Category: Violent Crime

  • Peter Larsen, Hate Crime, Utah 2026

    Peter Larsen, Hate Crime, Utah 2026

    ⏱ 2 min read Peter Larsen, a 48-year-old man from Orem, Utah, stabbed a Muslim victim at the West Valley Mall in West Valley City, Utah, on July 13. The attack was motivated by Larsen’s anti-Muslim views, and he specifically targeted the victim after asking mall employees about their religion. The victim suffered multiple stab…

  • Joshua Crowell, Gang-Related Shooting, New York 2025

    Joshua Crowell, Gang-Related Shooting, New York 2025

    ⏱ 2 min read Joshua Crowell, a member of the Bloods gang, unleashed a hail of gunfire at a crowded house party in the Hamptons, wounding three people. The shooting was just one part of Crowell’s violent crime spree, which also included selling fentanyl that resulted in the death of one person and serious injury…

  • Cedric Cornelius Shivers, Escape from Residential Reentry Center, Illinois 2025

    Cedric Cornelius Shivers, Escape from Residential Reentry Center, Illinois 2025

    ⏱ 2 min read Cedric Cornelius Shivers, a 31-year-old Quad Cities man, walked out of a Davenport residential reentry center without authorization in October 2025, sparking a manhunt that ended with his arrest in Illinois. Shivers, who was required to reside at the center due to a 2021 felony firearm possession conviction, resisted arrest and…

  • Curley Nakai Jr., Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, New Mexico 2024

    Curley Nakai Jr., Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, New Mexico 2024

    ⏱ 2 min read Curley Nakai Jr., a 25-year-old Arizona man and enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, assaulted a woman with a rifle in a New Mexico parking lot on August 24, 2024. The incident occurred after the woman, Jane Doe 2, tried to intervene in a suspected domestic violence incident involving Nakai and…

  • Lonnie Begaye, Assault by Strangulation, New Mexico 2026

    Lonnie Begaye, Assault by Strangulation, New Mexico 2026

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  • Austin Andrew Goodman, Possessing a Firearm while Prohibited, Iowa 2025

    Austin Andrew Goodman, Possessing a Firearm while Prohibited, Iowa 2025

    ⏱ 2 min read Austin Andrew Goodman, a 42-year-old man from Dubuque, Iowa, tried to enter a city council meeting armed with a loaded firearm on March 3, 2025. Goodman, who was wearing a suit, had an American flag on his shoulders, tape over his mouth, and was accompanied by his two dogs on leashes.…

  • Nicholas Robert Campbell-Scott, Escape from Custody, Iowa 2026

    Nicholas Robert Campbell-Scott, Escape from Custody, Iowa 2026

    ⏱ 2 min read Nicholas Robert Campbell-Scott, a 29-year-old from Waterloo, Iowa, cut his ankle monitor and fled from the Gerald R. Hinzman Center, a residential re-entry center in Cedar Rapids, in January 2026. He was serving a federal prison sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon at the time. Campbell-Scott has past…

  • Tyrell West, Felony Strangulation, Maryland 2025

    Tyrell West, Felony Strangulation, Maryland 2025

    ⏱ 2 min read Tyrell West, a 31-year-old Maryland man, strangled and punched his former romantic partner in front of their child in a DC residence on November 26, 2025. The attack occurred after the victim rejected West’s sexual advance, prompting him to threaten and assault her. The victim regained consciousness after being punched and…

  • Gerard Santellano, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Texas 2024

    Gerard Santellano, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Texas 2024

    ⏱ 2 min read Gerard Santellano, a 36-year-old convicted felon from Eagle Pass, Texas, was found in possession of a .380 pistol during a lawful traffic stop on September 13, 2024. The stop was made just a week after Santellano was identified as the shooter in an attempted murder. He was arrested on the spot…

  • Derrick Gathers, Shooting, South Carolina 2023

    Derrick Gathers, Shooting, South Carolina 2023

    ⏱ 2 min read Derrick Gathers, a 40-year-old from Augusta, Georgia, shot a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper during a traffic stop on August 16, 2023, in Bamberg County. The trooper, Lance Corporal Frazier, had pulled Gathers over for speeding on Highway 78. When Frazier approached the vehicle to investigate a potentially fake driver’s license,…