A New Jersey man killed himself rather than be arrested for murder after a seven-hour standoff with police in Toms River on Friday. Maxwell Johnston, 35, was wanted for the murder of 25-year-old Gabriella Caroleo in Manchester Township on June 27. After he shot himself in the head, a woman inside the home was charged …
An investigation is underway in Minnesota after a woman and her adult son were found dead on Friday in a suspected murder-suicide. KTTC reported that the 54-year-old woman and her 30-year-old son were found dead at the son’s Rochester apartment. The bodies are believed to have been there for some time, though a specific time …
An investigation is underway in Massachusetts after three adults were found dead in a home on Tuesday in an apparent case of murder-suicide. WWLP reported that a woman and two men were found deceased in a Wilbraham home by someone with access to the residence. Though details are scarce, District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said the …
Florida police have identified the man who allegedly shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and her 4-year-old son at a bank last week. Odalys Bancroft, 43, was driving in a minivan with her son, Theofore Couto, in the backseat when she pulled up to an ATM at Chase Bank in West Kendall. It was then that …
A 16-year-old Massachusetts girl was kidnapped and murdered Thursday by her stepfather, who was out on bond for raping her three years earlier and had a restraining order against him. Juliana Santana, 49, shot himself have shooting the girl, who has been identified by family as Christina. Police found him and his victim after the …
A suspect killed a man and a woman inside a Cleveland home Wednesday and then held police at bay for 15 hours before he killed himself. The suspect, 57-year-old Norris Richardson, called 911 at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and told dispatchers he had critically injured two people and threatened suicide, WOIO reported. A SWAT team …
A North Carolina man fatally shot a woman and a juvenile and wounded two more juveniles before fleeing the scene and shooting himself as police approached. Caswell County deputies were called to the scene at about 6 p.m. on Saturday, WXII reported. They found the adult victim, identified as 37-year-old Danielle Hines, and one child …
A 34-year-old Utah man shot his 6-year-old son to death and then killed himself in Salt Lake City on Saturday. Police said they were contacted at about 10:30 a.m. about a possible death, KUTV reported, although they did not say who contacted them. Officers found Samuel Owen and the young boy, whose name won’t be …
Georgia authorities have identified a man and three children found dead in a park early Wednesday morning in an apparent murder suicide. The man was 56-year-old Jose Plasencia, and he was the ex-partner of the mother of the three children but not their father, WXIA reported. The children were identified as Arianny Rodriguez, 13; Carlos …
A Texas mother who killed herself and her toddler son in March texted her ex-husband to “say goodbye to your son” before the nurder-suicide in a Bexar County park. Authorities also found a 21-second recording on Savannah Kriger’s phone showing her and son Kaiden sitting in the drainage ditch at Tom Slick Park where their …
A 10-year-old Oklahoma boy awoke Monday morning to find his parents and three brothers dead from a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father. Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Gary Knight said the child called 911 at about 9:30 a.m. and told a dispatcher that “everyone inside the home appeared to be dead.” “Investigators determined that sometime overnight, …
A 17-year-old boy shot and killed a 14-year-old girl and then himself at a house where he was dog-sitting Saturday evening. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said that Hector Pfeiffer invited three other teens — two girls and an 18-year-old man — to the home of 26-year-old Derek Pobuta, where he was staying to watch …
