A 66-year-old Florida woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 97-year-old mother after she admitted killing her mother at the mother’s request. Martha Jo Blake is charged with first degree murder after an autopsy revealed that her mother died from suffocation or strangulation, the Palm Beach Post reported. The autopsy found …
A Florida man accused of trying to ram a gay runners group with his truck last month is now facing charges with a hate crime enhancement. Ihab Mustafa El Mahmoud, 43, was initially charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of reckless driving after the November 24 incident …
A Florida man and his wife are dead after a murder-suicide resulting from an argument over watching football Monday night. Jason Kenney, 47, also shot and critically wounded his stepdaughter after killing his wife. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said it was called to the scene just before 11 p.m. by a woman who reported …
A 17-year-old Florida boy has been arrested for the murder of a man who was found dead in an empty lot in Tampa earlier this month. Officials said James McClendon, 34, was reported missing on December 9, Tampa Police said. McClendon’s car was found abandoned, with a spent 9mm shell casing. Then, on December 11, …
A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly shot her two ex-husbands to death on Wednesday. Manatee County deputies arrested Susan Avalon after they were called to a home in Bradenton and found a 54-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died, but told investigators before …
A 19-year-old Florida man has been charged with the murder of a 67-year-old retired nurse who had allowed him to live in his home before kickig him out because he wasn’t paying rent or helping around the house. John Joseph Torneo was found disemboweled in his home on Sunday, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said …
A Florida jury on Wednesday found a former paramedic guilty of sexually battering an unconscious woman in the back of his ambulance as she was being transported to the hospital in 2021. The jury deliberated for five hours before returning the guilty verdict for James Melady, 38, but they acquitted him on a charge of …
A Florida judge sentenced a man to life in prison on Wednesday for the brutal murder of a woman he met on a dating app because she wasn’t “following his relationship rules.” Daniel Stearns, 35, was convicted in October, WESH reported. Stearns was arrested in March 2023 after police followed him to an undeveloped Palm …
A Florida man reported his girlfriend missing in October, even musing to a friend that immigration agents might have taken her. But authorities have now charged Saul Garcia Gonzalez with the murder in the death of 37-year-old Nerida Martel, whose body was found on October 11 in a canal near the home she shared with …
A Florida jury on Friday found a Ukrainian man orphaned as a young boy guilty of first degree murder in the stabbing deaths of the couple who adopted him when he was 14. A judge sentenced Dima Tower to life in prison for the 2023 murders of Robbie and Jennifer Tower, WWSB reported. Tower, 24, …
A Florida man jumped from his moving vehicle Monday when he realized his daughter had called 911 because he was fighting with her mother. The child told dispatchers the family was traveling on Highway 79 in Washington County and gave them a description of the vehicle before the call was disconnected, WTVT reported. The girl …
A Florida couple has been arrested and charged in a botched murder-suicide last week involving their adult son who has developmental disabilities. Barbara Bates, 59 was charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated abuse of a disabled adult, according to a probable cause statement. Her husband, 64-year-old Neil Bates, was …
