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A man was arrested following a stabbing spree in North Carolina that left three people injured at a McDonald’s, Walmart and local government building on Monday morning, police said. Myliek Hykeem Webb, 21, was arrested after he allegedly went on a rampage in Oxford, starting with a government employee who was getting ready for work, WRAL reports.

A rape victim in California has shared a harrowing image of her facial injuries after she was assaulted by a homeless man who had been released from jail just a few hours earlier. Marissa Young, 44, of Torrance, was walking her dogs about 1 a.m. July 31 when she was attacked by Darrell Waters, 46, who was arrested days earlier ... The homeless man was released on his own recognizance about 12 hours before the brutal assault, according to the report. “I was tackled from behind, I heard nothing,” Young told KTLA. “I didn’t have headphones in, I wasn’t looking...

Two women accused of running a fight club at an assisted living residence in North Carolina are being spared jail time despite being convicted of encouraging dementia patients to fight and then filming the results. Police said that Marilyn Latish McKey, 35, and Taneshia Deshawn Jordan, 28, were arrested in October 2019, following a report in June of that year of elderly abuse at the Danby House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. McKey pleaded guilty to two counts of assault on an individual with a disability and Jordan pleaded guilty to one count of assault on an individual with a disability,...

Authorities said one woman was killed and seven others were wounded after a 26-year-old African-American man wearing a ski mask opened fire at a Tennessee church Sunday. The gunman, who officials said shot himself and was taken to a hospital, opened fire at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, southeast of Nashville, just after 11 a.m. and fired “multiple rounds,” police said in a news conference. The Nashville Fire Department called the incident “a mass casualty situation.” A church usher confronted the gunman at one point and was pistol-whipped, causing "significant injury around his head." He told police he...

MANCHESTER, Conn. -- Police in Connecticut have confirmed nine people were killed and two others injured in a shooting rampage at a beer distributorship. Manchester police Lt. Christopher Davis says the shooter is among the dead at the Hartford Distributors facility. A company official identified the shooter as Omar Thornton, a driver who had been asked to quit his job. He refused and instead opened fire. A union official says Thornton had been caught on videotape stealing beer. Police say Thornton commited suicide after killing eight co-workers. His girlfriend's mother says Thornton, who was black, complained of racial bias, but...

MANCHESTER, Conn. -- A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage Tuesday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.