A 28-year-old man faces first-degree murder charges in the April 13 shooting death of his grandfather in the victim’s northeast Reading.
Authorities relied on text messages, witnesses, security video and phone-tracking data to build a case against a man accused of killing and dismembering a Milwaukee woman with whom he was on a date, court records show. Maxwell Anderson, 33, also of Milwaukee, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson in the slaying of Sade Robinson, 19. The two went on a date April 1, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said in a criminal complaint filed last week. A...
TORONTO - Jurors have begun their deliberations in the trial of Umar Zameer, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Toronto police Det. Const. Jeffrey Northrup. The officer, who was in plain clothes, died on July 2, 2021, after he was hit by a vehicle in an underground parking garage at Toronto City Hall. Prosecutors said Zameer made deliberate choices to drive dangerously while there were people nearby, killing the officer. But the defence argued Zameer did not...
An Upper Moreland man is seeking a reduction in his bail after entering not guilty pleas to charges he fatally stabbed his neighbor with whom he had an ongoing dispute, including about the defendant’s snoring that could be heard through their shared wall.
The judge overseeing the trial of a man accused of fatally running over a Toronto police officer repeatedly raised concerns over the prosecution’s changing theory of what happened that night and at one point indicated she did not see how a jury could reach a guilty verdict on murder based on evidence presented in court. During legal arguments not heard by the jury, Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy on several occasions asked the Crown to lay out its narrative for how Umar Zameer...
Maxwell Anderson is accused of killing and dismembering 19-year-old Sade Robinson after their first date in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 1.
Amir Tamba, who had been acquitted of murdering the Indian citizen in jail, was gunned down in his Lahore home on Sunday.
A North Las Vegas man faces charges including attempted murder after he allegedly strangled and threatened his neighbor with a pickaxe, according to an arrest report.
A 45-year-old man suspected of fatally stabbing a woman as she got off a Metro train in North Hollywood had attacked a passenger once before, leading a judge to order him to keep his distance from the rail system for three years. Elliot Tramel Nowden was arrested Monday not long after a woman was found mortally wounded on the ground at the Universal Studios train platform, interim Los Angeles Police Chief Dominic Choi announced Tuesday during a Police Commission meeting. The victim, Mirna Soza,...
TORONTO - A man accused of fatally running over a Toronto police officer did not intend to kill anyone and behaved reasonably in the face of what he thought was an imminent threat to his family, defence lawyers said Wednesday, while prosecutors argued he deliberately chose to drive dangerously. The two sides made their final pitches to jurors at the trial of Umar Zameer -- who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Det. Const. Jeffrey Northrup -- with lawyers...
Ian Cramer, the son of Sen. Kevin Cramer, is accused of killing Mercer
The community is raising money to help a man who was seriously injured on his way home from work in a crash that left one of his friends dead in unincorporated McHenry County. The Union Fire Protection District, Marengo Fire and Rescue Districts and McHenry County Sheriff’s Office responded around 4:57 p.m. on April 1 […]