An Alabama woman has been charged with abuse of a corpse after her newborn daughter was found in a plastic bag in a dumpster at a convenience store in Decatur. Decatur police said they were contacted on Monday about Cindy Nicole Crow, 36, who was believed to have recently given birth but no baby was …
A Georgia tire shop employee is dead after a customer fatally shot him, mistakenly believing he was stealing his car. Quadarius McDowell, 30, took his car to a Tires Plus location in Decatur for repairs early Saturday afternoon. At some point, an employee — identified as Daniel Gordon, 24 — went to retrieve the vehicle. …
A 19-year-old Illinois man has been charged with breaking into his neighbor’s home and trying to beat him to death with a pipe wrench because he’s gay. A police affidavit says that Ethan Dickerson told the unnamed 60-year-old victim, “You know why I have to do this,” when the man asked why he was being …
Georgia police are search for a man who abducted a woman at gunpoint early Thursday morning and forced her to make several withdrawals from ATMs before shooting her and fleeing. The woman, who has not been named, was shot in the leg and was able to driver herself to a nearby hospital for treatment, according …
A Florida airman has been charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in north Alabama after meeting the child on an online dating app. Air Force Senior Airman Keith Williams, who serves on a maintenance squadron at Hurlburt Field in Okaloosa County, allegedly traveled to Decatur, Alabama — 340 miles away — in October 2020 and …
Authorities in DeKalb County, Georgia, are looking for 17-year-old Sajidah Phillips, who was last seen on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. near their home in Decatur. DeKalb County police initially said that Sajidah and her 11-year-old brother, Sameem Ibn-Phillips Jr, were both missing, but they announced Sunday afternoon that Sameem had been found and returned home. …
An Illinois man was arrested after he allegedly threatened to kill the mother of his child for withholding the WiFi password from him, police told the Herald & Review. A police report said that another family member contact police about the incident. Neither the man nor the 34-year-old victim were named in the Herald & …
Authorities are looking for a 58-year-old north Alabama man they say shot three people to death and wounded a fourth on Sunday afternoon. Carson Ray Peters is considered armed and dangerous, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Peters is reportedly with April Hanner, and the two are possibly in a black 2013 Chevrolet 1500 …
Authorities in Georgia say a man was killed in an apparent hate crime as he walked to a train station in the Atlanta area on Tuesday morning. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, two men are believed to have approached 28-year-old Ronald Peters as he walked down Orchard Circle in Decatur, shouting a homophobic slur …
Authorities in Georgia say a fellow officer was caught on surveillance camera inside a convenience store as he beat a homeless woman. According to the Associated Press, Phillip Larscheid, a 29-year-old DeKalb County police officer, was initially investigated and cleared of the June 2017 incident, which occurred as he attempted to arrest the victim, Katie …
A Georgia medical facility was back to normal operations as of Sunday morning following a security scare the previous day. According to WXIA, a recently released patient at DeKalb Medical Center went on to cause a disturbance outside of the Decatur hospital. The incident prompted a lockdown and local authorities and SWAT units were soon …
Alabama police are looking for a missing teenager, according to an alert issued last week. As The Birmingham News reported, police say 14-year-old Irma Maria Diego-Gomez was last seen Wednesday morning as she left her Decatur home on her way to school. When she did not return that afternoon, the school confirmed she never arrived …
