A Virginia toddler is dead after his 4-year-old brother allegedly mistook a gun for a toy and shot him in the chest Tuesday morning. Louisa County Sheriff’s Office Major Donald A. Lowe told WVTR that the children were home with their mother at around 10 a.m. when the 4-year-old picked up a gun, and, thinking it …
An Iowa mother allegedly pulled her 8-year-old son into the path of an oncoming train in what police have deemed a murder-suicide. KCCI reported that Teresa Gerleman, 35, and Henry Fields, 8, were fatally struck at a crossing in Belle Plaine at 5 a.m. on May 4. Interviews and footage captured by Union Pacific Railroad led officials to determine that …
A North Carolina trooper died in a fiery crash Monday night while reportedly chasing a motorist who drove past a license checkpoint. According to the Winston Salem-Journal, trooper Samuel Newton Bullard, 24, died while he and another trooper pursued suspect Dakota Kape Whitt, 22, who allegedly blew past a checkpoint on U.S. 21 and Ebenezer …
The death of Timothy Cunningham, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist whose body was found in a river weeks after his disappearance, was ruled a suicide by drowning. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said Tuesday that Cunningham, 35, had marijuana in his body but it didn’t contribute to his death. The medical examiner’s office …
A homeless man found guilty of stabbing two young children—one fatally—in a Brooklyn elevator learned his fate on Tuesday. The New York Daily News reported that Daniel St. Hubert, 31, fell asleep as he was sentenced to 50 years to life for the June 2014 attack that left P.J. Avitto, 6, dead and nearly killed …
A New York City man is accused of repeatedly stabbing his pregnant girlfriend, killing their unborn child. Liv Abreu—who was 26 weeks pregnant—managed to drag herself to a neighbor’s apartment and call 911 following Tuesday’s 12:30 a.m. attack. Officials told the New York Daily News that Oscar Alvarez, 30, stabbed Abreu, 30, six times in the …
A man aboard a Frontier Airlines plane was arrested Thursday for allegedly assaulting two women before urinating on another passenger’s seat. KMGH reported that the bizarre incident occurred during a Frontier Airlines flight 864 from Denver, Colorado, to Charleston, South Carolina. Pictures from the ordeal appear to show Michael Allen Haag, of Boulder, Colorado, peeing on …
An Army Reserve veteran reportedly drowned Saturday after saving his fiancé’s 6-year-old daughter from a Texas lake. The Denton Record-Chronicle reports that the body of Brandyn Mitchell, 25, was recovered Saturday afternoon from Ray Roberts Lake, about 35 yards from shore. Denton County game wardens said Mitchell managed to get his soon-to-be stepdaughter onto a flotation device …
An Indiana judge sentenced a Fort Wayne woman to 20 years behind bars for attempting to kill her 11-month-old niece by lacing her milk with pain pills and caffeine. The lengthy prison sentence was handed down two months after Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda, 19, pleaded guilty to attempted murder. Rodriguez-Miranda tried to kill her niece in January 2017 because …
Facing criminal charges for allegedly harassing and threatening a private investigator, George Zimmerman reportedly begged a Florida court for a public defender as he’s $2.5 million in debt and is unemployed. Zimmerman, 34, also claimed to have no cars, property or savings, which led the court to ultimately grant his request for a public defender, …
A new lead reportedly indicated that a Sarasota, Florida, teen who vanished in September was last seen with two other boys hours before he was reported missing. Jabez Spann’s mother reportedly told WWSB that several witnesses claimed they spotted the three boys on Martin Luther King Jr. Way on September 4, 2017, at 1 a.m. However, conflicting …
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the Texas teen accused opening fire Santa Fe High School last week, killing 10, reportedly danced at a church function days before the deadly shooting. Footage obtained by TMZ appears to show Pagourtzis, 17, partaking in a choreographed dance at a Greek Orthodox church the weekend before Friday’s shooting that killed eight of his classmates …
