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It is common for gun control zealots to bloviate about how the United States is such a violent country, and others such as Canada’s dictator in chief Justin Trudeau using the crime rate in the United States as justification to seize firearms from his citizenry. And yes, the United States is ranked third when it comes to our murder rate. Now, want to know a dirty little secret? If you remove the following cities—Chicago, Detroit, Washington, DC, St. Louis and New Orleans—from the equation, the land of the free and home of the brave slips all the way down to...

James Williams, 36, opened fire on the robbery suspects as they were fleeing before one fatally shot him in the leg and chest, authorities said A man accused of killing a California gas station clerk during a "botched" robbery will not face a murder charge because the victim had opened fire on the suspect despite his life not being in danger, officials said Thursday. James Williams, 36, was killed during an early Saturday morning gunfight with Ronald Jackson Jr., 20, at a Chevron in Antioch, Fox San Francisco reported. The Antioch Police Department said a gas station employee called to...

Police on Thursday reaffirmed that the grisly killings of four University of Idaho students were part of a "targeted attack" the day after authorities appeared to suggest the opposite. “We remain consistent in our belief that this was indeed a targeted attack but have not concluded if the target was the residence or its occupants,” a spokesperson for the Moscow Police Department told NBC News. Authorities have released conflicting statements since Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, were found fatally stabbed at an off-campus home in Moscow on Nov. 13. The...

The suspect in a triple homicide in Riverside, who was shot and killed by deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Friday, has been identified as a 28-year-old man who used to be employed with the Virginia State Police. Authorities with the Riverside Police Department said that around 11 a.m. on Nov. 25, officers had been dispatched to a welfare check of a young a woman who appeared to be in distress while getting into a red Kia Soul with a man in the 11200 block of Price Court and leaving with him. While officers were responding, reports of...

The reports come as Russia faces mounting outrage from the international community for numerous alleged human rights abuses in Ukraine Ukrainian citizens have reportedly been tortured, raped and summarily executed by Russian soldiers during the country's invasion of Ukraine, United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack claimed last week. The reports come as Russia faces mounting outrage from the international community for numerous alleged human rights abuses, including possible war crimes, during its invasion of Ukraine. For instance, Russian soldiers are believed to have murdered residents of Bucha, where dozens of bodies were found in the streets,...

Authorities now say a gruesome murder that occurred in East Texas last week may have been part of a “human sacrifice” to Satan. Several sources—including the suspect’s mother—indicate he had been involved in cultic activity. On November 13, Shelby County sheriff’s officers found the mutilated body of Sarah Hopson, a 36-year-old resident of Joaquin, Texas. Ethan Myers, also of Joaquin, has been charged with murder and evading arrest. Myers, 26, is in jail on $1.25 million bond. Sarah Hopson and Ethan Myers had been staying with Allen Price and Teresa Louviere, who alerted deputies last Sunday that Myers had been...

Chesapeake police on Wednesday identified the six people killed Tuesday night by a Walmart employee who opened fire in the store. The shooting occurred around 10 p.m. Tuesday when an overnight team manager at the Walmart on Sam’s Circle began shooting employees in the store’s break room. The dead were identified as Tyneka Johnson, 22, of Portsmouth; and, from Chesapeake, Randall Blevins, 70; Lorenzo Gamble, 43; Brian Pendleton, 38; Kellie Pyle, 52; and a 16-year-old boy. The boy’s identity is being withheld because he was a minor, said Leo Kosinski, a police spokesperson, in a statement Wednesday. The identities...

Bernell Trammell, 59, was a black man who was well-known for holding political and religious signs outside his store. He ran “Expressions Journal,” a small publication where he also made large signs he was known to carry. He was known by many neighbors as a peaceful man, unafraid to make his voice heard with the words on his large signs, and now his voice will no longer be heard. Milwaukee police are still searching for the murderer. This petition is to ensure the person responsible for this is found and sent to jail.

A neighbor’s Mini Australian Sheppard was found filleted and skinned nearby the murder site of four University of Idaho students. This revelation has some believing that the two crimes are connected. “It was like a deer that someone had hunted,” Pam explained. “They cut him around the neck and just skinned him. His little legs had fur and his little face had fur, but the rest of him was just skinned.” The pair are rightfully shaken up. They have lived in their house for 39 years and they will now start locking their doors for the first time. The Colbert’s...

Autopsies performed on four University of Idaho students who were found dead inside a rental house near campus showed that all four were stabbed to death, the Latah County coroner said Thursday. The killings have shaken Moscow, an Idaho Panhandle college town of 25,000 residents that last saw a homicide about five years ago, according to Coroner Cathy Mabbutt. “It’s pretty tough,” Mabbutt said. The autopsies were performed in nearby Spokane County in Washington state, and the bodies were subsequently released to the victims’ families. Here is a look at what is known about the killings, and what remains a...

Heidi Matheny, 35, was arrested for the murder of her 93-year-old grandmother, Alice Matheny. The granddaughter allegedly admitted she took her grandmother to a doctor’s appointment, where a doctor told them the elderly woman needed to be in a nursing home, something they could not afford and insurance would not cover, according to the Eaton, Ohio, police report. Heidi said they left the appointment and enjoyed ice cream together. Back at the house, Heidi allegedly described to officers how she walked up behind her grandmother while the 93-year-old woman was doing dishes and pushed her head into the sink, holding...

A Moscow, Idaho restaurant owner where two of the victims worked said that its employees are 'shook' by the incidentAn elite Federal Bureau of Investigations unit has joined the search for the suspect who allegedly killed four University of Idaho students on early Sunday morning. Four University of Idaho students, Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were killed inside a King Street home in Moscow, Idaho between the hours of 3 and 4:00 a.m. on Sunday, according to Moscow Mayor Art Bettge. Police found the four deceased students while responding to an unconscious...

Idaho police have distanced themselves from claims that the unsolved murder of four students poses no danger to the public, saying: "There is a threat out there still." Officials in the small college town of Moscow had insisted that there was "no imminent threat to the community at large", despite identifying no suspects. Investigators do not yet know who killed Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves with an "edged weapon" in the small hours of Sunday morning. On Tuesday, Moscow police chief James Fry admitted that the killer could still be at large, partially walking back the...

A study examining murders in 2021 based on death certificate data projects that one out of 179 Americans will eventually be murdered over the course of their lifetimes if the country’s murder rate remains at 2021 levels. “That means if you’re in the United States, you live here, you’re born and you spend your life here, your odds of your life ending by murder are one in 179 over your life. Not over a year or any other timeframe.” “It’s just somebody’s gonna murder you before you die of natural causes, an accident, suicide, whatever it may be,” Jim Agresti,...

Shraddha Madan eloped with boyfriend Aftab Amin from Mumbai and started living in Delhi.As per the major development, it is found that Aftab chopped Shraddha into thirty-five pieces. A major disclosure in Delhi's 6-month-old murder case has been made. Boyfriend Aftab Amin Poonawalla murdered his live-in partner and girlfriend Shraddha, cut his body into 35 pieces, and disposed of them in different areas of Delhi for 18 days. The police arrested the accused Aftab on Saturday. A year ago, Shraddha shifted from Mumbai to Delhi to be with Aftab. Shraddha, 26, was a resident of Malad, Mumbai. Here she used...

ONACA, Pa. (KDKA) - One man is dead, and another is injured following a shooting outside the Monaca Walmart on Sunday. The man who died had stepped in to help the shooting victim. The family of that Good Samaritan is demanding justice because they say a local police officer caused his death.

A new cold case investigation has been opened into the long unsolved murder of child beauty pageant star JonBenet Ramsey. Police in Colorado hope that new forensic techniques could finally solve the murder of the six-year-old girl found dead in the basement of her family home in Boulder almost three decades ago. Her body was found beaten and strangled on Boxing Day in 1996, hours after her parents, John and Patsy, reported her missing and a ransom note was found in the house. Her death has been ruled as a homicide, though nobody has ever been charged over her murder....

Almost exactly one year ago, Adrian Soto allegedly killed his girlfriend’s ex in front of multiple witnesses in a grocery parking lot in Chicago. But, even though officials say the murder was captured on video and was seen by people who know Soto personally, he was not charged with the crime until this week. In the interim, prosecutors say, Soto shot up his ex-girlfriend’s house, killing a man sleeping inside. He is now charged with two counts of first-degree murder and a host of other felonies. Picking up the kids On the afternoon of November 7, 2021, Soto rode along...

SETH RICH ALERT! Police have launched a new investigation into the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, enlisting a fresh squad of experts in hopes of cracking the 1996 cold case. Ahead of the 26th anniversary of the 6-year-old’s mysterious death, the Boulder Police Department said it was partnering up with the Colorado Cold Case Review Team to continue digging for answers. (Snip) A police investigation cleared both parents in 2008 when DNA from an unidentified third party was found on JonBenét’s pajama pants.

Turner, 28, and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Jon Logan Kennison, were arrested in 2019 after authorities found Burchard's body stuffed in the trunk of an abandoned car on State Route 147 near Lake Mead outside Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 7, 2019. Police say Burchard, 71, traveled from California to Las Vegas, where Turner was located at the time, to end their two-year relationship in which he apparently gave her an allowance to fund her lifestyle totaling an estimated $300,000... She and Kennison are accused of beating Burchard with a baseball bat and hiding his body in the trunk of Turner's...