A Dallas cop who shot an accountant in his own apartment says she fired at a “large silhouette” of a man she believed was an intruder in her darkened apartment. Amber Guyger was charged with manslaughter Sunday in the shooting death of Botham Shem Jean, 26, who was killed at his apartment door.
Christopher Thomas, who murdered 10 people — including 8 children — in Brooklyn in 1984, was freed from an upstate New York prison in January, prison officials confirm.
Thomas, now 68, slaughtered 2 adults and 8 children in one of the worst mass shootings in New York history.
Dentist Clara Harris, who famously ran over her orthodontist husband with her Mercedes after she caught him cheating, was granted parole after serving 15 years of a 20-year sentence for manslaughter.
Alexandria Duval, whose twin sister died when the car they were in fell off a cliff in Hawaii, has been charged in her sister’s death. Duval, a 38-year-old yoga instructor, was arrested Friday outside her home in Albany, NY, CBS News reports.
Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was found guilty Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project.
Liang was fired from the police force immediately after his conviction in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.