A Georgia father who beat his 2-year-old son to death for calling him a name learned his fate this week. Courtney Craig was sentenced Monday to life plus 20 years for the March 2016 beating death of his son, King Davis. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Davis lived with his mother in Louisana but was …
After finding her family dead, a 4-year-old California girl reportedly used her murdered grandfather’s cell phone to call for help. The Sacramento Bee reports that Jacob Jedidiah Thayer, 26, is believed to have fatally shot his girlfriend Marie Leonetti, 27, and father, Richard Thayer, 60, early Thursday before turning the gun on himself. According to the newspaper, …
A substitute gym teacher at a Florida middle school is facing criminal charges for allegedly grabbing a 12-year-old boy by his neck and pushing him into a wall. According to The Lakeland Ledger, Robert Knight, 39, was arrested after a Westwood Middle School student told a school resource officer about an altercation that happened a day earlier. The …
A Kansas mother wants answers weeks after her 4-year-old daughter came home from day care with three teeth missing and a busted lip. Donisha Franklin told WDAF that she noticed her daughter, Heaven, had returned from Kingdom Christian Academy Daycare on March 1 with a swollen nose. Upon further inspection, she reportedly discovered that three of …
A Louisana man is accused fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend Thursday morning while she streamed on Facebook Live. KTBS reported that Johnathan Robinson, 36, is also accused of wounding an officer in the wrist during the shootout that left Rannita Williams, 27, dead. Robinson is reportedly heard telling an unidentified person to hand Williams the phone so she …
Dashcam footage and a 911 call provide insight into the demeanor of Aniya Day-Garrett’s mother and the mother’s boyfriend moments after the 4-year-old lost consciousness and subsequently died. A 911 call recently obtained by WJW captured boyfriend Deonte Lewis calmly telling a dispatcher that Day-Garrett, 4, was hardly breathing. He originally claims that Day-Garrett is …
A former substitute teacher in Connecticut is accused of running a real-life Fight Club in his math class. Ryan Fish, 23, is accused of encouraging Montville High School students to hit each other during a series of one-on-one brawls. Fish denied these allegations in court Thursday, claiming that he didn’t egg on the fights and had no …
Law enforcement initially mistook the 26-year-old’s remains for an infant’s, according to reports
Funnyman Will Ferrell was reportedly rushed to the hospital Thursday night after the SUV he was riding in flipped over on the I-5 freeway in Orange County. According to TMZ, Ferrell, 50, was spotted on his phone as firefighters lifted his stretcher into an ambulance. A Toyota had sideswiped the right rear of Ferrell’s SUV, …
A Medford, New Jersey, man who started a GoFundMe for his German Shepherd’s veterinary bills is accused of causing the injuries that ultimately led to the puppy’s death. According to NJ.com, Reid M. Herjo, 24, is accused of collecting more than $14,000 for his dog Atlas’ recovery from a hit-and-run ATV accident when he actually had beat …
An Australian woman whose mother arranged for her to be raped has urged a court to extend her mother’s sentence as her release date approaches. Peta Butler was 16 when an overweight man with bulging eyes raped her in a Toowoomba hotel room. Butler’s mother, Therese, not only organized the rape but sat outside smoking a cigarette while …
Police said a Texas nurse who killed two patients and left another two in a vegetative state did so by putting air in their arterial line. An arrest affidavit obtained by KLTV Wednesday detailed seven incidents involving nurse William George Davis, 34, and patients at the CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Hospital. Of those seven incidents, five patients …
