homicide

The 29-year-old fugitive nabbed in Maine in connection with the triple homicide of three family members in Queens over the summer — a brutal case that involved bound hands, bloody tools and puncture wounds — has been indicted on first-degree murder charges in the case, the district attorney’s office announced Tuesday. Travis Blake, of Queens, was on the run for…

A former deputy Nevada attorney general has been arrested in Reno as a suspect in a 1972 homicide in Hawaii.

A woman’s head was severed with a sword in San Carlos Thursday, authorities with knowledge of the investigation told NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

Detectives closed the 51-year-old homicide of a Montgomery County special deputy sheriff last week.

A fourth man has been arrested and charged with murder in a strange double homicide at a Manhattan recording studio earlier this year, authorities say. Tashawn Sullivan, of Newark, was arrested Thursday in the in the May 5 shooting that killed 34-year-old Kamir King and 24-year-old Devon Dillahunt. Sullivan is the fourth person, and third from New Jersey, to face…

The bodies of the woman and man, both in their 20s, were found once firefighters put out the blaze. Now it doesn’t appear fire is what killed them at all.

A second New Jersey man has been arrested on a charge of murder in a baffling double homicide at a Manhattan recording studio earlier this year, authorities say. Daniel Williams, a 21-year-old from Roselle, was charged Monday with a single count of murder in the May 5 shooting that killed 34-year-old Kamir King and 24-year-old Devon Dillahunt. King was from…

Authorities are investigating a homicide involving an unusual weapon after a 79-year-old woman died in New Jersey. Bergen County prosecutors said the victim was found at a Dumont address late Saturday night after being reportedly struck by a fire poker. Officers responding to the scene on New Milford Avenue transported the woman to Hackensack University Medical Center where she was…

Police arrested a man in connection to a double murder that happened in Midtown two months ago. Chris Glorioso reports.

A gun was recovered from outside the West 37th Street building, near the first victim, while the 34-year-old victim — the one with the bullet to the head — was found on the third floor.

A 29-year-old man wanted in connection with the triple homicide of two women and another man in Queens last week — a brutal case that involved bound hands and puncture wounds — was apprehended in Maine Thursday after an intense search. Members of the Regional Fugitive Task Force apprehended Travis Blake, of Queens, in Maine Thursday with the help of…

The police have released the identity and picture of the man now wanted in connection to a triple murder in queens. Adam Harding reports.

An indictment has been made in the 1968 killing of Diane Cusick, a mother and dance teacher on Long Island. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Richard Cottingham has claimed to be responsible for up to 100 murders. Prosecutors say Diane Cusick was one of them.

A 55-year-old woman was found stabbed to death — with wounds to her neck and torso — by NYPD officers responding to a building in Brooklyn Sunday, officials say. Cynthia McLeod lived just a few numbers down from the Van Buren Street address in Stuyvesant Heights where she was found dead around 11 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene….

Authorities have identified the person found dead in a Bronx apartment after someone called to report a foul odor as a 34-year-old woman from the same borough, though she didn’t live in the home where she was found, police say. Norayshma Fernandez, of Sedgwick Avenue, was the initially unidentifiable person found unresponsive with a bag over her head when...

Two men — a 71-year-old from New York City and a 31-year-old from Detroit — have been arrested on murder charges in the death of a Bronx man who was found shot on a popular hiking trail in New Jersey last month, prosecutors said Wednesday. Hikers discovered the body of Kelsey Steels in Eagle Rock Reservation, on the West Orange…

Anna Torres, the mother of an NYPD officer, was killed when she opened her door in the middle of the afternoon — allegedly by a man who drove to a police precinct and got out of his SUV with the gun still in his hand.

A 41-year-old Queens man has been arrested on murder and weapons possession charges in the death of a 51-year-old woman from the same borough who was found shot in the head in her own home Wednesday afternoon, police said Thursday. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Two people thought to be in their 20s or 30s were found shot to death at a midtown Manhattan building that houses a recording studio, officials said Thursday. Romney Smith with the latest.