A 3-year-old is fighting for his life after allegedly being shot in the head by his 6-year-old brother in their Philadelphia home. WPVI reported that police arrested the kids’ father, Sirhaven Williams, 36, and charged him with endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person following Saturday afternoon’s shooting. The father is facing …
A Tennessee lawman is on the wrong side of the justice system after he was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault for allegedly threatening his wife and the mechanic with whom he believed she had been having an affair. According to WSMV, Lt. Derrick Gleaves of the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office is accused of following …
Three members of a New York family were arrested in connection with a string of robberies police say could have been motivated by their common dependence on narcotics. According to Newsday, 55-year-old Deborah Salvatore and her two children, Lauren Mascia, 31, and Rick Mascia, 25, were in police custody Sunday after their arraignment. Police believe …
“They had a choice of a slow and painful death or a quick death.”
An elderly Virginia woman is recovering and her suspected attacker is facing attempted murder charges following an investigation into a residential fire Friday morning. According to WAVY, police responded to the Highland Springs home just before 6 a.m. and found the victim, identified by neighbors as a 78-year-old woman, inside. When a rescue crew transported …
A substitute teacher has been banned from a Texas elementary school after she allegedly duct-taped students’ mouths to keep them quiet, the Killeen Daily Herald reports. At the time of the incident, the educator was filling in for a fifth-grade class at Maxdale Elementary School in Killeen. The teacher, whose identity has not been released, …
A Los Angeles jury on Saturday convicted a soon-to-be-father of hiring a hitman to murder his girlfriend and unborn child. Prosecutors alleged that Derek Smyer, 36, was responsible for the 2001 contract killing of his pregnant girlfriend at the time, 27-year-old Crystal Taylor, because she wouldn’t have an abortion, the Mirror reports. Jurors found Smyer …
Convicted killer Jodi Arias’ appeal will be delayed until next year due to numerous errors and omissions in courtrooms transcripts that took two years after her appeals process started to complete. ABC reports that the Arizona Court of Appeals had to repeatedly push court reporters to finish up court transcripts that have been left undone …
A Latrobe, Pennsylvania, father is accused of selling drugs out of a maternity ward mere hours after his daughter was born. Greenburg police said they caught Cody Hulse, 25, Thursday with 34 stamped bags of heroin and assorted drug paraphernalia. Officers confronted Hulse in his girlfriend’s room, where he admitted to selling heroin to people …
Two Joshua Tree hikers found dead with their arms around each other both died of gunshot wounds, CNN reports. Though initial reports were interpreted to suggest that the couple died accidentally, authorities now believe the man killed the woman and himself in a murder-suicide. Rachel Nguyen, 20, and Joseph Orbes0, 22, of Orange County, California, …
After experts determined a bone found in Aruba did not belong to missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, the sister of another woman who went missing on the island is trying to determine if it might be a lead in that case. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Holloway’s father and a private investigator reported their ongoing investigation …
A Florida murder suspect is claiming an unusual defense, telling authorities his “best friend” asked to be strangled to death in a motel room Wednesday night. According to the Daily News, 26-year-old Rex Drew Stewart was arrested after police found the body of Gerald Richard Breen Jr., 36, at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in …
