A Florida fire captain died earlier this week when he was shot by a friend who was displaying a gun he planned to give the fireman. Jay Rind, 63, has been charged with manslaughter and improper exhibition of a firearm in the death of James Gilliard, 48, the Palm Beach Post reports. In court on …
A 63-year-old Arizona man is dead this week after another man thought he was spray-painting graffiti on a wall, KVOA reported. Robert M. Norwood was painting the wall of his Tucson home late Tuesday afternoon when John Francis Hodson, 53, drove by. Thinking Norwood was vandalizing the property, Hodson stopped and confronted him. The two …
Court documents unsealed Wednesday revealed that a North Dakota woman was indicted in connection with June’s death of her 9-month-old son. Forum News Service reported that paramedics pronounced Karson Howling Wolf deceased at his mother’s home on the Fort Berthold Reservation. Paige Howling Wolf, 26, reportedly lived at the residence with her five young children, …
A 23-year-old Florida man has been charged with manslaughter after he accidentally shot his twin brother in the face, killing him. Gulfport police said that Mathias and Thomas Parkinson-Freeman, along with a mutual friend, were sitting in a 1995 Nissan Pathfinder, parked at the brothers’ home. The three men were said to be talking and …
A Connecticut woman was arrested Tuesday in connection with the July 6 death of her 11-month-old son — who reportedly died after ingesting a fatal combination of cocaine, fentanyl, and morphine. Rebecca Dixon, 35, was charged with second-degree manslaughter for the infant’s death, which was deemed a homicide in early September. Dixon had called police …
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 …
A Michigan teen was arrested Wednesday, the same day he allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend in front of their newborn daughter. Eastpointe police announced Friday via a Facebook post that RayQuan Taylor was arrested on manslaughter charges. Police told Macomb Daily that Taylor, 17, claimed he accidentally shot Kira Seymour, 17, in the chest in …
A millionaire tycoon from Britain will be freed after serving half his already light sentence for battering his girlfriend to death during what he said was a “rough sex” session in 2018, the Birmingham Mail reports. John Broadhurst, 41, admitted to manslaughter by gross negligence in the death of 26-year-old mother of one Natalie Connolly, …
An Ohio teen admitted he pushed a 74-pound log from a cliff at the Ohio State Park last year but said he never meant to hurt anyone. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Victoria Schafer, 44, was taking senior photographs on Labor Day 2019, for a group of students near the Old Man’s Cave section of the …
Police say the teacher was “distracted” on the phone and forgot to drop off the boy at daycare
One of two teenage boys charged with pushing a 74-pound log over a cliff, where it hit a photographer and killed her, has taken a plea deal in the case, the Columbus Dispatch reported. Jaden W. Churchheus, 17, pleaded guilty in Hocking County Common Pleas Court involuntary manslaughter in the September 2, 2019, death of …
A Georgia man told police he was playing with his handgun, something he claimed he often does, when he shot and killed a 19-year-old girl. AJC reports that the incident happened on September 7 in Panama City, Florida, after Spencer Chase Pruitt, 24, of Douglasville, Georgia, shot and killed 19-year-old Victoria “Tori” Lynn Busch, of …
