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Alaska police seek suspect in shooting deaths of 2 women
Jul. 21, 2019 6:09 PM EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Police are looking for a suspect in the shooting deaths of two women in Alaska. The Anchorage Daily News reports that police have not identified the victims of the attack early Sunday morning at a home in Kenai. Police say they are searching for a suspect considered "armed and...
Police: Man fatally shot in head, dies
Jul. 21, 2019 5:51 PM EDT
CLEVELAND (AP) — Police say a man has been found shot in Cleveland and has died. A Cleveland police spokeswoman says officers found the man around noon Sunday. Spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia (chahch) said the man had been shot in the head. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The...
Woman fatally shot in West Valley City; Suspect in custody
Jul. 21, 2019 4:12 PM EDT
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Police say a suspect is in custody in connection with a shooting in West Valley City that left one woman dead and a teenage boy injured. West Valley Police say 38-year-old Jayson Rue Chase has been booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on suspicion of murder, aggravated...
Police: Transgender woman accused of killing Albuquerque man
Jul. 21, 2019 2:09 PM EDT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a transgender woman has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man. Albuquerque police say 25-year-old Tyrone Benito — who also is known as Beverly or Bev — was booked into jail Saturday night on suspicion of murder and tampering with...
St. Cloud police investigate shooting death of 24-year-old
Jul. 21, 2019 1:28 PM EDT
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — St. Cloud police are investigating the shooting death of a man in an alley following a fight at a party. Police say officers responded to a report of a person with a gun around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, then got a call that a person had been shot in a vehicle in the alley. Officers found...
Woman dead, husband hurt in possible murder-suicide attempt
Jul. 21, 2019 1:25 PM EDT
WHITTIER, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County authorities are investigating a possible murder-suicide attempt after an 83-year-old woman was stabbed to death and her 89-year-old husband was hospitalized with critical stab wounds. Sheriff's officials say the woman died Saturday at her home in Whittier. The...
Howard County police say intruder shot to death
Jul. 21, 2019 12:14 PM EDT
WOODBINE, Md. (AP) — Howard County police say a Woodbine resident has shot and killed a man who was trying to get inside his home in the middle of the night. It happened Sunday just after 1 a.m. Police say the intruder, who wasn't wearing a shirt or shoes, banged on the resident's door while he and his...
Sentencing for California man who killed when he was 16
Jul. 21, 2019 11:44 AM EDT
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A California man who was 16 when he participated in a botched robbery-turned homicide has been sentenced to 40-years-to-life in state prison. Zachery Goodwin, now 20, was one of four people convicted in the fatal shooting of 59-year-old Michael Der Vartanian of Clovis in 2016. The...
Man facing murder charges for Colorado burglary slaying
Jul. 21, 2019 11:31 AM EDT
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors say they will file first-degree murder charges against a Colorado man they say killed a man during a burglary. Twenty-nine-year-old Isaiah Ismael Rios made his first appearance in Boulder County District Court Friday. District Judge Andrew Hartman told Rios at the hearing...
Man whose wife was struck and killed by vehicle sues FBI
Jul. 21, 2019 11:31 AM EDT
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man says in a $35 million lawsuit filed against the federal government that an off-duty police officer who struck and killed his wife with a vehicle last year worked for the FBI at the time. The New Haven Register reports that Edward Wilczynski, of North Haven, whose...
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