The Uvalde school board will consider firing school district police chief Pete Arredondo at a special meeting on Saturday, following a damning state legislative report and fierce anger from members of the public. School Superintendent Hal Harrell, who said Monday that Arredondo was a contract employee and could not be fired at will, has now …
An Oregon man died Wednesday following a shooting sparked by a possible reported road rage incident. The Oregonian reports that the incident happened as Dennis Anderson, 45, and his partner, Brandy Goldsbury, headed home to Tigard on July 13, after a trip to Lincoln City. According to Goldsbury, Anderson sprayed windshield wiper fluid while driving, …
The father of a Tennessee girl who vanished more than a year ago has written a letter from his jail cell to “the person or persons responsible” for the disappearance of 6-year-old Summer Wells. Don Wells was jailed after his daughter disappeared over an unrelated DUI. Wells’s letter was posted to the family’s Find Summer …
The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a reward leading to the man accused of shooting Lady Gaga’s dog walker and stealing two of her French bulldogs in 2021 James Howard Jackson, 19, was “erroneously released from custody” in April “due to a clerical error,” as CrimeOnline previously reported. Jackson was charged with being the gunman …
Kaitlin Armstrong, a Texas woman accused of killing professional cyclist Moriah Wilson, made her first court appearance in Austin after her Costa Rica capture. During an arraignment Wednesday morning, Armstrong pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, Fox 5 reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Armstrong was arrested in a hideaway spot in Costa Rica after the …
A 15-year-old Tennessee boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a beloved United Methodist Church pastor during a carjacking in Memphis. Rev. Autura Eason-Williams was killed outside her home Monday afternoon. She was the pastor of Capleville United Methodist Church and the district superintendent of the Metro District in the …
A 17-year-old South Carolina boy has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of his 4-year-old half-sister, who was found dead in a plastic bin behind the home where they both lived. The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office began investigating the disappearance of Joanna Lockaby at about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. The little girl was found …
Six of 13 children rescue from their parents’ California “house of horrors” in 2018 have filed suit against the county and private foster care agency that took care of them after, claiming they suffered “severe abuse and neglect” for years in foster care. Two lawsuits were filed by the six youngest Turpin siblings, alleging physical, …
Delia Owens’ “Where the Crawdad’s Sing,” a fictional story about a murder in North Carolina, has sold more than 12 million copies and has spent 166 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list. However, Owens is linked to another murder. The author is wanted for questioning in Zambia about a deadly shooting in Africa …
A Michigan woman is suing a man for $10,000 claiming he stood her up on a date, thus intentionally inflicting “emotional distress” because the planned date fell on her late mother’s birthday. In 2020. At a recent court appearance, held over Zoom, QaShontae Short insisted that her date’s responses to questions were lies and even …
A Michigan mother whose three children died after she crashed her SUV into an icy pond while driving impaired is now facing potential prison time in connection with the deaths, the Holland Sentinel reports. Leticia Marie Gonzales, 30, was charged this week with three counts of driving while intoxicated resulting in death. The charges stem …
An Arizona teen is still missing after disappearing from her family home almost a week ago. According to Stephanie McQuilliam, her 16-year-old daughter, Aleyah McQuilliam, was last seen on July 14 in Peoria, at around 12:14 p.m. She left without her belongings, her mother posted on Facebook. Aleyah is described as a white female who …
