Murder & Mayhem

Prosecutors believe the shooting happened after an argument on the road, during which they say Edgecomb punched Cleereman in his car. More

December 27, 2021

The parents of a teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school didn't anticipate that he would commit violence and are "devastated" like others in the community, a lawyer said Wednesday in requesting that they be granted a lower bond. More

December 22, 2021

Three people have been sentenced to decades in prison in the shooting death of a pizza delivery driver ambushed on an eastern Pennsylvania college campus four years ago. More

December 22, 2021

ATLANTA (Court TV) — 2021 was a big year for celebrities on trial, from R&B artist R-Kelly to ex-‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett. These high-profile cases ran the gamut as far as charges, but they all had similar verdicts.   R. KELLY SEX TRAFFICKING TRIAL In September of 2021, a jury found Grammy award-winning singer R. […] More

December 22, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell will spend Christmas — and her 60th birthday — in jail without a resolution to her sex trafficking trial as a jury ended an abbreviated first week of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict. More

December 22, 2021

The jury deliberating at Kim Potter's manslaughter trial in the shooting death of Daunte Wright asked a judge whether the officer's handgun could be freed from an evidence box so they could hold it. More

December 22, 2021

Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter is on trial for the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. More

December 22, 2021

An Arkansas man was arrested and charged with capital murder Tuesday in the death of his 5-month-old son. Hot Springs police said Cody Webb, 35, was booked into Garland County jail and is being held without bond. More

December 21, 2021

An online petition has gathered millions of signatures calling for leniency for a 26-year-old truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for vehicular homicide in an explosive accident at the base of a Colorado mountain highway that killed four people in 2019. More

December 21, 2021

Twenty-five years after JonBenet Ramsey was killed, police say they are looking at "genetic DNA testing" to see if it can be used to help solve the case. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family's Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996, bludgeoned and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind. Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever charged in the case. More

December 21, 2021

Police in northern Illinois are investigating the apparent shooting deaths of a man and his two young sons as a triple homicide and are searching for the man's missing vehicle. Officers found the bodies of Andrew Hintt, 31, and his two sons, 5 and 7. More

December 21, 2021

A month after his acquittal on murder charges, Kyle Rittenhouse was given a standing ovation at a conservative group's conference in Phoenix where panelists discussed the 2020 deadly shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin. More

December 21, 2021

Jurors weighing the case of the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright asked the judge after a full day of deliberations Tuesday what they should do if they can't reach a verdict. More

December 21, 2021

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has not said whether he will posthumously pardon Floyd this year for a 2004 drug arrest in Houston. More

December 21, 2021

A Buffalo man has pleaded guilty to charges for fatally shooting a victim inside his apartment in June 2021.The Erie County District Attorney's Office announced 23-year-old Franklin Andrews pleaded guilty in Erie County Court to one count of manslaughter in the second degree and one count of criminal possession of a firearm. More

December 20, 2021

Kim Potter, a former police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is charged with manslaughter in the April 11 shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black motorist. Here are some key moments in the case: More

December 20, 2021

The federal judge presiding over the upcoming hate crimes trial of three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery said Monday she plans to summon a jury pool of roughly 1,000 people scattered across an expansive area that covers 43 Georgia counties. More

December 20, 2021

The suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright made a "blunder of epic proportions" and did not have "a license to kill," a prosecutor told jurors on Monday shortly before they began deliberating in her manslaughter trial. More

December 20, 2021

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia say the discovery of four bodies at two different locations in the state are the work of a serial killer who used a shopping cart to transport his victims’ bodies after meeting them on dating sites. At a press conference Friday, Fairfax County […] More

December 17, 2021

The 10 people killed at the Astroworld music festival in Houston all died from compression asphyxia during a massive crowd surge in which attendees were packed so tightly that many could not breathe or move their arms, officials announced Thursday. More

December 16, 2021

A man has been convicted of fatally stabbing his neighbor at a southeast Washington motel in a fight over barking dogs. Earnace Beasley Jr. denied stabbing William Bepler, 38, during the May 9, 2020, confrontation. But jurors in Beasley's Benton County Superior Court trial didn't believe him, returning a guilty verdict Wednesday for first-degree murder during a burglary. More

December 16, 2021

More than five years after a St. Louis man visiting New Orleans to plan his wedding was shot and left to die in an armed robbery, a suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities announced Thursday. More

December 16, 2021

A fourth victim of a fatal stabbing incident in Delaware has died, authorities said Thursday. New Castle County Police said detectives were notified that Donald Grier, 68, was pronounced dead shortly after midnight. Grier had been hospitalized in critical condition since the Dec. 3 stabbing at a townhome in Townsend. More

December 16, 2021

A teenager who told investigators that he mistook his brother for a deer when he shot him has been charged with a gun crime, authorities in western Michigan said Thursday. More

December 16, 2021

Prosecutors on Thursday rested their case against Kim Potter, the suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in the shooting death of Black motorist Daunte Wright,. More

December 16, 2021

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal count alleging he willfully deprived George Floyd of his rights during the May 25, 2020, arrest that led to the Black man's death. He also pleaded guilty to an unrelated but similar count stemming from the use of force against a then-14-year-old boy, who is also Black, in 2017. More

December 15, 2021

Kim Potter's use of deadly force against Daunte Wright was not appropriate, a use-of-force expert testified Wednesday at the former suburban Minneapolis police officer's manslaughter trial, undercutting a defense argument that she would have been justified in shooting Wright even if she didn't mean to. More

December 15, 2021

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Board members approved the two legal settlements on Tuesday. A total of $25 million […] More

December 15, 2021

Prosecutors nearing the end of their case have drawn on testimony from Potter’s former colleagues to portray an officer whose intended use of a Taser would have violated department policy despite her extensive training. More

December 15, 2021

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. More

December 15, 2021