Year: 2022

Mass shooting
July 21, 2022

Uvalde School Board to Consider Firing School Police Chief Over Robb Elementary Massacre

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 …

Missing
July 21, 2022

Summer Wells’ Father to ‘Kidnappers’: ‘You Ruined Our Lives’

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 …

Celebrity
July 21, 2022

Marshals Offer Reward for Man Who Shot Lady Gaga’s Dog Walker

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 …

Murder
July 20, 2022

Kaitlin Armstrong: Alleged Killer Yoga Teacher Says She’s Innocent in Death of Beloved Professional Cyclist

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 …

Murder
July 20, 2022

15-Year-Old Boy Charged With Killing Beloved Memphis Pastor During Car-Jacking

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 …

Murder
July 20, 2022

Teen Boy Charged With Killing 4-Year-Old Half Sister Found Dead in Bin Behind House

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 …

Turpin Family, children in pink dresses standing by parents
Lawsuit
July 20, 2022

Turpin Children File Suit Against County, Private Agency Alleging ‘Severe’ Abuse in Foster Care After They Were Rescued From Their Parents

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, …