Raleigh Shooting Victims Were Going About Their Day When Bullets Struck
Mass shooting
One of the victims was the 15-year-old suspect’s older brother.
Court
October 14, 2022
Parkland School Shooting Juror Says She Felt Threatened by Another Juror During Deliberations
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is investigating a juror in the penalty phase of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s trial called the Office of the State Attorney to say she felt threatened by a fellow juror during deliberations. Prosecutors filed a motion asking the court to authorize the sheriff’s office to interview the juror who felt …
Shooting
October 14, 2022
Connecticut Cop Killer Was ‘Always Drinking,’ Loved Guns: Report
The Connecticut man who shot three police officers responding to a domestic call, killing two of them, was a hard-drinking, gun-loving “teddy bear,” neighbors say. Investigators think Nicholas Brutcher, 35, likely lured the officers to his home with a fake call Wednesday night because he opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle when they arrived, as …
Murder
October 14, 2022
Hubby Kills Wife With Shotgun Blast at Her Dog Kennel: Cops
A 56-year-old Iowa man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife at her dog kennel business over the weekend. Angela Prichard, 55, was found dead on Saturday, and Christopher Eugene Prichard was arrested the following morning on warrants for violating a protective order, the Iowa Department of Public Safety …
Mass shooting
October 14, 2022
Teen Suspect Kills 5, Wounds 2 in North Carolina Neighborhood Mass Shooting
A 15-year-old suspect is hospitalized in critical condition after a mass shooting in a bucolic residential neighborhood bordering the Neuse River Greenway of east Raleigh. Five people, including an off-duty police officer and a 16-year-old boy, were killed in the shooting, and two others were wounded, including another police officer who was treated and released. …
Mass shooting
October 13, 2022
Update: 5 Dead, Including Off-Duty Cop, as Camouflaged Shooter Opens Fire in Raleigh Neighborhood
Update: The suspect is in custody. He is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. It’s not known if they were self-inflicted. Original story: Five people were shot and killed by a gunman Thursday in a Raleigh neighborhood perched along the Neuse River Greenway in the east of the North Carolina capital. One of the dead was an …
Accident
October 13, 2022
Kiely Rodni: Coroner Rules Teen’s Death Was Accidental Drowning
Kiely Rodni, a 16-year-old girl who went missing after a large party by a California lake in August, died accidentally by drowning. The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office Coroner made the ruling after completing an autopsy and other tests, KRNV reported. “This ruling is based on the pathologist’s finding that her death was the result of …
Famous Murder Cases
October 13, 2022
Convicted Murderer Chris Watts Was ‘Withdrawn and Angry’ In Weeks Before He Killed His Family, Coworker Says
A former coworker of convicted murderer Chris Watts says that he was clearly unhappy in the weeks before the killed his pregnant wife and two young daughters and stashed their bodies on the oil field where he worked. “Things changed; he changed,” Brian Spence, a contractor who worked with Watts for several years at Andarko …
Heroes
October 13, 2022
Pregnant Baltimore County Firefighter Jumps in to Assist at Car Accident, Gives Birth Less Than 24 Hours Later
Baltimore County firefighter Megan Warfield, who also volunteers for Bowleys Quarters Fire and Rescue, had been on administrative awaiting the birth of her third child earlier this month when she was involved in multi-car collision. She and her mother were heading home on October 4 after hosting an annual golf tournament in memory of her …
Road Rage
October 13, 2022
Road Raging Dads Shoot Each Other’s Daughters in Highway ‘Cat and Mouse Game’
Two fathers are in jail after playing a “cat and mouse game” on a Florida highway before opening fire — and shooting each other’s daughters. A 5-year-old girl was shot in the leg, and a 14-year-old girl was hit in the back on US 1 in Callahan just after 6 p.m., Nassau County Sheriff Bill …
Assault
October 13, 2022
Texas Man Shoots Ex-Girlfriend’s Mother, Locks Teen in Shed Over Eviction
Texas authorities have arrested a man of shooting his ex-girlfriend’s mother and tying up her brother in a shed after the mother asked him to move out of her home. James Cody Sweetman, 29, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful restraint after his arrest on Wednesday for the October 4 …
Child Abuse
October 13, 2022
Georgia Man Breaks 3-Month-Old Girl’s Neck, Tries to Smother Her Twin: Reports
A 22-year-old man in northwest Georgia was arrested this week and charged with breaking a 3-month-old girl’s neck and trying to smother her twin sister. Robert Terrell Dubose Jr is charged with aggravated assault and cruelty to children, according to the Coosa Valley News and jail records. According to a warrant filed in the case, …