Tag: homicide

US suspect in custody after fatal shootings of 3 family members

By Joe Lamberti TRENTON, United States, March 17, 2024 (AFP) – An “extremely dangerous” suspect was taken into custody in New Jersey on Saturday after allegedly shooting dead three family members, authorities said, following an hours-long effort to detain him. Andre Gordon, 26, “surrendered peacefully,” Trenton Police Department spokesperson Lisette Rios told AFP, after a trail of violence that triggered shelter-in-place orders in two states. Authorities said Gordon, who is believed to be homeless, began […]

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Singapore teen jailed for 16 years for killing schoolmate

SINGAPORE (AFP) – A Singapore judge sentenced a teenager to 16 years in jail on Friday for killing a schoolmate with an axe in a crime that shocked the city-state in 2021. The killing at a state secondary school was a rare incident in a country that is known for its tough approach to law and order, which includes corporal and capital punishment, and has one of the world’s lowest crime rates. The accused, who […]

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US college professor charged in death of Jewish protester

LOS ANGELES, Nov 17, 2023 (AFP) – A California university professor was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter for the death of a Jewish man at a pro-Palestinian demonstration where an altercation broke out, local authorities said. Loay Alnaji, 50, was arrested and remanded into custody, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said. He is being held in lieu of a $1 million bail. Alnaji was charged with involuntary manslaughter and battery causing serious bodily injury, the […]

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US police: No Indication of anti-semitism in synagogue president’s murder

DETROIT, Oct 22, 2023 (AFP) – Police probing the stabbing death of the president of a US synagogue said Sunday that no evidence has emerged of anti-Semitism as a motive. Detroit police chief James White said in a brief statement that his force is interviewing “individuals with information that may further the investigation” into the death Saturday of Samantha Woll. He gave no details. “No evidence has surfaced suggesting that this crime was motivated by […]

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Three Argentine police jailed for life for race-hate killing

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Three police officers in Argentina were sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the racially motivated killing of a 17-year-old boy, and six others received sentences of four to eight years for covering up the crime. In a case that became emblematic of institutional violence in Argentina, three officers were convicted of the 2021 killing of Lucas Gonzalez, a teen from a poor area on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. […]

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US man held in Philippines after body found in water drum

MANILA, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – A 71-year-old American man has been arrested after the body of his Filipina girlfriend was found in a water drum at the couple’s home near the Philippine capital, police said Wednesday. Police in Bacoor city told AFP they arrested the man on Tuesday after discovering the 48-year-old woman’s body inside a blue plastic drum sealed in a garbage bag and duct tape at the house just outside Manila. Officers […]

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Indian ex-politician, brother shot dead live on TV

Prayagraj, India | AFP | Gunmen seemingly posing as journalists shot dead a former Indian member of parliament and his brother live on TV as they were being taken in handcuffs to hospital by police, authorities said. Atiq Ahmed, 61, who had been jailed since 2019 and was convicted of kidnapping, was answering reporters’ questions late Saturday when he and his brother Ashraf were shot at close range, the television images showed. “According to preliminary […]

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Video shows US police piling on man who died at mental hospital

Disturbing video footage released Tuesday shows the death of a 28-year-old Black man as he was being admitted to a US mental hospital, where he was forcibly restrained by as many as 10 police officers and hospital security guards. Irvo Otieno’s March 6 death in Virginia has already drawn murder charges against the officers and guards involved, thrusting the spotlight back on US law enforcement brutality and the treatment of mental health patients in particular. […]

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Texas executes man convicted of drug-related quadruple murder

HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — An American man convicted of a quadruple murder linked to drug trafficking more than 30 years ago was executed in Texas on Thursday. Arthur Brown Jr, 52, received a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in the city of Huntsville, in the eastern part of the vast southern US state, the state prisons board said. This made Brown the fifth death row inmate to be executed in the conservative […]

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Lawyer found guilty of killing wife, son in case that captivated US

by Paul HANDLEY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A US jury on Thursday found lawyer Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son on their hunting estate. Scion of an elite South Carolina family of judges and attorneys, Murdaugh, 54, was described as having killed his son Paul with a shotgun and his wife Maggie with the assault rifle Paul used for hunting wild pigs on the family’s sprawling property. Following the […]

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Six dead in Mississippi shooting rampage, suspect detained

  Washington, United States | AFP | Six people were killed Friday in a shooting rampage in a rural area of the southern US state of Mississippi, local media reported. Police said a man who is now in custody shot a person at a store in the small town of Arkabutla, and then went to a nearby house and killed a woman, according to media in nearby Memphis, Tennessee. The man then drove his car […]

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Texas executes man who admitted murders but said trial was tainted

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed a man sentenced to death for a triple murder despite claims by his lawyers that his trial was tainted by racial bias. John Balentine, a 54-year-old African American, received a lethal injection, nearly 25 years after he shot three white teenagers as they slept. Balentine was pronounced dead at 6:36 pm local time (0036 GMT Thursday) in the city of Huntsville, the […]

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