A nearly blind Burmese refugee who was abandoned by border patrol agents has been found dead in Buffalo, New York, city officials confirmed. Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, had been missing since 19 February, when he was dropped off by border patrol following his release from Erie county holding center, according to the Investigative Post.
A woman was found dead at Santa Rita Jail on Saturday morning, according to an Alameda County Sheriff's Office press release. The woman was identified as 36-year-old Dequita Grace Harrell of Oakland. She was found unresponsive in the women's restroom in the public lobby of the jail around 5:25 a.m. Deputies attempted life-saving measures and requested emergency personnel, but Harrell was pronounced dead at the scene.
Queens detectives are investigating the death of a man with body trauma found inside an apartment building on Friday afternoon. The grim discovery occurred inside 20-50 Nameoke Ave. in Far Rockaway just before 2:40 p.m. on Jan. 30, police reported. Officers from the 101st Precinct responded to the location after receiving a 911 call about an unconscious man inside the premises.
The condition is the result of repeated traumatic brain injuries, which can happen repeatedly over the course of a football season. According to Dr. Daniel Daneshvar, a Harvard University professor and co-director of sports concussion at Mass General Brigham in Boston, CTE easily flies under the radar because it can only be diagnosed via brain analysis after a person's death.
Police found Linda Stevenson, 64, unresponsive in the living room around 11:16 p.m. Sunday and immediately administered life-saving measures, the New Castle County Division of Police said in a statement. However, despite their efforts, Linda Stevenson was later pronounced deceased. Detectives from the police division's Criminal Investigations Unit are investigating, and an autopsy will be take place at the Delaware Division of Forensic Science, police said. The department asked anyone with information to contact detectives.
A man was found dead in a vehicle Wednesday morning at the I-93 rest area in Hooksett, New Hampshire, according to State Police. At about 7:30 a.m., troopers located the body in the vehicle, which was parked at the southbound rest stop. "At this time, investigators have no information to indicate the death is suspicious in nature," police said, noting authorities were investigating if carbon monoxide was a factor.
British auction house Omega Auctions anticipates the note, dated Dec. 1, 2017, will sell for anywhere from A5,000 (about $6,579) to A10,000 (about $13,158) when it goes up for auction Dec. 2. Liam, Long time no see! the Life of a Showgirl crooner wrote on stationery emblazoned with her name. I'm so excited for you, you'reA crushing it out there. I'm obsessed with Bedroom Floor.' It's so cool to see you from afar. I'm always cheering you on. Good luck tonight! Taylor.
The Dallas Cowboys have announced that Marshawn Kneeland, their 24-year-old defensive end, died early this morning. There is no way around the shock and sadness of this tragedy: Kneeland was one of the youngest players on the Dallas roster, and his energy, team-driven mentality, and promising future made him a bright light in the organization. On Monday, the former second-round pick scored the first touchdown of his career on a blocked punt; it is unimaginable that just a few days later, he would pass away.
News broke recently that the body of 11-year-old Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres-Garcia had been found buried in a storage container outside an abandoned house. Mimi's body was found more than a year after she'd allegedly died, reportedly following long-term abuse, including starvation and restraint as punishment. Mimi's mother, Karla Garcia, allegedly told her sister, Jackelyn Garcia, that the girl had died after she was starved for two weeks.
South Africa's ambassador to France, formerly a long-serving cabinet minister, was found dead on Tuesday outside a Paris hotel after the window of his room in the high rise building was forced open, prosecutors said. Nkosinathi Emmanuel Nathi Mthethwa, 58, usually known as Nathi Mthethwa, had "reserved a room on the 22nd floor whose secured window had been forced open," the office of the Paris prosecutor told AFP.
The Irish Independent understands that the girl's mother made the shocking discovery after returning to her home in the Heathfield estate and raised the alarm. The child's father was also discovered dead at the property in the Cappagh area shortly before 8pm with an investigation underway into the incident. Detectives are treating the death of the young girl, who is five years old, as suspicious and are probing whether foul play was involved.
A person was found dead in a park in Bobcaygeon, Ont. on Saturday evening, according to Ontario Provincial Police. Officers responded to calls of a body found at a local park around 9:18 p.m. on Saturday, Ontario Provincial Police's City of Kawartha Lakes detachment said in a post on social media. Bobcaygeon is northeast of Toronto. Police said the cause of death has not yet been determined.
Many of singer D4vd's friends in the Los Angeles music scene had come to believe that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was his 19-year-old girlfriend, long before the 15-year-old's body was found dismembered in the trunk of his Tesla, which had been abandoned in the Hollywood Hills a month earlier. That's according to TMZ, which quoted music insiders who said they partied with 20-year-old D4vd, whose real name was David Anthony Burke.
Everyone loves a good medieval whodunit, but how did real people investigate homicides in the Middle Ages? What did they look for? And how did they decide if a person's death was an unfortunate accident or foul play? This week, Danièle speaks with Sara Butler about forensic medicine, and how death investigation was conducted in medieval England. Sara Butler is a Professor at The Ohio State University, where her research focuses on social and legal history in the Middle Ages. This conversation is based on her book Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England.
The ongoing saga of the body found in an impounded Tesla belonging to alt-pop singer d4vd earlier this month continues to unfold. According to NBC News Los Angeles, the body has been identified as a 15-year-old girl named Celeste Rivas, who was reported as missing last year in Riverside County. Rivas was identified through forensics, and the medical examiner is still working to determine the cause of death.
Richard Quinones was walking his dogs one morning this summer when he spotted a woman in a ditch. She lay on dirt near some trolley tracks in Lemon Grove, her legs partially submerged in muddy water, Quinones, 69, said in a recent interview. He called a non-emergency line. A sheriff's SUV arrived a little later. But the vehicle then backed up and drove off without anyone stepping outside.
