Here’s an update on the Maleah Davis situation. Quanell X, the Houston community activist connected with the case, says Maleah’s mother, Brittany Bowens, will also face charges in the death of her daughter. On Monday, the remains found alongside a highway near Hope, Arkansas were positively identified as Maleah’s. RELATED: Remains Found Confirmed To Be Maleah Davis Maleah was […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge ruled Wednesday that grand jury transcripts in a murder case over the killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle will remain sealed, for now. Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry ordered that the documents, which would give the first glimpse of the prosecution’s evidence against defendant Eric Ronald Holder, […]
DALLAS (AP) — The shooting deaths of two transgender women and the stabbing of a third are being investigated to determine whether they are connected, police in Dallas said Tuesday. No arrests have been made. The most recent killing occurred over the weekend. “These cases, although not directly related at this time, do have some […]
Dominique Clayton was a mother of four.
DALLAS (AP) — David Stevens was out for his usual morning run in October of 2015 when he passed under a bridge on a Dallas jogging path. There, prosecutors say, he was accosted and hacked to death by a former Texas A&M football player wielding a machete. That player, Thomas Johnson, went on trial Monday, […]
Nipsey Hussle was just trying to do some good in the ‘hood when he was shot and killed, allegedly by Eric Holder, on Sunday. Hussle was at his Marathon Clothing store trying to hook up a friend who had just gotten out of the joint after serving 20 years, sources told TMZ. Apparently Nip’s buddy wanted some […]
HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. (AP) — Most had never met her, didn’t even know her name until they saw it on the news. But moved by the tragic death of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed into a duffel bag and discarded on a hillside trail — like so much trash, as one mourner […]
MORRISVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A mother and her adult daughter killed five of their close relatives, including three children, and were found “disoriented” after child welfare authorities arrived for a surprise visit to their trashed apartment outside Philadelphia, police and prosecutors said Tuesday. Shana Decree, 45, and her daughter Dominique Decree, 19, were charged with […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Preliminary numbers indicate that homicides in Chicago fell by about 100 last year compared to 2017, though the total again eclipses the number of homicides in Los Angeles and New York combined, according to data released Tuesday. Police in Chicago, the nation’s third largest city, report that 561 homicides were committed between […]
Newly minted University of Arizona graduate Bakari Henderson, traveled to Greece in 2017 to launch his clothing line Bakari Luxury Sportswear. Instead, he was the victim of a fatal beating that left his heartbroken family with questions and about could have happened. Reports and case files say that Henderson, an Austin, Texas native who was […]
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A black man has been acquitted of all charges in the shooting death of a white man outside a bar in a case his attorney said stemmed from “ugly racism.” Jurors deliberated for four hours Friday before acquitting Stephen Spencer of homicide, aggravated assault and terroristic threats. He was freed after […]
MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — A man from Mexico living in the U.S. illegally has confessed to kidnapping college student Mollie Tibbetts while she was running in her small Iowa hometown, killing her and dumping her body in a cornfield, authorities said Tuesday. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the […]
