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Baltimore police have issued an arrest warrant for 'a repeat violent offender' suspected of murdering a much-loved Forbes '30 Under 30' tech CEO, who was found beaten to death in her apartment building. Pava Marie LaPere, 26, was killed by blunt force trauma inside her luxury Mount Vernon, Baltimore apartment, and her body was found by police on Monday. Jason Deans Billingsley, 32, of Baltimore, is wanted for first degree murder, assault, reckless endangerments, as well as additional charges. Police do not believe LaPere knew him. He was convicted 'for a violent crime' in 2011, with charges including attempted rape,...

Stunning surveillance footage shows the heart-pounding moment armed thugs ambushed a wealthy Texas investor in his driveway during a brazen botched robbery. Mark Gardner, 73, had just pulled up to his $1.1 million Dallas home in his BMW when three would-be thieves jumped out and surrounded the vehicle around 1 p.m. Tuesday, ABC affiliate WFAA-TV News reported. A terrified Gardner told his stepson, a passenger in the car, to call his wife inside the house — then called cops as the gun-toting trio banged on the windows with their weapons. “Never did I think something like this would happen,” he...

Police in Missouri are asking for the public’s help in identifying two suspects after a video emerged purportedly showing one of them striking a Walgreens employee outside of a store. The Independence Police Department says the assault unfolded last Wednesday in the 3900 Block of South Noland Road. “An employee of the business was assaulted when they attempted to intervene in a shoplift,” the department said in a statement. Video broadcast by Fox4 KC appears to show an employee getting knocked to the ground while engaging in a struggle with a female suspect outside the front of the store. Another...

Newly unsealed search warrants reportedly reveal the shocking words a 6-year-old Virginia student allegedly uttered after brandishing a gun at school and shooting his teacher in the classroom. "I shot that b---- dead," the boy said on Jan. 6, 2023, just moments after the shooting, according to Amy Kovac, a reading specialist at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. Kovac rushed into the classroom afterward and restrained the child until police arrived. The unsealed warrants, reported by local news outlets Tuesday, described how Kovac had heard a gunshot and witnessed several children run out of the classroom.

18-year-old Egg Harbor Township man is in the hospital after a racially motivated stabbing, according to police. Tyler Smith, 38, of Atlantic City is charged with attempted murder, bias intimidation, aggravated assault, and weapons offenses for the "unprovoked attack" Monday evening, police said. Smith is Black, Lt. Kevin Fair confirmed to New Jersey 101.5. Smith is being held at Atlantic County jail as of Tuesday morning. Investigators found that the victim from Egg Harbor Township was standing with a friend on Adriatic Avenue near the Stanley S. Holmes Village housing units in Atlantic City around 6:15 p.m. when Smith walked...

Why isn’t this story making national headlines? A pregnant North Carolina woman lost her unborn baby after being shot by a gang member in front of a Fayetteville convenience store. Brittany Rich, 25, pulled up to a North Carolina convenience store in late February to make a quick purchase when she was shot 7 times by a gang member. Rich is seen on surveillance video exiting the convenience store when she was ambushed by a group of men standing in front of her car. One of the suspects pulls out a gun and shoots her multiple times. The young woman,...

Devon Dontray Dunham has been found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of unarmed former volunteer fire chief Ernest Martin Stevens, 77, despite his confession and 19 witnesses taking the stand against him. The shooting took place near Stevens' home in Hardeeville, South Carolina on Aug 10, 2017. According to Dunham's lawyer, an armed Dunham "wanted a ride" from Stevens and approached him while he was sitting in his Ford F-150 in a parking lot "but felt threatened" by him and saw him "reach for something" so he decided to unload all 8 rounds of his 9 mm...

OCALA, Fla. – The Marion County Sheriff’s Office has made arrests in the case of three teens who were recently found shot to death. Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods will hold a news conference at 9:30 a.m. Friday “regarding breaking news updates and arrests in the recent triple-homicide in Ocklawaha.”

A staffer for Sen. Rand Paul who was stabbed outside a Washington, DC, restaurant by a just-released convict over the weekend underwent multiple surgeries after suffering a deep wound to the head and injuries to his abdomen and lungs, according to his uncle. Tim Todd wrote a Facebook message Tuesday asking for urgent prayers for his nephew Phillip Todd, chief economist for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. “Phillip had surgery last night on his ear, and is scheduled for another surgery this morning in his abdomen,” the uncle revealed. “His lung is collapsed and his skull...

In a horrifying moment, a 6'6' schoolboy who weighs 270 pounds knocked a female teaching aide unconscious and severely beat her for taking away his handheld Nintendo Switch. The 17-year-old Matanzas High School student from Palm Coast, Florida who was not named due to his age, violently attacked the teaching aide after telling another student he was 'going to kill her' for taking his game away on Tuesday. *** In surveillance footage, released by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, the hulking student can be seen rushing up to the teacher, who was also not identified, before launching her across the...

On Tuesday 2/21/23 a black 6’6” 270 pound student attacked a white teacher at Matanzas High School for taking away his Nintendo Switch during class. The student is seen kicking and punching the unconscious woman in the back and head around 15 times. When the student was escorted away by deputies, he spit at the teacher and "made comments that when he comes back he was going to kill her".

Tyler Borys said his wife, 26-year-old Alexandria Cress Borys, was loading groceries into her car at the Kroger in Irmo, South Carolina, when she got into an argument with a woman she didn't know, according to FOX 57 Columbia. After the argument was over, the stranger, later identified by Irmo police as 23-year-old Christina Harrison, allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Borys in the back. The couple's children, a 2-year-old and an infant, were in the car when she was shot.

A pregnant woman who was shot multiple times outside a convenience store in Fayetteville has lost her unborn child. Rich says she had no idea the three men standing near the ice machine outside the Cumberland Food Mart were up to no good. Security camera video shows Rich leaving the store and the confrontation begins. "The guy said, 'Give me that!' and grabbed my keys," she recalls. "I thought he was playing, because he was young. And then I went, like, to reach after him, and he shot me." Rich says the seven gunshots happened so fast. "I think I...

The dad of a bullied 14-year-old New Jersey high school girl — who took her own life after an online video showed a group of girls attacking her — said the suicide occurred after the teen got a taunting text about the bloody beatdown. Adriana Kuch was found dead at home on Feb. 3, two days after the sickening caught-on-video assault in a hallway at Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township. The tragic teen’s father, Michael Kuch, told the Daily Mail that hours before her death, one girl who recorded the assault sent her a text mocking her for...

A 6-year-old who shot his teacher allegedly told another educator he wanted to light her on fire and watch her die, according to a report. Last month, the troubled boy nearly made good on his apparent murderous impulses, shooting first grader teacher Abigail Zwerner at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News., Va., officials have said. Zwerner survived. Zwerner and other Richneck teachers said they had shared their fears about the child’s grave behavior with administrators, only to have their concerns downplayed or ignored, The Washington Post reported. Zwerner had asked for support with the boy, and expressed concerns about his...

[...] Fletcher, 34, was abducted on her regular 4 a.m. jog Friday after stalked by Cleotha Abston, who’d waited for her to run past him, the police affidavit alleged. She had run from her home in the fancy Central Gardens neighborhood to a nice area near the University of Memphis campus. Court records show Abston, 38, is a previously convicted kidnapper: he pleaded guilty to especially aggravated kidnapping and robbery in 2001. He was sentenced to 24 years and 11 years in prison respectively, although it is unclear how long he remained incarcerated and if he served his sentences concurrently....

The man accused of kidnapping billionaire heiress Eliza Fletcher was recently released from prison after serving a 20-year sentence for a similar crime. Cleotha Abston, 38, was arrested and convicted in 2000 for the kidnapping of Memphis attorney Kemper Durand. At around 2am May 25, 2000, Abston approached Durand from behind on Beale Street in Memphis then robbed him and forced him into the trunk of his car, according to the Memphis Flyer. Abston then drove Durand around for several hours, then forced him into an ATM and demanded he draw out cash. While in the ATM Durand spotted a...

An elderly Wendy's customer has died 10 days after being sucker punched in the head by an employee, who is now facing murder charges for the ordeal. Fast-food worker Antonine Kendrick, 35, confronted the 67-year-old man at the store, before punching and knocking him unconscious on July 26 at around 5pm. It's believed Kendrick launched the vicious physical attack the man when he complained about his meal order at Wendy's in Prescott Valley, Arizona. Kendrick has now been arrested and is facing second-degree murder charges after the man died in hospital, nearly two weeks after the bust up. Footage shows...

A white woman was attacked by three black women in a racially motivated crime, police say The three women claimed they 'hate white people' before clubbing the woman over the head She was taken to Jamaica Hospital and had to receive two staples for the cut on her head The three women dashed off the bus and police currently cannot identify them

The 17-year-old who was beaten to death at a school founded by LeBron James suffered a broken neck and had the imprint of a shoe in his chest wall, a preliminary autopsy report has revealed. The report released by the Summit County Medical Examiner (SCME) in Ohio documented the gruesome injuries Ethan Liming endured during his final moments in the parking lot of the I Promise school in Akron. The report also revealed blunt force trauma to the head. The teen's occipital bone, the major bone that connects to the cervical spine and protects the brain, had been broken, Akron...