A North Texas grandfather is accused of stabbing his 8-year-old grandson to death. North Richland Hills police said they were called to the home just before 8 a.m. on Sunday and found the boy dead. Officers found 62-year-old Phillip Hughes near the house and arrested him on a charge of capital murder. He is awaiting …
One person was shot to death and nine other wounded Saturday night as thousands of revelers gathered on the streets of Mobile, Alabama, to ring in the new year. Mobile police identified the slain victim as a 24-year-old man who was pronounced dead on Dauphin Street about 45 minutes before the city’s “MoonPie” drop to …
New York authorities are searching for the parent or guardian of a young girl found walking alone on Saturday night, WPIX-TV reports. The unidentified child was seen around 6:25 p.m. at 1208 Leland Avenue near Gleason Avenue in the Bronx. “She was observed walking by herself,” an NYPD spokeswoman said, according to the New York …
Police are seeking information about a vehicle that may be linked to the disappearance of a woman last seen leaving a West Virginia bar with an older man, NBC News reports. Gretchen Fleming, 28, vanished on December 4 after she left the My Way Lounge & Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, around 3 a.m. While …
The man who allegedly stabbed four University of Idaho students to death is said to have stalked them for weeks and tried to cover his tracks following the slayings, according to the Daily Mail. Citing an unnamed source who claims to be a friend of a law enforcement officer connected to the case, the Daily …
The man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students is said to have taken at least one class from a professor who is a world-renowned expert in forensic psychology and “extreme offenders,” including serial killers, Law&Crime reports. Authorities believe 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger is responsible for the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana …
A Georgia tire shop employee is dead after a customer fatally shot him, mistakenly believing he was stealing his car. Quadarius McDowell, 30, took his car to a Tires Plus location in Decatur for repairs early Saturday afternoon. At some point, an employee — identified as Daniel Gordon, 24 — went to retrieve the vehicle. …
Two Florida man are dead after they shot each other in an ongoing dispute at the business they both own on Thursday afternoon. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said that Akeido Bennett, 31, and Xavier Figueroa, shot each other at the business at 3135 US 92 East in Lakeland, WOFL reported. The sheriff’s office did …
A 32-year-old Oregon woman has been charged with shoving a toddler onty transit rail tracks in Porthland this week. The incident took place on Wednesday, according to Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt. The 3-year-old girl and her mother were waiting for a MAX train at the Gateway Transit Center MAX platform n northeast Portland …
A Pennyslvania woman has been charged with traveling to New Jersey before Christmas to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband’s current wife. The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office says that Marilyn Zhou, 56, says that its Special Investigations Unit learned that Zhou was seeking a hitman for a murder for hire and arranged for her …
A 17-year-old Texas boy shot and killed a co-worker he was helping take down Christmas decorations on Thursday, and the victim’s grandparents say they don’t want the boy to be charged with their granddaughter’s death. Marissa Dikeman, a 19-year-old student at Houston Christian University, came home from her job at her family’s deer processing plant …
An aspiring model and Instagram influencer allegedly admitted to bashing her father’s head with a hammer and stabbing him repeatedly before attacking her sister, the New York Post reports. “My father was sitting on the couch. I hit him on the head with a hammer. Then I reached for my favorite German knife and stabbed …
