#homicide

#homicide

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.

Our thoughts are with Simon's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time. Enquiries are well under way, and my team is working at pace to determine the circumstances that led to his tragic death.

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.

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.

Investigators found one person dead and three others injured Monday at a property in the unincorporated part of the city, authorities said. The discovery happened about 8:05 a.m. after deputies from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office responded to a welfare check in the 5100 block of Laurel Drive, the sheriff's office said in a statement. Once there, they found a resident dead, and three other injured people who were rushed via ambulance to a hospital.

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.

Around 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday last month, two masked men approached a black Cadillac Escalade idling outside a Northridge apartment building. One held a shotgun, the other a handgun. A surveillance system captured the sounds of what happened next: A gang challenge, confusion, a demand for property. Then six shots and sounds of the Escalade speeding off. In the passenger seat was Maria De La Rosa, 22, with a gunshot wound to the chest.

A jury has viewed CCTV footage of the moment a father of four fatally stabbed a man outside his home in what he later told gardaí was an act in defence of his family and his property.

The two people killed in a roadside shooting near California's Hallelujah Junction were a 17-year-old Reno boy and his father, the Washoe County medical examiner's officer said. Spencer Browne, 17, and his father, Richard Browne, 43, were fatally shot around 8:50 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, on the shoulder of Highway 395 in Lassen County. A 39-year-old Reno man is in custody as the suspected shooter.

Grammy-nominated gospel singer Jubilant Sykes was stabbed to death in his Santa Monica home late Sunday, and his son was taken into custody at the scene, police said. The 71-year-old victim, a prominent singer as well as an actor, was pronounced dead shortly after police arrived at the residence, according to Santa Monica Police Lt. Lewis Gilmore. There, they also discovered his son, 31-year-old Micah Sykes, still inside the Delaware Avenue home. He was booked on suspicion of homicide.

The three people found dead in a Springfield home last month after a double murder-suicide have been identified, prosecutors announced Monday. Springfield police responded to the 1400 block of State Street the morning of Nov. 25 to a report of a stabbing, spokesperson Ryan Walsh said previously. Two men and a woman were found dead inside. Khamkieo Chingvacha, 67, and Sachivanh Promphanh, 47, were identified as the two victims, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said Monday.

The story of a Thursday afternoon stabbing of a social worker at SF General Hospital took a much darker turn early Saturday night when we learned that the social worker died from his stabbing injuries. We now know the stabbing victim was 51-year-old hospital social worker Alberto Rangel, and the suspect in the stabbing, 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi of San Francisco, has been taken into custody on murder and other charges.

Police responded just after midnight Sunday to a report of a suspicious vehicle on the 1300 block of Seaport Boulevard reported by a security guard, according to a press release from the Redwood City Police Department. When officers arrived, they found a man in the driver's seat and a woman in the passenger seat of the vehicle, each with a gunshot wound to the head and unconscious, authorities said.

One of the two East Bay suspects charged in the October killing of Mark Calcagni, the manager of San Francisco's historic Condor Club who was gunned down outside his Santa Rosa home, pleaded no contest Thursday, according to Sonoma County court records. Asia Lozano Morton, 25, of Dublin, is accused of helping her boyfriend in the Oct. 3 killing. She was initially charged with accessory after the fact and pleaded not guilty in late October.