Illinois police confirmed on Friday that it was a mother’s detective work that led to last month’s arrest of a man who fatally shot her 17-year-old son in late October. After Isaiah Davis was found lit on fire in a Harvey alley, Leslie Bell learned from a neighbor about the man her son was last …
The man who allegedly purchased the firearm that Kyle Rittenhouse used in the August 2020 protest shooting in Wisconsin that left two demonstrators dead accepted a plea deal on Friday that would spare him from jail. According to the Kenosha County Eye, Dominick Black, 20, agreed to plead no contest to contributing to the delinquency …
The teen watched his father get shot and desperately tried to save him
An Indiana toddler who was found dead in a river in November — days after her father was found alive in a submerged truck — died from homicidal drowning, authorities said on Wednesday. According to the Indianapolis Star, the Bartholomew County Coroner’s Office said Emma Sweet, 2, died from “complications of hypothermia and asphyxia due …
The victim’s body was reportedly found in the backseat of her car, which her ex allegedly stole before leading cops on a high-speed chase
Tennessee police have asked for the public’s help in locating a 12-year-old girl who reportedly vanished on Thursday afternoon. According to WHBQ, the Memphis Police Department issued an alert for Amaya Whitefield. Police said Whitefield disappeared from the 1500 block of South Wellington Street after she was told she was not allowed to go outside. …
Three Georgia men who were found guilty of killing Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020 were sentenced on Friday to life in prison, with only one of them getting the possibility of parole. Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, 64 and 34, were sentenced to life without parole for felony murder, plus 20 years for …
Eleven children in Washington remain in protective custody after a fire on Sunday reportedly uncovered they were living in substandard conditions. KREM reported that a fire in the backyard of a Spokane home led firefighters to discover that the residence was covered in trash, animal feces, and rotting food. Firefighters wrote that they also found …
A Washington man was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for a botched September 2017 murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the death of his ex-wife’s sister. Kevin Lewis, 34, paid $2,400 to his cousin, Jerradon Phelps, 19, to kill his ex-wife, Amanda Canales. Though Lewis directed Phelps to a home in Everett, he did …
An Illinois child welfare worker was killed Tuesday when she was reportedly stabbed during a home visit. Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) investigator Diedre Silas, 36, was murdered while responding to reports of children in danger at a home in Thayer. Six children, between the ages of 1 and 7, were at the …
A Texas father was fatally shot in a Chuck E. Cheese parking lot on Friday during an altercation with another man. Calogero Duenes, 24, was bringing his 6-year-old daughter’s birthday cake into the Humble establishment when he got into an argument with a man, driving a burgundy Ford, in the parking lot. After hearing gunshots, …
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who remains jailed on financial fraud charges, is reportedly facing at least eight additional civil lawsuits from people who he allegedly scammed. According to Fox News, Murdaugh, 53, is accused of stealing money from a deaf man who was left paralyzed following a 2011 car accident and an ex-highway patrolman …
