An arrest report provides more details about the events leading to the discovery of a toddler’s body in a Las Vegas dumpster last week, including signs of abuse found on another of the mother’s children. Jacoby Robinson Jr., 2, was found dead in a dumpster a few blocks from the home where he lived with …
A stray bullet hit an 84-year-old woman sitting in her walker on a New York corner Monday night. Police found around 20 shell casings on the scene when they responded shortly before 7 p.m., WABC reported. The woman was shot in the arm and was taken to Kings County Hospital, where she is recovering Witnesses …
Police in Minnesota organized a volunteer search for a missing 4-year-old boy on Monday after asking the public to steer clear of the ara a day earlier. An emergency alert was issued for Waeys Mohamed on Sunday after he wander away from his home in Hopkins at about 7:30 a.m. The boy has autism and …
A sentencing trial begins Monday for the former prison guard trainee who admitted killing five women at a Florida bank in 2019. Zephen Xaver, now 27, pleaded guilty to five counts of murder last year in the deaths of Cynthia Watson, 65; Marisol Lopez, 55; Ana Pinon-Williams, 38; Debra Cook, 54; and Jessica Montague, 31, …
The death of a California teenager at a Utah treatment center for troubled teens last year didn’t draw much scrutiny, but the 16-year-old girl’s parents say they want to make sure that such a tragedy doesn’t happen again. Vive Adolescent Care in St. George was ultimately fined $1,000 for not following its own and state …
A fourth victim has now died in a savage beating that initially left three people dead in a rural Iowa county last week. Linn County officials said they found Romondus Cooper, 44; Keonna Ryan, 26; and Amanda Parker, 33, dead in an outbuilding in the northern part of the county on Wednesday, KCRG reported. A …
Tennessee’s Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday reinstated the murder convictions of a Sumner County woman who was accused of killing twin newborns she secretly gave birth to in her parents’ home in 2011. A Sumner County judge threw out Lindsey Lowe’s convictions in 2022 and ordered a new trial, citing juror bias in the …
Kentucky State Police are looking for an unidentified driver who shot a man dead in a road rage incident Saturday night. Investigators said dispatchers got a call just after 7 p.m. from a driver who said the incident began on Interstate 71 in Carroll County, the Lexington Herald Leader reported. Both vehicle exited the highway …
A South Carolina man has been arrested on charges related to a shooting incident in Florida in February that wounded his father and another man. Sean Bigwood, 53, fired more than 30 times into the home in Grant-Valkaria because of a property dispute, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said Saturday. Both victims, who were not …
A former Georgia beauty queen has been indicted for the murder of her boyfriend’s 18-month-old son. Trinity Poague, the former Miss Donalsonville, faces six counts: malice murder, cruelty to children, and two counts each of felony murder and aggravated battery, according to the indictment handed down late last month. Poague was initially arrested in January …
A 23-year-old Virginia woman wanted for the murder of her three older roommates earlier this week was taken into custody Thursday after a high speed chase on a New York highway. Alyssa Jane Venable was arrested shortly before 6 p.m. after New York State Police saw the gray Honda Civic she was driving on Interstate …
A social worker in suburban New York was severely injured last month after she was savagely beaten while on a home visit in Peeksill. A criminal complaint against Haseem Jenkins, 31, says that he punched and kicked caseworker Maria Coto, 56, when she mistakenly knocked on his door on May 14, the Peekskill Herald reported. …
