A 30-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with punching a 21-month-old boy in the abdomen so hard that he killed the toddler. Chester County District Attorney Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe said the Enrique Lopez Gomez “brutally injured a toddler under his care, failed to get the child medical care, and caused his death.” “It’s difficult to …
Authorities in Kansas have issued an endangered persons advisory for a 23-year-old mother and her two young children who “may have been coerced to travel to Mexico to a religious rehabilitation facility.” Martha Unger and her daughters, 2-year-old Madilynn Grace Unger and 1-year-old Haylie Faith Unger, were reported missing from their rural Haskell County hom …
A 83-year-old Colorado man was convicted this week of killing and dismembering his wife and adult daughter because he’d lost his job and didn’t want them to be homeless. A jury in Arapahoe County found Reginald L. Maclaren guilty of two counts of murder, two counts of tampering with a body, and false reporting, according …
A North Carolina woman has been arrested and charged with killing two of her adopted children who haven’t been seen for years. Fayetteville Police Chief Kemberle Braden said that Avantae Deven faces multiple charges relating to the disappearance and death of Blake and London Deven, WTVD reported. “Our evidence shows that both Blake and London …
A Michigan sheriff’s deputy is dead after he was shot in a fight with a passenger during a traffic stop in Jefferson Township on Thursday. Deputy William Henry Butler, Jr., 51, was a father of 5, a retired veteran, and had served with the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office for 12 years, WTVG reported. Michigan State …
A 9-year-old Virginia girl was wounded Friday when her older brother left “one of his loaded firearms unsecured on the bed” and another minor “hit the trigger … causing it to discharge.” Deputies arrived on scene and found the girl with a gunshot wound to the leg just above the ankle, the Henry County Sheriff’s …
A 64-year-old California woman has been jailed after she allegedly beat and stabbed her 90-year-old father to death. Visalia police found Don Weerasinghe unconscious and bleeding from the head when they arrived at the home. He was taken to Kawweah Health Medical Center in critical condition but later died. Victoria Roberts was arrested at the …
The suspect in the shooting death of a Texas JROTC instructor on Friday was captured 900 miles away in Georgia. Fort Worth Police said Gene Bass, 54, was shot and killed outside his home in south Forth Worth Friday afternoon, KDFW reported. The suspect, who has not been named, was arrested by Lowndes County deputies …
A Texas toddler is in critical condition and a daycare worker has been charged with injury to a child after police and emergency medical personnel were called to a Harlingen daycare on Thursday. In a statement on Saturday, Harlingen Police said the 15-month-old girl was “unresponsive” when they arrived, and an officer began CPR until …
Two people were shot, one of them fatally, inside a Kentucky game shop Saturday morning. Louisville Metro Police said they were called to a shooting in the 8800 block of Dixie Highway just before 11:30 a.m. Police did not say what business was the scene of the shooting, but WLKY reported that the Valley Station …
The estranged husband of a missing Wisconsin woman has been charged with identity theft for using her credit cards to buy chemical resistant gloves, stain remover, liquid drain opener, spot cleaner, Turtle wax, OxiClean carpet cleaner, auto air freshener, and OxiClean wipes. Zachariah Rasch, 42, was charged with seven counts of misappropriating identification to obtain …
Neighbors in an Illinois town came to the aid of a 66-year-old woman Tuesday night after a man dragged her out of her home and tried to rape her. Henry M. Yates, 22, was captured by police and charged with attempted criminal sexual assault, unlawful restraint, aggravated battery, and resisting a peace officer, The Lake …
