Author: Edward Campbell

A 17-year-old McDonald’s employee was fatally stabbed during a confrontation with a teenage co-worker at a restaurant in Cypress, Texas, leaving his family grieving and investigators working to establish what led to the deadly incident. Reginald “RJ” Harrell was working at the restaurant on Louetta Road on Wednesday night, October 7, when an altercation reportedly broke out between him and a 16-year-old co-worker. According to authorities, deputies responding to a stabbing call found Harrell inside the restaurant’s bathroom with multiple stab wounds. Harrell was pronounced dead at the scene. The 16-year-old suspect was taken into custody and charged with murder,…

A Florida mother is facing multiple child neglect charges after authorities say her three children were left alone for nearly a week in an apartment without electricity, running water or enough food. Investigators allege that when she returned to the home, she collected her own clothes and left just $3 for the children. Heather Wizbicki, 35, is charged with three counts of child neglect and an additional offense involving the confinement of an animal without sufficient food or water, according to an arrest affidavit from the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. The children, ages 14, 13 and 9, were allegedly left…

A North Carolina mother is facing a first-degree murder charge nearly a year after her 13-year-old daughter was found dead inside their High Point home, as investigators continue to examine the circumstances surrounding the child’s death. Kymberli Bowden, 45, was charged on October 8, 2026, while already being held at the Guilford County Jail. She had previously been arrested in October 2025 on two counts of felony child abuse and one count of concealing a death. The case began on October 13, 2025, when High Point police officers responded to a welfare check at a residence on East Farris Avenue.…

A confrontation outside a Las Vegas food bank that began with a request for a cigarette ended in the death of a 60-year-old man. Months later, the man convicted in the case has been sentenced to prison. Shiloh Leutu, 38, received a sentence of three to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Scott Dennis. The sentence was handed down in October 2026, following the fatal July 9 encounter outside City Impact Urban Food Bank in Las Vegas. Argument Began While Couple Waited in Line Dennis and his girlfriend were waiting outside the…

A Kansas City man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his former girlfriend on her 21st birthday, ending a criminal case that began with a fatal shooting in May 2025. Rasheed Turner, 26, was sentenced in October 2026 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of Layla Freeman, 21. He also received an additional 15-year sentence for armed criminal action, which will be served consecutively to his life sentence. The shooting happened on May 13, 2025, near West 37th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Birthday Meeting Ended…

A Houston woman and her boyfriend were fatally shot outside their home shortly after dropping off their 4-year-old son at school, and the woman’s former boyfriend is now facing a capital murder charge, authorities said. David Elijah Herrera, 31, was arrested in Liberty County on October 5, the same morning 29-year-old Dariela Elizabeth Cardona and 41-year-old Erick Von Gerbitz were killed. He was subsequently charged with capital murder and remains in the Harris County Jail without bond. Houston police responded to a reported shooting at a home in the 900 block of Lindale Street shortly after 8 a.m. Officers found…

A former preschool teacher in Jacksonville, Florida, is facing a child abuse charge after investigators allegedly found surveillance footage showing her pulling a young student by the ear inside a classroom. Cheyenne Alyssa Eigner, 28, was arrested on October 1 in connection with an incident reported to have occurred on May 22 at Cornerstone Christian School, located at 9039 Beach Boulevard. She was charged with one count of child abuse, a third-degree felony. According to the arrest report, investigators reviewed surveillance footage that allegedly showed Eigner grabbing a child by the ear and dragging her from one side of a…

A Baltimore man has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for his role in a murder plot intended to silence a federal witness, a scheme that led to the death of an innocent woman who was mistaken for the intended target. Matthew Hightower, 44, received the sentence on October 8, 2026, after pleading guilty to using a firearm during and in relation to a violent crime resulting in death. The case stems from the May 2016 killing of 41-year-old Latrina Ashburne outside her home in northwest Baltimore, Maryland. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher also ordered Hightower to serve…

COCOA, Fla. — A Florida mother arrived at her children’s father’s home for a scheduled custody exchange and discovered her two young children and their father dead inside, prompting an investigation into an apparent murder-suicide, according to police. The children were identified as 7-year-old Remy Dingwall and 5-year-old Aria Dingwall. Their father, 37-year-old Joseph Kyle Dingwall, was also found dead at the residence in Cocoa on Wednesday, October 7. Cocoa police said preliminary findings indicate that Dingwall killed the children before taking his own life. Investigators have not publicly disclosed a motive, and the circumstances surrounding the deaths remain under…

Miami police are asking for the public’s help in finding the driver who struck and killed a man riding a scooter in the Overtown area early Tuesday morning. The crash happened shortly before 1 a.m. on October 6 near Northwest 7th Avenue and Northwest 7th Street. Police said the victim, identified as Scheber Elias, was riding an e-scooter when he was hit by a vehicle that left the area without stopping. Officers later responded to reports of a man lying in the roadway. Miami Fire Rescue took Elias to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he was initially treated…