The head of the Minneapolis Police Department’s homicide unit testified Friday that former cop Derek Chauvin used “totally unnecessary” force against George Floyd. Lt Richard Zimmerman was one of two officers to testify in Chauvin’s murder trial on Friday, the only witnesses in the half day session. “First of all,” Zimmerman said, “pulling him down …
A Texas woman has been charged with killing her estranged husband more than a month ago. Leanne Mandeville, 57, was charged with murder in the death of 56-year-old Laithe Marra and is being held on $1 million bond, CBS4 reported. El Paso police said they initially responded to a report of a suicide at about …
Pennsylvania police are looking for a 16-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen since Thursday night. Helen Diehl has been missing since about 7:30 p.m. from South Whitehall Township, near Allentown in eastern Pennsylvania, police there said. She was wearing an orange beanie with Coca-Cola written on the side and a white Nickolodeon hoodie with images …
Virginia police are looking for a 4-month-old baby they believe was abducted by his babysitter. Chesterfield Police said they were called on March 28 by Marcello A. Husband’s mother, who said Danielle R. Hicklin, 53, had taken the boy out of state and not returned, NBC12 reported. “The investigation indicates that Hicklin took Marcello to …
Police in Georgia are looking for the suspect in last month’s armed carjacking attempt at a gas station. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta police released surveillance footage of the March 11 incident that unfolded at a Chevron on McDonough Boulevard. The 82-year-old victim reportedly said he was standing at the gas pumps when the …
An Oklahoma couple has been arrested after child welfare agent discovered an 8-year-old boy severely malnourished and underdeveloped. As KOKO reports, a social worker was sent to the boy’s home in Edmond in February after the Oklahoma Department of Human Services received a report about a child seen eating food from a dumpster. A subsequent …
Stone Foltz, a business major at Bowling Green, dies after consuming a handle of alcohol during a pledge party. Foltz was taking part in a fraternity ritual. The Foltz family’s attorney, Rex Elliott, says the 20-year-old was taken to a basement at an off-campus fraternity house, blindfolded, and told he couldn’t leave until he finished …
The suspect also utilized websites to promote his babysitting services.
North Carolina prosecutors reportedly offered a plea deal to a woman and her father in the 2015 slaying of the woman’s husband weeks after an appellate court vacated their 2017 second-degree murder convictions. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Jason Corbett’s sister and brother-in-law said the Davidson County District Attorney offered a plea deal to …
By Leigh Egan; additional reporting by Jacquelyn Gray A suspect is behind bars after police say he shot an 11-year-old girl in the face while she sat in her family’s car at a Chicago gas station. NBC Chicago reports that authorities arrested Marcus Starkey, 27, and charged him with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and …
A Florida man accused of raping and shooting a 12-year-old boy also molested a young girl, according to a former girlfriend. As CrimeOnline previously reported, authorities arrested 43-year-old Aliex Santiesteban at his apartment at the Island Living complex in Miami earlier this week, after he allegedly abducted, raped, and shot a 12-year-old boy in late …
Two young children who survived a triple murder in their Virginia home were left alone with the bodies of the victims for days — and an infant was left strapped into a swing, likely unable to get out of the restraint. The toddler child was reportedly found standing over his mother’s body. As CrimeOnline previously …
