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A man is charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting into his own car after someone jumped inside it at a gas station. On Aug. 9, Memphis Police (MPD) officers responded to a shooting at a Valero gas station in the 2800 block of S. Perkins just before 1 a.m. According to an affidavit, a man identified as Kenneth Petty told them he left his 2018 Chevrolet Trax running while he went into the store. He said he saw someone get into his car. Petty was armed with a 9mm handgun, and fired the weapon as the suspect got into...

A Texas father-son duo are charged with murder after a dispute with a neighbor over a mattress turned deadly, shocking video shot by the deceased man’s wife appears to show. Warning – Graphic Footage: Viewer discretion strongly advised In video of the Sept. 1 incident released Wednesday, Kara Box captured her husband Aaron Howard arguing over trash in their Abilene alleyway with next-door neighbors John Miller, 67, and his son Michael Miller, 31. “We had thrown out a twin mattress in a dumpster in our alley a few days before the shooting,” Box commented on the video, according to The...

ST. LOUIS • Former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty Friday of murdering a man while on duty. St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson's highly anticipated verdict found a white former St. Louis police officer not guilty of first-degree murder and amed criminal action in the December 2011 shooting death of a black drug suspect after a high-speed pursuit and crash. Activists, with support from some of the city's black clergy, had pledged disruptive protests ahead of St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson's verdict.

Both sides in the trial of Susan Polk began their closing arguments Monday, with the prosecutor urging jurors to focus on the night of Felix Polk's death and the defendant characterizing her late husband as a lifelong abuser who tried to kill her. "It's still going to come down to what you think happened in that pool house," deputy district attorney Paul Sequeira said to the jury in a courtroom overflowing into the foyer with onlookers. Sequeira halted his closing argument at each of the 14 motions for a mistrial that Polk requested. Polk began her argument in the afternoon,...

MARTINEZ - The prosecutor in Susan Polk's murder trial told jurors Monday that despite hearing months of testimony about family dynamics, they need to base their ultimate decision on what they believed happened the night Felix Polk died. "It's still going to come down to what you think happened in that pool house," deputy district attorney Paul Sequeira said to the jury in a courtroom overflowing into the foyer with onlookers. Sequeira halted his closing argument at each of the 14 motions for a mistrial that Polk requested as he spoke. After Polk gives her closing this afternoon, the jury...