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Police believe the stabbing murder of a 16-year-old transgender girl was “targeted” are yet to see evidence it was not “hate related”.

Knife slayings hit their highest total since records began in 1946 in the year to March 2022, according to official statistics.

Officials made an arrest Thursday after a 33-year-old Jersey City kindergarten teacher’s body was found in a shallow grave.

A woman living in Paris who allegedly set a fire to “annoy” her neighbour is on trial this week after the fire spread, killing ten people. 

A 28-year-old mother of five children was killed in a hit-and-run and dragged under the car after she defended her daughter from a group of bullies, according to police and the victim’s family. 

A 12-year-old girl is in custody after she allegedly stabbed her nine-year-old brother to death in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Thursday.

A Memphis man charged with first-degree murder was rearrested after being mistakenly released from jail with no bond on Sunday. 

There were over 500 homicides in Mayor Jim Kenney’s (D) Philadelphia in 2022, making 2022 the second consecutive year that the threshold of at least 500 homicides has been reached.

Spain’s ruling leftist parties have blamed each other after the country saw a record number of murders of women in December. 

A gunman fatally shot a woman in the stomach outside a liquor store Wednesday night in Detroit before escaping with the victim’s vehicle.

A career criminal was arrested Christmas Eve after he allegedly went on a stabbing spree that resulted in two people murdered, including a pediatrician.

A Philadelphia man who was cleared of wrongdoing for several murder cases after spending 25 years on death row was fatally shot while attending a funeral.

Italian court sentenced migrant who filmed himself sexually abusing a woman he had given drugs to and who later died of an overdose.

A 27-year-old woman was stabbed to death inside a homeless shelter in Manhattan Friday night, according to the New York City Police Department.

A 29-year-old radical Islamic extremist on trial for murder has admitted to the attack to “defend the prophet” and “punish” Switzerland. 

Two suspects have been charged after a 77-year-old man was found shot to death inside his Fox Lake, Illinois, home Monday night.

An Iowa father and mother are accused of drowning their newborn daughter in the bathtub moments after the child was born.

An elderly woman was found fatally stabbed in her home in the affluent Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead on Saturday, according to the Atlanta Police Department (APD).

A Chinese national is accused of a quadruple homicide at an illegally operated marijuana farm in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

A Texas sheriff working on the Athena Strand, 7, murder case says he will recommend to the district attorney to seek the death penalty against accused killer Tanner Horner, 31.

An Algerian illegal migrant has been arrested after allegedly murdering a 65-year-old French man who let him live in his home.

Three Afghan migrants have been convicted by a court for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in a case that has shocked Austria.

Police in Germany arrested an Eritrean accused of stabbing two young teens walking past an asylum home on their way to school, killing one.

A man was arrested Friday after being accused of shooting two adults inside a car with two toddlers inside in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, police say. 

A ten-year-old Milwaukee boy may be charged as an adult after he allegedly shot his mother in the face after she refused to purchase a VR set for him.

A man was arrested and charged with double homicide after two bodies were found “burned beyond recognition” Monday morning in Covington, Louisiana, according to police.

A Pennsylvania teen allegedly said during a video chat he killed someone then showed the body, officials reported Saturday.

A former Virginia State Police trooper was shot dead by authorities after he allegedly killed the California family of a teenage girl he attempted to abduct after meeting her online, according to police.

A three-year-old boy and an 11-month-old boy were found stabbed to death in a Bronx family shelter apartment on Saturday evening, according to police.

Darrell Brooks, 40, received six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole on Wednesday for driving an SUV through a crowd at the Waukesha, Wisconsin, Christmas parade last year, killing six victims and injuring 61 others.

A New York City man was beaten to death with a wooden board after being involved in a dispute with a mob, according to police.

An Afghan migrant was arrested over the fatal stabbing of a young 19-year-old woman after he allegedly confessed to his victim’s father.

The number of murders and attempted murders in France between known criminals is up 25% this year, with violence linked to drug trafficking.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office is impeding an investigation into a gang that has killed at least two gay men and possibly targeted a dozen others, according to Miranda Devine of the New York Post, citing law enforcement sources.

Human remains were found in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood just three days after remains were also discovered half a mile away.

A western New York man, accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife with a shotgun in front of her three children, was freed without bail the day before after he allegedly beat her.