#homicide

#homicide

She was reportedly walking home from a friend's house in quiet downtown Cloverdale when she was forcibly dragged down an alley to a secluded location where she was, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office, "brutally raped" and "strangled ... to death using her own shorts as a ligature." The killer left behind plenty of DNA evidence, however that DNA was not tested until many years later, and the case went entirely cold.

A 24-year-old man was shot to death and and a second man wounded inside a Brooklyn apartment building early Tuesday, police said. Jarell Sutton was fatally shot in the chest inside the three-story building on Euclid Ave. near Pitkin Ave. in East New York about 12:10 a.m. Medics rushed Sutton to Brookdale University Hospital but he could not be saved, cops said.

Kurt Van Dyke, 66, was found dead under a bed in his home in Hone Creek, Cahuita, Talamanca, with multiple stab wounds and signs of asphyxiation, according to the Tico Times, a Costa Rican newspaper. Van Dyke and his 31-year-old girlfriend were confined in a single room by two armed male assailants according to investigators, SURFER reported. The men stole valuables before attacking Van Dyke, according to Costa Rican authorities quoted by the news site.

Henry McGowan, 31, was cleared after an Irish jury debated his fate for just over an hour, the Irish Times reported. McGowan confessed to police that he'd killed his father, 66-year-old John McGowan, on Nov. 12, 2024, at the Ballyfin Demesne. McGowan suffers from schizoaffective disorder and was going through a psychotic episode at the time, according to his lawyers and multiple psychiatrists.

They witnessed horrible things inside the Jenkins' family home on April 23, 2023. Because of that, their testimony is crucial as authorities work to prosecute a double murder case against 49-year-old Antonio Powell, the man who allegedly killed 44-year-old Rebecca Jenkins, his girlfriend, then turned the gun on 13-year-old Desiree Jenkins, then shot Desiree's best friend, before fleeing in what the girls described as a maniacal rage.

A 25-year-old man has appeared in court accused of chasing and fatally stabbing his mother in the back in front of bus passengers. Najiib Raytaan, 25, allegedly murdered 50-year-old Amaal Raytaan after she visited his home in Willesden, north-west London, on the afternoon of January 31. Soon after arriving, she allegedly ran out and banged on neighbours' doors, pursued by her son on an e-scooter and holding a large knife.

A person was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon in Fremont, police said. Officers were called at 4:19 p.m. for reports of a shooting at Central Avenue and Joseph Street, according to the Fremont Police Department. They arrived to find the victim on the ground. Officers provided medical aid, but the victim later died from their injuries, police said. The death marked the city's second homicide of the year. An investigation is underway, police said, but no other details were released Tuesday night.

WILLOWBROOK, Calif. -- The murder of former Oakland Raiders defensive lineman Kevin Johnson may be connected to three separate murders of homeless people living in encampments along the Los Angeles River near Willowbrook, sometimes called Compton Creek. Johnson's body was found at a homeless encampment next to Compton Creek on Jan. 21. His cause of death was listed as "blunt head trauma" and "stab wounds," and the manner of death was ruled a homicide, according to L.A. County Medical Examiner records.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- The first husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with killing his wife at their Delaware home in late December, authorities announced in a news release Tuesday. William Stevenson, 77, of Wilmington was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975. Caroline Harrison, the Delaware Attorney General's spokesperson, confirmed in a phone call that Stevenson is the former husband of Jill Biden.

Officers initially went to a home on Mulberry Street at 3:38 p.m. Sunday to investigate a suspicious death, the Newark Police Department said in a news release. They arrived to find an unresponsive man, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Police identified the man only as a 36-year-old Newark resident. Detectives are investigating the death as a homicide, police said, adding that the circumstances surrounding the case, including the cause of death, are still being assessed.

OAKLAND When he was just 3 years old, Stacy Tidwell IV's father was shot and killed in a parking lot behind his North Oakland home. At around 10 p.m. on Dec. 29, 2025, Tidwell suffered a similar fate. He was fatally shot by someone in a group of masked robbers, after police say Tidwell and his cousin were set up near Fremont High, about eight miles east from where Tidwell's dad was killed.

Conducted on the request of Ramirez's family, the autopsy found she suffered from blunt force trauma to the head and torso. In view of the clinical history and the findings at the 2nd autopsy, the cause of death of this Hispanic female, Yolanda Bustos Ramirez, is multiple blunt force trauma and asphyxiation with complications all due to and as a consequence of police restraint, the autopsy report stated. The manner of death is homicide.

The Leon children never quite believed the story about how their mother died. Something about the way Brenda Leon was found dead in 2015 from an apparent self-inflected gunshot wound in her Antioch home never sat right with her daughters. They suspected the worst: their father had done it. Now a decade later, police and prosecutors have come to the same conclusion.

Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 499 homicides were recorded by police in the 12 months to September 2025, a drop of 7% year on year from 539. These are the lowest overall homicide figures since records were first recorded in 2003. Homicide involving a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales has fallen by 23% to 174 in the year.