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According to People, a man was arrested outside of Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening after authorities say he threw what they believe to be shotgun cartridges into the palace grounds. King Charles and Queen Camilla were not at Buckingham Palace at the time of the incident.
On Feb. 12, 2023, Marquaello Futrell, a former police officer who has devoted his life to God as a pastor, claims to have stopped a group of alleged robbers during a church service by praying for the suspects.
Two men who had been investigated for drug possession were arrested in New York with an estimated 32,000 pills of fentanyl. The arrest occurred near the JFK Airport in New York after a two-month long investigation.
Angelica Carrasquillo-Torres, 25, a fifth-grade teacher at St. Stanislaus School in East Chicago, was arrested last Thursday after a student reported the teacher to school staffers the previous day.
After pleading not guilty to the death of Christe Chen, Bradley Dawson appeared in court on Tuesday and was denied bail. Dawson was accused of murdering Chen on their honeymoon in Fiji, where Chen was discovered with multiple head and body traumas.
her daughter’s body in an abandoned, overgrown lot and called it a homicide.
14-year-old Jameion Peterson has been charged as an adult in the homicide of his 10-year-old stepsister.
A motive for the killing and Na'Mylah's cause of death have not been made public. Assistant Prosecutor Stevenson said that no weapons were used in Na’Mylah’s death, and no signs of sexual assault were found.
22-year-old Jolissa Fuentes was last seen on August 7th in Selma, California at a gas station. Three weeks into the search for both Fuentes and her car, Fuentes’s family now suspects her disappearance is a criminal matter.
A 29-year-old North Carolina mom, Launice Shanique Battle, was arrested for having killed her two and three-year-olds. The causes of death of the girls and the motive have also not been released. Investigation into the murder of the girls is still ongoing.
Femicide is a global tragedy, but we still don’t know enough about it in the United States. Here are the three facts about American femicide.
In 2010, Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old sex worker, went to a client’s house in Oak Beach, Long Island. She called 911 while leaving the house, repeating, “There is somebody after me.” She wanted the officers to locate her address; by the time they called her back, she had already disappeared. Her investigation led to the discovery of four other bodies on Gilgo Beach.
The body of Juan Arjón López, an independent journalist, has been discovered in San Luis Rio Colorado, a border city in northern Mexico. López went missing on August 9th. He has since been identified by his tattoos. According to CBS News, his death was from blunt trauma to the head.
On April 30, Yan was making a delivery on his scooter when Glenn Hirsch allegedly shot him in the chest over a duck sauce. According to the restaurant owner, Glenn frequently harassed his workers at the eatery with a gun and had disturbing encounters. Repeated calls to the police over the angry customer did not stop anything. Recently released photos of the apartment show that Hirsch’s apartment was filled to the ceiling with cardboard boxes, black trash bags, old newspapers, CDs, and plastic containers of old documents.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is ongoing. Both the United States and the United Kingdom have pledged to send more military support to Ukraine. Millions of refugees have been scattered across Europe as military officials report that not a single square meter of land has been left untouched by Russian artillery.
On this day in 1931, Peter Kurten was convicted for 9 murders and received 9 death sentences.
On May 5, 1977, Mexican-American and Vietnam War veteran Jose Campos Torres, 23, was arrested for disorderly conduct. The police took Torres to “the hole,” an area behind a warehouse near Buffalo Bayou, instead of taking him to the city jail. Torres' body was found a few days later, prompting the Houston Police Department to form an all-Latino homicide unit, the Chicano Squad.
An armed man entered the Duncanville Fieldhouse on Monday morning and fired shots into a gymnasium. He attempted to shoot into a locked classroom full of children.
Idaho State University’s assistant football coach DaVonte’ Neal was arrested last month on suspicion of killing a man, Bryan T. Burns, in Arizona in November 2017. Neal, who was working as an assistant coach for a local high school in Arizona at the time of the crime, is currently being held without bail at Bannock County Jail.
The Biden Administration has announced new steps they will be taking to fight and prevent hate crimes across the country. This comes less than a week after the shooting in Buffalo, New York, along with on the year anniversary of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes and Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Acts.
Crime occurs everywhere and all the time. This article is going to narrow down and discuss the four most common criminal offenses throughout the United States according to the Criminal Justice Degree Hub. Statistics will also be presented by the FBI Crime Data Explorer.
