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The teen killed in a grisly caught-on-camera stabbing in a North Carolina school gymnasium has been identified by his loved ones as a sports-loving high school freshman — while relatives of the alleged perpetrator insist he acted in self-defense and was bullied. Devlin J. Ferrell, 15, died from a stab wound sustained in the vicious Monday-morning brawl that spilled into the gym of Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, his family confirmed to WRAL News. Ferrell and an unnamed second victim, 16, were struck with a sharp object by a classmate, footage of the incident showed.

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A Memphis man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter over two years after he reportedly shot and killed a man who was taking out the trash after dinner. Court records show 24-year-old Metavious Bishop was first charged with second-degree murder for the July 2021 slaying, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter on October 26, 2023. He was sentenced to 10 years in state prison on Monday. According to the arrest affidavit, on the night of July 8, 2021, officers found 24-year-old Ray Taylor shot to death in...

A Pennsylvania restaurant owner was arrested after he allegedly shot a 15-year-old boy who tried to snatch a tip jar from the counter, according to police. Mohammed Hamdan, 39, allegedly shot the teenager several times on Friday night inside his restaurant, Hook Fish and Chicken in Stowe Township, just north of Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Police Department said. Police had received a report of shots fired around 10 p.m. Moments later, they received another call from the teen’s mother who said her son had been shot several times, according to a police report obtained by WTAE.

A Washington, DC teenager accused of fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy earlier this month allegedly bragged on Instagram about the murder, which his mother watched, according to police. FOX 5 in D.C. reported that 17-year-old Lorenzo Thompson was arrested by Metropolitan Police and charged with second-degree murder as an adult in the fatal Nov. 3 shooting of Niko Estep.

HANFORD, CALIFORNIA: 82-year-old Navy veteran Will Chartrand was stabbed to death yesterday while shopping for a birthday card. You didn’t hear about this story because it doesn’t fit the narrative.

An intense manhunt is underway in Texas for a 19-year-old suspect wanted in a mass shooting at a popular flea market that killed a 10-year-old boy and wounded four others. An arrest warrant has been issued for 19-year-old David Negrete, charging him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the deadly incident at Cole’s Flea Market in Pearland Sunday. “He should be considered armed and dangerous,” officer Chad Rogers, with the Pearland Police Department, said of Negrete. On Monday, cops arrested a pair of 18-year-olds in connection with the shooting, charging Juliana Espiono and Cruz Mesa with...

An 18-year-old former Walmart employee from Maine has been arrested over a Snapchat post that showed him posing with a hunting rifle and ammunition outside his ex-workplace with the caption, “Lewiston part 2.” The baby-faced suspect, identified by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office as Michael Bowden, was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence terrorizing and felony aggravated reckless conduct. Bowden’s selfie showing him brandishing a Savage bolt-action rifle was taken in the parking of the Palmyra Walmart, officials said. “He took a picture of himself in a vehicle in the Walmart parking lot, and in that picture you can see a...

A teen was shot and wounded outside of Sardi’s in Midtown Tuesday night as diners were eating inside the iconic eatery, according to police and law enforcement sources. The gunfire rang out in front of the Theater District restaurant at 234 West 44th Street shortly after 10 p.m., police said. A 16-year-old boy was shot and five young men were taken into custody near the scene, the NYPD said.

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Elijah-Jay Mariano Rivera, a student at Windsor High School in Connecticut, died suddenly on Tuesday after suffering a medical emergency during his team’s football practice, according to local officials. Details regarding the cause of death are not yet known, but the Windsor community is left mourning the loss of the 15-year-old, known to his teammates as “Big Texas,” reports CT Insider. Rivera and his family had just moved to town last June from Texas, “so he could better focus on school and football,” said his mother, Chastity Hernandez. “He was the most kind-hearted boy,” she added. “He was a gentle...

The NYPD has arrested and charged the suspect in the fatal stabbing of Brooklyn community activist Ryan Thoresen Carson. Brian Dowling, 18, was arrested at an apartment in Bedford Stuyvesant on Thursday morning. He has since been charged with murder and is currently being held in a Brooklyn police station. Police were looking for the black Champion sweatshirt he was wearing when they showed up at the apartment and found him today. They were seen removing the sweatshirt in a brown paper bag, and the knife he is said to have used in the attack. It is not far from...

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed and pummeled in a Brooklyn subway station by a group of fellow teenagers who pounced on him after asking if he belonged to a gang, cops said Wednesday. The victim was at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station just after 4 p.m. Tuesday when he crossed paths with the crew of eight youngsters in the passageway heading toward the Nos. 3 and 4 lines, authorities said. “As they are passing, someone in that group of eight individuals asked him a question… if he was a member of a gang,” NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper told...

A New York teen is facing 30 criminal charges for allegedly driving a stolen SUV into a home earlier this month, resulting in a massive gas explosion that displaced multiple residents and sent first responders ducking for cover. The residence in Oneida was decimated by the early-morning Sept. 9 blast, which sent towers of orange flames and ash into the sky and reduced the emergency crews at the scene to flailing rag dolls as they struggled to take cover, body camera footage obtained by NewsChannel 9 shows. Several officers were forced to cower behind a fire truck “while debris fell...

A teenage driver accused of mowing down a retired police chief bragged to cops that he would be back on the streets in less than a month. Jesus Ayala, 18, was arrested hours after he allegedly drove into Andreas Probst, 64, and told officers that he wouldn't be locked up for long. 'You think this juvenile [expletive] is gonna do some [expletive]? I'll be out in 30 days, I'll bet you,' Ayala told Las Vegas cops.

An Ohio teen is facing life in prison after being convicted of murdering her boyfriend and his friend by deliberately driving her car into a brick wall at 100 mph — with a judge calling her “literal hell on wheels.” Mackenzie Shirilla, 19, sobbed in court as she was found guilty of four counts of murder for the July 2022 crash that killed her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, 20, as well as fellow passenger Davion Flanagan, 19, Cleveland.com reported. “This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Nancy Margaret Russo told the court Monday. “She...

A teenager in Philadelphia has been arrested and charged for plotting what authorities have called a “catastrophic terrorist attack.” The 17-year-old boy was arrested by SWAT forces on August 11, following an investigation FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. The teen is accused of being in contact with Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad, an extremist Islamist group affiliated with Al Qaeda. Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad was officially designated as a terrorist organization by the US State Department in 2022. He received instructions from the group on the construction of IEDs and purchased materials used to make explosives as well as...

The teenager who fatally stabbed O’Shae Sibley for dancing at a Brooklyn gas station will be prosecuted on hate crime charges as an adult, officials announced Thursday. Dmitriy Popov was indicted Thursday for second-degree murder as a hate crime for allegedly stabbing Sibley while the professioanal dancer was voguing to a Beyonce song in Coney Island, according to officials and court records. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that the 17-year-old accused killer will be tried as an adult in the youth sector of the Supreme Court. Gonzalez did not name Popov as the murderer, but records show he was...

Fifteen-year-old Rasheed Banks Jr. was arrested Monday in connection with a July 12 attempted carjacking that resulted in the murder of 50-year-old Michael Salerno. Salerno was “gunned down” while trying to ward off three alleged carjackers, 6 ABC reported. All three alleged carjackers were male. CBS Philadelphia noted that Banks was arrested by U.S. Marshals. Phila. Police homicide fugitive Rasheed Banks Jr. has been arrested by the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force and @USMS_Philly in Camden, New Jersey. Banks was wanted for the July 12th carjacking and murder of a 50-year-old man at 12th and Porter in South...