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Suspect, Victim ID'd After PA Hotel Homicide, NJ Standoff Suspect, Victim ID'd After PA Hotel Homicide, NJ Standoff
Suspect, Victim ID'd After PA Hotel Homicide, NJ Standoff A woman was fatally shot at the Sleep Inn on Street Road in Bensalem, PA, and the suspect was apprehended following a barricade situation in Trenton, police and prosecutors said during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 16. The victim, identified as 49-year-old Maisha Coon of Trenton, NJ, was killed in the hotel room late Tuesday night. The suspect, her boyfriend, 51-year-old Orenthia Upshur, also from Trenton, fled the scene to a home in New Jersey, where he admitted to killing Koon and attempted to kill her family, authorities said. Details about Coon's life have been shared by her comm…

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by Jillian Pikora
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CEO Murder: How A Hash Brown At PA McDonald's Led To Arrest Of Luigi Mangione CEO Murder: How A Hash Brown At PA McDonald's Led To Arrest Of Luigi Mangione
CEO Murder: How A Hash Brown At PA McDonald's Led To Arrest Of Luigi Mangione The rare times in which Luigi Nicholas Mangione removed his face mask may have been the main reason for his arrest for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson after a five-day manhunt. Click here for a new, updated story - CEO Murder: Luigi Mangione Notebook Detailing Shooting Plans Revealed, Reports Say In the first instance, Mangione was asked by a receptionist at a hostel in Manhattan's Upper West Side to remove the mask so she could compare his face to the photo on an allegedly fake ID. The 26-year-old Maryland native checked in there 10 days before the targeted shooti…

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by Joe Lombardi
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HOMICIDE: Decomposed Man, Nude Woman Found Dead In PA RV, Police Say HOMICIDE: Decomposed Man, Nude Woman Found Dead In PA RV, Police Say
Homicide: Decomposed Man, Nude Woman Found Dead In PA RV, Police Say Two bodies found in an RV in Philadelphia have prompted a homicide investigation, police announced on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 14.  The police were called to a report of two bodies discovered inside an RV parked at 2400 North Philip Street at 2:06 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14.  An unidentified man "was found in a severely decomposed state on the bed inside the RV," the police said.  An unidentified woman "was found nude on the steps of the RV and pronounced deceased at 2:24 AM by Medic 31," as stated in the release. The cause and manner remain undetermined. The vic…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Dads ID'd As Men Pulled From Creek In PA Park: Police Dads ID'd As Men Pulled From Creek In PA Park: Police
Dads ID'd As Men Pulled From Creek In PA Park: Police Two fathers have left behind young children — including an infant after drowning in a Pennsylvania creek, as detailed in a GoFundMe started for their family. The discovery of the first body led divers to another body, as Daily Voice previously reported.  Bilsón Araél Ramirez, 22 recently of Pittsburgh, but originally of Guatemala, was found "floating in the Montour Run Creek near the Montour Run Trail" around 4:05 p.m. in Moon Township on June 28, according to the police release and identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on July 9.  After first res…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Masked Gunman Kills 27-Year-Old In Philly Restaurant: Investigators Masked Gunman Kills 27-Year-Old In Philly Restaurant: Investigators
Masked Gunman Kills 27-Year-Old In Philly Restaurant: Investigators A man wearing gloves and a mask walked into a Chinese restaurant in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood and shot a 27-year-old dead, according to city police.  Authorities said Joel Colon-Cruz was inside a restaurant on the 700 block of East Ontario Street around 11 p.m. Monday, June 10.  The gunman shot him multiple times in the head and torso and he was pronounced dead at the scene, PPD said.  Anyone with information is asked to call Homicide Detectives at 215-686-3334. 

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Woman, 57, Found Murdered In Montco Home: DA Woman, 57, Found Murdered In Montco Home: DA
Woman, 57, Found Murdered In Montco Home: DA A homicide investigation is underway after a Wyndmoor woman was found dead in her home Wednesday morning, April 10.  Springfield Township police found 57-year-old Elizabeth Shea dead in a residence on the 1000 block of Cromwell Lane around 7:30 a.m., the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said.  Police were visiting the home to conduct a welfare check when they found her in the master bedroom, according to the release.  An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday, April 11.  Anyone with information is asked to call county detectives at 610-226-5553 or township …

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Autobody Shop Finds Body In Trunk Of Nissan, Philadelphia Police Say Autobody Shop Finds Body In Trunk Of Nissan, Philadelphia Police Say
Autobody Shop Finds Body In Trunk Of Nissan, Philadelphia Police Say Mechanics at a Philadelphia autobody shop made an unusual discovery in the trunk of a Nissan on Friday afternoon police announced that evening.  The "partially decomposed body" of a Black man in his mid-30s was found in the trunk of a silver Nissan Maxim at an autobody shop in the 2300 block of South 63rd Street around 1:17 p.m. on Jan, 26, police detailed in the release. John Doe had "no visible trauma to the body," as stated in the release.  He was officially pronounced dead at 1:26 p.m. by a Medic. The scene has been held for the police investigation. Updates are expected, s…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Video Shows Shooter Ambush Victim In Northeast Philly: Detectives Video Shows Shooter Ambush Victim In Northeast Philly: Detectives
Video Shows Shooter Ambush Victim In Northeast Philly: Detectives Police investigators in Philadelphia have released new video evidence from an ambush killing on March 13, the department said in a release.  The deadly shooting happened around noon on the 6100 block of Algon Avenue in the city's Crescentville section, according to police.  The new footage from authorities appears to show the shooter pacing around the corner before doubling back and rushing the victim.  Surveillance footage from PPD.  PhiladelphiaPolice Detectives said the victim was shot multiple times throughout the body and died from his injuries.  Anyone …

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by Mac Bullock
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No ID For Young Man Found Dead In Allentown No ID For Young Man Found Dead In Allentown
No ID For Young Man Found Dead In Allentown Authorities in Lehigh County are working to identify a man in his 20s found dead on an Allentown alley in the early morning hours on Sunday, July 16.  The victim was discovered on the 600 block of Morris Street and taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest where doctors pronounced him dead around 2 a.m., said county Coroner Daniel A. Buglio. His cause of death is pending an autopsy scheduled for Tuesday, July 17, but officials said he "appears to have suffered head and traumatic injuries."  "With the assistance of the Allentown Police Department, post-mortem fingerprints a…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Two Found Dead In Pennsylvania Home Two Found Dead In Pennsylvania Home
Two Found Dead In Pennsylvania Home A male and female were found dead over the weekend in a Pennsylvania home, authorities announced. Upper Allen Police were performing a welfare check on residents in the 800 block of Grantham Road when they found the two bodies around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, July 1, they said. The incident is under active investigation by Upper Allen Police, the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office, and the Cumberland County Coroner’s Office. No further information was released and the public is not believed to be in danger. The names of the deceased are being withheld until next of kin notifications ar…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Shooting Turns Deadly In Philadelphia: Police Shooting Turns Deadly In Philadelphia: Police
Shooting Turns Deadly In Philadelphia: Police One man is dead after shots rang out on a Philadelphia street late Tuesday, June 27, city police told Daily Voice.  It happened in North Philly on the 3100 block of North Stillman Street around 9:30 p.m., the department said. Officers were dispatched for reports of an armed person.  Authorities said the victim, 22-year-old Nadir Smith, had been shot in the head, chest, and back. Police drove him to Temple University Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 10:45 p.m., according to the department. No weapon was recovered from the scene and no arrests have been made as of Wednesday…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Homicide Victim Found In Burning Car: Philadelphia Police Homicide Victim Found In Burning Car: Philadelphia Police
Homicide Victim Found In Burning Car: Philadelphia Police Philadelphia police are investigating the murder of a person whose remains were discovered in a burning car in the Northeast early on Tuesday, April 18.  Firefighters responded to a reported vehicle fire on the 5900 block of Sylvester Street around 12:45 a.m., the police department told Daily Voice.  They extinguished the flames of a burning SUV to find a person in the back seat of the vehicle, authorities said. First responders pronounced the victim dead at 12:50 a.m. and the remains were transported to the Medical Examiner's Office, police wrote.  Police did not identify t…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Missing Reading Man's Remains Discovered After 8-Year Search Missing Reading Man's Remains Discovered After 8-Year Search
Missing Reading Man's Remains Discovered After 8-Year Search The partial remains of a Reading man who was reported missing in 2015 were located in Exeter Township, authorities announced at a press conference Monday, April 10.  Anthony Rodriguez, a 21-year-old who lived on Perkiomen Avenue, was reported missing to Exeter police in May 2015, Detective Joseph Malone told reporters. Rodriguez had last been seen in the Five Points section of the township near the border with Alsace, the investigator said.  "Police worked many leads in this case but were eventually led to a wooded area" in Exeter, Malone said.  In the first two "extensive searches" of the…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Couple Found Dead In Delaware County Home: Report Couple Found Dead In Delaware County Home: Report
Couple Found Dead In Delaware County Home: Report Authorities are searching for answers after two people were found dead in a Delaware County home. State police were called to a home on Highland Drive in Chester Heights Borough at about 5:15 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 2 for a welfare check, troopers said in a release.  There, police found two bodies. A report by the Philadelphia Inquirer identified the couple as a 71-year-old man and 68-year-old woman. An investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to call the PSP Media Station at 484-840-1000. 

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Philly's 'Boy In The Box' Identified After 65 Years: Police Philly's 'Boy In The Box' Identified After 65 Years: Police
Philly's 'Boy In The Box' Identified After 65 Years: Police A boy found dead in a box 65 years ago in Philadelphia has been identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, city police announced at a press conference on Thursday, Dec. 8.   Dubbed "The Boy in the Box" or "America's Unknown Child" after his body was found stuffed in a bassinet box along Susquehanna Road in February 1957, the boy's case was one of the oldest unsolved murders in Philadelphia history, according to the department.  Zarelli was born in 1953, and police say they have identified his parents. Officials said they were able to identify the boy by compar…

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by Mac Bullock
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Child Rapist Who Killed Harrisburg Man With Hammer, Found Dead In Philly: Police Child Rapist Who Killed Harrisburg Man With Hammer, Found Dead In Philly: Police
Child Rapist Who Killed Harrisburg Man With Hammer, Found Dead In Philly: Police A convict who cut off his ankle monitor and went on the run after a body was found in his basement on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, was found dead in Philadelphia on Thursday, Dec. 8, authorities announced the following day.  Harrisburg police officers were called after a maintenance worker found the body of a man in the basement of the home of 48-year-old Calvin Lee Waller Jr.'s at 117 Locust Street around 4 p.m., according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. 61-year-old Jeffrey Keckler has been identified as the victim and his death was ruled a homicide caused by multiple traumatic i…

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by Jillian Pikora
Obituaries
Baby Shot By Toddler In Central Pennsylvania ID'd Baby Shot By Toddler In Central Pennsylvania ID'd
Baby Shot By Toddler In Central Pennsylvania ID'd The infant was shot by a 3-year-old relative in central Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Oct. 18, has been identified by old according to the family and police confirmed the details of the shooting on Wednesday at 4:50 p.m. Angelo Richardo "Mad Man" Barcenas Torres, was 15 months and 12 days old when he was shot dead by his 3-year-old cousin, according to details newly released by the family.  “THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE” Meachem & Prioleau Funeral Home, Inc. 🕊 Angelo R. Barsenas-Torres 🕊 Jesus loves me, this I... Posted by Meachem & Prioleau Funeral Home, Inc. on Thursday, October 27, 202…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
NJ Murder Suspect Who Dumped Body In Woods Nabbed In Philadelphia: Prosecutor NJ Murder Suspect Who Dumped Body In Woods Nabbed In Philadelphia: Prosecutor
NJ Murder Suspect Who Dumped Body In Woods Nabbed In Philadelphia: Prosecutor A man who shot his victim and then apparently dumped his victim's body in a wooded area of Central Jersey was captured nearly two years later in Philadelphia, authorities announced. Juaquan S. Fitzgerald, 33, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Duane S. Banks, 27, whose body was found in a wooded area in Franklin Township on April 29, 2020, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald said.  Banks' body was found in a wooded area toward the back of a home near Park Street around 6:40 p.m. that day, police said. The medical examiner's office rule…

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by Cecilia Levine
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7-Year-Old Boy 'So Full Of Life' Dies Four Days After Being Shot In The Head In PA 7-Year-Old Boy 'So Full Of Life' Dies Four Days After Being Shot In The Head In PA
7-Year-Old Boy 'So Full Of Life' Dies Four Days After Being Shot In The Head In PA A 7-year-old boy who was shot on Thursday, Apr. 14, died on Monday, but his community continues to rally for his family, as the hunt for his killer goes on. Antonio “Espn” Yarger Jr, 7, of Erie, was shot in the head-on while on the sidewalk near his home at the corner of Downing Avenue and Fairmount Parkway, Erie police said on Friday. Yarger was carried to his home by his grandmother and aunt, then taken to UPMC Hamot in critical condition, once he was stabilized he was flown to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh where he died on the fifth floor of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, …

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Police Capture Man Wanted In Murder Of Bristol Township Stepfather UPDATE: Police Capture Man Wanted In Murder Of Bristol Township Stepfather
Update: Police Capture Man Wanted In Murder Of Bristol Township Stepfather UPDATE: Police have captured a Bucks County man wanted as a person of interest in the murder of his stepfather, authorities said. Brian Joseph Carey, 41, was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 16 in Trumbauersville Borough by state police troopers on charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said. He was being held at Bucks County Correctional Facility in lieu of 10 percent of $750,000 bail. Carey was believed to be driving the silver 2006 Chevy Trailblazer owned by his stepfather, who was found dead inside a Bri…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Juvenile Charged As Adult In 2021 Murder Of DelCo 18-Year-Old: Police Juvenile Charged As Adult In 2021 Murder Of DelCo 18-Year-Old: Police
Juvenile Charged As Adult In 2021 Murder Of DelCo 18-Year-Old: Police Authorities in Delaware County have charged a 17-year-old boy as an adult in a deadly shooting that happened last year in Chester. The juvenile was arrested on Jan. 27 and charged with criminal homicide and related offenses for the August 2021 shooting that left 18-year-old Samad Montgomery dead, according to the City of Chester Police Department. He was denied bail and committed to Aspire Youth Center in Uniontown (Fayette County), local police said.  An investigation began at approximately 5 a.m. on Aug. 7 when police were called to the 1200 block of Clover Lane on a repor…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
US Marshals Nab Gunman In Killing Of Innocent Norristown Man Eating Thanksgiving Dinner US Marshals Nab Gunman In Killing Of Innocent Norristown Man Eating Thanksgiving Dinner
US Marshals Nab Gunman In Killing Of Innocent Norristown Man Eating Thanksgiving Dinner Members of the US Marshals office arrested 25-year-old Kevon Clarke on first degree murder charges in the shooting death of a 25-year-old man struck and killed by a stray bullet while eating Thanksgiving dinner when he was struck by a stray bullet, authorities said. Clarke was arrested without incident in Philadelphia at approximately 11 a.m. Monday, in the Nov. 25 Arch Street death of Miguel Palaez Moctezuma, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. Clarke was taken into custody after investigators determined he may have been hiding with a known associate in the 5500 bloc…

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by Cecilia Levine
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'Don’t Try To Find Me,' Brian Laundrie Reportedly Says In Chilling Pinterest Post 'Don’t Try To Find Me,' Brian Laundrie Reportedly Says In Chilling Pinterest Post
'Don’t Try To Find Me,' Brian Laundrie Reportedly Says In Chilling Pinterest Post "Don't try to find me." That was the message Brian Laundrie posted on social media that authorities are hoping may actually lead to his apprehension. Laundrie, 23, is a person of interest in the murder of the 22-year-old Gabby Petito whose body was found on Sunday, Sept. 19, in the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming. He hasn't been seen in more than a week, since he allegedly went hiking in a nature reserve near his home in Sarasota County in the City of North Port in Florida. Brian LaundrieNorth Port Police Department Since the confirmed identity of Petito and her death being labe…

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by Kathy Reakes