homicide

• Homicide

• Justifiable homicide

• Juvenile homicide

• Teens Who Commit Homicide

Editor's note: This is the first of three stories to come out of a seminar titled "Homicide in America Tour. By CHRISTINE L. PRATT

• Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
• July 05, 2011

• Possible Homicide Under Investigation

NEW HAVEN -- Police are investigating a shooting in the West Hills neighborhood that is being treated as a possible homicide. The shooting happened before 11 p.m. in the area of 528 Valley St. Police released no other details, but said the injuries appeared to be very serious. North Haven man dies after car crash

• New Haven Register
• November 15, 2011

• Jail Death Ruled Homicide

Afrodita Asanachescu shows pictures of her late son, Marius Asanachescu, in March. "We have memories, thank God," she said. Afrodita and Cristian Asanachescu talk about their son, Marius Asanachescu, at their Vancouver home on March 22. Their son died Feb. 10 in the Clark County Jail. The cause of death, issued Wednesday, was homicide from asphyxia. Custody officers had been restraining Asanachescu to prevent him from harming himself, a sheriff's office official said.

• The Columbian
• July 21, 2012

• In Rochester Homicide Case

Questions regarding written jury verdict sheet instructions in a Rochester homicide case will be heard by the New York State Court of Appeals. Leave was recently granted in People v. Jeffrey H. Miller in which Miller was convicted in October 2006 of second-degree murder, second-degree assault, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

• Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
• May 30, 2011

• Homicide Rate Drops to Lowest in Decade ; Effort to Rid Streets of 'the Worst of the Worst' Brings Figure Down to 36 Murders

Buffalo's murder rate for 2011 dropped to its lowest in more than a decade and represents a downward trend for the second year in a row. Thirty-six individuals -- ranging from a 1-year-old girl to an 84-year-old man -- lost their lives to violence last year, representing an almost 40 percent drop from 2010, when 55 were homicide victims.

• Buffalo News
• January 03, 2012

• Schoolgirl's Death Ruled a Homicide

LONG BEACH, Calif. - What began as an after-school fight between two young girls over a boy exploded into a homicide investigation Monday, when authorities said a 10-year-old died of a head injury after the confrontation with an 11 year-old classmate. The finding rattled the already shaken school community at Willard Elementary, where student Joanna Ramos attended the fifth grade. She died Friday, about six hours after a brief fight with another girl in an alley near the school in a working-class neighborhood in the port city of Long Beach.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• February 28, 2012

• Beechcroft High Murder Highlights Tragedy of Black Youth Homicide

Meanwhile, some of [Anthony Morgan]'s last words as he collapsed on Bettie Whitaker's doorway, "Ma'am, can you please help me," still sends chill down Whitaker's spine as she straggles to cope with the horrifying sight of a moribund Morgan. It still bothers me that I could not help that boy," Whitaker said. "Somebody is laying there dying and you can't do anything for them. Cherry, 18, who was with Morgan earlier in the day before the shooting incident - cried. "He was a loving person, very smart and very respectful," said Cherry. "He was one of the best persons you could be around."

• Call & Post; Cincinnati, Ohio
• August 19, 2009

• Police Report: Homicide Victim Had Local Ties

Mayra Sophia Cruz Rodriguez A sketch of a homicide victim, who on Monday was identified by police as Mayra Sophia Cruz Rodriguez, 15, of San Diego County, Calif.

• The Columbian
• November 02, 2012

• Victims of Triple Homicide's Last Moments Traced

BANGOR, Maine -- While police continue to investigate who is responsible for taking the lives of three people found last week in a car that was left ablaze in a dark parking lot, friends and loved ones of the victims piece together the last moments of their lives. They all say Daniel T. Borders, 26, of Hermon, Nicolle A. Lugdon, 24, of Eddington, and Lucas A. Tuscano, 28, of Bradford -- the three homicide victims -- were at a small gathering in Bangor and left together in a white Pontiac with Rhode Island plates.

• Bangor Daily News
• August 22, 2012

• 3 Homicide Victims in Burned-Out Car Identified

BANGOR, Maine -- The state medical examiner's office has positively identified the three people whose bodies were found early Monday in a car that was left ablaze in the back parking lot of a local business. Daniel Thomas Borders, 26, of Hermon; Nicolle Ashley Lugdon, 24, of Eddington; and Lucas Alan Tuscano, 28, of Bradford are the three homicide victims, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards announced Friday evening.

• Bangor Daily News
• August 18, 2012