An Illinois state trooper and father of three died Friday after he was shot while serving a “high risk” search warrant, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Trooper Nick Hopkins, 33, was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at St. Louis University Hospital. “It is nearly impossible to express the depth of my sadness,” Brendan …
Disturbing new video shows the moment a man was horrifically crushed to death by an elevator this week, the New York Post reports. Sam Waisbren, 30, had attempted to exit the elevator in the lobby of his Manhattan high-rise around 8:15 a.m. Thursday when the elevator suddenly lost control and plummeted downward. Waisbren was pinned …
Two nurses have were arrested last week for alleged sex crimes. On Friday, authorities charged 59-year-old James Christopher Webb with kidnapping and rape, WRAL-TV reports. Police arrested him the same day at the hospital he worked at in Raleigh, North Carolina. Records show Webb has been charged with second-degree kidnapping, first-degree forcible sex offense and carrying …
A Texas man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly allowed his 12-year-old daughter to drive a vehicle that fatally struck a man earlier this week, KHOU-TV reports. According to police, 42-year-old Tomas Mejia let his 12-year-old daughter drive a black Ford Explorer in a Houston apartment complex around 4:30 p.m. Thursday. As the girl …
Seven people were shot in Houston early Saturday morning following a dispute at a house party organized through Snapchat, KTRK-TV reports. Police are still investigating precisely what caused the shooting, but a detective told the television station a heated argument preceded the gunfire, which erupted shortly before 2 a.m. Someone opened fire in front of …
A Georgia man has been arrested for allegedly murdering and burying his pregnant teenage fiancée, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Arrest records show Aldeyshaun Locklear, 18, was detained Wednesday on a felony murder charge in connection with the death of Téa Choates, 19, with whom he was engaged to be married. Choates’ body was found buried …
An escaped Tennessee prison inmate who is a suspect in the rape and murder of a corrections official was captured on Sunday after being seen on surveillance footage. As WREG TV reports, Curtis Ray Watson was taken into custody on Sunday, hours after he was photographed on a home’s security cameras early Sunday in Henning, …
Police have located a vehicle that belongs to a missing California mother, but the whereabouts of the woman are still unknown, CNN reports The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that a black 2005 Infiniti G35 belonging to 33-year-old Heather Gumina had been found. Gumina has been missing since July 16, although it’s not clear …
Newly released records show accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who reportedly committed suicide overnight in his jail cell, had received numerous telephone messages about interacting with teenage girls, the New York Post reports. Photos of phone messages unsealed Friday from a court case show how various Epstein associates contacted him about meeting the teens. “He …
Federal authorities cannot unlock the main smartphone of the mass shooter who fatally gunned down nine people, including his sister, using an assault rifle in Dayton, Ohio last week, The Hill reports. Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation told congressional leaders on Wednesday that investigators are still working to unlock Connor Betts’ primary phone …
A missing 4-year-old North Carolina girl was given to a human trafficking ring, potentially by her own mother, WRAL-TV reports. Aubrianna Recinos and her mother, Carmen Lowe, had been missing since May, when they disappeared from their home in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Lowe had not returned Recinos to her father, Mario Recinos, after a visit, …
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