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Suffolk County, NY – A 19 year old murdered his little brother last Friday night as the 17-year-old played a video game. Newsday reported that Robert Rivera had walked into the bedroom where Brian Castillo was playing video games at about 7:20 p.m. on Aug. 24 and stabbed him in the neck from behind with […]

Wilmette, IL – Police responded to investigate after a neighbor called the cops on a mother who allowed her eight-year-old daughter to walk their dog unsupervised. Corey Widen, 48, became the subject of an Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (CFS) investigation after her daughter, Dorothy Widen, was seen walking the family’s Maltese, Marshmallow, […]

Vallejo, CA – Vallejo Police Department (VPD) officials are defending officers’ use of force in arresting a man who had been holding a 14-year-old girl in his car on Friday night (video below). The incident began when police received a 911 call from a teenage girl at about 9 p.m. on Aug. 24, the Vallejo […]

San Diego, CA – An 18-year-old video gamer and YouTube star killed a 12-year-old girl and her mother, along with himself on Thursday, when he slammed his sports car into their vehicle at more than 100 miles per hour. Police said the wrong-way, head-on crash occurred when 18-year-old Trevor Heitmann drove his $250,000 2015 British […]

Philadelphia, PA – GoFundMe is investigating what happened to $403,000 raised to help a homeless veteran after he said the couple who set up the fundraising account has kept the vast majority of the money. “GoFundMe is looking into the claims of misuse regarding this campaign,” GoFundMe said in a statement. “When there is a […]

Rollinsford, NH – Just weeks after joining the department, a 26-year-old police officer learned he had been diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. “I mean, I’m 26,” Officer Shawn DePasquale told WFXT. “[I] didn’t expect to come down with this.” Officer DePasquale graduated from the New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Academy approximately three weeks […]

Springfield, MA – David Hogg, survivor of the Parkland school shooting turned gun control advocate, appears to have broken federal law in his recent tweet directed to gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson. In his two-part tweet, he told Smith & Wesson to give $5 million dollars to gun violence research or be "destroyed" by "love […]

Jacksonville, FL – Sheriff Mike Williams announced Sunday evening that the mass shooter who opened fire at a Madden 19 tournament has been identified as 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore. The incident happened at Chicago Pizza at around 1:34 p.m. after Katz allegedly lost a Madden 19 tournament. The sheriff declined to confirm the motive […]

Jacksonville, FL – A gunman opened fire and shot 11 people at a Madden 19 video game tournament at Jacksonville Landing on Sunday. LA Times reports that the gunman was a video gamer who participated in the tournament and lost. Steven “Steveyj” Javaruski told the Times that the shooter targeted a few people and killed […]

Jacksonville, FL – At least 11 people have been shot with at least four people dead at Jacksonville Landing in Jacksonville on Sunday. WJXT-TV reports that three of the people were shot inside of Chicago Pizza. Ryan Hughes reports that there was a Madden Football video game tournament going on at the time. Jacksonville Sheriff's […]