Houston police have been asking for the public’s assistance in locating a motorist involved in a fatal hit-and-run traffic accident at 2000 State Highway 6 about 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 6th, reports say. The victim, a male, age unknown, was walking in the roadway of State Highway 6 northbound when he was struck by a vehicle of unknown make and model. The vehicle then fled the scene. There were evidently no known witnesses. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at…
Reports say a teacher’s assistant became so enraged last week she threw a toddler to the floor, killing him. Melissa Calusinski, 22, allegedly threw 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan to the floor threw when she became frustrated for his being too noisy. Benjamin later collapsed and died from His skull fractured, reports say. Calusiniski was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and ordered held in lieu of $5 million bail. A criminal check apparently showed nothing that would have…
Charges against the owner of a Casper, WY childcare facility were filed after an infant died in October last year. The child, Tyler Parker, was found by his mother with what appeared to be severe hypoxic, conisistent with suffocation. Sara Beth Whited, 48, faces one count of child endangerment. The mother came to the facility and found her son blue and purple and cold. She tried to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but found his jaw basically locked, reports say….
Christina Suzanne Lyons, 32, a day care director in Kyle, TX, has been charged with capital murder following the November death of an infant in her care, reports say. The indictment alleges Lyons intentionally caused blunt force trauma to the child’s head. She could face life in prison if convicted. Lyons, who remains in custody with bond set at $500,000, reported that a two-month-old infant had been injured at the Little Lyons Club Daycare. Lyons apparently said she put…
Water at some house in California’s San Gabriel Valley was tainted by the E. coli Bacteria earlier this month, reports say, and some 200 households were told to boil their tap water. Although there were no reported cases of illness, the citizens of the affected area waited for officials to sterilize water pipes. Each affected home reportedly received three cases of bottled water from city officials, reports say. The source of contamination is unknown, but either animal or human feces…