Violent Crime News

Police and prosecutors say Bassel Saad struck John Bieniewicz June 29 as the 44-year-old referee announced his decision to eject Saad from a men's league game.

An Indianapolis woman has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of awoman found dead last week along a central Indiana road.

A Rapid City man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her unborn child has pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors.

An Alabama man facing 22 charges of animal cruelty says he's innocent. Ronald Fraser Golden, 49, was arrested last year on charges of finding kittens on Craigslist and taking them home to kill them.

A man accused of beating a Rhode Island junk-car dealer with a two-by-four over a deal gone wrong has been charged with his murder.

Investigators say a San Antonio woman fatally shot her adult daughter and then killed herself in an apparent murder-suicide at a home.

A Jefferson County jury has recommended the death penalty for a Louisville man convicted of raping and killing a woman in 1983.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the shooting at the club in the Stone community of Pike County happened Sunday during a meeting.

Jurors have begun deliberating between death by lethal injection and life imprisonment without parole in the slaying of a Houston-area police officer and an auto body shop owner.

A Hayward man wanted in a fatal motel shooting in the city's north end last month was awaiting extradition Monday after being located by police in Las Vegas and arrested on suspicion of murder.

A man on trial in the robbery-killing of Eastern Michigan football player Demarius Reed was a full participant in the crimes and is just as guilty as the confessed gunman, a prosecutor told an Ann Arbor jury today.

A parolee who fled from a crash scene was found guilty of killing a Nassau County police officer and a motorist.

Contract killer Rodney Charles Collins demanded police no longer pursue him over a brutal double murder in exchange for supplying information about the murder of a police informer and his wife, an inquest has been told.

Randy Browning watched from behind the glass as Kimberly McCarthy slipped quietly into unconsciousness, snored briefly, then finally stopped breathing.

Neighbors struggled to make sense of the shooting deaths of a family of five in which the father was known to many throughout their apartment complex as a friendly maintenance worker.

The Kalamazoo man who has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Christopher Adams last week has turned himself in, police said.

Atlanta police are investigating the murder of a man and GBI is investigating the deadly shooting of a armed and distraught woman by Henry County police.

The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reports 69-year-old James Williams was charged Saturday with murder in the July 19 death of 26-year-old Phillip Brunson at the Corner Pocket Club.

Sonja Muzika was out for her regular evening walk on Preston Avenue, heading south toward Saskatoon's Market Mall, when she witnessed something she said looked like a scene from a TV show.

Lucknow, July 27 : Samajwadi Party leader Rajendra Chaudhary on Sunday reiterated that the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav -led Uttar Pradesh government would ensure that whoever is found guilty in the Mohanlalganj rape case will be punished.