A level-three sex offender in Massachusetts was recently arrested for kidnapping at least one boy he met online. WBZ-TV reported that Charlese Horton, 42, friended one of the victims on Facebook. The victim claimed Horton repeatedly messaged him and demanded he remove certain people from his page, for unknown reasons. When the victim ignored Horton, …
A Colorado teen who told investigators he planned a deadly shooting at school because he was taunted by classmates over his gender identity pleaded guilty on Friday to more than a dozen felonies, including first degree murder, the Denver Channel reported. Alec McKinney, 16, was originally charged with 43 counts in the May 7, 2019, …
At least two people were killed Saturday afternoon when an unknown gunman opened fire outside a Florida church after a funeral, the Palm Beach Post reported. An adult male and a 15-year-old boy were pronounced dead outside Victory City Church in Riviera Beach. An adult female and a girl were wounded and taken to nearby …
Authorities in Texas said a woman was fatally shot on New Year’s Day as she watched her friends and family set off fireworks from her driveway. Harris County police responded to a Laurel Oaks residence and found Philippa Ashford, 61, dead at the scene. Officials told KPRC that officers discovered Ashford with a gunshot wound …
A U.S. sailor on duty guarding a submarine in dry dock at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard shot and killed two civilian shipyard workers on Wednesday and severely wounded another before using a service weapon to kill himself. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the situation unfolded at Dry Dock 2 at about 2:30 p.m., prompting a lockdown …
A Colorado teen who told investigators he planned a deadly shooting at school because he was taunted by classmates over his gender identity, will stand trial as an adult, a judge in Castle Rock ruled Wednesday. Alec McKinney, who was born female but identifies as male, and Devon Erickson, 19, are accused in the May …
At least two people are dead and 14 more injured following a mass shooting at a homecoming party for Texas A&M University-Commerce. NBC News reports that gunfire broke out at a party at an off-campus building in Greenville on Saturday night during homecoming weekend. The unidentified shooter reportedly used a semi-automatic weapon, killing two people who …
A Florida man shot and killed his son-in-law Tuesday night in a birthday surprise gone tragically wrong, police said. Christopher Bergan, 37, and his wife flew from Norway to Florida Tuesday to surprise Richard Dennis, his wife’s father, for his 61st birthday. Bergan knocked on Dennis’s back door then hid in some nearby bushes. When …
