A North Carolina man was jailed this week on an attempted murder charge after he used a machete to cut off his girlfriend’s arm, the Fayetteville Observer reported. Ryan Tindall, 27, was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent kill causing serious bodily injury and maiming without malice. He made an initial …
A 27-year-old Frenchman was hospitalized in critical but stable condition on Friday after a stranger slashed him across the face and neck as he walked with his girlfriend in upper Manhattan, police said, according to the New York Post. The couple was walking along Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard in Harlem at about 11 a.m., …
A mother made a gruesome discovery Monday morning at her ex’s home in East Naples, Florida: her 5-year-old son and the boy’s 45-year-old father, both shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide, WINK reported. Collier County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the call after the woman, who was not named, let herself into the unlocked home. She …
A Cook County grand jury this week indicted former Empire star Jussie Smollett on six counts of disorderly conduct related to “four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing that he was not the victim of a crime,” Special …
San Bernardino, California, police have asked for the public’s help in solving several shootings that resulted in five deaths — including a school teacher and a toddler — since last August. Police believe they are related, even though some appear random, the San Bernardino Sun reported. The first shooting, early in the morning on August …
A North Carolina sheriff said Wednesday that a body found in a burnt out truck last fall was that of a missing woman believed to have been killed along with two of her children in the summer. Maria Calderon Martinez, 38, had been reported missing after her home in the Sugar Loaf community in Alexander …
A state university dean was among 14 men arrested for sex crimes against children during a four-day sting operation in south Georgia, the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department said Monday. Keith Walters, 44, was placed on administrative leave from his job as a chemistry professor at Valdosta State University (VSU) and was stripped of his title …
An 18-year-old South Carolina man is in jail Monday, charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot at a woman driving the car in which he was a passenger. The 20-year-old woman jumped out of the car as he fired, police said, and the still running vehicle crashed into an optometrist’s office, WIS reported. The …
Police in California have arrested a 48-year-old man they’ve accused of being a peeping Tom and posing as a ride share driver to get women into his vehicle. Bakersfield police charged Nassef Ragheb with burglary, false imprisonment and attempted sexual battery dating back to 2018, the Bakersfield Californian reported. Police identified Ragheb as the suspect …
A 51-year-old south Pittsburgh man has been charged with criminal homicide, child endangerment and weapons offenses in the death of a toddler killed by a shotgun blast, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Marlin Pritchard said he was asleep next to 3-year-old Chassity Clancy and another girl early Sunday when he was awakened by the bang from …
Nevada police have arrested three men and a woman in Pahrump, charging them with 137 counts of child abuse, sexual assault, and pornography between them, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said it began its investigation on January 17, but did not say what prompted the investigation, nor did it say when …
The death of a New York woman found at the bottom of a luxury Manhattan building’s garbage chute in the summer of 2018 may not have been an accident, according to Michael Baden, the 85-year-old forensic pathologist who served as the city’s chief medical examiner for two years during the 1970s. Lara Prychodko’s father, Nicholas …
