Crimes

The family of an 84-year-old Chicago grandmother killed in a car accident caused by police traveling at a high rate of speed is frustrated and tired of waiting for accountability more than three years after she was killed. “Family, church and school, that was her life,” said Pastor Dwight Gunn...

A white former Philadelphia police officer received a sentence of fewer than two years in prison for killing an unarmed Black motorist in 2017 despite being convicted of voluntary manslaughter in September. The judge gifted him with a light sentence, as the maximum sentence he could have received was 20...

Relatives of a Memphis high school senior killed after getting hit by a car while walking home are mourning her sudden death.On Tuesday, Dec. 6, while walking in the turning lane in the Frayser section in Bluff City, 18-year-old Aaliyah Dalton was hit and killed around 5:30 p.m. The young...

Twenty-four-year-old Sydney Leday is lucky to be alive after she was shot in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 1. Leday was hit in the crossfire of the shooting that took the life of beloved recording artist TakeOff.Leday — who was shot in the head and spent a week in the hospital...

Per report, when she was just 16 years old, Serah reportedly ran away from home and stayed hidden for about a year before finally revealing secrets about her family. After she came forward with allegations of se-ual abuse going on in her family, her 54-year-old father, Robert, and her 49-year-old...

On the night of September 14, 2014, a SWAT team was summoned to a three-story townhouse in Smyrna, Georgia after neighbors reported hearing gunshots.What no-one knew at the time was that inside the house, a domestic violence incident had already turned deadly. A full 12 hours after arriving, officers entered...

prisoner who has been behind bars for decades for a St. Louis-area killing has pleaded guilty to one of four other deaths he has been linked to by prosecutors. Gary Muehlberg, 73, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison Monday in the 1990 death of...

Texas has executed an inmate convicted of the drug-related killings of four people more than 30 years ago, including a woman who was 9-months pregnant. Arthur Brown Jr., 52, insisted he was innocent before receiving a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for...

A Decatur, Illinois, father is accused of brutally beating his 4-year-old daughter to death.Darrell A. Reynolds, 29, faces two counts of first-degree murder for the Aug. 31 death of his daughter, Amarrah C. Reynolds, the Herald & Review reports.“I just killed my daughter,” Darrell confessed to a police detective after...

Weeks after Donovan Lewis’ family filed a civil lawsuit against a Columbus police officer for his wrongful death, the same cop retired. Now relatives of the 20-year-old are speaking out and demanding answers about how this was allowed. Lewis was fatally shot by Anderson on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, while...

A Las Vegas man connected to a string of crimes against Black people for several months finally has wound up behind bars and charged with two counts of hate crimes.Hunter Holman is accused of committing racially motivated acts toward Black people dating back to May 2022.On Feb. 22, Las Vegas...

A Long Island man may spend the rest of his life in prison for fatally stabbing a teen who hung out with a friend’s ex-girlfriend in the heart.At the time of the murder, the young man was 18. But now, as a 22-year-old, he may spend the rest of his...

A distressed family is asking the Wyoming governor and other elected officials to help them locate a woman who went missing in the “Equality State” in early 2022.As the woman’s boyfriend nears his criminal trial on charges of illegally transferring money out of her account after she went missing, the...

The federal government is investigating incidents of international homicide after two Americans traveling with a group to Mexico for medical tourism were kidnapped and killed by members of a local drug gang. Two other U.S. citizens have been rescued, leaving officials to figure out why they were targeted by the...

A Guadeloupean family plans to sue Airbnb after their toddler died during a stay after ingesting the dangerous synthetic opioid Fentanyl.The baby’s tragic death sparked an investigation by American law enforcement agents, but officials working on the death have become unsure if they will ever obtain justice for the child.The...

A shocking story emerged out of Connecticut, where a mother brought her 1-month-old infant to the hospital to be checked over after she noticed his leg was swollen.After examining the baby further, it didn’t take long for doctors to discover the cause of the child’s injury — and they were...