New York officials have filed second degree murder charges against 26-year-old Luigi Mangione for the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The charges were filed late Monday, WABC reported. Mangione was also charged with possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a forged instrument, and criminal possession of a weapon, court dockets say. The Manhattan …
An Houston lawyer has been charged with fatally shooting his 20-year-old son, burning his body, and cleaning up the crime in scene in what he told deputies was a “horrible accident.” Michael C. Howard is being held in the Sabine County jail on bonds totaling $20 million after he called police a week ago to …
A Kentucky judge shot and killed in his chambers by the county sheriff earlier this year was part of a sex-for-favors scheme, according to a witness in the case against a deputy convicted in January of raping a prisoner in 2022. Sabrina Adkina, 43, told investigators that the deputy, Ben Fields, had videos of “girls, …
Divers returned to Central Park on Monday as they search for clues to the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week. The 50-year-old executive of the world’s largest private health insurance company was shot dead shortly before 7 a.m. as he walked from his hotel to the Hilton Midtown Hotel across the …
A lawsuit now accuses rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z of raping a 13-year-old girl alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000. The anonymous accuser says the sexual assault happened as she was driven to a party following the MTV Video Music Awards that year, according to NBC News. The lawsuit was originally filed in federal court in …
An Arizona man who pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering his roommate was sentenced Friday to 31 1/2 years in prison. Timothy Sullivan, 66, apologized in court but attributed his actions to a “traumatic brain injury,” KPNX reported. “I take full responsibility for my actions,” said Sullivan, who described Amy “Ruby” Leagans as a good …
Florida deputies shot and killed a man last week who threatened to kill a neighbor and then held a woman at knifepoint inside his apartment. Jason Douglas Paul, 47, called 911 himself on Thursday in the midst of a dispute with his neighbor at a Tampa apartment complex, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. When …
A Florida man died in a car crash early Friday while fleeing police after allegedly stabbing his estranged girlfriend “up to 70 times.” Deputies responded to a home in Chuluota at about 12:45 a.m. and found Kristin Stevens, 40, dead from multiple stab wounds, WFLA reported. Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said she was stabbed …
A woman was found dead alongside Interstate 95 in Miami-Dade early Saturday morning after police received multiple 911 calls about two people arguing in the area. The Florida Highway Patrol responded to the calls just after 6 a.m. and found the woman on the grass between the highway and an onramp, according to WTVJ, which …
Five people, including two children, were found dead Saturday night in Georgia in what police say is a murder-suicide. Dekalb County Police responded to an apartment complex just outside Atlanta’s East Atlanta neighborhood at about 7:30 p.m. for a welfare check and found the victims inside, WANF reported. They said the victims were a 43-year-old …
A Utah man has been jailed after he threw gasoline on a woman, set her on fire, and tried to strangle her. Gregory Youngblood, 57, faces charges of aggravated arson, aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury, and possession of drug paraphernalia after the incident in Ogden on Friday, according to KUTV. Ogden Police responded …
An Iowa mother was arrested on child endangerment and neglect charges after her 20-month-old son drowned in the bathtub in her apartment. West Des Moines police said the baby died on on October 31. First responders were called to the scene at about 7 p.m. and took the child to a hospital, where he was …
