Man Pulled On Car Door Handles Before Gun Handoff, Deadly Chase Through DC: Feds Man Pulled On Car Door Handles Before Gun Handoff, Deadly Chase Through DC: Feds Man Pulled On Car Door Handles Before Gun Handoff, Deadly Chase Through DC: Feds
Man Pulled On Car Door Handles Before Gun Handoff, Deadly Chase Through DC: Feds It started with someone pulling on car door handles at 4:15 in the morning. It ended with a 23-year-old dead, and two men facing murder charges nearly two months later. District residents Henry Buchanan, 48, and Charles Jenkins, 46, were arrested in connection with the Aug. 4 shooting death of Xavier Fogle in Northwest DC, federal authorities announced on Friday, Oct. 2. According to court documents, surveillance cameras captured Fogle pulling on door handles in the 1400 block of Clifton Street NW, including one belonging to Buchanan. Buchanan came out of a nearby building and confronted F…
Possible Murder-Suicide: 3 Found Dead In Skillman Mansion, Prosecutor Says Possible Murder-Suicide: 3 Found Dead In Skillman Mansion, Prosecutor Says Possible Murder-Suicide: 3 Found Dead In Skillman Mansion, Prosecutor Says
Possible Murder-Suicide: 3 Found Dead In Skillman Mansion, Prosecutor Says Three people were found shot dead in a New Jersey home, including one person who was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Friday, Oct. 2,  officials said. At 5:52 p.m., the three bodies were discovered at a home on Wild Azalea Lane, in Skillman, Somerset County Prosecutor John  McDonald said. Caution tape was seen outside of the mansion 39 Wild Azalea Ln., as published by The Montgomery News. The investigation began a day earlier, when Montgomery Township police received a request to check on the occupants of the home just before 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, McDonald said.&nb…
Lost Pool Bet Led To 14 Bullet Holes, 2 Gunshot Wounds In Lancaster: DA Lost Pool Bet Led To 14 Bullet Holes, 2 Gunshot Wounds In Lancaster: DA Lost Pool Bet Led To 14 Bullet Holes, 2 Gunshot Wounds In Lancaster: DA
Lost Pool Bet Led To 14 Bullet Holes, 2 Gunshot Wounds In Lancaster: DA A lost pool bet worth several hundred dollars ended with 14 bullet holes in a car and two gunshot wounds — and nearly four years later, the Pennsylvania shooter has been sentenced to state prison. Jan Carlos Cruz-Rivera, 30, of the 200 block of North Marshall Street in Lancaster, was sentenced to six to 15 years in state prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday, Sept. 22, to aggravated assault and discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office announced in an update on Friday, Oct. 2. Judge Dennis Reinaker imposed the sentence. The shooting…
16-Year-Old Surrenders Days After 2 Men Shot In Hybla Valley: Police 16-Year-Old Surrenders Days After 2 Men Shot In Hybla Valley: Police 16-Year-Old Surrenders Days After 2 Men Shot In Hybla Valley: Police
16-Year-Old Surrenders Days After 2 Men Shot In Hybla Valley: Police A teenager responsible for a double shooting in Northern Virginia surrendered this week, days after two men were hospitalized, police say. Officers from the Fairfax County Police Department were called around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, to the 7700 block of Richmond Highway in Hybla Valley, where there was a reported shooting. Upon arrival, first responders found one man suffering from a gunshot wound to his lower body and a second man suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper body. Both injuries were considered non-life-threatening. Investigators say a 16-year-old who knew both vic…
Lancaster Killer Loses Appeal Seeking New Trial In Street Shooting: DA Lancaster Killer Loses Appeal Seeking New Trial In Street Shooting: DA Lancaster Killer Loses Appeal Seeking New Trial In Street Shooting: DA
Lancaster Killer Loses Appeal Seeking New Trial In Street Shooting: DA A Pennsylvania killer serving life in prison for fatally shooting a man on a city street has lost his bid for a new trial, prosecutors announced on Thursday, Oct. 1. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania rejected an appeal from Wilberto Melendez, who was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 31-year-old William Earl Cooper Jr., according to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office. Melendez had sought a new trial after a Lancaster County jury convicted him following a four-day trial in April 2025. The conviction came after two earlier trials, in 2019 and 2021, ended …
New Year’s Party Killing Ends In Guilty Plea After 2 Convictions Overturned In Allentown New Year’s Party Killing Ends In Guilty Plea After 2 Convictions Overturned In Allentown New Year’s Party Killing Ends In Guilty Plea After 2 Convictions Overturned In Allentown
New Year’s Party Killing Ends In Guilty Plea After 2 Convictions Overturned In Allentown Two men from New Jersey were shot at a New Year’s Eve party in Pennsylvania; one was seriously wounded, and another was killed  — the double shooting has now ended with a guilty plea after nearly nine years and two overturned convictions. Vyante Green, 31, of Allentown, pleaded guilty Friday to third-degree murder and aggravated assault before Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg, according to District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan’s office. Green has been jailed since his 2018 arrest.  The case stems from the shooting death of Kenyatta Eutsey, 23, of Bethlehem, originall…
Instagram 'Murder For Hire' Ad Led To Targeted Maryland Killing For Cash, Marijuana Instagram 'Murder For Hire' Ad Led To Targeted Maryland Killing For Cash, Marijuana Instagram 'Murder For Hire' Ad Led To Targeted Maryland Killing For Cash, Marijuana
Instagram 'Murder For Hire' Ad Led To Targeted Maryland Killing For Cash, Marijuana "Murder for hire." That's how Baltimore native Deondre Tywon Sharps advertised himself online before carrying out a targeted Maryland murder for the promise of money and marijuana. Sharps, 20, pleaded guilty on Friday, Oct. 2, in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to first-degree murder in the deaths of Keion Damont McKinney and Joshua Ray Holland, both 34. The two men were murdered 15 days apart in June 2024. McKinney was first. Shortly after 7:20 p.m. on June 14, he was outside on Meade Village Circle in Severn when Sharps shot him once in the head. Surveillance video captured Sharps f…
Maryland Man Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend's Father, Trying To Influence Her Testimony Maryland Man Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend's Father, Trying To Influence Her Testimony Maryland Man Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend's Father, Trying To Influence Her Testimony
Maryland Man Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend's Father, Trying To Influence Her Testimony Killing his girlfriend's father wasn't the end of it, prosecutors say. A Maryland jury convicted Corey Conaway this week of first-degree murder in the 2024 shooting death of 67-year-old Perry Comeau, then found him guilty of trying to influence Comeau's daughter before trial. Comeau was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside his home on Half Dollar Court in Columbia at around 10:49 p.m. on Feb. 8, 2024. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators quickly zeroed in on Conaway, who was dating Comeau's daughter at the time and had been involved in an earlier conflict with…
'Our Children Were His World': Family Remembers Christopher Serrano After Manassas Murder 'Our Children Were His World': Family Remembers Christopher Serrano After Manassas Murder 'Our Children Were His World': Family Remembers Christopher Serrano After Manassas Murder
'Our Children Were His World': Family Remembers Christopher Serrano After Manassas Murder Just days before Christopher Serrano was killed at work in Virginia, the 33-year-old father was celebrating one of the moments his family says meant most to him: his son's 10th birthday. Serrano, of Manassas, was one of two men killed in the Tuesday, Sept. 29 workplace shooting at United Rentals that shattered two families and sent police on a multistate search for the suspected gunman. But to those who loved Serrano, the headlines about what happened inside that workplace tell only how his life ended, not who he was. He was a father of two whose children were his world, a devoted partner …
Gunman On Run After 3 Teens Shot Outside PA High School Football Stadium Gunman On Run After 3 Teens Shot Outside PA High School Football Stadium Gunman On Run After 3 Teens Shot Outside PA High School Football Stadium
Gunman On Run After 3 Teens Shot Outside PA High School Football Stadium Three teenagers were hospitalized after gunfire erupted outside a Pennsylvania high school football stadium as crowds were leaving a game Thursday night, Oct. 1, authorities announced. Officers, firefighters, and medics were called to the 900 block of East Carson Street near South Ninth Street and George K. Cupples Stadium in Pittsburgh at 9:48 p.m., according to Allegheny County emergency dispatchers. Two teenage boys and a teenage girl were struck by the gunfire and taken to a hospital, Pittsburgh Police Chief Jason Lando said. All three were listed in stable condition. The shooting happ…
Mom Sped Away After Son's Planned Lancaster Ambush; Teen Sentenced Mom Sped Away After Son's Planned Lancaster Ambush; Teen Sentenced Mom Sped Away After Son's Planned Lancaster Ambush; Teen Sentenced
Mom Sped Away After Son's Planned Lancaster Ambush; Teen Sentenced A mother accused of driving the getaway car after her teenage son opened fire in a planned ambush is still awaiting trial, while her son has now been sentenced to state prison, authorities announced on Thursday, Oct. 1. Amari Poole, now 17, of the first block of West New Street, was sentenced by Lancaster County Judge Jeffery Conrad after pleading guilty on Sept. 23 to attempted criminal homicide, carrying a firearm without a license, possessing a firearm as a minor, and possessing a prohibited firearm, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. Poole was 15 when he and W…
Teen Who Asked 'Do You Want To Die?' Before Shooting Boy In Face Sentenced In Lancaster Teen Who Asked 'Do You Want To Die?' Before Shooting Boy In Face Sentenced In Lancaster Teen Who Asked 'Do You Want To Die?' Before Shooting Boy In Face Sentenced In Lancaster
Teen Who Asked 'Do You Want To Die?' Before Shooting Boy In Face Sentenced In Lancaster A teenager who asked another boy, “do you want to die,” moments before shooting him in the face near a city park has been sentenced after pleading guilty to attempted homicide, authorities announced on Thursday, Oct. 1. Jay-Quan Edward Williams, 17, of the 300 block of East Liberty Street, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Sept. 24, to attempted criminal homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, and charges of recklessly endangering another person, possession of a firearm by a minor, firearms not to be carried without a license, and persons not to possess a firearm, according to the Lancaster Co…