Crime and Courts

Six people were hospitalized after a man went on a stabbing spree in Northeast D.C. Thursday afternoon. New4’s Walter Morris reports.

Some people incarcerated in Maryland’s prisons may have a chance to have their sentences reduced through a bill being considered now. The Second Look Act would allow younger offenders who have served at least 20 years in prison to ask to judge to release them. The bill has sparked heated debate in Annapolis. “Second Look is not a get-out-of-jail free…

A man stabbed himself and several other people in Northeast D.C. Thursday afternoon, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The suspect was under the influence of something at about 3:30 p.m. when he stabbed himself and the woman he was walking with along Montello Avenue near Raum Street in the Trinidad neighborhood, police said. “The suspect was in an...

A man stabbed himself and several other people in Northeast D.C. Thursday afternoon, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Multiple people were taken into hospital and a suspect is in custody after a mass stabbing in Northeast D.C. News4’s Walter Morris reports from the scene, and Investigative Reporter Ted Oberg takes a look at crime stats in the neighborhood and in D.C. in general.

Washington, D.C., is dedicating a new police unit to juvenile crime as the city experiences an increase in young people committing some crimes. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said the Juvenile Investigative Response Unit, or JIRU, will focus on responding to and preventing crimes that involve young people. “Recently, we have seen an...

Maryland lawmakers are considering the Second Look Act, which would allow younger offenders who’ve served at least 20 years to ask a judge to release them. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to critics and supporters of the bill.

The convictions and death sentence of the one-time leader of an Atwater Village street gang, who police believed committed at least a dozen murders and who was once on the US Marshals most-wanted list, were overturned Thursday by the California Supreme Court, which found a juror was improperly dismissed during deliberations. Timothy McGhee was found guilty in 2007 of three...

One man died and a second man has life-threatening injuries after they argued and opened fire at each other in the Woodlawn area of Fairfax County, off Route 1, police say. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

A California man’s attorneys say he’ll plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In a court filing Wednesday, lawyers for Nicholas John Roske say he intends to plead guilty to attempting to murder a justice of the United States at a hearing next week. The charge carries...

A Florida influencer and self-described “dog mom” has been arrested after she filmed herself having sex with a dog for a social media user who paid for it, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.⁠ Logan Guminski, 27, was charged with two felonies, sexual activity involving an animal and filming sexual activity involving an animal. ⁠It was back in January...

In a temporary restraining order petition, Arielle Konig said her husband, Dr. Gerhardt Konig, had accused her of having an affair and sexually abused and assaulted her.

Luigi Mangione is accused of shooting UnitedHealhcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. He pleaded not guilty to murder as an act of terror.

“JFK” director Oliver Stone is set to testify to Congress on Tuesday about thousands of newly released government documents.

Karen Read’s second trial is about to get underway, with the jury selection process set to begin on Tuesday.

MS-13 is a transnational criminal gang that has been declared a terrorist organization by El Salvador and the U.S.

The man told police he was “lying in wait” in her closet before killing her, documents said. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A suspect is in custody after a woman discovered a stranger who was fatally hurt inside her home in Fauquier County, Virginia, authorities say. Just before 10 p.m. Thursday a woman returned to her home in Linden and found 29-year-old Brandon Probst with traumatic injuries, the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office said. The woman didn’t know Probst. Probst, of Stuarts...

Over the last year, thieves have targeted freight trains traveling through the Mojave Desert in the southwest, specifically targeting Nike sneakers.

An 87-year-old woman was found killed inside a home in Potomac, Maryland, Sunday night after her grandson showed up to a police station and confessed to the crime, police say. Spencer Dillon Hamilton, 27, walked into the Rockville City Police station just after 8 p.m. and told officers he killed his grandmother, Pauline Yvonne Titus-Dillon, at her home, according to…