A man under investigation for allegedly luring women to rob via a popular dating app has now been charged with murder after one of his alleged victims died this week. Nashville metro police found 20-year-old Chanya Sherill lying outside the driver’s seat of her car after she crashed into a bank building on March 20. …
A suspected serial killer appeared in a Texas court on Wednesday as his trial approaches after more than 10 years behind bars. Steven Alexander Hobbs, 51, stands accused of killing Sarah Sanford and Patricia Pyatt and is a suspect in a third murder. He’s also charged with two rapes, one kidnapping, and two aggravated assaults …
Florida police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who left a 5-year-old boy in critical condition Monday night. The Florida Highway Patrol said the boy was on his bike at about 7 p.m. on the west side of Jennings, a tiny town near the Florida-Ge0rgia state line, when he was hit by a 2011 to …
Investigators say that gang involvement in Sunday’s deadly shooting has become “increasingly clear.”
South Carolina sheriff’s deputies tracked down a man who dumped a pitcher of gasoline on a woman and set her on fire by finding the store where the man bought the pitcher. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told reporters that Keitrick Stevenson, 41, poured the gasoline on the woman on March 21 and then chased …
Police in Texas have arrested a man they say shot a Montgomery County woman to death last month. Holly Vines’s ex-husband and their 8- and 12-year-old sons found her body in her garage on March 16, when the ex arrived to drop off the children. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday that it …
One of the suspects arrested in connection with Sunday morning’s mass shooting in Sacramento posted on Facebook shortly after that he’d been “hit,” although police have not indicated that is true. Another suspect, 31-year-old Daviyonne Dawson, was released on a $500,000 bail. Dawson had been charged with illegally possessing a firearm, but investigators said they don’t …
A Florida personal injury attorney has been suspended from the state Bar after she intentionally drove into four people on a sidewalk outside The Fresh Market in Stuart. Beatrice Bijoux, whose office is in Fort Lauderdale, told police that “voices in her head had told her to kill the people,” according to an arrest report …
Genetic genealogy has closed the book on another cold case, this one the “I-65 Killer” who raped and murdered three women working as clerks in motels along the interstate corridor in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s. Indiana State Police said Tuesday that Harry Edward Greenwell was responsible for the deaths of Vicki Heath, …
Police in Vermont investigating allegations of hazing — including branding and waterboarding — within a university women’s rugby team say the school is being less than cooperative. But Norwich University, a private military school in Northfield, said it is merely following federal law to protect the privacy of its students. Multiple law enforcement agencies were …
Federal prosecutors said this week they “strenuously oppose” a bid from R&B singer R. Kelly’s attorneys to delay his sentencing for sex trafficking convictions in New York. Jennifer Ann Bonjean, Kelly’s new attorney, filed last week to delay the May 4 sentencing until after his August trial in Illinois on child pornography and obstruction of …
Sacramento police arrested a third suspect in their investigation of the deadly mass shooting downtown early Sunday morning. Investigators have not, however, charged Daviyonne Dawson with anything directly related to the shooting, NBC News reported. Dawson “was seen carrying a gun in the immediate aftermath of the shooting” and later “recovered a handgun and arrested” …
