First-Degree Murder

A man has been accused of fatally shooting six people, including five children and one man, inside a Muskogee, Oklahoma, home.

A Florida deputy who had one shift left until his retirement was killed on the job after a man crashed into his police cruiser while fleeing law enforcement, officials said.

Authorities say two brothers have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery and fatal shooting of a Louisiana gas station clerk who was on his knees when he gave the money from the cash register to the suspects.

An illegal alien who previously was shielded from arrest and deported by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has been charged with first-degree murder and sexual assault in Arapahoe County, Colorado.

Brandon Martin, a one-time promising prospect in the Tampa Bay Rays organization, has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering three people with a baseball bat.

A Pennsylvania man accused of fatally shooting the two mothers of his children admitted that he committed both murders during an interview with law enforcement officials, police said.

A 26-year-old jail inmate caught a lucky break when a judge freed him earlier this year due to the coronavirus.

Two men and a woman have been arrested in connection with a triple murder in Florida during a nighttime fishing trip.

Employees at a Louisiana Dollar General recognized a murder suspect and locked him inside the store until authorities arrived.

A North Carolina man accused of killing his infant son is facing a charge of first-degree murder in connection with his death.

A convicted felon has been charged with murdering St. Louis, Missouri, 77-year-old retired police captain David Dorn during riots in the city last week.

An 18-year-old man accused of fatally pushing a Marine veteran in front of a train in Chicago is now facing first-degree murder charges.

The stepmother of an 11-year-old boy who went missing in Colorado was arrested Monday morning and is accused of first-degree murder.

An Oklahoma couple is facing charges after they allegedly murdered a 17-year-old girl as “payback” for transmitting a sexually transmitted disease.

An illegal alien has been arrested after allegedly murdering a woman in Cobb County, Georgia and shooting her teenage son days before Christmas. 

Damaging murder evidence against the illegal alien accused of murdering 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts in 2018 will, in fact, be allowed in court, District Judge Joel Yates ruled Monday. 

Two Florida vegans are accused of murder and child abuse after they allegedly starved their 18-month-old son to death.

Chain migration — whereby legal immigrants are allowed to bring their foreign relatives to the United States with them — is responsible for bringing to the U.S. a West African national convicted of brutally murdering two South Boston, Massachusetts, doctors.

A West African national who was allowed to keep his green card and remain in the United States was convicted on Tuesday for murdering two Boston, Massachusetts, doctors in 2017.

A 15-year-old girl has been charged with first-degree murder after she allegedly stabbed a 15-year-old boy aboard a Washington, DC, Metro train.

An Iowa farmer was found guilty of murdering his wife with a corn rake after prosecutors say he did it out of revenge over a secret affair.

A Tennessee man is accused of murdering his four-month-old son and his mother by allegedly stabbing them and setting their house on fire.

Tampa Bay Rays pitching prospect Blake Bivens suffered the shocking loss of his wife, child and mother-in-law, murdered by his brother-in-law

An argument in Washington state between a father and a daughter over installing a baby gate turned fatal, leaving the daughter dead, prosecutors said.

A Missouri prison nurse fatally poisoned her husband with antifreeze and set their home ablaze to hide the evidence as part of a plan to marry a convicted killer serving a life sentence in prison, police said.

The families of Americans allegedly murdered by an illegal alien — accused of killing five Americans — have had their lawsuit against the federal government dismissed by a federal judge. 

An illegal alien from Guatemala has been charged with stabbing to death a 16-year-old girl in Long Branch, New Jersey.

An illegal alien who has been living in the United States for four to seven years has been charged with first degree murder in the death of 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts after she went missing in her small town of Brooklyn, Iowa. 

Police charged a woman with murder on Saturday for allegedly kidnapping a six-month-old boy, setting him on fire, and leaving him to die by railroad tracks in Louisiana.

A jury found an Omaha, Nebraska, man guilty on Friday afternoon of killing a developmentally disabled man in a shooting that witnesses described as “target practice.”