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“Is that Fale Pea?” a Seattle police officer asks another. “Yeah, you know him? “He’s notorious for random assaults on Third,” the officer says.

Newly-released videos show the moments a man attacked a woman at random outside the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle earlier this month. Fale Vaigalepa Pea, 42, was armed with a wooden board that had a screw through the end of it and used both hands to swing the weapon and strike the victim, 75-year-old Jeanette Marken, in the face, according to charges filed in King County Superior Court. The hit gouged out Marken's eye, and she just learned that she will not recover her eyesight in the affected eye, family members told KOMO News on Friday. "To take a...

Meanwhile, in the Democrat hellhole of Seattle… A 75-year-old woman lost her eye after she was brutally attacked by a serial assaulter who has a history of punching and stabbing people. 42-year-old Fale Vaigalepa Pea hit Jeanette Marken in the face with a wooden club with a screw through the end of the plank as she was standing on a street corner in downtown Seattle after picking up a food order earlier this month. Close up photo of wooden board with screw in Seattle attack / screen image police bodycam Surveillance footage shows Pea approached Marken and swung the wooden...

Wild video shows a deranged gym member leaping over a counter to repeatedly beat a Planet Fitness employee in Miami — all because he made a simple request, cops say. The crazed woman, identified by cops as 35-year-old Kiara Bryant, now faces two misdemeanor charges after the attack on Dec 12. Cops were called to Planet Fitness in Little Havana, Miami, after a woman was reportedly seen running around the gym without clothing, according to NBC News. When the police arrived, they found Bryant in the parking lot yelling profanities and “attempting to fight everyone,” authorities said. Bryant’s went off...

WESTLAND, Mich. – A suspect has been taken into custody after a Salvation Army bell ringer was shot and killed at a Kroger store in Westland on Thursday, police said. The shooting happened at about 6:10 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, at the Kroger at 36430 Ford Road, according to a release from the Westland Police Department. When officers arrived, they found a Salvation Army bell ringer dead inside the store, with multiple gunshot wounds. Police said the suspect fled the store immediately after the shooting, but investigators identified and arrested the suspect early Friday. The suspect’s identity is...

A black 18-year-old accused of fatally stabbing his White 16-year-old classmate in a classroom at Baytown Sterling High School in Baytown, Texas, has been charged with murder and is being held on a $3 million bond. Aundre Matthews reportedly killed his classmate, Sterling High School sophomore Andrew Meismer, in what prosecutors say was a fight over a vape pen. “Defendant followed the complainant to the bathroom, searched his pockets, did not find the pen, but instead found a pair of scissors on the complainant’s person. He took the scissors and put them in his own waste band,” prosecutors told the...

A woman fatally shot a man who broke into her home According to WLOX, 29-year-old Dangelo Murphy was fatally shot by a woman after he reportedly broke into a home while armed with a hammer and a knife. The report states that law enforcement responded to a home in Gulfport, Mississippi at around 7 a.m. for reports of a man breaking into a home. After reportedly entering the home, the suspect encountered two women, who both had an active protection order out against him, per WLOX. Authorities said one of the women suffered a knife injury, although women managed to...

The Vegas teens who callously mowed down a biking retired police chief in 2023 were sentenced up to life in prison. Both teens will be eligible for parole in the mid 2040s, according to 8NewsNow. As previously reported, Jesus Ayala, who just turned 18, is facing murder charges after he fatally struck 64-year-old retired police chief Andreas Probst. On August 14th, 2023 two teens allegedly stole a Hyundai, took the vehicle on a hit-and-run crime spree, and recorded it with a phone. On August 29th, Las Vegas Police Detectives found the phone recording on social media and determined it was...

The mayor of Savannah, Georgia does not want to concern himself with a terrifying crime that happened on his watch and was sure to let a constituent know in no uncertain terms.As The Gateway Pundit reported last week, a white Georgia woman named Ashley Wasielewski sustained horrifying burns to her face, neck, and scalp after a black man emerged from the bushes at a Forsyth park in Savannah and dumped acid on her.The suspect, who is still at large, approached the victim from behind and poured the liquid chemical on her. According to police, the attacker was not known to...

A 35-year-old woman who uses a wheelchair was sexually assaulted at a CTA station in the Loop on Thursday morning, according to a Chicago police report. The woman was at the Jackson Red Line station when a man assaulted her around 2:57 a.m. She sought help from a CTA canine security officer and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment. CPD said she was in good condition.

ASHWAUBENON, Wis. (WLUK) -- A pair of fundraisers have been launched after video of an incident at the Cinnabon stand at Bay Park Square Mall in Ashwaubenon went viral. As FOX 11 first reported Saturday, a Cinnabon employee was fired after she was caught on camera using racial slurs toward a Somali couple. The video has garnered tens of millions of views globally across X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. The two fundraisers are competing against each other. One is in support of the two Somali customers who recorded the video and the other is for the terminated Cinnabon worker. So...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it has rounded up at least a dozen criminal illegal immigrants — including "child sex offenders, domestic abusers, and violent gang members" — during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE's) latest "worst of the worst" list includes five Somali nationals, six from Mexico and one from El Salvador. "Sanctuary policies and politicians like Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowed these pedophiles, domestic terrorists, and gang members to roam the streets and terrorize Americans," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. "ICE law enforcement are...

Three people were wounded during a shooting inside a California mall on Black Friday as shoppers barricaded themselves inside stores and fled for safety during the “complete chaos.” The shooting began outside a Macy’s store at the Westfield Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara at around 5:40 p.m, according to KRON4. The victims – a 16-year-old girl, a man, and a woman – were found at the scene and rushed to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. The shooting was described as an “isolated incident,” and there was no active threat to the public, the San Jose Police...

A woman was slashed with a razor during the Tuesday evening rush hour on a Bronx subway train, the latest in a series of violent incidents across New York City’s transit system, according to police, as reported by The New York Post. The attack occurred around 5:30 p.m. aboard a northbound 2 train as it passed through the Pelham Parkway station. Authorities said the victim was speaking with someone when an unknown woman inserted herself into the conversation, sparking an argument. Would-be chain thief slashes woman with razor on NYC train in latest transit chaos: cops https://t.co/7NvBNzo3NO pic.twitter.com/nukz0Tr5rv— New York...

West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, 20, of West Virginia, has died after being shot Wednesday in a Washington, D.C. ambush just blocks from the White House. President Donald Trump confirmed the news Thursday night, noting he was told just seconds before speaking to members of the military at Mar-a-Lago. "I heard that Sarah Beckstrom, of West Virginia, ... highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she's just passed away," Trump said. "She's no longer with us. She's looking down at us right now. Her parents are with her. It's just...

"At some point, the lady who was seated, the 70-year-old woman, asked the woman who was standing if she could give her some space, that sparked an argument," said Carey Codd, Broward Sheriff's Office spokesperson. That argument then began to escalate, with officials saying the attacker intentionally and forcefully pushed her own body into the victim several times.

FRUITLAND, Fla. - A 24-hour manhunt triggered by a deadly stabbing at a Florida Dollar General store came to an end on Saturday with the arrest of a convicted sex offender. Dig deeper: According to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, deputies went to the Dollar General store in Fruitland shortly after 3:45 p.m. on Friday after receiving a 911 call about an unresponsive woman with stab wounds. They performed CPR before she was taken to an area hospital, where she died. ... Dig deeper: According to PCSO, Beasley is a convicted registered sex offender with an extensive criminal history dating...

Multiple police officers were attacked, including one who was injured, while responding to a shooting in Chicago on Friday in which at least five victims were shot. The incident happened near State and Randolph streets at about 10 p.m., just hours after a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, according to Fox 32. Ald. Brian Hopkins of Chicago's 2nd Ward said at least five people were shot, including one person in critical condition. "300 juveniles rioting in the Loop now, at least 5 victims shot, one critical with life threatening gunshot wound to torso," he wrote on X. "Multiple police officers attacked...

A mother and father were convicted of decapitating two of their children and then making their two younger sons view their siblings’ headless bodies. Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr. and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell were found guilty Tuesday of murdering their daughter, Maliaka, 13, and son Maurice Jr., 12, in the family’s home in Lancaster, California, in November 2020.

A Chicago mother of two has spoken out after shocking video of her family being violently attacked by a group of children outside a school shocked the nation. Corshawnda Hatter, 33, says she has been left traumatized by the ordeal, in which she and her son, nine, were also followed and threatened as she tried to protect him from bullies. 'I can still hear the cries of my kids saying: "Mommy, help me. I'm hurt, I'm scared",' Hatter wrote in a post to social media after the incident near Orville T Bright Elementary School. 'I feel like I failed my...