The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026

Alameda County jail records now list Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen on suspicion of first-degree murder, negligent discharge of a firearm and child endangerment in Saturday’s killing of their son-in-law, Jonathan McKinsey, 40, at the Dublin Sports Grounds, Patch reports. Chen is also booked on suspicion of conspiracy to fraudulently obtain money. Both are held without bail at Santa Rita Jail. Arraignment is set for 9 a.m. Wednesday at the East County Hall of Justice. No formal charges have been announced, though NBC Bay Area reports both are expected to face murder charges. The first report ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.

The New York Times confirmed that McKinsey headed engineering for New York Times Games. Witnesses told CBS News Bay Area that a masked man shot McKinsey and then handed the gun to a masked woman, who also fired. NBC Bay Area reports he was in a custody fight with his estranged wife, and The New York Times has reported on restraining-order filings in the dispute. Police say there are no other suspects and haven’t said whether the family dispute bears on the shooting. Both are presumed innocent.

Five people charged with the July 29 murder of Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso pleaded not guilty Tuesday before Justice Alexander Muteti at the High Court in Nairobi. They are a woman, her son and daughter, a police constable and one other accused. The DCI and the ODPP oppose bail. An affidavit from a Homicide Investigations Bureau officer cites fears of witness interference, evidence tampering and flight, and says several alleged accomplices are still at large.

Investigators tie the killing to a long dispute over a 20-acre parcel in Mlolongo involving Mutiso, her husband and the first three accused. They allege four months of surveillance and planning, backed by phone and other electronic records. Before bail could be argued, lawyers Danstan Omari and Cliff Ombeta withdrew from representing the first three accused, who didn’t object. The defence also raised claims of torture in custody. The state asked for more time to respond. Each of the five is presumed innocent.

Lindsay Clancy was back in court Tuesday for the first time since her murder trial ended in a mistrial more than three weeks ago. The jury couldn’t agree on whether she should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children in their Duxbury home in 2023. Defence lawyer Kevin Reddington, who ran an insanity defence at trial, argued under Rule 25 that prosecutors never proved she killed the children, let alone that she was fit to face first-degree murder charges, and asked Judge William Sullivan to enter not-guilty findings before any retrial. Prosecutors opposed it, citing “voluminous” evidence that she strangled the children in the basement. A second defence lawyer, Martin Weinberg, asked for the case to be dismissed on double-jeopardy grounds, arguing the mistrial shouldn’t have been declared.

Sullivan took the motions under advisement. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said his office hasn’t decided whether to try her again. Prosecutors also want limits on the defence’s public comments, especially Reddington’s remarks about the juror said to have refused to join the other 11 in finding her not criminally responsible. Reddington said afterward that he does “not need any gag orders.” More arguments are set for Nov. 2. Clancy is presumed innocent.

A 93-year-old woman found dead in her Toulouse home Saturday was raped and strangled, Toulouse prosecutor David Charmatz said Tuesday. The autopsy found signs of sexual violence, a rib fracture and a spinal fracture, bruising, and neck injuries consistent with asphyxia. A 34-year-old man was arrested at the scene. 20 Minutes reports he’d been drinking. The prosecutor said he was “totally undressed and very agitated” when arrested and hurt one of the officers.

He was brought before an investigating judge Tuesday. The parquet asked that he be placed under formal investigation for murder “preceded or followed by another crime, in this case the crime of rape,” and held in pretrial detention. The judge’s decision hadn’t been made public by Tuesday evening in France. Neither the woman nor the man has been named, and he is presumed innocent.

According to the prosecutor’s statement, neighbours called police at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 27 because a man was shouting and swearing in the garden of the house in the Minimes district. The door was locked from inside, which the woman, bedridden after a stroke, could not have done. Officers climbed in through a window and found her body in a first-floor bathroom with the man, whom they subdued with difficulty. La Dépêche reports his breath alcohol reading was 0.92 milligrams per litre, that he is a Sudanese refugee living legally in France with no criminal record, and that a psychiatric evaluation was ordered.

Update, Oct. 11, 2026: He was placed under formal investigation on Sept. 29 for murder preceded or followed by rape and jailed pending trial, 100% Radio and Journal FR report. He is presumed innocent.

Colombian soldiers, air force and police captured a man known as “Pollo” in the Villa Paz neighbourhood of Tibú, Norte de Santander, on Monday. The government says he commands a unit of the Jorge Suárez Briceño substructure of the FARC dissidents and is linked to the killing of a girl the group forcibly recruited. Armed men took her from her home in rural Tibú on April 2. On Sept. 20 her family was told she had been killed. One account says she had tried to escape the armed group with other teenagers.

He was handed to the Fiscalía to face a judge on illegal gun possession, conspiracy, forced recruitment and aggravated homicide of a protected person, El Tiempo reports. Troops seized a pistol and 12 rounds. The government says he was on its most-wanted list. The girl’s father had pleaded publicly for her return. The suspect hasn’t been named beyond his alias, and he’s presumed innocent.

The gunmen who killed a 39-year-old man from Recklinghausen at a teahouse on Karlstraße early Monday are still at large. He bled to death from a gunshot to the lung, a police spokeswoman said after the autopsy. The two wounded men, 35 and 40, didn’t need to stay long in hospital, dpa reports. The shooting ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.

On Tuesday, Essen prosecutors and Recklinghausen police announced arrests in the Aug. 11 attempted murder nearby on Otto-Hue-Straße, where shots were fired at a car. A 16-year-old from Verden and a 21-year-old with no fixed address were arrested in Hannover and Wuppertal and are in pretrial custody. A 20-year-old was arrested abroad after a public appeal. The three are suspected of helping prepare the attack, including scouting the area. The alleged shooter is believed to be abroad and is being sought with photos. Police say the perpetrators of the two shootings are very likely not the same people, and whether the cases are linked is still open. Nobody has been named.

Wichita police have named the three people shot dead Saturday at a home in the 5000 block of East Blake Street: Juan Valenzuela-Ayala, 49, Brenda Silva-Cervantes, 40, and Daisy Valenzuela, 25. Police say they were the father, mother and sister of Juan Valenzuela-Silva, 21, who is booked on requested charges of capital murder. A 17-year-old boy, a 17-year-old girl and a 2-year-old girl were in the house and weren’t hurt. The arrest ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.

“This is an unimaginable tragedy for a family that lost three loved ones in a single act of violence,” Police Chief Joe Sullivan said. He said officers’ first priority was making sure the 2-year-old and the two teenagers were safe. Flock plate readers tracked the suspect’s 2014 Infiniti QX60 south, and deputies stopped it just south of Augusta in Butler County with a Kansas Highway Patrol aircraft overhead. The case goes to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office for formal charges this week. Valenzuela-Silva is presumed innocent.

Jimmy Schulz, 18, already charged with murder over the Sept. 2 mistaken-identity shooting of Joshua Macdonald, 40, was charged Monday with conspiring to murder a man linked to the Haouchar crime family. Police allege he was running drone surveillance for that second plot on Sept. 11, the day he was arrested in a car at West Hoxton.

The new counts also cover participating in a criminal group, possessing a dedicated encrypted criminal communication device and flying a drone beyond visual line of sight. He was refused bail Tuesday and is next due at Parramatta Local Court on Nov. 5. A stood-down PE teacher, Ashleigh Ann Seeney, 28, was charged last week over the same plot. Police allege she kept “constant contact” with the teenagers and relayed police movements. Det. Supt. Jason Box said the plot targeted a man living nearby. The SMH reports police had warned that man to fear for his life. Schulz and Seeney are presumed innocent.

Lagos State Police Commissioner Fatai Tijani said Monday that Sgt. Johnson Okediji was on stop-and-search duty on Olugbede Street, Egbeda, at about 2:20 p.m. on Saturday when a Lexus ES 350 that had stopped suddenly sped off as he stepped to the driver’s side. Tijani said the car knocked him down and dragged him for several metres. Okediji suffered multiple fractures and head injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

The driver, Olumide Olushola, 21, was chased down and arrested. At his parade at police headquarters in Ikeja, he told reporters the brakes had failed and denied hitting the sergeant on purpose. Police recovered the car to the station, and the body is at the Mainland Hospital mortuary for autopsy. No court charge had been announced. Olushola is presumed innocent.

Tijani said police officers and passers-by repeatedly tried to make the driver stop while the sergeant was being dragged. The Lexus, registration FKJ 223 KX, belonged to Olushola’s mother, TheNewsGiant reports, and he told reporters: “I did not kill the policeman intentionally, it was due to the vehicle’s brake failure.” Okediji’s body was taken to the Mainland Hospital mortuary for an autopsy. No charge had been announced in court by the time of publication, and Olushola is presumed innocent.

Gardaí arrested Samantha O’Reilly, 38, and Steven Cummins, 39, at their home in Cherry Orchard Green on Tuesday morning and charged them with making false statements in a judicial proceeding. The statements were evidence Conor McGregor tried to introduce in his failed appeal against a High Court civil jury’s finding that he raped Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in December 2018. O’Reilly faces two counts, for statements in January and May 2025. Cummins faces one count, for January 2025.

At Dublin District Court, Judge Michele Finan was told the DPP has directed trial by jury in the Circuit Criminal Court. Both were remanded on bail. They must sign on weekly at Ballyfermot Garda Station, keep a phone number with gardaí and stay away from witnesses. They return Nov. 9 for service of the book of evidence. The Court of Appeal had referred the material to the DPP last year. Both are presumed innocent.

A man was found dead on Sept. 9 in an Airbnb rental on rue du Ponant in Palavas-les-Flots, on the coast south of Montpellier, with multiple knife wounds, including a cut to the throat. Montpellier prosecutor Thierry Lescouarc’h said Tuesday that two people were arrested together in a car at Roquemaure, in the Gard, on Sept. 26. DNA traces recovered at the scene helped investigators.

Both went before an investigating magistrate on Sept. 28. One was placed under formal investigation for murder and jailed pending trial. The other, who was with that person at the arrest, was placed under investigation for shielding a criminal from arrest and released under judicial supervision. A judicial inquiry into aggravated homicide had been open since Sept. 11. Nobody has been named, and both are presumed innocent.

Midi Libre reports the victim was a 32-year-old man from the Caen area, and that the killing was carried out with great violence. The gendarmerie’s section de recherches led the inquiry under a Montpellier investigating magistrate. The prosecutor gave no motive and no details about the two suspects. Both are presumed innocent.

Spain’s Government Delegation against Gender Violence, part of the Equality Ministry, has officially confirmed that the 47-year-old woman stabbed in the street in La Campana, Seville province, late Saturday was killed by gender violence. It has added her to the national count of women killed by partners or ex-partners. Her 56-year-old partner, detained by the Guardia Civil after about 12 hours barricaded at home, is the suspect. The standoff ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.

Francisco Toscano, the government’s sub-delegate in Seville, said she was registered in VioGén, Spain’s risk-monitoring system, because of an earlier relationship. The man wasn’t in the system and had no prior gender-violence complaints against him. Her son, a minor who was there, is in the care of neighbours until child-protection services take over. Neither she nor the man has been officially named. He is presumed innocent.

A four-week jury trial opened in Calgary on Monday for Shaun Folk, charged with second-degree murder in the death of Christopher Stevenson, and Ali El-Sayed, charged with being an accessory after the fact. In her opening, prosecutor Donna Spaner said Folk believed Stevenson owed him money and arranged a meeting with him at Folk’s apartment on Aug. 24, 2023. CCTV footage shows Stevenson entering the building but not leaving.

The Crown alleges Stevenson was assaulted in apartment 907, and that “his death was caused by the injection of fentanyl into his body” as he lay badly hurt. Prosecutors say his body was then taken to a rural area and burned in a barrel. Spaner said jurors will hear from Kenedee Taylor, who was in the apartment and saw the killing. Spaner said the Crown’s theory is that Folk “directed and participated” in the events that killed Stevenson. Both men are presumed innocent.

Jaipur police arrested Pravesh Kumar, 20, on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Tuesday on suspicion of strangling his pregnant partner, Kiran Rawat, on Sept. 23 and burying her in the courtyard of their rented house in Prestige Garden Colony, Bindayaka. DCP (West) Prashant Kiran said the landlord found her body on Sept. 27. Police say the two were related, had been living together as partners and had moved to Jaipur from their village about two months earlier.

Police say Kumar suspected her of seeing another man and first claimed she had taken her own life and that he’d buried her in a panic. Investigators say he went back to work at a factory from Sept. 24 to 26, then collected Rs 500 in wages and fled on Sept. 27, suspecting the body had been found. CCTV and phone analysis tracked him. He is from Barabanki district in Uttar Pradesh and is presumed innocent.

A judge in Cáceres, Mato Grosso, about 220 kilometres from Cuiabá, on Tuesday converted the arrest of Ricardo de Souza Pessoa, 62, a retired Polícia Civil investigator, into preventive detention. He’s suspected of shooting his ex-wife, Noeli Simsen, 50, in a hotel room on Monday. Hotel staff and witnesses told military police they saw him arrive, go to her window and then heard about four shots. She was found dead with gunshot wounds to the chest.

He left and later turned himself in at a police station in the city. The investigating delegado, Higo Rafael, said the couple had separated about five months earlier and that Pessoa didn’t accept the breakup. Police seized four guns from his home. The case is being investigated as feminicídio. Judge Antonio Carlos Pereira de Sousa Junior of the 2nd Criminal Court issued the order. Pessoa is presumed innocent.

G1 reports the shooting happened at the Hotel Real, that Simsen, a businesswoman, had recently returned from France and was planning to sell a business in Mato Grosso, and that Pessoa had sent a message about a possible bomb in her car. The case is being investigated as femicide. He is presumed innocent.

Gunma police sent Riki Mihara, 30, to prosecutors Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to murder the 26-year-old son of Yuka Tezuka, 52, who was found dead with multiple stab wounds at her home in Ota on Friday. Mihara is the ex-husband of Tezuka’s daughter. The Takasaki arrest ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026. Police believe he was also involved in her death, the Japan Times reports, but no charge over it has been announced.

Investigative sources told Nippon TV that a second kitchen knife was found near the house, in addition to the one recovered at the scene. Mihara has said he brought that one himself. Shoes believed to be his were also found on the property. He fled the scene in his socks, and it isn’t clear when the shoes were left there. He is presumed innocent.

Mihara was arrested on Sept. 27 at a pachinko parlour in Takasaki after police issued a public wanted notice, the Sankei Shimbun reports. The Asahi Shimbun reports he has told investigators he killed Tezuka, and the Hokkaido Shimbun reports he changed clothes while on the run; TV Asahi says clothes believed to have been worn in the attack were found. He is presumed innocent.