Middle school teacher faces capital murder charge in 11-year-old boy’s shooting death

Joshua Burks was initially charged with reckless manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Troy Ellis last May, but this month a grand jury upgraded the charges.
Joshua Burks was initially charged with reckless manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Troy Ellis last May, but this month a grand jury upgraded the charges.
Investigators in North Carolina have found the body of a 26-year-old mom who was last seen at her home on November 25, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Apex police began investigating Emily Montgomery’s disappearance on November 27 and charged her boyfriend, 29-year-old Jose Carlos Jacome-Granizo, with her murder on December 2. Investigators did not …
A 40-year-old Arizona man apparently shot and killed his 10-year-old son on Saturday before turning the gun on himself. Tucson police responded to the home on the east side of the city at about 12 a.m. after another man called to say he was on his way to check on a man and a boy …
Four people have been arrested and charged with kidnapping and murder charges relating to human remains found in a burned out car this week in rural north Arkansas, the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office said. A 911 reported the burned vehicle”with what looked like a body inside” just south of Mountain Home at about 10 a.m., …
Deputies in rural central Missouri are investigating the death of a four-year-old girl who died early Sunday morning, her father said, when she was “beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank,” the Benton County Sheriff’s Office reports. James Mast, 28, called 911 just before 1 a.m. — when temperatures in …
New York police have arrested a man they say deliberately set a deadly fire on a subway train that killed a train operator and injured several others, ABC7 reported. Garrett Goble, 36, died after helping several passengers to safety, as CrimeOnline previously reported. He was found unconscious on the tracks and pronounced dead at a …
Arizona police found a 40-year-old man and a teenage boy dead of gunshot wounds on Saturday and say they believe the man shot the boy and then himself, KOLD reports. Tucson police responded at about 12 a.m. to a call from another man who said he was on his way to check on a man …
A 60-year-old Massachusetts woman was found dead in a Cape Cod apartment on Friday, and her son has been charged with her murder, NBC10 Boston reports. Police responded to the Mashpee Village residential community shortly after 11 a.m. after they received several reports of a disturbance outside an apartment. They found Andrew Baily, 26, “acting …
A Louisiana teen has been charged with the shooting death of his 19-year-old friend, KTBS reports. Dallas Major Edwards, 18, faces a charge of second degree murder in the death of Shane I. Siah early Friday morning, Webster Parish authorities said. Edwards reportedly admitted shooting Siah, firing a shot through a glass door at the …
Nathan Larson has run for political office several times, advocating legalizing child porn and incest and stripping rights from women and girls.
A Tennessee woman who was all smiles for her mugshot after she was arrested for allegedly killing her grandparents pleaded guilty to the crime on Thursday, 24th Judicial District Attorney Matthew Stowe announced. Katelyn Taylor, 29, was initially charged with criminal homicide in the deaths of Eugene McDaniel, 82, and Celeste McDaniel, 67, in March. …
A 15-year-old boy was killed this week when he bravely intervened as his mother was attacked by his stepfather, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Jaime A. Vaca, 27, has been charged with murder in the death Tuesday of Cesar Rodriguez and assault and attempted murder for the attack against his 35-year-old mother, Virginia Rodriguez. Police …