WINCHESTER, KENTUCKY — A tragic murder-suicide in Winchester on Friday night has left two people dead and renewed focus on Kentucky’s ongoing struggle with domestic violence and protective order enforcement. Police identified the victims as 35-year-old Ava Brantley and 38-year-old Tyler Snowden, who authorities say had previously been in a relationship. Investigators believe Snowden broke…
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY — Two men were shot and killed late Monday morning in what police are calling a midday double homicide near Valley Park, according to the Lexington Police Department. The shooting occurred around 10:50 a.m. in the area of Village Drive and Cambridge Drive, where officers responded to reports of gunfire and found two…
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY — A 22-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a double homicide that occurred last month near Okolona, Louisville Metro Police confirmed on Monday. The suspect, identified as Jazmine Brown, was taken into custody and charged with two counts of complicity to murder and receiving stolen property of a firearm following a…
RYLAND HEIGHTS, KENTUCKY — The Kenton County Police Department is asking for the public’s help to finally identify a man whose body was discovered more than four decades ago in a wooded area of Locust Pike Park. The unidentified man, long referred to as “Mr. X,” was found dead in November 1982 near the north…
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA — A 4-year-old boy from South Carolina suffered horrific abuse before dying of extreme malnutrition, with investigators describing his appearance as “similar to starving children in Africa.” Authorities say Joshua Emanuel Lamar Latimer, 30 — a former state trooper — and his girlfriend, Destiny Shay Dionne, 24, were charged with homicide by…
MISSOURI — A teenage girl was sentenced to prison after a deadly game of Russian roulette left her 16-year-old girlfriend shot in the head while the couple’s young sisters were at home, prosecutors say. Mary Cornelius, 19, pleaded guilty to first-degree involuntary manslaughter and on Thursday received a seven-year prison sentence in the death of…
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA — A Nebraska woman says she survived a horrific beating, strangulation, and kidnapping at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, who later lay beside her bloodied body believing she was dead before allegedly trying to blow up the home with them both inside. The victim, 42-year-old Jesserae Beck, told KOLN that her ex, Christopher…
CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OREGON — A 53-year-old Oregon man has been found guilty of murdering a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier in front of witnesses — including the victim’s mother — after ordering neighbors to stop recording so he could “handle it.” According to the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office, Chad Michael Westover was convicted of…
FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO — A 32-year-old Ohio man is facing murder charges after authorities say he fatally injured his girlfriend’s 5-month-old daughter, leaving the infant with skull fractures and multiple traumatic injuries while her mother was away for just one hour. According to prosecutors, Glenn McIntosh allegedly killed baby Ameira Reynolds on October 13 inside…
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY — Police are investigating a fatal crash that claimed one life Sunday evening in Lexington, according to officials. The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of Bryan Station Road and Manhattan Drive, where two vehicles collided under unclear circumstances. Lexington firefighters responded to the scene along with Fayette County Coroner’s Office,…