First-degree murder

Two teen girls and a teen boy are facing murder charges in connection to the killing of 18-year-old Dwight “DJ” Grant in Miramar, Florida.

CHICAGO (AP) — A 9-year-old child accused of causing a mobile home fire that killed three children and two adults in central Illinois has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder. The juvenile also was charged with two counts of arson and one count of aggravated arson, the (Peoria) Journal Star reported. The April […]

DETROIT (AP) — A prosecutor announced murder charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old man in the slayings of four women whose deaths Detroit police have characterized as the work of a serial killer. Deangelo Martin is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of felony murder in the killings of the women whose […]

Authorities in Delaware have charged a 19-year-old with murder in the death of a 4-month-old infant who was under her care at a day care facility. According to Fox 29, Police and emergency medical services responded to the Little People Child Development Center around 10:30 a.m. on Thursday Aug 29. Officers found a 4-month-old child […]

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona prosecutor says a grand jury has returned an indictment charging a white man with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a black youth for playing rap music he said he thought was threatening. Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said Thursday Michael Adams faces charges in the July 4 killing […]

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina man charged with killing three much-admired Muslim university students pleaded guilty Wednesday, four years after the slayings. Craig Stephen Hicks, 50, entered the plea to three counts of first-degree murder in a Durham courtroom packed with dozens of the victims’ family and friends. It came two months after […]

In Naples Florida, a man has been convicted of brutally killing his wife and five children. According to CBS News, 41-year-old Mesac Damas plead guilty to six counts of first-degree murder on September 5, 2017, which would have been the first day of jury selections. He is looking at a possible death sentence which he […]