An elderly Asian man died this week after being attacked in Oakland, prompting police to investigate whether the perpetrator saw a crime of opportunity or was racially motivated, KPIX reports. While 75-year-old Pak Ho was on his morning walk Tuesday, 26-year-old Teaunte Bailey allegedly kicked the septuagenarian’s cane away, shoved him to the ground and stole …
An Ohio woman has been put under house arrest until she is sentenced for selling drugs to another person who died from an overdose, WFMJ-TV reports. Nicoletta Robinson, 34, of Youngstown, Ohio, was convicted this week of multiple charges in connection with the 2019 death of a 32-year-old woman who died after overdosing. Jurors in …
A police officer is accused of the kidnap and murder of a 33-year-old marketing executive in London after she disappeared while walking home, a case that has put a renewed spotlight on violence against women, the New York Times reports. Sarah Everard vanished the evening of March 3 as she was walking home from a …
The dead body of a teenager wrapped in plastic was found over the weekend in a New York building, WABC-TV reports. The teen, who has been described as homeless, was discovered Saturday morning around 9:20 a.m. inside the old Fulton Fish Market building, the New York Daily News reports. The abandoned facility is located in lower Manhattan. Investigators …
A teenage girl is missing in Chicago and authorities are asking for the public’s help to find her, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Amea King, 15, was last seen Friday evening around 7:45 p.m., according to WGN-TV. Investigators believe King was last wearing a navy-blue shirt, red jogging-style pants, and black Ugg brand boots. King is described as 5-foot-1 and …
An Ohio mother and her boyfriend are now facing formal charges in connection with the death of her young son, whose body was dumped in a river and has not yet been found, WHIO-TV reports. A grand jury on Friday indicted 29-year-old Brittany Gosney and 42-year-old James Hamilton following the death of 6-year-old James Hutchinson in …
A California doctor is under fire after he showed up virtually for court in the middle of a surgery, a move the court commissioner refused to allow, the Sacramento Bee reports. Now state medical regulators say they will investigate the incident. On Thursday, Dr. Scott Green, a Sacramento-area plastic surgeon, appeared by video for a traffic court trial, which …
“This would never be her choice to be gone this long,” the missing 22-year-old’s mother said. “There were some major happy events going on this week that she wouldn’t miss for anything in the world.”
An arrest warrant has been issued for a fugitive who authorities believe killed a Yale University graduate student and U.S. Army Veteran, WTIC-TV reports. Qinxuan Pan, 29, has been charged with the February 6 murder of Kevin Jiang, 26, in New Haven, Connecticut. Investigators had previously identified Pan, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as …
Lady Gaga’s purloined pooches were recovered Friday, two days after thieves brazenly shot her dogwalker and stole two of the singer’s French bulldogs, NBC News reports. An unnamed woman brought the dogs to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Olympic Community Police Station around 6 p.m. Friday, according to the Associated Press. “The woman found the dogs and …
One person is dead and three others are injured after gunfire rang out Saturday night at a bowling alley in a Philadelphia suburb, WPVI-TV reports. Police responded to the Our Town Alley shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday in East Norriton, where they found four people suffering from gunshot wounds. “Everybody just started screaming and running and …
An elderly Vietnam War veteran beat down a home invader who had attacked his wife, ultimately leading to the intruder’s death, WACH-TV reports. Around 2 p.m. Monday, 82-year-old Herbert Parrish and 79-year-old Lois Parrish heard a knock on their back door at their home in Columbia, South Carolina. There they found 61-year-old Harold Runnels, who asked whether …
