Bullets sprayed out from a speeding car in Connecticut’s capital, killing an innocent 12-year-old bystander and wounding three other people who have have rap sheets that include gun crimes, authorities said Friday. The suspects in the drive-by shooting appeared to target three males who were standing on a sidewalk on …
Read More »Emotional testimony at murder trial of Madison McDonald, woman police say admitted smothering her daughters
The capital murder trial is underway of a Dallas-area mother police say admitted killing her daughters two years ago. CBS Texas’ Annie Gimbel and Robbie Owens report that Madison McDonald is facing two capital murder charges in the deaths of 1-year-old Lillian Mae McDonald and 6-year-old Archer Hammond. Police in …
Read More »Ella Mae Begay missing: Preston Henry Tolth charged in case of Navajo Nation woman who disappeared in 2021
A federal grand jury has indicted a New Mexico man on assault and carjacking charges in connection with the 2021 disappearance of a Native American woman whose case has helped to raise awareness about missing people and unsolved slayings in Indian Country. The indictment naming Preston Henry Tolth, 23, was …
Read More »Nashville school shooting: Bodycam video shows officers converge on shooter
Authorities released police body camera footage Tuesday showing officers entering the Christian school in Nashville where six people were killed a day before, searching the hallways for the attacker and taking down the shooter. The six-minute video shows footage from the body camera of responding Officer Rex Engelbert, a four-year …
Read More »As many as 52,000 missing Dallas Police Dept. video files may jeopardize criminal convictions past and future
The Dallas Police Department is downplaying the possibility that tens of thousands of missing video files will jeopardize recent or future criminal convictions, CBS Texas’ J.D. Miles reports. The problem has already delayed one murder trial but there’s disagreement over what the overall impact will be. A judge’s decision to …
Read More »Neighbors say MSU gunman Anthony McRae often shot target practice in backyard
Lansing, Mich. — Although neighbors in Lansing describe the man police say was the Michigan State University gunman as generally quiet, they told CBS Detroit’s Andres Gutierrez gunfire was a common occurrence in the backyard of his father’s home. Authorities say Anthony McRae killed three students and wounded five others Monday …
Read More »Defense floats multiple shooter theory as prosecutors focus on interview with law enforcement at Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial
“I did him so bad.” That’s what a South Carolina investigator on Monday testified that Alex Murdaugh had uttered between sobs during a recorded interview three days after Murdaugh’s wife and son were killed. But to others inside and outside the courtroom, it sounded like Murdaugh said, “They did him …
Read More »Albert “Ian” Schweitzer, Hawaii man imprisoned for Dana Ireland’s 1991 murder and rape, released after lawyer presents new evidence
Honolulu — – A judge on Tuesday ordered a man released from prison immediately after his attorneys presented new evidence and argued that he didn’t commit the crimes he was convicted of and spent more than 20 years locked up for: the 1991 murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a …
Read More »Man accused of attacking NYPD officers with machete facing federal charges
The man accused of attacking three NYPD officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve is facing federal charges, prosecutors announced. Trevor Bickford, 19, has been charged with attempting to kill officers and employees of the U.S. government, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New …
Read More »“Boy in the Box” murder victim found in 1957 identified by Philadelphia police as Joseph Augustus Zarelli
More than six decades after a young boy was found dead inside a bassinet box that had been abandoned on a road in Philadelphia, police have publicly identified his remains. During a news conference held on Thursday morning, authorities announced that the child, who over the years came to be …
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