A top leader in Atlanta’s metropolitan transit system died of an apparent suicide after stepping in front of a train. The Associated Press reports that Jeffrey Parker, 56, died on Friday night after he was struck by a train at East Lake Station in Dekalb County, Georgia. Authorities reportedly believe Parker, the CEO of Metropolitan …
A Kentucky woman is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of her 5-month-old son. In October 2021, Kentucky State Police said in a statement that the infant is believed to have died at his home in Cadiz, though officers did not find him until a day later. The baby’s mother, Shaylynn Curtis, …
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A mother is accused of murdering her three young children and attempting to take her own life in a small California farming community, KMPH-TV reports. Police say 31-year-old Patricia Ortiz killed her 8-year-old daughter Anna Ortiz Lara and the girl’s two younger siblings, 5-year-old Matteo Ortiz Lara and 3-year-old Alexa Ortiz Lara. Ortiz’s husband, who …
A Florida mother allegedly killed her two young children before taking her own life in an apparent double murder-suicide, WFLA-TV reports.On Wednesday evening, the woman’s husband, who is the father of the children, came home and found his family dead. The father then called 911. The deceased children were ages 9 months and 3 years …
Police arrested a man on Thursday for fatally shooting an employee at a Burger King in New York on Sunday. Winston Glynn, 30, allegedly approached the register at the East Harlem Burger King and demanded money before shooting Kristal Bayron-Nieves, 19, and pistol-whipping a manager and customer. Glynn took $100 before fleeing the scene, according …
Updated, January 19, 12:21 pm ET: Lawrence Rudolph has been charged with foreign murder in the 2016 death of his wife Bianco Rudolph, the Pittsburgh Gazette reports. Prosecutors reportedly believe Rudolph fatally shot his wife while on a hunting trip in Africa, and claimed her death was accidental. He is in federal custody in Colorado. …
The former NYPD officer accused of brutally murdering his own mother will be extradited to New York City nearly a year after the killing, The New York Daily News reports that 46-year-old Osvaldo Diaz is accused of killing his mother, 78-year-old Maria Diaz, on February 2021. He allegedly attacked her with a machete in her …
A Chicago mother and two of her children are facing charges after her young son was found dead in Indiana. Jannie Perry (pictured), 38, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of her 5-year-old son, Damari Perry. Two of the boy’s siblings also facing charges for their involvement, including a 16-year-old …
A 9-month-girl was killed and her mother was injured after the baby’s father burst into an Ohio home, days after his former partner had filed a second report about his alleged harassment. Cleveland.com reports that Alice Porter was fatally shot on Saturday, allegedly by her own father, Martin Porter, who also died of what police …
A woman found stabbed and slashed to death in a Pennsylvania state park in Bucks County may have been killed in Philadelphia and dumped in the park. Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub said the body of Lisa Jennings, 50, was found Saturday at Neshaminy State Park, WPVI reported. “The evidence at least points to …
A 65-year-old Maine man was captured in Virginia on Tuesday after he allegedly killed his girlfriend and stuffed her body in the trunk of a car. Washington County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a call about an altercation at a home in Lubec, Maine, on Monday night found evidence that led them to suspect “something suspicious” …
