Nikolas Cruz, charged in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is expected to plead guilty to all counts against him. Cruz, now 23, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder for the February 14, 2018, shooting. WSVN reported that Cruz’s attorneys …
A 16-year-old New York boy was sentenced Thursday to nine years to life in prison for his role in the murder of 18-year-old Barnard student Tessa Majors in 2019. Luchiano Lewis, who was 14 when he and two other teens attempted to rob Majors in Morningside Park, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery …
With Teton County, Wyoming, Coroner Brent Blue further explaining that Gabby Petito was strangled by hands around her neck, experts are sounding in on the brutality of the killing. “It’s very up close and personal, and almost like anger or rage-filled toward that one person,” forensic pathologist Dr Priya Banerjee, who reviewed Petito’s autopsy, told …
Gabby Petito was strangled by human hands around her neck, the coroner who performed her autopsy said on Wednesday. Teton County, Wyoming, Coroner Brent Blue announced Tuesday that the cause of Petito’s death was strangulation, and a memo from his office further said she died by “manual strangulation/throttling.” “Throttling generally means that it was done …
A suspect wearing all dark clothing and a blue mask shot and killed a Colorado postal worker Wednesday afternoon. Longmont Police said the victim was shot multiple times and died at the scene, according to KUSA. He has not been identified. The suspect, wearing a hoodie, was seen running from the area, but officers and …
Central Florida police have arrested a father whose toddler found his loaded handgun in August and used it to shoot his girlfriend — the boy’s mother — while she was on a work-related Zoom call. Veondre Avery, 22, was arrested Tuesday and appeared in court on Wednesday, charged with negligent manslaughter and unsafe storage of …
Teton County, Wyoming, Coroner Brent Blue has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday to talk about Gabby Petito’s autopsy. Blue’s preliminary report on September 21 confirmed Petito’s identity and said the manner of death was homicide but withheld the cause of death for the final report. Petito’s body was found two days earlier, in a …
Brother Alex Cox, who later shot to death his sister’s fourth husband, went to jail for assaulting Joe Ryan with a Taser in 2007.
A US Navy engineer and his wife have been busted trying to sell US nuclear secrets to a foreign operative who turned out to be an FBI agent. Jonathan Toebbe, 42, allegedly filled a plastic-coated SD card with details about Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines and hid the digital secrets in a peanut butter sandwich, according …
Fort Hood officials are looking for a missing soldier who was last seen leaving the Texas post Thursday afternoon. Pfc. Jennifer Sewell was seen leaving her on-post barracks at about 4 p.m. Thursday, the Fort Hood Directorate of Emergency Services said, according to NBC News. She was reported missing when she didn’t report to work …
An upstate New York woman stands accused of locking her boyfriend’s 7-year-old son in a bedroom until he starved to death. Leticia Bravo, 39, carried the “lifeless body” of Peter Cuacuas to St Luke’s Hospital in Newburgh at 8 a.m. on February 10, 2021. He weighed just 37 pounds. An autopsy determined the boy died …
Rhode Island police spent the day trying to identify a little boy found near an Interstate entrance in Pawtucket, but by early Sunday evening, they had arrested the woman who reported seeing the child. Daniella Praca, 22, was charged with filing a false police report and will be arraigned on Monday, Pawtucket Police said. “Upon …
