Police in Virginia are investigating after a toddler found a loaded, unsecured handgun Tuesday afternoon and killed herself with it. Hampton police said the incident took place just after 1 p.m., WVEC reported. The 2-year-old girl was taken to a local hospital, where she died. According to WAVY, the police department’s Major Crimes Unit is …
The body of a man in his 20s was found with dead with multiple gunshot wounds in an alevator in a Houston high-rise apartment buidling late Monday. Houston police said the elevator opened for a resident on the 17th floor of the Haven at Elgin apartments, revealing the body, according to KTRK. The victim, whose …
The Georgia high school football player found dead the day before his team was to play in the state championship game was shot multiple times and his body left in the woods, his grandmother said. Maxine Smith told WXIA that 17-year-old Brandon Smith didn’t come home last Thursday night. “I woke up Friday morning and …
A Georgia woman was found guilty this week in the death of a hit-and-run driver she chased down and shot dead in 2019. Hannah Payne, 25, was convicted of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony in Clayton County, WAGA reported. Her sentencing …
A Mississippi man was arrested in Tennessee last month after he arranged a birthday trip to rape a 10-month-old baby. Dennis Allen Gaal, 49, was arrested on Tuesday in Chattanooga, WTVC reported. An affidavit obtained by the station siad that Gaal set up the trip via Telegram on November 17, but he didn’t know he …
A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in Quakertown earlier this year, and police believe there may be more victims. Miguel Angel Sanchez faces numerous counts of rape, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and other crime, WPXI reported. The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said that the teen …
Prosecutors in Michigan say they are reviewing a warrant request from Detroit police in the fatal murder of Jewish community leader Samantha Woll in October. a man was taken into custody over the weekend, the second person to be detained in connection with the October 21 stabbing. The first, taken into custody on November 8, …
A 12-year-old Missouri boy shot his mother’s boyfriend in the head early Tuesday morning while the couple was arguing. St. Louis County police said the boy grabbed a shotgun, walked into the room where his mother and the man were arguing, and shot him. He fled the home after the shooting, KSDK reported. The man …
A body has been recovered from the Illinois retention pond where investigators earlier pulled a Nissan Rogue belonging to a teen girl who vanished earlier this month on her way to a work holiday party. Authorities pulled a vehicle belonging to 17-year-old Brissa Romana on Monday, but there was no sign of the missing girl, …
A Florida dentist has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in the murder of his former brother-in-law, Dan Markel. After nearly a decade, a Leon County jury determined last month that Charles Adelson had orchestrated the murder against Markel, seemingly at the behest of his mother. Adelson …
