Category: murder

Fate of Last Ex-Cop Charged in Floyd Murder Lies With Judge

MINNEAPOLIS—The attorney for a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd said in court filings Tuesday that his client is innocent of criminal wrongdoing and should be acquitted on state charges of aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter. But prosecutors argued in their filings that Tou…


US Charges 4 Key Suspects in Killing of Haiti’s President

MIAMI—Four key suspects in the killing of Haiti’s president appeared for the first time in U.S. federal court Wednesday to face accusations that they plotted and participated in his assassination, a day after they were transferred to the United States for prosecution. Haitian-Americans James Solages, Joseph Vincent and Christian Emmanuel Sanon and Colombian citizen Germán…


LIVE NOW: Alex Murdaugh Trial on Murder Charges Continues (Feb. 1)

The murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and youngest son in June 2021, continues at 9:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 1. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …


Alex Murdaugh Trial on Murder Charges Continues (Feb. 1)

The murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and youngest son in June 2021, continues at 9:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 1. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …


Judge Jails Pair for Life for ‘Brutal’ Murder of UK Chinese Pensioner after ‘Cynical Deception’

LONDON—A judge has jailed two men for life for the “brutal” murder of a wealthy British Chinese pensioner who fell for a property scam and he said they had showed a “complete disregard” for her family. Last month Kusai Al-Jundi, 25, and Mohamed El-Abboud, 28, were convicted of murdering Louise Kam, 71, who was last…


Popular Radio Journalist’s Brutal Murder Sparks Outcry in Cameroon 

“I won’t let you be … You just have to kill me …” were Martinez Zogo’s last words on the airwaves of the privately-owned Amplitude FM radio station in Cameroon’s capital of Yaounde on Jan. 17, 2023. In the satirical Embouteillages (Gridlock) daily slot that he was anchoring that fateful day, Zogo denounced an embezzlement…


Suspect in Half Moon Bay Farm Killings Faces 7 Murder Counts

HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—A farmworker accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Chunli Zhao, 66, will make his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney who could…


UK Orders Investigation Into ‘Red Flags Missed’ as Afghan Asylum Seeker Jailed for Murder

An asylum seeker from Afghanistan—who had already killed two people in Serbia—has been jailed for life for a murder in England as the government announced an investigation into “red flags missed” prior to his arrest. Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai—who gave a false age when he arrived in Britain—was found guilty on Monday of the murder of Thomas…


Ghislane Maxwell Drops Bombshell on Cause of Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

Former socialite and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell told Britain’s Talk TV in a jailhouse interview that she believes her former associate and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. Epstein, who was facing multiple charges of sex trafficking of minors, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City…


Ghislane Maxwell on Jeffrey Epstein’s Death: ‘I Believe That He Was Murdered’

Former socialite and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell told Britain’s Talk TV in a jailhouse interview that she believes her former associate and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. Epstein, who was facing multiple charges of sex trafficking of minors, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City…