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Anna Kepner, a teen who died aboard a Carnival Horizon cruise ship earlier this month, was found dead under a bed, wrapped in a blanket and covered by life vests, according to a security source briefed on the investigation. The 18-year-old cheerleader from Titusville, Florida, was reported dead while aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship on Nov. 8. The Miami-Dade medical examiner has not specified a cause or manner of her death. Among the avenues investigators are looking at is whether there might have been some sort of altercation with her stepbrother prior to her death, the source told ABC...

Backlash is intensifying in Oklahoma after a teenager accused in a series of violent sex assaults avoided prison time, prompting swarms of people to protest outside a courthouse amid renewed scrutiny of how the justice system handled the case. Images show more than a hundred people gathering outside the Payne County Courthouse Wednesday carrying signs demanding justice after 18-year-old Jesse Butler avoided prison under Oklahoma’s youthful offender law, The Oklahoman reported. “Ponca Tribal Victim Services is standing in solidarity with survivors demanding Justice!,” the organization wrote in a post on Facebook. “Jesse Butler needs to be held accountable! Payne county...

Dorian Johnson, the friend of Mike Brown who started the false rumors that Brown was killed with his hands ups surrendering to police, was killed Sunday in Ferguson, Missouri. Mike Brown’s friend Dorian Johnson speaking with reporters after Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. Johnson was with Michael Brown the day he was shot dead in Ferguson. Dorian Johnson was also with Brown earlier when Brown strong-armed a convenience store owner and walked out with items he stole from the store.

An Ohio man accused of gunning down his pregnant ex-girlfriend with two of his pals — just hours before she was scheduled for induced labor — allegedly requested bereavement leave from his job before her death, prosecutors say. Kayvon Warren, 30, allegedly asked his employers for time off before he enlisted Robert Ervin, 20, and Lamar Morris Suggs, 22, to help kill India Kinamore, 26, on March 4, 2023, in Hamilton County, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer and local CBS affiliate WKRC. The outlets have been in attendance for Warren's court appearances for his multiple charges, which include aggravated murder...

An axe-wielding schoolgirl from Dundee who is said to have been defending a young female from a migrant man has become a social media hero. The girl, aged 14, has been charged with possession of a bladed weapon after police were called to the scene in the Lochee district of the city at the weekend. A video that has been widely circulated on social media shows the youngster brandishing an axe and a machete. In it, she shouts at somebody off camera that they are "f***ing battering kids, mate... You're f***ing kid bashers". The footage was taken on Saturday afternoon...

A 15-year-old boy was arrested for the death of his friend and fellow gangbanger after the suspect’s gun went off while he was flashing it inside a Queens apartment Wednesday afternoon, police and sources said. Jamuri Mezar, 14, was shot and killed in his Jamaica home at the Norman Towers during what law enforcement sources described as an accidental discharge. The older teen brought a stolen 9mm gun to Mezar’s home and was showing it off when it fired, striking Mezar in the head, the sources said. Mezar was pronounced dead on scene, police said. His pal bolted from the...

A boozed-up wrong-way driver flipped his car and slammed into a tree on Long Island Sunday night, killing a 19-year-old woman and injuring six other passengers, authorities said. Luis Gonzalo Barrionuevo-Fuertes, a former East Hampton High School graduate, was allegedly behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry while driving in the wrong direction on Old Stone Highway in East Hampton when he swerved to avoid slamming into another car around 7:30 p.m. The car overturned and struck a tree, killing 19-year-old passenger Scarleth Urgiles, East Hampton police said. The East Hampton High School student was pronounced dead at the scene.

A tipsy Long Island teen went for a passed-out joyride in a Tesla — which he switched into autopilot mode on a busy Connecticut highway before going to sleep and being busted by cops, state police said. Garden City native Guido Reinoso-Gallegos, 19, was slumped over the steering wheel as the self-driving vehicle rolled down I-91 south in Wethersfield at just 30 miles per hour with its hazard lights flashing when he was arrested around 12:30 am Friday. Despite not having his hands on the wheel, Gallegos was charged with driving under the influence because he still needs the awareness...

Two teenage girls from Germany were detained, arrested, and deported at an airport in Hawaii after immigration officials said it was suspicious they had not booked a hotel room. Backpackers Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu from Auckland while undergoing a round-the-world trip. The duo planned to spend five weeks in Hawaii before moving onto California and Costa Rica for the next legs of their journey. But despite having ESTA travel authorization, immigration officials accused them of attempting to enter the U.S. to work illegally, and they were placed in handcuffs and taken to a nearby...

An activist group supporting Karmelo Anthony, who is accused of murdering fellow teenager Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet, posted a bizarre POV-style video on social media showing their security team escorting the alleged killer from jail after he made bond. In the clip posted by the Next Generation Action Network (NGAN), a member of the organization’s security team shakes the teen’s hand and tells him to “get behind us” and “just stay close” as they walk past the media while leaving the Collin County Jail. One female reporter shoves a microphone in Anthony’s face and asks if he...

Metro First pics of teen shot dead in NYC love triangle murder-suicide revealed By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon Published April 13, 2025, 5:27 p.m. ET 205 Comments The teen allegedly shot dead by his girlfriend’s jealous ex was 17 — as the first images of the youngster were revealed Sunday. Neo Secaira left work early on Saturday to pick up his 19-year-old girlfriend in Bayside on Saturday night, only to walk into a bloody murder-suicide that left him and US Marine Frank Liu, 28, dead while their mutual love interest looked on in horror, police and sources told The Post. Photos posted...

Federal authorities allege a Wisconsin teen murdered his parents in order to “obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary” to assassinate President Donald Trump. According to Waukesha County authorities,17-year-old Nikita Casap was previously arrested in March on two counts of first-degree murder, along with two counts of hiding a corpse. Casap is also being charged with theft of property amounting to over $10,000 and the misappropriate of identification to obtain money. Casap’s stepfather, 51-year-old Donald Mayer, and his mother, 35-year-old Tatiana Casap, were found dead in their home on March 1st by the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department. After the discovery,...

The teenager accused of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf and leaving him to die in his twin brother’s arms at a high school track meet allegedly admitted to the senseless killing — but claimed it was in self defense. “I’m not alleged, I did it,” 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony chillingly told police in Frisco, Texas as he was being arrested at Kuykendall Stadium, according to an arrest warrant obtained by NBC DFW. The horrific stabbing was sparked when Anthony, who was sitting under another team’s pop up tent as it rained Wednesday morning, was asked by Metcalf to move — and Anthony...

FRISCO, Texas - Students and staff at Memorial High School in Frisco are mourning the loss of a student athlete who was stabbed to death at a track meet. The victim’s father said his son died in the arms of his twin brother. What we know: On Wednesday morning, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, a junior at Memorial High School in Frisco, was killed at a UIL District 11-5A track meet at Kuykendall Stadium. Police said a student from Centennial High School in Frisco, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, stabbed Metcalf in the chest after a fight. What they're saying: Hunter Metcalf described his...

The stricken sister of a tragic 15-year-old special-needs teen tortured to death by their “executioner’’ cousin told a Manhattan judge Monday that she still misses her “baby’’ every day. “I’m still waiting for a phone call to hear, ‘Hey, Sis, I miss you,’ ” an emotional Mykarsha Rogers told the judge — who ended up sentencing killer Johnette Booker to 20 years behind bars. Rogers’ sibling, Jallen McConnie, who was believed to be autistic, died in a hellhole home in the Wise Towers on West 94th Street and Columbus Avenue in June 2021 after horrific torture from the 43-year-old Booker,...

TAMPA — Brett Gardner’s youngest son, Miller, died on Friday at the age of 14, the family announced through the Yankees on Sunday. In a statement from the former Yankees outfielder and his wife Jessica, the Gardners said Miller fell ill “along with several other family members while on vacation.” “We have so many questions and so few answers at this point, but we do know that he passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of Friday, March 21st,” the Gardners said in the statement.

Twin 19-year-old brothers were found shot to death on top of a Georgia mountain a day after missing a flight to Boston to visit friends — and their family is refusing to accept probers’ murder-suicide theory. Qaadir and Naazir Lewis of Lawrenceville disappeared March 7 after missing their 7 a.m. flight, with the teens found dead by a hiker the next day at the summit of Bell Mountain near the North Carolina border. Grieving uncle Rahim Brawner said the teens were inseparable and would never hurt each other, even as the Georgia Bureau of Investigations is treating the case as...

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed steps from a Bronx high school in a violent clash Wednesday morning – one day after a 17-year-old was busted inside his school with a loaded gun, cops and sources said. The younger teen was knifed once in the stomach – apparently by another teen who jumped him around 8:45 a.m. across from John F. Kennedy High School on Terrace View Avenue in Marble Hill, police said. The young assailant ran off, and the injured teen was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. In an unrelated incident around 10:15...

MOORESVILLE, Ind. (TNND) — An Indiana teenager arrested after being accused of plotting a school mass shooting on Valentine's Day was allegedly infatuated with the Parkland gunman who killed 17 people in 2018, according to authorities. The Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department said in a release they received information from the FBI on Feb. 11 about a person potentially planning a school shooting at Mooresville High School. During the investigation, 18-year-old Trinity Shockley was identified as a person of interest and taken into custody. Officials executed a search warrant at their home along with detectives from the Morgan County Sheriff's Office...

A pilot retrieved a gun from his truck and stopped an armed teen who was demanding an airplane at Texarkana Regional Airport in Arkansas on Tuesday. The New York Post reported the teen was armed with an AR-style rifle and had a handgun as well. CNN noted that the teen “demanded a plane at the front counter while brandishing the guns.” The teen then chambered a round and chaos ensued. A pilot who saw what was happening ran to his truck and retrieved a gun and pursued the teen, who had “breached security onto the airfield.” The pilot ordered the...