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Behold the fruits of Raise the Age: A generation of kids who become career criminals before they can even vote. The latest case is Julian Turner, 17, a gangbanger and drill rapper who’s racked up 20 arrests in his short life, thanks to criminal-justice “reforms” that invited him to keep reoffending.His lawbreaking began at just 10, with an arrest for threatening two other kids with a fake gun; the next year, he escalated to actual violence, allegedly slicing a 14-year-old’s ear open with a boxcutter; two months after that, he allegedly stabbed a 71-year-old woman in the hand.At 14, with...

Two children have been charged with the rape and attempted murder of a five-year-old girl. The youngster was left completely 'unrecognizable' after a gang of bullies not only beat her, but also scalped her last month in Cleveland, Ohio, her mother previously said. On Wednesday a ten-year-old girl and nine-year-old boy were hit with various charges, including four counts of rape, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office said. The unidentified minors also face one count of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault, one count of kidnapping and one count of strangulation. 'Given the sensitive nature of this case, we decline...

Prosecutors have charged two children, ages 9 and 10, with attempted murder and rape among other charges after saying a 5-year-old was assaulted in a field in the Cleveland area. According to NBC affiliate WKYC, it happened on Sept. 13 when Cleveland officers responded to a home where a caller reported she was babysitting a 5-year-old girl, but that the girl had gone missing. Advertisement A report from WKYC states the 5-year-old was found in a field near the home and was taken to the hospital with bruising and swelling injuries. The police report states a witness told an officer...

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...

Three youths were arrested in connection with the assault of a bus driver in northeast Calgary last week. Calgary police say they heard from Calgary Transit that a bus driver had been assaulted in the early morning hours of Aug. 15. The female driver told police that three children were leaving the bus at Rundle CTrain station when they hit the side of the bus and then pointed a gun at her. Officers were able to find the three suspects who were getting on a train at the station. The group was arrested. Police say officers seized two replica guns...

<p>CNN attempted to “fact-check” President Donald Trump live on-air as he announced his decisive action to tackle out-of-control crime in Washington, D.C. Armed with a series of slick-looking charts, the left-leaning network insisted that crime in the nation's capital “isn’t actually a problem,” despite a surge in violent incidents, many committed by juveniles as young as 12, 13, and 14 years old.</p>

It’s time for America to reclaim its principal city as the jewel it was designed to be.On Monday, a crime that would be shocking in most of America happened in Washington, D.C. That crime, where it occurred, wasn’t shocking at all. And this fact should create consequences that Americans from Maine to Hawaii ought to be proud of. Edward Coristine isn’t quite 20 years old, but he’s nonetheless a famous figure. Coristine is known by his alias, “Big Balls.” He’s a college student and programmer formerly appointed to the Department of Government Efficiency, but he’s now a permanent federal...

Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local “youths” and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now! The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these “minors” as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14. The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by local thugs. Washington, D.C., must...

Crime 5 shot, 3 fatally at "WestFest" carnival in Salt Lake City suburb. One of those killed was an infant, police say. By Updated on: June 16, 2025 / 7:40 AM EDT / CBS News Five people were shot — three of them fatally, including an infant — at an annual carnival outside Salt Lake City Sunday night, authorities said. West Valley City, Utah, police said officers at the WestFest noticed two groups of people having a "verbal altercation" and, as they moved in to break it up, "a 16-year-old male from one of the groups pulled out a gun...

A Florida hairstylist was stabbed to death with a steak knife by a 280-pound assailant during a violent attack inside the parking garage of a luxury apartment complex. Hailey Hosford, 27, had just stepped out of a rental car at the Retreat at Sawgrass Village in Sunrise on Wednesday when a man reportedly charged the vehicle, ripped open the door, and fatally stabbed her - also injuring her male friend in the process, as reported by The New York Post. The suspect, 21-year-old Jackson Julian Sagesse, was subsequently arrested and booked into Broward County Jail on charges of murder and...

A Florida Checkers employee allegedly shot and killed a customer in a fight over missing mayonnaise, according to authorities. Fast food server Elijah Mackey, 23, allegedly shot 40-year-old customer Wesley Robertson late Wednesday after Robertson complained about his order at the drive-thru window in a branch in Kissimmee, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said. A witness told deputies the incident was sparked by missing packets of mayo, according to his arrest warrant. Mackey allegedly climbed out of the drive-thru window, called Robertson a slew of insults, then pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest, the warrant said.

Three teenagers allegedly kidnapped a wealthy man at gunpoint and drove him to a remote Arizona desert to steal $4 million in cryptocurrency in a sinister plot. Austin Fletcher and Belal Ashraf, both 16 and from Pasco County, Florida, allegedly teamed up with a third, as-yet-unidentified teenager to target the victim, who has remained anonymous. Prosecutors said at Fletcher's probable cause hearing on Friday that the third teenager is no longer in the United States. It is not clear if authorities know where they are or if they plan to extradite them. A juvenile court judge ruled that Ashraf and...

A Pittsburgh man was sentenced to life in prison without parole for executing an Uber driver who was seen begging for her life in a disturbing dashcam video. Calvin Crew, 25, fatally shot 38-year-old Christina Spicuzza in 2022 after she picked him up while driving for Uber.

Seven Georgia students — some as young as 5 — were arrested for allegedly attacking their 7-year-old classmate during an early morning bus ride to school, according to police. The alleged attackers, who range in age from 5 to 14, were slapped with battery charges for the vicious beatdown that erupted while their bus was en route to Mattie Lively Elementary School in Statesboro on April 18, the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday. Police said they were notified of the heinous assault roughly a week later and identified the troubled students after reviewing the transport’s security footage, which captured...

What do you get when you take a 40 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate, mix it with a 25 percent absentee-father rate, and sprinkle some social media on top? You get feral kids. Raised by their devices and peers, and educated not in the school of virtue but of virality, most of them are in their late teens to early twenties. Anybody living in our nation’s largest cities has become acquainted with these kids in recent years — from the teen takeovers in Chicago and illegal house parties in Nashville to the drag racing in Florida and the storming of malls in...

A Texas high school star athlete was stabbed in the heart and left to die in his loving twin brother’s arms following a fight over a seat at a track meet, the boy’s heartbroken father said. Austin Metcalf was attending a track and field championship between other area schools at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, when the fatal attack happened on April 2. Metcalf, a junior at Frisco ISD’s Memorial High School, was in the stands at the stadium when a confrontation broke out between the teen and 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony. Anthony, a senior at Centennial High School, was allegedly...

A Virginia high school sprinter suffered a concussion and potential skull fracture when her competitor smashed her in the back of her head with a relay baton during their race. Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker was the second leg runner for the 4×200 meter relay at the VHSL Class 3 State Indoor Championships at Liberty University on Friday.Tucker – who had earned silver in the girl’s 55m dash earlier in the meet – was attempting to cut into lane one during a battle for second place in the front pack as she was rounding turn four. A Virginia high...

Brazen thieves on bikes raided three 7-Eleven stores in California in the space of half an hour, smashing their way in and taking all they could carry. About 20 robbers swarmed inside the shops in Hollywood, grabbing food, drinks, cigarettes and anything else on shelves. Staff could only stand by helplessly as their convenience stores were ransacked in the blink of an eye before the invaders moved on to the next. The raids lasted a matter of minutes each, starting at 8:02pm on Friday when the 7040 West Sunset Boulevard store was hit, police said. Another near Hollywood and Highland...

Chicago police have charged an 11-year-old boy with robbing a man nearly six times his age on a CTA train. He worked with a 14-year-old girl to commit the crime, police said. The pair robbed the 62-year-old inside a Red Line train car at State-Lake around 7:30 p.m. on May 24, according to police. CPD said the girl also robbed a 41-year-old man at the Clark-Division station about 40 minutes later. This victim was also on a Red Line train. Both juveniles are charged with robbery of a victim over the age of 60. The girl faces an additional charge...

A group of teens forced a woman to miscarry with a brutal attack after she and her husband dared to stray onto a Chicago street that the youths claimed as their own. The 41-year-old mother was returning home with her husband from a date night on Friday when they were surrounded by at least 10 young people in the city's notorious Streeterville neighborhood. The woman, who gave her name only as Nina, told Fox32 that she was pepper-sprayed in the face, kicked in the stomach and lost a clump of hair as her husband was held back by the mob....