A slain boy’s family is speaking out following the news that a New York man who went to prison at just 14 years old has been released on parole. CBS News reports that Eric Smith, who was convicted in 1994 of killing Derrick Robie, 4, was released from the Woodbourne Correctional Facility last month. Smith lived …
A Chinese plane carrying 132 people has crashed in China, and state media reportedly said the aircraft disintegrated. Citing Chinese news sources, the New York Post reports that a China Eastern Boeing 737 plummetted 30,000 feet and crashed in near Wuzhou, in the southern province of Guangxi, at about 2:30 p.m. local time Monday. The …
Authorities in Washington state have made an arrest in the nearly 20-year-old rapes of two women who were brutally attacked in 2003 and 2004. According to CBS News, DNA evidence linked Kenneth Downing, 47, to the unsolved attacks in the Pullman area in the early 2000s. According to the report, authorities made the DNA match …
Two Pennslvania state troopers were reportedly struck and killed during a traffic stop overnight Monday. As PennLive reports, Pennsylvania State Polce announced the deaths of the undentified troopers and one civilian in a Twitter post after midnight Monday. PHILADELPHIA COUNTY – The Pennsylvania State Police confirms two Troopers and a civilian were struck and killed …
A Colorado police officer has been arrested on multiple serious charges, but the community remains in the dark about the precise nature of the allegations, The Gazette reports. On Friday, Colorado Springs patrol officer Shane Reed was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, child abuse, menacing and harassment, according to the newspaper. The Colorado Springs Police …
A man who tried to save a drowning jet-skier but later fatally shot him will not be prosecuted after authorities determined he acted in self-defense, WLTX-TV reports. The 74-year-old gunman, whose identity has not been released publicly, shot 29-year-old Nathan Drew Morgan on Tuesday in Lake Keowee in South Carolina. Morgan and a female friend …
Chaotic video footage shows multiple gunshots ringing out overnight in Miami Beach, causing bystanders to run for cover in a stampede, WPLG-TV reports. In the footage, which was uploaded to Twitter, at least four gunshots can be heard while police with sirens move down a busy street near the intersection of Ocean Drive and 9th …
Police in New York are seeking the public’s help to identify a man who was caught on video viciously attacking a woman, amNY reports. The unidentified perpetrator can be seen in a video released by the NYPD putting on latex gloves moments before the brutal assault around 11:30 p.m. Sources told the newspaper that the …
Investigators say they have identified a suspect in the murder of a young California mother more than three decades ago, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. On May 2, 1988, 29-year-old Diane Lynn Dahn was found stabbed and bludgeoned to death inside a bedroom of her San Diego apartment. A colleague had come to check on …
A mass shooting in Arkansas has left one person dead and at least 24 people injured, including children, KARK-TV reports.Gunfire broke out Saturday evening at a car show in Dumas, a small town about 90 miles southeast of Little Rock.The shooting reportedly began around 6:50 p.m., according to Monticello Live. Arkansas State Police troopers and special agents …
Authorities in the Bay Area announced this week that charges had been filed against three men in the shooting death of a news crew’s security guard last November. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kevin Nishita was shot during an attempted robbery of a KRON4 crew on November 24. He died in a hospital three days later. …
Virginia sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a 36-year-old women armed with a knife after responding to a domestic incident Friday morning in Loudon County. The Virginia State Police said Loudoun County deputies got a call about 4 a.m. about a domestic argument and were met at the door by Faubricia Virtaux Gainer, who came out …
