A judge on Monday ordered a competency evaluation for a Vermont man charged last week with beating his father to death and seriously injuring his mother with a baseball bat. Jordan Lawyer, 29, entered not guilty please to second degree murder, aggravated assault, and eluding police, the VT Digger reported. Prosecutors say Lawyer bashed his …
A Cleveland news reporter was shot and wounded in what her station called a “brutal domestic violence attack” Monday morning. The incident took place just berore 8 a.m. in Lakewood when a 911 call reported two people arguing on the street, WOIO reported. As the officers headed toward the call, the callers reported hearing gunshots. …
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a Texas police officer’s manslaughter conviction for the death of Atatiana Jefferson. Then-Fort Worth Police Officer Aaron Dean opened fire through a window of Jefferson’s home on October 12, 2019, killing her, as CrimeOnline reported. Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew in …
An Oklahoma child shot and killed another child after finding a loaded, unsecured gun in what the adults claimed was a “safe space.” The child who killed the other child was taken into custody but later released after police decided it was an “accidental shooting,” according to KJRH. Police also found what they called a …
A northwest Indiana couple have been arrested after bone fragments were found in an Indiana backyard where they once lived. Steven Valle, 31, and Samantha Sebella, 25, have been charged with murder, neglect of a dependent causing death, obstruction of justice, and failure to report a dead body, WBBM reported. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office …
A 25-year-old Florida home health aide has been charged with manslaughter after she failed to call 911 when the 86-year-old man in her care fell out of bed and she didn’t help him or call 911 for hours. An affidavit says that Beatrice Taylor arrived at the home for her shift at 9 p.m. and …
Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for the murder of a postal worker on Chicago’s South Side in July. The boy, whose name has not been released, was arrested in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, WBBM reported. Octavia Redmond, 48, was shot multiple times while delivering mail on July 19. She was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical …
An 8-year-old Texas boy is missing after he was seen walking away from his Austin home just before midnight Thursday. The Austin Police Department described Aaron Camacho as 4 feet tall and 56 pounds with brown hair and eyes. His hair is cut in a bowl-style cut, KVUE reported. Camacho was last seen weraing a …
A Florida man shot his friend dead while they were “standing watch” against what they felt was some kind of unnamed threat. David Kueker and his 44-year-old friend were outside Kueker’s sister’s home Tuesday night, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said. Kueker got into the back seat of a car and promptly fell asleep while …
A Michigan mom whose infant son drowned in the bathtub while she chatted on the phone entered a no-contest plea to involuntary manslaughter this week and won’t spend more than a year in jail. Miller’s sentencing is set for November, Law&Crime reported. Olivia Miller, 23, was on the phone for 20 minutes, texting and talking, …
A bombshell lawsuit in Los Angeles accuses Garth Brooks of brutally sexually assaulting a make-up artist and stylist to the country superstar and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, just weeks after Brooks himself filed a preemptory lawsuit in Mississippi to try to halt what he called a “fabricated lawsuit.” The Los Angeles lawsuit, filed on behalf …
A TikTok personality wanted in connection with the death of a popular Louisiana therapist has been arrested in Texas. Terryon Thomas, known as Mr. Prada on TikTok, is awaiting extradition to Louisiana at the Dallas County Jail. He is charged him with second degree murder and obstruction of justice, WAFB reported. Dr. William Nicholas “Nick” …
