NEW YORK—A grand jury has indicted a man who put an agitated New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold, prosecutors confirmed Thursday. Daniel Penny was initially charged with manslaughter last month in the May 1 death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man with a history of mental illness and criminal charges. A spokesperson…

UNION, Mo.—A 67-year-old man has pleaded guilty to strangling a woman in Missouri and leaving her bound body in the woods three decades ago, a newspaper reported. Kirby R. King pleaded guilty on Friday to involuntary manslaughter and felonious restraint in the death of 22-year-old Karla Jane Delcour, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday. She…

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is leaving in place the sentence of a woman on death row in Alabama who helped her boyfriend kill his two young children. The high court on Monday rejected an appeal from lawyers for Heather Leavell-Keaton. As is typical, the court rejected the case without comment. Leavell-Keaton was convicted of murder in…

ALBANY, N.Y.—A limousine service manager was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday in a crash that killed 20 people in rural New York, one of the deadliest U.S. road wrecks in two decades. Jurors reached their verdict during their second day of deliberations in the trial of Nauman Hussain, who ran Prestige Limousine. He faces the possibility…

VISTA, Calif.—A man arrested last year for the 1994 stabbing death of an Oceanside woman pleaded guilty this week to a voluntary manslaughter count. Jesus “Jesse” Velazquez Ayala, 59, is slated to be sentenced later this month to 12 years in state prison for the killing of 54-year-old Dolores Rabaya. The victim was found inside…

SAN DIEGO—A man who fatally stabbed another man in Logan Heights last year was sentenced April 6 to a dozen years in state prison. Guillermo Lopez-Perez, 24, pleaded guilty to a voluntary manslaughter count for stabbing 27-year-old Rodrigo Diaz-Perez to death on New Year’s Day 2022. San Diego police first received reports at about 3:45…

Police in Brighton have discovered the remains of a 2-month-old baby who had been missing since it was born in early January, after a two-month manhunt for the infant’s mother ended earlier this week. Constance Marten, 35, and her boyfriend Mark Gordon, 48, are being held in custody in the city on suspicion of gross…

The parents of a 16-year-old girl who weighed 22 stone 13 pound (321 pounds) and died as a result of medical complications from her obesity have been jailed for manslaughter owing to gross negligence. Kaylea Titford, who had spina bifida and hydrocephalus and had been in a wheelchair since she was a young child, died at…

Toronto police are seeking homicide suspect Robert Robin Cropearedwolf, age 43, of Toronto, who is wanted for manslaughter in an assault that led to the death of 73-year-old retired CBC producer Michael Finlay. Finlay was a 31-year veteran with the public broadcaster. He died on Jan. 31 as a result of injury he suffered during an…

Two B.C. RCMP officers have been charged with manslaughter in relation to a man’s death during an arrest in 2017 while three of their fellow Mounties have been charged with attempting to obstruct justice. In a statement published on Feb. 1, the B.C. Prosecution Service said manslaughter charges have been approved against constables Paul Ste-Marie…