Police in Arizona have arrested a man they say ran over another man — twice — and then got out and stomped his head, killing him. A witness fired a shot into the ground to get John Lagana’s attention and “put an end to Lagana’s actions,” the Mesa Police Department said. Witnesses told police that …
A Florida couple has been charged with murder, child abuse, and child neglect after a 3-year-old girl in their care was brought to the hospital this week “pulseless.” Doctors revived Brandy Crews on Tuesday but she had no brain activity and died on Friday, WTVT reported. Hospital personnel found multiple burns, cuts, and fractures along …
An FBI forensic report has concluded that the gun used in the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set last year could not have been fired without pulling the trigger. Actor Alec Baldwin fired the shot that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during rehearsals for the Western, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Baldwin believed the gun he …
The man accused of attacking author Salman Rushdie appeared in court Saturday and was charged with attempted murder and assault. An attorney for Hadi Matar, 24, entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, the Associated Press reported. Matar was ordered held in the Chautauqua County Jail without bail, Reuters said. Chautauqua County District Attorney …
A school bus driver is accused of stalking an 8-year-old boy and his family, at times requesting inappropriate photos, walking around the child’s home at night and tracking the boy’s parents with GPS devices, WMTW-TV reports.The driver, 39-year-old Michael Chick of Eliot, Maine, is now charged with interstate stalking, a federal crime.Authorities allege that Chick gave the boy …
Three men have been arrested for allegedly murdering a 33-year-old mother whose decapitated corpse was found in a plastic container floating in Puget Sound 16 years ago, KING-TV reports. On January 15, 2006, police responded to a report of a suspicious object seen floating between Blake Island and Manchester outside of Seattle. Two months later, a …
Loved ones will gather Saturday to say goodbye to a New Hampshire mother and her two young sons who were allegedly killed at the hands of a juvenile, WMUR-TV reports. The case has shaken the community of Northfield, New Hampshire, where 25-year-old Kassandra Sweeney and her two boys, 4-year-old Benjamin Sweeney and 1-year-old Mason Sweeney, …
Author Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator after a stabbing attack Friday morning in western New York and may lose an eye. “The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said in an update on his condition to the New York Times. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were …
A Texas man “chugged” a cloudy liquid from a water bottle just after a jury found him guilty of child sexual assault Thursday afternoon and later died. Edward Peter Leclair, 57, was tried on five counts of sexual assault involving one victim in 2016, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported. He was arrested in 2018 and released …
Three young eastern North Carolina men, all members of the same family, were arrested and charged Friday with sex crimes against two young children. Ethan Jones, 18, and his 20-year-old brother, Brandon Jones, have both been charged with statutory rape and statutory sex offense with a child, the Craven County Sheriff’s Office says. The brothers’ …
Two women are missing, one from Atlanta, Georgia, and one from Truckee, California. Allahnia Lenoir was last seen on July 30th. Her mother says she went to an apartment on Peachtree Street to visit friends and hasn’t been seen since. Kiely Rodni was last seen on August 6th after going to a party with about …
Author Salman Rushdie is undergoing surgery in New York after a 24-year-old New Jersey man jumped onto a stage where he was speaking and stabbed him in the neck. Rushdie’s condition was not known, although a doctor who had been in the audience at the Chautauqua Institution described the writer’s wounds as “serious but recoverable.” …
