Murder

ilbusca/Getty Images/STOCK (SAN ANTONIO) — Murder charges were filed Friday against three members of the San Antonio Police Department after they allegedly shot and killed a woman in her apartment, the department said. Melissa Perez, 46, was shot and killed by the officers after they responded to a call about a woman destroying property, police said. […]

Quincy Police Department (QUINCY, Ill.) — The murder trial of a former Family Feud contestant accused of killing his wife enters its second week Tuesday in Quincy, a historic city in downstate Illinois that overlooks the Mississippi River. Adams County prosecutors say Tim Bliefnick, 39, killed his estranged wife Rebecca Bliefnick, 41, in February at […]

Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Murder charges have been filed against a 61-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a long-serving Los Angeles Catholic priest known as a “peacemaker.” The suspect, Carlos Medina, was charged with first-degree murder stemming from the slaying of Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell over the weekend, […]

Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A long-serving Catholic bishop known as a “peacemaker” was fatally shot in a Los Angeles home on Saturday, prompting police to launch a murder investigation, officials said. Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, who had been a priest and then a bishop during his 45 years with […]