Michelle Sadio, 44, died at the scene and two others were injured when shots were fired from a passing Kia as a crowd of mourners stood outside the River of Life Pentecostal Church following a wake in December 2024. On Monday, Tahjin Sommersall,19, told the court he had never even seen the car used in the shooting and had been in Wembley when the attack happened.
Murder at The U, ESPN's new, seven-part podcast on the slaying of Bryan Pata and the two-decade odyssey to find his killer, debuts this Thursday. Listen here. Police did not arrest ex-Hurricane Rashaun Jones in Pata's death until August 2021. State prosecutors charged him with second-degree murder, alleging in the arrest warrant that the teammates had "ongoing issues." Jones, 39, has remained in custody for the past 4½ years amid court delays and changes in attorneys on both sides. He has maintained his innocence throughout.
Mangione is charged with the murder of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. Thompson's 2024 killing on a midtown Manhattan street spurred an expansive manhunt for the assailant, but also fanned the flames of public outcry over the US health insurance industry's profit-driven practices. Mangione's lawyers might have a viable legal avenue to prevent items discovered during a search from being introduced at both his state and federal trials.
A murder trial heard the boyfriend of a Brazilian librarian was video-calling a friend in the early hours of New Year's Day and, when asked how the young woman was, turned the camera phone to show her lying motionless on a bed in his apartment covered with blankets. Miller Pacheco (32) has denied the murder of Bruna Fonseca (28) whose body was found in a Cork city centre flat on New Year's Day three years ago.
After starting deliberations midday Friday, jurors in the Brian Walshe murder trial have reached a verdict. Walshe is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing his wife, Ana, on New Year's Day 2023. Just before jury selection began, he pleaded guilty to two lesser charges: willfully misleading a police investigation and willfully conveying away a human body or the remains thereof.
The man facing murder charges is Daly City resident Antoine Watson, who was 19 at the time of the killing. Watson is charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and inflicting injury on an elder likely to cause great bodily injury. Former DA Boudin took a lot of heat for not pressing hate crime charges on this case, though new DA Brooke Jenkins is not pressing hate crime charges either.
The accused killer has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. Mangione's appearance comes just over two months after he landed a major legal victory in his state case. Judge Gregory Carro threw out the two top state charges against him first-degree murder and second-degree murder, both of which prosecutors had contended were terrorism crimes on 16 September. Carro said the evidence put forth was legally insufficient for those terrorism-related charges.
Mr Michals, 26, told the Old Bailey that fellow Goldsmiths student Zhe Wang, 31, was "stressed" because she incorrectly believed she had contracted a sexually transmitted disease after they had sex in February 2024. He visited her flat in Lewisham, south-east London, the following month to bring some "normalcy" to the "bizarre situation", however after he arrived, Ms Wang came at him with a knife, jurors were told.
Clergyman at Christian church in South Africa told the trial how murderer Lawrence helped him 'run a safe house for victims of human trafficking'.
In one message read by Sheiban, Hamber said the older boy was unhealthy and had an eating disorder. It should be a red flag, but I can't speak as to why it wasn't, Potts said. It is obvious [he] is underweight and does not look healthy, Sheiban said in quoting Hamber. The lawyer then argued: This should have been a red flag. Yes, Potts responded.
Both defendants are charged with the murder of Mr Quilligan on a date unknown between September 1, 2023, and January 29, 2024, at an unknown location within the State. The charge is brought contrary to Common Law. The two men entered not guilty pleas when arraigned before Ms Justice Siobhan Lankford and a jury of ten men and two women at Cork Courthouse, Angelsea Street.
