A Minneapolis teenager shot his father and another man Saturday morning before killing himself. Minneapolis police have not released the names of the victims and said the medical examiner will release the 18-year-old suspect’s name along with the cause and manner of death, KMSP reported. Police responded to the home on the city’s southeast side, …
Minneapolis police are asking for help finding an 11-year-old girl last seen about 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Larissa Nevaida Rebecca Ray is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall and about 120 pounds, police said. She has black and blue braids. She was last seen wearing an orange Adidas crop top and black, yellow, and …
A former Republican political strategist and party donor was found guilty this week of sex trafficking 15 and 16 year old girls. The jury deliberated for a little more than three hours before returning a guilty verdict for Anton Lazzaro, 32, on seven counts involved “commercial sex acts” with five minors, WCCO reported. As CrimeOnline …
A Minnesota jury took barely an hour to find a 28-year-old mother guilty of murder in the shooting death of her 6-year-old son. Julissa Thaler was accused of shooting Eli Hart with a shotgun nine times as she drove around the west side of Minneapolis last May. Prosecutor Dan Allard said during closing arguments that …
A federal judge in Minnesota on Wednesday sentenced two former police officers, convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, to lighter sentences than recommended in federal sentencing guidelines. Describing Tou Thao as “a good police officer, father and husband,” US District Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced him to 3 1/2 years for standing by as former …
Minnesota authorities say a toddler’s death they had been investigating as “suspicious” was in fact a homicide. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim Sunday as One’Je Jackson Jones, the 2-year-old son of Navonna West, who died after being taken to a hospital on May 4, WCCO reported. The ME’s report said the …
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights on May 25, 2020, the day fellow officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes until he died, aided by Lane and two other officers. Lane, J. Alexander Keung, and Tou …
Investigators found the body of a missing University of Minnesota student this week in the Mississippi River. Authorities said Austin Ray Retterath was reported missing on May 8 in Minneapolis, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The Pioneer Press said that the body was found on Wednesday and identified as Retterath on Friday by the University of …
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane has accepted a deal in the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, appearing in Hennepin County Court Wednesday morning to plead guilt to aiding and abetting second second degree manslaughter. KARE reported that the deal will require Lane, one of three former officers charged with aiding and abetting …
Minneapolis police are searching for a 9-year-old boy taken from his custodial caregiver’s home by his mother, who does not have parental rights. Investigators say that Latiena Smith, 27, came to the back door of the home just after midnight on Sunday and took the boy, Azherian Kingston Smith. The two left the house on …
A federal jury on Thursday found three former Minneapolis police officers guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao were all found guilt of willfully failing to aid Floyd as he lay on the ground beneath fellow officer Derek Chauvin’s knee. Kueng and Thao were also found guilty …
A Minneapolis school bus driver was shot in the face Wednesday afternoon while transporting three small children. Authorities said the children, all under the age of 10, were not physically injured, and police took them to their homes, KTSP reported. The bus driver, who has not been identified, was rushed to a hospital and is …
