Crime News
The second attack, at a middle school in Kahramanmaraş, came one day after a former student opened fire at a high school in nearby Şanlıurfa. ANKARA, Turkey — Two school shootings in southeastern Turkey within about 24 hours left nine people dead and at least 29 wounded after a 14-year-old student opened fire at a middle school in Kahramanmaraş on Wednesday, one day after a former student shot 16 people at a high school in …
Prosecutors say an 88-year-old Roseland woman’s disappearance became a homicide case after police found her wrapped in a rug behind a bookcase in her home. CHICAGO, Ill. — A 66-year-old Chicago man is charged with killing his 88-year-old mother after police found her dead April 7 in a concealed basement room of her Roseland home, ending a missing-person search that began when relatives said her daily messages suddenly stopped. Authorities say the case matters because …
Prosecutors say the girl was sharing a seat belt with a sibling when she was thrown from the SUV on Interstate 17. PHOENIX, Ariz. — An Arizona mother was jailed after prosecutors accused her of speeding and weaving through traffic on Interstate 17 before a rollover crash killed her 9-year-old daughter and injured three other children riding with them in north Phoenix on Sunday morning. The case moved quickly from a highway fatality to a …
Fond du Lac County investigators say a parent had gone back inside for a forgotten item when the gun discharged in a driveway vehicle. LAMARTINE, Wis. — A 2-year-old boy died after he was shot Friday morning inside a vehicle parked in his family’s driveway in Fond du Lac County, where investigators say his 4-year-old sibling found a loaded gun while a parent briefly went back into the house. Authorities say the shooting happened in …
Prosecutors say Gyaw Way lured a man and his teenage son to a home on the East Side, then shot the boy while blaming the family for a fire that authorities had already ruled accidental. ST. PAUL, Minn. — A St. Paul man who lost his son in a December house fire is accused of shooting a 17-year-old boy in the chest after luring the teen and his father to a home on the city’s …
The April 7 shooting wounded Principal Kirk Moore, left no students hurt and pushed former student Victor Hawkins toward a May 8 court hearing. PAULS VALLEY, Okla. — Newly released school surveillance video shows Principal Kirk Moore rushing an armed former student in the lobby of Pauls Valley High School on April 7, a confrontation that left Moore wounded in the leg and ended a shooting before any students were hit. The footage matters now …
Police said another man was wounded and, as of April 14, no suspect had been publicly named in the April 2 shooting. PLYMOUTH, N.C. — A 36-year-old father was shot to death while holding his 8-month-old child in a vehicle outside his home before dawn April 2, and investigators had not announced an arrest nearly two weeks later. Police identified the dead man as Devonelle Brimage, a Plymouth resident whose family later said he used …
Zamiqua Miller, 33, had been taken to hospitals twice before she was found unconscious Sunday, police said. BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A 33-year-old woman arrested on drug charges died at Brooklyn Central Booking on Sunday after police said she was taken to hospitals twice the day before for withdrawal-related symptoms and then returned to custody while awaiting arraignment. The death matters now because it adds another case to New York City’s growing list of deaths in …
Police said two speeding drivers helped cause the collision, and both now face homicide-related charges after a Toyota Camry was torn apart at a Tucson intersection. TUCSON, Ariz. — A 3-year-old girl was killed and her pregnant mother was badly hurt after police said two speeding drivers raced into a Tucson intersection and slammed into the family’s car, splitting it in half in a crash that has now led to two arrests. The collision happened …
Authorities in eastern France say a 9-year-old child was malnourished and unable to walk when officers opened his father’s utility van. HAGENBACH, France — A 9-year-old boy was rescued in eastern France after authorities said he had been kept inside his father’s utility van since late 2024, leaving him malnourished, filthy and unable to walk when officers found him this month. The case has stunned the small village of Hagenbach, near France’s borders with Germany …