Michael Boatwright, Dedrick Williams and Trayvon Newsome were all found guilty of first-degree murder on Monday for the 2018 death of rapper XXXTentacion. Their sentencing is scheduled for April 6.
The sentencing hearing for 16-year-old Aiden Fucci, who stabbed classmate Tristyn Bailey, 13, 114 times on Mother's Day in 2021, began Tuesday. The slain girl's family issued an emotional statement before the hearing began.
Patricia Tito, who is already imprisoned for killing a romantic rival, and Delvin Sibley are accused of killing Lester Rome, whose body was discovered in a Louisiana well 37 years ago.
Michigan State Police attributed the deaths of rap artists Armani Kelly, Dante Wicker, and Montoya Givens to gang violence. Their bullet-ridden corpses were found in the basement of an abandoned Detroit apartment last month.
“A key piece of evidence in this case came from the victim herself: She named [Alejandro] Arellano as the offender before she succumbed to her injuries,” First Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter said of 26-year-old Samantha Maldonado.
Timothy Bliefnick was charged with two counts of first-degree murder on Monday following the Feb. 23 discovery of his estranged wife, Rebecca Bliefnick, shot dead in her Quincy, Illinois home.
"My son didn't have any enemies, nor was he a trouble child, he worked, went to school, and played his game. He was a pure momma's boy," Shirley Howell wrote of her late son, Fredarrious Wilson.
Attorneys for Andre Thomas, who was convicted of killing his estranged wife, 4-year-old son and her 13-month-old daughter, say he's not competent enough to understand the reasoning for his execution.
A bloodied Levi Axtell turned himself in to police, confessing that he beat sex offender Lawrence Scully to death with a shovel and a moose antler. He suspected the ex-convict was stalking his toddler-aged daughter.
The Anne Arundel County Police Department in Maryland identified Forest Clyde Williams III as the killer of Pamela Conyers, 16, whose death by strangulation in 1970 stumped detectives for decades.
