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Boy Hid as Parents Stabbed to Death

Horrifying details emerge from a triple murder in California

(Newser) - A sad new twist in the case of a California couple that was murdered last year: Warrants show their 9-year-old boy hid behind a couch during stabbing. The child apparently ran to get his mother's purse to appease the attacker, but hid in the living room after hearing his mother...

Hate Crime? Man Attacks Muslim Cabbie in NYC

Drunk man asks religion, then pulls knife, say police

(Newser) - A New York man was arrested last night after attacking a cab driver with a pocket knife because he was Muslim, police tell the New York Daily News . Enright Michaels, a 21-year-old from upstate, was “very, very intoxicated” when he got in a cab around 6pm, according to a...

Serial Stabbing Suspect Caught on Way to Israel

Cops think Israeli national is man sought in Mich., Va. attacks

(Newser) - A possible suspect in a string of 20 stabbings that terrorized people across three states and left five dead was arrested late yesterday at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport as he tried to board a Delta flight for Tel Aviv. The man is being held on unrelated charges, police in Leesburg, Va....

Serial Killer Attacking Black Men
Serial Killer Attacking
Black Men

Serial Killer Attacking Black Men

Cops believe Flint killer is Virginia slasher

(Newser) - Investigators believe that a man who attacked and wounded three dark-skinned men in Virginia this month is the same person wanted for 15 stabbings in Flint, Michigan. All but two of the Flint serial killer's victims, and all five fatalities, were African-American men, and police say the description of the...

Video Captures Porn Actor's Final Moments

Stephen Hill apparently leaped as SWAT team closed in

(Newser) - Surrounded by a SWAT team on a rocky cliff, a porn actor suspected of killing a colleague last week moved to the edge of the outcropping and fell some 40 feet to his death, ending a dramatic, daylong standoff with police outside Los Angeles. Video of the apparent suicide captured...

Porn Actor Wanted in Sword Killing Dies in Fall

Cops use stun gun, actor tumbles off cliff

(Newser) - The porn actor wanted in the murder of a co-worker has died after an 8-hour standoff with California cops that ended in his fall from a cliff. Police cornered Stephen Clancy Hill yesterday and finally used stun guns to get him down, at which point he either fell or jumped,...

Porn Actor Snaps, Stabs 3 Co-Workers

One dead in production office rampage after he lost his job

(Newser) - A struggling porn actor went on a rampage last night, attacking three people with a machete-like weapon at the video production office where he worked, police tell the LA Times . One of the victims is dead, the other two injured. According to police, 30-year-old Stephen Hill, who both did production...

Gamer Stabs Counter-Strike Foe—For Real

He plotted revenge after his character's killing

(Newser) - A Frenchman—possibly so divorced from reality that he failed to realize there's no respawn option in real life— hunted down a player who "fatally stabbed" his virtual character in online game Counter-Strike and plunged a real knife into the game rival's chest. The victim survived after the knife...

Shopper Stabs 4 at LA Target
 Shopper Stabs 4 at LA Target 

Shopper Stabs 4 at LA Target

Hero cop stops slash spree before anyone is killed

(Newser) - Four shoppers were slashed yesterday at a West Hollywood Target store by a woman wielding a knife in each hand and shouting: "There is no witness protection program." Layla Rosetta Trawick, 35, appears to have attacked people at random with a butcher and carving knife, police said. All...

28 Children Stabbed in China Attack
28 Children Stabbed
in China Attack

28 Children Stabbed in China Attack

Knifeman goes berserk in kindergarten

(Newser) - A knife-wielding man went berserk in a kindergarten in eastern China today, stabbing 28 children and 3 adults. The suspected attacker, 47, was arrested after the multiple assaults in Jiangsu province, the BBC reports. Most of those injured were 4-year-old children from the same class. Five victims are in critical...

Moviegoer Stabbed After Complaining About Cell Phone

Suspects sought in meat thermometer attack

(Newser) - A Los Angeles County moviegoer had a meat thermometer plunged into his neck after asking a woman to silence her cell phone. The woman and two men with her walked out of the screening of Shutter Island before the men returned and attacked the victim, according to cops. The victim...

Soldier Busted in Stabbing Death of 2 Others

Motive for grisly attack a mystery

(Newser) - A soldier has been charged with murdering two fellow servicemen in upstate New York. Joshua Hunter, 20, surrendered to police in Ohio yesterday. He was based at Fort Drum, where the bodies of Waide James, 20, and Diego Valbuena, 23, were found earlier this week with multiple stab wounds at...

Janitor Charged in NJ Priest's Stabbing Death

He confesses, citing argument; cops probe possible relationship

(Newser) - A janitor and "second father" to kids at a New Jersey Catholic church has been charged in the murder of a beloved parish priest, who he rushed to halfheartedly give CPR when he and church workers discovered the body. Jose Feliciano told police he and Father Ed Hinds had...

UConn Football Player Slain on Campus

Cornerback Jasper Howard, 20, was stabbed to death

(Newser) - A University of Connecticut football player has died after being stabbed on campus early this morning. Jasper Howard, a junior cornerback from Miami and the first member of his family to attend college, was 20. Two groups of people scuffled as a dance at the student union was letting out,...

UCLA Reeling After Lab Student's Throat Slashed

Male student attacks female chem partner

(Newser) - UCLA students were shaken yesterday after a 20-year-old man slashed the throat of a classmate in a chemistry lab in front of others. The pair, believed to have been lab partners, had a verbal altercation before the man attacked the woman and walked calmly away as a teaching assistant rushed...

French Tourist Attacked Near Tiananmen

Second stabbing incident in 2 days rattles Beijing

(Newser) - A French  tourist was attacked and injured by a knife-wielding man near Beijing's Tiananmen Square today, raising tensions as the Chinese capital prepares to mark 60 years of Communist rule, the AP reports. Two security guards were killed and at least a dozen other people were injured in another attack...

Roman Soccer Fans Will Kick, Er, Stab Your Butt

Anyway you slice it, extreme fans like to attack from behind

(Newser) - People who attend soccer games in Rome have to watch their backsides, warns the BBC. That's because Romans are particularly fond of stabbing rival fans in the butt. Stabbings are "now so frequent they're hardly reported in the press," said a professor who has studied the attacks. "...

Mass. Mom Kills Child, Unborn Baby: Cops

Woman was 7½ months pregnant, stabbed herself

(Newser) - A pregnant woman killed her 9-year-old daughter and stabbed herself in the stomach to kill her unborn child, authorities in the Boston suburb of Quincy said today. Fang Chi Xue, 38, was treated for self-inflicted stab wounds to the arms and abdomen and is expected to be arraigned on two...

Student Killed in Teacher's Love Triangle

Ex-pupil boyfriend held in murder of Ariz. woman's teen lover

(Newser) - An 18-year-old Arizona high school student caught with his 48-year-old math teacher in her bedroom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who is himself a former student of hers, police said yesterday. Sixto Balbuena, 20, a Navy sailor on leave, was arrested on a murder charge after police found...

Woman Dies Trying to Stop Family Sword Fight

Grandson charged with murder after bizarre altercation

(Newser) - A woman is dead in Indianapolis after trying to stop her grandson and brother-in-law from fighting with swords early this morning, the Star reports. Christopher Rondeau, 39, faces preliminary murder charges after 77-year-old Franziska Stegbauer was stabbed in an altercation between him and Adolf Stegbauer, 69. Authorities are unsure if...

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