Georgia police made a grisly discovery this week when they found a mother and her two adult children dead in an Atlanta area townhouse. The bodies, dead of gunshot wounds, were found when police were called to do a welfare check on the family. There is no known motive as of yet. What makes the […]
FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — A retired administrator working as a consultant to California State University, Fullerton was fatally stabbed Monday in a campus parking lot on the first day of the school year in what police called a targeted attack, though they were not sure of a motive. Steven Shek Keung Chan, 57, of Hacienda […]
Seventeen-year-old Dorian Harris reportedly shoplifted a $2 beer from a corner store and it cost him his life. Now, the store clerk responsible for shooting and killing the teen is facing up to 60 years in prison after being found guilty of murder in the second degree. Lawyers for Anwar Ghazali argued that the store […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court granted a stay of execution Wednesday to a Texas inmate just one day before he was scheduled to die for the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old woman during a carjacking in Houston. In an 18-page opinion filed Thursday, a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit […]
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 […]
Portland State basketball and football player Deante Strickland, 22, was fatally shot by his sister Tamena on Friday at his grandmother’s house, according to police. Tamena, 30, also shot her grandmother and aunt, both suffered non-life threatening injuries. She was arrested Saturday morning on charges of murder and two counts of attempted murder, NBC News reports. Deante […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A day after authorities captured a man they say fatally shot his father, brother and two other people during a 12-hour rampage across Los Angeles’ sprawling San Fernando Valley, they were still struggling to answer a key question: What set him off? Police who spent hours pursuing Gerry Dean Zaragoza from […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The ex-wife of slain former NBA player Lorenzen Wright agreed to a deal Thursday in which she pleads guilty to facilitation of first-degree murder and receives a 30-year prison sentence. Sherra Wright entered the plea during a hearing in Shelby County Criminal Court. Judge Lee Coffee said Sherra Wright would be […]
A woman has been charged with murder after police said she was involved in a shooting that killed a pregnant mother who was holding her 3-year-old son’s hand in Georgia. According to Channel 2 Action News, Kiresa Cooper, 27,has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Auriel Callaway. Callaway, who was reportedly […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A 17-year-old girl with a small social media following in upstate New York was killed by a man she’d met recently on Instagram, who then posted photos of her corpse online, police said Monday. The gory pictures were redistributed widely, including by online posters who made light of or celebrated the […]
CENTERVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff says a reality-based detective show played a role in the recent arrest of an 84-year-old woman in the 1984 shooting death of her husband. Leon County Sheriff Kevin Ellis said Wednesday that the arrest last week of Norma Allbritton was aided by the program “Cold Justice,” which contributed […]
Roland Martin talks to a mother who is grieving the loss of her son and fighting for justice. On the 4th of July Robbie Marshall’s 20-year-old son Kevin Marshall was killed by 27-year-old Joshua Anderson, who she believes should be charged with a hate crime. According to Ms. Marshall, Kevin had special needs and had […]
