QUEENS, NY – A “senseless act of violence” as described by officials, resulted in the tragic death of a 31-year-old NYPD officer on Monday evening. Officer Jonathan Diller, a husband and father to a 1-year-old son, was fatally shot during a traffic stop in Queens by a man with a substantial criminal record. Diller, who had served three years on the force, was trying to extract the suspect, Guy Rivera, 34, from a car on …
A couple in Marion County, Florida, has been apprehended and charged with human trafficking after allegedly exploiting three women they had bonded out of jail. Joselito Martinez and Tanya Wurster are now facing charges related to the trafficking of these women between 2019 and 2021. The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation revealed that the victims were forced into prostitution after being provided housing by the couple. The investigation estimates that Martinez and Wurster made over $300,000 …
In a tragic and unexpected turn of events late at night on September 2021, Texas State University junior, Austin Salyer, was shot and killed in his sleep by his neighbor, Gabriel Brown. The life of the promising young student, who was studying criminal justice and military science, tragically ended with the accidental pull of a trigger. Brown had reportedly been on the phone with his father while modifying a gun at approximately midnight, when the …
Mowngly Lucas, 32, has been sentenced to 20 years. His prison was given as a result of sexually assaulting a 59-year-old woman in the early morning of November 18, 2018, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. Lucas approached the woman from behind, put her in a chokehold, and raped her in two different locations before sexually abusing and raping her again in a white commercial van parked on Parkside Avenue. The attack took place …
Jonathan Cox has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Kyle Wright, aged 17. The 18-year-old stabbed Wright in the chest outside a party in in May 2022, following a minor feud between the two groups. Wright passed away despite the attempts of paramedics to administer first aid. In a tribute, his mother described her son as ‘sweet and gentle’ and said that he would never harm anyone. During the 14-day trial at …
A Woman’s Fatal Stabbing Was Streamed on Instagram, Police Say – The New York Times The victim was tied to the car’s steering wheel with jumper cables, and the attack went on for over 15 minutes. In a shocking, live-streamed video, drug user Felon Earl Lee Johnson Jr. (35) killed a woman he was on a full days-long drug binge before committing this heinous act. Not so surprising, police said the killer had been arrested …