Florida jurors on Wednesday recommended the death penalty for the former prison guard trainee who gunned down five women in a Sebring bank in 2019 because he “always wanted to kill people.” The jury voted 9 to 3 in favor of execution for Zephen Xaver, WFLA reported. Because Florida legislators were angry that Parkland high …
A Florida woman was arrested this week after she allegedly ran over her boyfriend and their 16-month-old son, who remains hospitalized with severe injuries. Aaliyah Ross, 27, was charged with aggravated child abuse, aggravated domestic battery, negligent child abuse, domestic battery, and leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, WWSB reported. The infant …
A Florida man shot and killed three women, including his mother, before he was killed Monday night in a shootout with deputies near the Georgia state line. Manatee County deputies responded to the Motel 6 in Bradenton shortly after 9 p.m. and found a 48-year-old woman dead from gunshot wounds. Witnesses on the scene told …
A Florida man has been charged with the death of his 6-week-old son after confessing that he “accidentally” bashed his head. Edrick Lamar Davis, 25, has been charged with first degree murder and aggravated child abuse, WOFL reported. Arrest records say that police were called to a home in Melbourne for an infant not breathing. …
Florida officials are looking for a 23-year-old man who sexually assaulted a teen girl and then fled the state when he learned she was pregnant. Lee County deputies say Benjamin Garcia had been arrested for lewd battery following two incidents with the girl, WBBH reported. Garcia impregnated the girl, whose age wasn’t given. She hid …
A Florida McDonald’s employee was arrested last week after she was seen on store video chasing down customers and firing at their vehicle after they complained that their order was wrong. In a Facebook post they titled “McMAYHEM,” Lakeland Police said they were called to a shooting at about 1 a.m. on Friday. Investigators said …
A Florida plastic surgeon was arrested this week and charged with the death of his wife, who suffered a cardiac arrest while on his operating table last November and subsequently died. Benjamin Brown, 41, faces a charge of second degree felony homicide: manslaughter by culpable negligence for the death of 33-year-old Hillary Brown, the Santa …
Authorities in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man for the murder of a “John Doe” after human remains were found Friday on his property. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said investigators believe the remains may belong to a family of four were disappeared earlier in the week, but noted that the missing persons case would …
Wade Wilson was expressionless, make-up caked on his stone-face to hide his garish tattoos, throughout his two-week trial for the murders of two women the prosecutors said he killed “for the sake of killing.” In the end, a Florida jury deliberated just two hours before finding the man with the swastika tattoos he didn’t want …
Florida investigators have released hundreds of pages relating to their investigation into the disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Madeline Soto, who was reported missing on February 26, the day after her birthday. Soto’s body was found in a wooded area in Osceola County, near where her mother’s boyfriend was seen with a flat tire on …
A Florida man was shot and killed on Sunday when Fort Myers police officers saw him climbing out a window carrying a large knife and “what appeared to be a dismembered body part.” Police said they were called to the scene at about 11:30 p.m. about a woman and two small children hiding in a …
A Florida sheriff’s department credited tips from the public leading to the arrest of a man who shot and killed his friend while pistol whipping him over a missing pool pump. Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez said deputies were called to the scene of the shooting at a home in St. Cloud on Saturday and …
