Three escaped Grenadian prisoners who hijacked a catamaran, killed the Virginia couple who owned the boat, and threw their bodies overboard were arraigned last week on several charges, including, for one of them, rape. Ron Mitchell, Atiba Stanisclaus and Trevon Robertson were being held on robbery charges on February 18 when they escaped a holding …
A Nebraska mother and her boyfriend were charged last month with obstruction after the boyfriend’s dog attacked a 4-year-old girl, ripping her scalp off and breaking a cheekbone. Little Lilliana also had torn ligaments in her neck and multiple stitches all over her body, the girl’s great aunt wrote in a GoFundMe. The gilr’s mother, …
A 25-year-old Missouri man has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after he allegedly shot and killed his mother when he thought she was an intruder coming into the back door of the home they shared in Olivette. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said that Monica McNichols-Johnson, 56, died at the scene on Thursday, …
A North Carolina man was shot and killed by deputies Saturday night after he murdered two other people critically wounded a third at another house. All three of Justin Michael Strawser’s victims were restrained before they were shot, the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said, which also said the shooting was not random and that “narcotics …
An 11-month-old New York baby girl, abducted Saturday night, was found Sunday morning but was pronounced dead at a Schenectady hospital. Halo Branton was kidnapped in southwest Schenectady at about 9:15 p.m. Saturday, according to the Daily Gazette. Police said at the time they were concerned the little girl was in imminent danger. An Amber …
Police in Texas have charged the mother of a man wanted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend’s 12-year-old son with hindering apprehension or prosecution. Terry Bryan Rivera, 27, is on the run after he allegedly opened fire through a bedroom window at his former girlfriend’s apartment on Monday, striking and killing Carlos Fernandez, KTRK reports. …
Utah officials investigating the disappearance of two men last month now say the case is a homicide. Christopher “Topher” Owens, 28, and William “Drew” Bull, 29, were last seen on February 26, according to their roommate — who has now been arrested for obstructing justice after a search on their home, according to KSL. A …
Three people are dead and five more wounded after gunfire broke out at a late-night party in Arkansas. A person identifed by police as “the suspect” is among the dead, Jonesboro Police said in a Facebook post. The two slain victims, a man and a woman, and a woman who was wounded were all “known …
Police are investigating the death of an 11-year-old central New York boy who appears to have died from a drug overdose. Ashton Degonzaque, a 6th grader at Grant Middle School in Syracuse, was found unconscious and not breathing at his home on Thursday and was rushed to Upstate University Hospital in critical condition but died …
Police investigating a report of a missing child on Saturday found an 8-year-old dead. WKOW said the Rock County Sheriff’s Office found the child inside a home after they were called shortly after 6 p.m. but did not say if it was the same home where the call about the missing child originated. Deputies took …
Two Ohio women propped up a dead man in the passenger seat of his car this week and drove to the bank, where they withdrew money from his account, and then dropped his body off at a hospital. Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, have been charged with gross abuse of a corpse …
An Alabama political operative charged with the murder of a man on Thursday has now been charged with sexual torture. It’s unclear if the new charge against 36-year-old Kyle Hayden Lewter is related to the death of Derek Franklin Walls, 54, WAFF reported. The new charge involves sexual abuse using an inanimate object. Walls was …
