A Utah police officer was shot in the head while his back was turned to the man who killed him, according to a report from the Weber County Attorney’s Office released on Wednesday. Ogden City Officer Nathan Lyday, 24, died instantly on May 28 while he and another officer were responded to a domestic abuse …
An Alabama judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors have enough evidence to take the murder case against Ibraheem Yazeed, accused of kidnapping and killing college student Aniah Blanchard last fall, to a grand jury. Judge Russell Bush had already found probable cause to send the kidnapping charge to a grand jury, WTVM reported. Blanchard, a 19-year-old …
An attorney for California killer Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn son, asked the state Supreme Court for a new trial on Tuesday, arguing that the trial judge made crucial errors that prevented Peterson from getting a fair trial, the Modesto Bee reported. Peterson, 47, is currently on death …
An Alabama man and woman were arrested late last month and charged with sexual abusing a young boy, the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office said. Amy Nicole Lovell, 29, and Justin Anthony Jeffries, 26, have been charged with aggravated child abuse, sexual torture, sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12, and assault. Jeffries …
A Memphis man has been jailed on murder and child abuse charges after a toddler in his care was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and later died. Staff at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital contacted Memphis police on Thursday about the 23-month-old girl after Victor Williams, the mother’s boyfriend, said he found the child …
Federal prosecutors have taken over the case of an upstate New York woman who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at a police van in Brooklyn during protests early Saturday morning against the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the New York Post reported. Samantha Shader, 27, was initially charged by NYPD with four counts …
New video of the arrest of George Floyd earlier this week appears to show hectic activity inside the police car shortly before Floyd is pinned to the ground outside the vehicle with then Office Derek Chauvin’s knee pressing into his neck, TMZ reports. The video, released by activist Shaun King, shows two officers at the …
Citing a source at the Ramsey County Jail, TMZ reports that Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd during an arrest earlier this week, is being monitored around the clock with in-person checks on his jail cell every 15 minutes. TMZ said its source didn’t call the protocol in …
A northwest Georgia woman has been charged with the shooting death of her husband in March during a drive back from a night at a Tennessee bar, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. Following a nearly three-month investigation, Catoosa County Sheriff Gary Sisk said that Belinda Lopez, 41, was arrested and charged with murder on Friday. …
An upstate New York woman has been charged with the attempted murder of four police officers for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police van in Brooklyn during protests against the police killing of George Floyd this week in Minneapolis, ABC 7 reported. Samantha Shader, 27, was also charged with attempted arson, criminal possession …
DNA evidence has solved the case of a 23-year-old newlywed whose body was found bound, strangled, sexually assaulted, and shot just off a Colorado highway in 1970. Mother of two Betty Lee Jones was last seen on March 8, 1970, after a days-long argument with her husband of nine days, Robert Ray Jones. Robert Jones …
Derek Chauvin “had his knee on [George] Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds,” the criminal complaint against the now-fired Minneapolis police officer says. “Two minutes and 53 seconds of this was after Mr Floyd was non-responsive,” the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. Floyd, 46, died Monday after Chauvin and three other Minneapolis officers arrested him …
