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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A pair of boys were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of a 33-year-old Portland convenience store employee last month. The two boys, ages 12 and 15, face murder and robbery and were lodged at the Robert L. Harris Juvenile Justice Center in Vancouver. Santi Ram Rai was shot while he was working at a convenience store in the 1700 block of SE 139th Ave., on Dec,9, 2025. A medical examiner has since confirmed that he died of homicide by gunshot wound. After a month-long investigation, detectives identified that the two suspects lived in...

There’s an old saying that when the cat’s away, the mice will play. But in Minnesota, even when the adults are standing right there cheering them on, the mice still can’t help themselves. The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes has become ground zero for progressive hysteria over federal immigration enforcement. Schools shuttered for days. Attorney General Keith Ellison filing lawsuits against the feds. Parents forming human shields outside school buildings like we’re living in some kind of war zone. The entire state apparatus has been mobilized against ICE agents who are simply doing their jobs. And for what? For enforcing...

The brute who beat a Manhattan pizzeria manager unconscious in a senseless attack nearly derailed his own plea deal Thursday — when he brazenly started blaming the victim, infuriating the judge. Tyshaun Watson, who had pleaded guilty in exchange for a promised 17-year prison sentence, launched into a wild rant during the Manhattan Supreme Court hearing, claiming he’d been “provoked” before he pummeled pizza-maker Zakaira El Sherief. “I was being provoked… if you watch the video,” he railed — until Judge Laura Ward interrupted and shot back at him that “Maybe we should go to trial on this and let...

A Democrat judge has released a Chicago man with 57 prior arrests after he pleaded guilty to using a metal bar to smash a man’s jaw in a sneak attack.

Police arrested a woman who had worked for three weeks at the Rocking Horse Ranch childcare center in the death of 11-month-old Harvey Muklebust. Theah Loudemia Russell, 18, is in custody and expected to be charged soon for second-degree unintentional murder, Savage Police Chief Brady Juell and Scott County Attorney Ron Hocevar said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference at Savage City Hall. Following months of investigation, Russell admitted to suffocating the child, which resulted in his death, Juell said. Russell also faces several counts of first degree assault for attempting the same on another infant at the daycare center...

A fight over an Alabama woman's mother allegedly being 'disrespected' ended with two people shot to death at a wake, according to police. Jasmine Allen, 35, has been charged with capital murder in the deaths of her great‑uncle, 76‑year‑old Carlton Rufus Allen, and her uncle, 43‑year‑old father‑of‑seven Sonny Arrington. She is also charged with attempted murder for shooting her sister, Jasmine Ross, who survived a gunshot wound to the leg. Detectives said Allen and her daughter had arrived at the apartment earlier that evening in a Lyft to join relatives gathering at her mother's home in the Tuxedo Terrace complex...

HOUSTON — Once surveillance images were released, it was only a matter of hours before authorities found and arrested two suspects believed to be responsible for a deadly shooting on a METRO bus in west Houston. A source close to the investigation said the suspects were identified after investigators circulated images of them to Houston-area school resource officers. Houston police identified the suspect believed to have fired the fatal shot as 17-year-old Brayden Smith, who has been charged with murder. The other suspect was identified as Patrick Scott, 18. He's been charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon, authorities said....

Six people were killed in a series of related shooting in eastern Mississippi, according to authorities. Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott on Friday said a suspect, later identified as 24-year-old Daricka Moore, was taken into custody. Online records show Moore was charged with first-degree murder. WTVA reported that a 7-year-old girl was among the victims. "Unfortunately tonight we have dealt with tragedy in our community. Multiple innocent lives lost due to violence. We do have the individual in custody and no longer poses a threat to our community," Scott wrote in a post he shared on Facebook. "I ask that...

Two men allegedly attacked and stabbed a Kentucky Fried Chicken worker multiple times in Nevada during a dispute over gravy, according to reports. James Carter, 48, and Gerald Carter, 32, were arrested and booked on attempted murder charges for the assault that broke out on Dec. 27 at a Las Vegas KFC, according to KSNV.

A father was savagely beaten during a bloody Disneyland brawl after he confronted a family who were trying to cut the line for the Indiana Jones ride, his traumatized relatives claim. The dad, who hasn’t been identified publicly, was brutally attacked at the Anaheim amusement park while he was waiting for the ride with his teenage daughter on Tuesday, according to his family. The beatdown, which the victim’s relatives detailed in a Reddit thread, left the man in need of multiple stitches and covered in bruises.The chaos erupted just before 1 p.m. when the alleged assailant flew into a rage...

New details have emerged about an Olympic hopeful from Colorado who allegedly stabbed an Uber driver to death inside his car, including how she claims he attempted to reach back and assault her despite being partially paralyzed — which prompted her to plunge a kitchen knife into him 60 times, prosecutors say. Khayla Dawson, 27, of Colorado Springs, claims she was going for a "joy ride" when she scheduled an Uber pickup with 38-year-old victim Jeremy Campbell on Oct. 26, according to an arrest affidavit filed by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and obtained by Law&Crime. Dawson — who...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — An Uber driver was shot in the back and killed early New Year’s morning in what police say was a carjacking by a 15-year-old suspect. 58-year-old Cesar Tejada, of Grayson, a father of two, picked up Christian Simmons on Rangewood Drive in Lilburn around 4 a.m. on Thursday, according to Lawrenceville Police. Simmons requested a ride to Groveland Parkway in Lawrenceville. Surveillance video captured Tejada’s black SUV in the neighborhood just before the shooting. According to the arrest warrant, Simmons exited the back seat and shot Tejada in the back. Tejada’s body was left in the...

Two men were killed and another was injured in a New Year’s Day shooting in Philadelphia. The incident occurred at about 11:13 a.m. Thursday along the 7100 block of Oakland Street. Philadelphia police told NBC10 that one man was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:55 a.m. Another was taken to a hospital by a private vehicle but was pronounced dead at 11:52 a.m. A third man is currently hospitalized but his condition is unknown at this time. According to 6ABC, the shooting started as the result of an argument. All of the parties involved knew...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a career criminal who stabbed a woman more than 40 times in an unprovoked attack in a Dollar General parking lot. 54-year-old Lemar Beasley stabbed Cheyenne Kastens, 36, in the parking lot of a Fruitland Park, Florida, Dollar General last month.

“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...