Florida couple shoots at family returning a U-Haul truck: Cops
Assault
The couple thought the family, with a young child, was stealing gasoline.
Murder
August 31, 2020
Chicago man allegedly beats, shoots old friend to death in argument
A Chicago man allegedly shot a longtime friend during an argument then later returned to the scene in the far South Side, yelling “Are you dead yet?” as he kicked and punched the man who lay dying on the ground. Judge John Lyke commented on the “utter cruelty” of the act as he ordered Terrence …
Murder
August 30, 2020
Shooting leaves young father dead, 4 wounded at Sunday brunch in Chicago
Police say the man who died was targeted in the shooting at Lumes Pancake House in Morgan Park.
Murder
August 30, 2020
Tribal police officer killed by suspect ‘high on meth’ who stole his patrol vehicle and ran him over
A Tohono O’odham Nation police officer was killed Thursday when a man who told investigators he was “high on meth” stole his patrol vehicle and ran him over. Officer Bryan Brown, a 19-year veteran of the force, was responding to a call about an “armed and erratic” driver at the Desert Diamond Casino in Why, …
Kidnapping
August 30, 2020
Georgia baby kidnapped at gunpoint by couple who disguised him as a girl
A 1-year-old Georgia boy is back in his mother’s arms after he was kidnapped at gunpoint on Saturday and driven across the metropolitan Atlanta area before Georgia state troopers stopped the vehicle. The boy, Mateo Alejandro Montufar-Barrera, was disguised as a baby girl but unharmed and reunited with his mother, Leslie Bamaca, at the Chamblee …
Juveniles
August 30, 2020
Nancy Grace: Sex trafficked kids often ‘described as runaways’
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace spoke with Fox & Friends Weekend about recent law enforcement operations aimed at locating missing and endangered children in several states, including Georgia, Ohio, and New Jersey. “I hope you’re sitting down,” she said, “because just last year 420,000 plus children went missing. Here’s the problem: Many of them are described as runaways, [but] the …
Missing
August 30, 2020
MISSING: Pregnant Washington woman vanishes day before her first ultrasound
A car belonging to a missing pregnant woman turned up late Friday night near the Tacoma Dome in Washington state, nearly 10 miles from her home in the Tacoma suburb where she was last seen on Tuesday, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office reports. Kassanndra Cantrell, 33, is about three months pregnant, family members told Q13Fox, …
Murder
August 30, 2020
No bond for ‘sick monster’ charged with brutal murders of 2 young Florida boys: Report
A Florida man charged with the brutal slayings of two young Florida brothers last week was ordered held without bond on Saturday and appointed a public defender, News4Jax reports. Police said Mark Wilson Jr, 30, used a hammer and a knife to kill Robert Baker, 12, and Tayten Baker, 14, Tuesday in a common area …
Murder
August 29, 2020
Female porn star charged in death of man found in shallow grave
A former porn star is among three people arrested for the murder of a man whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Florida this week, nearly two months after he was reported missing. Jeremie Odell Peters, 43; William Shane Parker, 35; and his girlfriend, Lauren Kay Wambles, 23, have all been charged in …
Murder
August 29, 2020
Mom who stabbed 6-year-old daughter, then herself, is identified and charged
The mother who stabbed her six-year-old daughter to death earlier this month and then stabbed herself has been identified as 36-year-old Purkanah Yisrael Mayo, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office reports. The office said that Mayo has been charged with second degree murder in the death of her daughter, identified by family members as Atarah. As CrimeOnline …
Homicide
August 29, 2020
9-month-old girl shot in the face; father charged with negligent death
A 20-year-old father is behind bars after shooting his 9-month-old infant in the face, killing her. Anthony Lamont Meriweather first told police that the baby was hit by a bullet from a drive-by shooting but later admitted that the gun “went off” while he was handling it, the Louisiville Courier Press said. The baby girl, …
Celebrity Justice
August 29, 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell gets in-person legal visit, the first at her jail since start of coronavirus pandemic
Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘madam,’ Ghislaine Maxwell, is the first federal inmate in New York City to get an in-person visit since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, sources told the New York Daily News. Two members of Maxwell’s legal team, attorney Christian R Everdell and an unidentified woman, arrived Friday morning with a stack of legal …