The crux of the prosecution’s case was based on the claim that a revolver taken from Hinton’s mother’s home was used in both the murders, although there were no witnesses to either murder or any fingerprints at the scene.
Police believe the triple homicide of a Muslim family in their North Carolina home was due to a parking conflict and was likely not religiously motivated. But the victims’ family disagrees, calling it a “hate crime” and an “execution.”
The three young relatives in the college town of Chapel Hill were gunned down in their home on Tuesday evening. The victims in the triple homicide have been identified as Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19. All three victims were shot in the head.
A 46-year-old man identified by police as Craig Stephen Hicks turned himself in late Tuesday night. He was subsequently arrested on suspicion of three counts of first degree murder. Hicks lived next door to the family in a condominium complex a few miles east of the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus.
A former Guantanamo Bay prison guard and Marine has spoken to the press for the first time about what he claims were the CIA murders of three problematic detainees, covered up as a triple suicide.
“They would have had to all three tie their hands and feet together, shove rags down their throats, put a mask over their face, made a noose, hung it from the ceiling on the side of the cellblock, jumped into the noose and hung themselves simultaneously,” he told Vice News.
New Mexico police charged with murdering homeless man
Students at a school in western New York plotted to kill their fourth grade teacher in December, according to a law enforcement report that surfaced this week, but their plans were foiled by the police.
The Genesee County Sheriff’s Department told local media this week that the suspects — nine-year-old students from the Elba Central School District — “made comments to other students that they were going to kill [the teacher] by putting antibacterial products around the classroom."
Police in Florida say they have charged two young girls with the murder of their 16-year-old brother after taking a gun out of their parents’ locked room. The girls were found running away from home afterwards.
According to a police report obtained by local WJAX, Ariel said her older brother beat her before locking her inside a bedroom. After the boy went to sleep, Nicole unlocked the door to Ariel’s room. The older sister then found a way into her parents' room, where she retrieved a gun. Ariel then allegedly shot her brother, who was found dead from a single gunshot, and ran away from the home with Nicole, local WJXT reported.