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Virginia police announce the arrest of a New York man in connection to a murder in 1994. The case was solved using genetic genealogy analysis over three years. On November 20, 1994, at approximately 12:30 p.m., Lawrence was found stabbed to death inside her home, Fairfax County Police said. Her two-year-old daughter was found alone in another room of the house unharmed. The nearly 30-year-old case was solved, police said, using genetic genealogy analysis over three years. Detectives say after coincidentally arriving at his house as Smerk was taking out his trash, they obtained a consensual DNA sample from him and later a "full confession" to the crime. Smerk, who was on active duty in the Army, was living at Fort Myers in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C., police said. "He chose her seemingly randomly, and it was a heinous, heinous scene. And I've seen a lot of crime scenes in person and photographs of one, and this one was particularly gruesome,...

Police in Lincolnton, North Carolina, arrested a man on felony hit and run Monday. Police in Lincolnton, North Carolina, arrested a man on felony hit and run charges on Monday after six migrants were allegedly hit by a vehicle outside a store on Sunday. Daniel Gonzalez, 68, was arrested Monday night after turning up with family members at the Lincolnton Police Department, officials said in a statement. A black SUV drives in a North Carolina parking lot where police say it struck six migrant workers, in a photo released on July 31, 2023, by the Lincolnton Police Department, which requested public help in identifying the driver. Lincolnton Police Department Family members told the authorities that Gonzalez explained to them he hit the migrants by accident Sunday, according to the LPD. The family members said Gonzalez told them he hit the gas by accident while he was parking, and then panicked and left the scene, the LPD said in a release. Authorities said Gonzalez has been cooperating ...

A woman died and nine others were injured after a vehicle travelling the wrong way on Maryland's Capital Beltway on Tuesday evening, Maryland State Police said. A woman died and nine others were injured after a vehicle Travel ling the wrong way on Maryland's Capital Beltway caused a multi- vehicle accident late Tuesday, Maryland State Police said. The preliminary investigation by MSP revealed that a white Mercedes SUV travelled southbound in the northbound lanes of I-270, toward the outer loop of I-495, when it crashed into a Lexus and a Nissan Pathfinder in Montgomery County, police said. "Five adults in the Lexus were injured and transported by ambulance to area hospitals for treatment of their injuries," the release said. "Two adults and three children were injured in the Nissan. The driver of the Nissan, a female, was transported by ambulance to an area hospital, where she was declared deceased." MORE: Sheriff's recruit dies 8 months after b...

A year after the Uvalde school shooting, a panel probing if any of the victims might have survived had the response been faster has made no progress, its leader says. Fourteen months after a school shooting left 21 dead in Uvalde, Texas, the investigation into whether law enforcement inaction might have contributed to the deaths of any of the victims has yet to make any progress, according to the official leading the review. The Texas Department of Public Safety, which conducted the criminal investigation into the rampage at Robb Elementary School, tapped a panel of five medical experts to perform a "casualty analysis" to determine whether any of those killed at Robb might have survived if police, first aid and medical assistance had reached them sooner. Nearly 400 law enforcement officials who assembled waited more than an hour before ending the attack. Although the panel was assembled last year, its leader said the group has yet to receive the records required to conduct th...

New York City police say a man on a scooter fired a handgun in a string of random shootings that killed an 87-year-old and wounded three others NEW YORK -- A scooter-riding gunman killed an 87-year-old man and wounded three others in a string of random shootings that stretched across two New York City boroughs, police said Saturday. A 25-year-old man was taken into custody without incident and his identity was not revealed by police , Assistant Police Chief Joseph Kenny said at a news conference. A 9 mm handgun with an extended magazine and a scooter were recovered. The New York Police Department pulled an image of the gunman from video and sent it to phones of officers, some of whom spotted the suspect about two hours after the first shooting. “We don’t know the motive. It seems his acts were random ,” Kenny said. In all, the NYPD said there were five shootings carried out during the spree by someone on a scooter , one in Brooklyn and four in Queens. No one was injured in one of the ...

Authorities in Tennessee say a gunfight between police and a man inside a home left him dead SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. -- A gunfight between police and a man inside a home in east Tennessee left him dead and wound ed a K-9 police dog named Hank, who is recovering from surgery, authorities said Saturday. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation did not say if police gunfire killed the man, 63-year-old David Wright, who was found dead inside the house. The bureau said an autopsy would determine the manner and cause of death. A second person in the home was hospitalized with unspecified injuries. The bureau's news release did not identify the injured person. Officers went to the house in Sevierville on Friday night after a felony in which someone evaded police in a vehicle, the bureau said. Someone inside the home fired at the officers, who shot back. The bureau is investigating the shooting. Sevierville city spokesperson Bob Stahlke said Hank the K-9 officer underwent surgery for a gunshot ...

Police say a man who didn’t want his girlfriend to get an abortion fatally shot her during a confrontation in a Dallas parking lot DALLAS -- A man who didn't want his girlfriend to get an abortion fatally shot her during a confrontation in a Dallas parking lot, police said. He was jailed on a murder charge as of Friday. Texas banned abortion s after roughly six weeks of pregnancy in September 2021. But nearly all abortion s have been halted in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, except in cases of medical emergency. Gabriella Gonzalez, 26, was with her boyfriend , 22-year-old Harold Thompson, on Wednesday when he tried to put her in a chokehold, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. She had returned the night before from Colorado, where she had gone to get an abortion . “It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit said. “The suspect did not want (Gonzalez) to get an abortion.” Surveillance video from the parking lot shows Gonzalez...

The Maine teen charged in the New Year's Eve knife attack near Times Square on New York City police officers is due in court as soon as Tuesday. The Maine teen charged in the New Year's Eve knife attack near Times Square on New York City police officers is due in court as soon as Tuesday to face attempted murder and attempted assault charges. Trevor Bickford, 19, of Wells, Maine, carried out what a senior police official told ABC News was a terror attack likely motivated by Islamic extremism. "He knew what he was doing. He knew why he was doing it and he thought he would die in the attack ," Thomas Galati, NYPD Chief of Intelligence and Counterterrorism, told ABC News. "He did yell out 'Allahu Akbar.'" Trevor Bickford, 19, has been charged with attempted murder for attacking New York City police officers on New Year's Eve near Times Square. Handout Galati said the FBI interviewed Bickford last month in Maine after his mother reported her concer...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts charged Chowdhury with one count of murder-for-hire. Mohammed Chowdhury’s alleged plan to hire contract killers to murder his wife and her boyfriend was finally coming into place on Tuesday, according to federal prosecutors. Authorities said that Chowdhury, 46, had shared their work and home locations, photos and work schedules with contract killers, along with clear instructions to kill them and ensure the evidence did not link back to him. His last step was to meet with the contract killers to pay a $500 downpayment, officials said. However, rather than securing the down payment, the contract killers had been federal agents all along and Chowdhury left their meeting in handcuffs, officials said. The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts charged Chowdhury with one count of murder-for-hire on Tuesday. The arrest occurred the same day another Massachusetts man, Brian Walshe, was charged ...

Police are investigating a shooting that injured 12 people at a Baton Rouge nightclub. Police are investigating a shooting that injured 12 people at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, nightclub . The shooting occurred just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday at 4619 Bennington Ave in Baton Rouge, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department. The gunshot victims were taken to local hospitals, either by personal vehicles or by emergency responders, police said. They are all currently listed in stable condition. The motive for the shooting is under investigation, police said. Investigators did not release any information on a possible suspect. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/12-shot-in-baton-rouge-nightclub-police-say-TheFOXposts-11152.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: US News Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

Four local Democratic officials in Albuquerque have had their homes or offices targeted by gunfire, police said. A former Republican candidate for the New Mexico House of Representatives was arrest ed Monday for allegedly organizing men to shoot at the homes of Democrats in the state, police announced. Four local Democratic officials in Albuquerque had their homes targeted by gunfire in four separate incidents from Dec. 4, 2022, to Jan. 3, the Albuquerque Police Department said in a press release. Solomon Peña will be charged in connection to shootings at the homes of Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa, on Dec. 4, 2022; New Mexico House Speaker Javier Martinez, on Dec. 8; then-Bernalillo Commissioner Debbie O’Malley, on Dec. 11, and state Sen. Linda Lopez on Jan. 3, according to the APD. Solomon Peña, Republican Candidate for New Mexico House District 14, being taken into custody by APD police officers in SW Albuquerque, N.M., on Jan. 16, 2023. Roberto E. Rosales/ZUMAPRES...