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Homicides have surged by 38 percent in the nation’s capital, while carjackings have skyrocketed by 110 percent.

The suspicious death of a 41-year-old Republican activist was a homicide that occurred at his home in Durham, New Hampshire, officials ruled Sunday.

Details have emerged about the death of the Maryland mother identified as Rachel Morin, whose body was found Sunday.

A man is accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend 150 times with scissors on Monday in Chicago, while she was visiting with her children.

A Florida toddler was “baked to death” after her parents left her in a car overnight following a party where they smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. 

Six women went missing and were later found dead in the Portland, Oregon, area. Now, authorities are trying to determine if there are connections between the cases.

The parents of a three-month-old baby girl who was found dead in a wooded area in the Bronx, New York City, were arrested on Monday, ABC7NY reported.

A 12-year-old Wisconsin boy has been accused of fatally shooting his 34-year-old neighbor in the man’s home.

Afghan asylum seeker arrested for the fatal stabbing of two women in a Shia Muslim centre in Portugal in a potential terrorist attack. 

A 16-year-old died at a Toronto subway station in what appears to be just the latest act of unexplained violence in recent months.

Two girls have confessed to the killing of a 12-year-old girl, whose body was found last weekend in the German town of Freudenberg.

A 37-year-old man in Germany has been arrested by police after allegedly murdering his 100-year-old grandmother and cutting off her head with a hatchet. The suspect, 37-year-old Artur B., was taken into custody on Monday morning after he phoned local

Two brothers have been indicted in the Swedish city of Gothenburg for killing their own mother and injuring her boyfriend in an apparently honour-motivated murder.

El Salvador on Friday moved the first 2,000 inmates to the new Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a 40,000-bed “mega prison” larger than all 20 of the country’s existing prisons combined. Over 64,000 suspects have been arrested so far in President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence.

Police in Burlington, Vermont, believe they’ve solved the decades-old murder of a teacher thanks to DNA found on a cigarette left at the crime scene.

A Spectrum News 13 reporter was shot and killed in Orlando, Florida, Wednesday afternoon while reporting on a homicide that had occurred earlier in the day.

Police believe the stabbing murder of a 16-year-old transgender girl was “targeted” are yet to see evidence it was not “hate related”.

The torso of a Chinese woman was found in an apartment complex in Antwerp, Belgium, with investigators believing she may have been linked to a prostitution network.

Knife slayings hit their highest total since records began in 1946 in the year to March 2022, according to official statistics.

Officials made an arrest Thursday after a 33-year-old Jersey City kindergarten teacher’s body was found in a shallow grave.

A woman living in Paris who allegedly set a fire to “annoy” her neighbour is on trial this week after the fire spread, killing ten people. 

A teenager has been charged with the death of politician Frederik Andersson outside a gym in Stockholm last year during a gang shooting.  

A 28-year-old mother of five children was killed in a hit-and-run and dragged under the car after she defended her daughter from a group of bullies, according to police and the victim’s family. 

A 12-year-old girl is in custody after she allegedly stabbed her nine-year-old brother to death in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Thursday.

A Memphis man charged with first-degree murder was rearrested after being mistakenly released from jail with no bond on Sunday. 

The first homicide of 2023 in Chicago occurred 90 minutes into the New Year when a 38-year-old male was shot to death at a hookah lounge, CWB Chicago reported, citing police.

There were over 500 homicides in Mayor Jim Kenney’s (D) Philadelphia in 2022, making 2022 the second consecutive year that the threshold of at least 500 homicides has been reached.

Spain’s ruling leftist parties have blamed each other after the country saw a record number of murders of women in December. 

A gunman fatally shot a woman in the stomach outside a liquor store Wednesday night in Detroit before escaping with the victim’s vehicle.

A career criminal was arrested Christmas Eve after he allegedly went on a stabbing spree that resulted in two people murdered, including a pediatrician.

A Philadelphia man who was cleared of wrongdoing for several murder cases after spending 25 years on death row was fatally shot while attending a funeral.

Italian court sentenced migrant who filmed himself sexually abusing a woman he had given drugs to and who later died of an overdose.

A 27-year-old woman was stabbed to death inside a homeless shelter in Manhattan Friday night, according to the New York City Police Department.

A 29-year-old radical Islamic extremist on trial for murder has admitted to the attack to “defend the prophet” and “punish” Switzerland. 

Two suspects have been charged after a 77-year-old man was found shot to death inside his Fox Lake, Illinois, home Monday night.

An Iowa father and mother are accused of drowning their newborn daughter in the bathtub moments after the child was born.