Police say eight-year-old shot in the head is in critical condition; suspect later died by suicide at home

Nine people, including two children, have been shot and wounded at a city-run water park near Detroit in what appeared to be a random attack, police have said.

Two children were among the victims, including an 8-year-old who was shot in the head and is in critical condition, after a shooter opened fire at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad park, where families had gathered to escape the summer heat.

Mayor Eric Adams sent letters rescinding key and asking for it to be sent back to City Hall, which received it on 10 June

Sean Combs has returned his key to New York City after a request from mayor Eric Adams in response to the release of a video showing the music mogul nicknamed “Diddy” attacking R&B singer Cassie, officials said Saturday.

The mayor’s office said Combs returned the key after Adams sent letters to the embattled musician’s offices in New York and California on 4 June rescinding the key and asking for it to be sent back to City Hall. The city received the key on 10 June.

Prison term of Sandra ‘Sandy’ Hemme, 63, longest-known wrongful conviction of a woman in US history

A Missouri woman who was imprisoned for more than 40 years for murder has had her conviction overturned after a judge found “clear and convincing” evidence that she was innocent of the killing in question.

Sandra “Sandy” Hemme, 63, was convicted of – and sentenced to life imprisonment for – the 1980 slaying of Patricia Jeschke, a library worker in St Joseph, Missouri, after Hemme made statements to the police incriminating herself while she was a psychiatric patient.

Two suspects in custody for deaths of Callie Burnett, 35, and her daughter Erin; second daughter found alive and brought to hospital

Authorities investigating the abduction and death of a four-year-old Louisiana girl whose body was found in Mississippi say they uncovered evidence of possible human trafficking where the child was discovered.

The evidence included cages meant for small animals, said investigators who had arrested Daniel Callihan, 36, and Victoria Cox, 32, with the killing of Erin Burnett.

Brad Willis’s MurderETC helped uncover the identity of Oscar James Nedd, who was killed in South Carolina

As the producer of a true crime podcast mainly focused on a decades-old double murder, Brad Willis has had plenty of experience with dramatic and compelling storytelling.

But Willis got the chance to be the story himself this week, when a sheriff in South Carolina whose office has been reinvestigating a 1975 killing publicly credited Willis’s show with helping deputies finally identify the victim.

Aaron Myers, 51, faces second-degree murder charge in fatal shooting of Hazrat Ali Rohani, 17, at Big 5 store in Renton

A teenager who tried to return a malfunctioning replica gun that shoots plastic projectiles to a sporting goods store in Washington state was shot to death by an off-duty security guard who believed the boy was holding a real gun and planned to rob the business, according to authorities.

The man arrested in the killing, 51-year-old Aaron Myers, told police that he was not working at the time he shot and killed Hazrat Ali Rohani, who was returning a malfunctioning airsoft gun to the Big 5 store in Renton. But he had offered to keep watch due to alleged rising crime in the area.

Former Trump attorney denies having regrets about his role trying to overturn the 2020 election result

After emerging on Monday from having his mug shot taken in connection with the fake 2020 electors case pending against him in Arizona, Rudy Giuliani boasted about having no regrets over his actions that led to the criminal charges against him.

“I’m very, very proud of it,” the former Donald Trump attorney and ex-mayor of New York City said as he left the state courthouse where he was processed on Monday.

Case is related to the purchase of a firearm that prosecutors say was made while president’s son was addicted to drugs

Jurors will resume deliberations on Tuesday in the criminal case against Hunter Biden over a gun he bought in 2018 when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction.

Jurors deliberated for less than an hour on Monday afternoon before leaving the federal courthouse in Delaware. They’re weighing whether Joe Biden’s son is guilty of three felonies in the case pitting him against his father’s justice department in the middle of the Democratic president’s re-election campaign.

My true crime obsession led me to spend countless hours and thousands of dollars investigating a missing persons case. I didn’t crack it. But I nearly cracked under the pressure

Admit it: you have listened to so many true crime podcasts that you think you could solve a murder.

That was how I felt, anyway. Several years ago, when true crime was at its peak, I developed a severe case of an affliction blighting millennial women around the world: amateur detective syndrome. I had immersed myself in so many murder mysteries that I figured it couldn’t be that hard to investigate one. I have written about the ethics of true crime, but I didn’t think much about the ethics of my decision to embark on a true crime crusade. I just wanted to find a juicy story.