Investigators say that the New Orleans truck attacker had a transmitter they believe would have set off bombs he planted at two other spots in the French Quarter, but responding police killed him before he could activate it. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US-born Army veteran, killed 14 people and injured 35 more early New Year’s morning …
A 25-year-old Wisconsin woman has been charged with arranging the murder of her “on-again, off-again” boyfriend in November. Ashanti Davis is charged with solicitation of first-degree intentional homicide, and her bond was set at $100,000 on Saturday, WITI reported. Police were called to the scene shortly after 1 a.m. on November 1 and spoke with …
An Ohio man has been identified as the killer of an 18-year-old woman who was beaten to death with an oven grate in 1981. James Vanest, who was 26 at the time he lived upstairs from Debra Lee Miller in a Mansfield apartment building, was shot to death in November after barricading himself in a …
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with attempted murder after he left his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son in a medically induced coma while a recovers from a severe beating. The little boy suffered a stroke and had a broken vertebra in his neck, WPXI reported. Police say the mother’s boyfriend, Lyndon Henderson, was watching her son …
A Minnesota man pleaded guilty this week to killing and dismembering two women he had been dating. Joseph Jorgenson, 41, pleaded guilty to the murders of 34-year-old Manijeh “Mani” Starren and 33-year-old Fanta Zayavong, KSTP reported. He is expected to be sentenced to two 40-year-prison terms, served concurrently, at his sentencing next month. Jorgenson was …
Three members of an Ohio family were sentenced Friday for their roles in the 2016 massacre of eight members of another family. Angela Wagner, her mother Rita Newcomb, her husband George “Billy” Wagner III, and her two sons — Edward “Jake” Wagner and George Wagner IV — were accused in 2018 of planned and carrying …
A man who shot an Indiana sheriff’s deputy early Friday morning is believed to still be in the southern Indiana/greater Louisville area where the incident took place, while the trooper is recovering from surgery. Indiana State Police said the incident took place at about 12:30 a.m. when Orange County Deputy Zach Andry stopped to investigate …
A note on a phone inside the Cybertruck a decorated US-born soldier blew up in Las Vegas on Wednesday said that what he did “was not a terrorist attack.” “It was a wake-up call,” Matthew Livelsberger, 37, reportedly wrote, according to KLAS. Police found two phones in the rented Cybertruck and have so far been …
A Pennsylvania coroner has ruled a 13-year-old boy’s death this summer as homicide due to sextortion. Levi Maciejewski was found dead of a gunshot wound in the backyard of his family’s home in Cumberland County in August, WGAL reported. District Attorney Sean McCormack confirmed the coroner’s ruling. “The circumstances leading up to his death, a …
Missouri police found a man and his two children shot to death in a burning home Thursday night. Kansas City Police arrived at the home for a welfare check at about 9:45 p.m. but backed away when they saw fire in the home, KMBC reported. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, and officers found Zachary Hatcher, 39; …
A former Virginia neonatal nurse has been arrested in connection with injuries suffered by babies in the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Henrico County Police Department said the charges against 26-year-old Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman stem from one incident in November but that they are looking at other incidents at the hospital …
A Utah woman was found dead in her estranged boyfriend’s car when police stopped him this week while investigating a potential DUI. Police found the body of 30-year-old Summer Tatiana Roney in the back of convicted felon Jacob Holt Johnson’s car at a convenience store in Bluffdale, KUTV reported. Cops said the 40-year-old suspect had …
