Murder-suicide rocks Georgia community early Friday morning
Murder
A man walking along a wooded trail found the bodies of Sidney Bishop and his 19-year-old girlfriend, Diamond Purvis.
Murder
November 14, 2020
Connecticut mom shoots & kills teenage daughter, critically wounds young son
A 43-year-old Connecticut woman has been jailed after state police say she shot two of her children, killing her teenage daugher and critically wounding her 7-year-old son. Naomi Bell is charged with murder and attempted murder and is being held at the Niantic Correctional Center on a $2.5 million bond. Her arraignment is scheduled for …
Murder
November 13, 2020
South Carolina deputy coroner arrested for murder
An assistant coroner in a South Carolina county has been charged with the murder of man whose body was found last week after he’d been missing for more than a month, the Horry County Police Department said. Assistant Horry County Coroner Christopher Allen Dontell, 37, and Meagan Marie Jackson, 35, were arrested Wednesday in connectino …
Murder
November 13, 2020
Florida brothers sought in connection with death of man ‘violently’ killed and dumped in an orange grove
Florida police are looking for two teenage brothers in connection with a body found in an orange grove earlier this week, WFLA reports. Danne Frazier, 21, was reported missing on November 4 when he didn’t come home from working at his job at a Publix warehouse in Lakeland. Six days later, his body was found …
Murder
November 13, 2020
Arkansas deputies chase down murder suspect covered in blood
Samuel Appling has been charged with stabbing his girlfriend’s father to death. He was carrying a backpacked containing ‘items that could be sued to subdue, kill, dismember, and bury a body,’ police said.
Child Abuse
November 12, 2020
Infant girl who tested positive for heroin has died: Cops
A baby girl who tested positive for heroin and had injection marks on her head and extremities has died, San Angelo, Texas, police said Thursday. Two-month-old Brixlee Marie Lee died at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth on Tuesday, police said. Police said they responded to a call about an unresponsive infant early Saturday …
Court
November 12, 2020
Prosecutors read racist messages sent by man who shot Ahmaud Arbery
Travis and Gregory McMichael, the father and son accused of killing Arbery in February, are seeking bond while they await trial. The bond hearing will continue Friday.
Murder
November 12, 2020
Boyfriend charged with murder after calling 911 in September to say he’d found his girlfriend shot dead
A 32-year-old South Carolina man who called 911 in September to say he’d found his 16-year-old girlfriend dead was charged this week with killing her, the Island Packet reports. Cypress Noonan was found fatally shot in a room at the Forest Motel in Ridgeland on September 6 after Brian Jemal Redding called in tears to …
Adult abuse
November 12, 2020
Mother left 46-year-old son on floor to die after he fell from wheelchair
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with allowing her adult, at-risk son to die on their bathroom floor after he fell out of his wheelchair and broke several bones, the Journal Times reports. Cheryl Christensen, 60, reportedly dragged her 46-year-old son to the bathroom and left him there for days after the fall. She told …
Child Abuse
November 11, 2020
Infant girl on life support after she’s found with injection marks and tests positive for heroin: Cops
A 2-month-old baby is on life support in Texas after San Angelo police found the little girl unconscious and medical personnel said she tested positive for heroin and had injection marks on her head and extremities. The girl’s mother, 21-year-old Destiney Harbour; Harbour’s mother, 37-year-old Christin Bradley; and Bradley’s boyfriend, 34-year-old Dustin Smock, have all …
Attempted Murder
November 11, 2020
‘They just mowed that poor lady down’: Florida teens ram beloved librarian with van, critically injuring her
A group of teenagers in a van intentionally mowed down a beloved Florida librarian while she was trying to record their license plate number after they’d attacked another teenager. Suzette Penton is said to be in “severely critical condition,” suffering from traumatic brain injury and multiple broken bones, WFLA said. A witness followed the van …
Juveniles
November 11, 2020
Tennessee man impregnates 11-year-old girl, flees to Florida with a 9-year-old girl
A Tennessee man was brought back from Florida last week to face charges that he raped an 11-year-old girl, who became pregnant, the Maryville Police Department said Wednesday. Mynor Leonel Jeronimo-Velasquez, 31, fled to Florida with a 9-year-old girl in September, six weeks before Maryville police conducted a wellness check on the older girl and …
