A Pennsylvania father was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, after confessing in court to abusing and starving his son to death in 2020. PennLive.com reported that Scott Schollenberger Jr., 43, pleaded guilty to criminal homicide, endangering the welfare of a child, and conspiracy on both counts. On May 26, 2020, the man’s son, …
Authorities in Florida have released the autopsy and forensic reports for Brian Laundrie, who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a Florida nature reserve this fall. When Laundrie, 23, was found dead of an apparent suicide, police had been searching for him in connection to the death of his …
A 26-year-old University of Utah student has been charged with injecting a lethal dose of heroin into his girlfriend at Salt Lake City hotel last week. Court records say Haoyu Wang emailed the university’s police department, telling them he’d injected both his girlfriend and himself with drugs and that they’d both be dead by the …
An Ohio mother is accused of killing her young daughter on Saturday, but police have released limited details about what happened or why, WOIO-TV reports. Around 6:30 p.m., emergency crews responded to an apartment building in Bedford Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, and found a 5-year-old girl dead on the floor of a bathroom, according to …
A 3-year-old Alabama boy died Friday afternoon after what Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed called “a senseless act of gun-related violence.” Police responded at about 1:45 p.m. to an intersection just a few blocks from the Alabama State Capitol in downtown Montgomery — although they believe the shooting took place a few blocks north of that …
Investigators in Arizona have charged a Phoenix man with the fatal shooting of a beloved member of Scottsdale’s Special Olympics Team earlier this week. John Merryman, 38, was arrested at his home overnight Friday and charged with murder in the death of 59-year-old Scott Harkness, who was found on the side of a road about …
A Pennsylvania man allegedly murdered his former girlfriend and then dismembered and beheaded her body with a machete, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Around 4:15 a.m. Friday, a neighbor called authorities to report screaming at an apartment building in Clifton Heights, a suburb of Philadelphia. Arriving officers initially knocked on the home’s front door, but no …
A 21-year-old Chicago man shot and killed the 12-year-old brother of his friend last month after the boy teased him about his girlfriend. Jaran Hughes, 21, was ordered held without bond on Wednesday. He’s been charged with murder in the January 2 death of Marcel Wilson as the boy was playing video games with his …
A Texas man is behind bars after allegedly beating his sister with a baseball bat on February 2, at his El Paso home. El Paso police arrested 32-year-old Jose Manuel Guzman and charged him with murder in connection with the death of an unnamed woman, said to be his “long lost” sister. During a Wednesday …
A 23-year-old woman was found dead in her apartment, and police have named her fiance as the prime suspect in her apparent murder. As WKRN reports, 23-year old Lyndzy Bounds was found fatally shot in her Cookeville, Tennessee, home on Sunday afternoon after officers responded to a welfare check request. It is unclear who requested …
A 16-year-old Chicago boy on electronic monitoring carjacked a rideshare driver this week and drove the SUV to another neighborhood, where he pulled up to a 15-year-old boy and shot him 10 times, killing him. Anthony Brown has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of Michael Brown. He’s also been …
On Tuesday, a Florida man reportedly killed his two young children before taking his own life. WPLG reported that Humberto Christian Tovar Zapata, 41, Matias Tovar, 9, and Baleria Tovar, 12, were found fatally shot in Miami Lakes less than an hour after the father posted a picture of themselves on Facebook. The man’s mother …
