Category: kill

Driver Who Killed Woman and Three Daughters in Brampton Seeks to Appeal Conviction

A driver who struck and killed a woman and her three young daughters in Brampton, Ont., two years ago is challenging his conviction on drug-impaired driving charges as well as his sentence. In a notice of appeal filed last month, Brady Robertson’s lawyer alleges the trial judge was wrong to uphold the constitutionality of Canada’s…


Suspected Islamist Terrorists Kill 15 in East Congo Village

BENI—Suspected Islamist terrorists killed 15 civilians in an attack on a village in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, a human rights group and local official said on Monday. Fighters believed to be members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) stormed the village of Bulongo in North Kivu province after dark on Sunday, pillaging homes and…


Missouri Man Convicted of Killing Pregnant Wife in 2019

CLAYTON, Mo.—A jury has convicted a Missouri man of first-degree murder in the death of his pregnant wife whose battered body was found about a week after she was reported missing in 2019. In addition to the murder count, Beau Rothwell, 31, Creve Coeur, was found guilty Thursday of tampering with physical evidence and abandonment…


Quebec Man Who Killed Family of Four in Drunk Driving Crash Sentenced to 16 Years

A Quebec man who killed four members of the same family in a car crash last September in Quebec City has been handed one of the toughest sentences ever given in the province for a drunk driving conviction. Quebec court Judge Jean-Louis Lemay sentenced Éric Légaré today at the Quebec City courthouse to 16 years…


Police in Minnesota Say Man Killed 4 Relatives, Self

DULUTH, Minn.—A man killed his aunt and uncle, two young cousins, and their dog while they slept, then later killed himself at their Minnesota home after posting on Facebook that he had made “the absolutely horrid choice” to do so, police said Thursday. Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken said at a news conference that Brandon…


Easter Holiday Bus Crash in Eastern Zimbabwe Takes 35 Lives

MUTARE, Zimbabwe—A bus carrying worshippers traveling to an Easter pilgrimage in mountainous eastern Zimbabwe plunged into a gorge, killing 35 people in the early hours of Friday. The bus was overloaded with 106 passengers and veered off the winding road near Chimanimani and hurtled into a deep ravine, police said. The crash happened near the…


Armed Men Kill 11 Security Force Members in Niger Attacks, Government Says

NIAMEY—Unidentified armed men killed seven border police and four National Guard members in separate attacks in different parts of Niger, the government said on Wednesday. Both of the attacks were on Tuesday—one on a police post in Petelkole, on the western border with Burkina Faso, and one on a National Guard position in Djado, in…


Days of Attacks Kill at Least 70 People in Northwest Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria—Gunmen have killed nearly 70 members of a local defense group in Nigeria’s northwest region in attacks since Sunday and the violence is continuing, members of the force and residents told The Associated Press. The attackers ambushed members of the local defense group in the Zuru area of Kebbi state as they were responding…


Attacks in North Benin Park Kill 8 Including French Citizen

COTONOU, Benin—Attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in northern Benin have killed at least eight people, including army soldiers, park rangers and a French instructor, the government has confirmed. Six people were killed and a dozen injured in an ambush Tuesday which included explosions from improvised land mines on a patrol of park rangers in the…


Child, 4, Accidentally Kills Himself With Gun Found in Car

WESTWEGO, La.—A 4-year-old boy in Louisiana, sitting in the back of a car with two younger siblings, fatally shot himself in the forehead with a gun he found while his mother and another adult smoked marijuana in the front seat, authorities said. An autopsy Monday found that Jarion Walker’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted, Jefferson Parish…