A 6-year-old South Carolina boy was killed early Sunday morning when he was hit by a car while he was walking alone along an east Columbia road. Kayden Valdez was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, The State reported. An autopsy revealed he died from multiple trauma from the collision. The …
An alleged trespasser held South Carolina police at bay for nearly five hours on Saturday — only for detectives to find a body in the backyard after the suspect surrendered. York County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home on Tom Barber Road south of Rock Hill. The trespasser was identified as Prince Demario Barber, …
A 25-year-old Chicago man was ordered held without bail this week for the June murders of his girlfriend, her mother, and her sister — apparently because his girlfriend wasn’t feeling well and wouldn’t cook for him or braid his hair. Shonta Harris, 24, and John Matthews had a 4-month-old son together, although they lived in …
Police in central Georgia have arrested a man for a triple murder at a Macon boarding house Saturday night, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies along with the US Marshals Southeast Fugitive Task Force found Ronald Green Jr., 51, at a motel in north Macon, several miles from the crime scene on the east …
Mexican authorities have arrested a man in connection with the murders of a Mormon family a year ago in Sonora state, according to the Mexican Attorney General’s Office. Three woman and six children were killed in the November 4, 2019, attack that the Mexican Public Security Ministry believes was perpetrated by an organized crime group, …
Human remains found in a rural western Missouri bean field this week are those of woman who’s been missing for almost a year. Nicole Mallatt was reported missing on November 29, 2019, and was last seen three days earlier near the Butler home she shared with her boyfriend, KCTV reported. Nine days later, her phone, …
A Florida fire captain died earlier this week when he was shot by a friend who was displaying a gun he planned to give the fireman. Jay Rind, 63, has been charged with manslaughter and improper exhibition of a firearm in the death of James Gilliard, 48, the Palm Beach Post reports. In court on …
A New Mexico woman was arrested in Florida this week and charged with the murder of her grandfather, apparently because she wanted his lake house, investigators said, according to KRQE. According to New Mexico State Police, the body of AJ Harden, 83, was found in a tool box dumped into a trash pit behind a …
A Virginia surgical technician shot and killed his wife and then himself Halloween night, just days after she had handed him separation papers, Now, the couple’s 24-year-old daughter and her husband have two high school students to look after while coming to terms with the tragic deaths. “My father took my mom’s life simply because …
South Dakota police issued an endangered missing advisory Friday for a Sioux Falls girl who disappeared Thursday morning, the Argus Leader reports. Nakia Jackson, 11, walked out of her home at about 6:30 a.m. after an argument, Lt Terrance Matia said. She was not appropriately dressed for the weather and may have been picked up …
A 63-year-old Arizona man is dead this week after another man thought he was spray-painting graffiti on a wall, KVOA reported. Robert M. Norwood was painting the wall of his Tucson home late Tuesday afternoon when John Francis Hodson, 53, drove by. Thinking Norwood was vandalizing the property, Hodson stopped and confronted him. The two …
An Illinois woman whose body was found earlier this week in a forest preserve in a south Chicago suburb was strangled, an autopsy revealed Thursday. Vanessa Ceja-Ramirez, 22, was last seen Monday afternoon when she was walking with her mother in the Midlothian Meadows preserve, the Chicago Tribune reported. The two separated, with Ceja-Ramirez telling …
