BELL, Fla. (AP) — A once-convicted felon killed six of his grandchildren, including an infant, his adult daughter and himself in a shooting at the man’s home in a small North Florida town Thursday, a sheriff said. Gilchrist County Sheriff Robert Schultz at a news conference identified the shooter as 51-year-old Don Spirit. He would […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A South African judge on Friday found Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and declared him not guilty of murder. Prosecutors said they were disappointed by the ruling but would decide on whether to appeal only after sentencing. Judge Thokozile Masipa said […]
CAMDEN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities expect to charge a South Carolina man in connection with the deaths of his five children after he led them to a secluded dirt road in Alabama where their bodies lay wrapped in individual garbage bags. Timothy Ray Jones Jr. has been charged with child neglect and police expect to […]
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit man was arraigned Wednesday in the slaying of his estranged wife even as the whereabouts of her two young children remained unclear. Alicia Fox’s 6-year-old daughter, Kaylah Hunter, and her 8-month-old son, Kristian Justice, have been missing since late May. Fox’s decomposed body was found about two weeks later in […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The bodies of two men who had been bound with duct tape, stabbed and weighed down with makeshift anchors were pulled from a river Wednesday after a third bound man, wet and also covered with stab wounds, was found wandering along a road in the dark, police said. The surviving victim said […]
The teenage daughter of a flight attendant whose body was found in the trunk of her car has been charged with murder, reports CBS Chicago. Alyssa Barrett, 17, has been charged with the murder of her mother DeCarol Deloney-Cain, and robbery, according to the station.Damarius Rashard Wren, Barrett’s 18-year-old boyfriend, was charged earlier this month. […]
A Brooklyn woman murdered a tenant from her rental property before scattering the body parts all over Long Island. Leah Cuevas is in custody after…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A white TV reporter who voiced his opinions about black families and relations with police during a segment about a fatal police shooting said Tuesday he was suspended from his station and won’t return. Sean Bergin said he was suspended from News 12 New Jersey without pay on Monday and with […]
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A day after a rookie police officer was gunned down in an ambush, mourners came to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial with candles, balloons, empty liquor bottles and messages of love from friends scrawled on T-shirts taped to a brick wall — to his killer. “Rest easy,” ”Thug […]
Every time a black man is shot on the streets of Chicago, I think of my friend, Michele Dowdy, who lost her son to gun violence in 2012 and how justice continues to elude her. Malcom Dowdy, 33, was not in a gang; he was not involved in a fight at the time of the […]
A 22-year-old mother has been charged with murder after suffocating her 11-month old son. DNAInfo.com reports: Nicole Kelly told investigators she was having trouble raising her son, Kiam Felix Jr., alone, so she killed him, police and witnesses said. “I reached my breaking point, I didn’t want him anymore,” she told police, according to the […]
Angelo Grayson Smith, Jr. has reportedly confessed to the murder of his girlfriend Bianca Tanner, the Charlotte schoolteacher who’d been missing since June 7. On the night she disappeared, Smith told police she was intoxicated and the couple argued, but Tanner’s 3-year-old son told police that he’d witnessed Tanner being hit by Smith. Smith was […]
