Natchez Police Investigating Murder-Suicide
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Natchez, MS: Natchez police are investigating a murder-suicide this morning that left a husband and wife dead. Natchez Lt. Craig Godbold said Daniel Holt approached his wife, Erica Holt, while she was in her car at the Exxon gas station. Daniel reportedly shot Erica, who was an employee at the store, and fled the scene, Godbold said. » more at Natchez Democrat
3rd Cracker Barrel Shooting Victim Dies
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Brooklyn, OH: The sole survivor of a violent family shooting rampage at the Brooklyn Cracker Barrel restaurant has died. Kayla Allen, 10, had been fighting for her life since the April 12 shooting. She passed away on Tuesday afternoon. After taking a turn for the worse last week, her family moved her from MetroHealth Medical Center to Hospice Care at Western Reserve. » more at WOIO TV
Sheriff: Bradenton Murder Suspect Used Baseball Bat to Kill His Sleeping Wife
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Bradenton, FL: Nicholas Hartmann allegedly struck his wife repeatedly with an aluminum baseball bat Tuesday morning, resulting in the death of Alisa June Hartmann, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. Deputies found the 38-year-old's body in her Bayshore Gardens Home Tuesday morning. » more at Bradenton Herald
Stabbing Victim Dies After Collapsing In Police Dept. Lobby
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Fort Smith, AR: A man has been arrested on a murder charge after his pregnant wife, who had been stabbed in the chest, staggered into a police station in Fort Smith and collapsed. Authorities rushed 32-year-old Celestia Duffin to a hospital, where doctors delivered her baby prematurely, but both mother and infant died Tuesday, Fort Smith police spokesman Sgt. Daniel Grubbs said. » more at 4029tv.com
Boone Man Arraigned For Murders & Rape
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Comfort, WV: A Boone County man will stay in the South Central Regional Jail without bond after allegedly killing his wife and mother-in-law earlier this week and raping his stepdaughter in Bloomingrose. Timothy Parsons, 36, from Comfort was arraigned on two counts of first degree murder and one count of second degree sexual assault on Wednesday in Kanawha County. » more at WV MetroNews
Wife Killed in St. Anthony Murder-Suicide Had Talked of Restraining Order
Monday, May 14, 2012
St. Anthony, MN: The arguing that ended with a couple's murder-suicide in St. Anthony and an adult wounded was the third incident that brought police to that home, authorities said Tuesday. A 25-year-old man who survived the triple shooting Monday night was one of the couple's four children who were in the home when the 45-year-old woman was killed by her 52-year-old husband before he took his own life, according to police. » more at Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bodies Identified in Murder-Suicide Investigation
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sparks, TX: El Paso Sheriff's Deputies were called out to a home on Mark Twain Ave. in Sparks on Monday night where they reportedly found two people dead inside. The bodies of two individuals, Estevan Morales, 30, and Lisa Yvette Nichols, 41 were both found to have died of gunshot wounds. » more at KTSM TV
Beaumont Man Slain in Alleged Mother's Day Fight
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Beaumont, TX: Investigators say a Southeast Texas woman who allegedly was upset to get only a card and flowers for Mother's Day has been accused of killing her boyfriend. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says 20-year-old Paige Parkerson of Beaumont was arraigned Tuesday on a murder charge. A booking official had no immediate information on bond or an attorney for Parkerson. » more at Houston Chronicle
Arrest Warrant Issued for Husband of Woman Killed in Wedding Dress
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Burbank, IL: An arrest warrant was issued today for a man charged in the slaying of his new bride a day after the two were married, police said. South suburban Burbank police obtained the warrant in the slaying of Estrella Carrera, 26, seeking the bridegroom, Arnoldo Jimenez, 30, of the 4200 block of Mozart Avenue in Chicago, on murder charges, police said in a news release. » more at Chicago Tribune
Police Investigate Possible Murder-Suicide
Saturday, May 12, 2012
DeFuniak Springs, FL: Police are investigating a possible murder after which the suspect is thought to have turned a gun on himself. Cleveland Gettis, 33, and Saleisha Richardson, 28, died from gunshot wounds at their home in DeFuniak Springs on Saturday afternoon. » more at nwfdailynews.com
West Toledo Couple Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Toledo, OH: A West Toledo man appeared to have shot and killed his wife Saturday and then shot and killed himself, police said. Officers arrived about 4:05 p.m. at a single-family house in the 3900 block of Burnham Avenue, where they’d been dispatched to check on Leslie Waingrow, 32. Family members told police they had not been able to contact her or her estranged husband, Todd Waingrow, 39. » more at toledoblade.com
Sex Offender With Violent History Arrested in Beating Death of Wife in Conway Neighborhood
Friday, May 11, 2012
Orange County, FL: June Royer was trying to be nice when she let Guillermo Cardona, his wife and their baby daughter stay in her house. The family was living in a truck at the time, and Cardona, 44, promised to do odd jobs for Royer. On Friday, Royer, 75, was shocked to find police at the door of her home in the Conway neighborhood of Orange County. Shock turned to horror when emergency workers kicked in the bedroom that Cardona and his wife, Jennifer, shared and found the 25-year-old mother dead. » more at Orlando Sentinel
Couple Dead in Deerwood Shootings
Friday, May 11, 2012
Jacksonville, FL: A 64-year-old woman was found dead in a home and her 73-year-old husband died at a hospital in a double shooting Friday morning, according to Jacksonville police. Police were called to the home in the 8700 block of Harpers Glen Court in East Hampton in Deerwood about 9:30 a.m. when a neighbor saw the man stumble into the yard and fall over after being shot several times. » more at news4jax.com
Victims ID'd in North Fort Myers Murder-Suicide
Friday, May 11, 2012
Fort Myers, FL: The two people killed Friday in an apparent North Fort Myers murder-suicide were parents of two young sons, according to a former relative. The sheriff’s office identified the people as Sara Grindrod, 31, of 4403 Teasdale Drive, where the deaths occurred. The man was identified as Michael Francis Grindrod, 35. » more at news-press.com
Coroner: Man Shot Wife, Killed Himself
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Menallen Township, PA: Two people were found dead Thursday in what state police said they think is a murder-suicide at a home in the 1000 block of Brysonia Wenksville Road in Menallen Township, Adams County. Jeffrey Mowen, 48 and Mary Mowen, 46, were found dead in the home, the Adams County coroner said. » more at WGAL TV
Live-In Boyfriend Arrested in Death of Oklahoma City Woman
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Oklahoma City, OK: A man is accused of killing his live-in girlfriend, whose death initially was thought to be a suicide. James D. Franklin, 48, of Oklahoma City, was arrested Thursday on a first-degree murder complaint after he gave police conflicting accounts of what happened, court documents show. » more at newsok.com
