crime Online reported earlier this week, authorities obtained a video allegedly showing the boy being forced to drink hand sanitizer and then crying that his mouth was burning. The boy had reportedly been begging …
