A 6-year-old Florida girl found a gun in the back seat of a vehicle she was in this week and fired a single shot, striking her 57-year-old grandmother in the lower back as she was driving. The North Port Police Department said the gun had been in a holster in the back pocket of the …
Prosecutors rested their case Friday against disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, wrapping up the state’s testimony with a final witness to tie up phone and GPS information that had been given to jurors over the past two weeks of trial. A new piece of information: Paul and Maggie Murdaugh apparently uncovered Alex Murdaugh’s drug …
A Mississippi man on a shooting rampage killed six people, including his ex-wife at three separate locations on Friday. Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance said on Facebook that Richard Dale Crum, 52, was taken into custody and has been charged with first degree murder. More charges are expected, he said. The sheriff told CNN the …
After 61 witnesses, prosecutors in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial have rested their case. Once the long holiday weekend is over, the defense will continue to call its witnesses. Murdaugh’s attorneys called two witnesses after the lunch break. Attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin say they expect their case to take about a week. Key …
A 12-year-old football player with the Essex County Predators in New Jersey has reportedly passed away after collapsing during a football drill Friday. According to ABC New York, Elijah Jordan Brown Garcia was doing a “light football drill on the field at West Side Park” in Newark when he fell unconscious. According to the child’s …
Alex Murdaugh allegedly drove faster around the location where his dead wife’s phone was located, according to a witness who analyzed the disgraced lawyer’s vehicle data, Fox News reports. Peter Rudofski, a special agent with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, testified Friday in the double-murder trial that Murdaugh increased his speed from 42 to …
The former Texas FedEx driver accused of strangling a girl to death after striking her with his delivery truck has been indicted for capital murder, NBC DFW reports. On Thursday, a grand jury indicted 31-year-old Tanner Horner on charges of aggravated kidnapping and capital murder of a person under the age of 10 in connection …
An Arkansas jury found a Bentonville man guilty of murder Thursday for the third time, in connection with the death of his 6-year-old son. Sentencing is scheduled for Friday for Mauricio Torres, according to 40/29 News. He’s facing life behind bars without parole or the death penalty. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police arrested Torres in April …
The federal government is seeking to imprison R. Kelly for 25 years following his conviction in Illinois on sexual abuse and child pornography charges, WLS-TV reports Kelly is already serving a 30-year prison sentence for a federal sex trafficking and racketeering conviction out of New York, what amounts to a virtual life sentence for the …
An accused kidnapper is being held on multiple charges in New Jersey after his alleged victim escaped and sought help for what she said was an ordeal that lasted for a year. A probable cause affidavit filed in Burlington County says that James W. Parrillo, 57, choked the woman on several occasions and threatened to …
A 32-year-old man reported finding a decapitated, dismembered, and “mummified” body in his backyard earlier this month but later turned himself in and told police, “I did it.” LaVaughn Barnes has been charged with first degree murder while armed in the death of a handyman he said had done work for him on several occasions …
