Crime

The grandmother of the 8-year-old Dallas boy who was shot in the face by his White neighbor says her son’s emotional health has taken a heavy blow. D.J. Maiden has been recovering in a Dallas hospital after cops say Brian Cloninger, 46, shot him in the face in their apartment complex. His grandmother, Sharon Locklin, […]

Lashinda Demus (pictured right), who won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic games, says that her husband, Jamel Mayrant (pictured), strangled her and also threatened to kill her. The athlete so feared for her life that she reportedly took out a temporary restraining order against her estranged husband who is now required to stay […]

Heather Koon, 25 (pictured above left), a daycare worker at ABC Kidz child care, faces two counts of rape after police found video of her raping an infant in her care, reports The Huffington Post. Koon and her boyfriend, James Osborne (pictured above right), a registered sex offender, were arrested on October 4, according to […]

Damon Dash II, 22, the son of Roc-A-Fella records co-founder, Damon “Dame” Dash, was arrested Tuesday, Sept. 24 for allegedly attacking and strangling his girlfriend in New York City, reports the New York Post. The incident happened on September 22 in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood in the younger’s Dash’s apartment. “They had an apparent dispute over […]

Kendrick Ruth, 35, the man suspected of viciously punching a clerk in the face over $0.41 was found and arrested as he was leaving a hotel in Long Beach, California, reports NBC LA. Ruth was charged with robbery and assault , and his bail set at $100,000. He is scheduled to be arraigned Friday. ———————————————————————————————————————– […]

Chazrel Jaquan Burton, 21, has been charged with 3 counts of attempted murder for the June 26 shooting of a man and his family, during which a 2-year-old toddler was injured, reports the AJC.com. Burton was attempting to rob someone in a Kroger grocery store parking lot on Memorial Drive in Stone Mountain, Georgia when […]

Clariese Jones (pictured right), Paul Mikell (pictured center) and their daughter Olivia Jones (picturedleft) were arrested and charged with simple burglary of a religious building, when the Mom, Dad, and child trio allegedly robbed church items then sold them in a yard sale at their nearby home in Slidell, La., reports ABC News. SEE ALSO: Florida Man […]

Michelle Harris, 28, the mother of 23-month-old Zion Harris who died from a laceration to her liver on September 24, was arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder for beating the child to death, reports NOLA.com. “Through the course of the investigation detectives learned that Harris struck her daughter after she did not listen to […]

Christopher Simpson, 27 (pictured left), was found guilty of two counts of first degree murder by an Oklahoma jury for the April 8, 2012 execution-style slaying of his pregnant girlfriend, Ka’loni Flynn, 20, (pictured right) and her 12-week old fetus because he didn’t want to pay child-support, reports the Daily Mail. SEE ALSO:  NYC Bakery Fined […]

Paul Bergrin (pictured), an attorney whose roster of celeb clients included such performers as Queen Latifah, Lil’ Kim, and Naughty By Nature, was sentence to life in prison without parole Monday for nearly two dozen counts, including murder conspiracy and racketeering, according to the Daily Mail. Court documents also state that the Newark, N.J.-based lawyer, […]

Los Angeles firefighter Justin Eulian, 37, and his mother Lonieta Antonietta Fontaine, 70, are accused of attacking a woman who was feeding stray cats in their neighborhood, reports KTLA.com. Eulian and Fontaine are each charged with “one felony count of battery with serious bodily injury and one felony count of assault by means likely to produce great […]

Family members of Pedro Merchant, 20, who was arraigned on second-degree murder charges Friday, September 21, brawled with the family of his 17-year-old victim, Dante Quinones, in a courthouse in Hempstead, New York, leading to members of both families being arrested, reports the NY Daily News. According to the Nassau County Police Department, the two families […]