MANHUNT: Suspect on the run after fatally shooting pregnant woman carrying his unborn baby at George Floyd Memorial site [Prosecutors]
Murder
Doctors were able to deliver the slain woman’s baby, who remains in critical condition
Juveniles
July 9, 2020
13-year-old boy shoots and kills 9-year-old brother during game of ‘cops and robbers’
A 13-year-old boy in Pennsylvania has been charged as an adult in the shooting death of his 9-year-old brother, according to the Chambersburg Public Opinion. Brayden Leroy Wright told police he and his brother were in the living room of their Waynesboro home early Wednesday morning when he decided he wanted to play “cops and …
Murder
July 9, 2020
Husband bludgeons wife with hammer, smothers her infant child after learning the baby wasn’t his: Docs
A Virginia man was arrested Wednesday, a day after he allegedly attacked his wife with a hammer and smothered her 5-month-old daughter at their shared home. The Gloucester Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Thursday that Dennis Chambers, 60, was arrested in New Kent County. On Tuesday afternoon, officers responded to a Gloucester home and …
Murder
July 8, 2020
Suspect tries to flee disguised as his sister; missing man’s body found under his floorboards
An Alaska man was indicted last last month for the murder of a man who had been missing for five years — and whose body was found beneath the floorboards of the man now charged with his death, the Alaska Department of Public Safety says. Jay Osmond Gardner, 55, had long been a suspect in …
Murder
July 8, 2020
Body cam transcripts reveal frightened and nervous George Floyd during police encounter
Transcripts of body camera recordings during the arrest and killing of George Floyd reveal the 46-year-old Black man was nervous and scared, afraid the police officers who ordered him out of the car were going to shoot him. Floyd appeared to have been startled when then-Officer Thomas Lane approached and ordered him to show his …
Juveniles
July 8, 2020
7-year-old boy shot dead while playing with two other children
“He was so cute,” a neighbor said. “It’s just terrible. He’s just a little guy.”
Missing
July 8, 2020
Vanessa Guillen killer & married girlfriend wear gloves and hairnets to dismember, hack, burn her body: Report
“If they had any respect for the family they would have answered the family’s questions the whole entire time,” Guillen’s family attorney said of authorities investigating Guillen’s disappearance and death
Murder
July 7, 2020
Suspect in Atlanta 8-year-old girl’s fatal shooting carried AR-15: Police video
Atlanta police released video Tuesday of a suspect in the fatal shooting over the weekend of an 8-year-old girl near the site of the fatal police shooting that killed Rayshard Brooks in May. The video shows a man in a white t-shirt carrying an AR-15. Atlanta Police Lt Pete Malecki said investigators “a minimum of …
Murder
July 7, 2020
‘Dad’s been shot’: Boy hides in wilderness for 30 hours after gunman kills father on off-roading trail [Reports]
Authorities in California arrested a suspect Saturday who allegedly killed a doctor and wounded two others in two separate shootings on Friday. KTVU reported that Ari Gershman, 45, was off-roading with his 15-year-old son in a remote area of the Tahoe National Forest, near Downieville, when he was fatally shot. Gershman’s son reportedly hid in …
Juveniles
July 7, 2020
Arrest made in killing of 8-year-old boy at Alabama mall; police release photos of other suspects
Hoover, Alabama, police announced Sunday that they had made an arrest in a shooting at the state’s largest mall last week that left an 8-year-old boy dead and three other people wounded. Royta Giles Jr was shot in the head at Riverchase Galleria in Hoover on July 3 and was pronounced dead at Children’s Hospital …
Missing
July 7, 2020
Army confirms dismembered remains are missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen; surviving suspect appears in court
The Army Criminal Investigation Command has confirmed earlier reports that remains found last week in the search for a missing U.S. Army soldier belonged to Vanessa Guillen, who had not been seen alive since April. As ABC News reports, Major General Scott Effland announced the findings at a news conference Monday. “The Armed Forces forensic …
Juveniles
July 6, 2020
13-year-old California girl goes missing; suspect charged with murder, rape, and kidnapping
Police in the southern California city of Bakersfield have arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the disappearance of a 13-year-old girl who was last seen on July 1. Armando Cruz was arrested on suspicion of murder, sexual assault, and kidnapping in the disappearance of Patricia Alatorre, according to KGET. Late Sunday night the Bakersfield Police …