The accused was the victim of serious sexual abuse at the hands of a school caretaker when he was a child and has suffered with a litany of mental health difficulties since his teenage years.
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.
Senior Kinahan gang associate Sean McGovern's barrister has told the Special Criminal Court that a "good deal of work" has been done between the legal teams and that he "might not ultimately require a trial date".
Attorneys continued presentation of evidence to a judge in Solano County Superior Court Friday, part of arguments over whether a Martinez man charged in connection with two murders, committed months apart, in 2022 can be tried on both allegations at once, or whether the two shooting deaths should be tried separately. The hearing on the allegations against Richard Raymond Klein, 54, and the motion to sever the two murder charges
The body of Stephen Ring was discovered in Carrigfoyle Quarry nearly two weeks after he disappeared A woman who helped to dump a man's body in a quarry "like a piece of rubbish" and later went on social media to express concern for his wellbeing has been jailed for six years. Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo at the Central Criminal Court today said the defendant, Jane Corcoran (34), lied to gardai about the circumstances surrounding the death and disappearance of Stephen Ring in 2024.
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.
Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder in Kirk's Sept. 10 shooting on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, just a few miles north of the Provo courthouse. Prosecutors with the Utah County Attorney's Office plan to seek the death penalty if Robinson is convicted. Robinson has not yet entered a plea. An 18-year-old child of a deputy county attorney attended the campus event where Kirk was shot.