A 15-year-old North Carolina high school freshman was stabbed to death during a fight Monday morning inside the school, and a 14-year-old classmate has been charged with his murder. Another boy, 16, was wounding in the fight and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries,WRAL reported. Friends and family identified the dead boy as Delvin Ferrell and said …
A woman found dead in rural Nebraska east of Lincoln last week died was beaten to death. Cecilia Perez, 34, was from Omaha, 60 miles from where her body was found last Tuesday, KLKN reported. On Thursday, Omaha police arrested Perez’s boyfriend, 33-year-old Raymond Evans, said Lancaster County Chief Deputy Ben Houchin, who said that …
Police in Oregon have determined that a woman found dead near an abandoned barn in rural Clark County was murdered in Portland. Joanna Speaks, 32, disappeared in March, and her body was found in early April about 22 miles north of Portland, as CrimeOnline reported. Police said at the time of the discovery they suspected …
A Texas man has been charged with the murder of his wife six months after she disappeared in Houston. Crystal Lynch, a mom of two daughters, was last seen on May 7 in the company of her husband, Marquise Roshard Glasper, 37, KTRK reported. Her body has not been found. According to charging documents, a …
A Georgia man has been charged with murder after he called police and reported the death of his wife as a possible suicide. Warner-Robins police responded to the call and found Lucille Ann McManus, 63, dead “with an apparent injury to her head.” By Friday afternoon, investigators had classified McManus’s death as a homicide and …
The mother of a 9-year-old girl found dead in her home on Friday has been arrested for the girl’s murder. Westminster, California, police said Khadiyjah Pendergraph, 32, was taken into custody 20 miles away at a shopping center in Aliso Viejo, KNBC reported. A family member called police shortly before noon on Friday for a …
A 15-year-old Pennsylvania boy has been charged as an adult for allegedly using his father’s semi-automatic gun to shoot a 39-year-old homeless man in the face on Wednesday. Thomas James Niarhos has been charged with first degree murder, third degree murder, possessing a firearm by a minor, possessing an instrument of crime, and carrying a …
A New Mexico police cadet was allegedly murdered by her own husband in a suspected murder-suicide, leaving the couple’s young son without his parents, KOAT-TV reports. Shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to an apartment in northeast Albuquerque for a report of a disturbance and found two adults dead inside the unit. Investigators concluded that …
Firefighters called to the scene of a fire in a metal drum in Henderson, Nevada, Tuesday night found the body of a woman inside once the fire was extinguished. They called police to the scene to investigate the apparent homicide. Officials were called to the scene near the Harry Reid International Airport just before 8 …
Florida authorities are charging Cory Hill, whose estranged wife was found shot to death in his storage unit over the weekend, with first degree murder with a firearm. “Detectives will continue building the case in order to bring Shakeira Rucker’s family the justice they seek,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement announcing …
A California man pleaded not guilty on Monday to kidnapping and fatally beating a woman last week. KABC reported that Dino Rojas-Moreno, 26, used a fire extinguisher to fatally beat Tatum Goodwin, 27, in Laguna Beach on November 11. The following morning, construction worker discovered Goodwin’s body in an alley behind an old movie theater and …
A 17-year-old Ohio girl accused of bludgeoning her boyfriend’s mother with a rock will be tried as an adult, a Lucas County judge ruled Friday. Kaitlyn Coones is facing murder charges in connection with the death of Nicole Jones, 53. The defendant is accused of giving her boyfriend, 33-year-old Jonathan Jones, an ultimatum of getting …
