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The Seattle Police Department released video of a purse theft and assault and the arrest of a 13-year-old male suspect on Wednesday. The incident happened April 6 in the Westwood Village shopping center in West Seattle. The video shows someone grabbing a woman’s purse inside the Rite Aid pharmacy entrance and running outside. The woman ran after the suspect and confronted him. You can see him dropping her purse, spilling its contents onto the ground. The woman says at that point, the suspect grabbed her shirt and threw her to the ground. She says as she got back up and...

This is the moment a student dragged a fellow classmate to the ground and repeatedly banged her head against the floor in a horrific school fight. The student, who was enrolled at a school in Florida's St. Johns County School District, carried out the brutal attack in February as a crowd students looked on, barking and cheering as the fight ensued. District officials say the school 'swiftly addressed' the incident and took action against the attacker in accordance to the code of conduct's guidelines for level four offences, which are classified as the 'most serious' infractions. While the school refused...

Identical twins from Minnesota are accused of swapping places after one of them, allegedly driving high on a rural highway, rear-ended an Amish horse-drawn carriage and killed two children. Police spent months building the case before announcing charges. But, according to one expert, the damning evidence might not be as strong as it appears. Prosecutors now allege Samantha Jo Petersen was behind the wheel Sept. 25, 2023, when a motor vehicle slammed into a horse-drawn carriage, killing two children and injuring their two siblings. It was not her identical twin sister, Sarah Beth Petersen, who took responsibility at the scene,...

A huge brawl involving at least a dozen people broke out at a baggage claim inside Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Monday night, according to a wild video and police officials. Two people were arrested following the fight in which travelers were seen throwing punches, pulling hair, and rolling on the floor in an area near a baggage claim carousel, according to footage posted to Twitter. The massive scuffle was spurred by an argument between passengers deplaning. The travelers turned to violence in the lower level of terminal 3 shortly after 11 p.m., Chicago police said. Officers arrested Christopher Hampton, 18,...