A 15-year-old Pennsylvania boy died on Friday, a day after he was reportedly shot in the head while carrying water into his home. According to KYW, Sean Toomey was not the intended target when suspected carjackers opened fire outside his Philadelphia home on Thursday. Toomey, who was found shot in a neighbor’s yard, was ultimately …
A Florida man was arrested on Wednesday amid charges that he sexually assaulted his pet dog. According to WFTV, a woman told police that she received a video from an unknown phone number that showed Nichols Schaab, 20, grabbing a dog by the tail and molesting it as it sat on a couch. The woman …
A Louisiana man who allegedly shot a high schooler and the teen’s stepsister in March 2021 was fatally shot in the head on Wednesday while on the way to court. Defense attorney John Fuller told Nola.com that Hollis Carter, 21, (not pictured) was killed in Gentilly as he and his mother were stopped at a …
A Rhode Island man was arrested on Tuesday after his ex-girlfriend’s body was reportedly discovered in a refrigerator. Providence police reportedly found Sherbert Maddox, 40, deceased while responding to an Elmwood apartment on Tuesday. Police believe Maddox’s ex-boyfriend, Nathan Cooper, 53, shot Maddox with a stolen .38-caliber Smith & Wesson which was seized along with …
A South Carolina woman had both arms amputated after three dogs attacked her as she took a walk on Sunday, according to reports. Abbeville County police who responded to a home found Kyleen Waltman, 38, seriously injured. Waltman’s friend, Tayna Glimer, told WSPA that she was walking to her boyfriend’s house when the dogs attacked …
A convicted rapist in Canada complained about jail conditions during last week’s sentencing hearing, where his victims also provided impact statements. According to the Ottawa Citizen, Paul Batchelor, 36, spoke longer than his two victims did at the hearing, complaining about not getting enough food at a Quebec jail. Batchelor reportedly also complained about sleeping …
A New Hampshire council announced on Wednesday that it will not be commuting a life sentence for Pamela Smart, who had her 15-year-old lover fatally shoot her husband in 1990. The Executive Council Wednesday voted unanimously, 5-0, against reducing Smart’s sentence. Smart, 54, was convicted of being an accomplice to murder after she convinced her …
Pennsylvania authorities are searching for two people who reportedly filmed on Tuesday unleashing their dogs and encouraging them to attack a cat. The reported incident occurred in the Frankford section of Philadelphia. According to WPVI, surveillance footage showed two men instructing their dogs to attack a neighborhood cat named Buddy. One of the men is …
A mother and her 3-year-old son and daughter were found dead in a car on Sunday, Florida authorities said. Police responding to a suspicious vehicle parked outside a Melbourne apartment complex discovered the bodies of mother Andrea Langhorst, 35, and her twins, Olivia Dryer and Adam Dryer. Police said it appears the family periodically lived …
A nurse is currently on trial in Tennessee, accused of negligence for allegedly giving an elderly patient the wrong medication in 2017, causing her death. KHN reported that RaDonda Vaught, 38, a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, mistakingly injected Charlene Murphey, 75, with vecuronium bromide — a paralyzing drug — when she was …
Two Michigan brothers were released from prison on Tuesday, after spending 25 years behind bars for a murder they did not commit. In 1997, George and Melvin DeJesus were sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1995 murder of Margaret Midkiff, a family friend. Midkiff was found dead in the basement of her …
A Texas woman was charged with child abandonment for allegedly trying to give her 12-day-old daughter to a stranger on Sunday. Yessenia Cardenas, 25, was walking down a street in Corpus Christi while reportedly trying to hand her baby to several people. One of those people was Claudia Canales, who told KOAA that she was …
