A Chicago man stabbed a woman to death in front of at least two children Thursday and then stabbed himself and jumped from a second story window, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. A 13-year-old girl called police to report a domestic fight, saying that the man, who has not been named by police, stabbed 37-year-old Maria …
Investigators arrested a 26-year-old man charged with the “gruesome” killing last month of a woman who was partially dismembered while still alive, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said. Rafael Castillo faces a murder charge in the death of Nicole Perry, 31, on November 19, Sheriff Javier Salazar said on Wednesday. “The suspect said he wanted …
A Utah mother has been jailed for investigation of aggravated murder and child abuse after Uintah County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a shooting and found her toddler son dead. Valerie Peck, 40, also apparently shot herself after killing 2-year-old Zack, the sheriff’s office said. Peck and her son were found near Fantasy Canyon …
A 43-year-old Texas mother apparently shot dead her 10-year-old son and seriously wounded her 16-year-old daughter before killing herself, the New Braunfels Police Department said Thursday. Officers were called to the scene just before 10 a.m. Thursday and found Chelsee Dodd and Trace Dodd dead of gunshot wounds. The teen was taken to University Hospital …
The principal of Dallas’s newly opened Downtown Montessori school was shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide in her Richardson home, the Dallas Morning News said. Olga Korobovskaya, 58, was found dead Tuesday morning along with the suspect, Newman Wallace Lofland, 71, police said. Richardson police said Korobovskaya and Lofland had a previous relationship. Get …
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 …
