A 24-year-old Florida man has been charged with the stabbing death of his mother over the weekend. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said it was called to a home Saturday afternoon to assist a “medical situation” with Jacksonville Fire and Rescue, WJXT reported. They found Lilian Ochoa-Menjivar, 55, suffering from multiple stab wounds. She was pronounced …
Police in New York say the shooting death of social media influencer Ariela Mejia-Polanco last week was a targeted killing. According to USA Today, investigators have confirmed that the 33-year-old Mejia-Polanco — known as Ariiela La Langosta on her popular Instagram account — died from gunshot wounds and she was “likely targeted for violence and …
The ex-wife of a California doctor gunned down outside his clinic in 2024 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the doctor’s ex-wife, who is already behind bars awaiting trial in connection with this death. The suit, filed on behalf of Hamid Mirshojae’s widow, Ghazal Simorgh, and their 1-year-old child, names four other people connected …
A 24-year-old Florida woman was arrested last week for a fatal hit-and-run earlier this month in Lakeland. Aliya Cruz was arrested on Friday and charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said a 911 caller reported a woman lying in the middle of …
Ohio authorities say they expect to charge an Amish mother with murder in the death of her 4-year-old son, who was found dead in a Tuscarawas County lake over the weekend. The woman’s husband, identified as Marcus Miller, was also found dead in Atwood Lake, but authorities say he died in a separate incident not …
A father and his 4-year-old son were found dead in an eastern Ohio lake over the weekend after their mother crashed a golf cart — carrying three other children — into the water. It’s not clear from Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office releases how exactly the two incidents are connected. According to the sheriff’s office, the …
A Florida mother was arrested last week after her children’s father dropped the kids off at a “filthy” Miami Beach home filled with “old food and dirty dishes scattered throughout, with flies and insects.” Miriam Shvetz, 34, was not home, and the children were alone, WPLG said. Shvetz’s ex-husband called police after the kids, ages …
A California fire captain is behind bars, accused of gunning down his girlfriend and her young son at his home last week. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said it was called to Darin McFarlin’s home in Cameron Park at about 9 p.m. on Thursday and found a woman, later identified as 29-year-old Marissa N. …
A man accused of taking a missing Iowa teen to North Carolina last weekend now faces charges in two states. John Johnson, 25, was initially arrested in Reidsville, North Carolina, after authorities found the missing 15-year-old girl there, WHO reported. She was reunited with her family and Johnson was charged with sexual exploitation of a …
A 16-year-old Arizona high school student has been charged with second-degree murder after he stabbed a fellow student to death with a pocket knife in class in front of other students. The Phoenix Police Department said that Chris Aguilar stabbed Michael Montoya II, also 16, with a 4-inch folding pocketknife then ran out of the …
An Oklahoma mother and stepfather have been charged with child neglect after their 11-year-old daughter gave birth over the weekend. Muskogee County Assistant District Attorney Janet Hutson said that Dustin and Cherie Walker were being held on $100,000 bonds each and that she anticipates “filing additional charges and amending that information shortly,” KJRH reported. Hutson …
Florida authorities this week released video they’d found in their investigation of the death of Giovanni Pelletier. Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells recapped the teen’s texts and travels in the time before his disappearance. Pelletier, 18, disappeared on August 1 after getting out of a vehicle driven by a cousin on Interstate 75 near State …
