child death

The mother of a missing two-month-old boy is considered a person of interest in the ongoing investigation.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man strangled his girlfriend then killed her two young daughters, kissing the girls and telling them their mother wanted them to be in heaven with her, prosecutors said Tuesday. Arzel Ivery, 25, was charged in Milwaukee County with three counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of 26-year-old Amarah […]

The NYPD is investigating the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Jeremiah Dickey, who was rapping on Facebook Live at the time of his murder. CNN.com reports,  “Around 6:45 pm, police responded to a 911 call about a male shot at Elton Street and New Lots Avenue in Brooklyn, according to a statement from the New York Police […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A woman arrested on suspicion of killing her three young children told investigators that she suffocated her son and two daughters with her hands, police said in court records. Investigators say Rachel Henry told them that she thwarted an attempt by her 3-year-old son to protect his 1-year-old sister. The boy kicked […]

A North Carolina man is in jail facing first-degree murder charges after police believe he inflicted serious injury to his 3-month-old son, which caused the baby’s death. CBS 17 reports that Forsyth County sheriff’s officials initially charged Brandon Scott McDaniel with felony child abuse after he rushed his baby, Sloan McDaniel, to the hospital and doctors discovered that […]

According to a federal lawsuit against an Alabama school system, and the family of Mckenzie Adams, multiple Demopolis City Schools officials failed to protect the 9-year-old girl from racially and gender-based bullying which led to her death by suicide. Mckenzie Adams took her own life in Linden, Alabama in December 2018. She was a fourth-grader […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Prosecutors plan to tell a judge why they think a teen who fired on a South Carolina school playground and killed a first-grader should spend his life in prison. A hearing begins Tuesday at the Anderson County Courthouse to determine 17-year-old Jesse Osborne’s sentence . He faces 30 years to life […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An attorney for the Indiana family of an 18-month-old girl who fell to her death from a cruise ship in July said Puerto Rican prosecutors’ decision to charge her grandfather with negligent homicide is “pouring salt” on the family’s wounds. A judge in Puerto Rico ordered the arrest of […]

Norman Hood was killed on May 28.

A 4-year-old Baltimore boy who was initially reported missing by his mother, reportedly suffered from severe, untreated burns before he died. WJZ13 reports Malachi Lawson’s mother, 25-year-old Alicia Lawson, and her 40-year-old partner Shatika Lawson, were arrested Saturday and charged with 11 counts each — including involuntary manslaughter, first-degree child abuse, reckless endangerment, tampering with […]

A’lona “Halo” Williams was 3-years-old when she passed away in June of 2018. But early last year, her grandmother Mikisha Vaughn noticed something was wrong and thought Halo may have been being abused. “It just got worse and worse,” Vaughn told KHOU. In January 2018, Vaughn said, Halo showed up at her house wearing a […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments. The searing photograph […]