The Crime Ledger: October 18, 2026

Kolkata: Seven Remanded to Police Custody Over Chorbagan Durga Puja Stampede That Killed 19

Kolkata Police have arrested seven people, including the secretary and vice president of the Chorbagan Sarbajanin Durga Puja committee, after a stampede at the north Kolkata pandal killed at least 19 people on Saturday evening. Officers at Girish Park police station registered a suo motu case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the organisers and others overnight, and the seven were among 14 people detained, The Hindu reported.

Police named the arrested men as committee secretary Raj Kumar Sewda, 48, vice president Santanu Dubey, 55, Biplab Mukherjee, 48, who worked on the bamboo structure, Koushik Saha, 53, and Pintu Dey, 51, who handled crowd control and VIP passes, and private security in-charges Suman Chakraborty, 30, and Rajesh Pal, 29, according to ANI as cited by The Economic Times.

The crush came amid heavy rain on Maha Saptami. A senior officer told PTI that investigators had found “gross mismanagement,” with no clear crowd plan, too few police and private guards, narrow gates and a narrow approach road, and visitors trying to flee through the entrance. Police also obtained video of an announcement telling people to leave because the structure was allegedly about to collapse. The pandal has been sealed, and police asked several other large pujas to close temporarily. More arrests may follow, an officer said.

On Sunday the Bankshall Court sent all seven to police custody until Oct. 28, 10 days rather than the 14 police had asked for, India Today NE and Times Now reported. Defence lawyer MD Yashim Raheman said his clients were visitors who had stepped in to help with the rescue and had no role in organising the puja. Police said 25 people were injured, Times Now reported, and the officer in charge of Girish Park police station has been removed. The state government has ordered a Special Task Force (STF) probe and announced compensation of ₹25 lakh and a government job for one member of each victim’s family. All seven are presumed innocent.

Wichita, Kansas: Driver Released Without Charge After Truck Ploughs Through Youth Soccer Game, Killing Two

Adrian Cole, 6, and Nicholas Schafer, 35, both from McPherson and not related, were killed on Saturday afternoon when a pickup truck drove through a youth soccer game at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, the Wichita Police Department said on Sunday. Ten people were hurt, and an 11th, a 61-year-old woman, went to hospital with medical complications police said were unrelated to the crash. The 34-year-old driver, a woman, was taken into custody and then released.

Wichita police Capt. Aaron Moses said 911 calls began at about 3:25 p.m. Officers found the truck at the west end of the field, with the driver still with it along with two juveniles who had been inside, while bystanders gave first aid to the injured. Five of the hurt are children aged 5 to 9, and the adults are 28 to 68. Moses said injuries ranged from bruises to “extremely severe.” He said the woman had been cooperative and that one of her children was believed to be playing at the complex, though not on that field. Police said on Sunday that she had been parked near the fields before driving the Chevrolet onto one of them.

“We know what happened, but now we’re working very hard to find out why it happened, and we’re not there yet,” Police Chief Joe Sullivan said. Police have interviewed more than 30 witnesses, including the two children in the truck, and are asking for photos and video. After consulting the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office, police released the driver pending toxicology results and a mechanical examination of the vehicle. No charge has been filed, and she has not been named. The city has cancelled all events at the complex until further notice, KMUW reported. She is presumed innocent.

Guatemala City: Brothers Freed for Lack of Evidence After Former Prosecutor Solórzano Foppa Shot Dead at Football Match

Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa, a 43-year-old former prosecutor and former head of Guatemala’s tax authority, was shot dead on Saturday morning during a football match at the Campo Marte sports complex in Zone 5 of Guatemala City. Gustavo Adolfo Aguilar Gamarro, 45, a worker at the national judo federation, was also killed. Investigators consider him a collateral victim, Infobae reported.

Infobae, citing the National Civil Police, said the attack happened at about 9:40 a.m. on a synthetic pitch and that at least 50 spent casings were found. Police stopped two brothers from Senahú, Alta Verapaz, about 10 minutes later on Boulevard San Isidro in Zone 16, after emergency calls described two people in FC Barcelona shirts. Police said a carbine was found hidden in a food delivery backpack. The older brother, 30, served in the army from 2017 to 2019. The brothers told reporters they were delivering food and asked investigators to check the cameras. Prosecutors ran gunshot residue tests on their hands on Saturday afternoon, Emisoras Unidas reported.

Interior Minister Marco Antonio Villeda said ballistic evidence points to at least two attackers and that the gun has not yet been matched to the scene. “We are not saying a priori that they are guilty,” he said. President Bernardo Arévalo condemned the “cowardly murder” and said those who ordered it must also face justice, Al Jazeera reported. Solórzano Foppa led the tax authority from 2016 to 2018 and had recently made public allegations about gangs and a disputed military operation in Zacapa.

On Sunday, after a first-statement hearing held behind closed doors at the Torre de Tribunales, a duty judge ruled falta de mérito (insufficient grounds to link them to the case) and ordered the two brothers freed and their motorcycle and belongings returned, La Hora and República reported. A police spokesman said the force respects the ruling. The Public Ministry said its investigation continues under seal and that it is working with international partners to identify everyone involved. The brothers have not been charged.

Brussels: Six Arrested in Paris, Almería and Belgium Over Killing of Officer Nordine El Talbi

Six suspects from Brussels, five adults and one minor, have been arrested over the killing of police officer Nordine El Talbi, Brussels prosecutor Julien Moinil told a press conference on Sunday. One was caught at a Paris railway station, three were arrested by Spain’s Guardia Civil in Almería, apparently on their way to Morocco, and two were held in Belgium, VRT and BRUZZ reported. Belgium has asked France and Spain to surrender the four held abroad.

El Talbi, 41, a member of the Brussels anti-robbery brigade with more than 15 years on the force, was shot in the head in Jette on Monday night and died shortly afterward. He had gone to scout the spot where a car carjacked in Tubize had been found earlier that evening. Moinil said five of the six suspects had been in that car, in which police later found drugs and three weapons. They are suspected of murder and criminal association, and all are known to prosecutors for drug dealing, according to BRUZZ.

The prosecutor gave no further detail and declined to address the theories that had circulated in the press. All six are presumed innocent.

Chihuahua, Mexico: Former State Prosecutor César Jáuregui Arrested Over CIA Agents in Drug Lab Raid

Chihuahua state police arrested former state attorney general César Gustavo Jáuregui Moreno at 10:20 a.m. on Saturday on La Cantera avenue in Chihuahua City, according to Mexico’s National Registry of Detentions, as reported by El Financiero and López-Dóriga Digital. A state judge had issued a warrant on Friday, in case 3055/2026, for illegal exercise of public service and “coalition,” a crime covering officials who conspire to act against the law.

The case stems from an April raid on a clandestine synthetic drug lab in El Pinal, in the municipality of Morelos, in which state investigators found that U.S. Central Intelligence Agency personnel had taken part without authorisation. On April 19, two CIA agents died when their vehicle went into a ravine, along with Pedro Román Oseguera Cervantes, director of the State Criminal Investigation Agency, and officer Manuel Genaro Méndez Montes, El Financiero reported. The same warrant also covers Guillermo Arturo Zuany Portillo, the office’s former head of strategic operations. His arrest had not been confirmed.

Federal Attorney General Ernestina Godoy said Jáuregui is also accused of treason in matters of national security, as the person mainly responsible for the agents’ illegal entry into Mexico, El País reported. She said there is evidence the CIA officers visited the state investigation agency’s offices several times “without any justification.” At his first appearance, Judge Alberto Simental agreed to a defence request to postpone the hearing because the file ran to eight volumes, and Jáuregui was held at state prison Cereso 1, N+ reported. The hearing resumed on Sunday morning. Norte Digital reported that the judge refused to admit Zuany Portillo’s statement against him because Zuany is himself charged and still sought on a warrant. No ruling on whether to bind him over for trial had been reported by late Sunday afternoon. Jáuregui is presumed innocent.

San Pedro Sula, Honduras: Suspect Sent to Prison 29 Years After Kidnap-Murder of President Maduro’s Son

Honduran police have arrested Marco Antonio Ávila Castellanos on a long-standing kidnapping warrant in the 1997 abduction and killing of Ricardo Ernesto Maduro, son of former president Ricardo Maduro, El Heraldo and La Prensa reported. Agents of the Police Investigations Directorate (DPI) made the arrest in Tegucigalpa on Friday, Oct. 16, and on Saturday he was taken to the Integrated Criminal Justice Center in San Pedro Sula for an initial hearing.

The 25-year-old was kidnapped on April 23, 1997, as he left a supermarket he managed in San Pedro Sula. Armed men intercepted his car and fired on it, and the kidnappers then demanded a large ransom from his family, El Heraldo reported. He was killed. His father later served as president of Honduras.

Police commissioner Edgar Sandoval told Infobae the suspect, a bricklayer, was an alleged member of the Los Bustillo kidnapping gang and was “a fairly strong link in the organisation,” responsible for finding the vehicles and houses where victims were held while ransoms were negotiated. The arrest came under the national police’s Escudo Seguro operation. A duty criminal judge has kept in force the detention order first issued against him in September 1997 and sent him to the prison in El Progreso, Yoro, La Prensa and La Tribuna reported. The defence argued the case had lapsed under the statute of limitations, but the judge cited flight risk, and both papers said he had earlier walked free in another case through an “administrative error.” His initial hearing is set for Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 10 a.m. He is presumed innocent.

Marseille, France: Trial Opens Over 2020 Triple Murder of Amine Kessaci’s Brother Brahim Chabane

Five men go on trial Monday before the Bouches-du-Rhône assize court over a triple murder in late 2020 that included Brahim Chabane, the older brother of anti-drug campaigner Amine Kessaci. The hearings run until Nov. 6 under heavy security, ici and Le Figaro reported. Le Figaro said one of the alleged leaders of the DZ Mafia is among the accused.

Chabane, 22, was shot and then burned in a car set alight in a tunnel under the A55 at Les Pennes-Mirabeau, where investigators found the bodies of two men. A third man’s dismembered body was found about a week later in the boot of a burned car in L’Estaque, Marseille, according to ici. Investigators described the violence as drift “à la mexicaine.”

Five men were arrested within five months. They include Karim Harrat, extradited from Morocco in 2023 and already convicted in other cases, including the 2019 double murder at the Formule 1 hotel in Plan de Campagne, ici reported. Wiretaps allegedly caught one suspect boasting that he felt nothing while cutting up a body. Amine Kessaci took up his campaign after Chabane’s death. His younger brother Mehdi was shot dead in Marseille in November 2025. The five accused are presumed innocent.

Edmonton: Three Charged With First-Degree Murder in Targeted Shooting of Justin Hunt Outside Trades School

Three young men have been charged with first-degree murder in Friday morning’s shooting outside a trades school in north-west Edmonton, Edmonton police said Saturday. Police named the victim as Justin Hunt, 28. He was shot near 160 Street and 118 Avenue at about 8:30 a.m. and died at the scene. An autopsy is set for Monday, CTV News Edmonton reported.

A suspect car was spotted and stopped on Highway 16 with help from Parkland RCMP, and its three occupants were taken into custody. Wol Akuei, 21, John Morris, 20, and John Ocwalla, 19, each face a first-degree murder charge, and Ocwalla is also charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder. Police believe the shooting was targeted.

The homicide unit is asking for dashcam or CCTV video of the car, a dark grey BMW 325i sedan with damage to the rear driver’s side fender and taillight and a licence plate hanging by one screw, taken between 8:15 and 8:45 a.m. Friday along 118 Avenue, Yellowhead Trail and Highway 60. This Ledger reported the shooting and the highway arrests on Oct. 17, before charges and names were released. All three are presumed innocent.

Malamulele, South Africa: Three Arrested Hours After Comedian Skeem Mafenya Stabbed to Death

Three suspects aged 17 to 23 were arrested on Saturday afternoon, hours after Limpopo comedian and content creator Khadziyane Ndivhuwo, known to fans as Skeem Mafenya, was found stabbed to death in Malamulele. He was 20.

Police spokesperson Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba said officers got a report at about 3:35 a.m. on Saturday of a person lying motionless in a yard at Madonsi Boltman B. A resident had heard a knock at the door and, looking through a window, saw a man bleeding heavily. Officers found him on the ground with multiple stab wounds to his upper body, and paramedics declared him dead at the scene.

The arrests followed what police called an intelligence-driven operation in the Malamulele area. The motive is unknown. The three are expected to appear in Malamulele Magistrate’s Court soon on a murder charge. Limpopo police commissioner Lt. Gen. Jan Petrus Scheepers condemned the “senseless killing.” None of the three has been named, and all are presumed innocent.

Ashkelon, Israel: Boy, 17, Stabbed to Death on Herzl Street; Two Arrested, Eight Held for Questioning

A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in Ashkelon shortly before midnight on Saturday, and police have arrested two suspects and detained eight more people for questioning, Haaretz, Ynet and Kan Darom reported on Sunday.

Paramedics from Magen David Adom treated two injured people on Herzl Street and took the boy to Barzilai hospital in serious condition, where he was pronounced dead. A second person suffered light injuries. Kan Darom reported that an axe was found at the scene, according to MDA. Police said initial findings suggest the stabbing grew out of a criminal dispute between offenders involving the boy and the other injured person.

Southern District commander Haim Bublil assigned the murder investigation to the Lachish central unit (YAMAR Lachish). Haaretz, which keeps a count, reported that at least 217 people have been murdered in Israel since the start of the year, at least 178 of them Arab citizens. On Sunday the Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court extended the detention of two suspects, Walla reported. A third suspect, a minor who was stabbed in the brawl and remains in hospital, was not remanded because a required medical certificate arrived late, and a further hearing was expected on Monday. The boy has not been named. The suspects are presumed innocent.

North College Hill, Ohio: Father and Son Indicted for Murder in Shooting Outside Fricker’s

A Hamilton County grand jury has indicted Aaron Peavy, 44, and his son Brian Peavy, 22, on murder charges in the death of Donald Jamar Hales, 45, who was shot outside Fricker’s Bar and Grill on Goodman Avenue in North College Hill on Sept. 27, WCPO and WLWT reported. Both were arrested at their home without incident on Friday evening and taken to the Hamilton County Justice Center.

Prosecutors say Aaron Peavy argued with Hales inside the restaurant, pulled a gun, forced him outside at gunpoint and struck him with the weapon. During the struggle the elder Peavy lost his gun, Hales drew his own, and Brian Peavy picked up his father’s weapon, according to the prosecutor’s account reported by WLWT. Hales’s gun went off as the three wrestled for it, and prosecutors say Brian Peavy then stepped back and fired six rounds, killing Hales. A second man was shot in the arm. A friend of Hales told FOX19 the fight began over trash talk during a football game.

Brian Peavy is indicted on two counts of murder, two of felonious assault and one of abduction. Aaron Peavy faces two counts of murder, four of felonious assault, two of kidnapping, two of abduction, and counts of illegal possession of a firearm in a liquor establishment and possessing criminal tools. Both are presumed innocent.

Olfen, Germany: Resident, 72, Held After Knife Attack Kills Woman, 86, in Care Home Cafeteria

A judge at Münster district court has issued an arrest warrant for a 72-year-old resident of the St. Vitus-Stift care home in Olfen. Police say he attacked three women with a knife in the home’s cafeteria at about 7 p.m. on Friday. An 86-year-old resident died at the scene, and two other women, aged 81 and 83, were seriously injured, police and prosecutors said, according to dpa.

He faces one count of manslaughter (Totschlag) and two of attempted manslaughter combined with dangerous bodily harm. The 83-year-old was briefly in a life-threatening condition but has since stabilised, police said. The suspect, a German who according to dpa uses a wheelchair, was arrested without resistance and is expected to be held in a prison hospital.

A homicide squad is investigating. The motive and the man’s relationship to the three women remain unclear, and police and prosecutors have not commented on a tabloid report that he felt bullied. He is presumed innocent.

Lucknow, India: Fugitive Model Shraddha Dubey Denies Killing Shiva Sharma as Reward Doubles

Model and influencer Shraddha Dubey, the main accused in the death of Lucknow businessman Shiva Sharma, spoke to the media for the first time on Sunday and denied killing him, saying he jumped from a fourth-floor building in front of her, Dainik Bhaskar English reported. “I did not kill Shiva. All the allegations are baseless,” she said, adding that CCTV footage would prove her innocence.

Shortly before, police raised the reward for information on Dubey, her sister Rashmi and their driver from ₹25,000 to ₹50,000 each, Bhaskar reported. All three have been on the run for nine days. Ten police teams are searching. She has filed an application to surrender before a Lucknow court. The Hindustan Times reported that police are tracking three Indian mobile numbers and one Nepali number and that leads into Nepal have repeatedly gone cold. In one instance she reportedly left a suspected safe house in Nepal about four hours before police arrived. “We are in regular touch with Nepal police who is helping us in the search,” said DCP (Central) Vikrant Vir.

Separately, a court in Saharanpur has summoned Dubey to appear on Oct. 30 in a cyber crime case involving cheating and IT Act charges, Bhaskar reported. She is presumed innocent.

Puebla, Mexico: Boy, 2, Killed in Gunmen’s Attack on Father; Two Men Detained

A boy aged 2 years and 8 months died on Saturday after being shot during an attack on his father in San Baltazar Tetela, an outlying district of Puebla city, and two men have been detained, La Jornada de Oriente reported. The boy survived the initial shooting but died that morning at the Hospital General del Sur.

Initial inquiries indicate the attack was aimed at the boy’s father, Jonathan, 40, who survived. El Congresista reported that the boy was in his father’s arms when two men on a motorcycle opened fire before dawn at the junction of Avenida Independencia and Adolfo López Mateos. No motive has been officially established.

Municipal and state police searched the area and caught the two suspects in nearby San Pedro Zacachimalpa. They were identified as Steven “N,” 18, and a 22-year-old named Hugo “N.” The state prosecutor’s office is gathering ballistic and witness evidence. Both are presumed innocent.

Little Rock, Arkansas: Wounded Man, 25, Charged as Second Suspect in Circle K Shooting That Killed Two

Little Rock police have charged Braxton Flowers, 25, with capital murder and first-degree murder in Thursday’s shooting at the Circle K at 6201 Colonel Glenn Road that killed two people. Flowers was one of four people wounded and was arrested without incident, KATV and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

James Parker, 74, of Mansfield, Texas, and Ladontae Wilburn, 19, were killed. Shortly before 5:15 p.m., at least four people opened fire during a dispute that a witness said was over a broken cellphone, according to a probable cause letter by Detective Chase Street cited by the Democrat-Gazette. Surveillance video showed Ladontae Wilburn walk into the store holding a handgun with a drum magazine, the letter says. Flowers, Tamayra Woods, 22, Kemo Jones, 25, and Tedarien Mitchell, 22, were taken to hospital in critical condition.

Ladontae Wilburn’s twin brother, Kavontae Wilburn, pleaded not guilty in Little Rock District Court on Friday to two counts of capital murder and a charge under the state’s Uniform Machine Gun Act. Both men are presumed innocent.

Schagen, Netherlands: Man, 36, Arrested After Chase as Man, 81, Dies Following Home Robbery

Dutch police arrested a 36-year-old man after a chase on Friday night when an 81-year-old man died following a violent robbery at his home in Schagen, North Holland, NOS and NH Nieuws reported.

The robbery happened at about 11:15 p.m. Officers found the resident seriously injured inside, and he died in hospital soon after. The suspect had fled by car. Police chased the car and boxed it in on the N194, and the man ran off on foot before he was caught on the Obdammerdijk in Obdam, according to NH Nieuws. He has no fixed address.

Police say they are still investigating exactly what happened inside the home and are asking witnesses and anyone with camera footage of the robbery or the chase to come forward. Neither man has been named. The suspect is presumed innocent.

Rosario, Argentina: Man Held for Femicide of Natalia Giménez as Prosecutors Tie Case to Prison-Run Loan Ring

A judge in Rosario has ordered Paulo Alejandro Álvarez held in pretrial detention, accused of the femicide of Natalia Andrea Giménez, 35, who was killed in her second-floor flat in the Tablada neighbourhood in the early hours of Sept. 26, Infobae and Desarrollo Zonal reported. Judge Federico Rébola ruled at a hearing on Friday, Oct. 16, at the Centro de Justicia Penal.

Prosecutor Paula Barros of the special unit for highly harmful violence alleges Álvarez arrived by bicycle with a backpack and a blue motorcycle helmet, chained the bike to a post at about 5:57 a.m. and walked to the building. Prosecutors say he beat and stabbed her, and that some wounds were inflicted while she was still alive, which supports the charge of femicide with cruelty and treachery. The autopsy found she died of craniofacial and neck trauma, stab wounds and blood loss, Infobae reported. Her children found her body that evening. Cameras traced the suspect to a house in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, where he was arrested on Oct. 10.

The motive is still under analysis. The judge also jailed Germán Ángel “Pelado” Carrizo and Stela Maris Palacio for six months on charges of habitual aggravated usury. Prosecutors say they ran a high-interest lending operation in which Giménez owed money, with Carrizo allegedly running it from Penitentiary Unit No. 6. All three are presumed innocent.

Namutumba, Uganda: Man, 25, Arrested Over Beheading of Three-Year-Old Stepbrother

Police in Namutumba district have arrested Halidi Zibwa, 25, on suspicion of killing his three-year-old stepbrother, Junior Tiba, who was found beheaded on Friday morning, Oct. 16, in Mpumiro parish, Bulange sub-county, New Vision and the Daily Monitor reported.

Busoga East police spokesperson Michael Kasadha said the boy’s mother, Joan Mukoda, was harvesting groundnuts in a garden at about 9 a.m. with her son when Zibwa came and took the child, saying he wanted to play with him, and then disappeared. When he did not come back, she began searching and found her son dead. “She was hoodwinked under the guise of playing with the little one, not knowing that he was on a deadly mission,” Kasadha said.

Her alarm drew residents, who caught Zibwa. Police arrived in time to rescue him from a mob trying to lynch him, the Monitor reported. New Vision said preliminary findings describe him as a drug user and that police had not yet found the object used. He is presumed innocent.

Beaumont, Texas: Man, 65, Charged With Murdering Kandace Washington, 32, Tells Camera It Was an “Accident”

Beaumont police have arrested Patrick Brouchet, 65, on a murder charge in the shooting death of Kandace Washington, 32, KFDM reported. Officer Rodrick Williams said police were called to a shooting on North 10th Street at about 9 p.m. Saturday, found Washington dead at the scene and made contact with Brouchet, who was arrested.

As officers walked him to a patrol car at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday for the ride to jail, Brouchet told a KFDM crew that he shot Washington, calling it an accident and saying he was deeply sorry. He said the two “were involved in a relationship.” Asked whether he was claiming he thought she was an intruder, he said, “Yes, there was an intruder issue,” then said he wanted to talk with his attorney.

Police have not described the circumstances further, and the investigation is ongoing. A judge set his bond at $1 million on Sunday morning, with home confinement and GPS monitoring among the conditions, KFDM reported. Brouchet is presumed innocent.

Mataporquera, Spain: Neighbour Jailed Without Bail Over Machete Killings of Two Stepbrothers

A duty judge in Reinosa on Sunday ordered a 52-year-old man held in prison without bail over the deaths of two stepbrothers, aged 24 and 26, who were attacked with a bladed weapon in Mataporquera, Cantabria, early Friday. The man declined to testify, and the court opened proceedings for two alleged homicides, judicial sources told EFE, as reported by Cadena SER.

Police received several calls a little after 4 a.m. on Friday about a fight in the village. One victim died at the entrance to his home. The other was found in the street still alive and died at Tres Mares Hospital in Reinosa. The Guardia Civil said there had been an argument between the men and their neighbour the previous afternoon. Officers arrested the suspect at his home at 8:30 a.m. with judicial authorisation and found a blade with traces of blood.

El Diario Montañés reported that the victims’ family says the dispute began when the man allegedly attacked their five-year-old nephew on Thursday afternoon. Government delegate Pedro Casares said the suspect had numerous prior records and complaints. He is presumed innocent. This Ledger first reported the killings on Oct. 16.

Durgapur, Bangladesh: Nephew of Alleged Hitman Jailed Over Shooting of Journalist Alif Fakir

A Netrokona court on Sunday sent a 22-year-old man to jail in the killing of journalist Lutfuzzaman Fakir Alif, who was shot dead in Durgapur on the night of Oct. 15, and set Monday to hear a police request to hold him for seven days of questioning, The Daily Star reported.

Police arrested the man in Durgapur overnight. Durgapur police chief Khondokar Shaker Ahmed said he is the nephew of the prime suspect, whom police describe as a professional killer, and that officers had information that the gunman’s firearms were kept in his custody. Police said he was present at the shooting, had a bag of firearms when he was arrested and admitted this in initial questioning.

Alif, 40, was Netrokona correspondent for Ruposhi Bangla TV and ran a Facebook page called “Detective Article” about irregularities and crime, according to UNB as published by The Financial Express. Police found five bullet wounds, including to his head, neck and chest. His widow filed a murder case against seven or eight unidentified people the next day. The arrested man is presumed innocent.

Escuinapa, Mexico: Two More Arrested in Femicide of Stylist Renata at Beauty Salon

Sinaloa’s state prosecutor’s office has served arrest warrants for aggravated femicide on Carlos Omar “N,” 36, and Luis David “N,” 27, over the killing of Renata “N,” a stylist found dead on Monday, Oct. 12, inside a beauty salon in central Escuinapa, the office said on Saturday, Los Noticieristas and Noroeste reported. It is the second and third arrest in the case. A first warrant was served on another man on Oct. 15.

Investigation police from the southern zone and the state’s special arrests unit carried out the warrants. Noroeste reported that the three men were already in custody, having been caught on Oct. 12 after a chase by police and soldiers through the Pueblo Nuevo neighbourhood of Escuinapa while riding motorcycles armed. One motorcycle had been reported stolen, and officers seized two 9mm pistols, two magazines and 18 rounds.

The two men have been placed before the southern region’s control judge, who will decide their legal status. Prosecutors have not described a motive. All three are presumed innocent.

Garland, Texas: Man, 31, Charged With Murder After Pool Game Argument Ends in Parking Lot Shooting

Ezequiel Hernandez, 31, has been charged with murder after a man was shot dead outside a business in the 500 block of West Oates Road in Garland at about 2 a.m. Saturday, Garland police said.

Police said the two men had argued inside the business earlier that night. After it closed, investigators believe Hernandez shot the man in the parking lot and drove off in a white Ford F-250. Garland Fire Department paramedics responded, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives found Hernandez and the pickup in Mesquite, and he was booked into the Garland Detention Center. No bond had been set as of Saturday afternoon.

Police have not released the victim’s name. Jeremy Ramos told NBC 5 the man killed was his older brother, Carlos, a father and uncle who had recently moved back from New Jersey. “Taking someone’s life for a game of pool, that’s senseless,” Ramos said. Police have not said what the argument was about. Hernandez is presumed innocent.

Holyhead, Wales: Man, 33, Arrested on Suspicion of Murder After Man, 53, Found Dead in Flat

North Wales Police are treating the death of a 53-year-old man in Holyhead, Anglesey, as murder, and a 33-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder remained in custody on Sunday, Wales Online and BBC News reported. Detectives have been given extra time to question him.

Officers were called to a block of flats on London Road, near Holyhead port, at 2:42 a.m. on Saturday after an alert from the Welsh Ambulance Service. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Forensic teams worked at the flats through Saturday as officers went house to house.

Police confirmed on Saturday that a man had been detained but only said on Sunday that the arrest was on suspicion of murder. “Officers remain at the address whilst our inquiries continue,” Det. Chief Insp. Richard Sidney said. Neither man has been named. The arrested man is presumed innocent.

Teresina, Brazil: Two Teens Held After Confessing to Killing of Hydhino Davy, 12

A court in Teresina has ordered two teenagers held in provisional juvenile detention after they confessed to taking part in the killing of Hydhino Davy Gomes Lima, a 12-year-old boy whose dismembered body was found on Saturday morning in the Samapi neighbourhood on the city’s east side, GP1 reported. Hydhino had been missing since Tuesday, Oct. 13, and investigators believe he was killed in the early hours of that day.

The two walked into the city’s Central de Flagrantes on Friday, saying they had received death threats. Questioned there, they confessed to involvement in the beating death of Joel Araújo Lustosa in Samapi on Sept. 12, according to GP1 and NC News. While they were being interviewed, police got word of where Hydhino’s body was. Questioned again, they confessed to involvement in his death as well.

According to their statements, the boy was killed over an alleged theft from a relative of one of the teens and over disputes among the group, GP1 reported. Delegado Genival Vilela of the homicide department (DHPP) said their accounts helped link the two killings. Police are investigating whether anyone else was involved. The teens, who are minors, have not been named and are presumed innocent.

Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Two Suspects Who Fled to South Korea Returned Over Fatal Beating at Car Dealership

Two men who allegedly fled to South Korea after a fatal assault at a used-car dealership in Kaohsiung’s Nanzih District were arrested on Saturday when they landed at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Kaohsiung police said Sunday, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency. South Korean police caught them after a request from Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau.

The two are the dealership’s 25-year-old owner, surnamed Lin, who investigators suspect orchestrated the attack, and a 23-year-old employee surnamed Liu, suspected of joining in the beating. Both deny wrongdoing. Police had questioned and released them on Oct. 1. They flew to South Korea on Oct. 2, and prosecutors then issued warrants.

The case surfaced on Sept. 30, when a 22-year-old coworker surnamed Mu called police to say he had accidentally beaten a colleague to death and then drove the body to the Nanzih precinct and turned himself in. Prosecutors allege Mu, Liu and others beat the victim, surnamed Chang, at about 1 a.m. that day with hot-melt glue sticks and clubs. Mu told police it stemmed from NT$100,000 (about US$3,079) Chang allegedly owed. Mu and three others are detained on suspicion of murder, and a juvenile has been referred to juvenile court. All are presumed innocent.

Detroit: Man, 18, Denied Bond on Murder Charge in Drive-By That Killed Kayliah Embery, 16

Jarek Sneed, 18, of Oak Park, Michigan, was denied bond at his arraignment on Saturday on charges including first-degree premeditated murder in a drive-by shooting that killed 16-year-old Kayliah Embery and wounded a 19-year-old man on Detroit’s east side, police and online court records show, CBS News Detroit reported.

Officers were called to the 4700 block of Chalmers Street at about 6:49 p.m. Tuesday. Investigators said Embery, the 19-year-old and two others were sitting in a Jeep when someone in a passing sedan opened fire. Embery was hit more than once. The man’s wounds were not life-threatening, and the other two were unhurt. Homicide investigators arrested Sneed on Wednesday after following leads and tips.

He faces 14 counts in all: first-degree premeditated murder, discharge from a vehicle causing death, discharge from a vehicle causing injury, four counts of assault with intent to murder and seven felony firearm counts. A probable cause conference is set for Oct. 26 and an examination for Nov. 2. Sneed is presumed innocent.

Cassano Magnago, Italy: Ex-Partner Investigated for Femicide After Pierina Buffon Dies in Head-On Crash

Prosecutors in Busto Arsizio have upgraded the investigation into the death of Pierina Buffon, 69, from road homicide to femicide. They allege her former partner, Fulvio Ielmini, 73, deliberately steered his Jaguar into the oncoming lane and hit her small car head-on on the Cassano Magnago bypass on Thursday, RaiNews and Il Fatto Quotidiano reported. Prosecutors are also alleging voluntary homicide aggravated by futile motives.

Il Giorno, citing investigators, said Ielmini was doing about 140 km/h at the moment of impact. Carabinieri searched his home overnight and seized documents and electronic devices, including a tablet, his lawyer Angelo Luini confirmed. Il Giorno reported that Buffon’s children had once found a GPS tracker on her car and that a satellite tracking device was seized at Ielmini’s home. Investigators are examining whether he used it to follow her. An autopsy and a crash reconstruction are due in the coming days.

The couple’s eight-year relationship ended in June at Buffon’s choice. Her family says he would not accept it. A stalking complaint was filed at the end of July, and her lawyer sent him two formal warnings in August and September. Ielmini is under guard in hospital in Varese. His lawyer says he insists it was an accident and has raised questions about his mental state. He is presumed innocent.

Santiago, Chile: Son, 42, Detained Over Beating Death of Mother, 72, in Pudahuel

Chile’s Investigations Police (PDI) have detained a 42-year-old man as the alleged killer of his 72-year-old mother, who was found dead in her home in the Ciudad de Los Valles sector of Pudahuel, in Santiago, in the early hours of Sunday, La Tercera and ADN Radio reported.

The woman had injuries caused by a blunt object and died in the house, police said. Subprefect José Cáceres, head of the Metropolitan Homicide Brigade, said detectives examined the scene, canvassed witnesses and pulled security camera footage, which led them to identify her son. He was arrested in the commune of Santiago and will be brought before a court on a charge of parricide.

Details of what happened will be laid out at his arraignment, ADN Radio reported. Neither has been named. He is presumed innocent.

Surat, India: Man, 40, Arrested for Stabbing Mother and Brother to Death Over Shop Rents

Police in Surat arrested a 40-year-old man within hours of the stabbing deaths of his mother, Malleshwari Goduru, and his youngest brother, Raju, at about 7:30 a.m. on Sunday at Sahjanand Society in the city’s Limbayat area, Deputy Commissioner of Police Kanan Desai told reporters, PTI reported via Rediff and The Times of India.

The family, originally from Telangana, had argued for two years over three shops owned by Malleshwari that brought in an estimated Rs 60,000 a month in rent. She lived with Raju and gave him the rental income, which angered her eldest son, Srinivas, who wanted the property and income split equally among the three brothers, police and relatives said. “Meetings were held to resolve the issue. Malleshwari had decided not to distribute the property at this stage,” Desai said.

A murder case has been registered, and the accused, identified by police as Srinivas, is being questioned. He is presumed innocent.

Honolulu: Man, 47, Arrested on Suspicion of Murder in Young Street Stabbing

Honolulu police arrested a 47-year-old man at 4:30 p.m. Saturday on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of a 42-year-old man who was stabbed on Young Street the night before, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Hawaii News Now reported.

Patrol officers were called to an aggravated assault on the 1100 block of Young Street, near the Ward area, at about 8:20 p.m. Friday and found a man with multiple stab wounds. Paramedics took him to an emergency room in critical condition, where he died. The street was closed for hours.

Homicide detectives, helped by the Forensic Video Unit, reviewed hours of surveillance footage and interviewed witnesses to identify the suspect, police said. Charges will be sought through the city prosecutor’s office. Neither man has been named. The suspect is presumed innocent.

Glasgow: Tony Grimes Convicted of Culpable Homicide of Patricia Irvine in Feud Over Missing Watch

Tony Grimes, 43, has been convicted of the culpable homicide of Patricia Irvine, 53, following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow, STV News and the Glasgow Times reported. Irvine suffered an aneurysm after an altercation with Grimes outside her home in Parkhead on May 12, 2024, and died two days later. He will be sentenced next month.

Jurors heard that Grimes blamed Irvine’s son for the disappearance of a watch that had been a gift for his first Father’s Day, and went on to target the young man and his family with threats, including on social media and at their door. The son told police he was left too frightened to walk the streets. Jurors saw CCTV of Grimes attacking him in an East End shop, a charge Grimes pleaded guilty to. The son denied taking the watch.

Grimes is in custody awaiting sentence.

Concepción, Chile: Man Charged in Villarrica Double Femicide Found Dead in El Manzano Prison

Wilson Eduardo Castro Tapia, 41, who was in pretrial detention charged with the September femicide of his partner and her 15-year-old daughter in Villarrica, was found dead on Saturday in the prison hospital of the Biobío Penitentiary Complex, known as El Manzano, in Concepción, Chile’s prison service said.

Gendarmería said staff found him without vital signs. Preliminary inquiries indicate he died by hanging, and there is no initial sign that anyone else was involved, La Tercera reported. Prosecutors have ordered the PDI homicide squad and the Legal Medical Service to establish the cause of death.

The case shocked Chile after prosecutor José Ramírez told the court that Castro Tapia had confessed to his mother shortly before his arrest, saying he had killed his partner with an axe, BioBioChile reported. He had not been tried.

Enugu, Nigeria: Man, 30, Arraigned Over Machete Killing of Girlfriend, 27, After HIV Dispute

The Enugu State Police Command has arraigned Okpara Chibuike Emmanuel, 30, over the alleged murder of his girlfriend, Ugwu Chinyere Rosemary, 27, and the court remanded him in correctional custody, TVC News and The Whistler reported. He was arraigned on Friday, Oct. 16, and police announced it Saturday.

Police spokesperson Daniel Ndukwe said the suspect allegedly killed her in his apartment on Sept. 19 during an argument over which of them had infected the other with HIV. Police allege he struck her head with a pestle, cut her head and neck with a machete and severed her right wrist, The Whistler reported. The wrist and other exhibits were recovered from the apartment. He was arrested on Sept. 21 after being rescued from an angry mob.

The court ordered the case file sent to the Enugu State Attorney-General through the Directorate of Public Prosecutions for legal advice. He is presumed innocent.

Lexington, North Carolina: Wounded Man Arrested at Duke Hospital in Party Shooting That Killed Robert Thomas

Davonte Martese Kind, 25, of Thomasville, has been charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon in the shooting death of Robert Jermaine Thomas, 44, of Salisbury, at a large party in Lexington early Saturday, Lexington police said.

Officers were called to South Talbert Boulevard at about 1:23 a.m. after a fight at the party led to an exchange of gunfire. They gave Thomas emergency aid before he was taken to Lexington Medical Center, where he died. Detectives say Kind left in Thomas’s vehicle, which was later found in Thomasville.

Kind had also been shot and was driven by private vehicle to Duke University Hospital in Durham. He was arrested there at 12:45 p.m. after staff medically cleared him, police said. Investigators are still working out whether anyone else was involved. Bond and court information were not immediately available. Kind is presumed innocent.

Kyiv: Man, 47, Held After Security Guard, 57, Beaten to Death With Metal Pipe on Trukhaniv Island

A Kyiv court has ordered a 47-year-old man held in pretrial detention on suspicion of intentional homicide after a 57-year-old security guard at a sports complex on Trukhaniv Island was beaten to death with a metal pipe, Kyiv police said, according to UA.News.

Police say the man became enraged when a guard refused him entry to a restricted area of the complex. He went to another entrance, where he saw a different guard sitting outside and mistook him for the one who had turned him away. He allegedly grabbed a metal pipe, struck the guard several times in the head and kept hitting him after he fell. The guard died at the scene.

Officers detained the suspect and seized the pipe. He faces up to 15 years in prison under Part 1 of Article 115 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code if convicted. Neither man has been named. He is presumed innocent.

Garça, Brazil: Ex-Husband Arrested After Marilene Pinto Pereira, 40, Shot in the Head on Rural Property

Brazilian police arrested a man in the act on Saturday after his ex-wife, Marilene Pinto Pereira, 40, was shot in the head on a rural property near Garça, in São Paulo state, Marília Notícia and Visão Notícias reported. Police are treating the death as a possible femicide.

Military Police were called at about 12:30 p.m. and found the property’s owner, who allegedly admitted shooting her and claimed she had come at him with a knife, according to the police report cited by Marília Notícia. Officers found Marilene in a music studio on the property with a gunshot wound to the front of her head. A large kitchen knife lay near her body, and a .32 Taurus revolver with one spent round and five live ones was on a piece of furniture in another room. Both were seized for forensic tests.

The couple had been together about 18 years, married in a civil ceremony on Aug. 6 and had since separated. They have two young children and were in dispute over custody, Marília Notícia reported. Visão Notícias said she had been receiving death threats from him and that he persuaded her to go with him to the property. The case went to Marília’s women’s police station. He is presumed innocent.

Satkhira, Bangladesh: Prime Accused Arrested in Mob Beating Death of Wahiduzzaman Shamim

Police have arrested Fazlul Haque Amini, 45, the prime accused in the killing of Wahiduzzaman Shamim, who was beaten to death in Debhata upazila on Oct. 13 after allegations that he had hurt religious sentiments. A joint team from Debhata and Kaliganj police and Special Response Battalion 6 arrested Amini at about 11 p.m. on Saturday at a relative’s house in Faridpur, Kaliganj, The Daily Star and Prothom Alo reported.

Prothom Alo said trouble began after an audio recording of an argument between Shamim and his wife spread on social media, with claims that it contained derogatory remarks about religion. There was an attempt to attack his house, and he was beaten at a local market. Debhata police chief HM Shaheen said Amini had stopped carrying his own phone and was traced through one of several SIM cards he used.

Shamim’s brother filed a murder case on Oct. 15 naming 10 people and 200 to 250 unnamed suspects. Two other named accused, Mokhtar Hossain, 53, and Asadul Mollah, 46, were arrested earlier. Speaking to reporters at the police station, Amini called the death “accidental” and said he had no intention of killing Shamim. He was sent to court on Sunday. All three are presumed innocent.

Savannah, Georgia: Man, 49, Charged With Murder in Domestic Homicide After Woman Found Dead in Home

Savannah police have arrested Charles Miller, 49, and charged him with murder in what they describe as a domestic homicide, WTOC and WJCL reported on Sunday.

Officers were called at about 5 a.m. on Saturday for a report of an unresponsive woman and found her dead inside a residence. Fire and EMS crews pronounced her dead at the scene. After an initial investigation police named Miller as a suspect and asked the public not to approach him but to call 911.

Police have not named the woman, described her relationship to Miller or said how she died. Tips can go to CrimeStoppers at 912-234-2020. Miller is presumed innocent.

Çeşme, Turkey: Four Jailed Over Shooting Death of Pınar Güneş, 28, in Alaçatı

A criminal judgeship of peace in İzmir has ordered four suspects jailed pending trial over the death of Pınar Güneş, 28, who was shot during an argument in the Alaçatı neighbourhood of Çeşme on the night of Oct. 14, Hürriyet and Evrensel reported. A fifth suspect was released under judicial supervision.

Güneş argued with two men for reasons that have not been established, and they opened fire with a pistol, wounding her, the reports said. She was taken by ambulance to Çeşme Alper Çizgenakat State Hospital but could not be saved. The two men fled and were caught by police and gendarmerie in the neighbouring Urla district with the pistol. Three more people were detained as the investigation continued.

The suspect alleged to have fired at Güneş is 17, according to both outlets. He has not been named. All five are presumed innocent.

San Miguel, El Salvador: MS-13 Member “Jochi” Sentenced to 642 Years for 18 Murders

A Salvadoran court has sentenced David Alexander Argueta Argueta, known as “Jochi,” a member of the Usulután program of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), to 642 years in prison for crimes including 18 aggravated homicides, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) said, Diario El Mundo reported. He was sentenced in absentia.

Argueta’s was the longest term handed to 46 gang members tried together for crimes in eastern El Salvador. He was also convicted of belonging to a terrorist organisation, six counts of proposing and conspiring to commit aggravated homicide and one attempted murder, the FGR said.

Prosecutors said the 46 belonged to 29 MS-13 cliques operating across the four eastern departments between 2002 and 2019, and the structure is blamed for 56 aggravated homicides, 44 aggravated extortions, 11 kidnappings and three attempted murders. Among the others sentenced, Marvin Gustavo Munguía Rovira, known as “Lil Lobo,” received 617 years for terrorist organisations, conspiracy to commit aggravated homicide, two aggravated homicides and 25 aggravated extortions.

Lahore, Pakistan: Suspect Arrested in Badami Bagh Headless Body Case, Accused of Framing Stepbrother

Lahore police say they have arrested the alleged killer in the case of a headless body found stuffed in a sack on an empty plot near Usman Chowk in Badami Bagh. They say he left a copy of another man’s national identity card at the scene to point investigators toward him, Minute Mirror and MM News reported.

The victim was Muhammad Shafiq, 56, a father of three from Nowshera Virkan in Gujranwala district who did daily-wage work in Lahore. His son identified him at the morgue. SSP Investigation Muhammad Naveed Khan said the neck had been cut and the body bore signs of torture. The ID card copy in the pocket at first sent the inquiry the wrong way. It belonged to the suspect’s stepbrother, whom police have since cleared.

Police said the suspect was traced through phone technology and informants and led them to the severed head in Muridke. Investigators believe the killing grew out of a property dispute. Police said he confessed under questioning, which is subject to the legal process, and that a charge sheet will be filed. The suspect has not been named and is presumed innocent.

Iqaluit, Nunavut: Man, 21, Charged With Second-Degree Murder in Death of Robert Kipanik

RCMP in Nunavut have charged Qaqasie Aningmiuq, 21, of Iqaluit with second-degree murder in the death of Robert Kipanik, 38, police announced in a social media post on Saturday, CBC News reported.

Officers responded to an altercation in Iqaluit at about 9:55 p.m. on Oct. 6. Kipanik and another person were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. Kipanik died on Oct. 14, the RCMP said. The second person was flown to Ontario for treatment and appears to be in stable condition, police said.

Aningmiuq is scheduled to appear in court in Iqaluit on Nov. 17. Police have not described what led to the altercation. He is presumed innocent.

Airdrie, Scotland: Fatal Accident Inquiry Ordered Into Murder of Daniel Greer by Neighbour on Bail

Scotland’s Crown Office has ordered a discretionary Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of Daniel Greer, 33, who was murdered by his neighbour in Airdrie while the killer was out on bail, the London Evening Standard reported, citing PA. A Crown Office spokesperson said the Lord Advocate considers there are issues around the death “which merit further examination in the public interest.”

Nicholas Henry hit Greer with a shovel and stabbed him nine times in his own front garden on Oct. 17, 2020, then hid his body in Greer’s house, where his father found him two days later. Henry was on bail for another violent attack and had been arrested twice in the preceding months for violent and drug offences but released each time. He had been jailed for 12 years in 2011 for an attack that nearly severed a victim’s hand. He was jailed for a minimum of 21 years for the murder and died in prison in August, aged 49.

Greer’s mother, Amanda, welcomed the inquiry. “It’s not good enough to trust an electronic tag, a fortnightly check in with a social worker or to blame overcrowding prisons,” she said. “Innocent people literally die because of bad decisions and it needs to stop.”

Guayaquil, Ecuador: Woman Charged Over Shooting That Killed Boy, 16, in Taxi Beside His Mother

A woman has been charged in Guayaquil over the killing of a 16-year-old boy who was shot in a taxi beside his mother near their home in the Florida Norte area on Oct. 15, El Comercio reported.

The boy’s mother told investigators that the two ducked when they heard shots and, when she sat up, found her son had been hit. Analysis of surveillance cameras led officers to the suspect, identified as Rosa Abigail M. In a raid on her home they found a motorcycle, two helmets and clothing that investigators believe the attackers used, El Comercio reported.

After a hearing, a judge granted her alternatives to pretrial detention, including regular check-ins and a ban on leaving the country. Investigators are still working to establish her role and identify the gunmen. She is presumed innocent.

St Albans, Melbourne: Man, 31, Charged With Murder After Stabbing Inside Home

A 31-year-old St Albans man has been charged with murder after a 56-year-old man was stabbed inside a home in the Melbourne suburb early Sunday, Nine News and the Herald Sun reported.

Emergency services were called to the house at 12:30 a.m. and found the older man, also from St Albans, with knife wounds. He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition and died. The younger man, who police believe knew the victim, was arrested at the home and questioned by Homicide Squad detectives, according to Nine.

Police announced the murder charge on Sunday night. He is due in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday. Neither man has been named. He is presumed innocent.

Brunswick, Georgia: Five Charged After Shootout at Alleged Drug House Leaves Daequan Lawrence, 19, Dead

Daequan Lawrence, 19, of Brunswick, died on Friday from injuries suffered in an Oct. 12 shooting, and five people have been charged in connection with the shooting, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said, WSB-TV reported.

The GBI says the shooting happened at about 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 12 near Union Street and S Street when a group allegedly tried to rob a home used mainly to sell illegal drugs. A man inside and the group exchanged gunfire. One person was shot in the leg and later released from hospital. Another was airlifted to a regional hospital in critical condition. Lawrence later died of his injuries.

Ziquel Easton, 24, is charged with aggravated assault, burglary, criminal attempt to commit robbery, possession of a firearm during certain crimes and tampering with evidence. A 17-year-old is charged with burglary and attempted robbery. Kassidy Allen, 19, Brianna Scott, 18, and Caleb Thomas, 18, face drug and evidence-tampering charges, and Thomas also faces a firearm count. No one has been charged with murder so far. All five were booked into the Glynn County Jail on Oct. 12, and the GBI expects more arrests. All are presumed innocent.

Mmabatho, South Africa: Two Arrested After Two Men, Both 37, Killed in Separate Village Confrontations

North West police have arrested two suspects after two 37-year-old men were killed in separate incidents in Seweding and Modimola villages outside Mmabatho in the early hours of Saturday, EWN reported. Both suspects are expected to appear in the Mmabatho Magistrates Court on murder charges.

Police said the first killing followed a confrontation after a man allegedly entered a home and assaulted his girlfriend. Her brother allegedly intervened, leading to the fatal altercation. In the second, a 22-year-old suspect allegedly broke a window at a family home in Modimola, a confrontation followed, and the victim was later found with stab wounds.

Police spokesperson Adéle Myburgh said the provincial commissioner, Lt Gen Adams, urged residents to settle disputes without violence and to call police when conflicts escalate. None of those involved has been named. The suspects are presumed innocent.

Entre Ríos, Argentina: Man Wanted for Pando Bank Robbery and a Montevideo Murder Caught at Checkpoint

Argentine police arrested Inti Camilo Cuba Vignolo, 38, at the Brazo Largo checkpoint in Entre Ríos province early Saturday. He is wanted in Uruguay over the armed robbery of the Banco República (BROU) branch in Pando and a homicide in Montevideo, Uruguay’s Interior Ministry said, El Debate and Teledoce reported.

He was a passenger in a private transfer heading from Buenos Aires to Colón. Asked for documents, he had none, tried to run and was quickly subdued, El Debate reported. Uruguay had requested an Interpol blue notice. The ministry said joint work by both countries’ police had established that he planned to enter Uruguay. Officers seized a 9mm Bersa TPR9 pistol, a .38 revolver, about half a kilo of suspected cocaine, seven phones and cash in dollars, Uruguayan pesos and Argentine pesos.

Investigators identify him as the robber who went in unmasked during the August raid on the Pando branch. He was already wanted over a killing on March 18 in Montevideo’s Reducto neighbourhood, Teledoce reported. Both countries are coordinating next steps. He is presumed innocent.

Leeton, NSW: Man, 38, Arrested in Wagga After Woman Allegedly Stabbed in Head and Torso

NSW Police have charged Rodney James Charles Tatt, 38, with eight offences, including wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and intentional choking, after a 42-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed several times in the head and torso with a kitchen knife at a home in Leeton on Thursday evening, ABC News and Region Riverina reported. The charges are domestic violence related.

Police were called at about 6:30 p.m. The man known to the woman had already left. Police allege he drove a Holden ute through the front gate of a nearby home and later rammed another vehicle on Dempsey Road, Yanco, without stopping. No one was hurt in that crash. Paramedics treated the woman, who was flown from Leeton-Narrandera airport to Canberra Hospital in a serious condition, the ABC reported.

He was arrested at about 2:45 p.m. Saturday in the Wagga Wagga suburb of Ashmont and refused bail. He was due before a bail court on Sunday, and the ABC said he is to face Griffith Local Court on Dec. 9. He is presumed innocent.

Durham, North Carolina: Hedgepeth Trial Hears Defendant Was Not on Investigators’ Radar Until 2021 DWI Arrest

Jurors in the trial of Miguel Salguero-Olivares, charged with murder, burglary and rape in the 2012 killing of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth, heard from four new witnesses on Friday, the trial’s 15th day, The 9th Street Journal and ABC11 reported. Testimony from a state crime lab DNA analyst, Erin Ermish, ran into a third day that morning.

Eldis Cordero Ordonez, whose sister is married to the defendant’s uncle, testified through an interpreter that he worked with Salguero-Olivares and his mother at an Outback Steakhouse in Durham in 2010, and that some Outback workers, including relatives, lived at the apartment complex where Hedgepeth was found dead. He said he had previously told investigators he was afraid to testify because the two families know each other. He said the defendant’s mother had called him weeks ago and asked him only “to tell the truth.” Luis Lopez testified that he hosted a cookout in the complex’s picnic area on the night of Sept. 6, 2012, into the morning Hedgepeth was found. He said one guest was a stranger to him but he could not say whether it was the defendant.

State Bureau of Investigation agent Justin Heinrich testified that Salguero-Olivares was not on law enforcement’s radar until his 2021 DWI arrest. He walked jurors through phone records from Hedgepeth and her roommate, Karena Rosario, on the night of her death. ABC11 reported he described the years it took to identify a suspect. Salguero-Olivares is presumed innocent.

Valparaiso, Indiana: Man, 26, Gets 60 Years for Shooting Trayveon Triplett at Apartment

Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Clymer on Friday sentenced Kuran Demetrius Kinley, 26, of Valparaiso, to 60 years for fatally shooting Trayveon Triplett at a Chicago Street apartment on June 2, 2025, the Chicago Tribune reported. “In reality, it is almost, if not, a life sentence,” Clymer said.

Kinley had pleaded guilty in May to murder with an enhancement, criminal recklessness and carrying a handgun. Under a new plea agreement entered Friday, he pleaded guilty only to murder with the enhancement and the other felony counts were dismissed. He still received the maximum 55 years for murder plus five years because he used a gun after a prior felony conviction, a 2020 Level 6 battery plea in Lake County, according to the Tribune.

In open court Kinley answered “correct” when read statements about his guilt. According to a probable cause statement, he lived in the same complex and was upset that Triplett was at the residence at the same time as his child, the Tribune reported.

Santa Rosa, California: Windsor Man Gets 95 Years to Life Under Three Strikes for Fatal Bar Stabbing

Sonoma County Judge Paige Hein on Friday sentenced Braulio Torres Garcia, 39, of Windsor, to one year plus 95 years to life in prison for the 2023 stabbing death of Asante Vandyke of Santa Rosa and assaults on three other people, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said, according to Bay City News via SFGATE.

A jury convicted Garcia in February of second-degree murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors said that in the early hours of Feb. 2, 2023, outside Gary’s at the Belvedere on Mendocino Avenue, he started a fight with Vandyke and stabbed him four times, then stabbed two of Vandyke’s friends and tried to stab a third person who intervened.

The term, 45 years to life for the murder plus two consecutive 25-to-life terms and a year for the knife, was imposed under California’s Three Strikes law because of two prior convictions, including robbery and assault with a firearm on a peace officer in 2008. He had been released early in May 2021 after state sentencing changes, prosecutors said. Richard Ponce, who prosecutors said helped Garcia during the attack, is serving 10 years.

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