A South Carolina mother has been charged with homicide by child abuse and/or neglect in the death of her 2-year-old son earlier this month, WBTW reported. The station said Okedia Colvin of Dillon failed to care for her son properly following a tracheostomy, citing a warrant issued for her arrest. The warrant says she failed …
Arizona police have arrested a man they say has been sexually abusing teenaged girls on city buses since 2017, the Phoenix Police Department said in a Facebook post. Martin Huerta-Herrera, 53, has been charged with two counts of sexual abuse, the department said. Police said the first incident took place in April 2017 when two …
Authorities in Alabama have arrested an 18-year-old man accused of gunning down a cherished sheriff, Fox News reports. Lowndes County Sheriff John Williams Sr., known locally as “Big John,” was fatally shot Saturday evening after responding to a call at a convenience store about 25 miles south of Montgomery, Alabama. Williams, a U.S. Marine Corps …
Authorities in upstate New York believe a teenage boy murdered his parents, lived with their bodies for weeks and then set the family home on fire. According to the Buffalo News, William J. Larson Jr., 17, has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two additional counts of first-degree manslaughter. Firefighters responded to …
A father accused of abusing his son, who became suicidal, allegedly forced a gun into his hands and told him to shoot himself. Court documents obtained by Baltimore ABC affiliate WJMAR allege that Maryland father Anthony Lewis, 46, put a gun into his suicidal son’s hands and said “Just do it.” The 14-year-old boy reportedly …
A Wyoming, Ohio, woman operating an illegal daycare facility in her home was arrested this week after she was found unconscious with a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit for driving with nine children in her care, WKRC reported. Julie Groteke, 42, pleaded not guilty to nine counts of endangering children in Hamilton …
A Pennsylvania girl who was the centerpiece of a November episode of “The Steve Wilkos Show,” passed away Friday, following an alleged brutal beating by her mother’s boyfriend. ABC 16 reports that the family of 3-year-old Arabella Parker took her off of life support earlier this week. She had been in critical condition for almost …
Colorado prosecutors on Friday released a stash of imagery used to convict Patrick Frazee in the death of his fiancee, Kelsey Berreth — a year to the day since she was last seen. Among the photos is the last known picture of Berreth, an image captured by her neighbor’s security camera at about 1:30 p.m. …
A Minneapolis boy thrown from the third story of a mall earlier this year has made a miraculous recovery, according to his family. As CrimeOnline previously reported, bystanders watched in horror on April 12 as 24-year-old Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda threw 5-year-old child Landen Hoffman over the ledge of the Mall of America’s third floor in …
A 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday and an assault-style rifle was seized from his home after he threatened to shoot people at a Los Angeles-area middle school, CNN reports. Peers told teachers and administrators at Ánimo Mae Jemison Charter Middle School they heard the boy threaten to shoot fellow students and staff, according to Los …
A 70-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with the brutal murder of a Virginia woman decades ago, Mlive.com reports. Authorities in Hamilton, Michigan, detained Dennis Lee Bowman on suspicion of killing Kathleen O’Brien Doyle in 1980 in Norfolk, Virginia. Investigators from local, state, and federal agencies descended on Bowman’s rural Michigan property, where they …
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Alabama teen Aniah Blanchard, who remains missing since her disappearance late last month. WRBL reported that Auburn police arrested Antwain Fisher, 35, on first-degree kidnapping charges on Friday evening. It is currently unclear how investigators believe Fisher is involved in Blanchard’s October 23 …
