murder
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Broadway Dancer Admits to Killing Boyfriend Via Facebook Post
Marcus Bellamy, a 32-year-old dancer on the Broadway stage, allegedly murdered his boyfriend, Bernardo Almonte, in their walkup in the Bronx borough of New York City and then took to Facebook to confess, according to the New York Daily News. “Forgive me,” he wrote Friday after reportedly beating and strangling Almonte. “I did it for love.…
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Facebook Dispute Sparked Fight That Left 23-Year-Old Man Dead
A man and two women are facing murder charges after allegedly beating a man to death with a broom handle, a metal baseball bat and a two-by-four on Chicago’s West Side following a Facebook fight, the Chicago Tribune reports. The trio, identified as 41-year-old Lithia Henderson, 23-year-old Marshalla Kelly and 21-year-old Marshall L. Henderson, are each…
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SC Teens Fatally Shoot Man Who Helped Pull Their Car Out of Ditch: Report
Two South Carolina teens are facing murder charges after allegedly shooting a man who helped them pull their car out of a ditch late Monday, the Post and Courier reports. According to arrest affidavits, Chadwick Garrett, 45, agreed to help the teens move their stuck vehicle for $20. A witness who has not been identified…
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Texas Mom Charged With Murder After Bodies of Her 2 Kids Found Under Neighbor's House
A Texas mother has been charged with capital murder after the bodies of her two children were found under her neighbor’s house, KHOU reports. According to police, Sheborah Thomas, 30, confessed Sunday to drowning her 5-year-old daughter, Kayana Thomas, and 7-year-old son, O’Raylan Thomas, on Friday. “She was very matter-of-fact in terms of what she…
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Los Angeles Serial Killer 'Grim Sleeper' Sentenced to Death
Los Angeles’ notorious serial killer the “Grim Sleeper” was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that spanned more than two decades, the Washington Post reports. “I can’t think of anyone that I’ve encountered in all my many years in the criminal-justice system that has committed the kind…
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Judge Considers Adult Charges in High School Student’s Homicide
During a Delaware Family Court hearing Monday in Wilmington, a video was shown featuring a fight in a high school bathroom in April that left 16-year-old Amy Joyner-Francis dead on the ground. The video was shown to decide whether or not her alleged attacker, another 16-year-old girl, should be brought up on adult homicide charges, CBS News…
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Report: Ex-University Cop Beat Girlfriend to Death With Help From Best Friend
Aaron Wright, a former Temple University officer, has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend, 24-year-old Joyce Quaweay. He has also been charged with aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, conspiracy to commit murder and abuse of a corpse. His best friend, Temple Police Officer Marquis Robinson, 41, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated assault…
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Milwaukee Man Arrested After Reportedly Drowning 3-Month-Old Son in Pond
Sean A. Flowers Jr. of Milwaukee allegedly drowned his 3-month-old son in a pond. He was taken into custody Saturday after he reportedly held his son underwater until the infant fell unconscious, according to the New York Daily News. Robert Amstadt, who witnessed the incident, said that the “baby cried all the way out into the…
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Mom Orchestrated Slayings of Witnesses in Son’s Trial, Prosecutors Say
A Missouri mother is charged with arranging the killing of two teens who witnessed her son kill another boy, KMOV reports. The update in the case comes nine months after charges were originally dropped against Tyrell Davidson, the suspect in the September 2013 St. Louis killing of 16-year-old Chauncey Brown. Now Davidson’s mother, along with…