A North Carolina woman was sentenced on Monday to eight to 11 years in prison for the February 2020 death of her 6-month-old son — whose disappearance sparked an AMBER Alert. While Tamara Brown, 30, was initially charged with murder, she ultimately pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, felony child abuse, and common law robbery. Brown’s …
“She had lived that life for a couple of years and basically just ruined her daughter’s credit.”
An Illinois man has been charged with first-degree murder for shooting an elderly man 22 times on Tuesday. WBBM reported that Alphonso Joyner, 23, killed Woom Sing Tse, 71, in Chicago’s Chinatown district as Tse walked from his home to get a newspaper, which he did often. Surveillance footage shows Tse walking on the sidewalk …
In his first sit-down interview since last month’s Astroworld concert that left 10 dead, rapper Travis Scott said he did not know anyone was injured or killed at the Texas festival until after the show. Scott, 30, told “The Breakfast Club’s” Charlamagne Tha God about the November 5 concert in Houston — which turned into …
A Florida man who was arrested on Thursday allegedly planned to commit a mass shooting at his college that day. In Snapchat messages, John Hagins, 19, reportedly told two classmates at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University about his plans to carry out a Columbine-style shooting. Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young said the students tipped off police, …
Two suspects who were arrested in November are facing new charges in connection with the disappearance of a 16-year-old Texas boy who vanished under suspicious circumstances in late October. Kyler Rector, 19, Casey Jenschke, 23, and a 15-year-old girl are facing charges of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault for the October 26 disappearance of Benjamin …
The family of Laci Peterson confronted her husband and convicted killer, Scott Peterson, in a California court on Wednesday — the same day he was re-sentenced to life without parole for the 2002 slaying. On November 23, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo had Scott Peterson transferred from San Quentin prison’s death row …
A former Georgia prosecutor is facing five years in prison for allegedly obstructing police in arresting the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020. Ex-Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, 49, was arrested in early September and charged with violating her oath of office and hindering a law enforcement officer. While Johnson …
Last Monday, Washington investigators said they found no evidence that a man who was reportedly murdered by his girlfriend’s father last year was involved in sex trafficking. Spokane police detective Randy Lesser alleged in court documents that John Eisenman, 60, said he was likely high on methamphetamine when he fatally beat and stabbed Andrew Sorensen, …
Idaho State Police have issued an AMBER Alert on Monday for a 15-year-old girl who may be in Washington with an armed and dangerous sex offender. According to the alert, Lillian Dixon is with Jonathan Bowles, 36, with whom she formed a relationship. Bowles convinced Dixon to go with him and “to go along with …
The Justice Department has reportedly closed an investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, finding that it could not prove Till’s accuser lied to federal investigators about the teen’s 1955 slaying in Mississippi. A federal investigation was opened into the 14-year-old’s slaying in July 2018, a year after Professor Timothy Tyson released “The Blood of …
Court proceedings continued on Monday with an accuser testifying about how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her at age 17 — and how the British socialite asked her to get other girls to perform oral sex on Jeffrey Epstein. According to the New York Post, the 44-year-old woman, who only went by “Kate” due to privacy concerns, …
