A Florida man is accused of assaulting and choking an elderly Uber driver on Saturday. The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that they discovered the injured Uber driver while responding to a reported robbery in Spring Hill. The driver reportedly told officers that he picked up Preston Clark Wyatt Jr., 25, …
A caregiver at an Arizona assisted living facility was arrested on Friday for abusing a 96-year-old woman in her care. On Monday, Maricopa County police announced they’ve charged Gloria Biamushinga, 27, with one count of vulnerable adult abuse. The victim’s family reported the abuse to law enforcement on April 11. Police said they viewed surveillance …
The victim said he thought the prison sentence was too long. “Everyone makes mistakes.”
Four British teens were taken into custody for allegedly dumping flour and eggs on an unsuspecting woman sitting on a bench last week. The East Anglian Daily Times reported that the attack occurred in Bury St. Edmunds Friday afternoon and has gained widespread attention after images showing the aftermath were posted to social media. A police spokesperson …
A New Orleans woman who neglected her grandmother to the point that she died from a bedsore-related illness will be heading to prison. The Advocate reported that Lauren Looney, 21, will spend five years in prison for the September 2014 death of her grandmother, Bessie Looney, 82. Lauren Looney was 17 when Bessie Looney’s emaciated …
A California couple has reportedly confessed to torturing and murdering an elderly Vietnam veteran then burning his body. Stacie Mendoza, 38, and Jose Mendoza, 36, are accused of killing retired contractor Kenneth Coyle, 70, on April 5 or 6 at his Hanford home. Days later, police said the couple—with their three children in tow—got a …
A North Carolina man, along with his mother and girlfriend, are behind bars after they allegedly beat an elderly man so severely on Saturday night that he’s now in critical condition. WSOC reports that Eddie Lowery, 30, along with his girlfriend, Elisha Hicks, 34, and his mother, Patricia Benton, 49, are accused of beating a …
An Akron, Ohio, man who claimed that Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak told him to kill his mother was found not guilty of the woman’s murder. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, Derrick Williams, 48, also believed that his mother, Alaine Williams, 78, was using witchcraft on him when he bludgeoned her to death with …
An Alabama man allegedly admitted to bludgeoning his 70-year-old mother to death with her own oxygen tank because she “wouldn’t stop crying.” WALA reported that police responded to a Mobile residence at around 10 a.m. Friday and found Carol Croucher dead from blunt trauma to her head. Her son, Joseph Wood, 47, supposedly confessed to killing his ill …
Authorities are searching for a woman in Texas who reportedly kidnapped an 85-year-old elderly lady, beat and stabbed her, then tried to rob her before fleeing from a gas station. Fox4 reports that police accuse of Lesia Ann Coco, 49, of arriving uninvited to the elderly lady’s Irving home, where Coco once worked while caring for …
Police say a Florida caregiver beat an elderly woman severely on Thursday and tried to set her house on fire all over an argument a will. New York Daily News reports that Roman Dusk, 65, became infuriated when the elderly lady informed him she planned to leave her home to someone else when she passed …
She was secretly making plans to put the elderly man in a nursing home
