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In the pre-dawn darkness of Saturday morning, as most of Oklahoma City slumbered through the final hours of the night, tragedy unfurled quietly but devastatingly in the northeastern corridor of the city. At approximately 1:45 a.m., law enforcement officers were dispatched to the 1800 block of Northeast 7th Street, responding to a shooting that would…
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What began as a festive weekend in Birmingham turned into one of sorrow and searching for answers as two men—41-year-old Cortez Lowery and 49-year-old Kedric Lamon Johnson—lost their lives in separate, tragic single-vehicle crashes over the holiday period. Both were Birmingham residents, and both died under circumstances that, while eerily similar in isolation, now form…
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The quiet early hours of Sunday morning, July 6, were shattered by the unmistakable sound of gunfire echoing behind an apartment complex in the 1100 block of 3rd Street SW in Washington, D.C. Before the sun had a chance to rise over the city, a grim scene had already begun to unfold. Police officers from…
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The morning of July 7 brought a chilling escalation to the ongoing national debate over border security when Ryan Louis Mosqueda, a 27-year-old man armed with an assault rifle and equipped in a utility vest, was fatally shot by federal agents after he opened fire on a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. The…
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In the early hours of Friday morning, the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago was plunged into a waking nightmare that would shake the city’s conscience and leave first responders, neighbors, and an entire community grappling with the unspeakable. At the center of the unfolding horror: 46-year-old Wendy Tolbert, a mother of three, now accused of…
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In the early hours of a quiet Sunday morning, a life was extinguished in a burst of senseless violence that would ripple through the heart of southwest Oklahoma City. The victim, identified by authorities as 17-year-old Jacob Crawford, was found lying mortally wounded in the parking lot of a residential complex near Heyman Street, just…
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In the quiet early hours of Saturday, July 5, tragedy pierced the stillness of a Shreveport neighborhood as 40-year-old Corinthian Shepard was fatally shot inside her own home—a place that should have been a sanctuary. The alleged perpetrator of her death was not an unknown intruder or a stranger with a weapon, but rather her…
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In the early hours of Sunday morning, tragedy struck the normally quiet neighborhood of Willow Bend Lane in Bessemer, Alabama. At precisely 2:21 a.m., authorities were dispatched to a domestic disturbance call that escalated into a deadly shooting. By the time emergency responders arrived at the 800 block of Willow Bend Lane, it was too…
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In the midst of the July 4th flash flood catastrophe that ravaged Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, one name has emerged with singular clarity and awe: Scott Ruskan. A newly certified U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer on his very first mission, Ruskan was instrumental in saving 165 lives from the raging…
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In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning, July 6, 2025, Alejandro Fernandez—just 32 years old—lost his life in a violent, wrong-way crash involving four vehicles on the Edens Expressway near Tower Road in Glencoe, a tranquil northern suburb of Chicago. Fernandez’s identity was formally confirmed Monday by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, but the…