Attempted Murder

'POW, POW, POW': 90-Year-Old Recalls Shooting Home Invader

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Samuel Cutrufelli, Jay Leone, Video, California, Home Invasion, 90-Year-Old Shoots Home Invader, Attempted Murder, San Francisco, California Crime, Bay Area, Crime News

When Samuel Joseph Cutrufelli broke into a retired man's home, he probably didn't guess his 90-year-old victim would pack such a punch. Last week, ...

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New Jersey Synagogue Firebombed With Molotov Cocktails

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Attempted Murder, Synagogue, Molotov Cocktail, New Jersey Crime, Synagogue Firebomb, Congregation Beth El, New York News

RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Several Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices were thrown at a northern New Jersey synagogue early Wednesday, igniti...

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Odd Murder Plot: Only After Crashing Car, Man Realized He'd Been Shot In Head

Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Murder Attempt, Paul Anthony Edwards Jr., Bullet, Video, Man Realizes He's Shot After Car Crash, Christopher M. Martin, Social Security, Car Crash, Social Security Check, Victim Didn't Know He Was Shot, Roommate, Florida Crime, Paul T. Holloway, Attempted Murder, Florida, Gunshot, Crime News

A minor car crash may have saved a 66-year-old's life. Paul T. Holloway only realized his roommate was plotting to kill him after a minor traffic a...

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SHOCKING VIDEO: Man Crashes Truck Into Store In Alleged Murder Attempt

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Convenience Store, Video, Laquisha Dansbury, Columbia Market, Tennessee Crime, Car Crash, Surendra Patel, Tennessee, Columbia, Attempted Murder, Convenience Store Car Crash, Man Crashes Truck Into Convenience Store, Erik Whitaker, Mayhem, Domestic Violence, Weird News News

A Tennessee man has been charged with attempted murder after he rammed his pickup truck into a convenience store in an attempt to kill a woman, accord...

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Murder Charges Thrown Out For Parents Who Allegedly Caged One Child, Buried Another

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Virginia, Brian Gore, Video, Child Abuse, Crime News, Crime, Shannon Gore, Attempted Murder, Crime News

Parents who kept a mentally disabled 6-year-old daughter in a makeshift cage covered in her own feces won't face murder charges for another child, an ...

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'Bored' With Girlfriend, Man Tased Her And Buried Her Alive: Cops

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: England Crime, Video, Woman Buried Alive, Tased, Taser, Buried Alive, Girlfriend Buried Alive, Boyfriend Buries Woman Alive, Attempted Murder, Kill Bill, Michelina Lewandowska, Boyfriend Buries Girlfriend Alive, Tase, Marcin Kasprzak, Crime News

A woman survived being stunned with a Taser and buried alive in a brutal attack perpetrated by her boyfriend, according to authorities in England. ...

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Man Shoots Neighbor For 'Telepathically Threatening' Him: Police

Posted 01.01.2012

A Utah man shot and severely wounded a neighbor who he believed had been "telepathically threatening" him and his wife, according to police. Michae...

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NYPD Officer Blocks Gunshot With His Finger

Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Eugene Graves, Nypd, New York Crime, Brooklyn, Michael Miller, Attempted Murder, Livery Cabs, Video, New York News

Sergeant Michael Miller saved himself at gunpoint by using his finger to block the fire of a .38-cylinder revolver early Saturday morning. The 38-y...

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DA: Yogurt Store Owner Put Naked Employee In Box

AP | Posted 10.27.2011

Read More: Kidnaping, Boss Locks Employee in Box, Attempted Murder, Robert Yachen Lee, Rape, Los Angeles, Boss Puts Worker in Box, California Crime, Yogurt Store Employee in Box, Crime News

ALHAMBRA, Calif. -- The owner of a Southern California yogurt shop has been charged with attacking an employee, removing her clothes, binding her with...

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Man Tries To Kill Wife By Driving Into Waffle House: Cops

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Charles Patrick O'Bryan Waffle House, Charles Patrick O'Bryan, Crime, Florida Crime, Criminal-Mischief, Waffle House, Panama City, Attempted Murder, Man Crashes Into Waffle House, Man Tries to Kill Wife, Florida, Weird Crime, Weird Florida, Crime News

A Florida man tried to kill his wife by crashing his car into her workplace -- a Waffle House restaurant, Panama City's News Herald reports. On Mon...

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Ex-Trader Admits To Threatening To Kill Financial Regulators

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Civil Service, Attempted Murder, Regulators, Death Threats, Wall Street, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Business News

NEW YORK (Jennifer Golson) - A former commodities trader pleaded guilty on Monday to threatening to kill more than 40 financial regulators, includ...

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Elderly Man Charged With Attempting To Kill Wife, Shooting Stepdaughter

Plainfield, IL Patch | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Attempted Murder, Chicago Suburbs, Plainfield Shooting, Albert A. Jonas, Plainfield, Plainfield Patch, Patch, Chicagoland Patch, Chicago News

A 75-year-old Plainfield man has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in connection with a gun attack on his wife ...

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Michael Phelps, Indiana Teen, Found Guilty In School Shooting

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: School Shooting, Education, Chance Jackson, Teen Crime, Crime, School Crime, Indiana, Attempted Murder, Martinsville Indiana, Teen Violence, Indiana Schools, Michael Phelps, Education News

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — A central Indiana teenager who insisted for weeks that he hadn't intended to kill a former classmate admitted in court Mond...

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Rape Suspect Made News In The 90's As Missing Boy

AP | By CHRIS CAROLA | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Albany, Rape, Ny News, Attempted Murder, Adam Croote, New York News, Missing Children, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A 23-year-old man accused of raping an upstate New York girl was the subject of a missing child case that received national attention ...

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Child Covered In Feces Found In Cage-Like Crib, Another Found Buried ‎In Trailer Court

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Virginia, Brian Gore, David Lohr, Child Abuse, Crime, Shannon Gore, Attempted Murder, Home News

Police in Virginia are investigating a horrific case of alleged child abuse, in which one child was found Thursday locked inside a filthy makeshift ca...

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Lucali Pizzeria Owner Stabbed In Broad Daylight

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 06.16.2011

Read More: Attempted Murder, Benny Geritano, Mark Iacono, Pizza, Pizzeria Stabbing, Ny News, Stabbing, New York News

NEW YORK — A man with a long criminal history was arrested on a charge of first-degree assault Friday in a vicious, broad-daylight stabbing of t...

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Man Arrested For Trying To Kill His Girlfriend... Again

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attempted Murder, Illinois, Peggy Keane, Killing Same Woman Twice, Lance Wyatt, Chicago, Chicago News

Last year, Lance Wyatt allegedly tried murdering his girlfriend Peggy Keane by strangling her. Keane survived, and prosecutors say Wyatt tried again a...

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John Michael Farren, Bush Lawyer Jailed For Attempted Murder, Posts Bail

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

STAMFORD, Conn. — A former White House attorney charged with trying to kill his wife at their Connecticut home has posted bail and is undergoing...

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Robert Mustard Jr., Dallas Shooter, Yelled 'You've Taken All My Money' Before Trying To Kill His Financial Adviser

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dallas Shooting, Robert Mustard, Attempted Murder, Jr., Dallas Shooter, Anger Management, Bad Business Deals, Video, Business News

Robert Mustard, Jr., the man accused of shooting two men at a Dallas office building on Monday morning, was apparently trying to get his revenge on a ...

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Teenage Girls Cut Baby From Mother's Womb: Reports

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baby Theft, Assault, El Tiempo, Pregnancy, Colombia, Caesarean, Colombia Baby, Colombia Crime, Attempted Murder, Duitama, World News

Two teenage girls allegedly performed a crude caesarean on a pregnant woman in an attempt to steal her baby, according to Colombian media. The two gi...

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Kisha Jones Tried To Abort, Poison, AND Kill Baby Of Husband's Mistress

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Poison, Attempted Murder, Baby Murder, Kisha Jones Attempted Murder, Baby, Kisha Jones, Mistress, New York News

NEW YORK — A New York City woman pretended to be a hospital administrator, called an emergency room and tried to get hospital staff to take the ...

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Ex-Bush Lawyer Accused Of Attempted Murder May Lose Law License

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Connecticut, George W. Bush, White House Counsel, Attempted Murder, Ex-White House Counsel May Have Law License Suspended, John Michael Farren, New York News

NORWALK, Conn. — Connecticut authorities want to suspend the law license of an attorney who worked in both Bush administrations as he faces charges ...

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The Great Divide: Divorce, American Style

Tina Traster | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Valley Cottage, Suburbia, Divorce, Family Court, Attempted Murder, Allen Pelcak, Laura Matousek, New Jersey, Dead-Beat Dad, Healthy Living News

In America, fathers who can't pay child support are "deadbeats" rather than men who have become overwhelmed or sabotaged by unreasonable financial obligations ordered by family court judges.

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The Grinning Skull

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Katrina, Hurricane Deaths, Hurricane Katrina, Homicide, Katrina Deaths, Killing, New Orleans, Superdome, Murder, Shootings, Louisiana, Racial Tension, Tension, Attempted Murder, Killings, Race Relations, Politics News

While the media demonized the New Orleans' black population for crimes that turned out not to have happened, they ignored the group of white men who went on a shooting spree across the river.

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