Police closed down Valley View Mall in Roanoke, Virginia, Saturday night after responding to reports of shots fired, the Roanoke Times reports. One person has been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries in what the paper said was a fight between two groups of people. Roanoke Police Chief Sam Roman told WSLS there were four shots fired …
The California Supreme Court this week rejected a challenge to murder charges filed against a 26-year-old woman who used methamphetamines before her fetus was stillborn, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Chelsea Becker has been in jail in Kings County since the 2019 stillbirth and has pleaded not guilty, although she acknowledged using the drug. She’s …
Investigators now believe the explosion was likely a suicide bombing, CNN reports, citing law enforcement sources.
Police in Canada are looking for a man who disturbed Christmas morning in Toronto’s Etobicoke district with shotgun fire, CP24 reported. Detectives released surveillance camera footage in which multiple volleys from the shotgun can be heard over about a three minute period. Toronto police said the suspect was driving an older, light grey Subaru Forester …
New York police have arrested a man and charged him with hitting a woman with a brick as she walked down a street on Christmas Eve, CBS New York reported. Lisa Cavanaugh, 51, was hospitalized with cuts to the back of her head and is expected to recover. Christopher Guzman, 28, has been charged with …
Pope County deputies are investigating an apparent suicide with multiple murders after finding five members of an Arkansas family dead in their home on Christmas Day. The victims were two women and three girls ranging in age from 8 to 50 years old, Sheriff Shane Jones said at a news conference on Saturday, according to …
Investigators have identified a person of interest in the Christmas Day explosion in downtown Nashville, The Tennessean reported Saturday. State and federal agents converged on a duplex in Antioch, about 12 miles southeast of Nashville, Saturday morning for “court authorized activity,” FBI public affairs officer Darrell DeBusk told the newspaper. DeBusk said no arrests have …
A Florida woman shot and killed her boyfriend Thursday night when she found him with a tomahawk raised above her while she was lying in bed, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. Jill Fritch, 59, told deputies that she grabbed a gun next to the bed and shot Troy Sorrell, 60, in self-defense, according to Volusia …
A 19-year-old Connecticut man has been charged with killing his UPS co-worker Tuesday at the end of their shift, NBC Connecticut reports. Elijah Bertrand was the “helper/runner” for 28-year-old driver Joshua Burk, according to Bertrand’s arrest warrant. The pair had dinner at Burk’s girlfriend’s home Tuesday night, and then left to return the truck to …
A South Carolina man was arrested outside Atlanta on Wednesday after fleeing charges that he killed his girlfriend’s baby last year, the Island Packet reports. Frederick Luma, 27, is being held in the Clayton County Jail awaiting extradition to Beaufort, South Carolina, where he is expected to be charged with homicide by child abuse. Luma …
Update: Las Vegas police said three young sisters who went missing at about midnight Wednesday have been found safe, FOX5 Vegas reports. Information on their condition was not released. Original story: Las Vegas police are looking for three young sisters last seen at about midnight Wednesday, KTNV reports. Alyssa Angel, 14; Anamarie Angel, 12; and …
The alleged killer called 911 and said he was going to kill himself and that police should track the call.
