A North Carolina mother is dead after she was robbed and gunned down at an ATM earlier this week, WBTV reports. Around 5:45 a.m. Wednesday, 48-year-old Karen Baker was shot at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Charlotte. Investigators believe that a stranger randomly targeted Baker, who was withdrawing money from the ATM at the time, according …
A Michigan man accused of violently torturing his girlfriend was released on bond and within days allegedly murdered her and his stepfather, stabbed his mother with a butcher’s knife, and dropped a baby out of a window, Click on Detroit reports. Police say the string of violence began on June 2, when 23-year-old Jonathan Welch …
Eight people were shot in Philadelphia overnight, including a 2-year-old boy and four teenagers, ABC 6 reports. Around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, a 2-year-old boy and three adults were injured in a shooting in West Philadelphia. The family was riding in an SUV when someone began firing at it. Responders found a 26-year-old man on the …
A Georgia woman has reportedly become mostly paralyzed after a visit to a chiropractor, where she had an adjustment to her neck, WSB-TV reports. The family of 28-year-old Caitlin Jensen says four arteries became dissected in her neck as a result of the procedure. After she grew ill, the recent college grad was rushed to …
A drug cartel must pay $4.6 billion to American families whose loved ones were murdered in a 2019 attack in Mexico, the Bismarck Tribune reports. U.S. Magistrate Judge Clare Hochhalter ruled that the Juarez cartel must pay the families of nine women and children whom cartel members gunned down and burned to death. The cartel …
The CEO of a Silicon Valley technology firm has been arrested for allegedly killing his former roommate’s girlfriend 30 years ago, CNN reports. On Saturday, police arrested 58-year-old John Woodward at Kennedy Airport in New York after he arrived on an international flight. Authorities allege that Woodward murdered 25-year-old Laurie Houts on September 5, 1992, because …
Authorities in Texas allege that a woman kidnapped two men and held them against their will for ransom, KSAT-TV reports. Court records obtained by the television station show that 44-year-old Reynaicela Alcasar is facing a charge of aggravated kidnapping in connection with the incident. Alcasar is accused of kidnapping two brothers, ages 27 and 35, …
Four family members are dead including a 13-year-old boy in an apparent murder-suicide in Michigan, mlive.com reports. Deputies with the Roscommon County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home in Houghton Lake around 3:30 a.m. Sunday after two people alerted authorities of the bodies. After entering the residence, deputies found the bodies of 35-year-old Tirany L. Savage, …
A wealthy dentist goes on trial this week, accused of murdering his wife of 34 years to collect nearly $5 million from insurance while the two were on a big game hunting trip in Africa, the Associated Press reports. Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday at a federal courthouse in Colorado in the case …
A disturbing new video shows the moment when a California woman doused a man with a flammable liquid and then set him on fire, KMPH-TV reports. The incident occurred this past Thursday at a park in Sanger, California, near Fresno. Authorities allege that 48-year-old Patricia Castillo walked up to the victim while he was sitting on …
Three people were shot at a luxury Long Island hotel on Sunday when a disturbance broke out at a pool party, ABC 7 reports. Shortly after 5 p.m., two party attendees and a security guard were shot at The Mansion at Glen Cove, a historic hotel and events center in the city of Glen Cove …
A heroic New Mexico mother sprang atop her SUV earlier this month when a carjacker attempted to steal the vehicle with her two young children inside, KOAT-TV reports. Melody Maldonado, 33, had parked her white Hyundai Santa Fe in front of a store in Hobbs, New Mexico, on July 4, so she could buy a …
