Court records show the mother had sought protection from her estranged husband, who pleaded guilty to domestic battery weeks before her death.

Police say the 18-year-old dancer was shot shortly after arriving to collect her belongings following the couple’s recent breakup.

The Texas A&M student and former cheerleader was found dead in Austin after a tailgate, prompting her mother to demand answers.

The child told deputies they ran away from home to escape repeated abuse, including being struck with a phone charger.

A criminal complaint says the suspect claimed his daughter was trapped in the basement, a belief officers later determined to be unfounded.

Dylan Dukes, once honored as Teacher of the Year at Starr Elementary, pleaded guilty after investigators uncovered dozens of letters, gifts, and other unwanted contact with the student.

Police say the victim secretly alerted relatives, who tracked her phone and helped officers intercept the vehicle at a Planned Parenthood clinic.

Authorities say the 20-year-old musician is not cooperating as investigators probe how 15-year-old Celeste Rivas’ dismembered remains ended up inside the vehicle’s front trunk.

He became South Carolina’s third firing-squad execution this year and one of only six such executions in modern U.S. history.

Authorities say 18-year-old Deshawn Suggs fled after the chaos on Luckey Road, leaving a community desperate for answers.

Authorities say the infant had already been dead for hours when the father returned him to his mother’s doorstep.

Authorities say 40-year-old David Bruce Delong confessed to striking 20-year-old Amber Czech multiple times with a sledgehammer at their Cokato workplace.

Prosecutors say the Fairfax teen spent months researching how to strangle someone and how to cover up a murder before killing 64-year-old Sheila “Denise” Tenpenny.

Authorities say the WakeMed campus police officer was killed while responding to a disturbance at the Garner Healthplex on Saturday morning.

Authorities say Maria Florinda Rios Perez de Velasquez was part of a cleaning crew that accidentally went to the wrong home before she was fatally shot.

Court records show the suspects father turned her in to authorities after she admitted being involved, though she stopped cooperating once her mother arrived at the station.

Police say 21-year-old Jaeveyin Antonio Porter shot and killed his wife’s uncle, Miguel Garcia, during a confrontation at the La Estancia Apartments on Sunday morning.