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Boy, 7, mauled by pit bull named ‘Chuco’ in ‘unprovoked attack’
Animal Crimes
July 7, 2017

Boy, 7, mauled by pit bull named ‘Chuco’ in ‘unprovoked attack’

Residential surveillance footage revealed a pit bull mix breaking loose from his yard and attacking a 7-year-old boy, and the child’s mother is hoping the dog’s owners step up and at least offer an apology or show interest in her son’s well-being. USA Today reports that Chucho, a black pit bull mix from Manor, Texas, charged …

Infant dies after mother leaves it alone with 2-year-old sibling: Police
Child Abuse
July 7, 2017

Infant dies after mother leaves it alone with 2-year-old sibling: Police

A New York City mother has been arrested after her three-month-old infant died in a Brooklyn shelter. According to the Daily News, Genevieve Gonzalez, 28, allegedly left her baby alone with her two-year-old sister at a shelter in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, on Thursday morning. When she returned from what she told police was a brief errand, …

Police search for man seen kidnapping woman in broad daylight, caught on video
Kidnapping
July 7, 2017

Police search for man seen kidnapping woman in broad daylight, caught on video

Authorities in Los Angeles are searching for a man caught on a residential surveillance camera forcibly pushing a woman into a blue minivan on Wednesday afternoon in Sylmar. Los Angeles Times reports that the incident took place off of the 15000 block of El Cajon Street at around 12:30 p.m. A heavyset man that appears …

Georgia student missing after 4th of July rafting trip
Missing
July 7, 2017

Georgia student missing after 4th of July rafting trip

A University of Georgia student is missing after he was thrown from a raft in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this weekend. Oliver Woodward, 21, was last seen on Tuesday in Wyoming, rafting with a group of friends on Snake River, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Woodward and another member of the group were thrown from the raft. …

Police: Woman who ran illegal daycare admits to shaking, severely injuring baby
Child Abuse
July 7, 2017

Police: Woman who ran illegal daycare admits to shaking, severely injuring baby

A Texas worker who reportedly managed an illegal daycare operation in Taylor, apparently admitted that she injured a 10-month-old baby, police confirm. She was arrested on Thursday. KXAN reports that on June 15, the Taylor Police Department responded to an emergency call from someone at an apartment off of Sloan Street. The caller said that …

Mom goes berserk after losing custody of daughter, shoots social worker, cousins, aunt
Juveniles
July 7, 2017

Mom goes berserk after losing custody of daughter, shoots social worker, cousins, aunt

A Vermont mother has pleaded guilty to killing a social worker and three of her own relatives after she lost custody of her daughter. According to ABC News, Jody Herring had been accused of shooting social worker Lara Sobel to death outside Sobel’s workplace on August 7, 2015. Earlier the same day, she shot and and …

Police: Wife’s body washes ashore with bullet in her head weeks after fisherman husband said she ‘accidentally’ fell overboard
Murder
July 7, 2017

Police: Wife’s body washes ashore with bullet in her head weeks after fisherman husband said she ‘accidentally’ fell overboard

A little under two weeks after a commercial fisherman told police his wife accidentally fell overboard in Lake Erie, police found her body washed ashore in upstate New York with a single gunshot wound to her head. New York Post reports that Christopher Leclair, a 48-year-old commercial fisherman, claimed that his wife, Karen Leclair, 51, fell backwards …