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School Crimes
February 9, 2023
Teen Girl Takes Own Life a Day After Her Videotaped School Beating Is Posted Online
Dozens of central New Jersey high school students walked out this week in a statement of solidarity and support for the family of a classmate who took her life a day after she was beaten up in a school hallway and video of the incident was posted online. News 12 New Jersey said that three …
Celebrity
February 9, 2023
Halyna Hutchins’ Family Sues Alec Baldwin Over Fatal Movie Set Shooting
The Ukrainian family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has engaged high-profile American attorney Gloria Allred to sue actor Alec Baldwin for Hutchins’ fatal shooting on the New Mexico set of the movie “Rust” in October 2021. Hutchins was killed during a rehearsal for the film when a prop gun in Baldwin’s hands, loaded with live ammunition, …
Missing
February 9, 2023
Missing New Jersey Kindergarten Teacher Found Dead in Shallow Grave
A missing New Jersey kindergarten teacher has been found dead and buried in a shallow grave in Kearny. Police said Luz Hernandez, 33, was reported missing on Monday when she failed to show up for her job at BelovED Community Charter School, WNYW reports. Investigators conducted a welfare check at her Jersey City home and …
Murder
February 9, 2023
Car Theft Victim Chases Thieves, Shoots and Kills 12-Year-Old Behind the Wheel
A Colorado man tracked his stolen car with an app, then shot and killed a 12-year-old boy behind the wheel on Sunday. Denver police said the man, who has not been arrested, exchanged gunfire with at least one person inside the vehicle, WAFB reported. The 12-year-old drove off after the shooting and was found with …
Terror
February 9, 2023
Georgia Pair Stop School Bus Loaded With Children, Draw Gun
Two people were arrested this week after they allegedly stopped a Georgia school bus loaded with elementary school students and pulled a gun. Samantha Lynn Connelly, 33, and Tarrell Lashawn Nelson, 30, face multiple charges relating to the incident, although it’s unclear why they did what they did, WSB reported. Investigators said Connelly blocked the …
child endangerment
February 9, 2023
Mom Arrested After Kindergartener Daughter Writes School Story About Her Shooting at Dad
‘Father hit mother in the eye’ before the shooting, the little girl’s story said, but the father was not arrested.
Missing
February 8, 2023
Missing Georgia Teen Found Dead 5 Months After Disappearing On Her Way Home
Human remains found Monday in Georgia have been identified as a 16-year-old girl missing since last July. Susana Morales texted her mother at about 9:40 p.m. on July 26 to say she was on her way home, but she never made it, WAGA reported. Her phone confirmed she was walking in that direction between 10:07 …
Kidnapping
February 8, 2023
Convicted Sex Offender Charged With Kidnapping, Raping Arizona Teen
A Utah man has been arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and rape after a missing teenage girl from Arizona was found in his basement. Jordan Sorensen, 26, was arrested last week on a probation violation pending an investigation, KNXV reports. New charging document filed in the case this week say Sorenson made contact with …
Shooting
February 8, 2023
Baby Girl, Dad Among Dead in North Carolina Triple Shooting
Police in North Carolina a shooting that killed a 6-month-old girl, her father, and another man on Tuesday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, investigators foundTerrance Jaiquann Melvin, 26, and Johnathan Alexander McMillian, 33, dead inside a Fayetteville home at about 8:30 p.m. The baby girl was also found with multiple gunshot wounds and was rushed to …
Court
February 8, 2023
Minnesota Mom Found GUILTY of Killing 6-Year-Old Son With 9 Shotgun Blasts
A Minnesota jury took barely an hour to find a 28-year-old mother guilty of murder in the shooting death of her 6-year-old son. Julissa Thaler was accused of shooting Eli Hart with a shotgun nine times as she drove around the west side of Minneapolis last May. Prosecutor Dan Allard said during closing arguments that …