A Kentucky officer who was fired Tuesday over his involvement in the death of Breonna Taylor — an EMT who police allegedly shot eight times while executing a no-knock warrant — has appealed his termination. Attorney David Leightty filed an appeal on ex-Louisville Metro police officer Brett Hankison’s behalf. In the appeal, Leightty claimed that …
The former police officer suspected of being the Golden State Killer — also known as the East Area Rapist — is expected to plead guilty today to more than a dozen murders and a dozen kidnappings that took place decades ago. The Los Angeles Times reports that Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. will enter his plea …
Three hikers have gone missing in separate incidents within the same week while navigating Mount Rainier in Washington State. KOMO News reports that a third hiker went missing this weekend in Mount Rainier National Park as the search continues for two other hikers who disappeared during the previous week. According to the report, Matthew Bunker …
Witnesses reported finding unidentified remains on Saturday in Killeen, Texas, as crews continued their search for missing Fort Hood soldier, Vanessa Guillen. ABC 13 reports that authorities were called to the 3400 block of Florence Road on Saturday afternoon after the discovery of the remains were found near an area where searchers found the remains …
Authorities in Oklahoma are searching for a suspect they believed opened fire during a traffic stop, shooting and critically injuring two Tulsa police officers. According to KOHR, officers stopped a man identified as David Ware at about 3 a.m. Monday morning near near 21st and Memorial in Tulsa. The suspect was resistant, and pulled a …
Oklahoma deputies jailed a woman Friday for putting a 5-year-old girl in a chokehold and then stabbing a man who tried to get her away from the child, according to KTUL. The incident took place near Oologah Lake, northwest of Tulsa. Rogers County deputies responded to a call about a stabbing and were told by …
Louisville police have identified Steve Lopez, 23, as the suspect in a fatal shooting Saturday night in Jefferson Square Park, where demonstrators had been peacefully protesting the killing of Breonna Taylor in a police shooting in February. Lopez faces charges of first degree murder and wanton endangerment for killing Tyler Gerth, 27, who died at the …
An estranged husband drove to the home he once shared with his wife Saturday morning and shot her death, then turned the gun on himself, WBZ reports. Joshua Pereira, 31, had recently moved out of the couple’s Somerset home, investigators said, but he drove back to the house Saturday morning before 8 a.m. A relative …
A former Walmart Distribution Center worker crashed his SUV into the building’s lobby area on Saturday and opened fire, killing one and wounding several others before police engaged and shot him. The suspect, Louis Lane, 31, died at the hospital. The Tehama County Sheriff’s Department said he had been fired from the Red Bluff, California, …
A 17-year-old girl is missing from her South Carolina home, and North Charleston police have asked for help finding her, WCSC reports. Amari Grant suffers from depression and a heart and lung condition, the station said, quoting a police report. Amari was last seen by her mother on June 17 at about 8:40 p.m., police …
New York police have arrested 27-year-old Rudy Osias and charged him in a shooting that left a 19-year-old Connecticut woman dead and her 21-year-old boyfriend wounded, NBC New York reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Erica Lopez and Andres Arias were attending a birthday part in Manhattan’s Flatiron district Thursday night with friends. They left the …
A Virginia couple have been charged with fraud after they allegedly received over $1.4 million in proceeds under the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) meant to help businesses struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Monica Magdalena Jaworska, 43, and her husband, Tarik Jaafar, 42, were arrested on June 20 at JFK International Airport as they tried …
