A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son on New Year’s Eve. Keshawn Rashard Ayers, 26, was arrested Friday night in Fayetteville, the Fayetteville Observer said. The tolddler was in Ayers’s care on December 31 when he reportedly became unresponsive. First responders took the …
A 6-year-old North Chicago boy reported missing on Wednesday and found dead Friday night in Indiana was actually killed late last month while being “punished,” prosecutors said Sunday. Damari Perry’s bother, 20-year-old Jeremiah Perry made his first court appearance Sunday morning, and prosecutors used the opportunity to describe Damari’s final hours. Lake County, Illinois, prosecutors …
The mother and two siblings of a 6-year-old North Chicago boy have been charged in connection with his death after investigators found his body Saturday in Gary, Indiana. Damari Perry was initially reported missing on Wednesday afternoon, and his family said that he disappeared after a man and a woman drove him and his 16-year-old …
A South Carolina woman who reported her boyfriend missing before Christmas has now been charged with his murder. Taylor Wardlaw, 29, reported 26-year-old Terrell Sims missing on December 22, according to Columbia police, who described him as an “acquaintance” of Wardlaw. Sims’s sisters, however, told WLTX that their brother had been with Wardlaw for some …
A Huntsville police officer was arrested and charged with capital murder after an “incident” that resulted in the death of a person in a vehicle. Sources said that David McCoy, 28, shot his girlfriend in the head Friday morning and then called police to report a woman sitting in a parked car who appeared to …
A 6-year-old boy reporting missing from Chicago’s northern suburbs earlier this week was found dead Saturday morning near an abandoned house in Gary, Indiana. The North Chicago Police Department said that three adult members of Damari Perry’s family “believed to be responsible for Damari’s death are in police custody.” Other juvenile members of the family …
Horrific details of alleged child abuse have emerged after two Pennsylvania women were charged in connection with the deaths of a pair of young girls, WBRE-TV reports.Investigators allege that the girls were regularly starved, pushed into walls and choked before they died and were buried in the yard of a rural Hepburn Township home.What prompted the …
An Oklahoma couple allegedly attacked a woman with a crowbar and then had sex on the woman’s bed, even while they heard the victim struggle to live in her final moments, KNWA-TV reports. Authorities made the disturbing allegations in court documents charging 25-year-old Brinlee Denison and 28-year-old Nicholas Johnson with first-degree murder in connection with …
Three family members are dead after a suspected murder-suicide in Washington state on Tuesday, and a 12-year-old child who was at the residence managed to escape and call 911. According to the Seattle Times, two adults and a 10-year-old child were found fatally shot at a home in Auburn on Tuesday evening. A 12-year-old child, …
An Illinois child welfare worker was killed Tuesday when she was reportedly stabbed during a home visit. Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) investigator Diedre Silas, 36, was murdered while responding to reports of children in danger at a home in Thayer. Six children, between the ages of 1 and 7, were at the …
A Washington state medical examiner’s office has identified a body found in a vehicle trunk last month as a woman who was last seen in early November. The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has not identified Patricia Soto’s cause or manner of death, but investigators said they were investigating the case as a homicide. Soto, …
A Georgia woman is behind bars facing murder charges after police say the story she gave about her deceased baby didn’t match up with the injuries. On Christmas Day, Gwinnett County police responded to reports of a deceased 1-year-old baby at a residence off of Seasons Parkway. The child’s mother, identified as Oluwadamilola Imafiabor, 29, …
