Crime and Courts

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says police shot and killed a student outside a middle school after receiving a report of someone with a weapon.

Police have found 10 credit card skimmers at convenience stores in Prince George’s County over the last few weeks, and they say shoppers need to keep an eye out. News4’s Walter Morris reports. 

News4’s Jackie Bensen has more on the concerns that residents have. 

A man on trial for an alleged double murder in Alexandria in July 2022 admits he shot and killed two construction workers but claims he shot them in self-defense during a fight near the site where they were working. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder has the latest details from court.

The family of Kate Laporta is raising money for college funds for her two children, processing their grief and helping fulfill the greatest wish of a woman fatally shot in Fairfax County.

The family of a Fairfax County mother who was shot and killed earlier this month is sharing new details about their loved ones. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, faces sentencing in a Seattle courtroom.

Police bodycam video shows students running from gunfire that injured five people. Two teenagers, 14 and 16, were arrested Monday and charged as adults with attempted murder. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Two teens have been arrested in connection with the chaotic senior skip day shooting in Greenbelt, Maryland, that sent five people to the hospital earlier this month. Hundreds of teenagers gathered at Schrom Hills Park April 19 for a skip day gathering that ended in chaos as shots were fired. Video recorded by a Bladensburg High School student who shared…

Two teens have been arrested in connection with the chaotic senior skip day shooting in Greenbelt, Maryland, earlier this month that sent five people to the hospital. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Montgomery County police are searching for whoever is responsible for defacing a sign outside a synagogue in Rockville, Maryland. 

Police are searching for the person who defaced a sign outside of a synagogue in Rockville, Maryland. News4’s Derrick Ward reports. 

A Colorado judge has sentenced a former paramedic to probation in the death of Elijah McClain.

Jeremy Cooper, a former Aurora Fire Rescue paramedic, had been convicted of criminally negligent homicide in December.

A former Arkansas mortuary worker has pleaded guilty to charges that she sold 24 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man.

A man who worked in an after-school program in Arlington County, Virginia, has been arrested and is accused of showing pornography to minors, police say.

There were tears throughout a Fairfax County courtroom Thursday as the parents of two teenage girls killed by a speeding driver described their incredible loss. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey shares what the grieving families had to say.

The man who fatally shot retired NFL star Will Smith during a confrontation following a car crash in 2016 received a 25-year prison sentence Thursday.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey was in the courtroom when a Fairfax County teen was convicted for a high-speed crash that killed two teen girls. She reports live moments after the verdict.

A Maryland man is facing a federal conspiracy charge in an alleged scheme to sell fake nursing degrees. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland’s office recently announced the conspiracy charge against Ejike Asiegbunam, whom they say made more than $1.6 million in what they called a “scheme to defraud.” According to court documents, Asiegbunam was the owner...