Police are investigating two homicides that could potentially be linked to an Idaho inmate and his accomplice who allegedly helped him escape from a hospital visit on Wednesday by shooting at state corrections officers, police say. Following a 36-hour manhunt, the inmate, Skylar Meade, and the alleged shooter, Nicholas Umphenour, were captured Thursday afternoon in Twin Falls, […]
Shreveport is reporting 15 homicides so far this year following the death of a man and woman. According to Caddo Parish Coroner’s Office, Erica Pitts, 30, and Tavarae Loneman, 28, were found shot to death in a vehicle Wednesday morning. Shreveport Police Department was dispatched at 12:21 a.m. Wednesday to the intersection of Clanton Street […]
The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two suspected homicides that happened within hours of each other Saturday morning. About 8:30 a.m., the McLane/Black Lake Fire Department was dispatched to a structure fire in the 4100 block of Cooper Point Road Northwest. After the fire was extinguished, fire crews found a single victim who had […]
Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz announced the arrests of three different people for three separate homicides at a press conference Monday afternoon. On Feb. 22, a man was found dead in the 1100 block of 8th Avenue just after 5 a.m. His body had been found in an alcove of Seattle’s Town Hall building. According […]
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Fayetteville Police Department is taking steps to keep the growing community safe after several homicides in the first two months of 2024. The city of Fayetteville had five homicides in 2023, according to data from FPD. Man arrested for murder at 7Hills Day Center It says the first homicide of […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — An anti-violence effort three years in the making is showing its first report card of 2024. Nearly a dozen community activist groups met alongside Columbus police, Franklin County Family Services, Franklin County Coroner’s Office and others Wednesday night as part of Operation Under Triple Digits, the goal of which is to […]
In 2023, Sarasota did not record a homicide for the first time since the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration, the Sarasota Police Department announced at Monday’s City Commission meeting. The decrease from 7 homicides in 2022 was in line with a 16% decrease in “Part 1 Crimes,” which include aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, rape, […]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said in the early part of 2024, the city has seen fewer shootings and homicides than at the same point last year. “This time last year we had four homicides,” Drew said to a Facebook audience. “We had two this year, and one of […]
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Half of the city’s homicides so far in 2024 happened in a 30-hour span over Presidents’ Day weekend, a typically long weekend for many people. The San Diego Police Department responded to the crimes in a statement Monday afternoon: Body found in vehicle fire at South Bay sports complex “The […]
Pueblo police are investigating two homicides after a woman was shot and killed Thursday afternoon and a man was found with an apparent gunshot wound Friday night and declared dead at a local hospital. Police were called to an unspecified block of Castle Royal Drive at approximately 1:18 p.m. Thursday after they “received information that […]
The fatal shootings of two people who were discovered dead in a dorm room at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs on Friday morning are being investigated as homicides, police said. University and Colorado Springs police officers responded just after 6 a.m. to a call about shots at the Alpine Village campus dormitories, police […]
The number of homicides in Kansas City got off to a slow start in 2024 . . . that is, until this past week and a half. Kansas City has seen 10 people killed in about as many days, according to data tracked by The Star. The number of people killed in homicides in Kansas […]