The mother of Tyrek Hill, one of the two Florida men killed in the Downtown Orlando shooting on Halloween night, has broken her silence on her son’s tragic death. Hill, 25, and Timothy Schmidt Jr., 19, were killed in the early hours of November 1 morning when suspected gunman Jaylen Dwayne Edgar, 17, opened fire in downtown’s…
A recently fired employee killed two workers at Chicago’s Navy Pier on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The attacker, who has not been named since he has not yet been charged, was fired from his job at the Chicago tourist attraction on October 14. On Tuesday, the fired employee gained access to an office space near…
Josh Rivera, the actor portraying Aaron Hernandez in Ryan Murphy’s new biopic series American Sports Story, reflected with Newsweek on the scene that was hardest for him to film. The eighth episode of the hit FX series aired last week and centered around the former New England Patriots player’s June 2013 murder of his brother-in-law, Odin Lloyd. It is…
Jada Arnell Thomas, the Dallas singer shot while signing autographs at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters on Saturday, has broken her silence on the unprecedented incident. Following a matinee performance of her show The Bitches, which Thomas, 26 performs with two other women, the suspect Micah Williams, also 26, shot Thomas in the chest….
Chef and former NFL player Tobias Dorzon was wounded in a shooting during an attempted robbery in Maryland on Tuesday. The Hyattsville Police Department responded to calls of a shooting in the 2500 block of Kirkwood Place at 10:14 p.m. Officials located a man and a woman with gunshot wounds. Both victims were taken to a…
A New York man who watched the serial killer series Dexter before dismembering a sex worker was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. What Was the Crime? Cory Martin, 37, lived with Brandy Odom, a 26-year-old sex worker who he managed, in an apartment in Queens before killing her for life insurance benefits. Martin worked with…
A judge will decide whether Bryan Kohberger will face the death penalty in his upcoming murder trial after the prosecution and defense debated the issue at a hearing on Thursday. Kohberger, 29, is facing four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. He is accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana…
Police found a missing 68-year-old woman dead in a locked freezer at a Las Vegas home on Wednesday. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department completed a wellness check at a home in the 5500 block of Tres Piedras Road around 11:40 a.m. on Wednesday, after a person called and said they hadn’t seen the woman…
Private First Class Dewayne Arthur Johnson II was brought up on additional charges, including murder, in the disappearance of his wife Mischa Johnson. Mischa Johnson, 19, was reported missing from her home on Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu on July 31. She was around six months pregnant at the time of her disappearance. Dewayne Arthur…
Five men allegedly involved in Lil Durk’s alleged murder-for-hire-scheme targeting rapper Quando Rondo are also facing federal charges. Lil Durk, 28, whose legal name is Durk Banks, was arrested in Miami on October 24. Prosecutors accuse the Chicago rapper of placing a monetary hit on Rondo in retaliation for the 2020 killing of rising musician King Von. His five associates allegedly helped…