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Two men charged with homicide in the slaying of a man during a drug robbery in McKeesport were held for trial today over the objections of a defense attorney who said one of the men had nothing to do with the heist. Eugene McCarthy Jr., 23, of the Hill District, and Quintelle Anthony Rankin, 21, will head to trial on charges of criminal homicide, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the death of 18-year-old Brandon Johns of McKeesport. Mr. Rankin also faces a charge of carrying a firearm without a license and Mr. McCarthy a misdemeanor charge of evidence tampering. Corey Estes, who is related to both men and witnessed the shooting, testified that he met the two men in the Hill District on the afternoon of Aug. 7, where they rode around and smoked marijuana. When they ran out, Mr. McCarthy suggested they drive to McKeesport to find more. They ended up at the Brinton Manor apartment complex, where, according to Mr. Estes, Mr. McCarthy said there were "easy licks up ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman who died after being found covered in burns and suffering on the side of a rural Ohio road was too badly burned for the cause of her death to be immediately determined, although it has been ruled a homicide, a coroner said Friday. Dr. Jan Gorniak , the Franklin County coroner , said the exact cause of 29-year-old Celeste Fronsman 's gruesome death won't be known for sure until the investigation is finished in four to six weeks. A driver found Fronsman early Sunday on a road northeast of Zanesville. She had been raped and burned, and had a strap around her neck. She died two days later at a Columbus hospital. Fronsman had second-, third- and fourth-degree burns on about 80 percent of her body, Gorniak said. No arrests have been made. Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz, who earlier this week called Fronsman's killing "one of the most gruesome things I've ever seen in 23½ years in law enforcement," said Friday that i...

Houston parents of two young children have been charged with negligent homicide after their 8-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub, court records show. Toderick Cole died June 17, two days after his parents left him and his 2-year-old brother unattended in a bathtub at their apartment in the 2700 block of Reed Road, officials said. His father, Roderick Cole, 24, put the boys in the bathtub with the water running and left the room to help his wife take clothes to the car, the couple told investigators. The couple left the apartment and got into an argument in the parking lot. Gabrielle Cole, 23, left in her car after the argument, she told police. The two were outside for seven to 10 minutes, they told police. When Roderick Cole went back into the house, his 8-month-old was lying face down in the water in the bathtub. He called 911 and began giving the child CPR, the document states. Paramedics took the child to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he died 2 days later from...

The Little Buddy GPS tracker made by Insignia is marketed as a surveillance tool to keep track of your children. But it's part of the featured evidence in a murder trial in North Carolina. Image: Courtesy Insignia A North Carolina man is facing first-degree murder charges after allegedly using a GPS tracker to follow his estranged wife to the home of a man he then shot. According to testimony provided by investigators in the case, Raul Contreres purchased a Little Buddy GPS tracker at a Best Buy on July 17, 2010, two days before the murder. A friend of Contreres testified that Contreres said he wanted to place the device in his daughter's backpack in case she got lost, according to the Times-News in North Carolina. Ad for the Little Buddy Child Tracker on Best Buy's web site. Because Contreres didn't own a computer, he and the friend visited an AT&T story the day the device was purchased to make certain that Contreres would be able to ...

The Associated Press Published Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012 7:31PM EDT Last Updated Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012 11:12PM EDT PORTLAND, Maine -- A 10-year-old girl was charged Thursday with homicide in the death of an infant whose mother said had ingested medication and been suffocated. The girl, who is not being identified, is the youngest person to be charged with homicide in Maine in at least 25 years. The infant, Brooklyn Foss-Greenaway, of Clinton in central Maine, had been left overnight with an adult baby sitter in nearby Fairfield. The sitter called police early July 8 to report that the infant was not breathing, authorities said. Emergency workers who arrived minutes later reported that child was unresponsive. The death of any child under age 3 triggers an automatic investigation in Maine, and detectives uncovered some "troubling signs" before the state medical examiner declared the death a homicide, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Publi...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Homicide detectives were called to the scene of a fatal shooting Friday morning. At about 8 a.m., Columbus police and EMS were called to the 1300 block of North 6 th Street on a report of a shooting. Medics pronounced one person dead on the scene at 8:04 a.m. Homicide detectives were called to the scene to investigate. No further details were readily available. Columbus police tells NBC4 agents with the U.S. Marshals were serving a warrant at the home when the shooting occured. Police say the suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. For additional information, stay with NBC4 and refresh nbc4i.com . To submit a story idea or news tip, e-mail stories@nbc4i.com. MORE: NBC4 Local News | Local Crime News NBC4 SPORTS: Sports News, Video NBC4 POLITICS: Headlines, Interactives & Video Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A plastic surgeon was charged with capital murder Thursday after prosecutors said he hired a man to kill another doctor who was dating his ex-girlfriend and paid for the murder using silver bars. Dr. Thomas Michael Dixon of Amarillo, along with the accused gunman, David Neal Shepard, were each indicted on capital murder charges in the July death of Dr. Joseph Sonnier III, who was found fatally shot and stabbed in his home. Both men are each being held in lieu of a $ 10 million bond in the Lubbock County Jail. An arrest warrant affidavit suggests a love triangle involving Dixon, Sonnier and Dixon's ex-girlfriend, who was dating Sonnier. Sonnier's family members have said he had told them that his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend had been causing problems. The woman's name isn't included in court documents. District Attorney Matt Powell said prosecutors haven't decided whether to seek the death penalty. Dixon's two attorneys and She...

A former Santa Fe doctor who was accused of vehicular homicide following a fatal drunken driving crash on New Year's Eve pleaded no contest to a DWI charge and will spend a year on unsupervised probation. When asked if she wanted to address the court, Deborah Aaron offered no apology and responded, "No, your honor," to state District Judge Michael Vigil. Aaron, 56, had just accepted a plea agreement with the state that dropped a vehicular homicide charge in exchange for a no-contest plea to a misdemeanor DWI offense. Karla Vasquez Rivera, whose 4-year-old daughter, Yuliana Reyes Vasquez, was killed in the crash, wept several feet behind Aaron. Aaron was traveling south on St. Francis Drive in her Land Rover when it crashed into the passenger side of a minivan driven by Vasquez Rivera, who was turning north on St. Francis from Siringo Road. The impact killed Vasquez Rivera's daughter and severely injured the pregnant woman. Aaron told police after the acc...

A woman's torso was recovered from the lower Niagara River and police say the death resulted from a murder. Niagara Regional Police say citizens spotted the remains floating in the river on Wednesday afternoon. Police subsequently recovered the torso, which was missing arms and a head. The remains belong to a female, whom police have concluded "was the victim of a murder." Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

Georgetown Police are investigating after a body was found this morning in a wooded lot off Legion Street in Georgetown. The Georgetown County Coroner has identified body as Alfonso Terrell Thomas, age 25, of Georgetown. The Coroner was not able to determine a cause of death so an autopsy will be conducted Friday morning at the Medical University of South Carolina. The body was been transported to the Georgetown Memorial Hospital. The Georgetown Police announce the arrest of 48-year-old Calvin Lee Kinloch, of 607 Dawson Street Georgetown. He is charged with Criminal Sexual Conduct in the third degree.  The victim in this case was in foster care at the subject's residence when the sexual assault occurred. Kinloch surrendered himself to law enforcement on August 17th. He received a $ 40,000 bond. The Georgetown Police Department has assigned Investigator Aaron Lynn as the case agent for this investigation. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Ge...

NEW: Lawyers for Pussy Riot condemn the murders, say the band backed peaceful protest Investigators: The words "Free Pussy Riot" are scrawled on a wall above two murder victims The bodies are those of a 76-year-old woman and her daughter, investigators say Three members of the punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to prison terms this month Moscow (CNN) -- Police in Russia are investigating the murder of two women found under a slogan backing the female punk rock band Pussy Riot, apparently written in the victims' blood, officials said Thursday. The words "Free Pussy Riot" were scrawled in English on the apartment wall above the bodies of a 76-year-old woman and her 38-year-old daughter, investigators in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan said in a statement. The two women, who shared a home, are thought to have died of numerous stab wounds between August 24 and 26 in the city of Kazan, the Tatarstan investigative committee said. ...

Police are hoping surveillance video obtained from the site of a burned out van helps them identify a suspect in the shooting death of a 22-year-old Ottawa man. Levy Kasende was shot and killed in the early morning of Aug. 25 outside his ex-girlfriend's social housing unit at 2676 Innes Road. He was visiting his four-month-old daughter at the time of the drive-by shooting. Witnesses reported multiple shots rang out at about 12:50 a.m. ET. In the hours following, police found a burned out van in a field in Vars, south of Ottawa. The vehicle's description is similar to one witnesses say sped off after Kasende was shot. There is no surveillance footage from the social housing complex, but police do now have video from businesses near where the burned out vehicle was abandoned. The investigation has been a difficult one for police, so far, as most witnesses are not co-operating. Police have said some of Kasende's friends and neighbours are too scared to talk, whil...

SALTSBURG, Pa. — Homicide charges were filed against an Indiana County man accused of killing his girlfriend's 16-month-old son. Colby Jozepzcyk died in March at his home in Saltsburg when he was found unresponsive in his playpen. According to police, he was covered with bruises and was malnourished. Neighbor Crystal Ashbaugh said she remembers the day emergency workers were called to Jozepzcyk's house. "I tried to avoid it because I didn't know exactly what was going on," Ashbaugh said. "I was keeping my son inside. I was shocked to find out the boy didn't make it." Police will release more details Thursday afternoon at a 1 p.m. press conference about the homicide charges filed against Shawn Anderson-Holmes. Anderson-Holmes remains in the Indiana County Jail without bail. Previous Story:  Police considering death of Saltsburg toddler to be homicide Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

By JOHN BURNETT Tribune-Herald staff writer A 21-year-old Waimea man pleaded guilty to manslaughter and intimidating a witness on Tuesday, during the second day of jury selection for his manslaughter trial. Sentencing for Waylen Keone Carenio is set for Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. before Hilo Circuit Judge Glenn Hara. Carenio faces a possible 20-year prison sentence for manslaughter, while intimidating a witness carries a potential five-year sentence. Carenio was involved in a fight outside Karma Hawaii sports bar in Hilo with 44-year-old Roy Williams of Hilo in the early morning hours of Dec. 3. Williams died the following day in The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. Witnesses told police that Williams had been in a fight with another man, later identified as Carenio, and that Williams had fallen and struck his head on the pavement. Carenio's court-appointed attorney, Vaughan Winborne Jr. of Waimea, said that a ruling last week by Hara allowing information from Carenio...

The man in charge of investigating St. Joseph County's most violent crimes is in trouble himself. The prosecutor believes a phone conversation Metro Homicide Commander Tim Corbett had with a South Bend police officer "had a damaging effect on the reputation of the" Metro Homicide unit. Corbett will now serve a five day, unpaid suspension because of what he said in that phone call. He was accused of threatening, harassing and intimidating a fellow police officer, but a special investigator decided Corbett didn't do any of that. Still, the prosecutor decided to suspend Corbett without pay. St. Joseph County Prosecutor Mike Dvorak said what Corbett admitted he said to South Bend Police officer Jack Stilp in a phone conversation April 24 was discourteous, and what happened in that conversation also "had a damaging effect on the reputation of the County Metro Homicide Unit." According to Corbett's disciplinary notice issued Wednesday after the...

PARIS (Reuters) - A French court has opened a murder inquiry into the 2004 death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat , a legal source told Reuters on Tuesday, following claims by his wife that he may have been poisoned. Arafat died in a Paris military hospital in November 2004, a month after being airlifted, when his health collapsed, from his battered headquarters in Ramallah, where he had been effectively confined by Israel for more than two and a half years. Last month, Arafat 's wife, Suha, asked a court in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre to launch a murder investigation following revelations that a Swiss institute had discovered high levels of the radioactive element polonium-210 on Arafat's clothing. (Reporting By Nicolas Bertin; Writing by Alexandria Sage; Editing by Louise Ireland) Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

State and local police are investigating a homicide in a home at 35 Pine Acres near Thompson Pond in Spencer. Paul Jarvey, a spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr., confirmed that authorities are investigating the homicide and the victim is a man, though he did not disclose how the man died. Jarvey declined to say whether anyone was in custody. For more from BostonGlobe.com, sign up or log in below To continue, please sign up or log in to BostonGlobe.com Access the full articles and quality reporting of The Boston Globe at BostonGlobe.com Sign up Unlimited Access to BostonGlobe.com for 4 weeks for only 99¢. Are you a Boston Globe home delivery subscriber? Get FREE access as part of your print subscription. BostonGlobe.com subscriber Click to continue reading this article or to log in to BostonGlobe.com. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

NBC10Philadelphia.com advertisement Police and homicide investigators were called to the scene of an assault in Clairemont, according to officials. Around 2 p.m. police went to a residence at 330 Block Cowley Way after they received a call from the hospital. The victim had serious injuries, which prompted the hospital to call authorities. Homicide detectives were later called to the home and have taken over the investigation. Check back for updates on this story.   Follow NBC7 for the latest news, weather, and events: iPad App | iPhone App | Android App | Facebook | Twitter | Google+ | Instagram | RSS | Text Alerts | Email Alerts Get the latest headlines sent to your inbox! Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The unsolved 1986 homicide of Prime Minister Olof Palme is front page news again in Sweden after newspapers published excerpts of emails written by millionairess Eva Rausing before her death saying she knew who was behind his killing. Palme was gunned down as he walked along the pavement late on February 28 after a visit to the cinema in the center of Stockholm with his wife. A petty criminal was found guilty of the crime in 1989 but was released later that year on appeal. Rausing's emails have revived interest in a case which has long haunted Sweden and become a symbol of police incompetence. Daily Aftonbladet led with the news on its front page on Wednesday with a banner headline of "Rausing's mail about the Palme Killing". It described how Rausing, whose decomposed body was found hidden in her London home in July, said in the emails to a local journalist that the person who instigated the crime was a Swedish businessman. The j...

Police were investigating a possible homicide Wednesday morning in southeast Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City police Sgt. Shawn Josephson confirmed that officers responded to a 911 call reporting that the body of a man in his late teens or early 20s was lying in a field near 1120 E. Crandall Avenue (about 2900 South) about 7:30 a.m. While police would not detail the nature of any injuries the victim suffered, the incident was being investigated as a homicide, as is normal in any case of an unattended death. An autopsy will determine the exact cause of death, Josephson said. Salt Lake City Police Detective Josh Ashdown would not identify who called about the body. He said there was no obvious cause of death. The body was found near some bushes in a lot bordered by two houses. Neighbor Sheldon Smith said he didn't hear or see anything unusual. "We have never had anything like this," he said. The Salt Lake Tribune will provide additional details as they becom...

(Michael Robert Workman, a 25-year-old Sandy man, was found dead Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, outside an LDS church in Holladay. Courtesy photo) Stabbing » Three men and a woman have been arrested. New information indicates a Sandy man was allegedly killed by men he didn't know after having an argument with a woman at a barbecue the night of his death, according to police. "We know for sure it was a verbal confrontation between the two of them," Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal told The Tribune Tuesday. Photos Police believe 25-year-old Michael Robert Workman was leaving a friend's house on the 1600 East block of Delaware Lane (4945 South) when he was attacked by three men last Thursday at about 3 a.m. Hoyal said the men did not know Workman, but they knew the woman with whom he had argued. She told the men about it and it went from there, Hoyal said. The family has said Workman had gone to play frisbee golf and then on to the barbecue with peop...

Jamal Aruri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat in 2003, a year before his death. France: Arafat's Widow Seeks Homicide Inquiry Into His Death (August 1, 2012) Times Topic: Yasir Arafat A French court will open a homicide investigation into the 2004 death of the former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, left, French news media reported Tuesday. Mr. Arafat's widow, Suha, petitioned French authorities to investigate last month after findings by a Swiss laboratory suggested that Mr. Arafat may have been exposed to polonium 210, the same radioactive isotope used to poison a dissident Russian former spy in London in 2006. Mr. Arafat died in a French military hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, after an infection that was never identified, according to medical records. There have long been suggestions, however unspecific, that he may have been the victim of foul play. The Palestinian Authority, which has agreed to exhume th...

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors opened a murder inquiry into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday, judicial officials told a French new agency, after his widow and a TV investigation raised new questions about whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned. There have long been rumors in the Arab world that Arafat was poisoned, and a Swiss lab's recent finding of elevated levels of a rare and highly lethal radioactive substance on Arafat's clothing has fed those claims. However, the Institute of Radiation Physics said its findings were inconclusive and that only exhuming Arafat's remains could bring possible clarity. Palestinian officials have waffled on the matter — initially approving the exhumation and then saying the matter needed more study — only further fueling suspicions. Still, since Arafat's death, several senior Palestinian officials have alleged that Israel poisoned the Palestinian leader, a charge Israel vehemently denied. Testing Arafat ...

Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION By: Mike McIntyre Posted: 08/28/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: (including replies) Enlarge Image Nolan Norman (BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) A Winnipeg manslaughter sentencing came to a sudden halt Monday when questions were raised about the exact circumstances of the killing. Jordan Smith was expecting to learn his fate for the November 2009 attack that killed 19-year-old Nolan Norman. Smith, 23, pleaded guilty last October and has been waiting behind bars for a decision since sentencing submissions were made last January. But following a seven-month delay, provincial court Judge Sid Lerner returned to court Monday and told lawyers he was not prepared to pass sentence until he knows exactly what Smith is admitting to. Specifically, Smith claims he accidentally stabbed Norman in the heart during a scuffle on a Transcona street. But the Crown believes it was much more malicious, especially given a history of bad blo...

Updated: Tuesday, 28 Aug 2012, 9:48 AM MDT Published : Tuesday, 28 Aug 2012, 9:48 AM MDT SOCORRO, N.M. (KRQE) - Police are investigating a multi-vehicle crash on I-25 that has left one dead and others injured. State police officers responded to the three-car crash around 10:30 p.m. Monday, seven miles south of Socorro. Official say a Cadillac was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of I-25 when it struck a Honda. The Cadillac then stopped in the middle of the southbound lanes and was struck by a van. A passenger in the Honda, Bertha Sanchez, 42, was pronounced dead at the scene. Three other passengers of the Honda were taken to Socorro General Hospital and one was flown to UNM Hospital and is in critical-stable condition. Two passengers of the van were transported to El Paso with minor injuries. The driver of the Cadillac, Reyes Duran, 21, was taken to Socorro General Hospital with minor injuries was treated and released. After he was released from the hospital, Du...

The homicide victim found off a dirt road in Lehigh Acres on Monday was an alleged drug dealer and victim of a recent home invasion robbery. The Lee County Sheriff's Office has identified the man as Christopher Mark Brothers, 50, of Cape Coral. He was found in thick brush just before 9 a.m. Monday in a secluded area near West 18th Street and Edison Avenue. Deputies are continuing the homicide investigation, according to a sheriff's office release. The sheriff's office has not said how Brothers died or when he was killed, but he was released from Lee County Jail on Wednesday. Brothers spent almost two weeks behind bars after he was arrested on two charges of drug possession and one charge each of selling opium and heroin, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office website. His arraignment was scheduled for Sept. 10, according to the Lee County Clerk of Court website. The night of Aug. 7, two suspects forced their way into Brothers' home on the 2500 bl...