Violent Crime News

NEW YORK a?? After the murder of Kitty Genovese 50 years ago Thursday, night began to descend on this and America's other big cities.

Authorities have released the name of a man killed in a shootout with state Department of Public Safety officers and a security guard on a Tempe freeway.

Theresa Riggi, 50, was jailed for 16 years for killing her eight-year-old twins Austin and Luke and her five-year-old daughter Cecilia at their Edinburgh home in August 2010.

Authorities say a 31-year-old family friend has been arrested in the deaths of a mother and two young children in Canon City, Colo.

This undated identification file photo provided April 3, 2013, by Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Conn., shows former student Adam Lanza, who carried out the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a 33-year-old man suspected of opening fire inside a northern Ohio nightclub over the weekend, killing an off-duty police officer and two other men.

The sequence is important for the defense because, if it can prove that Pistorius called security first, it could support the contention that he was seeking help as quickly as possible.

A verdict could be reached as early as today in the High Court murder trial of a Mongrel Mob prospect accused of killing Christchurch sex worker Mellory Manning.

A former handyman serving life in prison for the 1993 murder of seven people at a suburban Chicago restaurant has been awarded nearly a half-million dollars in a civil lawsuit in which he alleged a jail guard punched him in the face.

The DuPage County State's Attorney's Office released the following information Friday: DuPage County State's Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today that the Second District Appellate Court has affirmed the First Degree Murder conviction of Luis Villavicencio-Serna, 23 for the 2009 murder of Armando Huerta, Jr., 18, of Addison.

For eight long days, the jurors who would eventually deliver a guilty verdict in the murder trial of Dale Bruner played by the rules.

An Omaha man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the July 2012 shooting deaths of a man and his two teenage sons.

At 3:10am Lawrence Police Officers were dispatched to a shooting at 2403 Cedarwood Avenue, in the south central section of Lawrence.

A 35-year-old registered sex offender convicted in 2010 of exposing himself to several women is in jail again, this time accused of raping a 62-year-old woman.

It's not yet clear what sparked the shooting, which occurred shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday in a building on Martin Luther King Boulevard.

An Oklahoma City preacher has been convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of his son-in-law.

Two of three Vermont men suspected of killing a Sheffield woman during a botched 2010 robbery of her home are due in court Monday to face first-degree murder and other charges.

Twenty-nine-year-old Kelvin Parache of Rockville was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old James Allen Frazier.

The veteran stage, film and TV performer best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honeymooners" has died.

A judge has declared a mistrial in the murder case of a hip-hop promoter already serving a life sentence for smuggling cocaine.