Murder
Nick Reiner has been charged with murdering his parents
The District office in Los Angeles on Tuesday charged Nick Reiner, the son of movie director and actor Rob Reiner, and his wife, photographer Michele Singer Reiner, with two counts of first-degree murder in the brutal deaths of his parents, said Nathan Hochman, the Los Angeles District attorney. A jury would decide whether Nick, who…
Read MoreO.J. Simpson is dead
O.J. Simpson has died
Read MoreJudge sentences former paramedic to prison for the death of Elijah McCain
A judge sentenced a former Colorado paramedic to five years in prison for contributing to the 2019 death of Elijah McCain. Peter Cichuniec, 51, a former lieutenant in Aurora Fire and Rescue was convicted Friday of criminally negligent homicide and second degree assault for the unlawful administer of drugs that eventually killed McCain. Jeremy Cooper,…
Read MoreWalking while Black can be deadly for Black men
After leaving a convenience store, Elijah McClain was described by one male caller to police as ‘sketchy.” Police jumped on McClain, who was 5 foot 7 inches and weighed 145 pounds, and beat him. The paramedic injected McClain with ketamine. He died three days later in a local hospital. Jurors convicted a Colorado police officer…
Read MoreSergio Brown was arrested for his mother’s murder, but is he mentally ill?
After Sergio Brown, a former NFL player, was arrested and charged with killing his mother Myrtle, he claimed the Maywood police and the FBI were involved in the killing. “Fake news. Fake news. Fake news,” Brown said in the video which he tagged on ESPN. “It has to be the FBI that came into my…
Read MoreFinally, an arrest 30 years after Tupac Shakur’s murder
Las Vegas police arrested a man for the shooting death of Tupac Shakur, but the man police arrested was not the shooter. Shakur was shot down on September 13, 1996. He was 25. He was riding in a car with Suge Knight, the founder of Death Row Records. The suspect under arrest is Duane “Keffe…
Read MoreYevgeny Prigzhin dies in an airplane crash
Yevgeny Prigzhin, 62, who led an armed rebellion in June against Moscow, but turned back within 125 miles of the capital, was killed in an airplane crash Wednesday with ten people aboard. The plane was an Embraer Legacy 600 jet, according to the passenger list. The Pentagon said Thursday that initial intelligence indicates that the…
Read MoreVictims sue websites used by gunmen who murdered 10 people in a Buffalo
Victims were horrified. They hid in the store’s freezers out of fear. Some were stunned to watch a White gunman shoot and kill ten mostly Black people during a massacre in a Buffalo, N.Y., shopping center. Now the survivors have sued gun manufacturers, the retailer where the gunman bought the weapons, the killer’s parents, and…
Read MoreBlack police commissioner of Suffolk County solves 13-year-old cold case murders of sex workers
The arrest of Rex Heuermann, an architect, who has been charged with the murders of three women and possibly a fourth, is being credited to a new police chief who made finding the killer in a long-closed case a priority. Rodney Harrison, the new police commissioner of Suffolk County and the former chief of detective…
Read MoreMove to honor Emmett Till, his mother, and the funeral home where his body was held
Democratic Chicago Congressman Danny K. Davis, along with many others, has introduced legislation to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley and Roberts Temple National Historic Site in Illinois. The legislation aims to honor Till, his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and Roberts Temple Church of God, where Emmett Till was taken to before he was buried.…
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