Tennessee mom charged with shooting death of 5-year-old daughter
Murder
Robin Howington tried to blame her toddler son for the shooting
Juveniles
July 9, 2020
13-year-old boy shoots and kills 9-year-old brother during game of ‘cops and robbers’
A 13-year-old boy in Pennsylvania has been charged as an adult in the shooting death of his 9-year-old brother, according to the Chambersburg Public Opinion. Brayden Leroy Wright told police he and his brother were in the living room of their Waynesboro home early Wednesday morning when he decided he wanted to play “cops and …
Court
July 9, 2020
‘Takes a heck of lot of oxygen to talk,’ Derek Chauvin tells George Floyd as he repeatedly says he can’t breathe: Transcripts
As George Floyd struggled to breathe, repeatedly telling the three Minneapolis police officers pinning him down that he was claustrophobic and felt like he was about to die, one officer chided him that he was using “a heck of a lot of oxygen” to talk, body cam transcripts reveal. Derek Chauvin, the fired officer charged …
Suicide
July 9, 2020
10-year-old Baraboo girl died from suicide, preliminary autopsy results say
Preliminary autopsy results say that Kodie Dutcher, the 10-year-old girl who went missing from her Wisconsin home on Monday, died from “pharmacologic suicide,” the Baraboo Police Department said Thursday. The autopsy, conducted Wednesday, revealed no signs of foul play or abuse, police said. Toxicology results will be back in about two weeks, and the full …
Murder
July 8, 2020
Suspect tries to flee disguised as his sister; missing man’s body found under his floorboards
An Alaska man was indicted last last month for the murder of a man who had been missing for five years — and whose body was found beneath the floorboards of the man now charged with his death, the Alaska Department of Public Safety says. Jay Osmond Gardner, 55, had long been a suspect in …
Heroes
July 8, 2020
SEE IT: Former wide receiver makes spectacular catch of 3-year-old thrown from fatal apartment fire
Other neighbors rescued the boy’s 8-year-old sister, but sadly their mother succombed
Murder
July 8, 2020
Body cam transcripts reveal frightened and nervous George Floyd during police encounter
Transcripts of body camera recordings during the arrest and killing of George Floyd reveal the 46-year-old Black man was nervous and scared, afraid the police officers who ordered him out of the car were going to shoot him. Floyd appeared to have been startled when then-Officer Thomas Lane approached and ordered him to show his …
Coronavirus
July 8, 2020
Feds file criminal charges against ‘church’ selling ‘miracle cure’ for coronavirus
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced criminal charges against a Florida man and his three sons over their marketing of a toxic bleach as a miracle cure for everything from Alzheimer’s to multiple sclerosis, including COVID-19. Mark Grenon, 62; Jonathan Grenon, 34; Jordan Grenon, 26; and Joseph Grenon, 32; have been charged with conspiracy to defraud …
Shooting
July 7, 2020
Police identify father, 11-year-old daughter killed by neighbor in ‘dangerous dog’ dispute
Police in Florida on Tuesday identified the victims and suspect in a tragic shooting that left three people — including an 11-year-old girl — dead. Port St Lucie police said Guy Alexander Hansman, 55, and his daughter, Harper Hansman, were shot and killed by their neighbor, 82-year-old Ronald Delserro, after a Monday court hearing that …
Weird Crime
July 7, 2020
Kentucky dad loses arm-wrestling matches to his son, ends up in 7 1/2-hour police standoff
A Kentucky man couldn’t handle losing repeated arm wrestling matches to his juvenile son, so he got into a fight with the boy, fired two gunshots into the ceiling as his son went upstairs, and held law enforcement in a 7 1/2-hour stand-off. The son and another person who had been inside the Florence home …
Murder
July 7, 2020
Suspect in Atlanta 8-year-old girl’s fatal shooting carried AR-15: Police video
Atlanta police released video Tuesday of a suspect in the fatal shooting over the weekend of an 8-year-old girl near the site of the fatal police shooting that killed Rayshard Brooks in May. The video shows a man in a white t-shirt carrying an AR-15. Atlanta Police Lt Pete Malecki said investigators “a minimum of …
Shooting
July 7, 2020
Shotgun-wielding intruder killed at Milwaukee VA hospital
Police shot and killed a man with a shotgun who tried to enter Milwaukee’s VA hospital Monday night, the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal reported. Officials said the man, who has not yet been identified, was stopped by VA police outside the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center’s east entrance shortly after 8:30 p.m. When police told …