Police in St. Petersburg, Florida, issued an Amber Alert for 2-year-old Taylen Mosley, who is missing after his mother was found dead early Thursday afternoon. Investigators identified the boy’s mother as 20-year-old Pashun Jeffery and said she was found dead at the Lincoln Shores Apartments at about 2:30 p.m. The toddler was not at the …
A Florida woman was charged with murder Sunday morning after Palm Beach County deputies responded to a call about a naked woman climbing a tree. Sheree Williams, 34, was no longer in the tree when deputies arrived, but they found her “running naked in the neighborhood,” the sheriff’s office said. Further investigation led them to …
A Florida plastic surgeon was arrested early Sunday morning, charged with the murder of a missing Pinellas County lawyer. Attorney Steven Cozzi, 41, was reported missing on Tuesday, according to the Largo Police Department, which said Cozzi was not seen leaving his office building and left behind his wallet, car, keys, cell phone, and vehicle. …
Security guards at a Tampa strip club took down a man early Sunday morning wearing a red and black devil mask and carrying a loaded handgun and carrying spare magazines before he could enter the club. Surveillance video shows the man, identified as 44-year-old Michael Rudman, stroll purposefully toward the front door of Mons Venus …
Miami Beach officials announced a curfew beginning Sunday night — during the busy spring break period — after two fatal shootings and crowds that refused police attempts at controlling them. The curfew will be in place from 11:59 p.m. Sunday until 6 a.m. Monday, officials said, adding “separate emergency measures” will be put in place …
A Florida man is in serious condition after a Clearwater Dunkin’ employee shot him three times in an argument. Clearwater police said that Khalil Abdul Shakur Shaheed, 22, went out the restaurant’s back door after 38-year-old customer Jewitt Steele left through the front door just after 6 p.m. on Monday. Shaheed reportedly confronted Steele outside, …
A 6-year-old Florida girl, a 60-year-old man, and a 38-year-old woman are in critical condition after they were shot in the head by group of people looking for the woman’s boyfriend. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said the attack began at about 4:40 a.m. on Friday when the man arrived at the Lake Padgett area …
Florida authorities have made an arrest after finding four members of a family, including a teenage girl, dead in a Brevard County home early Wednesday. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey identified the dead as Glenda Mae Terwilliger, 63; Michael Andrew Watson, 36; Constance Marie Terwilliger, 35; and Kiarra Terwilliger, 15. Two younger children, ages 6 …
The 19-year-old Florida man suspected of killing a journalist and a 9-year-old girl hours after killing another woman has now been charged with first degree murder in all three deaths. Keith Moses was charged last week with the death of 38-year-old Natacha Augustin, “an acquaintance” of Moses who was shot dead Wednesday morning in Pine …
An elderly Florida woman initially charged with first degree murder for fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in a murder-suicide pact she couldn’t complete was indicted this week on a lesser charge. A Volusia County grand jury indicted Ellen Gilland, 76, on charges of assisting self-murder/manslaughter for shooting 77-year-old Jerry Gilland in his hospital room …
A Florida man left his home Tuesday night saying he wanted to die and was “going to kill someone tonight.” Margate police said Gregory Whitney, 58, drove away about 10 p.m. in a white Dodge Ram pickup truck with Florida tage FLRNWSQ, WPLG reported. Before he left, police said, he texted his wife multiple times …
Florida prosecutors have filed their intention to seek the death penalty for a bodybuilder ex-Marine charged with murdering his ex-wife and burning and hiding her body on his 5-acre property. Ian Baunach was charged with pre-meditated murder, destruction of physical evidence, use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony, cremating a dead body …
