Gabriel Fernandez murder: ‘Mom’ and her boyfriend accused of torturing 8-year-old boy to death with BB gun because he was ‘gay’

The little boy’s sister says she saw her mom’s boyfriend repeatedly punch her brother in the head on the day he died
The little boy’s sister says she saw her mom’s boyfriend repeatedly punch her brother in the head on the day he died
An Alabama man allegedly admitted to bludgeoning his 70-year-old mother to death with her own oxygen tank because she “wouldn’t stop crying.” WALA reported that police responded to a Mobile residence at around 10 a.m. Friday and found Carol Croucher dead from blunt trauma to her head. Her son, Joseph Wood, 47, supposedly confessed to killing his ill …
Two Navy SEALs are under investigation for the strangulation of a Green Beret; they allegedly offered him some of the dirty money they were stealing—an offer that the Green Beret declined. Sources told the Daily Beast that Army Sergeant Logan Melgar, 34, had discovered the racket while stationed in Mali. The scheme supposedly involved the SEALs pocketing money meant …
An Oklahoma man allegedly led police on a high-speed chase that lasted nearly three hours—and streamed it on Facebook Live. KFOR reports that Brenton Hager, 25, is accused of driving a stolen car and leading officers from multiple departments through the Oklahoma City area. Hager took police through neighborhoods and farm fields during the Friday …
A 16-year-old boy who started a fire that killed his adoptive father previously threatened to kill his family so he could “get a cell next to his paternal father in prison,” according to prosecutors. WRTV reported that Jordan Marin-Doan (pictured center) was charged with murder, arson, and auto theft in connection with the November 3 fire …
An Arizona man was found guilty Wednesday of leaving his wife’s 10-year-old cousin in a footlocker overnight to suffocate and die. Now, a jury is tasked with deciding whether he’ll be put to death for his crimes. The Republic reported that a Maricopa County Superior Court jury found John Allen, 29, guilty of first-degree murder, three …
A 16-year-old girl in Denver, Colorado, is facing first-degree murder charges after she allegedly suffocated her newborn baby by shoving a rock down her throat. KMGH-TV reported that police believe Alaya Dotson killed her baby, Amekah Dotson, at her Denver home about an hour after giving birth to her on September 8. The teen told officers that she …
A former fast food worker who put her bodily fluids in a customer’s burger will spend a year in prison for the disgusting stunt. According to The Commerical Dispatch, Sky Samuel, 19, pleaded guilty Tuesday to serving “unwholesome bread or drink” in January when she worked at Jack’s Restaurant in Columbus, Mississippi. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Samuel, …
A Sterrett, Alabama, woman who swindled loved ones out of more than $260,000 by pretending to have terminal cancer was sentenced to 25 months in federal prison on Wednesday. Tuscaloosa News reported that Jennifer Flynn Cataldo, 37, lied to friends and family for more than two years and accepted donations intended to cover her medical treatments, …
The brother of rapper Nicki Minaj was convicted Thursday of raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter on multiple occasions in their New York home. The New York Daily News reported that a Nassau County jury deliberated for two days to find Jelani Maraj, 38, guilty of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a …
A former Colorado airman who beat—and possibly strangled—the 4-year-old son he just met to death was sentenced Monday to life in prison. People reported that Jeremy Deonte Ralph, 26, was convicted in August of first-degree murder by one in a position of trust for the December 2016 death of Montana Glynn. Ralph called the 911 for a possible drowning …
A nurse who’s already serving a life sentence for two murders is now accused of killing at least 100 patients at two German hospitals he worked at. Though Evil Niels Hoegel, 41, was jailed in February 2015 for killing two intensive care patients, BBC reported that prosecutors believe he murdered 38 patients in Oldenburg and 62 patients in …