By PAUL J. WEBER and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Investigators pursuing a suspected serial bomber in the Texas capital shifted their attention Tuesday to a FedEx shipping center near San Antonio where a package exploded on a conveyor belt in the middle of the night and caused minor injuries to a worker. …
NEW YORK (AP) — The bombs were left on porches, then by the side of the road, then at a FedEx facility. The victims were black, then Hispanic, then white. The targets were in different parts of Austin, Texas, and then in San Antonio. The seemingly zigzag work of an apparent serial bomber may be …
The chief said all of the victims have been black and that investigators are considering whether race could have factored into the attacks.
A South Carolina man accused of purchasing a gun as part of a racist plan to stage a church shooting pleaded guilty this week to being a felon in possession of a firearm. As Fox News reported, authorities say 30-year-old Benjamin McDowell confided in an undercover FBI agent, describing a desire to attack a target …
A jury in Oklahoma this week found 63-year-old Stanley Vernon Majors guilty of first-degree murder, elevated by additional charges making the 2016 shooting a hate crime. According to CNN, Majors was convicted of a number of counts related to the death of his neighbor, Khalid Jabara. During the trial, prosecutors presented evidence that the Tulsa …
At least five murders within the past year and a half in the U.S. have been linked to people reportedly associated with a violent neo-Nazi group. Samuel Woodward As CrimeOnline previously reported, three people said that Samuel Woodward (pictured right), the man accused of stabbing Ivy League student Blaze Bernstein 20 times, was a member …
The daughter of former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke appeared in court Thursday, one day after she was arrested on suspicion of assault stemming from an incident at a New York City restaurant on New Year’s Eve. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jacqueline Kent Cooke was arrested Wednesday after allegedly engaging in an antisemitic verbal …
“Your language is disgusting,” the woman says to the student
Authorities charged a white student at the University of Maryland with a hate crime after police said he fatally stabbed a black student, according to the Washington Post. The charges come after investigators reportedly reviewed Sean Urbanski’s phone and social media activity. A grand jury handed down the additional charge as Urbanski, 22, was already charged …
By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER, Associated Press HOUSTON, Mo. (AP) — Some of Ally Lee Steinfeld’s burned remains were found in a bag in a rural southern Missouri chicken coop. Authorities say both of the transgender teen’s eyes had been gouged out and she had been stabbed in the genitals. As questions swirl about why …
“I feel confident that this killer would have killed again”: Police Chief
The Alabama resident who spent years terrorizing his neighbors was finally sentenced to prison — and he may never get out
