Officials wanted Florida shooting suspect committed in 2016, but ‘recommendation was never acted upon’
A commitment under the law would have made it more difficult if not impossible for Nikolas Cruz to obtain a gun legally.
A commitment under the law would have made it more difficult if not impossible for Nikolas Cruz to obtain a gun legally.
A 93-year-old woman was left for six days in urine-soaked clothing while she waited for medical treatment at a British hospital, the Daily Mail reports. The woman, Enid Stevens, a former nurse herself, was reportedly admitted to St. James Hospital in Leeds because she had fractured her spine. Stevens had to wait for six hours …
A Florida man allegedly threw his infant son out of a car because he would not stop crying, causing the child to land on his head, the Sun News reports. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Jacob Lowman, 22, of Conway, Florida, with unlawful neglect of a child. The baby’s mother, Juliana Biggerstaff, 20, also faces the same …
A Michigan man who reportedly shot and killed his wife on March 12 promptly drove to the police station after the incident and turned himself in. FOX News reports that Shaun Wheeler, 39, walked into a Oakland County Sheriff’s Office and admitted that he shot and killed his 41-year-old wife, Cory Ehlers, inside their Rochester Hills residence off …
Authorities have tracked down the Pennsylvania high school student missing with a 45-year-old family friend in Mexico, and the teen girl is on her way to being reunited with her family. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Amy Yu, 15, of Allentown, disappeared on March 5 after Kevin Esterly allegedly signed her out of Lehigh Valley Academy Charter School, …
This weekend, Oxygen is airing a two-part documentary about the troubled life of Aaron Hernandez, an NFL rising star who was convicted of murder and took his own life in prison nearly a year ago — just after he was found not guilty at his second murder trial. “Aaron Hernandez Uncovered” focuses heavily on the …
Authorities have released jail surveillance footage that allegedly reveals guards laughing as they watched an inmate die on the floor of his cell after an extended period of constraint. According to the San Luis Obispo Tribune, a naked Andrew Holland had been bound to a chair for 46 hours when he fell to the floor …
An array of animal cruelty charges are in the works after police in Texas announced the arrest of between 12 and 14 people they claim took part in an animal sacrifice as part of a ritual in the garage of a San Antonio residence this week. According to Fox News, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office …
A California school bus driver faces criminal charges stemming from accusations that he maintained inappropriate relationships with multiple students over the past decade. According to KSBW, 58-year-old Bill Harvey is expected to be charged with counts including rape, kidnapping and stalking. He had been employed by the Salinas Union High School District, Monterey County’s largest, …
New information has surfaced about the Binghamton University student found dead at her New York home earlier this month as well as the man police believe strangled her. As CrimeOnline previously reported, shortly after authorities found 20-year-old Haley Anderson’s body, investigators focused on a person of interest they said previously dated the victim and fled …
Texas authorities have discovered thousands of videos of sex abuse against kids, including some that depict torture, in what a sheriff says is the “worst case” of child pornography he has ever seen, KPRC-TV reports. Police in Coldspring, Texas, found more than 3,000 disturbing videos in a trailer home involving children between 5 and 12 …
The trial of prominent Atlanta attorney Tex McIver will continue on Monday, after an emotional first week in which numerous medical professionals testified, including a doctor who said the victim didn’t want to see the suspect, her husband, before emergency surgery after she was shot. During opening statements on Monday, Prosecutor Seleta Griffin explained to jurors …