Ken Johnson, a Farmers Branch police officer, fatally shot a teen and wounded another. The two teen suspects were caught by the off-duty officer burglarizing one of his personal vehicle.
Bruce Beresford-Redman, former 'Survivor' producer, has sentenced to a 12-year imprisonment for being a suspect to Monica Burgos Beresford-Redman's death. His side is set to have another appeal to the Mexican Supreme Court to contest the verdict.
27-year-old Kourosh Keshmiri, a convicted drunk driver who allegedly crashed a car into a California home on Sunday killing a man while sleeping, was charged with murder on Monday, as reported by CBS Los Angeles. The Mission Viejo resident is being held on $1 million bail and is scheduled for arraignment on Tueday.
Oscar Pistorious, the South African Paralympic champion, faces two additional gun-related charges for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, the prosecution said on Tuesday. The trial is set for March 3, 2014 at the Pretoria High Court.
An Israeli security guard shot and killed a fellow Israeli man in Jerusalem, beside the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, Reuters reported. The site was immediately shut to visitors following the shooting.
The Jodi Arias jury began its first full day of deliberations on Monday, the Huffington Post reported. Arias is accused of stabbing the 30-year-old Travis Alexander nearly 30 times, shooting him in the head and cutting his throat in his Mesa, Arizona home on June 4, 2008.
Prosecutors also argued that if Zimmerman were to claim immunity under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which bars prosecution of someone who uses lethal force when in fear for their life rather than opting to retreat, it would have taken place before the start of his second-degree murder trial on June 10.
Travis Alexander, the victim of the brutal killing by her ex-girlfriend and defendant on trial, Jodia Arias, had called Mesa police and reported that his car tires were slashed just four months before his death, ABC News said in an exclusive report.
Criminal Defense Attorney Mark Geragos has recently said in an interview that O.J. O.J. Simpson was likely guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.
Lawyers for Ingmar Guandique, the man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy are returning to court, claiming his conviction was "predicated on a lie." The hearing is scheduled Thursday for Guandique, an undocumented El Salvadoran immigrant who was convicted in 2010 for murdering Levy in 2001.
Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler announced his team will seek the death penalty against James Holmes, accused of shooting 70 people, killing 12 during a midnight screening in Aurora Colorado.
Prosecutor Juan Martinez has spent the better part of the last two trial days going after key witness, Richard Samuels who is the psychologist who diagnosed the defendant, Jodi Arias with post-traumatic stress disorder. While Samuels diagnosed Arias with post-traumatic stress disorder, he also said he failed to re-administer his test after Arias admitted she lied during her first examination.
Jodi Arias appeared on the witness stand for the 18th day on Wednesday to describe how she got to kill her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, which she claimed was done in self-defense.
Suspect 26-year-old Michael Boysen was released last Friday from the Monroe Correctional Facility in Washington state, where he served a year in jail for a burglary. Between 2006 and 2011, he also spent considerable time in jail. After his release last week, his grandparents picked him up, drove him, and even held a gathering for family members at their home to welcome him back, said King County Sheriff John Urquhart. The next day, the grandparents were found dead
The jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial asked more than 100 questions to the defendant on Wednesday, Accused of vengefully murdering her boyfriend Travis Alexander, the jury's questions were put to Arias by Judge Sherry Stephens.
Carl Pistorius, the brother of Para Olympian Oscar who is involved in a murder case, faces his own legal troubles. This stems from a charge of unlawful, negligent killing for a 2008 road death, "in which a woman motorcyclist sadly lost her life," Kenneth Oldwage, the Pistorius family lawyer said on Sunday. The accident occurred in Vanderbijlpark, south of Johannesburg. The charge of "culpable homicide" was dropped, then reinstated and will be challenged in court, the lawyer told the Associated Press.
Heated cross examination highlight the ninth day Jodi Arias took to the stand. Arias faces a potential death sentence if convicted of first-degree murder of her Arizona lover.
