Tag Archives: homicide

'Most ruthless' Mexican cartels operate in all 50 states, bring turf wars to US: DEA

Mexico’s “most powerful and ruthless” cartels operate in all 50 states and clash in American cities, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a May report. The Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels have flooded major U.S. cities with meth and fentanyl and use violence to protect their turf, the report found. “The deadly reach of the Mexican Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels …

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Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann's home searched again

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – Long Island police have returned to the Massapequa Park home of suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann. His wife Asa Ellerup, who filed for divorce shortly after his arrest last summer, and their adult children were not home at the time, according to her lawyer, Bob Macedonio. Investigators from both the New York State Police and Suffolk …

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High school senior nearing graduation killed in crash after college student allegedly drove drunk at 131 mph

The lives of two young men in Illinois are forever changed after a deadly Mother’s Day crash killed one, and left another facing criminal charges. Police in Glenview say Taeyoung Kim, 21, was responsible for the crash that claimed the life of 17-year-old Marko Niketic. Kim made his first court appearance Saturday, when a judge said the “fast and furious …

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Georgia college student killed by 'armed intruder' on campus

A student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia was shot and killed Saturday by an “armed intruder” on campus, officials confirmed. “Kennesaw State officials can confirm that a female student was fatally shot on campus,” the school said in an alert on its website. “A suspect has been detained.” The school added: “There is no threat to the campus community. …

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Pillowcase Murders: Suspected Texas serial killer smothered elderly women in upscale nursing homes

Billy Chemirmir was convicted in the slayings of two elderly women at high-end Texas retirement homes and indicted for the killings of 20 more, but if one woman had not survived his attempt at smothering her, he may have never been caught. Less than a year after he was killed by his cellmate, suspected serial killer Billy Chemirmir is the …

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Inmates accused of killing Whitey Bulger in prison agree to plea deals: 3 facts from gangster's FBI files

The inmates accused of killing one of America’s most notorious gangsters in prison in 2018 reached plea deals this week, according to federal court filings. James “Whitey” Bulger was killed in his cell by three inmates who knew the infamous mobster was being transferred to U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, one of the most violent federal prisons in the …

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California UPS driver shot, killed while in truck on break; suspect arrested

Police have taken a suspect into custody after a UPS driver was shot and killed inside his truck in Irvine, California, on Thursday afternoon. The shooting took place at around 3 p.m. near Chrysler and Bendix in the city, according to Irvine police on Facebook. Sgt. Karie Davies told FOX 11 LA the UPS driver was on break and eating …

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Mother of slain California boys speaks out as convicted killer drags out case in court: 'She's a murderer'

Two Los Angeles mothers are at odds on opposite sides of California’s embattled criminal justice system: one grieving the loss of her two sons and the other trying to get her conviction for killing them overturned. Rebecca Grossman, a rich and powerful Los Angeles socialite, sped her Mercedes through a crosswalk and killed Mark Iskander, 11, and his 8-year-old brother, …

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Las Vegas dad charged with murder after shooting neighbor who was accused of exposing himself to family

A Las Vegas man is charged with open murder with a deadly weapon after allegedly shooting a neighbor as his wife was on a 911 call Monday evening. Eddi Moreno Jr. is accused in the shooting of Joe Moreno, 47, and a police report describes some of what led up to the incident. Moreno Jr., his wife and their family …

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LA DA's 'catastrophic incompetence' could botch case against convicted double child killer, lawyer warns

Speeding down a residential road in a street race against her former Major League Baseball player boyfriend, Los Angeles socialite Rebecca Grossman had drugs and alcohol in her system when prosecutors say she slammed into two children in a crosswalk, killing both, in Westlake Village, California. Their mother, California biotech executive Nancy Iskander, grabbed her third boy and dove out …

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