Homicide News

10:53 PM EST
1/28/2012 Somali journalist shot dead in MogadishuThe director of independent station Radio Shabelle, Hassan Osman Abdi, was shot dead Saturday in Mogadishu. He is the third Shabelle radio broadcaster to be killed.

Source:AHN Topics:Unrest, Conflicts And War, Conflict, Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide, Economy, Business And Finance, Media, Radio Industry

2:32 PM EST
1/21/2012 Victim in California severed head case identifiedCoroners in California have identified the man whose severed head, hands and feet were discovered this week as 66 year-old Hervey Medellin.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide

9:43 AM EST
1/20/2012 California boy, 10, charged with murder of best friendA 10-year-old is in a juvenile detention center in Southern California on charges that he murdered another child.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide, Human Interest, People, Human Mishap

1:41 PM EST
1/13/2012 Joran van der Sloot sentenced to 28 years for Peru murderJoran van de Sloot was sentenced Friday to 28 years for the murder of a Peruvian woman. The 24-year-old Dutch national confessed Wednesday to the charges of "qualified murder" and simple robbery in the death of Stephany Flores in May 2010. He was the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, but was never charged.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide, Punishment

12:14 PM EST
1/11/2012 Joran van der Sloot pleads guilty to 2010 murder of Peruvian womanJoran van der Sloot entered a guilty plea to murdering Stephany Flores in a Peruvian court on Wednesday. His lawyer said that he hoped that van der Sloot's cooperation, guilty plea and expression of remorse would result in a lighter sentence. He will be sentenced Friday morning.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide, Prosecution

10:49 AM EST
1/9/2012 Dadaab leaders flee after killingsSeveral community leaders among the 463,000 residents of the world's largest refugee complex have left the facility in eastern Kenya, fearing for their safety after the killing of two of their colleagues.

Source:IRIN Topics:Politics, Foreign Aid, Refugee, Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide

7:52 AM EST
1/5/2012 Prosecutors clear young mom who shot intruder deadA young Oklahoma mother was justified in shooting dead an intruder trying to break into her house on New Year’s Eve, according to local prosecutors.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide, Human Interest, People, Human Mishap, Inquiry

7:52 AM EST
1/3/2012 Police looking for couple linked to cross-state crime spreePolice and federal authorities are looking for a couple who allegedly murdered an elderly man and woman over the weekend in Utah and shot a woman during a botched carjacking in Nevada.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide, Police, Investigation, Human Interest, People, Human Mishap

6:33 AM EST
1/3/2012 An unforgiveable sin of being born a girlThe murder of infants, particularly girls, by poverty-stricken parents in Pakistan appears to be on the rise. Late at night two months ago in a village in Pakistan's Punjab Province, the parents of a two-day-old infant girl smothered the child, and then buried her tiny body in a distant field, carefully patting down the soil to hide any signs of digging. The mother cries often and says she still has nightmares about the event.

Source:IRIN Topics:Social Issue, People, Children, Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide

9:42 AM EST
1/2/2012 Manhunt underway for shooter who killed park rangerA massive manhunt is underway in Washington state for a suspected shooter who killed a U.S. Park ranger on New Year’s Day and kept at bay fellow rangers and local deputies trying to save her.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide, Police, Law Enforcement