A prominent Colorado doctor is facing criminal charges after alleged botched breast augmentation left a teen girl dead. On Wednesday, Dr. Geoffrey Kim, 52, turned himself in to Arapahoe County police on charges of manslaughter. According to CBS Denver, nurse anesthetist Rex Meeker is also facing manslaughter charges in connection with the death of 19-year-old …
A New Jersey woman was charged with aggravated manslaughter, unauthorized practice of medicine, and child endangerment after an 11-month-old girl died following a constipation treatment that included a lethal dose of magnesium. Enma Medina, the baby’s 38-year-old mother, has also been charged with child endangerment for bringing her daughter, Genesis Catalan, to see Elida Ofelia …
The head caddie of an exclusive country club in the Hamptons was allegedly choked to death by a colleague after watching golf on television, The Southampton Press reports. The victim, 45-year-old Kevin Somers, died February 5 at the Long Island home of 34-year-old Marc Dern. Authorities allege that Somers and Dern were watching a golf …
Massachusetts police arrested a woman on Wednesday for allegedly striking her boyfriend with her vehicle during a snowstorm on Saturday, resulting in his death. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said they believe Karen Read, 41, backed into her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, 46, after dropping him off at a gathering in Canton. Before …
A Texas couple was arrested this week and charged with manslaughter in the death of their two-month-old daughter last summer. An autopsy said the baby girl, identified as Athena Brigida-Kay Canales in an obituary, died from “mixed drug toxicity,” KAMC reported. An arrest warrant says that Lubbock County deputies responded to the home and found …
An Ohio couple was arrested across state lines in West Virginia this week after they were indicted for their infant child’s fentanyl overdose death in September. Robert L. Filius, 29, and Michaela R. Hupp, 25, were charged with involuntary manslaughter endangering children, possession of fentanyl related compound, aggravated possession of drugs, and being a fugitive …
The mom allegedly did not abuse the slain boy’s twin sister because she was her favorite
A Kentucky woman was arrested on Friday and charged in the death of her mother two months ago. The Scott County Sheriff’s Office said that they were called to the Georgetown Community Hospital on November 13, 2021, by personnel who suspected neglect of an elderly woman, identified as Opal Webb, 92. Webb was being treated …
A Michigan man has been charged with the death of a 1-year-old girl who died while he was babysitting her. Police said Layla Connors was left in the care of 28-year-old Dennis Wayne Justus, a friend of the girl’s mother, on December 17 while the mother was at work, WJBK reported. Thirty minutes later, Melissa …
On Thursday, a Massachusetts woman admitted to encouraging her boyfriend’s May 2019 suicide as part of a plea deal that spared her from prison. Inyoung You, 23, pleaded guilty in Suffolk County to involuntary manslaughter and received a 2-and-a-half year suspended sentence in 10 years of probation. She is also barred from financially profiting from …
On Thursday, jurors convicted Minnesota police officer Kim Potter of first-degree manslaughter while committing a misdemeanor and second-degree manslaughter, culpable negligence, in April’s fatal shooting of Daunte Wright. The 12 jurors reached guilty verdicts on their fourth day of deliberations. According to CNN, the jury was comprised of seven white men, four white women, two …
A North Carolina woman was sentenced on Monday to eight to 11 years in prison for the February 2020 death of her 6-month-old son — whose disappearance sparked an AMBER Alert. While Tamara Brown, 30, was initially charged with murder, she ultimately pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, felony child abuse, and common law robbery. Brown’s …
