homicide
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Brackney, in a statement to the BBC, elaborated and said the department always treats any pending death case as a "potential homicide" so that crucial evidence is not lost as police wait on autopsy results.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
According to the prosecutors' statement, the Silvri court charged the pair with negligent homicide for failing to fulfil their navigational safety obligations and take the necessary measures to prevent the collision.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The following year, Riverside County cold-case homicide investigators paid Jesperson a visit at the Oregon State Penitentiary to interview him about “Claudia” in hopes of generating new leads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Carrollton Ridge in southwest Baltimore, with historically some of the highest homicide rates in the city, still has about 750 vacant homes, 40 more than it had 10 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
His father had been a robbery detective in Cleveland, Ohio, and his older brother was a homicide detective in Fort Lauderdale—and a detective is what David Delinko fervidly wanted to be, someday.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
The officers failed to class Carmenza's death as a murder and did not pass it to a homicide team for a fuller investigation, as happens with suspected homicides.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
President Claudia Sheinbaum has credited her administration’s efforts with reducing homicides by almost 50% in less than two years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
None of the agencies I contacted for this story replied to my inquiries about the status of the investigations—which, as with all unsolved homicides, officially remain open.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Then-Mayor Rodrigo Guerrero, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist, began treating homicides as a public-health epidemic—mapping violence patterns to deploy police and social programs, a precursor to modern data-driven policing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
“The medical examiner will determine if these were homicides, accidents, natural deaths—” “Natural?”
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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