Albert Cronkite

Police say the same former couple had been linked to an earlier domestic assault case before Monday’s gunfire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri woman accused of shooting her former boyfriend outside a McDonald’s was already charged in a separate weapons case involving the same man, police said in court records filed in Clay County. Jolie S. Koop, 21, now faces first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action charges after Monday …

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Thanks to a plea agreement, Alonzo Brown avoided death and life without parole but received a sentence that delays parole until 2078. LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A plea agreement ended the capital case against Alonzo Brown before trial, sending him to prison for 56 years to life for three Las Vegas murders committed when he was 18. Clark County prosecutors once planned to seek the death penalty if a jury convicted Brown. The agreement changed …

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The case began with missing-person reports and now includes aggravated murder, obstruction and desecration counts. SPRINGVILLE, Utah — Utah prosecutors have charged Matthew Jacob Leonard with 11 crimes after police said his mother and a Salt Lake City man vanished from a Springville home and evidence showed both were killed there. The charges mark a shift from search to prosecution in the disappearance of Sarah Johnson, 50, and John Waldron Handricks, 50. Leonard, 28, is …

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A judge’s transfer ruling and a grand jury indictment reshaped the prosecution. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knox County case that began with juvenile charges after a 13-year-old girl was found dead near a Powell trail is now an adult prosecution against Malakiah Harris, who was indicted on murder and evidence counts. The shift into adult court is the key development in the killing of Savannah Grace Copeland. Harris was 15 when authorities say Savannah was …

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Jackson Hopper’s 40-year sentence resolved the killing of Ellie Claire Young in Shelby County. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jackson Hopper’s guilty plea brought a 40-year prison sentence for killing Ellie Claire Young, but prosecutors in other Tennessee counties still have cases tied to the police chase that followed. Hopper, 27, pleaded guilty April 15 to second-degree murder in Shelby County for the Oct. 19, 2024, shooting at Shelby Farms Park. The plea ended a murder case …

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James Edens was taken from Red Banks Road to Cumberland County Hospital after police say he was shot. BURKESVILLE, Ky. — A 60-year-old Cumberland County man died at a hospital after a shooting tied to an argument with his wife, who is now charged with murder, Kentucky State Police said. James Edens was found with a gunshot wound after deputies responded April 14 to a report of a single-vehicle collision on Red Banks Road. His …

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A judge reopened access before prosecutors sought adult proceedings against the 14-year-old murder suspect. GREAT BEND, Kan. — A juvenile murder case that was sealed after the death of 14-year-old Rubi Perez has partly returned to public view as prosecutors seek to try the accused boy as an adult. The public fight over access has become one of the defining features of the case. A first-degree murder charge is pending against a 14-year-old boy, but …

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Police said Sharonica Michelle Davis was already in custody when detectives added an attempted murder accusation. BOSSIER CITY, La. — A mother already held in Caddo Parish custody faced a new attempted second-degree murder warrant after police said she kicked her 4-year-old daughter out of a second-story apartment window. The warrant accused 37-year-old Sharonica Michelle Davis in an April 8 incident at the Mirage Apartments on East Texas Street in Bossier City. Police said the …

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Sheriff’s officials say the bottle was concealed after a 10-year-old boy died in Halfmoon. HALFMOON, N.Y. — A concealed bottle of diphenhydramine is part of the evidence in a Saratoga County case accusing a mother of recklessly causing her 10-year-old son’s death, authorities said. Rebecca A. Jordan, 43, of Halfmoon, is charged with second-degree manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence and endangering the welfare of a child. Investigators said she gave her son an excessive amount …

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The April 15 confrontation involved strangers, pocket knives, surveillance video and a 14-year-old victim, police said. ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A Montgomery County assault case is moving through court after police said a 23-year-old man cut a 14-year-old girl with a knife during a confrontation at Willow Grove Park Mall. Angel Ortiz, of Philadelphia, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, possession of an instrument of crime with intent and harassment. …

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