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Cops prevented a raging mob of Harlem locals from attacking a maniac accused of slashing an 11-year-old girl in the head on a spree through Manhattan Friday afternoon — leaving the youngster now afraid to go outside, her distraught mom said. Shaquan Cummings, 30, allegedly preyed on the girl after flying through the 116th Street 6 subway platform around 2:15 p.m., moments after allegedly punching an unsuspecting 43-year-old woman around the street corner, according to sources. The fiend — who has a lengthy rap sheet — knifed the youngster in the back of the head and cut her ear as...

The motorist who allegedly mowed down a pick-up truck driver who slashed his tires during a road rage clash on the Upper East Side has been charged with manslaughter, police said Thursday. Andre Mosby, 26, was driving a 2014 Volkswagen Jetta on East 60th Street near Park Avenue when he and Roberto Velez Alvarez, 54 – driving a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck – got into a smash-up around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The two men started arguing, and the feud quickly escalated, police said.

Police in Moscow, Idaho, tried to calm growing community concerns Wednesday about the killings of four University of Idaho students – even as police said they did not have a suspect in custody and declined to provide the public further information. “We hear you, and we understand your fears,” the Moscow Police Department said in a news release. “We want you to know that we, like you, have been devastated and distressed by these young lives that were cut short needlessly. “We determined early in the investigation that we do not believe there is an ongoing threat for community members....

<p>TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A 41-year-old Maumee woman was arrested Friday for allegedly stabbing a man while he used a urinal.</p><p>According to the Toledo Police Department report, Shahnaz Ali is accused of entering a restroom and stabbing a man with a knife or other sharp object in the buttocks while he was using a urinal at Leroy and Margaret’s Suds and Grub.</p>

A Florida man accused of trying to slash a Walmart employee with scissors now faces federal charges after allegedly threatening President Donald Trump while he was being arrested. Federal court records show Mohammed Omar Haji Mohammed, 36, is charged with making threats against the president during the July 8 altercation. A Secret Service affidavit says Mohammed tried to slash a Walmart employee during a disagreement at the customer service desk, then yelled threats in Arabic that were recorded on body cameras by police who responded. The alleged threats, translated into English by the FBI, include: "We are coming for you...

Police in Los Angeles believe they've caught the man responsible for slashing several strangers in the face with a bladed object while riding past them on a bicycle. Lenrey Briones, 19, was detained Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder after an eighth and ninth attack occurred Monday. Police had been hunting for a suspect for days before Briones was taken in by law enforcement officials. They were able to track him down in a homeless encampment after a parole officer recognized him from surveillance footage of the incidents was released by police on Tuesday. At a press conference on Wednesday...

A 28-year-old New York woman who was slashed in the face on New Years day claims that she was attacked by the same man who was arrested on Wednesday evening for slashing another woman in Chelsea. Nicole Pagliaro, a 28-year-old graphic designer, believes she was the first of 41-year-old Kari Bazemore's two alleged victims this week.

SUNBURY, Pa. — I’ve only murdered bad people — dozens of them — accused Craigslist thrill killer Miranda Barbour said in a jailhouse interview Friday. “When I hit 22 [murders], I stopped counting,” the teen terror said, claiming she began her killing spree as a 12-year-old runaway caught up in a Satanic cult in her home state of Alaska — and just kept on killing. “It was never random,” she said. “When I found out they were bad people, they don’t need to be here anymore.”

The man accused of slashing women's buttocks in Northern Virginia malls has pleaded guilty in a Fairfax County court. The Washington Post reports that Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel admitted to sneaking up on four women and cutting their bottoms with a razor or box cutter.

Police said 40-year-old Johnny Guillen Pimental is in Peruvian police custody, and officials in the U.S. are now working to extradite him, Fairfax County spokesman Jeff Schaney said. It is unknown how long that will take. Pimental is suspected in a series of nine bizarre butt slashings in retail stores last year. The victims were all young women in their teens or 20s. One woman received a 1.5 inch gash July 25 at the Forever 21 store in Fair Oaks mall.

Christopher Neil Bjerkness faces sentencing Nov. 29 in a felony burglary case after a plea agreement was reached Wednesday in St. Louis County District Court. Known as the "Ball Slasher," the 33-year-old Bjerkness originally pleaded not guilty to breaking into the Chester Creek Academy fitness center in May. Bjerkness has several previous convictions for breaking into facilities to slash exercise balls - an action described as a sexual fetish.

<p>Three more women have told police that they may be victims of a man who has attacked young women and teenage girls at Fairfax County shopping malls.</p> <p>The attacker, who authorities said may have targeted nine women since February, comes up behind his victims and uses a box cutter or razor to slash at their buttocks, Fairfax police said. None of the victims suffered serious injuries.</p>

Fairfax County, Va., police released surveillance video of the serial butt slasher Wednesday. The video below shows the man entering the Marshall’s at the Greenbriar Shopping Center June 20, police said. Police now believe one man is responsible for at least six incidents in which a woman in her late teens or early 20s suffered a cut on their behinds while shopping at retail stores and malls. Police hope someone will be able to identify the slasher from the surveillance video and images.

<p>Video of perp at link...a heavy-set Hispanic man in his late 20’s, standing about 5’6”</p> <p>FAIRFAX, Va. - Someone has been slashing women in the buttocks at upscale shopping centers in Northern Virginia. Fairfax County Police report five incidents since February of women being cut by a man who then quickly slips away.</p>

(Balkanalysis.com Security & Intelligence Brief 9) The knife-wielding attacker who terrorized young Macedonian women in the Albanian-majority city of Tetovo during June is not the deranged lunatic as some of the media has portrayed him to be, says a high security services source in Skopje. According to this source, the attacker (allegedly, a young Albanian male from Tetovo) is a known Wahhabi sympathizer. Islamist groups in Tetovo and Skopje with financial and ideological links to Saudi Arabia reportedly paid the man to prowl the streets by night and terrorize young women wearing Western attire not deemed to be sufficiently modest...

(Seoul) - Main opposition leader Park Geun-hye was in stable condition Sunday after an assailant slashed her face with a box cutter on the campaign trail in Seoul a day earlier. Park sustained an 11-cm long cut to her face from ear to jaw that required 60 stitches and two hours of surgery, officials at Yonsei University's Severance Hospital in Seoul said. They predict it will be several months before the Grand National party chairwoman can speak normally again. Grand National Party chairwoman Park Geun-hye reacts after being attacked with a box cutter during a campaign for the local...

A knife-wielding man shouting "I will kill Jews!" attacked a synagogue in downtown Moscow Wednesday, slashing and stabbing at least eight people before the son of a rabbi wrestled him to the ground, officials and eyewitnesses said. Witnesses said the shaven-headed attacker yelled "Heil Hitler! as he aimed at victims' necks, heads or torsos in what appeared to be a well-planned attack. The attack at the Chabad Bronnaya synagogue came amid an increase in racist crimes and hate-group activity in Russia. Jewish leaders said it should send a message to Russian authorities and the public to fight prejudice. "If today's...

Spokesman Says Celebrities Need Prior Approval To Sign Autographs POSTED: 9:20 am CDT July 31, 2005 UPDATED: 9:58 am CDT July 31, 2005 ROSEMONT, Ill. -- Organizers for the National Sports Collectors Convention asked former football star O.J. Simpson to leave the event in suburban Rosemont after showing up to sign autographs. Simpson and the exhibitor that invited him were asked to leave Saturday because neither had sought permission to attend the event, said convention spokesman Bob Ibach. Celebrities must receive prior approval to sign autographs at the show, he said. Exhibitor Justin Communications had invited Simpson to sign memorabilia,...