Gunfire rang out Friday at a New Mexico middle school, where authorities say a 13-year-old allegedly shot and killed a peer, KRQE-TV reports. The incident occurred around 12:45 p.m. – during the lunch break at Washington Middle School in Albuquerque – where it was just the third day of classes for the academic year. Amari …
Police in one Indiana community helped the daughter of a fallen officer prepare for her first day of school, an important milestone that her father had been eagerly anticipating before he died, WTHR-TV reports., Monroe County Reserve Deputy James Driver was killed in a crash in March after the operator of another vehicle lost control …
A Washington state woman has been charged with murdering her adult autistic children after she told authorities that she “lost track of the days and believed she had starved them to death,” the Kitsap Sun reports. According to police, 55-year-old Sherrie Lynn Hill went to a hospital in Silverdale on Thursday, told staff that she was …
The state of South Carolina has dropped charges against Paul Murdaugh stemming from a 2019 boat crash that killed a woman, a move that was prompted by Murdaugh’s own death earlier this summer, the Island Packet reports. Murdaugh, 22, and his 52-year-old mother were fatally shot June 7 on the family’s vast estate in Colleton County. That case …
As Arizona authorities investigate the death of a woman on Camelback Mountain, there are conflicting reports about whether her hiking companion was familiar with the trail they were traversing, KNXV-TV reports. Angela Tramonte, 31, was found dead July 30 near a home off the trail’s path. Her death is under investigation, and authorities say there is no indication of …
A missing Texas woman allegedly faked her pregnancy before vanishing the day she was supposedly scheduled to be induced, and now her family is worried for her safety, KTRK-TV reports. Elizabeth Jasso, 31, was last seen Thursday morning when she left her family’s home in Baytown, Texas, a suburb of Houston. A neighbor’s security camera recorded …
A doctor in England has been convicted of multiple crimes for attempting hundreds of twisted exorcism rituals on his girlfriend, which involved dangerous chemicals and drugs, BBC News reports. Authorities say 60-year-old Hossam Metwally performed a “dangerous perversion” of an Islamic ritual called Ruqya about 250 times on the woman over four years to expel spirits, …
Five young children died in a horrific fire Friday – on their mother’s birthday – at a St. Louis-area apartment where they had been living since their previous home was destroyed in a blaze earlier this year, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The fire is believed to have started around 3 a.m. at an apartment building …
Several potential gravesites and other “areas of interest” have been identified under parking lots near a Florida Major League Baseball stadium, the Tampa Bay Times reports. On Friday, the city of St. Petersburg announced that a contractor it hired had located the possible graves beneath a pair of parking lots outside Tropicana Field, home of the …
A manhunt is underway for a Minnesota man accused of fatally stabbing his wife in a jealous rage and leaving her to bleed out and die in the family driveway, KMSP-TV reports. A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of 44-year-old Eric Reinbold, who has been charged with murder in connection …
A Florida mother was found shot to death in a vehicle with her two young children inside, prompting police to ask for the public’s help in finding her killer, WFLA-TV reports. Around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, authorities in St. Petersburg received a 911 call reporting that a person had been shot in the 100 block of 60th …
A young girl has died after she was struck by a rock that crashed through a windshield in Idaho, the Idaho State Journal reports. The incident occurred in the southeast part of the state, where 10-year-old Kambrie Horsley was riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle driven by her father, Brad Horsley. As the …
