The father of a 4-year-old Ohio girl who was killed by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend last year is reportedly planning to sue the Department of Children and Families for their ignoring evidence of abuse before his daughter’s murder. In a statement issued to WJW, Mickhal Garrett’s lawyer said he plans to file a lawsuit against the …
An assessment of one Colorado hospital’s emergency room revealed that marijuana-related visits increased three-fold since the state permitted the recreational sale of cannabis in January 2014. Published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine revealed that, in 2012, the emergency department at the UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital …
A Minnesota mother is speaking out after she says officials claimed the death of her son—who was reportedly found in an abandoned lot with multiple stab wounds to his chest three months after his disappearance—was a suicide. The Twin Cities Pioneer Press reported that Corhea Taylor learned of the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office’s determination regarding …
A Florida father accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter in 2015 by hurling her off a 430-foot bridge has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity as at the onset of his murder trial on Monday. The Tampa Bay Times reported that John Jonchuck stopped on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg amid a …
Police in Texas are investigating an apparent murder-suicide attempt after a mother and her dead child were found in a parked car on Saturday afternoon. In a press release issued Sunday, the Frisco Police Department said they responded to a welfare car on the 15200 block of Preachers Lane at 5:55 p.m. It was there …
“That’s just her M.O.,” Serenity’s father said. “She’s going to wait until everything is calmed down.”
A Texas man is facing criminal charges after video reportedly surfaced of him punching a black woman amid a road rage dispute on Thursday. The Dallas Morning News reported that Austin Shuffield, 30, was charged with assault causing bodily injury and interference with an emergency call for the 4:30 a.m. incident in Deep Ellum. Police said Shuffield …
The daughter of TLC’s “90 Day Fiancé” star Angela Deem is in a Georgia prison after pleading guilty to three counts of child molestation. People reported that Scottie Deem, 34, will spend two years and one day behind bars. Afterward, she’ll be allowed to serve the remainder of her 20-year sentence on probation. A court spokesperson …
The daughter of a Minnesota police chief reportedly killed her two sons and took her own life in what appears to be a murder-suicide. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the bodies of Emma L. LaRoque, 28, and her two children, Shane Woods, 9, and Frederick York, 4, were found Monday afternoon in a home on the …
A paraprofessional in Texas was accused of sending sexually explicit photos and video of herself to a 15-year-old student via Snapchat. KPRC reported that Kelsie Rochelle Koepke, 25, sent the student illicit images and footage after meeting at a school event in October 2017, a few weeks before homecoming. The student claimed Koepke gave him her Snapchat handle—”Momma …
Two 17-year-olds in Ohio are facing murder charges in connection with a March 11 shootout that left a high school junior dead. Prosecutors are pushing for Nick Bell and Aaron Patterson to be charged as adults for the shooting that killed Alexia Carey, 16. Emergency crews who responded to the East Toledo neighborhood found Carey with …
An Illinois couple is facing criminal charges for the beating death of the woman’s 2-year-old son—which reportedly occurred two days after a caseworker visited the home amid neglect and abuse allegations. According to the Chicago Tribune, the contracted Illinois Department of Children and Family Services caseworker found that Ja’hir Gibbons and his 5-year-old brother were safe …
