A missing Louisiana State University student who was found dead last week died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a coroner’s report obtained by Nola.com. East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William “Beau” Clark told the news outlet Monday that Michael Nickelotte Jr.’s manner of death was suicide by a gunshot wound to the head. …
Police in northern Illinois are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that took the life of a five-old boy, who was presumably shot to death by his own father. Local news station 23 WIFR reports that Christopher Michaels, 5, was found dead in his father’s home Monday afternoon. His father, Robert Michaels, was in the same room with …
Prosecutors say the man intentionally crashed his car because he was trying to kill the girl
A young man and a woman were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Columbus, Ohio. WMCH reports that police found the body of a man and a woman dead of gunshot wounds early Sunday morning in an apartment at Taylor House Luxury Community. Police had responded to a distress call after a friend of the …
A Polk County, Florida, inmate awaiting trial for allegedly killing his aunt and stabbing his father 23 times was found hanging from a sheet in an apparent suicide, as reported by Orlando Sentinel. WFTS reports that Pedro Vega Jr., 46, was found dead in his isolation cell during a Sunday night inmate check. A detention deputy found Vega …
An Illinois mother and her 5-year-old twin daughters are dead in an apparent murder-suicide that has shocked their suburban neighborhood and left a father and husband grieving. CBS Chicago reports that Celisa Henning, 41, and her 5-year-old twin daughters, Addison and Makayla, were discovered dead in their suburban Joliet home Monday afternoon. According to People magazine, …
Police arrested a Florida man on Tuesday who survived a reported suicide pact while his girlfriend died. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that Bruce Haughton, 52, and his 52-year-old girlfriend, Katherine Goddard, attempted suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning during two separate incidents in late June. They were both unsuccessful during the first try, but on the …
A Massachusetts mother is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder, after both she and her daughter were found suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. MassLive reports that Leeann Rickheit and her three-year-old daughter were found in her car in a wooded area outside of Worcester Thursday morning. Rickheit had allegedly stuffed the tailpipe with items of clothing …
An Ohio rape suspect who overpowered a guard and fled in a transport van on Friday has killed himself after a three-day standoff, police confirm. Fox 8 reports that according to Paulding County authorities, 32-year-old Brandon Lee Powell shot himself while hiding in a crawl space in his parents basement near Antwerp. The incident occurred at …
The mother of a suicidal teen who died after his girlfriend encouraged him to kill himself has filed a lawsuit against the woman convicted of manslaughter. Michelle Carter, now 20, was found guilty in June of involuntary manslaughter for the death of Conrad Roy, and faced up to 20 years in prison. The jury heard …
Amanda Knox is back in the headlines again as she has come out in support of a woman found guilty of driving her boyfriend to suicide. Knox, who was convicted of the 2007 murder of her roommate in Italy but was later exonerated when the conviction was overturned, wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles …
By DENISE LAVOIE, AP Legal Affairs Writer TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A woman who encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to “get back in” a truck filled with toxic gas was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter. Michelle Carter, now 20, was convicted …
