# The Crime Ledger: October 19, 2026

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- Published: 2026-10-19T19:00:00-04:00
- Author: Mandi Martyr

Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing As of: October 19, 2026 (5:45 p.m. ET) Scope: Monday’s board covers cases reported from Sunday, Oct. 18, through Monday evening, Oct. 19, ET, from police, court and prosecutor statements and newsrooms in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania. A Kenyan judge has convicted Shakahola cult leader Paul Mackenzie and his co-accused of murdering 190 children and one adult, rejecting the claim that the victims chose to starve, with sentencing set for Nov. 6. In Miami, a judge signed a Florida murder warrant for former Cuban leader Raúl Castro over the 1996 shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue planes, a state case running alongside the federal indictment returned in May. In Australia, independent MP Helen Haines was critically injured when an SUV hit her outside her Wangaratta office, and the prime minister said it appeared to be deliberate. Police in Kota pulled three men off a train over shots fired at actor Tiger Shroff’s car in Mumbai, and a Sacramento man who said immigration agents had taken his wife was charged with her murder. In Sydney, a man was remanded after allegedly telling an AI chatbot he would shoot children at a childcare centre. The rest of the board runs from the beheading of an exiled Rwandan critic in Uganda and a trial over the Marseille drug war killings to a woman caught in Vietnam 43 years after escaping a life sentence and a Hamburg cold case made final. Mombasa, Kenya: Shakahola Cult Leader Paul Mackenzie Convicted of 191 Murders Malindi, the coastal town near the Shakahola forest in Kilifi County. Place photo. Photo: Mtl1969 / Wikimedia Commons, public domain Justice Diana Kavedza found self-styled preacher Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and his co-accused guilty on Monday of murdering 190 children and one adult in the Shakahola forest starvation deaths, DW and Kenyans.co.ke reported. The ruling at the Mombasa High Court took more than eight hours to read. “I am satisfied that the prosecution has proved the case,” the judge said, convicting the accused under Section 203 of Kenya’s Penal Code. Sentencing is set for Nov. 6. The court rejected the defense’s claim that the victims chose to fast to death, TRT World reported. The Daily Nation reported that the judge found the accused acted jointly to enforce the fasting regime, and that the deaths came from the unlawful acts and omissions of those who ran and sustained it, not from the unintended results of religious practice. Kavedza ruled that Mackenzie’s Good News International Church “met all the characteristics of an apocalyptic or doomsday cult,” Kenyans.co.ke reported. Most of the victims starved. Prosecutors told the court others died of asphyxia, neck compression and traumatic head injury, and that some children were isolated and denied food while their parents watched, DW reported. The judge also ruled that the exhumations stood even though no forensic archaeologist had been on the team, according to Kenyans.co.ke, which said probation reports are due Oct. 30 and the sentencing hearing opens Nov. 2. Mackenzie was arrested in April 2023, and police went on to find more than 400 bodies in shallow graves near Malindi. DW reported he had been arrested in 2017 and 2019 and released both times, and was charged in January over 52 more bodies found at a nearby village. “This is a very, very important day,” Francis Wanje, 62, who lost eight relatives at Shakahola, including his daughter and two grandchildren, told AFP before the ruling. Sources: DW: Kenya: Cult leader found guilty of murdering 190 children, 1 adult Kenyans.co.ke: Paul Mackenzie, 29 Followers Found Guilty of Deaths of 191 People in Shakahola Tragedy TRT World: TRT World – Kenyan court convicts cult leader Paul Mackenzie over Shakahola massacre Daily Nation: Shakahola verdict: Murder in God’s name Miami: Florida Judge Signs Murder Warrant for Raúl Castro Over 1996 Brothers to the Rescue Shootdown Raúl Castro in July 2012. He was Cuba’s defense minister when the planes were shot down in 1996. Photo: Government.ru / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 A Miami-Dade circuit judge has signed a Florida arrest warrant for former Cuban leader Raúl Castro, 95, accusing him of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the 1996 shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue planes, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced at Florida International University’s law school on Monday, CBS News Miami and WPLG reported. NBC6 reported that the warrant was signed by Judge Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. Cuban military jets shot down the two unarmed Cessna 337s over international waters on Feb. 24, 1996, killing Carlos Costa, 29, Armando Alejandre Jr., 45, Mario de la Peña, 24, and Pablo Morales, 29. Three were U.S. citizens and one was a legal resident. The Miami-based exile group flew to spot rafters fleeing Cuba. “It was not an accident what happened, it was murder,” Uthmeier said. CBS News Miami reported that the court papers say Cuban spies passed flight data and watched the Naval Air Station in Key West, and that the affidavit argues this is enough probable cause to place the conspiracy in Florida. Castro was Cuba’s defense minister at the time. He already faces a federal indictment returned on May 20, which charges him and five pilots with four counts of murder, two counts of destroying aircraft and conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals. U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones stood beside Uthmeier and called the state case a “parallel” prosecution. Castro lives in Cuba, which does not extradite to the United States, and has never answered either case. He is presumed innocent. Sources: CBS News Miami: Former Cuban leader Raúl Castro faces new arrest warrant for Brothers to the Rescue shootdown, officials announce WPLG Local 10: WATCH LIVE: Florida attorney general announces state murder charge against Raúl Castro NBC 6 South Florida: Miami judge signs arrest warrant for Raúl Castro on state charges in Brothers to the Rescue shootdown Wangaratta, Australia: Driver, 43, Arrested After Independent MP Helen Haines Critically Injured by SUV Outside Her Office Helen Haines’s electorate office in Wangaratta, photographed in 2022. Photo: Alison Newman / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Independent federal MP Helen Haines, 65, was critically injured on Monday afternoon when a white Toyota Land Cruiser hit her outside her electorate office on Murphy Street in Wangaratta, northeast of Melbourne, NPR and Anadolu’s A News reported. Victoria Police said the 65-year-old woman was struck at about 3:35 p.m. and taken to hospital with critical injuries. A passerby detained the 43-year-old driver, a man from Tarrawingee, and police arrested him at the scene. “A knife was located by police and seized from inside the Toyota,” police said, adding that they were investigating whether it was an intentional act and did not yet know whether the two knew each other. “This wasn’t an accident. There was a deliberate act, it would appear. We don’t know what the motivation is,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the ABC, and he said the national counterterrorism team was investigating. Haines has represented the Victorian seat of Indi since 2019. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said police recorded more than 1,000 threats against politicians in the 2025-26 financial year. The driver has not been charged and is presumed innocent. Sources: NPR: Australian prime minister says lawmaker critically injured by car is ‘no accident’ A News: Man arrested after Australian MP struck by car, premier says act appears deliberate Mumbai: Three Accused in Tiger Shroff Shooting Handed to Mumbai Police on Transit Remand Kota railway station in Rajasthan, where police took the three men off a train. Photo: Balajijagadesh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Police in Kota, Rajasthan, detained three men on Monday who are accused of firing at actor Tiger Shroff’s car in Mumbai’s Juhu area on Sunday evening, pulling them off the general coach of the Pune-Jaipur Superfast Express when it stopped at 10:17 a.m., Kota Superintendent of Police Tejaswani Gautam said, The New Indian Express and Open reported. Gautam said the men planned to travel to Delhi and slip into Nepal. Mumbai Deputy Commissioner Raj Tilak Roshan said two of the men fired five to six rounds at the actor’s car. Shroff, 36, escaped largely unhurt, but his driver and a bystander were injured, The New Indian Express reported. The shooting, on a busy Sunday evening, was caught on video. Police found the motorcycle used in the attack in Andheri. No weapon was recovered, and police said the motive is not yet known. Later on Monday the three were taken to a judge’s residence in Kota, where Mumbai Police obtained a 48-hour transit remand, and after medical checks at MBS Hospital they were handed to the Mumbai team, Kota Additional Superintendent Subhash Chandra Mishra told reporters, The Times of India reported. The paper said the case was registered under Sections 109(1) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the attempted murder and common intention sections, and Sections 3 and 25 of the Arms Act. Police said one of the men had been in contact with Anil Pandit, an alleged associate of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, which claimed responsibility in an unverified social media post. Police have not said the gang ordered the shooting. The accused are presumed innocent. Sources: The New Indian Express: Tiger Shroff firing: No minor among three accused; motive under probe, say Mumbai Police Open: Tiger Shroff Firing: 3 Shooters Nabbed at Kota Station While Fleeing to Nepal The Times of India: Tiger Shroff firing case: Three accused sent to 48-hour transit remand in Kota, ASP says, ‘They were handed over to the Mumbai Police’ Mundelein, Illinois: Five Adults Found Shot Dead in Wellington Avenue Home Mundelein Village Hall, in the Lake County suburb north of Chicago. Photo: SeymourHolcomb / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Five adults, three men and two women, were found shot to death in several rooms of a house on Wellington Avenue in Mundelein late Sunday, police said, the Chicago Tribune and ABC7 Chicago reported. Officers went to the house at about 11:45 p.m. for a well-being check after a relative of one of the people inside called 911, Deputy Police Chief Rick Wilfenger said. They got in through an unlocked door. Police recovered two handguns inside. The five were members of the same family or in a domestic relationship, though not all of them lived at the house, the Tribune reported. Police said they had no reports of gunshots and no history of calls to the address. Chief Tom Poynor called it “an isolated incident with no threat to the public.” Police have not said who fired the shots or whether anyone else was involved. The Lake County Coroner’s Office is withholding the names for now and scheduled autopsies for Monday, Chief Deputy Coroner Steve Newton told the Lake and McHenry County Scanner. Mundelein detectives, the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force and the coroner are investigating. Sources: Chicago Tribune: Five people found dead inside Mundelein home, police say ABC7 Chicago: 5 found dead inside Mundelein home, police say Lake and McHenry County Scanner: 5 adults found dead from gunshot wounds inside residence in Mundelein Sacramento, California: Husband Who Said ICE Took His Wife Charged With Murder After Her Burned Remains Identified Sacramento, where Gurinder Singh Gill is being held in the county jail. Photo: Quintin Soloviev / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 Gurinder Singh Gill, 28, has been arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on a murder charge in the death of his wife, Jasmine Gill, 30, a registered nurse and mother of an 8-month-old boy, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said, Hindustan Times and The Australia Today reported. He is being held without bail eligibility. Jasmine Gill was last seen at the couple’s Sacramento home on Sept. 30, and a cousin reported her missing on Oct. 4. Deputies said her husband told them Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had taken her into custody while she was checking the mail. When detectives asked ICE, the agency said it had carried out no enforcement action at the home. Detectives learned the couple were divorcing and fighting over custody, and said his account had “several inconsistencies.” Burned human remains found in El Dorado County on Oct. 1 were later identified as hers. Detectives arrested Gill on Wednesday and searched two homes linked to him. No defense lawyer was listed in the court records. He is presumed innocent. Sources: Hindustan Times: Indian-origin man in California, who claimed ICE agents detained his wife, arrested for her murder The Australia Today: Gurinder Singh charged with murder of wife Jasmine after claiming immigration authorities took her Sydney: Man, 29, Remanded After Allegedly Telling AI Chatbot He Would Shoot Children at Hurstville Childcare Centre Memorial Square in Hurstville, in Sydney’s south. Photo: J Bar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 David Lan Thackray, 29, was remanded in custody for a mental health assessment at Sutherland Local Court on Monday, charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend after he allegedly told the AI chatbot Claude he planned to shoot several children at a childcare centre near his home in Hurstville, in Sydney’s south, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Straits Times reported. He was arrested on Sunday morning after Interpol flagged the conversations. A police facts sheet says he told the chatbot he would “go down to the local Westfield right now and shoot up the local daycare,” and referred to Naveed Akram, who is charged with murdering 15 people at the Chanukah by the Sea event at Bondi Beach last December, the Herald reported. Prosecutors said there would be a “catastrophic” outcome if he were released and breached bail. His lawyer, Danilo Rajkovic, said Thackray went on a “stress and frustration-induced tirade” after trying to use Claude’s voice mode to help treat an ear infection, believed he was speaking privately at home and never asked the chatbot to send threats to anyone. “There was no weight behind what he was saying,” Rajkovic said. He is presumed innocent. Sources: The Sydney Morning Herald: Sydney man allegedly discussed plans for childcare mass shooting with AI chatbot The Straits Times: Man arrested after allegedly discussing Sydney childcare mass shooting plans with AI chatbot Aix-en-Provence, France: Accused Deny Everything as Trial Opens in Triple Murder of Brahim Chabane and Two Others The Palais de Justice in Aix-en-Provence. Photo: FrogsLegs71 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Five men went on trial Monday before the Bouches-du-Rhône assize court in Aix-en-Provence over the killings of Réda Khaldi, Nassim Loubani and Brahim Chabane, the older brother of anti-drug campaigner Amine Kessaci, between late December 2020 and early January 2021, 20 Minutes and BFM reported. The bodies of the three men were found burned in and around the north of Marseille. “Je reconnais rien,” one defendant said, as all denied any involvement on the first day, according to BFM. 20 Minutes named the accused as Nadjim Ahamada Mbae, Ahmed Zakaria Bensaci, Malik Kariba, Karim Harrat, known as “Le Rant,” and Amine Oualane, whom it described as a senior figure in the DZ Mafia. All are held in custody and accused of ordering or taking part in the killings. BFM said Brahim had survived two earlier attempts on his life. The court sat under heavy guard: a helicopter circled the old town, streets around the Palais Monclar were sealed and 11 hooded police officers stood in the dock, BFM reported. Amine Kessaci, 23, a Marseille deputy mayor and civil party, arrived with masked officers and his mother. “It is not about vengeance but justice, after six years of fighting,” he said. His younger brother Mehdi, 20, who had no link to the drug trade, was shot dead in Marseille in November 2025. The hearings are set to last about three weeks. The accused are presumed innocent. Sources: BFM: Face à la famille Kessaci, les accusés nient en bloc lors de leur procès du triple narchomicide perpétré en 2020 à Aix-en-Provence 20 Minutes: Après « six années de combat », le procès du triple assassinat s’ouvre à Aix Mpigi, Uganda: Exiled Critic of Rwanda’s Kagame Found Beheaded; Head Still Missing Mpigi District, west of Kampala. Photo: Аны652 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Ugandan police have opened a murder investigation after the headless body of Robert Kabera, 50, a former Rwandan army sergeant major and outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame, was found on Saturday morning, Oct. 17, in Luwala village, Kammengo sub-county, Mpigi District, outside Kampala, BBC News and Nile Post reported. “We recovered the body minus the head,” police spokesman Kituuma Rusoke said on Monday, adding that relatives identified him and that the head had not been found. Investigators believe he was killed during the night of Oct. 16 or the early hours of Oct. 17. His family told the BBC he had gone to inspect a construction site about 45 kilometres outside Kampala. Kabera fled Rwanda after being accused of sexual assault, which he denied, and sought asylum in Uganda, citing political persecution. He had built a following as a musician and YouTuber, with more than 144,000 subscribers and over 800 videos, many critical of Kagame. The Rwandan government has not commented. His widow, Jeanne d’Arc Rwigema Uwizeye, told BBC Great Lakes she fears for the family’s safety. No arrest has been announced. Sources: BBC News: Robert Kabera: Critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame found beheaded in Uganda Nile Post: Police Break Silence on Murder of Rwandan Dissident Beheaded in Mpigi Cambridge, England: Anthony Williams Admits Wounding 12 in Huntingdon Train Stabbings but Denies Attempted Murder Huntingdon railway station, where the train made an unscheduled stop. Photo: Bikeboy / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Anthony Williams, 33, pleaded guilty at Cambridge Crown Court on Monday to 12 counts of wounding with intent and two of attempting to wound with intent over a mass stabbing on a Doncaster-to-London train near Huntingdon last November and earlier attacks in Peterborough and London, BBC News and The Independent reported. He denies 14 counts of attempted murder and is due to stand trial next week. Passengers and staff were stabbed on the 18:25 service on Saturday, Nov. 1, after it left Peterborough, forcing an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon. Williams, who appeared by video link from Rampton Hospital in Nottinghamshire, has pleaded not guilty to attempting to murder 10 named people on the train. Before Mr Justice Calver, he also admitted affray at a barber shop in Peterborough and stealing knives from an Asda in Stevenage on Oct. 31, carrying a blade in Peterborough, at Pontoon Dock DLR station in east London and on the train, assaulting a male police officer on Nov. 2, and common assault on a Govia Thameslink train on Nov. 1, the BBC reported. He is presumed innocent of the attempted murder charges. Sources: BBC News: Cambridgeshire train attacker Anthony Williams admits wounding The Independent: Man accused of mass train stabbing admits wounding Seoul: Police Name Kim Seong-woo, 26, Accused of Stabbing Mother-in-Law to Death and Abducting His Wife Songpa Police Station, in the Seoul district where the attack happened. Photo: hyolee2 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Monday released the name, age and mug shot of Kim Seong-woo, 26, also romanised Kim Sung-woo, who is accused of stabbing his mother-in-law to death and abducting his wife in Seoul’s Songpa District, Chosun Biz and Seoul Economic Daily reported. A disclosure review panel found the harm grave, the method cruel and the evidence sufficient. His details will stay on the agency’s website for 30 days. Police say Kim went to his in-laws’ home in Songpa at about 5:38 a.m. on Oct. 11, stabbed his mother-in-law, who was in her 50s, and forced his wife into a vehicle. The mother-in-law was taken to hospital in cardiac arrest and died. Police arrested Kim at about 12:35 p.m. that day on a wooded hillside in Yangyang County, Gangwon Province, where he had fled with his wife. Police are examining whether the killing was premeditated, Chosun Biz reported, because Kim allegedly waited about four hours near the home carrying a weapon. He has been arrested on charges including murder of a lineal ascendant and aggravated unlawful confinement, and police plan to send the case to prosecutors as early as Tuesday. He is presumed innocent. Sources: Chosun Biz: Seoul police name Kim Seong-woo in Songpa mother-in-law murder, abduction case Seoul Economic Daily: Seoul Police Identify Suspect in Mother-in-Law Killing, Wife Abduction Mazatlán, Mexico: Army Arrests “El Talibán” and Four Others Over Murders of 10 Vizsla Silver Mine Workers Concordia, Sinaloa, the municipality where the 10 mine workers were kidnapped in January. Photo: Ruben Narcio Salgado / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 Mexican army special forces and the National Guard have arrested Jesús Abraham “N,” alias “El Talibán,” and four alleged members of a Sinaloa Cartel cell that the Defense Ministry links to the kidnapping and murder of 10 workers from the Canadian mining company Vizsla Silver in Concordia, Sinaloa, on Jan. 23, Politico MX and Revista Espejo reported. The ministry also ties them to the Feb. 3 kidnapping of four tourists from the State of Mexico in Mazatlán. Four men, including a Colombian national, were arrested on Oct. 16 in El Rosario. The ministry said they were part of the security circle of Oscar Luciano “N,” alias “Casco” or “81,” a regional boss of the “Los Chapitos” faction. Jesús Abraham “N” was arrested the next day in Mazatlán with weapons and a vehicle. The ministry described him as a trusted man of Juan Benito “N,” alias “Beny 17,” another regional boss of the faction. Three Mexican Air Force helicopters and Sinaloa state police supported the operations. The ministry has not said what specific role each detainee is accused of playing in the killings. All five are presumed innocent. Sources: Politico MX: Capturan en Sinaloa al ‘Talibán’, vinculado al secuestro de 10 mineros en La Concordia Revista Espejo: Detienen a “El Talibán” y cuatro más; los vinculan con el caso de los mineros de Concordia Ghent, Belgium: Dave De Kock Sentenced to 30 Years Over Death of 4-Year-Old Dean The Palace of Justice in Ghent, where the East Flanders assize court sits. Photo: LaSensibilita / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 The Ghent assize court on Monday sentenced Dave De Kock to 30 years in prison, the maximum the prosecution had sought, over the 2022 death of 4-year-old Dean Verberckmoes, RTBF and Le Soir reported. His former partner, Dutch national Romy Wuytack, 29, received a five-year suspended probationary sentence for possessing and sharing child sexual abuse images. Prosecutors had asked for 18 months in prison for her. A jury on Friday found De Kock guilty of murdering the boy, of kidnapping resulting in death and of possessing child sexual abuse images, and acquitted Wuytack of the kidnapping, RTBF reported. Her probation terms include treatment for alcohol problems and supervision of her relationship with her new partner and the care of their child. Dean had been staying with the couple in Sint-Gillis-Waas, East Flanders. He and De Kock were last seen on Jan. 12, 2022. De Kock was arrested on Jan. 17 in Meerkerk, in the Netherlands, after crossing the border, and the boy’s body was found that day off Neeltje Jans in Zeeland. Dean’s mother, angry and disappointed, called Wuytack’s sentence “a gift,” RTBF reported. Sources: RTBF: Procès de la mort de Dean (4 ans) à la cour d’assises de Gand : peine maximale pour Dave De Kock, Romy Wuytack s’en tire avec du sursis Le Soir: Mort du petit Dean : Dave De Kock condamné à 30 ans de prison Elsipogtog First Nation, New Brunswick: Ottawa Man Charged With First-Degree Murder of Hayven Francis; Woman Charged as Accessory The health centre in Elsipogtog First Nation, New Brunswick. Photo: Verne Equinox / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 Abdel Alcheikh Houri, 27, of Ottawa, has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Hayven Francis, 21, of Elsipogtog First Nation, and a 35-year-old Elsipogtog woman, Kelsey Clair, has been charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder, New Brunswick RCMP said Sunday, CBC News and the Telegraph-Journal reported. RCMP officers were called at about 1:50 a.m. on Oct. 13 to a report of a man shot outside a residence on Ball Park Street in Elsipogtog, about 90 kilometres north of Moncton. They found Francis dead, and the Major Crime Unit ruled the death a homicide. At about 2:35 a.m., police issued an Alert Ready warning to people in the area. Houri was arrested on Friday at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Dubai, then charged and remanded in a Montreal court on Saturday. He will be taken to New Brunswick to appear in Moncton at a later date. Clair was arrested Saturday and appeared by phone in Moncton provincial court on Sunday, with a bail hearing date expected to be set on Tuesday. Both are presumed innocent. Sources: CBC News: Second person charged in Elsipogtog homicide case Telegraph-Journal: Man, woman charged in homicide case: police Tirana, Albania: Military Police Officer Arrested After Two Brothers Shot Dead in Bathore Neighbour Dispute Bathore, in Kamëz municipality on the northern edge of Tirana. Photo: Bledar Beqiri / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Albanian police have arrested a man of about 40 who works for the Military Police after two brothers were shot dead and a third was wounded on Petrela Street in Bathore, on the edge of Tirana, on Monday afternoon, Gazeta Express and Pamfleti reported. Police said a pistol was seized. A 30-year-old man died at the scene. His brothers, aged 48 and 44, were taken to hospital, where the 48-year-old died, police said. The 44-year-old remains under medical care. Police described the motive as a quarrel over trivial reasons. Pamfleti reported that the dispute between the neighbours was over a perimeter wall between their homes and that the suspect used his service weapon. Officers from Police Station No. 5 arrested the suspect at the scene, and Pamfleti reported he made no statement after his arrest. Police identified those involved only by initials. He is presumed innocent. Sources: Gazeta Express: Police provide details on the double murder in Bathore, Tirana, the 40-year-old suspect, a member of the Military Police, is arrested Pamfleti: Details from the double murder in Kamëz, the fight between 3 brothers and the soldier started over a perimeter wall Gainesville, Georgia: Man, 18, Charged With Felony Murder After Navy Veteran, 81, Shot Leaving Walmart on Mobility Scooter Gainesville, in Hall County, northeast Georgia. Photo: Michael Rivera / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Gainesville police have arrested Kamari Nehemiah Tilmuth, 18, and charged him with felony murder, four counts of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during a crime in the death of James McDaniel, 81, of Lula, who was shot in a Walmart parking lot on Shallowford Road on Wednesday night, WSB-TV and Atlanta News First reported. The Hall County SWAT team arrested Tilmuth on Sunday morning while serving a search warrant. Police say a confrontation between two groups of men inside the store spilled into the parking lot, where two teenagers opened fire. McDaniel, who was leaving on his mobility scooter at the other end of the lot, was hit and killed. Police said he had nothing to do with the fight. Police have named Erron Lamar Dorsey, 17, as the second suspect. He is wanted on the same charges and remains at large. McDaniel was a great-grandfather, a Navy veteran and a former postal worker. “My dad was just kind of a fun, loving guy,” his son Ted McDaniel told Atlanta News First. Both suspects are presumed innocent. Sources: WSB-TV: 1 suspect arrested, 2nd on the run after bystander shot, killed in Walmart parking lot Atlanta News First (WBKO): Family mourns 81-year-old veteran shot, killed while leaving Walmart on mobility scooter Ħal Far, Malta: Former Soldier Lorin Scicluna Goes on Trial Over Alleged Racist Killing of Lassana Cisse Ħal Far, in the south of Malta. Photo: Continentaleurope / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Lorin Scicluna, 29, a former Armed Forces of Malta soldier from Paola, went on trial by jury on Monday, accused of murdering Ivorian migrant Lassana Cisse Souleymane in Ħal Far on April 6, 2019, and of attempting to murder three other men, Lovin Malta and TVM News reported. He denies all nine charges. Prosecutors say Cisse was walking along Triq il-Ġebel when three shots were fired from a passing car at about 10:50 p.m., and one hit him in the head, killing him. Two other men walking home from a football match, Mohammed Jallow and Ibrahim Bah, were shot and survived. The prosecution alleges the men were targeted because of the colour of their skin. According to the prosecution, Scicluna and fellow soldier Francesco Fenech stopped at Scicluna’s garage in Paola, where the number plate was removed from his white Toyota Starlet, before driving to Ħal Far. Prosecutors say the gun and ammunition were registered to Scicluna and that he later altered the car’s appearance. CCTV led police to the car. He is also accused over a February 2019 incident in which May Malimi was deliberately hit by a car on the same road and seriously injured. Scicluna is presumed innocent. Sources: Lovin Malta: Former Soldier Goes On Trial Over Alleged Racially Motivated Murder Of Lassana Cisse TVM News: Trial starts against former soldier Lorin Scicluna accused with Lassana Cisse’s murder Quang Ngai, Vietnam: Woman Who Escaped Life Sentence for 1979 Murder Caught After 43 Years Under False Name Quảng Ngãi, the central Vietnamese province whose police made the arrest. Photo: [Tycho] / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Police in Quang Ngai Province arrested Nguyen Thi Tuyet, born in 1957, on Oct. 16 after 43 years on the run from a life sentence for murdering a friend to steal her gold jewelry, and have moved her to the provincial detention centre, Tuoi Tre News reported, citing police. According to case records, in 1979 Tuyet killed her close friend Pham Thi Phuoc, 22, in their home commune to steal a gold necklace and a pair of gold earrings. She was arrested by the police of what was then Nghia Binh Province and sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and robbery. In 1983, she escaped from the Kim Son reform camp in Gia Lai Province, and a warrant was issued. Police say she changed her name to Tran Thi Bich Lien, claimed to have been born in 1962, and settled in Cat Tien 2 Commune in Lam Dong Province, where she married and had children and grandchildren. Her arrest surprised her family and neighbours, the paper reported. Sources: Tuoi Tre News: Vietnamese woman arrested after 43 years on the run for killing friend, stealing gold Mersin, Turkey: Appeals Court Raises Sentence to Aggravated Life for Boyfriend Who Shot Hiranur Aygar, 16 Mersin, on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. Photo: Loba33 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 The 18th Criminal Chamber of the Adana Regional Court of Appeal has sentenced Hüseyin Arda Şark, 20, to aggravated life imprisonment for killing his 16-year-old girlfriend, Hiranur Nilgün Aygar, who was shot in the head in a car in Mersin’s Toroslar district on Aug. 31, 2025, Habertürk and the İhlas News Agency reported. Two co-defendants, Mustafa Zeybek and Nazmi Çetin, each received four months for destroying or hiding evidence. The Mersin 5th High Criminal Court had given Şark ordinary life in May for killing a child with possible intent. The appeals court reheard the case after the family’s lawyers objected and convicted him of intentionally killing a child or a person unable to defend themselves, İHA reported. Şark first told hospital police that Aygar shot herself while he and his friends were out of the car at a market. In a second statement he said he had pressed a pistol he thought was unloaded to her forehead as a joke and pulled the trigger, and that they left her in a wooded area before taking her to Mersin City Hospital, where she died, Habertürk reported. Officers found blood at the site. In court he denied harming her. Her father, Murat Aygar, said the family will take the case to a higher court. Sources: Habertürk: 16 yaşındaki Hiranur’un cinayet sanığına ağırlaştırılmış müebbet – Adana Son Dakika Haberleri İhlas News Agency: 16 yaşındaki Hiranur’un cinayet davasında karar çıktı İhlas Haber Ajansı Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia: Woman Executed for Shooting Her Mother Dead and Trying to Kill Her Sister The Al-Qassim region in central Saudi Arabia. Photo: Tawfiq mohammad / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi woman, Sahar bint Faisal bin Fayyad Al-Hanini Al-Harbi, on Sunday, Oct. 18, for shooting her mother dead and trying to kill her sister in the Al-Qassim region, the Interior Ministry said, Khaleej Times reported. According to the ministry, she murdered her mother, Amal bint Tulaihan bin Sa’noun Al-Harbi, by shooting her and desecrating her body, and attempted to murder her sister. She was convicted after her arrest, the conviction became final after appeal, and the Supreme Court upheld the sentence before a royal order was issued to carry it out. The ministry said the execution was carried out because of “the heinous nature of the crime,” which it called one of the gravest major sins and “a severe act of filial disobedience.” The statement did not say when the killing took place or describe the court proceedings in detail. Sources: Khaleej Times: Saudi woman executed for killing her mother, attempting to murder sister Wellington, New Zealand: Jury Acquits Two Drug Dealers of Murder and Manslaughter in Featherston Supermarket Car Park Shooting Fitzherbert Street in Featherston, in South Wairarapa. Photo: Deano87 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 A jury in the High Court at Wellington has acquitted Pelikani Taukei’aho and Tauave Sue of murder and manslaughter over the death of Doreion Hard, who was shot in the Fresh Choice supermarket car park in Featherston on the afternoon of March 22, RNZ and the NZ Herald reported. Both had pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine. The court heard the pair drove south to sell cocaine to Hard, a deal each stood to make $4,000 from. Hard, who was high on methamphetamine, moved the meeting from Upper Hutt to Featherston and had no intention of paying. He and an associate confronted the two men at gunpoint, took two backpacks of drugs from their car and retreated to a red ute that blocked their exit, the Herald reported. As the ute pulled away, Hard fired a shot, and Taukei’aho emptied his revolver. One bullet hit the ute and fatally wounded Hard. The shots lasted three seconds. The defence said Hard fired first and Taukei’aho was returning fire, while the Crown argued the pair got out of their car to give chase and it was not lawful self-defence. Justice Andru Isac told jurors the men were on trial for what happened in the car park, not for being drug dealers. Sources: NZ Herald: How two dealers’ plans for new drug network led to fatal shooting in supermarket carpark Innsbruck, Austria: Former Classmate Denies Killing Daniela Kammerer as 2005 Cold-Case Murder Trial Opens The regional court in Innsbruck. Photo: Luftschiffhafen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 A 43-year-old man went on trial before a jury at the Innsbruck regional court on Monday, accused of stabbing student Daniela Kammerer to death in the city’s Rapoldipark in the early hours of June 23, 2005, ORF Tirol and Kurier reported. “What was done to her is absolutely cruel. But I did nothing to her,” he told the court. The accused, a former fellow student of Kammerer’s from Lower Austria who now works as a sporting goods manager in Australia, travelled back voluntarily for the trial, ORF reported. He was arrested in 2013 and held for a few weeks, but the case was dropped then for lack of evidence. Prosecutors charged him in May after DNA on a cigarette butt found near the scene, a phone booth, was matched to him. Kammerer, who was almost 20, had been at a student party, as had the accused. A pensioner found her body. She had been stabbed twice, in the chest and back, and the knife was never found. Prosecutor Adelheid Steiner told jurors his DNA was also found under her fingernails, on her bicycle and as “signals” in a trace of her blood at the scene. A forensic expert said eight DNA traces on her body were compared against 37 people, with two matching the accused, Kurier reported. “Only the killer knows why she had to die,” Steiner said. He is presumed innocent. Sources: ORF Tirol: Angeklagter beteuert vor Gericht Unschuld Kurier: Mordfall Daniela Kammerer: „Das ist absolut grausam“ Hamburg: Federal Court Upholds Murder Conviction in 1983 Caravan Killing of Trans Sex Worker Angelique Hammerbrook, the Hamburg district where the caravan stood in 1983. Photo: hh oldman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 Germany’s Federal Court of Justice has rejected the appeal of a 62-year-old man convicted of murdering a trans woman known as Angelique in a caravan in Hamburg’s Hammerbrook district in January 1983, making the verdict final, T-Online reported. The judges found no legal errors to his disadvantage, the court said. The Hamburg Regional Court sentenced the man on May 28, 2026, to six years and three months under juvenile law, because he was 18 at the time. According to the court, Angelique, 41, who offered sex work, approached him near the Reeperbahn on the night of Jan. 10 to 11, 1983, and drove him to her caravan in a car park, where he suddenly fired three shots from a revolver as she sat on a bed. She bled to death at the scene. He fled with a wallet, a savings book and other valuables, which were later found discarded near Hammerbrook S-Bahn station. The court found the bullets came from his revolver, and DNA was taken from a cigarette butt in the car’s ashtray in 2004. A detective reopened the case in 2025, and the man, who has been deaf since birth and has prior convictions, was arrested that November. Murder has had no statute of limitations in Germany since 1979. Sources: T-Online: Mord im Wohnwagen: Hamburger Cold Case ist nach 43 Jahren endlich gelöst Kharkiv, Ukraine: Man, 50, Held After Four-Month Hunt for Knife Killer of Recruitment Officer Freedom Square in central Kharkiv, before the full-scale war. Photo: Russellcunning at en.wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Police in Kharkiv have detained a 50-year-old local man suspected of a June knife attack on two servicemen from the city’s territorial recruitment centre, one of whom died, the Kharkiv regional police said, TSN and Dumka reported. The attack happened on June 25 in the Saltivskyi district while the servicemen were delivering mobilisation notices. A 46-year-old serviceman was stabbed through the heart and died, and his colleague suffered surface cuts to his head and body. The attacker fled. Police said he then moved house and switched off his phone. Investigators watched hundreds of hours of camera footage and checked about 5,000 people who might have been witnesses or involved, Dumka reported. Witnesses described a man in glasses, so detectives canvassed opticians and eye clinics, which led them to the suspect. He was detained during a court-authorised search and, police said, admitted the stabbing under questioning. He has been served notice of suspicion of the premeditated murder of an official performing his duty and of violence against an official. He is presumed innocent. Sources: TSN: Переглянули сотні годин відео та опитали 5 тисяч людей: у Харкові затримали підозрюваного у вбівстві військовослужбовця… Dumka: У Харкові затримали підозрюваного у вбивстві військовослужбовця ТЦК Killybegs, Ireland: James Spendley Gets Life for Baseball Bat Murder of Eddie Friel Killybegs harbour, in County Donegal. Photo: Colin Park / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 James Spendley, 59, of Killybegs, County Donegal, was sentenced to the mandatory term of life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court on Monday for murdering Eddie Friel, a man he had known for years, at Friel’s home in the fishing town in April 2025, RTÉ News and Donegal Live reported. Spendley pleaded guilty shortly before his trial was due to start earlier this month. Mr Justice Paul McDermott passed sentence. Neighbours and family found Friel’s door open on Sunday, April 13, 2025, and discovered his body on the sofa, Det Sgt Grainne McLoone told the court. State Pathologist Dr Heidi Okkers found 35 sharp force injuries, three of them stab wounds, and said he died of multiple blunt force trauma to the head and lower limbs. Gardaí found a baseball bat, knives and a litter picker stained with his blood at the scene. Gardaí learned Spendley had spent part of the previous day with Friel. They found him in bed with blood on his hands, and blood on his shoes and a tobacco pouch matched Friel’s. The court heard Spendley, a musician with bipolar disorder and an alcohol addiction, had been acting erratically and that a sister had warned gardaí and his GP. Friel’s family said they will be “forever haunted” by his death. Sources: RTÉ News: Life in prison for Donegal man over Eddie Friel murder Donegal Live: Man jailed for life following Donegal murder Accrington, England: Muhammad Haarith Jailed for Life for Running Over and Dragging Matthew Weller Accrington town centre, in Lancashire. Photo: Raymond Knapman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Muhammad Haarith, 23, was jailed for life at Preston Crown Court on Monday for murdering Matthew Weller, 44, whom he ran over and dragged beneath his Volkswagen Passat in Accrington town centre on the night of April 22, BBC News and Greatest Hits Radio reported. Judge Robert Altham, the Recorder of Preston, ordered him to serve at least 16 years and five days before he can apply for parole. Haarith had admitted manslaughter but denied murder. A jury convicted him on Friday after a five-day trial. The court heard Weller, who had vulnerabilities, exchanged words with Haarith’s friends, then sat on the front of the stationary car. CCTV showed Haarith brake and then drive off with Weller still on it. Weller fell and went under the car, and the front wheels went over him. He was dragged along the road as the car turned into Birch Street, and the rear wheels went over him before he came free. Haarith drove away, destroyed his phone and hid the Passat, which was later found abandoned on Barden Street, Lancashire Police said. The judge said Weller had suffered a “terrifying, agonising and wholly avoidable death.” His family said he lost his life in a “violent and undignified way.” Sources: BBC News: Man jailed for hit-and-run murder in Accrington town centre Greatest Hits Radio: Driver jailed for life for murder of man in Accrington town centre Manchester: Second Man Arrested in Liverpool Over Stabbing Death of Alisha Samuels Newton Heath, in north Manchester. Photo: Peter McDermott / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 A 26-year-old man has been arrested in Liverpool on suspicion of murdering Alisha Samuels, 26, who was stabbed to death on Dorking Avenue in Newton Heath, Manchester, early Thursday, Greater Manchester Police said, BBC News and the Oldham Times reported. He remains in custody for questioning. Officers were called to reports of a disturbance at about 2 a.m. on Oct. 15 and found Samuels with serious injuries. She was pronounced dead at the scene. A 25-year-old man arrested earlier on suspicion of murder was released on police bail on Friday pending further inquiries. “We have another man in custody, but our investigation is not over,” said Detective Chief Inspector Justin Bryant, the senior investigating officer, adding that teams were working to “locate those we believe were involved.” A GoFundMe page for her family raised more than £13,530 in two days, the Oldham Times reported. Both men are presumed innocent. Sources: BBC News: Second murder arrest in Newton Heath murder probe Oldham Times: Second man arrested on suspicion of murder of Alisha Samuels Holyhead, Wales: Martin Ward, 33, Charged With Murdering His Father Michael in Anglesey Flat Holyhead Town Hall, on Anglesey. Photo: Mark Anderson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Martin Joseph Ward, 33, of Holyhead, appeared at Llandudno Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with murdering his father, Michael Anthony Ward, 53, whose body was found in a flat in the Anglesey town in the early hours of Saturday, BBC News and Wales Online reported. The Welsh Ambulance Service called police to a block of flats shortly after 2:42 a.m. on Oct. 17. Paramedics tried to save Michael Ward, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. His son was arrested, and forensic teams worked at the address for much of the weekend while officers made house-to-house inquiries. Wearing a grey sweatshirt, Ward spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and that he understood the case was being sent to the Crown Court. District Judge Gwyn Jones remanded him in custody to appear at Caernarfon Crown Court on Tuesday. Police have not said how Michael Ward died. His son is presumed innocent. Sources: BBC News: Holyhead man in court charged with murdering father after body found in flat Wales Online: Man accused of murdering his own dad appears in court Stoke-on-Trent, England: Ninth Arrest Over Death of Bradley Whieldon, 19; Boy, 17, Charged Meir, in the south-east of Stoke-on-Trent. Photo: AtticTapestry / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Staffordshire Police have made a ninth arrest in the investigation into the death of Bradley Whieldon, 19, who died at a property on Brookhouse Road in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, on Oct. 9, the Stoke Sentinel reported. A 19-year-old man from Stoke-on-Trent was in custody on Monday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, and an 18-year-old woman was held on suspicion of assisting an offender. Officers were called at about 11:45 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9, and Whieldon was pronounced dead at the scene. Another man was taken to hospital with serious injuries and is in a stable condition. A 17-year-old boy from Hanley, who cannot be named because of his age, has been charged and remanded ahead of an appearance at Stafford Crown Court on Nov. 23, police said. The other people arrested have been bailed with conditions. Police have not said what charge the boy faces. His family described Whieldon, of Abbey Hulton, as “the most kindest, genuine soul anyone could ever meet.” All are presumed innocent. Sources: Stoke Sentinel: Police issue Meir murder probe update as total number of arrests reaches nine Reading, England: Matthew Wilkie Denies Murdering Natalie Clements, 40, in Bracknell; Trial Set for January Reading Crown Court. Photo: Harry Mitchell / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 Matthew Wilkie, 48, of Bracknell, pleaded not guilty at Reading Crown Court on Monday to murdering Natalie Clements, 40, who was found dead at an address in the Birkdale area of Bracknell on the morning of Wednesday, July 15, Bracknell News reported. A post-mortem examination found she died from a head injury. Wilkie, who was charged in July, appeared by video link from custody and spoke only to confirm his name and enter his plea. Judge Amjad Nawaz told him of a further hearing in December. A two-week trial is set to begin at Reading Crown Court on Monday, Jan. 11, 2027, with jurors asked to be available for three weeks as a precaution. Members of Clements’s family were in a full public gallery, the paper reported. Wilkie is presumed innocent. Sources: Bracknell News: Man pleads not guilty to murdering Bracknell woman Madrid: Man Gets 20 Years for Stabbing Partner to Death in Usera Despite Restraining Order Usera, a district in the south of Madrid. Photo: Ibai1984 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 The Madrid Provincial Court has sentenced a man to 20 years and one day in prison for the murder of his partner, whom he stabbed to death in the Usera district in December 2024 while under a court order to stay away from her, 20Minutos and El Debate reported. He received a further six months for breaching the order. The ruling followed a jury’s guilty verdict, which found the aggravating factors of kinship and gender. A Madrid court had issued the protection order on Nov. 22, 2024, barring him from approaching or contacting her. Despite it, the two moved back in together and shared a room in a flat in Usera, the ruling says. In the early hours of Dec. 30, 2024, after she came home, an argument broke out over his jealousy and the fact that she had been out at a party. He picked up a 33-centimetre kitchen knife and stabbed her in several parts of her body, the court found. The case was heard by Section 27 of the court, which specialises in violence against women. Neither outlet named the man or the victim. Sources: 20Minutos: Condenado a 20 años de cárcel por matar a su pareja a cuchilladas en Usera El Debate: Condenado a 20 años de cárcel por matar a su pareja en Usera (Madrid) Almería, Spain: Two Jailed Without Bail Over Shooting Death at Alleged Drug Point in Pescadería Almería, seen with its Alcazaba fortress. Photo: Jebulon / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 A duty judge in Almería on Monday ordered two men held in custody without bail while they are investigated for murder, illegal possession of weapons, coercion and threats in the shooting death of a man in the city’s Pescadería neighbourhood on Friday, the High Court of Justice of Andalusia said, Diario de Almería and El Correo de Andalucía reported. Both used their right not to testify. The man was shot in the neck shortly before 12:23 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, on Calle Blas de Lezo. Investigation sources told EFE that the 9mm short round cut his aorta and that the building linked to the shooting was used as a drug sale point, El Correo reported. Investigators link the killing to drug trafficking. National Police arrested the first suspect on Friday night, hours after the shooting, and the second on Sunday. The killing came 48 hours after another fatal shooting in an industrial estate in the city, which investigators say is not connected. The victim has not been named. Both men are presumed innocent. Sources: Diario de Almería: A prisión sin fianza los dos detenidos por el crimen de Pescadería: investigados por asesinato, armas, coacciones y amenazas El Correo de Andalucía: Prisión sin fianza para los dos detenidos por el asesinato de un hombre a tiros en Almería Valeria del Mar, Argentina: Man Held After Aldana Novik Rojas Beaten to Death; Her Son, 12, Found Her A street in Valeria del Mar, a resort town in Pinamar district on the Buenos Aires coast. Photo: Agus ferrocarril / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Police in Buenos Aires province have arrested Cristian Navarro, 45, accused of beating his partner, Aldana Novik Rojas, 38, to death in her home in the seaside town of Valeria del Mar on Saturday, La Voz and Minutouno reported. He has been charged with homicide aggravated by gender violence. Investigators say he punched her in the face and fractured her skull, causing her death. A neighbour heard arguing and crying from the house between 3 and 5 p.m. Her 12-year-old son, who had been out at a recreational activity, found her body hours later. A young daughter of the accused, who is not Novik Rojas’s child, was in the house and was placed with child protection services. Navarro then phoned his mother and told her “me mandé una cagada,” roughly “I screwed up badly,” and later told a friend where he was hiding, La Voz reported. Bonaerense police found him in an empty lot in the town. He had cut his arms, neck and abdomen with a knife, injuries described as not serious, and is under guard at Pinamar hospital. He is presumed innocent. Sources: La Voz: Femicidio en Valeria del Mar: mató a golpes a su pareja, confesó el crimen y fue detenido Minutouno: Femicidio en Valeria del Mar: asesinó a golpes a su pareja y confesó el crimen a su madre Terni, Italy: Fatiha El Afghani Dies Five Months After Husband’s Hammer Attack on Bus Terni, in Umbria. Photo: Mongolo1984 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Fatiha El Afghani, 44, a Moroccan-born woman attacked with a hammer by her husband on a public bus near Stroncone, outside Terni, on May 9, has died in Terni hospital after five months of treatment, ANSA and PerugiaToday reported. Her husband, factory worker Mohamed El Messaoudi, 42, has been in custody since May. Prosecutors say he waited for her on the bus and struck her at least eight times with a hammer bought shortly before, the price tag of 3.90 euros still attached, ANSA reported. The blows caused irreversible damage. Investigators found the hammer and his torn-off electronic tag near the bus. He fled and was caught three days later, recognised by staff and customers at a bar where he had calmly sat down for breakfast. In April, Terni carabinieri had arrested him for mistreating and injuring his wife at home, and a court ordered him out of the family home, barred him from approaching her and fitted the electronic tag. PerugiaToday reported that the Terni prosecutor’s office will now upgrade the charge to aggravated voluntary homicide, with the preliminary investigation nearly closed. He is presumed innocent. Sources: ANSA: Presa a martellate dal marito sul bus, morta dopo cinque mesi – Notizie PerugiaToday: Umbria, morta la donna presa a martellate dal marito sull’autobus Marcianise, Italy: Two Men Arrested After Boy, 13, Beaten and Stabbed in Shopping Centre Car Park Marcianise, in the province of Caserta. Photo: Gianfranco Vitolo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 Carabinieri have arrested two men from Caivano, aged 20 and 34, on suspicion of aggravated attempted murder after a 13-year-old boy was beaten and stabbed in the car park of the Centro Commerciale Campania in Marcianise on the evening of Oct. 17, Lo Strillone and Fanpage reported. The boy is in intensive care at Santobono children’s hospital in Naples. According to Cronache della Campania, cited by Lo Strillone, the attack began with an argument between the boy and another youngster of his age. The two men then stepped in, surrounded the boy and hit him with kicks and punches before he was stabbed once in the left side of the chest. He was first treated at the emergency room in Frattamaggiore and then rushed to Santobono. Investigators from the Marcianise company identified the two men through witness statements and a reconstruction of the attack. Both, already known to police, were taken to the prison in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Both the ordinary and juvenile prosecutors’ offices were informed, and investigators are still working out each man’s role and the motive. The two are presumed innocent. Sources: Lo Strillone: Tredicenne accoltellato al Centro Commerciale Campania: due arresti per tentato omicidio InVeritas: 13enne accoltellato per un alterco con un coetaneo, arrestati due uomini autori del grave ferimento Ulm, Germany: Autopsy Confirms 84-Year-Old Found in Wiblingen Flat Was Killed Ulm Minster. Wiblingen is a district in the south of the city. Photo: Roman Eisele / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Police and prosecutors in Ulm are investigating the death of an 84-year-old man found in his flat in the Wiblingen district on Oct. 5 as a homicide, after an autopsy supported their suspicion that he did not die of natural causes, the Südwest Presse reported, citing a joint press release. Officers found traces in the flat that pointed to a possible killing, but the authorities have not said what they were. They have also not released the cause of death or said whether they have a suspect. A special investigation team named “Rabe” (raven) has secured further evidence and questioned witnesses. Police said there is no indication of any danger to the public and asked anyone who noticed anything in the area to come forward. Sources: Südwest Presse: Viele Fragen noch offen: 84-Jähriger in Wohnung in Ulm-Wiblingen getötet Osmaniye, Turkey: Ex-Wife Jailed After Bones Found in Garden in 10-Year Disappearance of Mehmet Çabuk Osmaniye, in southern Turkey. Photo: Alp911 / Wikimedia Commons, public domain A duty judge in Osmaniye has ordered İlknur D., 34, held in custody pending trial in the investigation into the suspected killing of her former husband, Mehmet Çabuk, who disappeared in 2016 at the age of 27, the Anadolu Agency reported via Milliyet. Her mother-in-law, Selma D., 69, was released under judicial supervision. The Osmaniye chief prosecutor’s office opened the case after Çabuk’s sister, Aynur Çabuk, appeared on a television programme and said her brother might have been killed by his ex-wife and her husband, İbrahim Ozan D., 35. Police detained the two women in Istanbul and brought them to Osmaniye. İbrahim Ozan D., who is in prison for another offence, told investigators he killed Çabuk and buried him in the garden of his mother’s house in the village of Akyar, Anadolu reported. Gendarmes took him to the site, and an excavator dig under police supervision turned up bones believed to be Çabuk’s. They have been sent to the Forensic Medicine Institute morgue in Adana for examination. All three are presumed innocent. Sources: Milliyet (Anadolu Agency): Osmaniye’de 10 yıl önce kaybolan kişinin cinayete kurban gittiği iddiası Nicosia, Cyprus: Seven Minors Charged in Juvenile Court Over Filmed Beating of 16-Year-Old in Latsia Latsia, a suburb of Nicosia. Photo: Максим Улитин / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 Seven minors were charged before a three-member Juvenile Court on Monday over the beating of a 16-year-old boy in Latsia, a Nicosia suburb, Philenews reported. Six were released on conditions. The fourth defendant stayed in custody pending trial because other criminal cases are pending against him, the paper said. The charges include causing grievous bodily harm and assault causing actual bodily harm. The boy was attacked shortly after 8 p.m. on Oct. 9 after meeting a group of young people. Medical tests found a broken nose and swelling and a haematoma on his face. The attack was filmed, and the video is with police. He gave a statement to Nicosia CID. Nine people were arrested in total. One suspect was released before the case was filed because no charges could be substantiated, Philenews reported, and he is the person heard on the video asking the others to stop hitting the boy all at once. A 21-year-old arrested early on was released on Oct. 15 after investigators found he was not connected. All the accused are minors and are not named. They are presumed innocent. Sources: Philenews: Juvenile court charges seven over filmed beating of Latsia teen Skellefteå, Sweden: One of Two Men Held Over Killing of Man in His 50s Released; Suspicion Remains Skellefteå city hall, in northern Sweden. Photo: Hoodlund / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 A man in his 30s held on suspicion of murder in Skellefteå has been released, police said, while a man in his 40s remains in custody, Norran and Epoch Times Sweden reported. “The suspicions remain for now,” police spokeswoman Marie Andersson told Norran. Police were called to Erikslid in Skellefteå at 9:12 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, after reports of injured people. Three men were there. Two had been attacked with a weapon and were taken to hospital, where one, a man in his 50s, died. The other injured man, in his 40s, was discharged on Saturday and then held along with the man in his 30s. After questioning, the younger man was released. The case is being investigated as murder. No one has been charged, and both men are presumed innocent. Sources: Norran: Efter dådet: En person släppt på fri fot Epoch Times Sweden: En släppt efter misstänkt mord i Skellefteå Kishtwar, India: Father and Son Arrested in Killing of Special Police Officer Found in Forest Pit The Chowgan ground in Kishtwar, in Jammu and Kashmir. Photo: Pradeep Parihar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested Bashir Ahmed Dar and his son Nazir Ahmed Dar, both of Seran Wani in the Trigam area, over the killing of Special Police Officer Bashir Ahmad, 54, whose body was found in a pit in a forest nallah near his home, The New Indian Express and India Today reported. Police said the two are distant relatives of the officer and had been in a long-running land dispute with him, which they suspect was the motive. The officer, posted at the Pedil police post, left the Trigam police picket for home on the morning of Oct. 15 with his service SLR rifle and never arrived. His family reported him missing. Search teams found his body on Oct. 16, with the rifle lying nearby, and police registered a murder case under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Police said questioning of the two men “revealed a conspiracy and motive,” and that the weapon used and the officer’s hidden belongings were recovered on their disclosure. Police have not said how he was killed. The accused are presumed innocent. Sources: The New Indian Express: Father-son duo arrested for murder of SPO in J&K’s Kishtwar district India Today: J&K SPO murder case cracked: Father-son duo arrested, cops hint at land dispute Ara, India: Main Accused in Murder of Retired Customs Officer Arrested at Kolkata Airport The Collectorate pond in Ara, in Bihar’s Bhojpur district. Photo: Yashaswinee Raj / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 A joint team of the Bihar Special Task Force and Bhojpur police on Monday arrested Chandan Singh, the main accused in the killing of retired assistant customs commissioner Ram Kumar Singh, at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Dum Dum, West Bengal, as he tried to flee to Nepal, The New Indian Express reported. “Chandan has been arrested and is being taken to Ara on transit remand,” Bhojpur Superintendent of Police Awadhesh Dixit said. Ram Kumar Singh was attacked by three men on a motorbike as he left home for a morning walk in Ara on Thursday, Oct. 15, and later died, the paper reported. Police suspect the killing was linked to a land dispute. His family alleged that Chandan Singh and his associates had threatened him over a plot of land in a prime location. Another suspect, Manoj Singh, alias Vicky, an Ara-based YouTuber, had already been arrested, Dixit said. Chandan Singh has previously been accused of land grabbing. Police said they would question him once he reaches Ara. Both are presumed innocent. Sources: The New Indian Express: Special police team arrested main accused of retired Commissioner murder at Kolkata airport Mbarara, Uganda: Second Suspect Arrested in Killings of Boy, 13, Grandmother, 76, and Woman in Ibanda and Kazo High Street in Mbarara, where police say the suspect was arrested. Photo: B722N / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Ugandan police have arrested a 28-year-old man at Independence Park in Mbarara City over a series of deadly attacks and robberies in Ibanda and Kazo districts in August that killed three people, police spokesman Kituuma Rusoke said in Kampala on Monday, the Daily Monitor and Pulse Uganda reported. Police said he was arrested on Oct. 15. Margaret Kenguto, 76, and Anthony Kwesiga, 13, died after attackers raided their family home in Ibanda on Aug. 28, Pulse reported. Police also link the suspect to the killing of Rashida Asimwe, who was strangled and robbed in Kazo on Aug. 27. Rusoke said the man allegedly took part in the attacks, in which property was stolen, and admitted involvement in the Ibanda killings, giving information that could help trace others. Police say he worked with another man, known as Kabuto, who was arrested on Oct. 12, and are pursuing other suspected members of the gang. The two outlets spell the suspects’ names differently, so they are not named here. Both are presumed innocent. Sources: Daily Monitor: Police arrest another suspect in Ibanda, Kazo killings Pulse Uganda: Police arrest suspected killer linked to 3 murders in Ibanda, Kazo Garies, South Africa: Police Constable Held Over Death of Girlfriend Farren Maarman, Allegedly Run Over Twice Garies, in Namaqualand in the Northern Cape. Photo: Morné van Rooyen / Wikimedia Commons, Attribution licence A police constable accused of running over his girlfriend, Farren Maarman, 27, twice after an argument in Garies, in the Northern Cape, remains in custody until at least Thursday, Oct. 22, when his case returns to court, the Daily Voice and the Cape Argus reported. Hundreds of residents dressed in black marched in support of her family on Friday, and a petition opposing his release has drawn hundreds of signatures. Springbok police spokesman Captain Ivan Magerman said Garies police opened a culpable homicide case after an incident at about midnight on Oct. 11 on Hoofstraat in Garies, the Cape Argus reported. The officer also faces a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. Residents say he ran her over once and then again. The Daily Voice reported on Monday that the charge has since been upgraded to murder and that the case was postponed for further investigation. Her family and neighbours believe she was killed deliberately. The constable is presumed innocent. Sources: Daily Voice: MURDER WAS THE CASE – Garies mense demands justice after cop allegedly runs over girlfriend Cape Argus: Garies police officer faces culpable homicide charge ‘after driving over her twice’ Hohoe, Ghana: Man, 26, Held Over Death of 2-Year-Old Boy at Wli-Afegame Central Hohoe, in Ghana’s Volta region. Photo: Hugues / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Volta North Regional Police Command has arrested Robert Akator, 26, in connection with the alleged murder of a 2-year-old boy at Wli-Afegame in the Hohoe Municipality, Citi Newsroom and Modern Ghana reported, citing a statement from regional police spokesman Inspector Felix Kwao. Police said a tip-off led them to the boy’s body. The circumstances of his death are still under investigation, and police are working to establish what happened and what part, if any, the suspect played. The child’s body has been taken to a mortuary for preservation and autopsy, which police expect to help establish how he died. Akator remains in police custody. The statement appealed to anyone with information to come forward. Police have not named the boy. The suspect is presumed innocent. Sources: Citi Newsroom: Hohoe: Man, 26, arrested over alleged murder of two-year-old boy at Wli-Afegame Modern Ghana: Police arrest 26-year-old man over alleged murder of two-year-old boy in Hohoe Ogun Waterside, Nigeria: Husband, 56, Held After Wife Dies in Suspected Arson at Their Home Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, where the case is being sent to the state CID. Photo: Vwrho / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 Ogun State police have arrested Madarikan Emehinola, 56, in connection with a suspected arson that killed his 40-year-old wife, Igbagbo Erobe, in the Igbo-Edu area of Ogun Waterside Local Government Area, police spokesman DSP Oluseyi Babaseyi said in a statement on Sunday, Punch and Daily Post reported. The fire was reported at the Abigi divisional police headquarters on Sunday after information that a house had been set on fire, killing the woman. Her body has been taken to a mortuary for a post-mortem examination. The case is being moved to the State Criminal Investigation Department in Eleweran, Abeokuta, for further investigation. Police have not said what evidence links the husband to the fire. He is presumed innocent. Sources: Punch: Wife dies in Ogun house fire, husband arrested Daily Post: Ogun police arrest husband over alleged death of wife in house fire Owerri, Nigeria: Man, 22, Arrested in Suspected Cult Killing of Nnamdi Okeke; Second Suspect Sought Freedom Square in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Photo: FaridhaSL / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Imo State police have arrested Bright Adiene, 22, in connection with the suspected cult-related murder of Nnamdi Okeke in Owerri, police spokesman DSP Henry Okoye said in a statement, Punch and Tribune reported. The killing was reported to police on Saturday, Oct. 17. Okoye said the suspect is in custody and officers are trying to arrest a second man, identified only as Anyima. “Investigations are ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident and identify all those involved,” he said. Commissioner of Police Audu Garba Bosso met area commanders, divisional officers and tactical team leaders on Sunday to review security. Punch reported that the killing came amid renewed violence between rival cult groups in Owerri after a cult leader was killed weeks ago, but said that link could not be independently verified. The suspect is presumed innocent. Sources: Punch: Police arrest man over cult-related killing in Imo Tribune: Imo: Police arrest 22-year-old over suspected cult-related murder Koh Phangan, Thailand: Myanmar Fisherman Pulled From Sea After Allegedly Slashing Crewmate’s Throat Aboard Trawler Thong Sala port on Koh Phangan, in Surat Thani province. Photo: Lindnerix / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Thai marine police have arrested a 29-year-old Myanmar fisherman identified as San, accused of stabbing a fellow crew member and slashing his throat on a fishing boat about 7.43 nautical miles off Koh Phangan in Surat Thani on Saturday, Oct. 17, The Thaiger reported, citing the Central Investigation Bureau. Koh Samui marine police received a distress call from the boat, and officers on patrol boat 641 found the victim, a Myanmar national identified as Tan, bleeding heavily at the stern with a slash wound to his neck and stab wounds to his right shoulder, left arm and back. He was struggling to breathe and was taken to Koh Samui Hospital. Crew members told police through an interpreter that they heard an argument at the back of the boat and saw San attacking Tan with a knife. Another crewman who tried to step in was also assaulted, police said. San fell overboard and tried to swim away still holding the knife, and officers found him in the water beside the vessel. He faces an attempted murder charge and is presumed innocent. Sources: The Thaiger: Koh Phangan crewman held after stabbing colleague at sea Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio: Akron Man, 63, Pleads Not Guilty to Murdering Sharon Dorn at City Natatorium Downtown Cuyahoga Falls, north of Akron. Photo: Jeffreyrstroup / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Craig Alan Sipe, 63, of Akron, pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder in Stow Municipal Court on Monday, and a judge set his bond at $1 million cash, Cleveland 19 reported. He is accused of shooting Sharon Dorn, 61, of Stow, inside the Cuyahoga Falls Natatorium, a city-run gym and pool, on Sunday morning. Prosecutors asked for at least $1 million, calling Sipe “a threat not only to society but also to himself.” His lawyer pointed out that he turned himself in shortly after the shooting and asked for a reasonable bond. The judge said Sipe had little criminal history but that “this is a very serious charge.” The case will be bound over to the Summit County Court of Common Pleas. Officers were called to the building on Fourth Street at about 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 18 and found Dorn with a gunshot wound. She was taken to Summa Akron City Hospital and died at 9:51 a.m. Police said the gunman “targeted one victim” and fled. Sipe walked into the Cuyahoga Falls police station shortly afterward and was taken to the Summit County Jail, Cleveland 19 and CBS News reported. Police describe the shooting as “domestic-related” but have not said how Sipe and Dorn knew each other, citing respect for her family. Flowers have been left outside the Natatorium, which stayed closed on Monday, and the city is holding a drop-in support session there at 6 p.m. Wednesday with the Summit County Victim Assistance Program. Sipe is presumed innocent. Sources: Cleveland 19: $1M bond set for man accused in deadly shooting at Cuyahoga Falls gym CBS News: 1 killed in shooting at gym in Ohio West Melbourne, Florida: Store Owner Charged With Murder After Teen on E-Bike Dies Wickham Road in West Melbourne, in Brevard County. Photo: Leonard J. DeFrancisci / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Kavan Vishnubhai Patel, 32, owner of the Corner Store on Wickham Road in West Melbourne, was rearrested Sunday morning and charged with second-degree murder after Hunter Russey, 14, died of injuries police say Patel caused by deliberately hitting him with his vehicle, WFTV and FOX 35 Orlando reported. Patel is being held without bond at the Brevard County Jail. Police say Patel intentionally struck Russey, who was riding an electric bicycle and was suspected of breaking into the store, on the morning of Oct. 13 on Cocoanut Grove Avenue, then drove off without giving aid. The boy was found unresponsive at the roadside and taken to Holmes Regional Medical Center, then moved to Orlando Health Children’s Arnold Palmer Hospital, where he was kept on life support. Patel was first arrested on Oct. 13 on charges of aggravated battery and leaving the scene of a crash. Russey was taken off life support on the evening of Oct. 17, and detectives obtained a new warrant. Police released his name with his family’s permission and said the family chose to donate his organs. Patel is presumed innocent. Sources: WFTV: Kavan Vishnubhai Patel rearrested on second-degree murder charge FOX 35 Orlando: Teen dies after being hit by shop owner after suspected burglary, officials say Hardinsburg, Kentucky: Convicted Felon, 39, Charged With Murder After Man, 51, Shot The Breckinridge County Courthouse in Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Photo: W.marsh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Kentucky State Police have arrested Johnny Lee Sowders, 39, of Hardinsburg, and charged him with murder and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon in the shooting death of Jerry McGee, 51, also of Hardinsburg, WHAS11 and Hoodline reported. Troopers responded on Saturday evening, Oct. 17, after Breckinridge County dispatchers reported a shooting on KY 79 in Hardinsburg. They found McGee with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken in critical condition to UofL Hospital in Louisville, where he died. Police have not said what led to the shooting or how Sowders was identified. The investigation is continuing. Sowders is presumed innocent. Sources: WHAS11 (Yahoo News): Suspect arrested in fatal Breckinridge County shooting; victim identified Hoodline: Hardinsburg, KY Shooting Leaves Man Dead, Two Charged Racine, Wisconsin: Woman, 63, Arrested After Man, 30, Shot in Head During Family Argument The Racine County Courthouse in Racine, Wisconsin. Photo: Tim Kiser / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Racine police have arrested a 63-year-old woman and referred a charge of first-degree intentional homicide to the Racine County District Attorney’s Office after a 30-year-old man was shot dead at a home early Sunday, WISN and WTMJ reported. Officers were called at 3:11 a.m. on Oct. 18 to a home near Russet Street and Durand Avenue and found the man with a gunshot wound to the head. He died at the scene. Police say family members had been arguing at the home when another relative, the 63-year-old woman, arrived and shot him. A loved one identified the man to WISN as Raymond Massie Jr. Police called the shooting isolated and are asking anyone with information or video to call the Racine Police Department Investigations Unit. The woman has not been named and is presumed innocent. Sources: WISN: Police: 63-year-old woman arrested after fatal shooting at Racine home WTMJ: Woman arrested after deadly family shooting in Racine Corbin, Kentucky: Man, 18, Charged With Murder After Dustin Deaton, 28, Shot at Gas Station Corbin, in southeastern Kentucky. Photo: Notla / Wikimedia Commons, public domain Corbin police have charged Mark Allen, 18, of Corbin, with murder in the death of Dustin Deaton, 28, of Barbourville, who was shot at the Speedy Mart near KY 3041 and U.S. 25 in North Corbin at about 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18, LEX18 reported. Officers responded to a report of shots fired. Police said an argument between Allen and Deaton escalated and Allen shot Deaton. Corbin police called the case an “active investigation.” Allen is presumed innocent. Sources: LEX18: Teen charged with murder after man killed at North Corbin gas station, police say Lexington Herald-Leader: Shooting at Kentucky gas station leaves one man dead. Teen charged with murder