The mother of a 6-year-old New Jersey girl who died on a school bus last month is speaking out and says the tragedy could have been prevented, ABC News reports. On July 17, Fajr Atiya Williams was in her wheelchair on the bus when bumps on Franklin Township’s roads moved her body and led her …
An elderly Florida man has been charged with manslaughter after he allegedly beat up a fellow senior citizen at a golf course who later died, Fox 35 reports. On June 28, Robert Edward Moore Jr., 76, confronted Dean William Zook, 87, after Moore mistakenly believed that Zook had hit his black Lexus at Glenview Country …
Two Illinois teens were killed this summer by a suspected drunk driver who was on probation at the time of the deadly wreck. Now their parents are calling for justice as they bear the tormenting agony of losing a child. “I have experienced no pain like this before,” Stephanie Maze told CBS Chicago. “I wake …
Two people have been arrested in connection with a missing Georgia teen who vanished seven years ago, WSB-TV reports. On Saturday, authorities announced that Johnathan Alexander Warren was taken into custody in Los Angeles on charges of murder, aggravated assault and concealing death, all felonies. He also faces a misdemeanor charge of tampering with evidence. …
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers pleaded guilty this week to federal charges in the beating and sexual assault of two Black men earlier this year. Five ex-Rankin County Sheriff’s Deputies and a former Richland police officer, all white, appeared in court Thursday and entered guilty pleas to 13 felonies, including civil rights conspiracy, deprivation …
Police in Kentucky have arrested one person and are looking for a second suspect in a toddler abuse case that prosecutors and investigators say is the worst case they’ve seen in someone so young. Seventeen-month-old Elena was presented at Middlesboro ARH Hospital on July 28 with injuries so severe that she was almost immediately flown …
Police in California are investigating the deaths of a woman and her 6-year-old grandson as homicides. San Jose Police officers responded to a request for a welfare check early Friday afternoon at the apartment in the Buena Vista neighborhood of West San Jose and found the woman and the boy dead, KPIX reported. KTVU reported …
A 17-year-old New York boy has been charged with murder as a hate crime for the stabbing death earlier this week of a professional dancer who was dancing with friends while refueling their car at a Brooklyn gas station. New York Police Assistant Chief Joe Kenny said that O’Shae Sibley, 28, and friends were approached …
A Georgia police officer has been arrested and charged with child molestation and sexual battery against a child. The Gwinnett County Police Department said that the investigation began in late July when a supervisor noticed “inconsistencies in the patrol activities” of one of his officers. Investigators called in the Special Victims Unit when they discovered …
Federal prosecutors in the case against former President Donald Trump for alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election requested a strict protective order barring him from speaking publicly about the evidence the fraud case after he posted on his personal social media outlet an apparent threat. U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, presiding over Trump’s …
A law enforcement expert is urging investigators to search an expansive nature preserve for bodies given its proximity to the home of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, the New York Post reports. The 430-acre Massapequa Preserve includes secluded and overgrown woods that would be viable places to hide victims, Joseph Giacalone told the …
My phone rang, and the voice on the other end was somber. It was a professional courtesy call to inform me that SWAT was positioning itself to arrest Imani Roberson’s husband, Donell Anderson, for her murder. I immediately thought of her mother, who had just learned about her daughter’s tragic fate. She now had to …
