homicide

Attorneys for the family of George Floyd released independent autopsy results on Monday that show Floyd’s death “was homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain.”

The death of a 5-year-old boy on Christmas Eve was caused by blunt force trauma to the head and neck, and the manner of death is homicide, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said Wednesday. Dennis Vaughan, Jr., of Laconia, died at a hospital. Police arrived at his home to find him unresponsive. Several other family members were with...

Tragedy struck the Santa Cruz area in 2015 when 8-year-old Maddy Middleton was allegedly killed by a teenage boy. Now, her ashes have been stolen.

A decomposing body found wrapped and concealed under a mattress in Bessemer, Alabama on Wednesday has been identified as missing 30-year-old mother Tiffany Smitherman Osborne, authorities said.

A woman fatally beat her male roommate with a tape dispenser, a shower rod and other items during a dispute inside their southern New Jersey home last month, authorities said. Mary Carbone, 56, was charged Wednesday with murder and four weapons offenses, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. It wasn’t known Thursday if she has retained an attorney....

A man from the Dominican Republic has been returned to the U.S. to face charges in a fatal shooting at a Worcester barbershop in 2013, prosecutors said Monday. Eduardo Montero, 42, was arraigned Monday in Worcester Superior Court in connection with the death of Eliezer Rivera, 30, on Nov. 1, 2013 in the former Fadeaway Barbershop. Worcester District Attorney Joseph…

Boston’s police commissioner is crediting cooperation from the public, the support of the mayor, and collaborations with public health officials and the private sector for a 20-year low in the city’s homicide rate. Commissioner William Gross praised “people coming forward to identify where guns are coming from,” in limiting homicides to 37 in 2019, The Boston Globe reported Thursday. Gross…

A San Jose shooting suspect was struck and killed by a woman early Christmas morning in what investigators say was a vehicular homicide, according to San Jose police.

Baltimore could wrap up 2019 with its highest ever per-capita homicide rate. Killings of adults and minors for drugs, retribution, money or no clear reason have plagued the city throughout the year. City officials have been unable to stop the violence as residents have grown increasingly impatient. Police recorded 338 homicides as of Tuesday. With just over 600,000 residents, Baltimore…

Authorities were responding Wednesday to what they described as a suspicious death in Sandown, New Hampshire.

Crime tape surrounded the property and the State Police Major Crime Unit was parked in the driveway of 48 Phillipswood Road.

A Vermont woman is being held without bail after she pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with the July shooting death of her husband in Hinesburg. Forty-five-year-old David Auclair, of Williston, was shot on July 11 and found at a hiking trailhead parking lot. Police on Tuesday arrested his wife, 47-year-old Angela Auclair, of Bristol, on suspicion of aiding…

The case of a man charged with killing two engaged doctors in their luxury Boston condominium was turned over to the jury on Monday. Attorneys delivered closing arguments Monday following nine days of testimony in the trial. Bampumim Teixeira, 33, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the May 2017 deaths of Dr. Richard Field and Dr. Lina Bolanos. The…

Closing arguments are scheduled to begin in the trial of a man accused of killing two doctors in their South Boston penthouse.

The death of a 28-year-old Vermont woman has been ruled a homicide. The Burlington Free Press reports the death certificate for Hanna Keyes, of Winooski, shows the cause and manner of death was compression to her neck and chest when she was assaulted by another person. Authorities found Keyes’ body on Nov. 2 after her employer requested a welfare check…

The Massachusetts man accused of brutally murdering two doctors in 2017 was lurking in front of the South Boston condominium complex where the couple lived before the killings, prosecutors said Thursday. In their opening statement, prosecutors said video evidence will show that Bampumim Teixeira, 33, of Chelsea, was “looking, waiting, lurking out front” of the building on the day 49-year-old...

Jury selection for the trial of a man accused of murdering two doctors in their South Boston luxury condo began Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court. Bampumim Teixeira, 33, of Chelsea, pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and other charges in connection to the May 5, 2017, homicides of 49-year-old Richard Field and 38-year-old Lina Bolanos.

Police in Plainville, Massachusetts after a woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her 21-year-old son.

A Massachusetts man charged with setting a fire that resulted in the death of a firefighter wants a judge to drop the murder, arson and burglary charges against him. Momoh Kamara, of West Boylston, pleaded not guilty in March in the Dec. 9 death of Worcester firefighter Christopher Roy.