Police in Ohio this week rescued a battered 23-year-old woman who was being held against her will in a cold detached garage by a man who has been charged with kidnapping three times before in the last decade. The woman was wearing torn, dirty clothes when Akron police helped her down a ladder from an …
Police in Ohio are investigating after a 13-year-old girl was found dead in an Akron alley. Akron police said a citizen found the girl’s body behind a home just before 1 p.m. on Monday, WOIO reported. She has been identified as Melanie Elkins. Summit County Medical Examiner spokesman Gary Guenther said that an autopsy has …
An Ohio mother is in critical condition Tuesday morning after a man allegedly shot her and kidnapped their 4-year-old son. Akron police said they responded to a shots fired call shortly before 7 p.m. Monday and found the 24-year-old woman unconscious with multiple gunshot wounds. She was taken to Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital. Witnesses …
Akron police officers opened fire with a 7 second barrage of dozens of gunshots after chasing down Jayland Walker last week, killing the 25-year old unarmed Black man in a parking lot. The shooting prompted protests and calls for accountability in the northeastern Ohio city, and on Sunday, city officials released body camera footage from …
An 8-year-old Ohio girl died in a hail of bullets fired into a teenage boy’s backyard birthday party Friday night in Akron’s southwestern Sherbondy Hill neighborhood. “All hell broke out,” said Willie Walker, 62, who was hosting the party for his 15-year-old grandson, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. “I don’t know what the hell …
New details are emerging about a Friday morning incident that left an Ohio toddler dead after she froze to death on her parents’ front porch. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the little girl’s mother found her at around 3:30 p.m., off of Doty Drive near Faye Road, in Akron. The mother said she found the girl “frozen” on the …
An Ohio toddler is dead after being left outside during freezing weather on Fri., police confirmed. WKYC reports that the little girl’s mother found her at around 3:30 p.m., off of Doty Drive near Faye Road, in Akron. The mother, who frantically dialed 911, said she found the girl “frozen” on the front porch of their home. …
