A teen mom in New York City is facing a murder charge after she allegedly killed her newborn baby by tossing him out of a fifth-floor window, WNBC-TV reports. The 17-year-old mother is accused of throwing the 1-day-old boy out of a window at her Bronx apartment at East 158th Street in the Mott Haven …
A Washington state mother of nine children was shot to death at a convenience store on her birthday by a man with a long criminal history who was on parole and prohibited from possessing firearms, KCPQ-TV reports. The shooting happened on May 26, when 40-year-old Jerrmell Warren allegedly began firing his gun at a vehicle …
A teen mother is accused of murdering her newborn baby, whose body was found with stab wounds in the basement of a Colorado home, KCNC-TV reports.On Friday, prosecutors in Weld County, Colorado, charged the mother, Leiyla Cepeda, with first-degree murder in connection with the death of the infant.Cepeda, who is from Texas, was reportedly 17 …
A Massachusetts woman was arrested and charged with murder and related charges after police say she mowed down her boyfriend in January, and left him for dead during a heavy blizzard. According to ABC 5, a Norfolk County grand jury indicted Karen Read, 42, on murder, motor vehicle manslaughter, and leaving the scene of a …
An Indiana mother died last week after her ex-boyfriend allegedly slammed into her with his car in what investigators say was a final act of domestic violence that had terrified the woman in recent months, WTHR-TV reports.On May 31, 27-year-old Kyle Rigdon allegedly sent the victim, 29-year-old Kayla Bowling, a Facebook message that foreshadowed the attack.“Have …
A man was arrested late last month for murdering his mother, who vanished in Colorado in 2018 and was found dead in the background of her home in April. The Daily Sentinel reported that Richard Vandervelde, 54, was arrested in Pinellas County, Florida, on May 19 and has been extradited to Mesa County, Colorado, where …
An Alabama mother of three who authorities say was murdered by her husband had recently asked a court to lift an order of protection against him, WAAY-TV reports. Just before 2 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to a domestic disturbance call at the couple’s home in Huntsville and found the residence on fire, according to AL.com. …
A California mother and daughter are accused of performing an illegal buttocks augmentation that resulted in the death of an aspiring adult film actress, NBC Los Angeles reports. Now the duo — Libby Adame, 52, and 20-something daughter Alicia Gomez — are charged with murder and more than a dozen other victims have come forward. …
A 10-year-old girl was arrested on second-degree murder charges on Tuesday, more than a week after she allegedly shot and killed a woman who was fighting with her mom. On May 30, Lashun Rodgers, 41, and Lakrisha Isaac, 31, were allegedly fighting at an Orlando apartment complex when Isaac gave her daughter a bag that contained …
Florida authorities have determined that the deaths of a woman and her 3-year-old twins are likely the results of a murder-suicide and that the mother killed the children by poisoning them with meth, NBC 5 reports. The bodies of 35-year-old Andrea Langhorst and her two children, Olivia and Adam Dryer, all tested positive for methamphetamine. …
A Kansas man accused of violently shaking and slamming his 4-month-old daughter has been sentenced to prison for her death, KAKE-TV reports. On Monday, Sedgwick County District Judge Eric Williams ordered that 36-year-old Andrew Franklin serve nearly 21 years behind bars in connection with the horrific abuse of the girl, Brexley Grace Franklin. The sentencing …
Wisconsin prosecutors who charged a man with murdering six people, based in part on a “selfie” that he took from the crime scene, say that he had guns and cash on him after the killings. Travis Lamar Birkley, 34, is being held on $1 million bail in connection with the deaths, which were discovered on …
