Murder - Page 51

Seventeen are wounded and two dead as a result of Chicago’s incessant gang warfare. The death toll included a 13-year-old boy who had spoken out against gang violence only last year.

A massive brawl between two African-American families in Augusta, Georgia, involving up to 50 people left one teenager dead and nine attackers charged with his murder, police say.

A well-known Muslim shopkeeper has been murdered hours after wishing his “beloved Christian nation” happy Easter on social media. Another Muslim man has been arrested for a “religiously motivated” crime, police confirm. Asad Shah, from Glasgow, Scotland, was an Ahmadiyyah

A Mississippi man has been formally charged with murder after engaging in a high-speed chase with police that ended in a head-on wreck that killed a man earlier this week.

The Black Lives Matter movement is claiming credit for the decision by a Minnesota County to end the 40-plus year practice of using Grand Juries to decide if police officers should be indicted in shooting cases. Hennepin County Attorney Mike

The gang-affiliated father of the 9-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered execution-style late last year has now been arrested and charged in the shootings of three other people, police say.

On Tuesday, the LAPD acknowledged that murders in the city have soared 27.5% compared to the same period in 2016.

Counter terror specialists have been called in after Islamic State (IS) material was found in raids on premises linked to men arrested in connection with last month’s death of a Manchester-based Imam. Imam Jalal Uddin (pictured), a respected elderly gentleman from Rochdale, near Manchester,

Defense attorneys for retired football star O.J. Simpson’s 1995 murder trial “dream team” are calling the discovery of new evidence “ridiculous” and “far-fetched” in the investigation into murders of Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend.

Twenty-two years after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman precipitated the most famous trial of the century, the LAPD is testing a knife that was found years ago but was kept by an LAPD cop in his home until this January.

A CCTV camera caught a former Chinese official deliberately driving his car into a group of schoolchildren, killing one and injuring eleven.

The weekend’s death toll in Chicago has now pushed the city’s murder rate to over 100 deaths a full two months earlier than last year and at least 200 percent higher than this time in 2015.

A New Jersey woman has pleaded guilty to setting her newborn baby on fire and abandoning it in a roadway, court documents reveal.

An unidentified man in Mason County, Washington, called law enforcement Friday morning to report that he had shot individuals in his home, according to police. He then walked outside and killed himself amid negotiations with police.

An absurd conspiracy theory regarding the fate of child beauty pageant star JonBenét Ramsey is making its way around the web this week.

Police are pleading for residents to lay aside the “anti-snitch” culture in the African-American majority Pinewood neighborhood of Miami-Dade, Florida, as they seek help from residents to find the group of men who shot and killed a six-year-old boy as he was walking last week.

More information has emerged on just how an illegal immigrant, who killed a Nebraska woman in a drunk driving incident, was allowed to get out of jail and skip town and future punishment.

A New Jersey man is back in custody and pleading guilty after allegedly killing his own mother only two days after being released from serving a 30-year sentence for a previous murder.

An Imam from the North of England has died on his way home for a mosque where he lead evening prayers. He was found with serious head injuries and it is thought he was attacked. The chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation said

A Vatican Radio message on the fourth day of Pope Francis’ trip to Mexico, acknowledges the “escalating number of ‘desparacidos’” in the country but does not mention their manner of death, and the network of ovens operated in the state of Coahuila.

Aaron Hernandez has settled a civil suit brought by a friend who alleged that the former New England Patriots tight end shot him in the eye.

Authorities are hunting for two women who are believed to have brutally murdered a mother of two near this Mexican border city and taken her two children. One of the murder suspects may have fled to Texas.

Per a report by WMCAtionNews5, a Memphis, TN woman was accused of shooting a man and his pregnant girlfriend during a robbery that took place in January. Shelby Isaac,18, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder for what family

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry published a dramatic story about a man who, she says, may have wanted to kill her as she watched caucus returns in a hotel lobby full of people.

On February 4, Chicago Police Department officers discovered five adults and one child stabbed to death in a home in Chicago’s Gage Park.

With 56 total homicides for January, the City of Chicago eked past 1999’s record of 55 January deaths with a month-ending weekend that saw 8 homicides and 23 wounded citizens. One death even occurred in the boyhood home of a Chicago Bulls player.

The Somali youth accused of stabbing to death 22 year old Swedish social worker Alexandra Mezher (pictured) in an asylum centre in Molndal, Sweden has appeared in court.  Sweden has seen a massive rise in violent crime since the influx

One of three dangerous Orange County jail escapees was first ordered deported in 1998, but never was.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has promised more resources for police after a 22-year old employee at a refugee centre for unaccompanied minors was stabbed to death. The stabbing sparked concerns that authorities were being overwhelmed by

As the East Coast was buried in snow, flooding, and freezing temperatures, Chicago was blessed with dry streets. But while the Windy City missed out on the snow, and despite that it was certainly cold, Chicago was buried in the all-too-familiar gang violence that visits the city daily.

The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security has agreed to a request from several Connecticut officials to investigate the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency’s failure to deport convicted felon Jean Jacques before he murdered a Norwich woman.

According to a report by WALB, a forklift operator who won a nearly half-million dollar Georgia lottery jackpot was killed Thursday night during a home invasion robbery. Officials say Craigory Burch Jr., 20, died from gunshot wounds. In November 2015, Burch won

Ali Muhammad Brown, who has been accused of killing four individuals in New Jersey and Washington State, was inspired to do so by the Islamic State terrorist organization, state prosecutors in New Jersey said Wednesday, noting he kept a journal that expressed such thoughts. Notably, the Islamic State’s rise to infamy occurred within the same time frame as Brown’s alleged murders.

Police have announced that they have solved two murders in Virginia linked to the violent gang MS-13, which is primarily made up of Central American illegal immigrants.

Chicago’s interim police superintendent John Escalante is struggling to explain the wild jump in shootings in the Windy City, and he thinks he has at least part of the explanation: it’s social media’s fault.

More and more details have emerged surrounding the sordid murder of American artist Ashley Ann Olsen in Florence last Saturday, the most recent of which is that the Senegalese immigrant accused of the killing is the brother of the city’s