Violent Crime News

Mugshot of Kwang Chol "K.C." Joy, arrested on May 17, 2013, in connection with the murder of his roommate Maribel Ramos.

In a massive show of solidarity, New York City's LGBT citizenry came together on the steps of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center on the evening of May 20 to protest the recent spate of hate crimes against gays in the city, including the fatal shooting of a gay man in Greenwich Village.

Police have arrested a suspect for second degree murder in the shooting death of a 23-year-old Morgan City man, Morgan City Police Chief Travis Crouch stated in a news release.

Internet Celebrity Hitchhiker Arrested in Clark Murder A homeless hitchhiker who gained internet fame earlier this year was arrested at a Philadelphia bus station and charged with the murder of a Clark lawyer last Sunday.

A Greenbrier woman accused in the 2012 shooting death of her husband pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Tuesday morning in Faulkner County Circuit Court.

Two men have been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a man whose body was found last month.

A 31-year-old Jacksonville man is charged with murder in the shooting death of another man at a crab boil late Saturday night on the Northside.

The man accused of killing a 14-year-old Brooklyn teen did so because she allegedly told him she was pregnant with his child and refused to have an abortion, according to the New York Daily News.

Thousands marched the streets of Manhattan Monday to protest the killing of a gay man allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs - the most recent in a spate of bias attacks stirring up anxiety, disbelief and outrage in a famously gay-friendly neighborhood.

The mother of a 12-year-old boy who was shot and killed on a Jersey City street Friday night is pleading for justice in her son's death.

Gangs of youth angered by the police shooting death of an elderly man in a mainly immigrant neighborhood hurled rocks at police and set cars and buildings on fire in a Stockholm suburb early Monday, forcing the evacuation of an apartment block.

The Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation has taken over the investigation of the shooting death in Madison of a man who allegedly charged police officers with a sword.

Juan Alexander Mejia Dubon, 30, was suspected of killing his father on Friday, May 18, 2013.

Police stand at the corner of 6th Avenue and and 8th Street on Saturday, May 19, 2013, where officials say a gay man was murdered in a hate crime.

A source tells NBC10 the former officer forced the women to use drugs and perform oral sex on him at gunpoint A former Philadelphia Police Officer once hailed a hero is now in jail on $60 million bail after he allegedly raped two women at gunpoint.

Police said a witness told investigators that 54-year-old Roger Griffin was talking about the drug buy with the two suspects in a home in the Knoxville neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Hero cop rape charge : Richard DeCoatsworth, a 27-year-old former police officer, has been accused of rape and other crimes.

Two people were fatally shot in the head and another shot dead in the chest in weekend violence that wounded at least nine others across Chicago, according to police.

A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.

Internet Celebrity Hitchhiker Arrested in Clark Murder A homeless hitchhiker who gained internet fame earlier this year was arrested at a Philadelphia bus station and charged with the murder of a Clark lawyer last Sunday.