A gunman wearing a mask and a tactical vest killed three people at a Florida Dollar General store on Saturday in the Jacksonville sheriff said was a “racially motivated” shooting. Two men and a woman were killed, police said, all of them Black. Sheriff T.K. Waters said the shooter, a white man in his 20s …
Public defender Anne Taylor also filed a motion to remove cameras from the courtroom entirely.
Gunfire erupted at an Oklahoma high school football game Friday night, sending players and spectators alike scattering and leaving a 16-year-old boy dead. Officials said the dead boy was not a student at either of the schools involved in the game in Choctaw between Del City and Choctaw High Schools. The Choctaw Police Department said …
A Pennsylvania mom was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver early Saturday morning in southwest Phildaelphia’s Eastwick neighborhood. Police say Ashley McLean-Gaylor, 27, was exiting another vehicle at about 2:30 a.m. when she stepped in front of a passing car that struck her, according to WCAU. The driver briefly paused but then fled, they …
An Indiana teenager accused of stabbing his mother Friday morning told police he did it to kill the demon in her. The 16-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, and two counts of battery. He’s also charged with two counts of torturing an animal for alleged stabbing two dogs, according to WBND. …
Joran van der Sloot’s appearance in an American federal courtroom was short. It took the convicted killer less than five minutes to enter a not-guilty plea on charges that he extorted money from Natalee Holliway’s mother. The Dutch national was one of the last people to see the Alabama teen alive during her senior trip to …
A young Indiana boy was brutally beaten to death by his cousin because the child put his shoes on the wrong feet, the Journal & Courier reports. The older cousin was also reportedly enraged that the child sat down to use the bathroom instead of standing up. The disturbing allegations are contained in court records …
An Indiana mother will spend the rest of her life behind bars for starving, torturing and beating to death her young son, the Commercial Review reports. On Thursday, 28-year-old Chelsea Crossland was sentenced to life in prison for the death of 5-year-old Christian last year. She will not be afforded an opportunity for parole. Police in …
A California man who allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death because he believed she was pregnant and wanted to keep the children has been convicted of murdering her and discarding her body in a dumpster, KTLA-TV reports. On Friday, jurors found 33-year-old Amer Alhasan guilty of first-degree murder in connection with the death of 38-year-old …
An Arizona woman was abducted earlier this week from a car dealership in Phoenix and then aided her own rescue when she slipped a note to a fellow customer at a Chevron station in Seligman, more than 160 miles away. The note gave the woman’s name and said she’d been kidnapped, asking the customer to …
An Alabama teen mom has been charged with murder after she allegedly threw her newborn baby into a trash compactor. Dothan Police Chief Will Benny said that Jakayla Ashanti Williams, 18, told her family that she dropped the baby off at Southeast Health Medical Center, AL.com reported. But when they became concerned about the infant, …
New York police said on Thursday that two sex workers claimed the Long Island serial killer was violent during encounters they had with him. Suffolk Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. told Newsday that the two women also claimed Rex Heuermann, 59, was aggressive and they feared for their safety. “A person of that size being a …
