Cell phone video shows how a road rage incident between a motorcyclist and a man armed with a knife nearly ended with the swipe of a blade before things took an unexpected turn.Rafael Vincent Rivera is currently being held without bond over the incident that transpired at a Flagler County, Florida, intersection on Wednesday. According to WKMG, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office investigators say the altercation started when 50-year-old Rivera allegedly cut in front of a motorcycle rider before stopping and exiting his truck with a knife.Expecting trouble, the stopped biker slipped on brass knuckles.The two then confronted each other before…
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The youngest victim in the massacre at Buffalo’s Tops Friendly Market was remembered Saturday for her “love and compassion.”Mourners gathered at the Assumption Church in Syracuse to say good-bye to Roberta Drury, 32, who was slaughtered last week along with nine others in what authorities said was a racially-motivated attack allegedly carried out by Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, NY. “Last Saturday, May the 14, our corner of the world was changed forever. Lives ended. Dreams shattered and our state was plunged into mourning,” said Friar Nicholas Spano during the funeral mass. Drury was raised in the Syracuse area and…
Homicide investigators in California are searching for clues in the brutal, grisly murder of a Los Angeles-area woman who was found dead in her home.As CBS Los Angeles reports, Fatima Johnson’s daughters and sisters had been searching for her after Johnson went missing sometime last week. The relatives reportedly went to Johnson’s home in the Manchester area, where they found her just after midnight on Tuesday. “And my sisters and I, we had been looking for her. And we found her. My sisters found her in her home hogtied, with her mouth duct-taped rolled up in a blanket,” Tyesa Harvey,…
2 Years After Baby’s Birth Husband Suspects Wife of Infidelity and Checks Her Laptop While talking to his girlfriend, the man suspected she was lying. When he checked her laptop later, he found a history of disturbing details that exposed her double life. A dad on Reddit was crushed when his girlfriend told him she was leaving him. She cited his depression as the main reason for this. However, the man soon discovered that she was lying after exploring her double life. Redditor Maienaze’s love story leveled up when he proposed to his girlfriend after she insisted they get married.…
A mom in Mississippi allegedly threw her infant daughter on a road, killing the child. Now, she faces the possibility of the death penalty.This week, police in Pearl, Mississippi, announced that Makaylia Jolley, 20, was charged with capital murder in connection to the death of her 9-week-old daughter. The child, Khalysie Lashay Jolley, died on May 14 in the hospital. Jolley was arrested on May 12 in connection to the alleged abuse, but the charges were upgraded with the child’s death, according to WAPT.Jolley now faces the possibility of the death penalty. When police arrived, they found Jolley holding the…
Bullies can be ruthless. They often have a “hole” in their life that they try to fill with attacks on other people that boost their self-esteem. They like to pick on people deemed weaker than them. Bullies don’t want to pick on someone who fights back – they want a target that’ll roll over and take the violence. But, a cheerleader from California proved that she was not someone who should be messed with in a video that has since emerged.“Nobody wants to fight,” the cheerleader tells the bully, who is another female, in the footage. “No one wants to…
A shooting at a Virginia mall left one person dead and two others hurt. Now, weeks later, police say they caught the gunman. Around 6:30 p.m. on April 2, police in Norfolk, Virginia, responded to the MacArthur Mall for a report of gunshots. When officers arrived, they found a man outside the center with a gunshot wound.The victim was pronounced dead and identified as 33-year-old Roosevelt A McKinney, 33. Police also found a woman with a gunshot wound and a man also injured. Those victims were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators identified Gary Moore, 39, as a…
DADE CITY — An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a Wednesday afternoon shooting that left a man dead and two children injured.Demetrius Roberts, who was arrested Thursday on charges of being a delinquent in possession of a firearm and carrying a concealed weapon, now also faces a murder charge, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office reported on Saturday.The shooting on Johns Road, off River Road in Dade City, was sparked by a fist fight between two female teens that escalated as family members and friends joined in, Maj. Jeffrey Peake with the sheriff’s office said at…
An unknown man has collapsed and died on stage while dancing with a lady who was performing at a street concert.The middle-aged man met his untimely death when he was dancing in front of hundreds of revelers. A video at our disposal shows an energetic lady, who was rocking an attire that left little for the male revelers to imagine, pulling dangerous stunts by jumping on the poor boy child like an antelope as the music was blazing from the speakers.Shortly after, the man collapsed leaving the revelers in shock. Bouncers rushed to save his life but unfortunately, he lost…
Man carrying a gun (Shutterstock)An Oklahoma man threatened to shoot a Black couple during a racist tirade outside a fast food restaurant.Court records show Michael Southerland pulled up behind the couple as they waited in line at a Wendy’s drive-thru in northwest Oklahoma City, and police said he became angry and impatient, reported KFOR-TV. “The person behind them began getting upset, honking their horns, yelling at them, even yelling some racial slurs toward them,” said Mgst. Gary Knight, of Oklahoma City police.Southerland was holding a black pistol pointed at the couple, court documents show, and security cameras allegedly show him…