Criminal Justice
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Former Rutgers Football Player Charged In Murder Plot He Allegedly Confessed To
This story is just weird. Know that up front. Izala Bullock is a 22-year-old former linebacker for Rutgers University. On Tuesday, he was charged with two-counts of first-degree attempted murder and two counts of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder after police and prosecutors say he “initiated a plot to murder the family members of an…
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New Developments in the Death of Lyric McHenry Lead to an Arrest
Lyric McHenry was celebrating her 26th birthday when she left her party at New York City’s Dream Hotel without saying a word to the gathered guests. Early the next morning, on August 14, she was found dead on an overpass above the Major Deegan Expressway in the Highbridge area of the Bronx with “scraped knees…
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‘Whites Don’t Shoot Whites,’ Said Alleged Kroger Shooter Who Killed 2 Black People
A man who walked into a Louisville, Ky., area Kroger supermarket Wednesday afternoon and opened fire on unsuspecting shoppers, killing two people, reportedly told a man outside that he didn’t have to worry about being shot because “whites don’t shoot whites.” Gregory Alan Bush, a 51-year-old white man, was arrested and charged with two counts…
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Pooch Hall Facing 6 Years in Prison After DUI Involving 2-Year-Old Son
Although may be best known as a player on the Showtime series, Ray Donovan, most of us got to know and love Marion “Pooch” Hall from BET’s The Game. But what the 44-year-old actor is facing is anything but. TMZ reports that Hall has just been criminally charged with one count of child endangerment and…
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2 Texas Judges Sent 20 Percent of All Juveniles to State Prisons Last Year
Two Harris County Texas judges accounted for more than one-fifth of all children sent to the state’s juvenile prisons in 2017. Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority of the children were black or Latinx. The Houston Chronicle reports: The two courts — overseen by Judges Glenn Devlin and John Phillips — not only sent more teens to…
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8 Observations About a Ridiculous Beer Robbery in Texas
When I was alerted to a beer robbery in Arlington, Texas, that happened last week, I assumed some white dude ran into a convenience store, pulled a pistol out, and headed out with some hops. I assumed as much because that story would make sense, or as much sense as any crime can make. That’s…