Carrolton, Ga. — A university instructor in Georgia has been charged with killing an 18-year-old student who was shot while sitting in a car. The Carrollton Police Department said in a news release that Richard Sigman, 47, is charged with murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of Anna …
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The disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to murdering his wife and son. His defense lawyers and prosecutors agreed to keep the evidence secret amid media attention. His defense asked the judge to deny him bond, saying he can’t afford to post it anyway and …
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A man executed more than two decades ago has been identified through DNA testing as the person who killed a Texas girl in 1979, authorities have announced. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said Monday it had spent decades investigating the September 1979 strangulation death of 12-year-old Lesia Michell Jackson. She …
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Arkansas State Police are investigating a shooting that took place Wednesday night inside the bathroom of a jail in Perry County, a rural township located 50 miles west of Little Rock. An officer working at the detention center, 21-year-old Jeremiah Story, was killed during the incident, which occurred as a …
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BERKELEY — Police in Berkeley on Wednesday confirmed the recent arrest of a 16-year-old boy who was actively recruiting other high school students to participate in a mass shooting and bombing at Berkeley High School. In a press release issued Wednesday, police said they received a tip on May 21 …
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A New York court halted the use of a DNA crimefighting tool that has helped crack cold cases and put murderers behind bars, but has also raised privacy and racial discrimination concerns, because state lawmakers never approved the practice. Known as familial DNA searching, the technique allows law enforcement agencies …
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The possible suspect in the fatal shooting of the owner and two employees of a Biloxi, Mississippi, motel and subsequent death of a person shot during a carjacking was found dead after a standoff with police Wednesday, authorities said. Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer identified the possible suspect as 32-year-old …
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Rapper Tory Lanez, who is charged with shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the Hollywood Hills in the summer of 2020, was taken into custody in a Downtown Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday for allegedly violating the terms of a pre-trial protective order. L.A. County Superior Court Judge David Herriford agreed with …
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Prosecutors in California say a man and a woman accused of shooting and stabbing to death a Black Navy veteran at a gas station on March 15 committed a hate crime. Police say Justin Peoples, 30, was shot once and stabbed multiple times at a Chevron gas station in Tracy, …
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A man has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Florida couple who were riding their bicycles home, Daytona Beach chief of police Jakari Young announced Thursday. Young told reporters last week that the attack was “probably one of the most vicious and gruesome” he’s witnessed in 20 years. …
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