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Scot Peterson, the ex-Parkland resource officer accused of allegedly failing to confront the school shooter, has been found not guilty. The former Parkland, Florida, resource officer accused of failing to confront the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter who killed 14 students and three staff members in 2018 has been found not guilty on all counts . Scot Peterson, 60, was charged in 2019 with multiple counts of child neglect after an internal investigation found that he retreated while students were under attack. Prosecutors accused Peterson, a 30-year veteran of the Broward Sheriff's Office, of making a false statement, claiming that he did not hear gunshots. Scot Peterson reacts to the verdict in the courtroom on June 29, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ABC News, POOL Pet erson could be seen sobbing with his head on the table after the verdicts were read by the judge. Scot Peterson reacts to the verdict in the courtroom on June 29, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ABC News...

A girl abducted in Illinois in 2017 when she was 9 has been found safe in North Carolina. A girl abducted in Illinois in 2017 when she was 9 has been found safe in North Carolina. Kayla Unbehaun, 15, was located by police in Asheville, North Carolina, after a store employee called the police after recognizing the teen’s mother, who allegedly abducted her daughter in 2017, according to the Asheville Police Department and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. “It was the right thing to do,” the employee who said she called the police, told ABC News, requesting her identity and store not be published. The identification of Kayla Unbehaun’s kidnapping came down to a tip from a local employee who recognized her abductor. WLOS After investigating the kidnapping, officers consulted with the South Elgin Police Department to identify Heather Unbehaun, who kidnapped her daughter Kayla Unbehaun nearly six years ago, according to the Asheville Police Department. “It is unusua...

The search for a kidnapped Detroit nurse ended with the grim discovery of her body in the trunk of a car and police said the suspect is her her ex-boyfriend. The search for a kidnapped Detroit nurse ended with the grim discovery of her body in the trunk of a car and police said the suspect is her ex -boyfriend . Patrice Wilson, 29, a nurse at Detroit Medical Center, was abducted Saturday morning in the hospital parking lot after finishing her overnight shift, said Capt. Donna McCord, of the Detroit Police Department. Wilson's body was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds Sunday in the trunk of a car at an apartment complex in Novi, about 30 miles northwest of Detroit, police sources told ABC Detroit affiliate station WXYZ. Police launched a search for Wilson's ex -boyfriend , Jamere Miller, 36, who they suspect abducted and killed the victim, authorities said. Roslind Livingston displayed a photo of her daughter, Patrice Wilson, on May 13, 2023, in Detroit. Wilson was ki...

Authorities say a key piece of evidence in the case of four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in November turned out to be surveillance footage showing a white sedan driving past the victims' home The white sedan cruised past the gray, three-story rental home on a dead-end street in Moscow, Idaho. Then again. And again. It was unusual behavior in the residential, hillside neighborhood in the quiet hours before dawn. And according to a police affidavit released Thursday, surveillance videos showing the vehicle that November night were key to unraveling the gruesome mystery of who killed four University of Idaho students inside the house. With little else to go on as a panicked community demanded answers, investigators canvassed security footage from the neighborhood — including one recording of the car speeding away after the slayings — to get a sense of the killer's possible movements, the affidavit said. Eventually, the document said, police were able to narrow...

A skeleton has been found on the University of California, Berkeley campus. A human skeleton was discovered in an unused building on a University of California, Berkeley, campus on Jan. 10, according to college officials. The University of California Police Department is investigating the remains, which were found in a residential hall complex and event space on the Clark Kerr Campus that hadn't been used in years, according to school administrators. The building sits about a mile from the main campus . The U.C. Berkeley campus sits empty, July 22, 2020 in Berkeley, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, FILE "Although the remains are skeleton ized, it is not clear how many years they have been there," a University of California, Berkeley spokesperson said in a statement. MORE: 6 family members, including baby, shot dead at home in targeted 'massacre': Sheriff There are no outstanding cases of missing individuals from the campus community, the statement read....

The two Indianapolis officers who located missing 5-month-old Kason Thomass spoke about the emotional discovery. Three days after he went missing in an alleged carjacking in Ohio, 5-month-old Kason Thomass was found safe across state lines in Indiana. It was an emotional discovery for the Indianapolis officers who located the baby. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Sgt. Shawn Anderson speaks to the press, Dec. 23, 2022. WRTV "The first thing that went through my mind was thank God we found baby Kason. He's alive and well," Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Sgt. Shawn Anderson told ABC Indianapolis affiliate WRTV on Friday. His colleague, Sgt. Richard El, said he picked up Kason and held him, thinking, "You're safe now, we got you, we going to get you back to your parents." "He was still in a onesie and it just gave me memories of my kids being young and whatnot," El told WRTV. "So I gave him a hug and just held him and bounced him around a lit...

Jurors have reached a verdict in the Aaron Dean trial concerning the death of Atatiana Jefferson. A jury has found former police officer Aaron Dean guilty of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman who was fatally shot in her Fort Worth, Texas, home in 2019. The jury considered both a murder charge and a lesser charge of manslaughter during its deliberations, according to Judge George Gallagher. Manslaughter is a second-degree felony according to Texas penal code. It's punishable by two to 20 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. Dean's sentence will be decided by the jury. The sentencing phase will begin Friday morning at 10 a.m. Eastern time. Throughout the five days of testimony, the jury heard from Jefferson's now-11-year-old nephew Zion Carr, who was in the room when she was shot. MORE: Atatiana Jefferson death: Jury begins deliberations in murder trial Jurors also heard from Dean's partner that night, Officer Carol Da...