A Florida prosecutor announced Friday he was seeking the death penalty for a man accused of shooting a man to death at a crowded mall on the weekend before Christmas. Albert J. Shell, 39, had a long and violent criminal history in Florida but was out of jail on December 23 when he murdered David …
A husband and wife were found shot to death early Thursday morning at a Wisconsin bar when the wife worked part time as a bartender. Emerson Weingart, 33, often sat at the bar while Gina Weingart, 37, closed the Elkhorn establishment at night, relatives told WISN. According to its website, The Sports Page Barr closed …
A teen is accused of fatally shooting an elderly man on a public bus in Denver, allegedly because the grandfather’s leg was blocking the aisle, KUSA-TV reports. According to authorities, 60-year-old Richard Sanchez was riding a Regional Transit District bus on January 27 around 6:41 p.m. when a 13-year-old boy attacked him. The shooting occurred …
A California mother is behind bars after police say she killed her 4-year-old daughter and left her body inside a vehicle, in East Los Angeles. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Mia Gonzalez was found unresponsive inside a car in a business parking lot late Thursday, in the 4800 block of Civic Center Way. First responders rushed …
Two Alabama teens have been arrested and charged with the murder of a 16-year-old Montgomery high school student who was found shot to death days after he was reported missing. Michael Anthony Cole Jr. was found dead Monday, and Nedvin Maynard Jones Jr. and Nicholas Treyvon King-Sheppard, both 18, have been arrested, AL.com reported. Charging …
A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man has been arrested after he allegedly killed and beheaded his fathre and posted a video of himself with the severed head, calling his father a traitor to the United States because he worked for the federal government. Justin Mohn, who identified himself as a “militia leader,” was arrested 100 miles from …
A Texas man has been charged with his wife’s murder after he was found acting erratically and screaming while covered in blood “from the waist up.” San Antonio Police responded to the scene on the city’s northwest side around 7 a.m. Monday and found 44-year-old Carlos Portillo “walking up and down the sidewalk here, just …
A man was arrested in Kenya on Monday, months after his girlfriend was found dead in a garage at a Massachusetts airport. Sources told WBTS that federal authorities apprehended Kevin Kangethe, 40, in Nairobi and he is awaiting extradition. Kangethe had been missing since his girlfriend, Margaret Mbitu, was found with lacerations to her face, …
On Monday, the extradition process began for a Colorado woman who reportedly fled to the United Kingdom after killing her two children last month. Colorado Springs police found the bodies of Elianna Wentz, 6, and Aden Wentz, 9, during a reported robbery — while their mother, Kimberlee Singler, and their 11-year-old sibling were injured. Finding …
An Alabama teen at the center of an Emergency Missing Child Alert has been found dead, and police say two people are in custody. According to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, 16-year-old Michael Anthony Cole, Jr. was last seen January 25 at around 8:30 p.m. in Montgomery. ALEA issued the alert on Monday but by …
On Monday, a murder indictment was filed against the former boyfriend of an NYPD detective’s deceased daughter, over 20 years after her death. Times Union reports that Edward Holley, 43, was charged last year in connection with the 2003 killing of Megan McDonald. He’s been free while awaiting a grand jury presentation by a special …
A California mother was arrested Friday for the murder of her 4-year-old daughter. Mia Gonzalez died from the “combined effects of strangulation and sharp force,” according to an autopsy report. Gonzalez was found unresponsive inside a vehicle in a business parking lot late Thursday and was taken to a local hospital, where she was later …
