An 87-year-old Florida grandmother gave her adult grandson enough sleeping pills to kill him last month because she believed she was dying and he would have no one to take care of him, police said. Lillian Parks was taken into custody on Friday and charged with 2nd degree murder. She had also taken sleeping pills …
A North Carolina mother is behind bars on charges that she traded her then-infant daughter to a married couple for their 27-year-old car, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. A Davidson County grand jury indicted Alice Leann Todd and the couple who took Todd’s daughter, Tina Chavis and Vincencio Romero, on charges of unlawful sale, surrender or …
A Florida man shot and killed his son-in-law Tuesday night in a birthday surprise gone tragically wrong, police said. Christopher Bergan, 37, and his wife flew from Norway to Florida Tuesday to surprise Richard Dennis, his wife’s father, for his 61st birthday. Bergan knocked on Dennis’s back door then hid in some nearby bushes. When …
A shooting in the lobby of a Vancouver, Washington, senior living facility lobby left one person dead and several wounded Thursday afternoon, The Columbian reported. The 80-year-old suspect, a resident of the facility, was taken into custody after an hours-long stand-off with law enforcement. The Vancouver Fire Department said that one person was killed and …
A California high school has cancelled the remainder of its varsity football schedule for the year after one of its players accused four teammates of a sexual assault, and police “determined there was evidence to support a criminal complaint,” the Mercury News reported. The Gilroy Unified School District had said Monday, when the incident was …
A North Carolina man wanted for the alleged rape of a 5-year-old he was babysitting was captured Wednesday in West Virginia, the Craven County Sheriff’s Office said. Police had been looking for Michael Brandon Bryan, 37, since Monday. “A sigh of relief,” said Sheriff Chip Hughes. “We got this chump.” How do you protect your …
PricewaterhouseCoopers tapped Arlington, Texas, artists Norman Lee and Shane Allbritton to create a portrait of Botham Jean, who had worked at the company in Dallas since his internship there in 2015, after Jean’s death at the hands of then-police officer Amber Guyger. The portrait was unveiled Tuesday night, just hours after a jury found Guyger …
A US District Court judge in New York nixed R. Kelly’s motion for bond and home detention on Wednesday, ordering the R&B singer to stay in jail and appear in court on May 18 to answer charges of sex abuse, CBS New York reported. Kelly is currently in jail in Illinois, where he faces trial …
Two teenaged boys arrested last month in a fatal assault on a 13-year-old classmate have now been charged with voluntary manslaughter, the Press-Enterprise reported on Wednesday, quoting the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. The boys, both 13, had initially been charged with assault in the September 16 attack at Landmark Middle School in Moreno Valley, …
An Arizona man has been charged with killing his 6-year-old son while trying to exorcise a demon from the boy, KOLD reported. The incident took place at a home on the Pascua Yaqui reservation southwest of Tucson. Pablo Martinez, 31, reportedly told investigators he saw something evil in the child while giving him a bath …
Florida police are looking for a woman who pepper sprayed Walmart employees and threatened them with a knife when she was caught allegedly shoplifting on Sunday, ABC Action News reported. Lake Wales police said that Doranda Jo Ussery shopped at the store for two hours before heading to the self-checkout, where a store loss prevention …
Mississippi police charged 34-year-old Cari Cullum of Hamilton with attempted murder on Friday, a week after she backed her vehicle into a lake while she and one of her three children were inside, the Clarion-Ledger reported. According to WTVA, the incident happened in the evening on September 21 when officials were alerted that a man …
