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Brother of Former NFL Star Aqib Talib’s Pleads Guilty to Murder, Prosecutors Say

July 22, 2023
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DALLAS—The brother of retired NFL cornerback Aqib Talib has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2022 shooting death of a coach at a youth football game in Texas, prosecutors said. Yaqub Salik Talib, 40, pleaded guilty Thursday to the charge in the shooting of 43-year-old Michael Hickmon, according to Claire Crouch, a spokesperson for the…

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Brother of Former NFL Star Aqib Talib Pleads Guilty to Murder, Prosecutors Say

July 22, 2023
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DALLAS—The brother of retired NFL cornerback Aqib Talib has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2022 shooting death of a coach at a youth football game in Texas, prosecutors said. Yaqub Salik Talib, 40, pleaded guilty Thursday to the charge in the shooting of 43-year-old Michael Hickmon, according to Claire Crouch, a spokesperson for the…

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Michigan Man Charged With Murder and Other Crimes in Case Involving Ex-girlfriend and Her Toddler

July 22, 2023
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Lansing, Mich.—A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has been charged with murder by Michigan’s attorney general. Attorney General Dana Nessel charged Rashad Trice, 26, on Friday with 20 counts, including one count each of first-degree premeditated murder and felony murder in Wynter Cole Smith’s strangulation death. Both…

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Murder Trial of Rapper YNW Melly Ends in Mistrial After Jury Deadlocks; Retrial Likely

July 22, 2023
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A deadlocked jury prompted a mistrial Saturday in the South Florida trial of rapper YNW Melly on charges that he murdered two of his friends five years ago. The 12-member panel could not reach a unanimous verdict after three days of deliberations. Broward County prosecutors, who had been seeking the death penalty, will…

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Mother and 3 Children Dead in Possible Oklahoma Murder-Suicide

July 22, 2023
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VERDIGRIS, Okla.—A woman and her three children were found dead in an Oklahoma home Thursday evening in what may be a murder-suicide following an hourslong standoff, authorities said. The names of the victims weren’t immediately released. The standoff began in the small town of Verdigris, a suburb east of Tulsa, when a police officer driving…

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Oklahoma Murder Conviction Reversed Due to Sexual Relationship Between Judge, Prosecutor

July 14, 2023
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OKLAHOMA CITY—An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday threw out a first-degree murder conviction because of a sexual relationship between the judge and a prosecutor in the case. In a 3–2 decision, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a new trial for defendant Robert Leon Hashagen III, who was sentenced to life in prison after…

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Man Recaptured After Running When Deal Cutting 16 Years Off Murder Sentence Was Revoked

July 13, 2023
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COLUMBIA, S.C.—Police on Wednesday captured a man who had been on the run for 11 weeks after the South Carolina Supreme Court revoked an unannounced deal that cut 16 years off his 35-year murder sentence. Jeroid Price was captured without violence at a New York City apartment after a tip to South Carolina investigators, the…

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5 Convicted of Killing Divorcee Who Fell for ‘Honeytrap’ on Craigslist

July 12, 2023
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Five people have been convicted of killing a divorcee who was tricked into a “honeytrap” and set up by a woman he apparently met on Craigslist. The trial heard Vishal Gohel, 44, was referred to as “57” by the gang because he was known to have £57,000 in his bank account. Georgia Bruce-Annan, 22, was…

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Russian Ex-submarine Officer on Ukraine Blacklist Gunned Down on Morning Run

July 12, 2023
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A Russian military officer who had commanded a submarine in the Black Sea and appeared on a Ukrainian blacklist of alleged war criminals has been shot dead by an unknown assassin while on his morning run. Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, was gunned down early on Monday in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. His address, picture,…

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Man Who Served 13 Years for Murder Is Acquitted at a Retrial in Germany

July 7, 2023
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BERLIN—A man who spent 13 years in prison in Germany for the death of an elderly woman was acquitted in a retrial on Friday by a court that determined the supposed murder victim had died in an accident. Manfred Genditzki, 63, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2010 by a…

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