A Detroit mom has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 8-year-old daughter, who was shot to death by the girl’s 10-year-old brother. Officials said the boy found an unsecured and loaded handgun shortly before noon on Tuesday, while he and his sister were home alone. He fired the gun and shot …
Texas bull rider Ouncie Mitchell was shot and killed outside a Utah apartment complex. Mitchell, whose real name is Demetrius Omar Lateef Allen, was in town to compete at an event at the state fair. After the competition Mitchell and a female friend when to a downtown bar, where they argued. The friend, LaShawn Denise …
Colorado police are searching for a Colorado Springs woman who disappeared earlier this week and failed to contact friends and family. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, Leonor Enriquez, 59, was last seen on September 11 at around 8 p.m., near Sinton Road and Fillmore Street. KDRO reports that family members haven’t heard from …
Alabama authorities are reportedly reviewing nearly 1,000 calls made between corrections officer Vicky White and a jailed capital murder suspect before she allegedly helped the inmate escape in April. Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told AL.com that Vicky White, 57, and accused murderer Casey White, 38, who was housed at William Donaldson Correctional Facility in …
Federal prosecutors say that Sherri Papini, a California mother who staged her own kidnapping, should spend time in jail for her elaborate hoax. On Wednesday, prosecutors suggested Papini should serve a sentence consisting of a month behind bars, followed by seven months under house arrest. CBS reports that the sentence suggestion was provided in an …
Washington authorities are investigating the death of a man who was found dead on Monday in a tent full of improvised explosive devices. A driver called 911 and claimed they were flagged down by a woman who said her boyfriend was unresponsive in a tent near Chelatchie Prairie off US Forest Service Forest Road 54. …
On Wednesday, lawyers for jailed film producer Harvey Weinstein asked a California judge to allow him to see a private dentist for fake teeth before he stands trial in October for sex crimes. According to the New York Post, prison dentists will pull Weinstein’s decayed molars without replacing them. Weinstein’s attorney, Mark Werksman, said dentists …
An Ohio woman is behind bars after police found her infant son’s decomposing body inside a Columbus home. On Monday, officers were dispatched to a home off of Jefferson Avenue after someone called for help about an unresponsive infant. According to court records cited by The Columbus Dispatch, 4-month-old Aaron Thorpe was found inside the …
A teen boy is facing charges in adult court after he allegedly shot a recreation employee during a Friday afternoon shootout in Philadelphia. Fox 29 reports that the incident happened at the Mill Creek Recreation Center as Tiffany Fletcher, 40, was in the process of welcoming children to the park after school. Gunshots erupted between …
A Western Kentucky University student is facing a class C felony charge after police say she posted a bomb threat on social media. According to ABC 13, Hailee Reed, 20, was arrested at the school and charged with first-degree terroristic threatening. She was taken into custody Wednesday by campus police. Police initially found “suspicious material” …
A Mississippi man who stole a plane earlier this month and threatened to crash it into a Walmart appeared in federal court on Wednesday to face charges of destruction of an aircraft and threats involving the destruction of an aircraft. Cory Wayne Patterson, 29, was charged in state court with grand larceny and making terroristic …
