An armed security guard protecting a California news crew died Saturday from injuries he suffered when he was shot during an attempted robbery earlier in the week. Kevin Nishita was on duty with a KRON4 crew in Oakland on Wednesday when an assailant attempted to steal camera equipment, KRON4 reported. Nishita was shot in the …
A Houston man has been charged with killing his wife just days after the couple signed a $250,000 life insurance policy. Christopher Collins, 41, made a non-emergency call to police on November 18, saying he’d been on the phone with his brother and missed texts from his wife, Yuanhua Liang, who told him someone was …
Authorities have arrested a man they believe is responsible for murdering a woman whose body was found dismembered near downtown Tampa earlier this month, WFLA-TV reports. On Nov. 11 and 12, fishermen came upon body parts floating in McKay Bay. A distinctive tattoo on a leg led investigators to identify the remains as belonging to Stephanie Crone-Overholts. Police on Friday …
A Pennsylvania man was shot to death Thursday night as he was eating Thanksgiving dinner with his family, struck by a stray bullet that crashed through a window and killed him. Crews flew Edilberto Miguel Palaez Moctezuma to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center after the shooting, but he was pronounced dead on arrival, the Montgomery County …
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Indiana authorities are searching for a missing 2-year-old girl who remains unaccounted for after her father was reportedly found on Friday in a truck submerged in a river. Father and daughter Jeremy and Emma Sweet were last seen on Wednesday. Two days later, duck hunters found Jeremy Sweet in a pickup truck submerged in the …
A Michigan man has been arrested and charged with fatally shooting his mother while they were riding in a car on Thanksgiving evening. The unnamed 22-year-old man then reportedly got out of the car and walked away, ultimately firing shots at three passing vehicles, WDIV reported. One of the gunshots struck a 43-year-old woman in …
A Florida grand jury recently declined to charge the owner of a state-licensed daycare where a 2-month-old girl reportedly drowned in August. Martasha Robinson told WCTV that she received a hysterical call from a mother of another child at Hugger Family Daycare, saying that something had happened to one of the children. When Robinson arrived …
A new video of a fatal shooting early this month appears to undermine the shooter’s claim of self-defense, as he continues to avoid charges, weeks after the killing. As the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports, Chad Read was fatally shot on November 5, after he went to the home of his child’s mother for a custody exchange. …
A Kansas woman was sentenced this week for murdering her stepfather, who she claimed was a sexual predator. Micaela Spencer was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years to life for murder, theft, and “sale of sexual relations,” KAKE reports. Spencer is required to register as a sex offender if/when she is released from prison. According to …
The parents of Brian Laundrie, who reportedly killed himself in September amid the search for his missing girlfriend Gabrielle Petito, reportedly discovered one of their handguns was missing when they turned over their weapons to law enforcement — on the same day they reported their son’s disappearance. Chris and Roberta Laundrie reportedly surrendered the guns …
A Washington doctor is charged with attempted kidnapping after police say he reached out to “hitmen” on the dark web. Investigators got a tip about a scheme to kidnap Dr. Ronald Craig Ilg’s wife. A woman who received the tip-off told investigators that Ilg wanted someone to kidnap his wife while he was away in …
