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The fatal victim of a Louisiana mall shooting which left at least five more injured has been identified as an innocent 17-year-old private schoolgirl. Martha Odom, a senior at Ascension Episcopal School in Youngsville, was killed on Thursday afternoon at Baton Rouge's Mall of Louisiana after being struck in crossfire when two groups began shooting at each other, authorities said.

U.S. homicide patterns reflect a stark racial disparity, with violent crime disproportionately affecting white victims in black-on-white cases. Mugshot of Renotta Renee Seltzer (Escambia County Sheriff’s Office). My longtime VDARE.com colleague Kenn Gividen began his recent monthly roundup of America’s ongoing black-on-white Holocaust™ (27 dead reported in March 2026) with the news that the gay mayor of Providence, RI, had forced the removal, on the grounds that it was “divisive”—i.e., embarrassing to Democrats—of a mural of Iryna Zarutska, the 23-year-old blonde Ukrainian murdered by a black repeat offender in August 2025. (Since Kenn posted, North Carolina authorities have found the...

According to Omaha police, officers were called to the Walmart near 72nd and Pine streets around 9:20 a.m. on Tuesday. When officers arrived, they saw a woman, identified as 31-year-old Noemi Guzman, outside the store holding a knife to a 3-year-old boy, who was in a shopping cart, officials said. Officials said Guzman approached the caretaker with a knife, giving the caretaker commands to go in front of the shopping cart. Investigators believe Guzman stole the knife from the store. Police said Guzman followed the caretaker out of the store and into the parking lot. The caretaker was able to...

🚨#BREAKING: A HORRIFYING story is currently unfolding in DeKalb County GA where a Black man has allegedly just sh*t a woman in the face 6-7 times and st*bbed her multiple times while she was just walking her dog in her neighborhood. He was also allegedly in the process of se*ually assaulting her, when interrupted by neighbors who called the police. The man is believed to be targeting women and has allegedly sh*t AT LEAST two women today.

Christine A. Jones, a 61-year-old housekeeping supervisor from Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, was shot and killed in a downtown Madison parking ramp last week after being targeted by a former coworker for supporting President Donald Trump. The suspect is her former coworker, 31-year-old Diamond Simone Wallace, who had previously accused Jones of racism because of her support for the president.

JPD issued the following statement. On Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at approximately 11:14 am, 21-year-old Kaitlyn Mangum-Gast and a 36-year-old male were riding on one bicycle in the 4800 block of Chastain Drive when a white pickup truck driven by 57-year-old Shannon Thomas crashed into them. Shannon Thomas During the follow-up investigation of this case, detectives discovered that the incident was intentional. It is now being investigated as city’s 13th homicide. On today, Friday, March 6, 2026, Shannon was arrested by JPD. He was booked into JPD holding and charged with Murder, Attempted Murder and Leaving the Scene. His vehicle...

An illegal alien from Sierra Leone with over thirty arrests was charged with murder this week in the fatal stabbing of a Northern Virginia woman at a bus stop on a busy highway in the Hybla Velley area of Fairfax County just south of Alexandria last Monday evening. Police say Abdul Jalloh, 32, rode on the same bus as Stephanie Minter, 41, and was seen getting off the bus with her. Soon afterward police were called to the scene where Minter was found with multiple stab wounds to her upper body.

A 22-year-old assisted living employee accused of disguising himself in long female wigs and executing an 87-year-old millionaire philanthropist he treated nightly, is now also charged with shooting at a Maryland state trooper Tuesday while on the run. The Montgomery County Department of Police’s Major Crimes Division confirmed during a news conference on Wednesday that Marquis Emilio James, 22, of White Marsh, Maryland, was arrested in connection with the Valentine's Day homicide of 87-year-old Robert G. Fuller Jr. at the Cogir Potomac Senior Living Facility, and the shooting of a Maryland State Police trooper Tuesday during a traffic stop in...

The investigation revealed Banks allegedly crashed into the family, who were out on a walk with the Harlow in a pink wagon, the Lansing State Journal reported, citing court documents. According to security camera footage cited in court documents, Banks then emerged from the vehicle, dropped a backpack and allegedly opened fire on the family, striking all three members. He then seemed to reload the gun and allegedly began shooting the family again, per investigators.

A Florida man has been arrested after officials say he intentionally cut a teenager's neck. Sullivan Clarke, 13, survived the attack on Feb. 14 and is recovering from the injury, while the suspect remains behind bars. The backstory: The Clarke family was walking along Daytona Beach Boardwalk back to their hotel around 10 p.m. on Valentine's Day. They had spent the day at the Daytona International Speedway. Sullivan was on his phone, just feet away from his parents, when his mother, Lori, noticed a man walking toward him. In a split second, the man reached out and slashed the teenager's...

A 36-year-old woman was stabbed to death last month in an unprovoked attack outside a Dollar General store in Florida, according to police. The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said Cheyenne Kastens was ambushed by Lemar Beasley, 54, in the parking lot in Fruitland Park, a town in Central Florida. Beasley stabbed her more than 40 times, according to the State Attorney's Office.

Chicago police are on the hunt for a man who they say stabbed a woman in the chest without provocation on a train platform near the University of Illinois Chicago Saturday night. The victim, a 27-year-old woman, was sitting on a bench at the train station when he allegedly approached her and plunged the knife into her chest at the UIC-Halsted Blue Line platform. The woman suffered a minor injury and was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, a police spokesperson told Fox News Digital. The suspect, described as a Black male who stands about 6 feet tall and...

A North Carolina kart racing national champion was murdered in front of his fiancée during a violent home invasion by two suspected career criminals who were captured 10 days after the “targeted” attack. Tyler Weaver, 25, was found dead on the floor of his Forest City home on Oct. 24, when police responded to the rural house following reports of a break-in just before 10 a.m., officials said. Weaver and his fiancée, Nevaeh Quintero, were inside when the suspects allegedly broke in and opened fire, according to WLOS. Weaver, who twice won the 2018 Maxxis Kart Racing National Championship, was...

A 64-year-old man was beaten to death on a New York City subway on Tuesday by a sword-wielding monster with at least 33 prior arrests. David Mazariegos, 25, beat a complete stranger to death on the subway in downtown Brooklyn because he didn’t like the way he looked at him. Mugshot of a young man with short hair and a mustache, displaying a serious expression against a neutral background. NYC subway killer David Mazariegos According to reports, Mazariegos became angry after the unidentified victim held the subway doors open for him. The act of kindness set him off and he...

A middle school gym teacher who described himself as a “pig” before being jailed for repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl was killed by another inmate in his North Carolina cell Sunday. Ernest Nichols, 60, was convicted in 2011 and sentenced to 15 years behind bars for statutory rape. He was originally arrested on a staggering 27 charges, including a laundry list of sex offenses, WRAL reported. Nichols was found dead in his cell at the Greene Correctional Institution in Maury, NC around 6:50 a.m., sending the prison into a lockdown.

Two women who were punched while walking in Lincoln Park and the Loop said they were attacked by the same man. Other women also have been assaulted, and the man accused in the attacks has a long record of being arrested, prosecuted, and then quickly being set free to attack again. Anne Kurze said she’ll never forget his face. “His eyes, his face, they’re seared into my memory,” she said. She identified William Livingston to police in a lineup after she was attacked in June in the Lincoln Park neighborhood along Clark Street while walking to a dental appointment. “He...

The shocking video occurred during the third quarter of a game between Lakeshore and Kalamazoo Central, when a 15-year-old defender for the Lancers got tangled with an opponent. After the play went away from the individual matchup between the two, with the 15-year-old prone on the ground, the offensive lineman from Kalamazoo Central leaves his feet and lands with his full body weight on his rival.

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec Now we know why they won’t release the Austin Metcalf footage 5:59 PM · Sep 9, 2025

An Auburn University professor emerita was killed during the theft of her Ford F-150, according to newly released court documents. Harold Rashad Dabney II, 28, is charged with two counts of capital murder in the weekend slaying of 59-year-old Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle.Dabney is charged with capital murder during a kidnapping and capital murder during a theft, according to warrants made public Monday.Though police initially said Dabney was from Montgomery, court records list an Auburn address for the suspect.The warrants do not provide any additional details about Schnuelle’s murder, and a first court appearance for Dabney is not yet listed.State...