A New York man accused of stabbing another man to death last week was released on $100,000 bail, prompting anti-bail reform activists to cry foul. Jesus Ramirez, 28, is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the death of Guarionex Torres, 49, in Hell’s Kitchen, according to the New York Post. Ramirez, …
A Texas man is accused of murdering his former girlfriend, whose body was found by the woman’s young daughter. Early Thursday, 36-year-old Shereena Webster’s 5-year-old daughter found her mother’s body and called her grandmother, who then dialed 911, KVII-TV reports. Police responded to the woman’s Amarillo home at about 5:15 a.m., when officers located Webster’s …
Three Florida 14-year-old are facing felonies after they allegedly ransacked a closed middle school campus in Palatka, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said that the Palatka Fire Department got the first call at Jenkins Middle School at about 4 p.m. on Sunday, a report of smoke in the area …
A Georgia man has been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison on federal child pornography charges after he fled the state to escape child molestation charges in 2012. Derrick Hunt 39, was charged in Fulton County after he hid a 13-year-old girl in his apartment for three weeks while he recorded his sexual encounters …
One of the victims of Sunday’s grocery store shooting in Bend, Oregon, was a store employee who “died heroically” trying to disarm the 20-year-old gunman. Ethan Blair Miller shot and killed Safeway customer Glenn Edward Bennett, 84, in the front of the store before encountering employee Donald Ray Surrett Jr. in the back. “This is …
On Monday, a Texas school board said that school district police officers will return to work this fall despite not being evaluated for their response to May’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary that killed 19 students and two teachers. The school board explained that they never conducted a complete probe as they prioritized Uvalde Schools …
Amy Mihaljevic was just 10 years old when she went missing. She told friends at school the day she disappeared that she was going with someone to buy her mom a surprise gift. Eyewitnesses reported seeing Amy speaking with a white male, at a local ice cream shop and then leaving with him through a …
Tennessee authorities are asking the public to be on the lookout for a missing Shelby teen. According to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, 19-year-old April Dills was reported missing Tuesday. She’s described as a white female who stands 5-feet-9-inches tall and weighs 143 pounds. Anyone with information on the teen’s whereabouts is urged to contact …
An investigation is underway in Michigan after a girl was found dead on Tuesday, hours after she was reported missing. Though details are scarce at this point in time, Michigan State Police Lieutenant Kimberly Vetter said the deceased girl was found in a field in Saginaw, about a block from the home she was reported …
Florida officials have asked for the public’s help in locating a 6-year-old boy who was reportedly taken by his father and paternal grandmother on Saturday. Jorge and Lilliam Morales, 45 and 68, picked up JoJo Morales from the boy’s mother’s home in Miami-Dade County. The boy’s mother, Yanet Concepcion, who had been rewarded custody, went …
Michigan authorities are searching for a missing Plainfield Township woman; police described the incident as an “uncharacteristic disappearance.” Mlive reports that Mollie Schmidt, (maiden name: O’Meara) was last seen on August 21 at her residence close to East Beltline Avenue NE and Five Mile Road. The Kent County Sheriff’s Department said Schmidt’s disappearance is unusual …
Texas authorities are looking for a double murder suspect who reportedly escaped from jail on Monday. According to KSLA, Charles Spraberry used a handmade knife to escape from the Cass County Jail. Spraberry is awaiting trial on capital murder charges related to March’s deaths of two people found in a burned-out trailer in Atlanta, Texas. …
