Texas District Judge Teresa Hawthorne has signed an order releasing Keshondria Hull from jail so that she can be out in time for the funeral of her 2-month-old infant, who was allegedly drowned by a family friend’s daughter, WFAA-TV reports. Hull was serving a 112-day sentence for a probation violation on a felony theft charge,…

A 13-year-old Minnesota boy lost his life when his older brother accidentally shot and killed him with their father’s gun while playing cops and robbers in their home, the New York Daily News reports. The eighth-grader, Suhayb Jamal Hassan, was pronounced dead at the scene. His 15-year-old brother had called the police to report that…

A Dallas teen has been charged with capital murder for allegedly drowning a 2-month-old baby, WFAA-TV reports. The baby, Justice Hull, had been living with her mother’s friend because her mother was put in jail shortly after giving birth. According to the report, when the friend left for work on Monday, the friend’s 14-year-old daughter drowned…

A York, Pa., man faces two counts of felony aggravated assault and reckless endangerment after he allegedly shot a 15-year-old who was reportedly part of a group throwing snowballs, Fox 43 reports. Charging documents indicate that police were responding to a report about shots being fired a little after 2 p.m. on Saturday. A witness…

Three Kansas City, Mo., teenagers have been charged in the grisly murder of an eighth-grader whom they allegedly beat up before taking turns shooting the young girl, KCTV reports. Alexis Kane’s body was found Jan. 11 outside the Bay Waterpark not far from Smith-Hale Middle School, where Alexis was a student. According to the report,…

Jonathan Walker, the Queens father who police say shot his girlfriend and two children before shooting himself, did so out of jealousy, the New York Post reports. According to the news site, sources said that the 34-year-old was overheard at a liquor store on Friday night telling people that his girlfriend and common-law wife, Shantai…

Members of the clergy have started a new hashtag, #UseMeInstead, imploring police to use their images for target practice after news broke that North Miami Beach’s Police Department was using mug shots of black men, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, the idea to send out photos of the clergy for target practice…

The Arlington Police Department in Texas has released surveillance video from an ATM in hopes of identifying and catching a robber and kidnapper who forced an unsuspecting woman into her trunk earlier this month, CBS DFW reports. The kidnapping occurred at a drive-through ATM at a Wells Fargo bank Jan. 14, where the victim, choosing…

Norwood, Ohio, Mayor Thomas Williams penned a letter to his local Police Department, voicing his support for the boys in blue, who he feels are “under attack by race-baiting black leaders and cowardly elected officials,” Talking Points Memo reports. The letter was officially written on Dec. 22, days after New York City police officers Wenjian…