A Vermont teenager pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to an attempted murder charge after prosecutors said he purposefully struck a man with his car. Surveillance video shows 18-year-old Hamza Velic striking Oliver Reed with the car, causing Reed to flip over Velic’s car as his pants flew off, WCAX reported. Police said that Velic the …
The man who attacked a Las Vegas judge last week now faces 13 news charges, including attempted murder, battery on a protected person, and disregarding safety of people and property. Three-times felon Deobra Redden, 30, dove over Clark County District Judge Mary Kay Holthus’s bench on January 3 as the 62-year-old magistrate was about to …
A Massachusetts woman had been charged with attempted murder by investigators who claim someone claiming to be a famous soap opera star urged her to kill her husband. Police said that Nicole Heath called on December 3 to say she was worried that her mother may have poisoned her father, Paul Doucette, who was hospitalized …
A 63-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison for the attempted murder of his estranged wife in 2019. Patrick O’Brien was caught on a neighbor’s security camera chasing his wife from their home on the neighbor’s back patio on December 21, 2019, and stabbing her in the chest, the Will …
A Utah man was charged this week with trying to kill his terminally ill wife two years ago “to ease her suffering.” Arenda Lee McCulla, 47, died the following day from breast cancer, KSL reported. McCulla was in hospice care at the time. Six family members say that on December 20, 2021, DeWayne McCulla, 45, …
A former airline pilot who was arrested last month for allegedly tried to shut off the engines during a plane flight to California is speaking out about the ordeal. Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph David Emerson, 44, was off duty but approved to be in the cockpit during the Horizon Air flight that departed from Washington …
A New York mother has been charged with with poisoning her 4-year-old daughter with “life-threatening levels” of seizure meds. Authorities say they believe Tajahnae Brown, 23, suffers from Munchausen’s syndrone by proxy, in which someone induces or invents illness in someone in their care for attention. Prosecutors say Brown made 190 trips to medical providers …
A Florida couple have been arrested after they met a man on social media, beat him, robbed him, cut his throat and tossed him off a bridge into the Escambia River. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said the victim survived the ordeal and swam to shore, where he flagged down a deputy and told his …
An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot told police he tried to pull the handles that would have activated a Horizon Air flight’s fire suppression system and shut down the plane’s engines Sunday afternoon because he thought he was dreaming and wanted to wake up. Joseph David Emerson, 44, also told police he’d taken psychedelic mushrooms 48 …
An off-duty pilot is facing dozens of counts of attempted murder after he allegedly tried to shut off a plane’s engines during a flight this weekend, the Associated Press reports. Joseph David Emerson, 44, is charged with 83 counts of attempted murder in connection with the incident on Sunday afternoon. Authorities say Emerson was seated in …
An off-duty airline pilot aboard a California-bound plane on Sunday allegedly tried to shut off the engines mid-flight. KATU reported that the Horizon Air flight was traveling from Washington to California, but it was diverted to Portland, Oregon, following the incident. Alaska Airlines officials said their pilot Joseph David Emerson, 44, was approved to be …
A 39-year-old rock climber was arrested Thursday and charged with planning a shooting attack on a climbing event at a central Oregon state park this weekend. Portland Police Bureau detectives notified Dechutes County deputies about the potential attack on Monday, identifying Portland resident Samson Zebturiah Garner as the suspect, the Dechutes County Sheriff’s Office said. …
