Volusia County, Florida, deputies responding to a 911 call from a terrified 12-year-old girl found her mother unconscious from a heroin overdose, with their car parked on the grass beside Interstate 4, the sheriff’s office said Friday. Two other children, a 7-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy, were also in the minivan Thursday night with …
Police in Dallas are looking for a man who shot a pregnant store employee as he unsuccessfully tried to rob a CVS near Southern Methodist University, NBC DFW reported. The woman, said to be about 8 months pregnant, was shot twice and rushed to Presbyterian Hospital, where doctors delivered her baby. Both were in critical …
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder in the Halloween shooting of a 7-year-old girl who police believe was caught in the crossfire of a Chicago gang shooting, ABC7 reported. A 31-year-old man, who was shot in the hand, was believed to have been the target, police said. The teen has been charged …
A 3-year-old boy died Saturday morning, two days after an apparently under-the-influence driver killed his father and seriously injured his mother while they were trick-or-treating in Long Beach on Halloween night, the Long Beach Post reported. Joseph Awaida, 30, died of his injuries on Friday. Raihan Dakhil, 32, was identified as the mother by a …
An inmate who escaped the Morgan County Jail in Alabama on Sunday may be with a 16-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen since Monday, authorities say, according to WHNT. While they have no confirmation that Kaleb Gillespie, 30, and Peyton Ledlow are together, Moulton Police Chief Lyndon McWhorter and Morgan County Sheriff Ron Puckett have …
Colorado prosecutors called Kelsey Berreth’s mother to the stand on Friday, the first witness in the murder trial of rancher Patrick Frazee, accused of killing Berreth, with whom he had a child, on Thanksgiving Day last year. Kelsey Berreth is missing and presumed dead. Frazee pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including first-degree murder, tampering …
One of a set of infant twins hospitalized last week with broken bones and head trauma died on Thursday, and the babies’ father — already charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child — has been charged with manslaughter, ABC7 reported. Jonathan Melendez, 27, was arrested on October 25, two days after …
A Houston jury took ten minutes on Thursday to sentence Patrick Lambert to life in prison for stabbing his wife to death, stuffing her body into her refrigerator, and fleeing to Mexico with their young son, the Houston Chronicle reported. The same jury deliberated for four days before finding Lambert, who represented himself in court, …
A Montana woman has been sentenced to a mental health facility for 20 years for breaking into her ex-boyfriend’s house and sexually assaulting him at the point of a machete, the Great Falls Tribune reported. According to court documents, Samantha Mears, 20, broke into the victim’s home in June 2018 while he was out running …
A Michigan woman charged with biting a friend’s ear off and sadistically biting her face appeared at a preliminary hearing on Tuesday where a fourth felony was added to her charges, ClickOnDetroit reported. Deputies found Allison Thompson Weaver, 44, and a 48-year-old woman nude and covered in blood when they arrived on September 17, alerted …
A Philadelphia man has been accused of buying a shotgun, bringing it home on the subway, and then shooting each member of his family as they came home from work or school, NBC Philly reported. Maurice Louis, 29, has been charged with four counts of murder in the shooting deaths of his mother, Janet Woodson, …
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr pleaded not guilty Thursday to sexual abuse charges levied against him by a third alleged victim, the New York Post reported. The “Jerry McGuire” star was indicted earlier for touching nightclub server Natasha Ashworth’s buttocks in 2018 and for squeezing a 30-year-old woman’s breast in June, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Court …
