Dozens of schools across the country have received threats of shootings or bombings since the deadly September 4 shootin at a high school in Georgia. Many of the threats are likely hoaxes, but law enforcement is taking no chances. Departments across the country are urging parents to pay close attention to their children’s social media …
North Carolina police are investigating the fatal shooting of a Waffle House employee early Friday morning. Laurinburg Police said that they found 18-year-old Burlie Dawson Locklear with a gunshot wound inside the restaurant shortly before 1 a.m. He was taken to Scotland Memorial Hospital, where he later died. Police describe the suspect at 5 feet …
A Florida woman and her boyfriend have been charged in connection with the murder of her grandparents in March. Maurice Anthony Newson, 30, was charged in August with the murder of Major and Claudette Melvin, 89 and 85, who were shot to death on March 22, WPLG reported. Jelissa Hill was arrested this week and …
Police in central Louisiana are investigating a shooting Saturday morning that left a 12-year-old dead and another person wounded. Alexanderia Police released little information about the shooting, except to say they responded to the call just before 9 a.m. in the south part of the city and found the girl dead. The wounded person was …
A 65-year-old Long Island man has been arrested and charged with impersonating a social services employee to get into a Suffolk County shelter, where he molested a physically disabled patient. According to Newsday, Alfred Balcerak posed as an employee of the Suffolk Department of Social Services on September 6. He is accused of sexually abusing …
A Florida paramedic has been arrested and charged with sexual battery of an unconscious woman in his ambulance in 2021. James Melady resigned from Flagler County Fire Rescue in May after he failed a drug test, Flagler Live reported. He had been with the department since June 2018. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly told WJXT …
A nanny has been charged in connection with the death of a 3-year-old child who went missing while in her care earlier this month and was found dead in a pond. Imani Lewis, 28, reported the child missing just before 7 p.m. on September 2 in Wilson Farm Park in Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania, WCAU reported. …
A 20-year-old Texas woman and her 35-year-old boyfriend have been charged in connection with the death of a baby girl found last last month in a lake. Heather Rose Kennedy and Donald Schultz were arrested early Friday morning, the Abilene Police Department said. Both have been charged with tampering with a human corpse, and Schultz …
Remains found by a hunter on Saturday in Wisconsin have been identified as those of 3-year-old Elijah Vue, who disappeared in February. Two Rivers Police Chief Benjamin Meinnert said at a news conference Friday that the remains had been found on private property and not Girl Scout Camp Manitou-Two Rivers, as had been reported on …
An Ohio man has been charged with murder after he reported a young girl missing and she was later found dead. Sandusky Police said that Devin O’Brien called 911 at about 9 p.m. Thursday night and reported the missing girl, WOIO reported. Officers responded and found the girl dead. A preliminary investigation led to O’Brien’s …
The mother of a Georgia teenager accused of killing two teachers and two classmates in a shooting last week has apologized to the victims’ families in an open letter that also said her son “is not a monster.” Marcee Gray wrote that she would “never forgive herself for what has happened” in the letter she …
A passenger in a vehicle in Dallas that struck and killed a teenager walking to school last week has been charged with murder. Police say James Grant, 47, was arguing with the vehicle’s driver as they drove down Marsalis Avenue last Friday, KXAS reported. Grant reportedly assaulted the driver, and in the ensuing struggle, the …
