Mar. 16, 2025
Lorkeyla Jamia Spencer, Jordan Jarrode Richards-Nwankwo, and Brittney Monique Mills.Photo: Fulton County Jail
Three people have been charged with child abuse in Atlanta for allegedly shaving the word “gay” into the hair of a 12-year-old boy, PEOPLE confirms.
The arrests come more than a month after disturbing video first surfaced online, showing the vicious attack on the child, who was ridiculed, slapped, shoved and threatened.
A statement from Atlanta Police confirms Lorkeyla Jamia Spencer, 19, Brittney Monique Mills, 35, and Jordan Jarrode Richards-Nwankwo, 18, have all been charged with cruelty to children stemming from their alleged involvement in the troubling attack.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Three people have been charged in connection withfatal shooting of a 10-year-oldNew Jersey girl.
On Thursday, theVineland Police Department announcedthat three men had been charged in connection with her death. The suspects have been identified as William Harris, 28, Xavier Bogan, 20, and 28-year-old Karonjah Witt.
Harris has been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree aggravated manslaughter while Bogan and Witt have both been charged with first-degree conspiracy to commit murder.
Mar. 16, 2025
Marisela Botello-Valadez.Photo: GoFundMeThree people have been indicted in the murder of a Seattle woman who went missing in October while vacationing in Dallas.Charles Anthony Beltran, 32, Nina Tamar Marano, 49, and Lisa Jo Dykes, 58, each face a murder charge in connection with Marisela Botello-Valadez’s death, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said in apress releaseWednesday.Marano and Dykes werearrested in Floridain March while Beltran was taken into custody in Utah in April.
Mar. 16, 2025
Five people were discovered dead Saturday morning after two people were “screaming for help” in High Point, North Carolina, in whatcops believe to be a murder-suicide.
Around 7:05 a.m., an adult male and an adult female led police to the bodies offive deceased victims, including three children and two adults, the High Point Police Department said.
There were two adults “running down the street …screaming that they needed help,” High Point Police Capt.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Three children died, and two others were injured, in a stabbing that occurred Friday in a Texas home during a Texas Child Protective Services visit.
According to the Ellis County Sheriff’s Officeofficial statementissued Friday, Texas Child Protective Services visited a residence in Italy, Texas, and decided to remove the children from the home. After an Italy Police Department officer responded to the social worker’s call to the Ellis County Sheriff’s 911 dispatch, they found three children dead and two seriously wounded.