homicide

A former deputy Nevada attorney general has been arrested in Reno as a suspect in a 1972 homicide in Hawaii.

A Dorchester man has been charged in a deadly shooting that officials say started as a robbery at a Quincy, Massachusetts apartment complex last month. Dwayne D. Harper, 28, is accused in the death of 32-year-old Jordan Wiggins, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office. Wiggins was found with obvious gunshot wounds at his apartment building on Crown Street…

A woman’s head was severed with a sword in San Carlos Thursday, authorities with knowledge of the investigation told NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

Detectives closed the 51-year-old homicide of a Montgomery County special deputy sheriff last week.

The victim has been identified as 32-year-old Jordan Wiggins, of Quincy, officials said.

A homicide investigation is underway after a man was fatally shot overnight at an apartment complex in Quincy, Massachusetts, officials announced. Quincy police responded to Crown Drive around 12:40 a.m. Thursday, according to a press from the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office, and found a man in his 30s with apparent gunshot wounds in the area of a stairwell...

A man has been charged in connection with a deadly shooting in Everett, Massachusetts, last month. Brian Green, 35, is accused in the death of 38-year-old Jarmahl Sutson, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. Sources told NBC10 Boston Wednesday night that the alleged shooter is the son of MBTA Transit Police Chief Kenneth Green, and that Brian Green worked…

Kassandra Sweeney and her two sons, 4-year-old Benjamin and 1-year-old Mason, were shot to death in a Wethersfield Drive home in Northfield, the attorney general’s office announced.

Authorities have arrested a suspect on a murder charge in connection with the homicide of a 14-year-old girl in Mount Vernon, Maine. Brooke McLaughlin was found dead in her home around 6 p.m. Monday, state police said. Her death was initially deemed suspicious, but the medical examiner’s office determined Wednesday that she had been killed. A suspect, described only...

Authorities are investigating the homicide of a 14-year-old girl in Mount Vernon, Maine. The teen’s mother came home to find her dead around 6 p.m. Monday, state police said. Her death was initially deemed suspicious, but the medical examiner’s office determined Wednesday that she had been killed. State police identified the teen Thursday as Brooke McLaughlin. She was a...

The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said police were called to the home on Central Avenue around 4:22 a.m. and found the 38-year-old victim dead inside. The death is being investigated as a homicide.

Police in Everett, Massachusetts, are investigating after a man was found dead inside a home early Tuesday morning. The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said police were called to the home on Central Avenue around 4:22 a.m. and found the 38-year-old victim dead inside. The death is being investigated as a homicide. The man who was shot was identified Thursday...

A 20-year-old Maine woman was killed early Saturday morning, and a Massachusetts man is facing a murder charge in connection to her death. Maine State Police said local police received a 911 call around 5:39 a.m. Saturday from a man reporting an assault at a Canaan Road home in Skowhegan. The Skowhegan Police Department responded to the home and found…

Authorities have identified a man whose body was found in the woods in Paxton, Mass. Saturday and say his death is being investigated as a homicide. The Worcester County District Attorney’s Office confirmed the investigation off Asnebumskit Road Saturday. On Monday, the DA identified the victim as 29-year-old Ernest A. Appiah, a Worcester resident. Officials said Appiah’s body was...

Richard Cottingham has claimed to be responsible for up to 100 murders. Prosecutors say Diane Cusick was one of them.

Investigators are still looking for answers in a 2012 shooting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that left a 16-year-old dead and a 17-year-old seriously injured. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan described 16-year-old Charlene Holmes as a “truly innocent victim.” Holmes was killed in a drive-by shooting outside her Willow Street home on June 3, 2012. A 17-year-old girl was also hurt. Investigators…

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is investigating the shooting deaths of 67-year-old Stephen Reid and 66-year-old Djeswende Reid.

A handyman-turned-lover arrested in the horrific killing of a Queens mother admitted to sending a threatening text from Gaal’s phone to her husband Saturday morning, believed to be an effort to take suspicion away from himself

A 44-year-old handyman has been arrested for allegedly murdering a Queens mother in her own home as her teenage son sat upstairs last week, “ruthlessly and brutally” stabbing her more than 55 times before putting her body in her son’s hockey bag and leaving the duffel on the side of a road, police executives said Thursday. David Bonola, who is…

A Vermont man pleaded not guilty Thursday in the stabbing death of a transgender woman, whom friends are remembering as kind, spunky, and fun to be around. “Just a really wonderful human being all around, that loved all things,” said Gracie Kennaugh, describing Fern Feather, 29. “That’s how I’m choosing to remember Fern.” Community members lit candles and wrote...