Author: Edward Campbell

A Fort Wayne man has been found guilty of murder in the 2025 shooting death of his girlfriend, bringing a four-day trial to a close nearly 20 months after the fatal incident. Reginald Brooks, 55, was convicted Friday in Allen Superior Court in connection with the death of 50-year-old Sajdah Abdur-Rabb. Jurors also found him guilty of a firearm enhancement related to the killing. The case stems from a shooting at a mobile home park on Fort Wayne’s south side on Jan. 30, 2025. Abdur-Rabb was found suffering from a gunshot wound inside the home near Dunkelberg Road, close to…

A 4-month-old Nashville girl has died after suffering severe head injuries while she was in the care of her mother’s boyfriend, a man who had previously been convicted of child abuse and child neglect. Bobby Randall Conner Jr., 32, is now facing a murder charge in connection with the death of Nevaeh Petty. The case began with an aggravated child abuse charge after the infant was found unresponsive at a home on 24th Avenue North on September 19. Police said officers were called to the home shortly before 5 p.m. after receiving a report of an infant in distress. Nevaeh…

A 31-year-old Victorville man was arrested after deputies found a woman restrained and suffering from multiple visible injuries inside a home Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities. Deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department responded to a reported assault at a residence in the 15000 block of Enfield Drive at about 4:25 p.m. on Sept. 23. When deputies arrived, they found an adult woman inside the home who had been restrained and had visible injuries. She was taken to a hospital for treatment. Authorities have not released additional information about the extent of her injuries or her current condition. Investigators…

An 86-year-old woman is missing in Los Angeles, and police are asking the public for help locating her. Ana Marlina Martinez was last seen around 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, at her caregiver’s home in the 1800 block of Wilton Place, in the Arlington Heights area of Los Angeles. Police said a Silver Alert was issued as authorities worked to locate her. Martinez is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighing about 125 pounds. She has white hair and dark eyes and was last seen wearing a blue floral dress. Her family has said Martinez has dementia, raising…

A routine road-maintenance assignment on Interstate 95 in Fairfield turned deadly Friday morning when 60-year-old CT DOT worker Elvin Hernandez was struck by a vehicle while working along the highway. The crash happened around 10:35 a.m. near Exit 20 on the southbound side of I-95. Hernandez had been working with a CT DOT crew and had stepped out of a parked department truck to remove debris from the roadway area when a 2006 Buick Lucerne entered the right shoulder and struck him. Hernandez was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died from his injuries. Connecticut State Police identified…

San Diego County authorities are asking the public for help locating 69-year-old Merle Wakefield after his GPS monitoring device entered “tamper mode” while he was working in Rancho Bernardo early Friday morning. The alert was triggered at about 3:30 a.m. Authorities said Liberty Healthcare, which supervises Wakefield through California’s Conditional Release Program, responded to the location. When staff arrived, they found that the GPS device had been removed and Wakefield was no longer there. Wakefield is now wanted for allegedly violating the conditions of his conditional release. Authorities described Wakefield as 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 230…

VALLEJO, Calif. — A longtime Mare Island conservationist says she was doing a routine task she had carried out for years when a Wednesday night encounter with Vallejo police ended with her arrest and hours in custody. Myrna Hayes, 69, was arrested around 9 p.m. Sept. 23 while at the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve, where she says she was locking the gates along the San Pablo Bay Trail as part of her regular evening routine. Hayes said she had been making the roughly three-quarter-mile trip along the gravel road to secure the gate for nearly 17 years. The incident…

The student has been identified as Julian Amador, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. The crash happened at about 4:55 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, near Huling Road and Lois Road East in unincorporated Denton County. Texas Department of Public Safety investigators said the bus was traveling north on Huling Road when it left the roadway, struck a culvert and overturned. Five people were aboard the bus at the time, including the driver and four students. The driver, identified as 38-year-old Jesse Padgett of Sanger, and three students were treated at the scene for minor injuries. Amador was taken…

Six businesses on Chicago’s South Side were targeted in a series of early-morning burglaries Friday, with suspects breaking through doors and windows and taking cash registers and other valuables. Chicago police said the incidents happened within a little more than an hour, between about 4 a.m. and 5:10 a.m. Investigators are looking into whether the burglaries were connected. The businesses were located in the Hyde Park and Grand Boulevard areas, with several incidents occurring only minutes apart. Police said the first reported burglary happened around 4 a.m. in the 4800 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue. Four people reportedly entered…

A misdemeanor animal-cruelty charge against the owner of a Wheeling pet resort has been dismissed following the death of a family dog that was left inside a company van during a period of extreme heat. Ross Niehaus, owner of Waggles Pet Resort, was charged after Miller, a 6-year-old, 110-pound black Labrador retriever, was found dead inside one of the business’s vans on Sept. 2. The dog had been picked up from his family’s home in Deerfield that morning and was supposed to spend the day at the facility. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office dismissed the case during a court…