A 2-year-old Michigan boy is recovering after he found a babysitters loaded, unsecured handgun and shot himself in the stomach. Warren Police said they were called to the home shortly after 6 p.m. on Saturday and found the toddler suffering from a gunshot wound. He was rushed to an area hospital, where he was listed …
A defense attorney for the man accused of being the Long Island serial killer says he wants the cases against his client tried separately. Rex Heuermann — charged with six murders, including the so-called “Gilgo 4” — appeared for a status hearing this week before State Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei, Newsday reported. Michael J. …
A Pennsylvania man convicted in May on charges of aggravated manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child in the death of his 6-year-old son was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison. The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that Christopher Gregor, 32, will be required to serve 85 percent of the …
A Pennsylvania man convicted in May of luring his girlfriend across the country and killing her in the Nevada desert was sentenced this week to life in prison. John Matthew Chapman was found guilty at the end of an eight-day trial of one count of kidnapping resulting in death in the death of 33-year-old Jaime …
An Indiana couple has been charged with abandoning a 13-year-old boy they had adopted but later decided they no longer wanted to care for him. Court documents said the 13-year-old was the oldest child of Richard and Patricia Heitz, WNDU reported. For the past six months, the documents say, the parents claim the boy was …
A Wisconsin man who punched another man in the head over his “sinful” tattoos was found guilty Thursday of felony murder. The jury deliberated for about 12 hours before finding Keven Sehmer, 65, guilty in the death of Josh Davies, who was out with his wife for a date night on June 17, 2023, WITI …
An Oklahoma couple has been charged with murder after they brought their 7-year-old daughter to a Midwest City hospital, dead and weighing just 25 pounds. Police were called to Saint Anthony’s Midwest Hospital Friday afternoon after Anthony Yokno, 38, and Lisa Mitchell, 30, brought the child in. Mitchell was carrying the child in a blanket, …
A Colorado college professor was formally charged on Friday with first degree murder in the death of his wife, who was found dead in their Denver home alongside the couple’s 2-month-old daughter. The Denver Officer of the Medical Examiner said on Friday that 44-year-old Seorin Kim died from blunt force trauma, KMGH reported. The manner …
Three people, including a Florida deputy sheriff, were killed in what the local sheriff called an ambush Friday night in Lake County. The slain deputy was identified as Master Deputy Sheriff Bradley Michael Link, 28, who came to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office in 2019 after serving two years with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. …
Prosecutors in the murder trial of Karen Read have admitted in a new court filing on Friday that four jurors have contacted them concurring with a defense filing that the jury acquitted Read of murder and leaving the scene of a fatal crash at trial last month and deadlocked on one other charge. In the …
The older brother of a Missouri toddler who died after a fall from an 8th story window earlier this week was himself found wandering alone along a busy road a week before. Destiny Randle and Moses Bass, the parents of the 3-year-old boy who fell from the window of their apartment at Independence Towers, were …
An Arizona detective has been charged with second degree murder in the death of his wife at their home in Mesa this week. When he was finally found driving his wife’s car and taken into custody, John C. Byrd III told investigators that during a heated argument with his wife early Wednesday morning, “a switch …
