TULSA - The jury trial for a man accused of gunning down two people at south Tulsa Quiktrip is underway. Nineteen-year-old Jermaine Jackson is accused of shooting and killing 18-year-old Kirstjan Hinrik Thorsson and 37-year-old John White III Sept. 8, 2012. On Wednesday morning, prosecutors delivered opening statements, describing the night it happened. Assistant District Attorney Julie Doss stated Thorsson and White were friends because White was Thorsson's mother's boyfriend. Thorsson's mother, Johanna Pena, was the first witness to take the stand. She told the court she was with her son and White that evening. She said early the next morning around 1 a.m. White went to QuikTrip for her, taking Thorsson with him. According to the prosecutor, there was some type of altercation along the way to QuikTrip and the defendant, Jackson, followed them to the store. Once there, prosecutors say Jackson approached the car as White and Thorrson were leaving. Jackson allegedly opened fire, emptying his entire gun into the vehicle. - (Black-on-white)- Man Charged With Double Homicide In Quik Trip Parking Lot Bound Over For Trial - Sep 11, 2012
- Tulsa murder suspect Jermaine Jackson arrested in Marianna, Arkansas - Sep 12, 2012
- Arrest made in double homicide near 71st and Riverside QuikTrip - Sep 12, 2012
- Family Of Teen Killed In QuikTrip Shooting Speaks As Second Victim Dies - Sep 12, 2012
- Icelandic Teenager Victim In Fatal Shooting At Tulsa QuikTrip By Black Male - Sep 12, 2012
The shooter is described as a black man, between 5-foot-7 and 5-10, about 140 to 150 pounds with braided hair... - John White, III obituary
Mr. John White, III was born June 3, 1975 in Carthage, Texas. John worked as an emergency room clerk in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
LAS VEGAS - Police said an argument over a cell phone led to the fatal stabbing of a person in the parking lot of a Las Vegas fast food eatery Thursday morning. The stabbing happened about 8:25 a.m. at a McDonald's restaurant in the 2600 block of West Sahara Avenue. Las Vegas Metro police said officers arrived to find an injured person. They said the victim was taken to University Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead. Police said the person responsible for the stabbing fled the scene and hid in a nearby vacant house, where he was arrested. Police later identified that man as Asa Funderburk, 36. He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center and faces a charge of murder with a deadly weapon. 
According to the woman, one of the men forced her into the car, and both men took her to League City. The woman says she was sexually assaulted inside a home and held captive for hours. According to police, the denoscriptions of the African American and Hispanic suspects are too vague to create sketches. 
A University of New Mexico star football player is accused, with two other men, of raping a female student in a moving car and has been dropped from the team. Crusoe Gongbay, 20, who was slated to be the UNM Lobos' starting running back as a senior in the fall, is being held on $50,000 bond after he turned himself in to campus police on Monday. Gongbay and another man, Ryan Ruff, who is not a student, each face two counts of second-degree criminal sexual penetration, one count of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy.
Liverpool, N.Y. -- A town of Clay man has been arrested after having sexual contact with a person younger than 13 for four years, according to the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office. Toni Albright, 46, of 7506 Plum Hollow Circle, has been charged with third-degree rape, second-degree criminal sexual act, third-degree criminal sexual act, second-degree criminal contempt and endangering the welfare of a child. He will appear in court on Thursday.
KENNESAW, Ga. - Police say a young Kennesaw man, who was arrested earlier this month on trespassing and felony peeping tom charges, sexually forced himself on a young woman last week. According to a warrant, at 1:45 p.m. on April 13, while in a garage area of a residence, Christopher Robinson allegedly forced a sex act on a young woman against her will, then fled the scene. Robinson was arrested on April 15 on a felony charge of rape. Robinson was charged earlier this month when he was caught just after midnight on the back deck of the same home. He was looking through the window at his 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Daytona Beach police are asking for help finding a sex offender accused of having sex with a teen girl after lying to her about his age. According to police, Jimmy Pinckney, 42, had sex with the girl at her home after they met at the Dickerson Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Daytona Beach. The girl's mother reported to police that when she came home from work, she saw Pinckney running out the back door.The
BOYNTON BEACH – Detectives believe that a man, arrested and charged with sexual battery on a helpless person, may have other victims. Issac Brevil, 26, was arrested Monday and is currently being held in Palm Beach County Jail on $50,000 bond. Brevil, according to the probable cause affidavit, unlawfully committed sexual battery without the victim’s consent and while she was helpless. The victim told police that she had gone out to a club with some friends on the night of February 27th and was drinking. When the victim woke up the next morning, around 5:30 AM, she told police that she was at a house in Boynton Beach with the suspect who was having sexual intercourse with her against her will. According to the report, the victim told the suspect to stop several times but he did not listen. The victim was able to get the suspect’s tag and the suspect was identified through a photo lineup.
PEMBROKE PINES – A mental health technician is facing elderly neglect charges after Pembroke Pines Police say she disobeyed a supervisor’s order and closed a mentally ill man in a room by himself and refused to help him when he tried to get out. Debra Judge-Thomas was charged last week with the crime that police say occurred at the South Florida State Hospital in Pembroke Pines. According to the police report: On December 2, 2013, Judge-Thomas was providing one-on-one care to 
believes a vengeful student hired attack over bad grade. While Professor 
The 15-year-old Santa Clara boy who survived a five-hour flight from San Jose in the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines plane had hoped to visit his mother in Africa and didn't realize he was heading to Maui, according to a Hawaii media report. The boy, a student at Santa Clara High School, was unhappy living with his father, stepmother and siblings and wanted to reunite with his mother and other relatives in his native Africa, Hawaii News Now reported, citing unidentified sources in the Maui Police Department.
Memphis police have arrested a man accused of repeatedly raping a child. Gabriel Dotson, 38, has been charged with rape, statutory rape by an authority figure, rape of a child and aggravated sexual battery. He is being held on $100,000 bond. According to police, Dotson assaulted the girl from June 2009, when she was 11, through March. The girl is now 16.
MARMADUKE, AR – Police have arrested a man who they say forced his way into a home wearing only a red sweatshirt. According to Marmaduke Police Chief Steve Franks, Nathan Inskeep was arrested Monday. Inskeep is a level three sex offender from Paragould. Franks says Inskeep forced his way into a woman's home and assaulted her while she was holding her one-year-old child. Inskeep was charged with aggravated residential burglary, breaking or entering, first degree battery and indecent exposure.
An Overland man with a history of rape convictions faces charges after police say he forced a young girl to have sex with him. Joseph Smith, 53, was charged with two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and two counts of first-degree child molestation. Police say Smith was in his apartment off Midland in 2010 when he raped his neighbor's 
WEST COLUMBIA, SC - When Nathaniel Antron Hunter was arrested for a home invasion, attempted sexual assault and shooting in West Columbia, he was out on bond for a murder that happened more than seven years ago, and was not supposed to have a gun, according to court records. Investigators say Hunter was involved in a shooting that left two people dead in Fairfield County in 2006. He was arrested four months later. In addition to the murder charge, he was charged with burglary and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Hunter was also out on bond for an indecent exposure charge from last year. He also pleaded guilty to an indecent exposure charge in Lexington County in 2011. 
LOS ANGELES — A Gardena man was expected in court Monday on charges of transporting a teenage Minnesota girl to Los Angeles to engage in prostitution, federal prosecutors said. Laron Darrell Carter, aka “Birdd,” 36, arrested this morning in Las Vegas by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), according to Claude Arnold, special agent in charge for HSI Los Angeles. The arrest follows a yearlong investigation launched after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies rescued a 
A Clay man who has been on the run since 2010 is back in custody after authorities caught up to him in a London airport on Saturday. 47 year-old Tobias Bowen was charged with felony
ATLANTA - On Tuesday, Clayton County police arrested a local teacher, Roderick Winslow Arrington, of Covington. Arrington allegedly had a consensual relationship with a 
A 24-year-old woman who admitted to an Ocala police officer that she had an inappropriate relationship with a teen girl was arrested Tuesday on charges of unlawful sexual activity with a certain minor. Ocala Police Department Officer Richard Tuck went to a northeast Ocala address due to a domestic dispute and was told by Whitney L. Simmons that her girlfriend had pepper-sprayed her in the face during an argument. Simmons told the officer that she and her girlfriend were in a sexual relationship, according to an OPD report.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for a suspecting the stabbing of a man at the Hamilton Mall in South Jersey over the weekend. Police say 27-year-old Haniff Cooper of Atlantic City will face aggravated assault and weapons charges.
FERNDALE, Mich. - Ferndale Police have arrested two men and are searching for a third suspect said to have assaulted a classmate at their high school in Ferndale. Police say three students at Taft Digital Learning Center walked into a classroom in progress, ignoring warnings by a staff member. The students then went to a 16-year-old student and demanded he give them a cell phone. The three students then beat the victim until he was unconscious, then ran away from the school. Ferndale Lt. Bill Wilson said they ducked into a nearby liquor store, where police found two of the three suspects. Brothers Tre Barber, 20, and Tyler Barber, 19, were taken into custody. Police are still looking for the third suspect, Jashiem Ross, 18. 
SAN JOSE — Two men were in custody for the March 10 kidnapping and robbery of a woman outside a Target store in East San Jose who answered a listing on Craigslist to buy iPhones from them, San Jose police said Monday. San Jose police, assisted by police in Visalia, Calif. and the California Department of Justice Fugitive Task Force, on Thursday located and arrested one suspect, Cody Hollinquest, 18, in Visalia, Officer Albert Morales said. The other suspect, Willie Christopher, 24, was apprehended on March 27 in Tulare, Calif., in a joint operation by the San Jose and Tulare police, Morales said.
CALABASAS, Calif. -- Keyshawn Johnson, a former NFL star, was arrested Monday at his Calabasas home on misdemeanor domestic battery. Authorities responded to a call regarding a possible spousal assault just before 1 a.m. Deputies determined that Johnson and his ex-girlfriend were involved in a domestic dispute. Johnson was taken into custody without further incident. He was released at 9:15 a.m. after posting $20,000 bail.
A U.S. marshal shot and killed a defendant on Monday in a new federal courthouse after the man rushed the witness stand with a pen at his trial in Salt Lake City, authorities said. Defendant Siale Angilau, who reportedly belonged to Tongan Crip gang, was hospitalized with at least one chest wound, FBI spokesman Mark Dressen said. He later died in hospital of his injuries. 'During the trial this morning the defendant went after, engaged the witness stand, and when he engaged the witness at the witness stand, he was shot by the U.S. Marshals Service,' Dressen said. 'From what I understand, the defendant may have grabbed a pen or a pencil and charged the witness stand at that time.' 
MT. MORRIS TOWNSHIP, MI -- A warrant has been issued for a 19-year-old man in connection to a fatal shooting outside of a Mt. Morris Township liquor store. Police are asking for the public's help in locating Aaron Ivory in connection to the Dec. 2, 2013, killing of 
A West Side prostitution sting took a violent turn Friday when a man twice punched an undercover Chicago police officer in the face, leaving her with a broken nose. The vice officer was talking to a prospective john in the Lawndale neighborhood late Friday when a honking vehicle approached, an arrest report shows. Police said a man in that car said “Get off my corner, white hoe,” and the officer, trying to maintain her cover, responded by telling him to be quiet. But when the man, later identified by police as Steven Dell, got out of the car and began “aggressively advancing towards her,” the officer put her hands up and identified herself as police, the arrest report states. That didn’t deter Dell, who said he didn’t care if she was an officer and then punched her twice in the face, police and prosecutors said. Officers then arrested Dell, 44. 
RALEIGH -- The FBI says it has captured the last of two additional suspects in the kidnapping of 63-year-old
DETROIT – A 17-year-old (Bruce Edward Wimbush Jr) charged with attempted murder in the beating of a Detroit-area motorist has waived his right to a probable cause hearing and will move his case directly to trial court. Bruce Wimbush Jr. waived the hearing Monday. The hearing continued for three other men also charged with attempted murder. 
Approximately 12%-13% of the American population is African-American, but they make up 40% of the almost 2.1 million male inmates in jail or prison (U.S. Department of Justice, 2009). Census data for 2000 of the number and race of all individuals incarcerated in the United States revealed a wide racial disproportion of the incarcerated population in each state: the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeded the proportion among state residents in twenty states; the percent of blacks incarcerated was five times greater than the resident population. "One of every three black American males born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime". 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Daytona Beach police have arrested a teen couple after an elderly woman was found badly beaten and robbed in her home on Easter morning. Authorities said 
Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse girl accused of charging at a female student with a knife in Nottingham High School will remain in the Onondaga County jail with no bail on an alleged probation violation. Raeshanda Stephens (aka Rae Shanda Stephens), 17, had her $10,000 bail revoked by County Court Judge Anthony Aloi today because her arrest may have violated a probationary sentence from a year ago. Stephens was charged with second-degree attempted assault, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and disorderly conduct after the March 28 incident at Nottingham, police said. Her mother, Corinne Monaghan, 36, was also charged with second-degree harassment, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct. Her arrest also may have violated her probation, and she also remains in jail with no bail.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Metro Police arrested a teen they say joined dozens of people blocking the road outside of a Long John Silvers in Shawnee. Police say officers responding to the restaurant near 35th and Broadway observed approximately 50 people standing in the alley Saturday night. According to an arrest report, officers have responded to that location for multiple fights and reports of gang activity involving the youth gang "YNO" in recent weeks. When officers arrived, police say 18-year-old David Leach was standing in the parking lot of Long John Silvers and refused officers' orders to leave the location, even though allegedly he was not a customer. Police say the group of 50 people alarmed nearby residents and prevented passing motorists from driving through the crowded roadway.
MILFORD, Del.- Police have arrested a 43-year-old Milford man accused of exposing himself outside a home. Milford police said that on Saturday, officers took Brian L. Tunnell into custody on four counts of indecent exposure. According to police, Tunnell's arrest stemmed from an incident that happened April 12 on the 700 block of Truitt Avenue. Investigators said that Tunnell was standing outside a home when he exposed his buttocks and then his genitals to the victims.
SALISBURY, Md. —A home invasion on the Eastern Shore left a 72-year-old man dead and another man injured Wednesday. Police said they found 
DAYTON — A drunken man allegedly walked up to the front door of a daycare Friday afternoon and exposed himself. Dayton police arrested Donald Lynn Hayes, 56, after getting a public indecency report in the 2300 block of Catalpa Drive, according to the Dayton police report. The director at Youthland Academy told police the suspect stood in front of the door touching himself while his unbelted pants sagged down, according to the report. After the director told him to leave, she called police and he walked across the street to a barber shop, where the owner kicked him out.
CLEVELAND, OH - Although we've seen a growing number of female sex offenders, it's still rare to see a case where a woman is accused of sexual and physical abuse. The charges are chilling and unusual, especially for a woman. Cleveland Sex Crimes investigators have filed charges of rape and child endangering against Denitra Cox, saying she fondled two young children. Cox is also accused of physically abusing three more children, including one child with severe medical problems. The agency for Cuyahoga County Social Workers tells us workers have been dealing with the family since 2011. Cox is also a mom with four kids of her own, but last year the county took all the kids away. 
MILWAUKEE — U.S. Marshals are looking for 43-year-old Ngai Dixon. Dixon was charged in November 2012 with two felony counts of repeated sexual assault of a child. He has eluded U.S. Marshals for the past two years. U.S. Marshals say Dixon used intimidation and threats to force himself onto two teenage girls. Marshals say he was a family friend, who assaulted the girls for years, unknown to their parents. Dixon is 6 feet tall and weighs 210 pounds. He has a spiderman tattoo on his calf, and tattoos of a pitchfork and Looney Tunes figures on his arms.
ODENTON, Md. —Anne Arundel County police arrested a man Saturday on a sex offense charge. Investigators said a woman was returning home to her apartment in the 500 block of Branch Line Road in Odenton around 4 a.m. Saturday when she was followed by a man who forced his way in and began groping and touching her. The victim screamed and the man fled on foot. Police canvassed the area and found Kevin J. Belts, 43, of Severna Park, nearby. Police said he matched a denoscription of the assailant provided by the victim. Belts was charged with first- and fourth-degree burglary, second-degree assault and fourth-degree sex offense. 
After more than two days of wrangling over whether to accept a plea deal as his trial began, a Marrero man admitted Wednesday he killed his girlfriend's 3-year-old son, and tried to kill her, too, when he sought to burn down their house. Timmie Reed, 36, was sentenced to 90 years in prison, in the Feb. 12, 2013, death of 
CLEVELAND, OH - An 18-year-old man pleads not guilty to the murder of his newborn daughter. Brandon Moss is accused of killing his
DETROIT — A Detroit woman was sentenced Monday to at least 23 years in prison for fatally stabbing her 8-year-old daughter, whom a court had refused to remove from the home despite allegations of abuse. The "system failed" 
The mother of slain 
A 17-year-old Savannah woman has been charged with the murder of her infant daughter after an eight-month investigation. Calabria Tiawana Bragg surrendered to metro police Tuesday after being indicted by a Chatham County grand jury on two counts of felony murder, cruelty to children, cruelty to children in the second degree and false statements and writings to law enforcement officers. The indictment and arrest followed the death of 
HOUSTON – The father of a 4-year-old boy who accidentally shot and killed himself last year is now facing an upgraded charge of murder as investigators say he failed to immediately seek emergency care, according to court documents. Marquiez Pratt, 20, is accused of leaving a loaded firearm within reach of
ST PETERSBURG, FL - A young boy was killed in Jordan Park in St. Petersburg at the hands of his own mother, police say. St. Petersburg Police say they are investigating the stabbing death of 
Joseph McRae, 24, punched intern 
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A Santa Monica High School student is charged with assault and drug possession in connection with a fight involving a teacher. 18-year-old Blair Moore, of Los Angeles, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to several misdemeanors: two counts of threatening a public school official, one count of possession of a box cutter on school grounds, one count of marijuana possession on school grounds, and one count of force or violence against a school employee in retaliation for an act performed in the course of his or her duties. Moore was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court April 22. The charges stem from an April 4 fight captured on cellphone video that allegedly involves Moore and 
A North Little Rock man charged with capital murder after authorities say he set his girlfriend on fire and then doused her with gasoline won't face the possibility of the death penalty. Matthew Nichols, 47, was back in Pulaski County Circuit Court on Thursday after his defense attorneys sought a second opinion on a State Hospital report that found him mentally fit to proceed to trial. 
WICHITA, Kan. -- A registered sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for crimes against a 
A man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a teenage girl in South Los Angeles, and LAPD detectives on Friday were investigating a possible connection between that crime and three homicides in the same area, officials said. Robert Ransom, 30, has been booked on three charges – kidnapping, attempted sexual assault and attempted murder, according to Cmdr. Andrew Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department. The charges stem from an incident that occurred about 6:10 p.m. March 20 near the intersection of Gage Avenue and San Pedro Street, where a man walked up to a
Former Knick Larry Hughes is being questioned at the 1st Precinct stationhouse after a 22-year-old woman accused him of raping her at the Trump SoHo Hotel, sources told the Daily News. After she left the hotel she went to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell with a friend and told doctors she had been raped, sources said. 
Two Opelousas men are facing felony counts in the rape and sexual assault of a
READING, Pa. - A Reading man is locked up on $1 million bail on charges he raped a child in 2010. Members of the Berks County sheriff's office fugitive task force and detectives with the district attorney's office apprehended Xavier Lacosta-Franco without incident at a home in the 1300 block of North 10th Street in Reading, officials said Friday. 
TOPEKA, Kan. -- A Topeka man's new trial on rape charges has been delayed yet again. Ricky Stovall, 53, waived his right for a speedy trial and agreed to start his five day trial September 22nd. A pre-trial hearing is set for August 14th. Last year, the Kansas Supreme Court reversed Stovall's 2007 conviction for the
PORTLAND -- A 47-year-old sex offender has been arrested for sexually assaulting a woman near the Steel Bridge last month, police said. The victim called 911 on March 11 to report a stranger had attacked her near the stairs at the east end of the bridge, said Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson. "In addition to sexually assaulting the woman, the suspect stole her bank cards," Simpson said Friday. "Sex crimes detectives worked closely with the Sex Offender Registration Detail and Central Precinct to identify the suspect as Clarence Williams, a registered sex offender." 
Athens-Clarke County police this morning released a sketch of a man they said forced his way into a home and raped the person who lived there. Between 2:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. April 11, a bald, overweight man with a muscular build knocked on the door of the residence, according to a release from the police department. The resident, who did not know the man, answered the door. Once the man forced his way inside the home, he raped the resident, police said. Crime Stoppers is offering up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest of the man, who police believe is in his late 30s and about 6 feet tall.
A 44-year-old man was charged with attacking and choking a 29-year-old woman before raping her Thursday near her house in Harrisburg, according to city police. The woman told police that she was approached by a man around 11:30 p.m. after walking from a bar to her house on South Third Street, according to a city police news release. After a brief conversation, the man attacked the woman, striking her several times and choking her until she almost lost consciousness, police said. During the attack, the woman said she was raped. Details into the police investigation were not made public Tuesday, but detectives said they identified 44-year-old Roy E. Gilbert-Kristman as a potential suspect and the woman confirmed his identity. 
Police arrested a Dallas man accused of sexually assaulting a female patient at a drug-rehabilitation facility where he works. After he was arrested, Anthony Sennette Jackson, 41, was charged with the sexual assault of a female patient at his place of work — Homeward Bound Inc./Trinity Center Behavioral Healthcare Services in North Oak Cliff. About 4:45 am on March 9, the woman went to the kitchen in the facility to get a sandwich. She saw Jackson sitting on the couch watching a movie. He asked if she wanted to join him, she said she didn’t but sat down on the couch to eat her sandwich because she was not allowed to eat in her room. She fell asleep on the couch and woke up to Jackson rubbing her lower back. He stated that he was giving her a massage. She told him to stop and fell back asleep. At one point she said that she remembers him saying “why don’t we get up and go to one of these vacant rooms” to continue massaging her. She said she remembered waking up in a separate room with Jackson on top of her.
A judge on Thursday adjourned the sentencing of Darshawn Morris for the rape, slaying and attempted dismemberment of a 
An arrest has been made in the murder and rape of a 21-year-old Gibsonton woman, whose naked body was found behind the Summerfield Shopping Plaza in January. On January 18, 2014 at approximately 7:20 a.m., the driver of a sanitation truck for Progressive Waste Solutions discovered 
An Iraqi immigrant convicted in a rape case that left a woman nearly dead and bleeding internally was sentenced to 28 years to life in prison. 
A San Leandro High School teacher turned himself in to the San Jose Police Department Thursday after police started investigating whether he was involved in a sexual relationship with a minor. Calculus teacher Leon Chang was charged by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office for his involvement in a sexual relationship with a teenage minor. During the investigation, additional information and forensic evidence was located and reviewed, leading to Investigators determining that there had been an ongoing sexual relationship that occured between Chang and the teenage minor.
KANSAS CITY, MO Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced Friday that 27-year-old Mohammed P. Whitaker has been charged as a criminal defendant with 18 felonies. Whitaker faces 18 felony charges stemming from nine separate incidents that occurred throughout the metro area. Of the 18 felony charges, two are A felonies for shooting into a vehicle and striking someone and seven are B felonies for shooting into a motor vehicle. He also faces nine separate counts of armed criminal action. 
A tactical team reportedly made the arrest of a lone black male suspect within the last hour at a home in Grandview. The investigation in the last three weeks focused on a single suspect and police believe they have that suspect in custody now. The arrest comes about a week after police had connected 12 of approximately 20 highway shootings in an investigation that stretched as far back as 2013
He, along with his seventeen-year-old partner, Lee Boyd Malvo, carried out the Beltway sniper attacks of October 2002, killing at least 10 people. Born as John Allen Williams, Muhammad joined the Nation of Islam in 1987 and later changed his surname to 
SOUTH BEND - BREAKING: Eight people are facing criminal charges for their involvement in the murder of 2-year-old
OMAHA, Neb. —Omaha police said one person has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting Monday night. Dennis Brewer, Jr. , 21, faces a count of criminal homicide, according to police. Officers said the investigation continues into the shooting at Gallagher Park, just across the street from Benson High School. As officers arrived at the scene to investigate a report of shots fired, authorities said, two shooting victims showed up at Methodist Hospital. One died a short time later. The deceased victim was identified as 
A Palos Heights man shot during a home invasion Tuesday morning is in serious but stable condition after surgery. 
SAN DIEGO - A man was convicted Thursday of robbery and premeditated attempted murder for a crime spree with a fellow gang member that included the near-fatal beating of an 18-year-old UC Berkeley student in the College area of San Diego. Terrence Lavar Jarvis, 28, faces 155 years to life in prison when he is sentenced May 30. Jurors deliberated about a day before finding Jarvis guilty of robbery, attempted robbery, shooting at an inhabited dwelling and the attempted murder of 
David Daniel White, 22, will be sentenced to 17 years to life in prison, plus five years and eight months behind bars, for the Dec. 28, 2011, attack on 
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied a stay on Friday for two death row inmates set to be executed this month, saying it didn't have jurisdiction — even though the state Supreme Court says it's the only court that does. In a 3-2 decision, the Criminal Appeals court rejected the request from lawyers for Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, saying it disagrees with a state Supreme Court ruling that the appellate court is the correct authority to issue a stay.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Police have made an arrest in the March death of a Springfield man. Back on March 22, police responded to 5 Temple Street after neighbors reported a strange odor coming from a sixth floor apartment. When they arrived, they found 61-year-old 
West Memphis police have arrested two teenagers in the beating and robbery of an elderly woman Monday night. Terrio Pope, 19, and Ramon Huntley, 17, both of West Memphis, have each been charged with aggravated residential burglary, first-degree battery and robbery. Both defendants are being held at the Crittenden County Detention Center on $350,000 bonds. The 
CEDAR CITY — A 5th District Court Judge on Tuesday rescheduled a five-day jury trial for a 52-year-old Cedar City man accused of killing his girlfriend to give attorneys more time to prepare for trial. Judge John Walton agreed to continue Kerry Lynn Richardson’s court date initially slated for May 19 to after the first of July. Richardson originally faced charges of aggravated assault, a second-degree felony, in connection with the beating of his girlfriend on Sept. 9, 2012. The charges were later amended to first-degree felony murder after the woman died in the hospital. According to court documents, police were called to 1597 N. Cedar Blvd., where they found Richardson’s girlfriend, 47-year-old
A teenager behind bars for allegedly killing a Fort Carson soldier and his pregnant wife is now facing new charges. Macyo Joelle January, 19, faces new charges of assault and harassment, but the reason why has not been released. The charges stem from crimes January allegedly committed while locked up for the murders of Staff Sergeant 
A grand jury has indicted the suspect in the 2011 homicide of jewelry store manager 
LOUISVILLE, KY – A man is facing murder charges in connection to the assault of a man who walked in on a burglary at his place of employment, resulting in his death. According to Louisville Metro police, Raymon Murrell was booked into Louisville Metro Department of Corrections at 4:23 p.m. Tuesday. Police said on Friday morning 
SEATTLE — Seattle police are investigating a home invasion robbery at the home of a local Seafair icon. Police say an 84-year-old man was held at gunpoint by two men wearing ski masks, who they say kicked the older man when he was thrown to the ground in a scuffle. Neighbors say the home is owned by 
NEW YORK — A man was charged Tuesday with punching a 70-year-old woman in the face in a Brooklyn subway station. James Showell, 54, of Brooklyn, was charged with assault in connection with the attack, which happened around 10:45 a.m. Sunday, March 30, at the 4th Avenue-9th Street R Train platform in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The victim – 