A father has been charged with the murder of his son — more than 20 years after causing the injury believed to have later caused his death. According to the Associated Press, Lucius Middlebrook confessed to shaking his son, then two months old, in 1996. His son, Cavelle Mena, suffered a traumatic brain injury as …
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The sheriff’s deputy who resigned on Thursday after an investigation found that he never entered the building where Nikolas Cruz was shooting at students and teachers was specifically warned about Cruz’s potential for violence and appears to have largely ignored the tip. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Broward County Sheriff Deputy Scot Peterson, who worked as …
The husband accused of murdering his wife in Alabama last month after a night of drinking allegedly killed her with a bottle of absinthe. Court records obtained by AL.com accuse William Jeff West of killing his wife Kathleen “Kat” West on January 12 by bludgeoning her in the head with a bottle of Lucid brand …
An Illinois father stabbed his 2-year-old son to death and stuffed his body into a garbage bag because the child was making too much noise as he slept, Chicago police have alleged. Per the Chicago Sun-Times, Rolando Ortiz, 37, was charged with the first-degree murder of his son, Mateo Garcia Aguayo. Aguayo was reportedly found dead …
A Florida news station has obtained the transcript of a 911 call placed by school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz shortly after his mother died in November. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Nikolas Cruz and his 17-year-old brother went to live with Rocxanne Deschamps and her son after his mother Lynda Cruz died of pneumonia on November …
The Broward County Sheriff’s deputy who retired Thursday after an internal review found that he never entered the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building during last week’s deadly gun massacre has said he believes he performed his job well. Scot Peterson had been assigned to the school as a School Resource Deputy (SRD) since 2008. When …
Nearing the end of an 18-year sentence for conspiring to murder his pregnant girlfriend, former Carolina Panthers player Rae Carruth reportedly told the victim’s mother he’s sorry for his actions and announced plans to gain custody of his disabled 18-year-old son after prison. In a 15-page letter also sent to WBTV, Carruth, 44, told Saundra Adams, the …
Police in Chicago, Illinois, have reportedly taken someone into custody hours after the battered body of a 2-year-old boy was found stuffed in a trash bag. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the slain toddler as Mateo Garcia Aguayo. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Aguayo was found unresponsive on the third-floor of his apartment …
A survivor of the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school last week has accused CNN of scripting student talking points at a televised town hall event with lawmakers on Wednesday evening. Students affected by the shooting joined the families of victims to address school safety and gun reform issues at the event, attended …
A Florida teen was is accused of bringing a knife to school along with a list of students’ names with the caption “dead ha ha dead.” The Sun-Sentinel report that Benjamin Mendoza, 18, a student at Palmetto Ridge High School in Naples, was arrested Monday after police received a tip Friday that Mendoza had brought a gas …
The teenager accused of killing 17 people in last week’s high school shooting massacre in Parkland, Florida, had been reported to police for threatening people with a gun. According to police records obtained by CNN, the family that took in Nikolas Cruz after his mother died in November contacted authorities multiple times with concerns about …
