A California inmate believed to have beaten two other inmates to death with a cane wrote a San Jose newspaper to confess to the killings, saying he warned prison officials that he would attack an inmate soon if he wasn’t transferred to another facility. Jonathan Watson, 41, has not been charged in the deaths of …
Unknown gunmen opened fire at least two hookah bars in the German city of Hanau Wednesday night, killing eight people and wounding several others. The New York Times, citing German public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, said the suspects first opened fire at a shisha bar in the center of the city, about 15 miles east of …
One firefighter is dead and another is unaccounted for after a fire destroyed the Porterville Public Library in Porterville, California, Tuesday night. And police have arrested two 13-year-olds they believe started the blaze. The Porterville Fire Department said Fire Captain Ramon “Ray” Figueroa, 35, died battling the fire, and Patrick Jones, 25, was missing. Figueroa …
A Finkelstein Memorial Library patron pulled out a knife on Tuesday and stabbed to death a security guard who had asked him to turn down his music, which he was listening to through earphones, CBS New York reported. The incident took place at about 2 p.m., police said, on the third floor. When officers arrived, …
Texas police locked up a 25-year-old man Tuesday after he allegedly stabbed a 5-year-old girl multiple times while she was playing in the play area of a northeast El Paso McDonald’s. El Paso police on Wednesday identified Isaac Dorfman as the suspect they captured about 90 minutes later at a nearby motel not far from …
A North Carolina man has been charged with kidnapping and assault after a woman reported she was kicked, punched, choked, and bitten, leaving her with broken ribs and a broken spine. Benny Ray Garrett, Jr., 47, told deputies he manhandled and “roughed up” the woman, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department said, according to the Statesville …
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A Mississippi man accused of killing eight people in a 2017 shooting spree went on trial this weekend, with his defense attorney telling a jury in opening statements that Cory Godbolt “just snapped” at the prospects of his daughter staying where he believed she had been molested, the Clarion-Ledger reported. Godbolt, 37, opened fire when …
North Carolina police apprehended a 17-year-old boy suspected of killing his mother and younger brother when he was caught shoplifting at a Target store in Durham, the Fauquier County, Virginia, Sheriff’s Department said Sunday. Levi Norwood fled his home in Midland, Virginia, after allegedly shooting and killing Jennifer Norwood, 34, and Wyatt Norwood, 6, and …
A south Florida man was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance on Saturday after his arrest for slashing his 10-year-old daughter and 17-year-old stepdaughter with a machete, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. Dennis Anthony Reid, 47, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated child …
A 17-year-old Virginia boy believed to have shot and killed his mother and younger brother and wounded his father has been captured in North Carolina, the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Department said late Saturday. The sheriff’s department said Levi Norwood was caught shoplifting at a store in North Carolina, and the red Toyota Camry he was …
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Department escorted the body of 6-year-old Faye Swetlik home on Saturday, traveling 110 miles along Interstate 26 from Charleston to Cayce, South Carolina, in a solemn and dignified procession for a little girl taken long before her time, WLTX reported. Faye’s body was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina …
