SANTA ANA, Calif. >> A California man was sentenced today to 40 years to life for the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother’s car on the freeway, prosecutors said.
Marcus Eriz, the Costa Mesa man who claimed not to understand why he fired the bullet from his car that killed a 6-year-old boy in 2021, received a sentence of 40 years to life in prison on Friday. Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard King rejected a defense attorney's plea for leniency on the basis of Eriz's age — he was 24 at the time of the shooting — as well as the argument that Eriz had suffered childhood trauma. King said he could find no connection between the defendant's alleged...
The man who fatally shot retired Saints star Will Smith after a 2016 car crash has received a 25-year prison sentence following his conviction on a manslaughter charge.
Twenty-five years ago on April 20, 1999, one teacher and 12 students were shot and killed by two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Another 21 members of the Columbine school community were injured in this shooting and countless lives devastated. That kind of mass violence — and in a school no less — was unthinkable at the time. Yet the past quarter-century has tragically and frustratingly shown that we have failed to keep schoolchildren safe. The communities of Newtown, Conn.,...
The man who died in the hospital after officers found him lying on the ground with a gunshot wound along Coalter Street in Richmond has been identified by police.
NEW ORLEANS — The man who fatally shot retired NFL star Will Smith during a confrontation following a car crash in 2016 received a 25-year prison sentence Thursday in a New Orleans courtroom. It was the second time Cardell Hayes, 36, had faced sentencing in Smith’s death. He was convicted of manslaughter in December 2016 and later sentenced to 25 years. But the jury vote had been 10-2 and the conviction was later tossed after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed such non-unanimous verdicts. After a...
A man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to fatally shooting an 18-year-old man in the face in 2019 at a home near Richmond. John M. Maki Jr., 52, was charged in May 2019 with two counts of first-degree murder. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office responded to Maki’s home […]
A California man has been sentenced to 40 years to life for the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother's car on the freeway
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California man has been sentenced to 40 years to life for the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother’s car on the freeway. Orange County prosecutors say Marcus Eriz was sentenced Friday after he was convicted in January of the May
The child was interviewed and admitted to shooting Brandon O'Quinn Rasberry, 32, who was found dead at the Lazy J RV Park on January 18 2022, in Nixon, when he was seven years old.
Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept
A 25-year-old man was killed and a second man was critically injured in a high-speed rollover crash involving a pickup truck that struck a tree and signs near Antioch Sunday evening. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Antioch Fire Department responded around 10:45 p.m. Sunday to the area of North Avenue and Deep Lake Road […]