Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz confessed to the deadly gun massacre just minutes after he was interrogated by police on February 14, a new transcript shows. Cruz, then 19, was able to blend in with evacuating students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after he allegedly opened fire on that Wednesday, but …
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a baby who was found floating in the water near the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday. A family visiting from Stillwater, Oklahoma, spotted the approximately 8-month-old boy wearing only diapers in the shallow water near the Manhattan shoreline at about 4 p.m. Chiropractor Monte Campbell said …
One passenger aboard a party boat docked at a New York City pier is recovering from injuries he sustained in a stabbing this week. According to the New York Post, a 41-year-old man was on the Conrucopia Majesty watercraft just off of South Street at about 3 a.m. on Sunday when he became involved in …
Eleven children were rescued Saturday from squalid living conditions with little food and no water in a remote New Mexico compound, the Associated Press reports. “It was the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen,” Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said. Five adults – two men and three women – were accompanying the children. …
The search for a missing three-year-old girl in Bryan, Texas, has taken a dark turn as investigators found human remains near her home. According to an ABC 13 report, Rayven Shields was reported missing by Child Protective Services on Monday, after a case worker visit to her home raised concerns. Rayven was not seen at the …
UPDATE, Monday, August 6: Cowley County Emergency Communications has announced in a Facebook post that Robert Terrell is now in police custody. Further details were not immediately available. Original story: A convicted child rapist has escaped from prison just three days after arriving to the correctional facility, Fox News reports. Cowley County Emergency Communications department …
Authorities in New York City say a local police sergeant was arrested on suspicion of shooting a romantic rival in the face on a sidewalk in Brooklyn earlier this week. According to the New York Post, a man identified as 40-year-old off-duty New York Police Sgt. Ritchard Blake is seen apparently shooting another individual, who …
The children of accused “House of Horrors” defendants David and Louise Turpin have asked for their birth certificates and IDs, another indication that the abuse victims are seeking to reclaim their lives. KABC-TV reports the judge presiding over the case approved the request during an arraignment on Friday. Attorneys on both sides stipulated that they …
An 18-year-old in Minnesota was arrested after he allegedly tossed a young boy from a waterslide platform, causing the boy to plunge 31 feet into concrete. Local news station KMSP reports that the 18-year-old man, identified by the New York Post as Roman Adams, approached the young boy standing on the waterslide platform at Apple Valley Aquatic …
The man suspected of killing a Houston-based cardiologist who used to be former President George W. Bush’s personal physician has taken his own life. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police identified Joseph Pappas as the suspect in the fatal July 20 shooting of Mark Hausknecht, who was killed while riding his bike in Houston. The suspect was also …
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Chief Joseph Lombardo announced in a press conference on Friday that police have completed their criminal investigation into the deadly Las Vegas shooting on October 1, which killed 58 people and injured hundreds more. Lombardo highlighted the conclusions in the report; noting that while the criminal investigation had been completed, the …
A suspected serial killer was out on bail when he allegedly murdered a young nurse, raped another woman, and attempted to kill yet another — after a lawyer mistakenly told a judge that the repeat violent offender didn’t have a criminal history. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Danueal Drayton was arrested for the July 17 murder of …
