Authorities in Arkansas arrested a mother on negligent homicide charges on Thursday, months after her 9-month-old daughter reportedly choked to death in her car seat. The Sentinel-Record reported that infant Lucy Weber choked on the top buckle of her car seat, which Summer Rose Kazzee, 22, left her in the rear bedroom with the door …
A Maryland man was reportedly stabbed to death at a Popeyes on Monday night when a dispute about line cutting turned violent. Prince George’s County police said they were alerted to the incident at the restaurant chain’s Oxon Hill location at around 7 p.m. The deadly altercation reportedly began when one man jumped in front …
Two bodies found buried together at a South Texas beach last week have been identified as a missing New Hampshire couple. The Kleberg County Sheriff’s Office announced that the Nueces County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victims as 48-year-old James Butler and his wife, 46-year-old Michelle Butler. Authorities are treating the deaths as homicides, according …
The grandfather of Chloe Wiegand, a toddler girl who fell to her death aboard a cruise ship in July, has been charged with homicide. His family, however, is standing behind him. They say he would have never purposely hurt his grandchild. As CrimeOnline previously reported, San Juan Investigations Chamber Judge Jimmy Sepúlveda ruled that prosecutors …
Puerto Rican authorities have charged a grandfather with negligent homicide in the death of a toddler who fell from an 11th story window on a Caribbean cruise ship docked in San Juan this summer. San Juan Investigations Chamber Judge Jimmy Sepúlveda ruled that prosecutors had provided probable cause for the arrest of Salvatore Anello, set …
A Pennsylvania woman previously accused of kidnapping is now facing additional charges, following the death of her former boyfriend’s toddler daughter last month. Penn Live reports that 25-year-old Sharena Islam Nancy was charged with criminal homicide in connection with the death of 1-year-old Nalani Johnson, who was only a few days shy of her second …
On Wednesday, officials in Alabama confirmed the body that was discovered in a dumpster on Tuesday afternoon belongs to a toddler girl who had been missing for 10 days. In a press release issued to CrimeOnline, Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said the body found on Tuesday is Kamille McKinney. Though her cause …
An Indiana woman who plowed into three young children waiting at a bus stop last year was found guilty Friday of reckless homicide, criminal recklessness, and criminal recklessness causing bodily injury. NBC 16 reports that 24-year-old Alyssa Shepherd plowed a pickup truck into four children, killing three of them, during an early morning incident in …
Authorities in Georgia are investigating a possible homicide after a legally blind elderly woman was found dead in her home on Tuesday. A neighbor who spoke with WFXG on the condition of anonymity said he heard screams come from Elizabeth Thompson’s Augusta home the morning of her death. A police report detailed that officers were …
Two 16-year-old boys were arraigned Friday on charges of reckless homicide for the Labor Day death of an Ohio photographer who was killed by a 75-pound log pushed over a cliff at Hocking Hills State Park. Victoria Schafer, 44, was taking senior photographs for a group of students near the Old Man’s Cave section of …
The death of a 2-year-old girl whose body was found along a Minnesota highway earlier this year has been ruled a homicide, KAAL-TV reports. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced on Friday that it had completed its investigation into the death of Noelani Robinson. Authorities determined that Noelani died from blunt force trauma to …
A Georgia woman charged with shooting and killing a man who left the scene of a minor accident was granted bail for the second time Friday, after she was indicted earlier this summer on new charges. WSB reported that Hannah Renea Payne, 22, was initially released on $100,000 bond following the May 7 shooting of …
