A New Jersey man charged with unintentionally killed a 19-year-old woman during “rough sex” told police he was choking her during intercourse when the teen passed out, NJ.com reported. Michael T. Gaffney, 21, has been charged with reckless manslaughter in the early Saturday morning death of 19-year-old Francis Victoria Garcia in the back seat of …
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 …
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 Florida man was arrested this week and charged with manslaughter for the beating death of a peeping tom he caught outside his girlfriend’s bedroom window, where he and the woman were having sex, The Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. Victor Vickery was naked and barefoot with blood on his hands and a swollen foot when police …
A Virginia man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter for shooting one of his wife’s lovers to death earlier this year. WVEC reported that Dusan Naumovic, 54, was sleeping in his son’s room on the evening of March 2 when his wife, who slept in a separate bedroom across the hall, brought Vinicius Carneiro, …
A Florida man was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison on Thursday for fatally shooting a man over a convenience store parking space. Convicted of manslaughter in August, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone sentenced Michael Drejka, 49, to a maximum of 30 years for the July 2018 shooting death of Markeis McGlockton, 28. …
Two Maryland teens are facing criminal charges for allegedly fatally beating a festival attendee in what authorities have described as a random, unprovoked attack. The two boys, ages 15 and 16, are accused of assaulting John Marvin Weed, 59, at the Great Frederick Fair on Friday afternoon. WDVM reported that the 16-year-old punched Weed in …
Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies arrested a former employee at an assisted living facility on Friday, saying he ingested an unregulated drug called kratom and fell asleep while a disabled man in the backseat of the company minivan died in the heat. Russell had taken John LaPointe, 35, to a doctor’s appointment on May 9 from …
Authorities in Florida charged a mother with manslaughter months after her two sons reportedly scaled a locked apartment pool fence and drowned while she was sleeping. The Broward Sheriff’s Office announced Saturday that Wildline Joseph, 23, was arrested on aggravated manslaughter charges in connection with the May 22 deaths of Ja’kye Joseph, 6, and Branario …
A 6-year-old Minnesota girl is dead and her sister badly injured after a man in a Walmart parking lot accidentally set his van on fire after cooking, police say. Star Tribune reports that Roberto L. Hipolito, 70, was cooking on a portable stove early Wednesday morning, that he placed on a Fridley Walmart parking lot …
