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A 12-year-old boy has been charged with murder for allegedly gunning down a Sonic restaurant worker in Texas with an assault rifle. The deadly confrontation at the Sonic Drive-In in Keene began after 32-year-old employee Mathew Davis spotted a 20-year-old man urinating in the parking lot Saturday night, NBC-DFW reported, citing police. Davis approached the man relieving himself, identified as Angel Gomez, and a physical fight ensued, the report said. During the scuffle, the 12-year-old boy who was sitting inside Gomez’s car allegedly fired six rounds from an assault rifle, striking Davis.

EXCERPTS: This report—the first in a two-part series—is an attempt to identify and disentangle factors that shape the observable trends in asylum decisions before the Immigration Courts. It is based upon an analysis of hundreds of thousands of detailed Immigration Court records covering the last two decades obtained from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Both affirmative and defensive asylum applications in the Immigration Courts are included in the data and in this report. Most asylum applications today are considered defensive applications and filed in response to the Department of...

A Utah widow who penned a grief book for children in the wake of her husband’s death has been charged with his murder, authorities said. Mom of three Kouri Darden Richins, 33, of Summit County, was arrested Monday for allegedly poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, at their home on Willow Court in Kamas on March 4, 2022, KUTV reported, She is charged with first-degree aggravated murder and three counts of second-degree possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, officials said. Police arrived at their home about 3:20 a.m. on the night of Eric’s death to find him lying...

A Louisiana man allegedly shot a 14-year-old girl in the back of the head as she played hide-and-seek with a group of friends on his property — where he told police he opened fire after seeing “shadows.” David Doyle, 58, has been charged with aggravated battery, four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, and the illegal discharge of a firearm, police said. The incident occurred Sunday morning in Starks, a small town near the border with Texas, where police received reports of a shooting. Detectives determined that “several juveniles were playing hide and seek in the area and were...

Attorneys representing the accused drunk driver who struck and killed newlywed bride Samantha Hutchinson on the day of her South Carolina nuptials are asking the public “not to rush to judgment.” Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, last week retained two high-powered attorneys, Nathan S. Williams and Christopher S. Gramiccioni, to defend her in her criminal case. Williams is a former federal prosecutor best known for trying mass shooter Dylann Roof and convincing a jury to give him the death penalty. Gramiccioni spent nearly a decade serving as a prosecutor in Monmouth County, New Jersey, before entering private practice in 2021.

A Tennessee high school teacher was pepper-sprayed twice by an unruly student who became incensed after he confiscated her phone during class, new video shows. Dramatic cellphone footage taken during class Friday at Antioch High School captured the rambunctious student confronting her teacher after her phone was taken away as a disciplinary action. The disobedient student had been “texting and Googling answers for her school work,” according to Reddit user @Lazy_Mouse3803, who shared the now-viral clip. In the minute-long video, a female student can be seen getting up from her desk and walking out of the classroom as the student...

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – Jessica McCoy wiped rain droplets off her safety goggles before sitting down at the firing line. She picked up the Daniel Defense AR-15 and spent a minute navigating the scope before finally pulling the trigger, releasing a burst of sound that reverberated across the rifle range. "Did I even hit the target?" she asked instructor Jane Milhans, who replied, "We'll go see later." McCoy had never fired a semiautomatic rifle before that drizzly morning at an all-female firearm training just outside Tacoma, Washington. But like many women, she has decided to get more comfortable using a...

Have you seen President Trump's powerful 4 minute video message? Don't miss it!A NATION IN DECLINEQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure...

Chilling footage from a doorbell camera released this week shows the moment a man gunned down his brother at his Utah residence before being killed in a shootout with police. Jeffrey Roberts, 66, of Long Beach, Calif., is seen in the video released Thursday pulling into his brother’s North Ogden driveway and approaching the front door shortly after 7 p.m. on April 27, the Weber County Attorney’s Office said. Police say Scott Roberts and his wife, Jodi, were eating dinner alone when Jeffrey arrived. Scott answers the front door – though he cannot be seen in the video – and...

A former West Virginia teacher convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl also kept a list of the “Top 10” most attractive middle school students and was caught masturbating on school property multiple times, a new lawsuit claims. The civil action contends that school administrators “turned a blind eye” to Ronald Paul Harris’ perverted behavior during his time as a history teacher and basketball coach at Oak Glen Middle School in New Cumberland in the decade before his sexual abuse conviction. The 63-year-old is serving a 10-to-20-year sentence after admitting in September to abusing a high school freshman in 2010 who...

Newly released bodycam footage shows accused killer Bryan Kohberger quibbling with a Washington State University Police officer during a traffic stop about a month before he allegedly slaughtered four University of Idaho students. The October 2022 traffic stop was released by WSU police on Thursday along with a number of previously sealed documents offering a new glimpse into the life of the alleged quadruple murderer. The video, obtained by Fox News, shows a female police officer approach Kohberger’s driver side of his white Hyundai Elantra and tell him that he ran a red light.

At the end of the day, have you ever wanted to pick low-hanging fruit with a large needle outside a box?If so, then you’ve probably attended way too many meetings in your lifetime. According to warnings from medical experts – and these are unverified, by the way – meetings are bad for your health because they are comprised of diets of elephants, cows and ducks.Indeed, we have heard all sorts of slang, corporate buzzwords and business-related words that make us want to get beat up by 800-pound gorillas, poked in the eye with a moving needle and thrown out the...

Authorities in Maryland say that three masked teenagers hopped onto a school bus late Monday afternoon and attempted to kill a 14-year-old boy on board. "This was an attempted murder, plain and simple," Martin Diggs, head of the bus drivers’ union in Prince George’s County, told WJLA-TV about the Monday incident near the Iverson Mall. "Call it what it is." After the three teenagers boarded the bus, one of them is said to have pointed a gun at the 14-year-old’s head and pulled the trigger three times.

Three Colorado teenagers arrested last week for allegedly hurling a large rock that killed driver Alexa Bartell have been formally charged with murder and a dozen other crimes. Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak, all 18, each face charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, second-degree assault and attempted second-degree assault in Bartell’s killing and alleged attacks on six other cars in suburban Denver, First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King announced Wednesday. “Based on the available facts and after careful legal analysis, we have filed charges and will now move forward with a criminal prosecution,” King said in...

A mechanic was hit with criminal charges this week in the death of his coworker who was crushed by an elevator that plunged six stories in a Bronx apartment building two years ago. Peter Milatz, 67, is accused of disregarding safety protocols that could have avoided the disaster which killed 25-year-old apprentice mechanic Joseph Rosa on Feb. 18, 2021, prosecutors said Tuesday. “Jobs in this field can be extremely dangerous, and workers must be protected,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement. “If safety measures had been followed, the victim would still be alive today.”

Dashcam video captured the terrifying moment an out-of-control BMW careened across four lanes of traffic and a highway median in Virginia at more than 120 miles per hour, nearly hitting a cop. The heart-stopping incident happened late Monday morning in suburban Fairfax County as an officer was making a routine traffic stop on the southbound Fairfax County Parkway, about 20 miles away from Capitol Hill, officials said. All of a sudden, a black 2018 BMW M3 driven by a 17-year-old and headed northbound on the parkway, lost control, spun around and dashed across traffic, slamming into both the car that...

A Sunday bank failure is an extremely rare occurrence. Signature Bank failed on Sunday, marking only the sixth time a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) bank failed on a Sunday, according to Bankrate’s analysis of FDIC data. It was also the first Sunday bank failure since 1991. Any non-Friday failure is pretty unusual, with the last one before Signature Bank’s Sunday closure coming Oct. 30, 2013 — a Wednesday. Silicon Valley Bank failed two days earlier, ending the unusual streak of more than 800 days without a bank failure Friday. Before this month, the last time a bank backed by...

A California man was recently found guilty of killing three teenage boys who played ding-dong ditch at his house in 2020. Riverside County resident Anurag Chandra was found guilty of three counts of attempted murder and three counts of first-degree murder on Friday. The charges stemmed from a January 19, 2020 incident where a group of teenage boys rang Chandra’s bell on a dare. Chandra said that one of the teens flashed his buttocks before running away.

A 79-year-old Illinois man is accused of fatally shooting his neighbor, all because the man was using a leaf blower, according to authorities. Ettore Lacchei was arrested on murder charges Tuesday over the killing of his next-door neighbor William Martys, 59, in the village of Antioch on April 12. Martys was using a leaf blower in his own yard when he was approached by Lacchei and the pair began arguing. Lacchei allegedly shot Martys in the head around 7:35 p.m., the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said. When deputies arrived at the home on North Black Oak Avenue, they found Martys...

His big smile totally makes cents. The California resident who became an overnight millionaire after winning the $2 billion Powerball prize flashed a wide grin as he was spotted dipping into his large fortune on Wednesday. Edwin Castro was photographed taking out a fat envelope of cash from a Chase bank Wednesday with his newly hired security team in tow. The lucky 30-year-old, who was dressed down in a quarter-zip Under Armour shirt, joggers and flip-flops while running his bank errand, added a whopping $997.6 million to his account when he won the largest lottery prize in US history last...