Florida police are investigating a fatal Thanksgiving day shooting that left a 72-year-old man dead in Lauderdale Lakes. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to the scene in the gated community at about 3:30 p.m. on Thursday and found Hureleyon McLean suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced him dead on the …
A one-time New York model shot her husband to death on a Florida balcony on Wednesday and then turned the gun on herself. The Hallandale Beach Police Department said they were alerted to a highrise apartment complex when a ShotSpotter recorded five shots in quick succession, followed by a short pause and then a sixth …
A 44-year-old Florida father shot his 5-year-old son to death and then killed himself rather than return the child to his mother for the Thanksgiving holiday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the boy’s mother contacted them and said she was unable to reach her son or his father when she arrived at the father’s …
A Florida law enforcement sniper shot and killed a man who fired more than 200 rounds at an Ormond-on-the-Sea condominium complex and at responding deputies over the course of several hours Thursday morning. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Joseph DiFusco and said that somehow no one else was injured. Volusia County …
A 72-year-old Pensacola man was arrested Thursday morning for stabbing his ex-wife’s new husband. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said that Gregory Grant was charged with attempted homicide, WEAR reported. The victim, identified as Alan Bingham, told the station that Grant is homeless and has been living at the home he shares with Grant’s ex-wife. …
A Florida mother has been charged with aggravated assault after she shot her 15-year-old daughter outside a Miami McDonald’s Friday night. Melissa Valbrum claimed the shooting was accidental, WPLG reported. She said she had the gun in her waistband, but it fell and went off, with the bullet striking the teen, according to a police …
A Florida transplant was beaten to death on a golf course in Palm Beach Gardens on Monday by a man who had been reported missing by his family an hour earlier. A police report says that Brian Hiltebeitel, 65, was playing a round of golf with two other people on Monday afternoon at the Sandhill …
A Florida woman who shot and killed her neighbor in a long-running dispute over children playing was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison. Susan Lorincz told the court she was afraid and “never intended to kill anyone” when she fired a single shot through her closed door and killed Ajike “AJ” Owens, a …
A 12-year-old Florida girl has been charged with threatening to kill another girl during an argument over a boy. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said the victim’s older sister reported the threats, saying her younger sibling “had been having issues with other juvenile siblings.” The sheriff’s office said the suspect, the victim, and a third …
A former Florida high school star athlete who stabbed his ex-girlfriend 15 times, leaving her paralized, and slashed her mother as well has been sentenced to life in prison. Spencer Pearson, 20, pleaded guilty to the June 2023 attack on Madison Schemitz and her mother, Jaclyn Roge, in July, the Florida Times Union reported. Pearson’s …
A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly held her 14-year-old daughter’s head underwater until she died and attacked witnesses with a hammer when they tried to stop her. Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez said the witnesses — another child and a roommate — called 911, reporting that they saw 35-year-old Kelsie Glover holding …
A Florida couple were arrested Tuesday morning after they attacked a school resource deputy at Deltona Middle School because they didn’t get what they wanted after a meeting with officials about a battery charge filed against their son for shoving a girl a day earlier. Jorge Rivera and Dagmarie Apointe Iturrino were upset their son …
