Beloved mom shot dead by ex-boyfriend in murder-suicide
Murder
Amanda Boring’s 11-year-old son was in her car. He witnessed the incident and called 911.
Manslaughter
September 5, 2020
Driver gets 40 years for running down romantic rival, fleeing the scene
A Louisiana woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison Friday after she pleaded guilty to slamming a romantic rival into a building with a Ford Expedition, killing her. Shameka Ellis, 22, was scheduled to go to trial on September 28 on a second degree murder charge in the death of Lou’Quandelyn Hargrove, 22, last …
Suicide
September 5, 2020
Hospital patient shoots, kills herself in back of police cruiser
Virginia State Police are investigating after a woman shot and killed herself this week in the backseat of a Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s patrol vehicle. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the incident happened on Monday when deputies were transporting the 30-year-old woman from Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg to Western State Hospital for an mental health …
Missing
September 5, 2020
MISSING: Non-verbal 3-year-old vanishes after fall from a window
Police in northern Ohio are looking for Braylen Noble, a non-verbal 3-year-old boy who disappeared Friday afternoon from his home in western Toledo. Toledo police, fire and rescue and Metroparks officers were all out in search of the little boy, last seen wearing a red and white Mickey Mouse shirt. The Toledo Police Department said …
Heroes
September 5, 2020
SEE IT: Hero cops responding to domestic violence call turn into fire rescuers instead
A Fresno court saw dramatic footage Friday of city police officers responding to a domestic violence call only to find the quadruplex they were called to engulfed in flames, KTRK reports. The October 2019 incident began with a report that Jose Cisneros had slashed the tires of his estranged wife’s truck and thrown a beer …
Family Crime
September 5, 2020
SEE IT: ‘Cult mom’ Lori Vallow detained by Hawaii police earlier this year
Newly released body camera footage shows Kauai Police stopping cult mom Lori Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, in Hawaii last January to serve a search warrant on their vehicle. Fox 10 Phoenix obtained the footage, which shows multiple police vehicles, some unmarked, surround Vallow and Daybell as they pull into a parking area at …
Unsolved
September 4, 2020
Don Lewis: Handyman’s ex-wife says he may have something to do with Carole Baskin’s missing husband: Documentary
The former wife of Carole Baskin’s former handyman says in a CBS documentary that she thinks her ex may have had something to do with the disappearance of Baskin’s then-husband, Don Lewis, in 1997, the Daily Mail reports. Lewis’s disappearance was a key element of the Netflix series Tiger King, in which Joe Exotic claims …
Kidnapping
September 4, 2020
SEE IT: Grocery store customer grabs another customer’s cart WITH HER BABY INSIDE, tries to leave
An Arizona man has been charged with kidnapping after he tried to walk out of a Flagstaff grocery store pushing a cart with another customer’s baby inside, according to Flagstaff police. Jeffery Roholt, 59, told police he thought the cart was his when he finished paying for his two small bags of groceries at a …
Murder for hire
September 4, 2020
Florida woman’s murder for hire plot falls through when hit man turns out to be undercover agent
A Florida woman thought she was hiring a hit man to kill her husband’s corrections officer mistress, but the hit man turned out to be an undercover agent. Ashley Spencer, 33, was arrested and charged with solicitation to commit first degree murder and solicitation to commit occupied burglary with battery, according to Space Coast Daily. …
Domestic Abuse
September 4, 2020
Jacob Blake, paralyzed in police shooting, answers domestic abuse charges from his hospital bed
Jacob Blake, the man whose shooting by police last month sparked another round of nationwide protests against police brutality, appeared in court from his hospital bed on Friday, entering several not guilty pleas on charges stemming from a domestic incident in May. Blake, who is paralyzed from the waist down from the August 23 shooting …
Child Abuse
September 3, 2020
Ohio couple locks little girl in dog cage as punishment
An Ohio couple was arrested this week for allegedly torturing a 7-year-old girl over a period of seven months last year, including padlocking the little girl into a dog cage, Cleveland.com reports. A grand jury in Canton indicted Derek Mayle, 30, and Lillian Cottrell, 29, Monday on charges of endangering children. Court records say the …
Murder
September 3, 2020
Chicago PD releases photos of suspects in fatal pancake house shooting
Chicago police released images on Wednesday showing five suspects believed involved in a deadly shooting at South Side pancake house on Sunday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Devon Welsh, 31, was shot dead while having brunch with his girlfriend and 3-week-old baby when five people opened fire inside a large tent at Lumes Pancake House …
