Minnesota Mom Indicted on 1st Degree Murder Charge for Shooting 6-Year-Old Son 9 Times

Julissa Thaler was initially charged with second degree murder but turned down a plea deal on that charge.
Julissa Thaler was initially charged with second degree murder but turned down a plea deal on that charge.
A pregnant woman was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Minnesota Amazon fulfillment center Sunday night. Doctors at Hennepin County Health Care were unable to save Kyla O’Neal, 31, but successfully delivered her baby, KARE reported. Family said that the newborn baby boy, named Messiah, is fighting for his life, according to …
Deputies in Olmsted County, Minnesota, have arrested a 39-year-old Rochester man after a dog walker found the body of a woman in a ditch in Cascade Township. According to the sheriff’s office, the dog walker reported on Monday that the dog began pulling toward an embankment of snow, where they saw what appeared to be …
Five people have been arrested in the fatal shooting o a 19-year-old man at the Mall of America on Friday. Bloomington, Minnesota, Police Chief Booker Hodges announced the arrests on Saturday and said investigators are still looking for a sixth suspect, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. Hodges said two 18-year-olds and three 17-year-olds were arrested at …
A 17-year-old Minnesota boy has been jailed for an attack on several members of his family Tuesday morning that killed his grandmother and injured four more relatives. The Roseville Police Department said that 88-year-old Patricia Frances Maslow was found dead at the scene from “sharp and blunt-force injuries,” bringmethenews.com reported. Two other family members — …
A former attorney for North Dakota’s attorney general has been jailed for allegedly beating his ex-wife to death in front of three of their young children. Anders Odegaard, 31, was charged Thursday with second degree murder in the death of Carissa Odegaard on Tuesday. A criminal complaint filed in Marshall County, Minnesota, said that 31-year-old …
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 …
A Minnesota woman has been charged with murder and arson after she allegedly stabbed and man to death and set fire to his camper, telling investigators she thought she was “burning a witch.” Court documents say that Crystal Wilson used methamphetamine and alcohol Sunday morning and went to the Mii Gwitch Mahnomen Days pow wow …
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 …
A Minnesota murder suspect slammed into a car carrying a mother and her four children while fleeing police Friday afternoon, killing a 6-year-old girl. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said a 15-year-old girl is still hospitalized while the mother and her other two children had been treated and released. The suspect, who has not been …
Minnesota police are searching for a 6-year-old girl missing after her mother’s apparent suicide. Northfield police officers were called to an apartment on Saturday and found the body of Lisa Wade, 39. Her daughter, Elle Ragin, is missing, and investigators say they believe Wade may have been involved in her disappearance. Ragin is describe as …