A 2-year-old boy apparently picked up a loaded gun and pulled the trigger Tuesday afternoon, shooting himself to death while his mother fed her infant child in another room. The Indiana State Police said that Leighton Owings had been in a bedroom while his mother, 22-year-old Caci Seals, was in the front room of her …
A 50-year-old Kansas woman has been charged with the weekend murder of her father near downtown Topeka, KSNT reports. Topeka police officers responded to an apartment building just south of the downtown area at about 5 a.m. Sunday after receiving reports of a woman covered in blood claiming her father had been killed. Shawnee County …
A New York grocery worker was killed Tuesday night when an illegally installed freight elevator malfunctioned and crushed her head, the New York Daily News reports. Maria Sanchez, a 39-year-oldmother of four children between the ages of 5 and 21, had worked at The Food Emporium in Hell’s Kitchen for five years, her 21-year-old daughter …
A Kansas teacher fired when she was caught on video kicking a kindergartener pleaded guilty to battery last week and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and one year on probation, the Kansas City Star reported. Crystal Smith, 55, was seen on surveillance footage kicking a 5-year-old girl at Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School in the …
Four men have been charged in an October shooting that killed a 3-year-old boy in Flint, Michigan, ABC12 News reports. Messiah Williams was struck in the head by at least one bullet fired from outside his home just before 11:30 p.m. on October 22, the station said. He had been in the home’s living room …
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with four counts of murder in the case.
A Florida father shot his wife and mother-in-law Saturday morning before turning the gun on himself, Broward County sheriff’s deputies say, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Deputies were called to a house in Tamarac at about 7:15 a.m. and helped three children — ages 4, 8, and 11, escape through a bedroom window, as …
An Oregon man diagnosed with schizophrenia was sentenced to two years in prison this week for spitting on a police officer and claiming he had COVID-19. Daniel Ray Stubblefield, 36, pleaded guilty in Deschutes County to charges of aggravated harassment and menacing, the Bend Bulletin reported. As part of the plea deal, three other cases …
A Georgia mother will be charged with murder after she allegedly stabbed her children to death and then turned the knife on herself. Berenice Jaramillo-Hernandez, 26, will be charged with two counts each of felony murder, malice murder, and aggravated assault when she’s released from a hospital where she’s undergoing treatment for serious injuries, the Hall …
A Florida woman who hid her roommate’s body after she found him dead so she continue to use his benefits appeared in court this week and was given a $50,000 bond, NBC 12 reported. Michelle Haney, 49, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with abuse of a dead human body, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office …
A Utah man was shot with a pellet gun and his wife stabbed early Thursday morning during a home invasion in which one of the perpetrators pointed his gun at a toddler and threatened to shoot him, the Deseret News reports. Colton Skeet Wilkin-McBride, 27, and Monique Nichole Quintana Briceno, 33, were arrested and charged …
A 15-year-old Ohio girl reported missing on Thanksgiving has been found dead in Nevada, Painesville Police report. Kathryn McGuire was believed to have run away with another 15-year-old girl, Haylie Vance, who was found safe in Long Beach, California, on December 4. McGuire was reported missing by her family on November 26, and Vance and …
