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Man Kills His Family Of Seven, Then Self, After Wife Files For Divorce

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Man Kills His Family Of Seven, Then Self, After Wife Files For Divorce

A man shot and killed his family of seven, including five children, then turned the gun on himself after his wife filed for divorce, US officials said Thursday. Police in the small Utah settlement of Enoch City found eight bodies -- one of them that of a four-year-old -- after being called by friends and relatives who were concerned for the family. A spokesman said officers had discovered three adults and five children at a single-family home on Wednesday, all dead from what appeared to be gunshot wounds. "Evidence suggests that the suspect took his own life after killing seven others in the home," a statement from the city said, naming him as 42-year-old Michael Haight. The dead were his wife, her mother, and the couple's five children -- three girls and two boys aged bet...

The University of Virginia student Formally Charged with murder of Three Football Players

The University of Virginia student accused of killing three football players and injuring two more on Sunday appeared to target his victims and shot one of them while he was sleeping, prosecutors alleged. The suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., appeared in court via a video conference from jail on Wednesday, where he was formally charged with three counts of second-degree murder, five counts of using a firearm in commission of a felony, and two counts of malicious bodily injury, court records show. The 22-year-old suspect was "not randomly shooting" and appeared to aim for "certain people" on the bus, James Hingeley, the Albemarle County commonwealth attorney’s office prosecutor, said in court, citing a witness. The bus was carrying students returning from a class field t...

Jennifer Wambua’s murder solved by forensics

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) says it has nailed the killer of National Land Commission (NLC) official Jennifer Wambua. DCI said forensic analysis has placed the prime suspect in the murder case Peter Mwangi Njenga alias Ole Sankale at the scene of the crime. Detectives said Njenga, who is a convicted rapist and violent robber, was last seen with Wambua when she was alive on March 12. “The forensic results are finally out, positively matching the suspect. Following detailed forensic and intelligence-led investigations, detectives established that the suspect had indeed interacted and spent quite some time with the deceased at the location where the body was later discovered,” said DCI. Njenga was arrested last month by homicide detectives ...