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A man has been arrested for shooting and killing a 9-year-old in a Chicago's Portage Park on Saturday night, police said. A man has been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing a 9-year-old girl in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood on Saturday night, police said. Michael Goodman, 43, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection the death of Serabi Medina, Chicago police officials said in a statement. A pedestrian views a makeshift memorial for 9-year-old Serabi Medina who was fatally shot in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood on Aug. 5, 2023. WLS He is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday for a bond hearing, local ABC News station WLS reported. Goodman, who lives on the block where the shooting occurred, had been upset about noise and had confronted Medina and her father before allegedly shooting the girl in the head, WLS reported. A makeshift memorial on the street for 9-year-old Serabi Medina who was fatally shot in Chicago's Portage Park neighb...

Daniel Penny has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on the NYC subway. Marine veteran Daniel Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide Wednesday in connection with the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a subway train. Penny pleaded not guilty to the charges and is free on $100,000 bail. His next court appearance is October 25. Members of Neely’s family sat in the second row during Penny's court appearance. Penny’s relatives sat in the row behind them. Penny was indicted by a grand jury on June 14. Video showed Penny, 24, putting Neely in a chokehold on May 1. Several witnesses observed Neely making threats, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass told the judge during Penny's initial appearance in court on May 12. Daniel Penny, center, is walked out of the New York Police Department 5th Precinct in Lower Manhattan, May 12, 2023, on his way to a arraignment after he surre...

A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of a 19-year-old who bought what appeared to be prescription oxycodone pills that actually contained fentanyl. A Colorado man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling a teenager what appeared to be prescription oxycodone pills that actually contained fentanyl . MORE: Ovidio Guzman, son of El Chapo and alleged major fentanyl trafficker, arrested in Mexico "This is the longest sentence to date in federal court in Colorado for distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, and it should send a loud and clear message to drug dealers and drug traffickers. Our law enforcement partners will track you down and we will prosecute you if you peddle this poison in our communities," said United States Attorney Cole Finegan in a statement. An undated stock photo depicts a judge holding a gavel in a courtroom. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images "Lives are at stake, and we will use every available tool to combat this deadly epidemic...

Tyre Nichols, 29, of Memphis, died three days after he was arrested and hospitalized in critical condition. Authorities are investigating the recent death of a man following a confrontation with police officers during a traffic stop in Memphis. Tyre Nichols, 29, of Memphis, was arrest ed on the evening of Jan. 7 after officers attempted to make a traffic stop for reckless driving near the area of Raines Road and Ross Road, according to separate press releases from the Memphis Police Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. A confrontation unfolded as the officers approached Nichols, who ran away. Another confrontation occurred when the officers pursued Nichols and ultimately apprehended him, police said. After the incident, Nichols "complained of having a shortness of breath" and was transported by ambulance to Memphis' St. Francis Hospital in critical condition, according to police. MORE: 5 Louisiana officers charged after deadly arrest of unarmed Black m...

A Minnesota man who spent nearly 25 years in prison in connection with his wife’s death has been freed after officials vacated his murder conviction A Minnesota man who served nearly 25 years in connection with his wife's death walked out of prison on Friday after authorities vacated his murder convictions and allowed him to plead guilty to manslaughter, citing a problem with expert testimony from a doctor whose statements in other cases have also come under scrutiny. Thomas Rhodes, who is now 63, was convicted in 1998 of first- and second-degree murder in the death of his 36-year-old wife, Jane Rhodes, who fell overboard and drowned on a night-time boat ride with her husband on Green Lake in Spicer in 1996. The murder conviction hinged on the testimony of Dr. Michael McGee, who said Rhodes grabbed his wife by the neck, threw her overboard and ran her over several times, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement Friday. Rhodes told investigators his wife fell out of ...

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has accused the Los Angeles Police Department of killing her cousin during a traffic stop. Black Lives Matter co -founder Patrisse Cullors has claimed the Los Angeles Police Department is responsible for her cousin 's death during a traffic stop. Cullors said on Instagram on Tuesday that her cousin , Keenan Anderson, was killed in Venice, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, on Jan. 3. "My cousin was an educator and worked with high school-aged children. He was an English teacher," Cullors said. MORE: Racial disparities in traffic fatalities wider than previously estimated: Study According to the LAPD, an officer was flagged for a traffic collision on Venice Boulevard on Jan. 3 when he saw Anderson "running in the middle of the street and exhibiting erratic behavior." The LAPD said people in the accident told the officer that Anderson had caused the crash. In this Feb. 11, 2019, file photo, producer Patrisse Cullors att...