The grandfather of a toddler who fell from an open window on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in 2019, pleaded guilty on Thursday to negligent homicide. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Chloe Wiegand, an 18-month-old toddler from Granger, Indiana, was on a cruise with family when she lost her life aboard Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the …
A Tennessee man was arrested Tuesday on criminal homicide charges for allegedly fatally beating a 2-year-old boy last week. WKRN reported that Rozelle Westmoreland, 33, admitted to killing the unidentified toddler in response to the child’s whining. Nashville Metro police said Westmoreland struck the child in the head and torso before pushing him into the …
A Texas couple has been arrested on suspicion of murder charges, months after an 8-year-old girl reportedly died of dehydration while in their care. The Odessa Police Department said in a statement Monday that Daniel Schwarz, 44, and Ashley Schwarz, 34, were charged with capital murder. WLTX reported that the pair are accused of killing a …
Washington authorities are searching for two people in connection with the death of Rachell Rene Roberts, a woman found dead earlier this month. NBC K5 reports that Olympia authorities found the body of Rachell Rene Roberts on October 2 after someone discovered the body off of U.S. Forest Service Road 24, close to Highway 119, …
A Florida woman was arrested on negligent homicide charges on Tuesday, weeks after her newborn daughter reportedly died in a hot car. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office announced in a Facebook post that Megan Dauphin, 30, was also charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child. Dauphin’s baby was reportedly found dead in her car in …
Prosecutors in New York announced Monday that a suspect was arrested for killing an elderly man late last month during a dispute over masks that turned violent. Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said Donald Lewinski, 65, was charged with criminally negligent homicide for an altercation that resulted in Rocco Sapienza’s death. Sapienza, 80, reportedly …
A Louisiana mother was arrested Monday, a day after her 2-year-old son reportedly died in a hot car. The Lafayette Parish Coroner confirmed Ryatt Hensley’s manner of death as heatstroke. The toddler was found dead after sheriff’s deputies responded to a residence in Duson at 1:50 p.m. amid reports of an unresponsive child in a …
Police said the pregnant woman retrieved the weapon after a woman came to her boyfriend’s home
A Wisconsin man is accused of fatally shooting his neighbor — a community service officer — during a dispute Monday over grass clippings. The Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement that a 65-year-old suspect was taken into custody shortly after Naeem Sarosh’s shooting death. A neighbor told WMTJ that they overheard men arguing before …
A teen boy who had allegedly been at a convicted sex offender’s apartment left a note behind before being shot down in the street. PennLive reports that Harrisburg police arrived at 18th and Forster streets on Saturday afternoon in Harrisburg, after someone found a naked teen unresponsive in the street. Witnesses told police they saw …
Police in Pennsylvania arrested a man Sunday morning, hours after he allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death as she got home from work. Nathanial Kimmel, 22, is accused of killing April Mahmod, 37, of the front porch of her neighbor’s Shenandoah home. A neighbor said they witnessed Kimmel on top of Mahmod and yelled for …
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, …
