A reputed mobster was gunned down at a New York City McDonald’s on Thursday, just months after his son was shot in a possible targeted attack. The New York Post reports that Sylvester Zottola, 71, was fatally shot at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Bronx on Thursday. Zottola is reportedly a Bonanno crime family associate, and was …
The man who had been charged with the burning death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers is headed to Louisiana to face charges of murdering a different woman in 2015. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a Mississippi judge declared a mistrial in the Chambers this week after a jury could not agree to a verdict. This was the …
Police in Massachusetts arrested a man Wednesday for allegedly attacking his ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend with a wooden crucifix. Officers arrested Torrey Smith, 39, weeks after the August 22 attack at the victim’s Billerica home. According to WBZ-TV, the prosecutor said Smith grabbed his ex-girlfriend by the legs as she tried to flee and struck her in …
A California mother and her boyfriend are facing numerous criminal charges for the alleged torture and murder of the woman’s 10-year-old son. The Los Angeles Times reports that Heather Barron, 29, and Kareem Leiva, 32, pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in the death of Barron’s 10-year-old son Anthony Avalos. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Anthony died …
A teen high school student is facing three felony counts of rape after female classmates accused him of forcing them into sex acts. Fox 59 reports that Plainville High School student Levi Stewart has been charged as an adult following a report documenting claims that he had been “threatening, intimidating and harassing young female students …
A coroner has completed the autopsy reports for Shannan Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste, who were found dead last month on the property of a petroleum company where Shanann’s husband Chris Watts worked. Watts has been charged with numerous felony counts, including three counts of first-degree murder. The Denver Channel obtained a court notice …
The District Attorney who led the prosecution of Jessica Chambers murder suspect Quinton Tellis reportedly spoke to Inside Edition about the hung jury, which led to a mistrial, and plans to try Tellis for a third time. Tellis has been accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in December 2014, and faced his second murder …
Shocking video footage captured in August shows a grown white man throwing a 15-year-old black boy from a platform onto train tracks in Belgium, before two white women join in to also attack the teen, the Daily Mail reports. According to the report, the boy, identified as Leroy Abraham, was attacked by a man and two …
Four Navy sailors are expecting to be court martialed following allegations that they engaged in group sex with an underage girl. NBC News has obtained charge sheets showing that four sailors allegedly engaged in sex acts with a girl who is between 12 and 16 years old in September 2017. The alleged assault took place …
A Florida man and woman are behind bars after police say they were caught on surveillance camera at a gas station last Saturday beating up a child and several adults. The Miami Herald reports according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, the suspects, identified as Brandon Clanton and Julia Napiontek, both 18, are accused of pulling …
After a judge declared a mistrial in the proceedings against Jessica Chambers murder suspect Quinton Tellis for the second time, CrimeOnline’s own Nancy Grace, a former prosecutor, has weighed in. Quinton Tellis was accused of burning 19-year-old former cheerleader Jessica Chambers alive in December 2014. Last year, proceedings against him ended in a mistrial after …
New York police say a woman witnessed the deadly shooting of her boyfriend outside of a movie theater as the couple was carjacked by “masked thugs” Monday morning, the New York Post reports. An unidentified 25-year-old male died after being shot once in the chest at about 3:30 a.m. on Ulmer Street in Queens, according …
