Five Ilinois teens are facing murder charges after a 14-year-old boy who was with them during an attempted robbery was shot and killed by the homeowner, according to police. According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, six teens traveled together in a stolen Lexus on early Tuesday morning, then stopped at a home in Old …
A Louisiana woman accused of orchestrating a murder that left her infant son dead will face the death penalty if she’s found guilty. According to Town Talk, the state of Louisiana intends to seek death against Hanna Nicole Barker in connection with the 2018 murder of her 6-month-old son, Levi Cole Ellerbe. Barker, who pleaded …
A Pennsylvania man wanted for questioning in connection with the deaths of his stepmother and brother was apprehended on Wednesday afternoon in Charleston, West Virginia. According to Lt. Autumn Davis of the Charleston Police Department, authorities arrested Turner at the Charleston Greyhound bus station off of Reynolds Street, at around 1 p.m. The suspect missed …
A Georgia woman who pleaded for help after her boyfriend was gunned down, has been charged in connection with his death, along with two alleged accomplices. Channel 2 Action News reports that Yainerys “Yaya” Gil, 23, who previously cried while explaining someone shot her boyfriend, George Anthony Vela, in front of their home in July, …
A Utah death row inmate who killed his sister-and-law and her child is reportedly months away from being executed by a firing squad after a federal court rejected his latest appeal on Monday. After breaking into their sister-in-law and her husband’s home, Ron Lafferty and his brother, Dan Lafferty, reportedly beat and strangled Brenda Lafferty, …
A father in Minnesota is facing second-degree murder charges for the death of his 4-month-old son, who died in late April. According to a criminal complaint obtained by the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Matthew Hoisser, 35, told investigators that he dropped his son, Gus Hoisser, on his head because he “was crying and fussy and …
A local newspaper has published a report detailing the troubled past of Connor Betts, the 24-year-old gunman behind a deadly mass shooting in Dayton early Sunday morning. The Dayton Daily News interviewed Betts’ friends and acquaintances, revealing that Betts began displaying concerning behavior in middle school. A former classmate who went to middle school with …
The gunman who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday morning had invited friends out for a night on the town — raising the question of whether he intended to target people he knew. Connor Betts, 24, opened fire in an alleyway in a popular entertainment district just after 1 a.m. on Sunday, roughly …
A New York man accused of fatally stabbing his estranged wife at the nail salon where she worked reportedly stayed at the scene to lie on top of her lifeless body. The New York Daily News reported that the 39-year-old suspect entered Tu S’tilo Salon in Queens at around 7 p.m. on Wednesday and stabbed …
A Pennsylvania mother will spend the next 25 to 50 years behind bars after drugging and killing her toddler son. NBC Philadelphia reports that 43-year-old Jennifer Clarey pleaded no contest in court on Tuesday in connection with the death of her 2-year-old boy, Mazikeen Curtis. Clarey was convicted of third-degree murder and child endangerment. “You …
A woman who was once a close friend of Megan Betts, the murdered sister of the Dayton, Ohio, shooting suspect, said that Connor Betts once strangled her inside his home. Taylor Gould, 22, told Cincinnatti.com that she was a close friend of Megan Betts in middle school but distanced herself from the family after a …
The mother of the suspected gunman behind the deadly El Paso shooting on Saturday had previously called police with concerns about her son owning a gun, lawyers for the family have said. Chris Ayres and R. Jack Ayres, attorneys for the family of Patrick Crusius, told CNN that Crusius’s mother had contacted police in Allen, …
