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Crime & Courts Reporter
Alex covers breaking crime, courts and capital cases for Max Crime. Every story is built from at least two independent news reports or an official record, and each claim is attributed to its source.
Chevazz Campbell, 37, is charged with first-degree murder in the Oct. 8, 2026, stabbing of CTA janitor Julian Mobley at the Damen Green Line station in Chicago.
Officer Shane Seiber, 40, was killed and his partner wounded on Oct. 10, 2026, in West Philadelphia. Eric Lewis, 35, is charged with murder, prosecutors said.
Ann Mannix, 65, her daughter Katherine, 24, and husband Kevin Mannix, 68, were found dead Oct. 11, 2026, near Mill Valley in a suspected murder-suicide.
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home on Oct. 12, 2026. Omar called it political intimidation.
Jacob Aaron Hicks, 46, of Tucson is charged with an interstate threat after an email to a TV station warned of White House bombings, prosecutors said.
Nidal Hasan is set to be executed by firing squad Dec. 3, 2026. A Pentagon plan to livestream it has drawn objections from Republicans and an archbishop.
Opening statements began Oct. 7, 2026, in the trial of Miguel Salguero Olivares, accused of killing UNC student Faith Hedgepeth in 2012.
Christa Pike woke up days after Tennessee's failed attempt to execute her. On Oct. 7, 2026, a judge ordered the state to preserve evidence from it.
Saratoga County deputies seized 489 pounds of cannabis in a Clifton Park traffic stop on I-87. Two Franklin County men face first-degree felony charges.
Loaded firearms were recovered from high schools in Queens and Staten Island, while a separate stabbing outside a Bronx school left a teen wounded.
Tyrell Deshawn Valentine, 36, faces a murder charge in the Sept. 6, 2026, shooting death of Manuel De Jesus Martinez in uptown Charlotte, police said.
A 2-year-old boy and two adults were injured in a Fresno backyard shooting Saturday night on East Washington Avenue. Police have detained a suspect.
Adrian Washington pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the Bradford sword attack case. Sentencing is scheduled for October 16.
Dover police have identified an 18-year-old Dover man as the victim of a fatal shooting outside a CAVA restaurant, and investigators are asking anyone.
Records say a basketball dispute preceded the Aug. 30, 2026, fatal shooting at Hemisfair in San Antonio. A 23-year-old man was charged with murder.
