A Methuen man appeared in court Tuesday after he was accused of murdering a beloved Spanish teacher who taught at Lawrence High School. Anthony Nunez-Romano, 26, was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty to murder and two counts of illegally owning a firearm. Court documents identified his alleged victim as Dominga Romano; it was not immediately clear how the pair were related, if at all.
Marquice McClinton, 39, pleaded no contest to murder for a 29 years to life sentence just days into his murder trial, avoiding an even harsher life term in the process. After taking the deal, he tried in vain to convince a judge to let him out of it, arguing he didn't understand the repercussions while explicitly agreeing to them in court.
Henry family via Met Police A man accused of murdering a teenage boy who was killed in north London has appeared in court. Adam Henry, 15, died after being stabbed on 9 December in Islington, north London. Abdel Derdour, of Old Gloucester Street in Camden, north London, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place. At Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday, the 22-year-old was remanded in custody ahead of his next appearance at Inner London Crown Court on New Year's Eve.
New details have emerged about the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, whose bodies were discovered on Sunday 14 December in their home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Their death certificates have been released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, obtained by TMZ and reported by multiple US outlets. They record that Rob Reiner's body was found at 15.45, and Singer Reiner's at 15.46.
Toronto police have identified Himanshi Khurana, 30, as the victim of a homicide they say appears to be an act of intimate partner violence. Officers say they responded to a report of a missing person in the Strachan Avenue and Wellington Street W. area on Friday night. On Saturday around 6:30 a.m., police say they located the missing woman's body in a residence.
Police used geotracking, cellphone data and surveillance cameras to locate Nick Reiner hours after his parents were found fatally stabbed Sunday morning in Brentwood. The suspect, who struggled with substance abuse and had argued with his parents at a holiday party, was arrested in South Los Angeles that night. It didn't take long for police to focus on Nick Reiner after his parents were found fatally stabbed in the master bedroom of their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon. The challenge became finding him. Reiner lived in Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner's guesthouse but was not there when police arrived around 3:30 p.m. Prosecutors now allege he killed his parents sometime early Sunday.
The New York police lieutenant leading the investigation into the shooting testified that he set up recording equipment inside an interrogation room in the Altoona station house after Mangione was apprehended in a Pennsylvania McDonald's five days after the shooting. But when asked by defense attorney Marc Agnifilo if he knew whether it was legal to record someone in Pennsylvania without their knowledge, he conceded he did not know.
The charges stem from the September 2017 shooting of Stephen Vargas, 47, of Staten Island, near Atlantic and Fourth avenues, prosecutors said. On Sept. 20, Passaro was walking along Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill when he approached Vargas, a stranger, and began yelling at him near 578 Atlantic Ave., authorities said. Passaro then went around the corner, changed his clothes, and returned to where Vargas was standing, firing multiple times at around 8:20 p.m., prosecutors said.
Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested several hours after the bodies of his father, actor-director Rob Reiner, 78, and mother, photographer-producer Michele Reiner, 70, were discovered on Sunday afternoon in the couple's house in the affluent west LA neighbourhood of Brentwood. Officials said evidence gathered by the Los Angeles Police Department led homicide detectives to Reiner, who was taken into custody without incident on Sunday night at a park in downtown Los Angeles near the campus of the University of Southern California.
Detectives arrested 32-year-old Paul Ohore and 29-year-old Alagie Jatta in the Bronx on Dec. 16. The pair had been wanted for the Nov. 24 deadly stabbing of 23-year-old Daevon Silva of Rhode Island in a crime that shocked the city. Authorities allege that Ohore, Jatta, and a third still unapprehended individual argued with Silva just after 1 a.m. on West 49th Street and 7 Avenue in the heart of the Big Apple. During the dispute, Silva was beaten and stabbed multiple times in the back and right thigh.
Brooklyn detectives have opened a homicide investigation into the suspicious death of a man reported last week. Police said Justin Tetro, 51, was found dead inside his apartment at 21 Pennsylvania Ave. in Cypress Hills during a wellness check just before 11:05 a.m. on Dec. 11. Officers from the 75th Precinct were called to the location by family members to conduct a wellness check. When they gained access to Tetro's residence, they found him unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to his head and neck.