Tag: Homicide
Spain: 8 jailed for burning police van amid rapper protests
BARCELONA, Spain — A judge in Spain on Wednesday denied bail to eight people following their arrest for violent clashes with police during protests...
Man gets 17 1/2 years in fatal Indiana workplace shooting
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a co-worker in 2019 at their southern Indiana workplace has been sentenced to...
Autopsy: California’s ‘I-5 Strangler’ was strangled himself
IONE, Calif. — A California serial killer who authorities say strangled and raped at least seven women was fatally choked himself in a state...
Sweden says probe into knife attack looking at terror links
STOCKHOLM — Swedish authorities were investigating on Thursday whether an knife attack by an Afghan man who stabbed seven men and left three of...
Georgia moving to repeal citizen’s arrest after Arbery death
ATLANTA — Georgia moved closer Thursday to the possible repeal of an 1863 law that lets private citizens make an arrest, more than a...
Newspaper photographer attacked, seriously hurt in France
PARIS — Authorities in France have opened an investigation for attempted murder after a news photographer was attacked and seriously injured while reporting on...
Tuition fund honors slain Indiana University football player
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis high school is naming a new scholarship fund in honor of alum Chris Beaty, a former Indiana University football player...
Virginia man convicted of murder for strangling wife
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A Virginia man has been convicted of murder and now faces up to life in prison for strangling his wife with...
Oregon high court affirms juries can acquit in split votes
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court, ruling before the start of a murder case, has upheld that a defendant can be acquitted by...
Self-defense or murder? Florida case divides law enforcement
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida homicide detective believes an Army veteran committed murder when he pursued and fatally shot a drunk, unarmed neighbor...