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 …
A Utah teen who allegedly helped a younger classmate hang herself last year was found competent to stand trial on murder charges. KSTU reported that Tyerell Przybycien pleaded not guilty last year to first-degree murder and failure to report the findings of a dead human body in connection with the death of Jchandra Brown, 16. Przybycien, now 18, allegedly …
The suspected gunman behind last Wednesday’s deadly massacre at a Florida high school reportedly asked to be called “Crazy Nick” and spoke obsessively about guns. Brian Halem, who became friendly with Nikolas Cruz while the two worked together at a Dollar Tree store, told the Miami Herald that Cruz instructed him to enter his phone …
The woman who briefly took in school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz before kicking him out wants control of a nearly million-dollar inheritance left to him by his late adoptive mother. The New York Post reports that Roxanne Deschamps filed papers in court asking to be the executor of Cruz’s late mother’s will. Lynda Cruz, the suspected …
A homeless man was arrested Friday for allegedly stabbing a mother to death in her Denver, Colorado, loft as she tried to help him get on his feet. According to KCNC, police found Jeanna Leslie, 49, stabbed to death in her third-floor unit at the Rio Grande Lofts on Valentine’s Day. At the time, the mother …
