A Florida woman is behind bars for allegedly using her pandemic-relief loan to hire a hitman to kill a Miami federal airport officer. Jasmine Martinez, 33, received the loan on April 20, 2021. Two weeks later, a man dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt shot and killed U.S. Transportation Security Administration officer, Le’Shonte Jones (pictured …
East Point police are seeking help identiying the victim.
A Kansas man is behind bars after police say he burned down a home, killing an infant boy in the process. According to the Shawnee Police Department, Nicholas A. Ecker was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree murder, aggravated arson, and related charges. The incident happened early Sunday morning in Shawnee, at a home off …
A homeless New York man accused of murder will be held without bail after leaving the victim with multiple stab wounds, a judge ruled Monday morning. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 35-year-old Christina Yuna Lee arrived home to her apartment on Christie Street in Manhattan early Sunday morning after a Saturday night out. The suspect allegedly …
A Pennsylvania father was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, after confessing in court to abusing and starving his son to death in 2020. PennLive.com reported that Scott Schollenberger Jr., 43, pleaded guilty to criminal homicide, endangering the welfare of a child, and conspiracy on both counts. On May 26, 2020, the man’s son, …
Authorities in Florida have released the autopsy and forensic reports for Brian Laundrie, who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a Florida nature reserve this fall. When Laundrie, 23, was found dead of an apparent suicide, police had been searching for him in connection to the death of his …
A North Carolina man accused of abducting a child is facing murder charges after police say he killed the child’s mother inside her Charlotte home on Sunday. Charlotte police found 3-year-old Marlaya Monet Patterson on Sunday afternoon, following an AMBER Alert issuance. On Monday, police announced the arrest of Corey Patterson, 31, identified as the …
A Manhattan woman was found stabbed to death on Sunday and the suspect in custody is accused of following her into her apartment building after the victim got out of a taxi. As NBC News 4 reports, 35-year-old Christina Yuna Lee arrived home to her apartment on Christie Street in Manhattan early Sunday morning after …
A 26-year-old University of Utah student has been charged with injecting a lethal dose of heroin into his girlfriend at Salt Lake City hotel last week. Court records say Haoyu Wang emailed the university’s police department, telling them he’d injected both his girlfriend and himself with drugs and that they’d both be dead by the …
An Ohio mother is accused of killing her young daughter on Saturday, but police have released limited details about what happened or why, WOIO-TV reports. Around 6:30 p.m., emergency crews responded to an apartment building in Bedford Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, and found a 5-year-old girl dead on the floor of a bathroom, according to …
A 3-year-old Alabama boy died Friday afternoon after what Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed called “a senseless act of gun-related violence.” Police responded at about 1:45 p.m. to an intersection just a few blocks from the Alabama State Capitol in downtown Montgomery — although they believe the shooting took place a few blocks north of that …
Investigators in Arizona have charged a Phoenix man with the fatal shooting of a beloved member of Scottsdale’s Special Olympics Team earlier this week. John Merryman, 38, was arrested at his home overnight Friday and charged with murder in the death of 59-year-old Scott Harkness, who was found on the side of a road about …
