BREAKING: Police respond to report of shooting at Baton Rouge Walmart
Violent Crime
Police have said that it is NOT an active shooter scene
Murder
August 6, 2019
Adult film star ‘Lynn Pleasant’ hired hitman in murder plot to kill her son’s father
An Idaho woman has admitted in federal court to paying $5,000 to who she thought was a hitman to kill the father of one of her children. Katrina L. Danforth, 32, an adult film star who uses the alias Lynn Pleasant, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. According to The Spokesman-Review, Danforth told …
Famous Murder Cases
August 6, 2019
Decades later, Charles Manson prosecutor still looks over his shoulder after conviction of cult leader and his minions
When prosecutor Stephen Kay was just 27, he was handed files for a case that would become one of the most notorious murder trials in true crime history. AP News reports that Kay, now 76 and retired, vividly remembers the “circus” trial of the infamous Charles Manson and his cult followers. He also still watches …
Juveniles
August 6, 2019
‘I got shot in the head’: Mom of newborn makes FaceTime call as she lay dying in Dayton mass shooting
One of the victims of the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, this past weekend reportedly made a FaceTime call to the father of her two children, one who is only weeks old. The Daily Mail reports that Daryl Lee, the father of Lois Ogelsby’s two children, said in a post on social media that he …
Mass shooting
August 6, 2019
‘This is one of the lowest points in American history’: El Paso Walmart shooter’s ‘manifesto’ shows racism, hate toward Hispanics: Police
The alleged El Paso Walmart is believed to have written a disturbing manifesto filled with racism and hate, and apparently admitted he wanted to shoot as many Hispanics as he could, police said. CNN reports that that manifesto, entitled “The Inconvenient Truth,” was posted on the online site “8chan” within minutes before 21-year-old Patrick Crusius …
Family Crime
August 6, 2019
‘Welcome to the neighborhood’: Dayton shooter Connor Betts allegedly tracked down ex-girlfriend’s address, brought current girlfriend to the home to deliver threatening letter
The woman who briefly dated Betts claimed he once said he wanted to ‘hurt a bunch of people,’ but she didn’t take him seriously because he was drunk
Celebrity Justice
August 6, 2019
MORE sex crime charges for R. Kelly, now accused of child prostitution in Minnesota
R. Kelly is facing two new sex crime charges after he allegedly paid an underage girl to engage in sex acts while he was on tour in Minnesota. TMZ reports that Kelly has been charged with engaging in prostitution with someone under 18 and hiring/offering/agreeing to hire someone for sexual contact, stemming from a 2001 …
Murder
August 5, 2019
‘He’s just crazy’: Teen boy strangles sister for 15 MINUTES amid argument over WiFi password
A Georgia teen was sentenced to life in prison on Friday, more than a year after an argument over the WiFi password resulted in him strangling his older sister to death. The Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney announced in a statement that prosecutors presented evidence showing that Kevon Watkins, then 16, had changed the Internet …
Murder
August 5, 2019
BREAKING: Dayton shooter Connor Betts was vocalist in vile ‘pornogrind’ band, sang about slaughtering and butchering women
The gunman behind the deadly Dayton, Ohio, shooting this weekend was in a band that performed ‘hardcore’ music with lyrics depicting sexual violence, VICE News reports. According to the report, Connor Betts sometimes performed vocals for a musical act called Menstrual Munchies, which reportedly had a small following in the midwest. The band was part …
Murder
August 5, 2019
Victims of the Dayton gun massacre include mother of a newborn baby and the shooter’s own sister
Authorities have identified the nine people killed in a deadly mass shooting early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio. The suspected gunman, 24-year-old Connor Betts, was fatally shot by police within a minute of opening fire just after 1 a.m. in the Oregon District, a popular entertainment area, full of restaurants, bars and clubs. Megan Betts, …
Mass shooting
August 5, 2019
77-year-old husband takes bullet to the back while trying to protect wife during El Paso Walmart shooting
A 77-year-old husband shielded his wife from a heartless gunman who shot and killed at least 22 people during the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart. Juan de Dios Velazquez was a newcomer to El Paso. He had recently moved from Mexico with his wife Estella and they planned to shop at Walmart for …
Attempted Murder
August 5, 2019
Boy thrown from 10th floor of Tate Modern Gallery, teen arrested
A 6-year-old boy reportedly remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition after a 17-year-old boy allegedly threw him off the 10th floor of the Tate Modern Gallery in London, England. Citing a police spokesperson, Sky News reports that the boy landed on a fifth-floor roof after he was hurled from the art gallery’s 10th-floor viewing …