Eight people, including five children, were found dead from gunshot wounds inside a home in southeastern Utah on Wednesday. Enoch City police said they were sent to the address for a welfare check and found the bodies. Investigators also said they don’t “believe there is a threat to the public or that there are any …
A New Jersey college student who vanished from campus in October and was found dead six days later had taken her own life, prosecutors said on Wednesday. On October 20, a facilities employee found Misrach Ewunetie, 20, deceased behind some tennis courts at Princeton University. According to WPVI, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Ewunetie …
A North Carolina attorney was shot and killed in a murder-suicide this week inside his law office in Goldsboro. Patrick White, 42, pushed the shooter up against the wall in an attempt to get him to stop shooting, a colleague told WRAL. The gunman, a client of the Riddle & Brantley firm identified as Francisco …
A set of Pennsylvania triplets has been found safe after their father shot and killed their mother and later killed himself. Authorities said the 39-year-old mother was found dead in northwestern Philadelphia’s West Oak Lane neighborhood on Sunday night, WTXF reported. Hours later, they released an alert about the triplets, who were missing. The mother, …
Two people are dead after a murder suicide on a California highway on Saturday. The Fresno Bee reported that a woman called police earlier on Saturday to say that her 30-year-old boyfriend had threatened to kill her, the Fresno Bee reported. The two were in the process of separating, the paper said. California Highway Patrol …
A former University of California, Irvine student apparently threw his mother off a campus building before jumping to his own death in what investigators say is a murder-suicide. Irvine Police said they responded to assist campus police just before 4 p.m. on Tuesday. They found the bodies of Thao Thai Nguyen, 77, and her son, …
A 5-year-old girl in Florida is recovering from a gunshot wound after her parents died in a murder-suicide Tuesday night. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco told reporters the shooting took place shortly after the mother arrived home from work, paid the babysitter, and walked her outside. “As [the babysitter] starts backing out, she sees an …
The Virginia sheriff’s deputy who killed the mother and grandparents of a California teen he catfished shot himself with his service weapon after a chase with law enforcement 200 miles from the murder scene. Investigators’s say 28-year-old Austin Lee Edwards “catfished” the 15-year-old daughter of Brooke Winek, 38, posing as a 17-year-old boy, as CrimeOnline …
A California elementary school principal jumped to his death from a parking deck at Disneyland on Saturday, according to reports. Newland Elementary School principal Christopher Christensen, 51, was found dead after someone reported a man falling from the amusement park’s Mickey & Friends parking structure. The Mercury News reported that Christensen was due in court …
A Georgia man suspected of kidnapping his daughter killed her and then himself after he crashed his car during a police chase. The Clayton County Police Department said the incident began around 9:30 p.m. when police from nearby Henry County asked them for a welfare check at a home following reports of a domestic dispute …
A family of five was found dead in a Phoenix house this week, and police say they believe the 44-year-old father killed his wife and children before killing himself. Firefighters first found the presence of gas at the home on Wednesday morning, slowing their response, but Southwest Gas crews cleared the house, KSAZ reported. Inside, …
Autopsy results say that a Georgia mother found dead in the woods near Tallulah Falls died from a suicide. The report says that Debbie Collier died from “inhalation of superheated gases, thermal injuries, and hydrocodone intoxication,” Habersham County Deputy Coroner Ken Franklin told Now Habersham. Collier, 59, was reported missing on September 10 after she …
