All tagged assassination
On August 27, 1979, a sunny day off of Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo in Ireland meant good fortune for those who wanted to enjoy the last few weeks of summer. What began as a normal boat ride turned deadly when a bomb detonated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army killed Lord Louis Mountbatten, one of his grandchildren, a boat worker, and Doreen Bradbourne.
Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Mahmoud 'Brownie' Ahmad earlier this year.
On the steps of his home in Miami, world-renowned fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered on July 15, 1997, by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. His death would be the last in a violent string of murders taking place from April to July 1997.
Last Friday, Dutch judges upheld Willem Holleeder’s life sentence for ordering the murders of five people. Holleeder was first sentenced in 2019, as a result of a trial in which his sister, Astrid Holleeder, testified against him.
Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator and presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy was pronounced dead the next day at the age of 42.
Nicholas Roske, 26, has been identified as the man who was arrested in front of Brett Kavanaugh’s house yesterday morning. The Simi Valley resident has been charged with attempted murder
Malcolm X's family released new evidence for the investigation in a news conference Saturday. According to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the family obtained a letter written by Raymond Wood, a former undercover NYPD police officer. Wood, now deceased, stated that the NYPD forced him to lure the X's security team into a trap and arrest them.
