A 23-year-old man is in critical condition after, police say, he was shot while on the job at a McDonald’s in Brooklyn, CBS New York’s Natalie Duddridge and Alecia Reid report. The shooting happened at around 7 p.m. Monday outside the eatery. Some of the victim’s colleagues described him as …
Read More »2 killed, 5 wounded in shooting in Los Angeles County park
Two people were killed and five others were wounded in a shooting at Peck Park in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, authorities said Sunday. One person was in critical condition as of Sunday night. Four of the victims are male and three are female, the Los Angeles Fire …
Read More »Robert Honsch sentenced to prison 27 years after daughter Elizabeth found dead in Connecticut
A man who authorities say started a new life and family in Ohio after killing his wife and teenage daughter in 1995 when they lived in a New York suburb was sentenced Wednesday to 60 years in prison for his daughter’s murder. A judge in New Britain, Connecticut, imposed the …
Read More »Daughter of slain Mexico reporter dies of wounds from attack that killed her father
The daughter of a reporter slain earlier this week in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas died Friday of wounds suffered in the attack that killed her father. On Wednesday, Antonio de la Cruz became the 12th journalist killed so far this year in Mexico, when a man on …
Read More »Alexander Scott Ervin, acquitted of murder with insanity defense, escapes from Texas mental hospital
Austin, Texas — A man acquitted by reason of insanity of murder in the 2013 stabbing death of his father in Austin has escaped from a state hospital to which he was committed, authorities said Monday. Staff at the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, near the Oklahoma border and …
Read More »2 El Monte police officers “essentially ambushed,” shot and killed in Los Angeles County
Two police officers — one a 22-year veteran and the other a rookie — were shot and killed in the Los Angeles County city of El Monte late Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The suspect is also dead. The mayor said the officers were “essentially ambushed.” The El Monte officers were …
Read More »Shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, leads to 3 dead, 14 injured
Chattanooga, Tennessee — A shooting near a Tennessee nightclub early Sunday led to three deaths and 14 people suffering gunshot wounds and other injuries, police said. Fourteen people were hit by gunfire and three were hit by vehicles while trying to flee the scene, Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy said …
Read More »Man charged with aggravated assault in in Dallas hair salon shooting
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city’s Koreatown, police said early Tuesday. Police identified the suspect on Tuesday afternoon as 36-year-old Jeremy Smith. Smith was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, …
Read More »Joseph Jermaine Brand, man police call confessed double murderer, spotted walking around free in small South Carolina town of Kingstree
Columbia, S.C. — The last thing the family of two sisters slain in a tiny South Carolina town had heard about the man who confessed to killing them was that he was headed to a mental hospital in 2012 to be treated for schizophrenia so he could later be tried …
Read More »Beau Rothwell convicted of killing wife who had searched online “what to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant”
A jury has convicted a Missouri man of first-degree murder in the death of his pregnant wife whose battered body was found about a week after she was reported missing in 2019. In addition to the murder count, Beau Rothwell, 31, of Creve Coeur, was found guilty Thursday of tampering …
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