#homicide

#homicide

The fire brought more than 230 firefighters and EMS personnel to the scene, with a total of 231 firefighters and EMS personnel responding to the emergency.

Police found 24-year-old Jayden Smith with gunshot wounds to the torso inside a club on Alabama Ave. near Stanley Ave. in East New York, around 4 a.m. on Sunday. Medics rushed Smith to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to cops.

A man with previous convictions for knife crime, who killed a 20-year-old outside his home after that person stole from the defendant's unlocked van in the early hours of the morning, has been jailed for nine years.

Officers responded around 1:32 p.m. on Wednesday to a home near Threadneedle Cres. and Cresthaven Dr. and found the woman dead inside. They've identified the woman as Xian Wei Shao of Toronto. Police said in a news release Friday that her death has been "deemed to be suspicious."

He had love for everyone around him. He was the heart of our family. He never lost his big heart. He was always loving. He always had a smile on his face. He would give you advice, and it would always be supportive.

Mullins' killing appeared to have been a targeted act by someone who knew exactly where to find him, police said. He drove to the store with a woman and the two were sitting inside when a man walked in, came right up to Mullins, and shot him multiple times in front of multiple eyewitnesses and security cameras, police said.

The gunshots happened about 3 p.m. and prompted a gunshot detection system alert that brought police to the 3000 block of San Pablo Avenue. Once there, police said officers found a man down. Police said the shooting happened after the victim and another person had a confrontation.

Police responded around 6:40 a.m. to a 911 call reporting an assault inside 956 Sherman Avenue, within the 44th Precinct. Officers arriving at the scene found a 42-year-old woman with stab wounds to her neck, torso and back, and a 16-year-old male with stab wounds to his neck and back.

The video then allegedly shows Mr. Alatini shoot the victim in his back. What we did see is a brandishing of a firearm prior to the victim ever displaying pepper spray and/or using that pepper spray. So actually in that sense, it would support the victim having used some form of self defense.

In the 911 call that was later released, Flynn is heard frantically telling a dispatcher that someone had broken into their Tipp City home, located an estimated 16 miles north of Dayton, and shot his wife, saying there was blood everywhere and that she had been shot in the head. Oh my god, somebody broke into my home, somebody broke into my home and shot my wife, Flynn said according to 911 audio obtained by TMZ.

When I opened the door. I stepped in, I was inside for two seconds. I looked down. I heard an argument happening. I heard: p***y, p***y, p***y, and then the shooting. I just turned a run and all the other people came after me, said the eyewitness, who asked to remain anonymous. Police from the Midtown South Precinct and EMS rushed to the scene, where they pronounced Jackson dead.

Authorities in Ohio have arrested a former contestant on "American Idol" and charged him with shooting and killing his wife and staging the crime scene to mislead investigators. Caleb Flynn, 39, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of murder, assault and tampering with evidence. "I just want to take care of my daughters. I'm not a risk," he told Judge Samuel Huffman in a video of his arraignment from jail. The judge set his bond at $2 million.

Dressed in black and using a wheelchair, Clancy addressed the court only once during the brief hearing, exchanging a murmured "good afternoon" with Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan. Lawyers on both sides hashed out some logistics in anticipation of Clancy's July 20 murder trial, discussing pending motions, the status of discovery, and prosecution experts' upcoming evaluation of Clancy. The defendant herself was unexpressive throughout the hearing and mostly stared straight ahead.

South Africa faces one of the world's worst rates of violent crime. In 2024, 26,232 murders were recorded around 72 each day for a homicide rate of nearly 42 per 100,000 people. Data derived from early 2025 numbers show a 12.4% drop in murders (5,727 cases) and fewer serious assaults, but these gains haven't changed the big picture: Violence is still widespread, and many South Africans feel unsafe.

Sheriff Shittu, 30, was shot in the head just before 4:30 a.m. inside Quilox Lounge, located at 9508 Church Ave.

Tragedy occurred today in East New York, Brooklyn, when two 24-year-old men were shot inside a home on Euclid Avenue shortly after midnight. One man, identified by police as Jarell Sutton, was shot in the chest and later pronounced dead at the hospital. The second man sustained a foot injury. No arrests have been reported at this time, according to ABC7NY.

She was reportedly walking home from a friend's house in quiet downtown Cloverdale when she was forcibly dragged down an alley to a secluded location where she was, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office, "brutally raped" and "strangled ... to death using her own shorts as a ligature." The killer left behind plenty of DNA evidence, however that DNA was not tested until many years later, and the case went entirely cold.