Mar. 16, 2025
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A 5-year-old boy in California is accused of stabbing his twin brother to death.
Deputies from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a stabbing at the 200 block of Tucker Road in Scotts Valley, California, on Wednesday just before 4:00 pm, the sheriff’s office said in astatementThursday.
Upon their arrival, the officers learned that the brothers had been fighting and that one of them grabbed a small kitchen knife and stabbed his twin during the encounter.
Mar. 16, 2025
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A funeral service was scheduled for Thursday morning for the boy, who attended G.O. Bailey Elementary,according to his obituary.
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School district officials confirmed Estes’ death in a social media post on Monday. “Tift County Schools mourns the loss of a member of our student body,” district officialswrote in a Facebook post.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Garrett Matthias took on his cancer in a unique way and the plucky 5-year-old took the same approach to his death.
The Iowa boy passed away on July 6 but he lives on throughhis obituarywhich he wrote with the help of his family.
Garrett suffered from a rare form of cancer and while his parents, Emilie and Ryan, were hopeful he would survive, in June they were told the devastating news that his cancer was terminal.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Two teenage boys are being held without charges for their alleged involvement in the killings of a Detroit family of three, including a 5-year-old boy, PEOPLE confirmed.
The boys were taken into custody on Monday, officials announced during a Tuesday press conference.
According to Detroit Police, the suspects are 16 and 17, and their names have not been released.
On Sunday evening, a concerned family member found the bodies of Caleb Harris, 5, his mother, Lashon Marshall, 28, and her 32-year-old boyfriend, Aaron Benson, in their Detroit home.
Mar. 16, 2025
A 5-year-old boy in Milwaukee was reported missing on Wednesday. A day later, he was found dead in a dumpster.
Milwaukee police opened a homicide investigation after the boy, Prince McCree, was found dead about a mile away from his home in the city’s Uptown neighborhood, theMilwaukee Journal Sentinelreported. He was found around 9 a.m. on Thursday, approximately 24 hours after he was last seen alive.
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A cause of death is currently under investigation.