Author: Maria Monroe

A man is dead after being shot by a D.C. police officer in an odd confrontation that remained under investigation Wednesday morning. A man is dead after being shot by a D.C. police officer in an odd confrontation that remained under investigation Wednesday morning. According to police, someone called 911 after seeing the man asleep in a car in the middle of traffic around 3 a.m. by New York and Florida avenues in Northeast. “Officers responded to that location for an individual who was unconscious behind the wheel of a vehicle at a traffic light,” Police Chief Robert Contee said.…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — California’s attorney general said Tuesday that his office will conduct its own review of a transit officer’s involvement in the shooting death of a 22-year-old Black man at a San Francisco Bay Area train station in 2009.The decision by Rob Bonta comes after Nancy O’Malley, Alameda County’s district attorney, announced in January that her office would not file a murder charge against former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Anthony Pirone in the death of Oscar Grant on News Year’s Day. She said that while his conduct that night was unacceptable, he did not fire the gun…

A video obtained by KRON shows a man carrying a knife and trailing a couple in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon.Skylar Givens, a software engineer, told the news station that he was taking a walk around Jefferson Square Park with his wife and dog when a man reportedly began chasing them down after pulling out a knife from his bag. “He pulled out this big knife,” Givens told the news station. “It was like 10 or 12 inches and thankfully I had a taser with me and I ended up firing the taser at him so I could get away and run…

A massive explosion was reported at an interracial couple’s house in Sterling, Ohio this week that leveled their home and prompted authorities to launch a possible hate crime investigation after they found a swastika and misspelled anti-black slur spray-painted on their garage and their neighboring garage. Reports state that the home was unoccupied at the time of the blast on early Wednesday, and no injuries were reported. The homeowners, Angela, 55, and Brad Frase, 60, were reportedly just one year away from paying off their mortgage after a period of 23 years, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.  The couple had…

A heartbroken wife has opened up about how the man of her dreams turned out to be her worst nightmare and told her it was her “duty” to give him sex. Kelly Penny, 36, who hails from Bridgend, Wales, spoke of how she was brutally abused by husband Gareth Rainbow, who has now been sentenced to 16 years in prison, Daily Mail reports. The couple took the holy vows in front of family and friends in March 2013 following a whirlwind six-month romance. However, Rainbow became an “aggressive bully” after the night of their wedding, and would go on to…

A heartbreaking diary maintained by an 11-year-old Brazilian girl revealed how she suffered under her parents’ strict fasting regime months before she starved to death.  After Perolla Pires died in hospital last month, her 26-year-old mother Aline and 47-year-old stepfather Enri were charged with causing her death. Following her death, Perolla’s 300-page diary revealed how her parents made her pray in silence for hours and perform strenuous exercises to “punish” her while she was already malnourished, Daily Mail reported.  Police superintendent Ricardo Mamede said he believed that the victim had suffered “long-term torture.” “The stepfather has strong religious convictions and…

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN: A pedophile who argued that he identified as an eight-year-old girl and that his act of looking at child sex abuse images was protected under free speech laws was sentenced to up to 20 years in prison. Joseph Gobrick, 45, was convicted of on three counts of child sexually abusive commercial activity and using a computer to commit a crime after dozens of child porn images were found on his Grand Rapids home computer, including some of the children being raped. After being booked in jail, the accused did not help his case by acting as his…

The father of a six-year-old boy who suffered “traumatic injuries” after he was raped by an airline employee while he was flying alone from Brazil to Florida is suing the airline for their “willful misconduct”. The federal lawsuit, which was filed on Monday, February 17, in Florida’s Middle District, has accused LATAM Airlines of negligently training its employees and failing to properly supervise the young boy during the international flight in May 2018, according to the Orlando Sentinel. The suit states that the boy had been left with a folder full of identifying documents, including his Brazilian and American passports,…

HANCOCK PARK, LA: An Amazon delivery man was caught on camera spitting on a package and using his hands to smear it as well.  The incident occurred on Thursday evening at a duplex residence in LA’s Hancock Park neighborhood. TMZ was able to obtain a video of the nasty incident given the deadly coronavirus outbreak that has gripped the world in its claws.  In the video footage, the delivery person is seen placing the package on the porch. He then leans over and spits on to it after which he appears to wipe some of it on the package as…

Florida sheriff Gregory Tony, who was photographed half-naked with several topless women recently, was arrested for shooting dead a teenager in Philadelphia when he was 14 years old, as per a 1993 police report that has now emerged. The reports have raised many questions over Tony’s memory of the events. Tony is currently the Broward County Sheriff and is running for re-election. He had kept his dark past a hidden secret for around 27 years.  Earlier this month, it was confirmed that Tony had shot and killed Hector ‘Chino’ Rodriguez, 18, when he was 14. A police report that was…

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA: George Floyd died on May 25 after his breathing was restricted by Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck. On May 29, the officer who was fired earlier was arrested. At this point, there is no information regarding where the former officer was taken into custody or how it came about and there is also no information about the charges that were levied on Chauvin. News regarding the other three officers who were also involved in the fatal arrest has not been shared as of now. According to media reports, there has been a delay…

The owner of the store in Minneapolis, outside which George Floyd was killed, released a statement on Tuesday, June 2, saying that he is not going to cooperate with the police or call cops anymore because it “always does more harm than good”. Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed outside Mahmoud Abumayyaleh’s store ‘Cup Foods’ in police custody. Abumayyaleh said that he and his family were left “deeply saddened for our part of this tragedy,” and added that the incident serves to “teach us all an important lesson about dealing with police”. The grocery store owner, last week, had…

An 18-year-old high school student, who has been accused of killing his date by shooting her multiple times after finding out that she was a transgender, smiled as prosecutors detailed the horrific crime in court. Speaking at his bond hearing this past Tuesday, June 16, Cook County prosecutors said Orlando Perez was seen going to the Marquette Park home of the victim, 37-year-old Selena Reyes-Hernandez, with her at around 5:30 am on May 31. While inside the home, he reportedly asked her if she was a girl, and when she said she was trans, told her he had to leave,…

Investigation Discovery’s ‘Impact of Murder: Stolen Dreams’ revisits the bone-chilling story of a pregnant woman whose stomach was ripped open and who was left to die in the basement of a home following a horrific attack by another woman in 2015. The riveting documentary starts with a 911 dispatcher listening to the distressed pleas of a dying victim in Longmont, Colorado. The story then uncovers grisly details of a heinous event that connects the two women together. Michelle Wilkins, however, ends up losing her unborn daughter in the worst way possible. The expectant mom was more than content with her…

The former head of one of the world’s largest modeling agencies has been accused of rape and sexual assault in France. 70-year-old Gerald Marie had been the president of Elite Model Management for around 25 years. The model agency is based in Paris and was headed by Marie who is alleged to have carried out many attacks on women during the 1980s and 1990s according to legal documents.  In legal documents that were submitted to the Tribunal Judiciaire in Paris this week, two women 51-year-old Carre Otis and 60-year-old Jill Dodd have claimed that Marie had assaulted them during the…

NEW BOSTON, TEXAS: A seven and a half months pregnant woman has died after her friend allegedly cut her womb open and fled with the fetus. The victim was identified as Reagan Hancock, 22, while the attacker is yet to be unidentified. Police said they responded to the scene at around 10:20 am on October 9 after receiving a 911 call and found that the fetus had been removed from Hancock’s body. The woman suspect was later detained in McCurtain County, Oklahoma by the authorities, and she is facing kidnapping and murder of an unborn child charges. More charges are…

A school dinner lady is facing jail time for offering oral sex to a 12-year-old boy and sending him pictures of her boobs. As per The Sun, Jayne Sewell not only sent numerous graphic text messages to the minor but also told him that she wanted to be spanked. Cardiff crown court was told that the 52-year-old contacted the victim via different social media platforms, like Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Prosecutor Jeffrey Jones told the court that the messages sent to the child by the woman were “clearly sexually graphic”. The prosecutor said that the texts were understandably meant…

BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA: Police have found the body of a 4-year-old girl in the home of two adults suffering from drug overdose on Wednesday, December 16, around 9 pm. Of the adults (one male, and the other female), the female has died in the hospital while the man remains in critical condition. The police have labeled the 4-year-old’s death as suspicious, and detectives from the police are currently investigating the case thoroughly. A statement released by the Beaumont Police Department, describes the situation, as firefighters were called in to investigate a call regarding a seizure. There, the first responders discovered two adults…

Seven appears to have reaped the benefits of The Voice after taking over the format from Nine at the end of last year.The network’s decision to roll the dice on the program paid off early when the show premiered to its largest average audience since 2016, piggybacking off the might of the Olympics Closing Ceremony and drawing in an average audience of 1.329 million metro viewers on August 8.The Voice coaches Keith Urban, Rita Ora, Jessica Mauboy and Guy Sebastian.Credit:SevenLast year on Nine (owner of this masthead), premiere ratings for The Voice were at 1.082 million, compared with 1.064 million…

Shaima Azizi has not slept in days. From her home in Brisbane, she has endured a cruel six-day merry-go-round as her family has repeatedly tried to get into the airport in Kabul, and onto an Australian flight to safety.Her family members have Australian visas, so they should be let in. But it has not happened – and time is running out. Shaima’s 45-year-old mother has been rushed to hospital two times during that period with developments outside the airport – including scuffles, gunfire and more than 10 failed attempts to enter – exacerbating her heart condition.Shaima Azizi, who lives in…