A hit-and-run driver, showing “callousness and disregard for human life,” fatally struck a high school football player who was trying to save an injured dog, according to cops in Valdosta, Georgia. Officers said in an update on Monday that they found the Dodge Charger implicated in the killing of Samuel Johnson Jr., 16, but they […]
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A pair of young children in Texas will now live the rest of their lives without their mother — along with the added trauma of witnessing her violent death in a tragic murder-suicide earlier this week. Arazeli Ruiz, 24, a devoted and beloved mother of two, was shot and killed by Fernando Fernandez, 31, on […]
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Vista Outdoor, the parent company of many ammunition manufacturers, including Federal, CCI, and Remington, has warned that ammunition costs will soar in 2024 owing to a global lack of gunpowder. Vista Outdoor notified consumers in a letter that they would begin raising prices on all of their ammunition items due to “an anticipated global shortage […]
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An accused murderer with a well-documented history of courtroom outbursts, threats, mental illness, and an intellectual disability that made him ineligible for the death penalty is set to stand trial for three 2016 slayings after years of delays. Brice Rhodes, a 33-year-old Kentucky rapper known as “Rambo” and criminal defendant who years ago went viral […]
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A 30-year-old New Jersey man pretended to be a nurse online in order to lure unsuspecting New York women into “romantic relationships,” only to kidnap the victims, including a victim’s 2-year-old child, and commit “deeply disturbing and heinous acts,” authorities allege. Herman Calvin Brightman, aka Nazir Griffiths and Nazir Luckett, used Facebook and the dating […]
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A 25-year-old man accused of brutally killing his 35-year-old girlfriend and her 14-year-old daughter — allegedly stabbing the woman and the teen inside of their Florida home before fleeing the state — appeared in court on Monday where a judge ordered him to remain behind bars until his trial. Defendant Jean Pierre Ojeda Salazar is […]
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Anthony Waldron “ignored a child to death,” said a prosecutor in Oswego County, New York, and now he must spend 29 years in prison for the boy’s brutal passing, according to CNY Central. His stepson, Jordan Brooks, 17, lived with cerebral palsy, but despite the teen’s vulnerable condition, Waldron and the victim’s mother, Lisa Waldron, […]
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Three men in Oklahoma have been indicted in a medical marijuana business conspiracy tied to a pot farm where a suspected former worker shot and killed four others and wounded a fifth in a dispute over a $300,000 investment. In a news release, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said Kevin Paul Pham, 47, and Alex […]
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A Utah couple is behind bars and their 6-week-old kitten who had meth in her system is on the mend after she was found trapped in a duct-taped plastic sandwich container barely alive, according to authorities. Police in Cottonwood Heights near Salt Lake City were called to a parking lot on Monday morning after a […]
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The lawyer for the third man arrested for the murder of a mother of five who hasn’t been seen since 2015 says that his client is innocent — and that there may have been a murder-for-hire plot behind the woman’s presumed death. As Law&Crime previously reported, Steven Lawson has been charged with conspiracy to commit […]
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