A 10-year-old Texas boy confessed to shooting a man in January 2022, when the boy was just a few days shy of turning 8, the Gonzales County Sheriff’s office said. The mysterious case of 32-year-old Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry, a resident of Lazy J RV Park in Nixon, Texas, was finally solved when the Gonzales County […]
BALTIMORE—Baltimore prosecutors on Wednesday announced the arrest of a man in the cold case homicide of an off-duty Washington, D.C., police officer in 2017. The officer, Sgt. Tony Anthony Mason Jr., was shot to death while sitting in a parked car with a woman he had been dating, according to police. She was also shot […]
BUFFALO, N.Y.—The remains of a 12-year-old boy who went missing in 2020 have been found inside a Buffalo house, and the death is being investigated as a homicide, police said Monday. Jaylen Griffin was last seen on Aug. 4, 2020, when he left his East Buffalo home for a nearby convenience store at about 11 […]
Police in California have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with a homicide in January that saw another man mutilated inside his car. Fresno County Sheriff’s Office announced on April 5 that they had arrested the man for the murder of 25-year-old Fraylee Hernandez, of Mendota. Police have not yet released the identity of the […]
Police were alerted after another discovery of human remains in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in less than a week. It follows the discovery of a human leg inside a Milwaukee area park last week. Police were called to the scene on April 5 at around 10 p.m. The Sheriff’s office later confirmed to Fox News that human […]
A Wisconsin woman has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally poisoning her friend with eye drop liquid. Jessy Kurczewski, 39, was handed down the life sentence for first-degree intentional homicide on April 5 for the October 2018 murder of Lynn Hernan. The 62-year-old victim died from high levels of the main ingredient found […]
SEATTLE—An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with four counts of vehicular homicide for allegedly causing a four-car crash in a Seattle suburb that killed a woman and three children in her van, online jail records indicate. Chase Daniel Jones was taken into custody late Friday and was being held on $1 million bail, according […]
LAS VEGAS—A retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate surrendered to police in Nevada on Wednesday after a warrant was issued for his arrest in the death of a man who died last year from a head injury at a Las Vegas Strip hotel, his lawyers said. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said earlier […]
Mark Epstein, the brother of convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, described in a recent interview how he went from initially accepting the official ruling that his brother’s death was a suicide to questioning the case of death. Epstein’s body was discovered in his jail cell in August 2019 after he reportedly hanged himself while […]
ATLANTA—The death of a Georgia couple’s baby that was decapitated during delivery has been classified by a medical examiner as a homicide, their attorneys announced Wednesday. Treveon Taylor Jr.’s parents have sued the hospital and the doctor who delivered the baby in July. Both have denied wrongdoing. The Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office found the […]
WASHINGTON—Police have recaptured a murder suspect who escaped custody in September, forcing an hours-long shelter-in-place order at George Washington University. Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department announced that Christopher Haynes, 30, was arrested Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service’s Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force in nearby Oxon Hill, Maryland. Mr. Haynes was originally arrested on Sept. […]
EWING, Va.—A manhunt for a Tennessee homicide suspect is no longer focused on a county on the western edge of Virginia, authorities said Wednesday. But they declined to release further information “because of the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation.” Lee County Sheriff Gary Parsons said in a statement Wednesday evening that Jason Dockery was no […]
Orange County’s popular biker bar reopened following a shooting from two weeks ago. The general manager thanked the public for their support. An individual has been found guilty in a fentanyl-related homicide case—a first for California. Three controversial state bills survived their latest committee hearing. They’ll join hundreds of other bills lawmakers are now scrambling […]
YOUNGSVILLE, Pa.—A couple checking out a barking dog on their northwestern Pennsylvania property led to the capture of a homicide suspect who had used bed sheets to escape from jail, authorities said. Michael Burham, 34, was captured nine days after he fled the Warren County jail in the late evening hours of July 6 by […]
OMAHA, Neb.—Police in Omaha say they found a “hit list” at the home of a Nebraska man suspected of a homicide and carjacking before being fatally shot by police in western Iowa over the weekend. Investigators said they found two guns in the stolen car driven by Matthew Briggs, 41. When detectives searched his home […]
Suffolk County officials, representatives from the New York State Police, and FBI hold a press conference at 4:00 p.m. ET on July 14 to announce a significant development in the investigation of the Gilgo Beach Homicide.
MINNEAPOLIS—A suspect in a crash that killed five young women in Minneapolis was charged Thursday with 10 state counts of criminal vehicular homicide as well as federal firearms and drug charges that carry a potential sentence of life in prison. Derrick John Thompson, 27, of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, rented a Cadillac Escalade SUV at a […]
According to a recent report, firearm homicide rates in the United States increased by 44 percent during the pandemic—after having declined steadily since the early 1990s. The report was published by USAFacts, a nonpartisan, nonprofit initiative that aims to present data collected from a variety of government agencies in an accessible and easy-to-understand format. The […]
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) demanded answers from a Yale School of Medicine assistant professor on which studies provide evidence of the benefits of cross-sex procedures. The questions came during a congressional hearing on June 15. Meredithe McNamara didn’t offer a single study before Crenshaw’s time ran out. The congressman is the sponsor of a bill […]
A shooting in Maryland’s capital city after a dispute on Sunday night left three dead and three injured, local police said. At a media briefing later that night, Annapolis Police Chief Edward Jackson told reporters that the incident wasn’t a random act of violence, and that the shooting posed no further threat to the neighborhood. […]
