A New York man has been arrested for allegedly murdering someone and then setting the victim’s body on fire, WCBS-TV reports. Police were called to a home in Shirley, New York – on Long Island – at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday to investigate a 911 report of a fire in a backyard, according to News 12 …
Police closed down Valley View Mall in Roanoke, Virginia, Saturday night after responding to reports of shots fired, the Roanoke Times reports. One person has been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries in what the paper said was a fight between two groups of people. Roanoke Police Chief Sam Roman told WSLS there were four shots fired …
The California Supreme Court this week rejected a challenge to murder charges filed against a 26-year-old woman who used methamphetamines before her fetus was stillborn, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Chelsea Becker has been in jail in Kings County since the 2019 stillbirth and has pleaded not guilty, although she acknowledged using the drug. She’s …
Investigators now believe the explosion was likely a suicide bombing, CNN reports, citing law enforcement sources.
Police in Canada are looking for a man who disturbed Christmas morning in Toronto’s Etobicoke district with shotgun fire, CP24 reported. Detectives released surveillance camera footage in which multiple volleys from the shotgun can be heard over about a three minute period. Toronto police said the suspect was driving an older, light grey Subaru Forester …
New York police have arrested a man and charged him with hitting a woman with a brick as she walked down a street on Christmas Eve, CBS New York reported. Lisa Cavanaugh, 51, was hospitalized with cuts to the back of her head and is expected to recover. Christopher Guzman, 28, has been charged with …
Pope County deputies are investigating an apparent suicide with multiple murders after finding five members of an Arkansas family dead in their home on Christmas Day. The victims were two women and three girls ranging in age from 8 to 50 years old, Sheriff Shane Jones said at a news conference on Saturday, according to …
Investigators have identified a person of interest in the Christmas Day explosion in downtown Nashville, The Tennessean reported Saturday. State and federal agents converged on a duplex in Antioch, about 12 miles southeast of Nashville, Saturday morning for “court authorized activity,” FBI public affairs officer Darrell DeBusk told the newspaper. DeBusk said no arrests have …
The execution date for death row inmate Lisa Montgomery has been rescheduled after a federal judge ruled that the Department of Justice unlawfully set the execution date up while disregarding rules. AP reports that U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss vacated an order that scheduled Montgomery for execution on January 12, which was a new …
A 2-year-old Georgia girl accidentally shot herself while playing with a gun on Christmas Day, leading to the arrest of a man after authorities determined the gun was stolen, WXIA-TV reports. The toddler discovered the firearm during a Christmas gathering at an apartment complex in the city of Macon and was playing with the gun when …
A Florida woman shot and killed her boyfriend Thursday night when she found him with a tomahawk raised above her while she was lying in bed, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. Jill Fritch, 59, told deputies that she grabbed a gun next to the bed and shot Troy Sorrell, 60, in self-defense, according to Volusia …
A 19-year-old Connecticut man has been charged with killing his UPS co-worker Tuesday at the end of their shift, NBC Connecticut reports. Elijah Bertrand was the “helper/runner” for 28-year-old driver Joshua Burk, according to Bertrand’s arrest warrant. The pair had dinner at Burk’s girlfriend’s home Tuesday night, and then left to return the truck to …
