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CBS New York.Sibley, a 28-year-old professional dancer, was dancing and voguing with friends to a Beyoncé song at a gas station while filling up their car in the late evening hours of July 30. Sibley and his friends were wearing swimsuits, having taken a day trip to the Jersey Shore earlier.One member of the group was wearing a tight-fitting and short-cut bathing suit, which attracted negative attention from onlookers.Members of that group, including the alleged assailant, confronted Sibley and his friends, yelling anti-gay and anti-Black slurs during an initial confrontation, according to Joseph Kenny, the assistant chief of the New York Police Department’s detective bureau, who spoke at a Saturday news conference.The groups dispersed temporarily, but then re-engaged after further comments from the assailant and others.Members of Sibley’s group sought to defend themselves, getting into a scuffle with the alleged assailant, who brandished a weapon and stabbed Sibley once in the torso.

Idaho Statesman that Umphenour stayed with the couple at Henderson’s cabin a decade ago.Thompson — who had met Henderson online and moved from Washington State to Idaho to live with him in 2006 — said Umphenour, who was about 18 years old at the time, asked to stay with the couple because his family’s camper didn’t have a lot of space and he didn’t get along with his father.After a month, the couple kicked him out when he attempted to take control of the couple’s home and frequently talked about shooting people who disrespected him.“He had a volatile temper, which was frightening,” Thompson told the Statesman. “He would just explode all of a sudden, so it was like, ‘No we can’t have this here.'”Thompson says he never saw Umphenour after the couple kicked him out.

Human Rights Watch, Lumumba had been sexually assaulted, hit on the head with a blunt object, and stabbed in the chest, face, neck, and eyes.From the start of the investigation into Lumumba’s murder, their family was critical of police response, accusing investigators of dragging their feet due to anti-LGBTQ animus.Lumumba’s cousin, Brenda Akinyi, told Human Rights Watch that the family began investigating the murder themselves after police failed to update the family on case developments. Additionally, after police claimed to have searched the crime scene, family members found a knife and razor blade in Lumumba’s bedroom.

found on a Dallas street on the morning of May 18, 2019. She had recently spoken out about being attacked by an angry mob following a minor car accident in front of a local apartment complex.Police said they identified Lyles as the suspect in Booker’s murder while investigating the deaths of a man and a woman killed in two separate shootings in the days around Booker’s death.Lyles has also been charged in those deaths.

Daily Mail.Sancho arrived in Thailand on July 31 as a tourist, and reportedly arrived, with Arrieta in tow, to attend a party on Koh Pha-ngan, a popular beach destination in the southeastern part of the country best known for its monthly Full Moon Party. The raucous night-long celebration is tied to the lunar calendar and draws international revelers to its outdoor rave event.Police allege that Sancho murdered Arrieta and cut his body into 14 pieces before dumping them in the sea and other places around the island.

Director, actor and playwright Tyler Perry is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone with information leading to the conviction of the person who killed a gay man in Grenada.Perry announced the reward on his Instagram on Wednesday after receiving a call from friend and veteran publicist Yvette Noel-Schure about the death of her close friend Josiah “Jonty” Robinson, an openly gay singer-songwriter and Grenada native who performed under the name Jonty Dream.Robinson’s body was discovered on the Morne Rouge Beach, in the southwestern part of the Caribbean island, on June 18. A police insider told the Grenadan newspaper The New Today that an autopsy — performed by an outside expert after two previous autopsies were inconclusive regarding the manner of death — revealed that Robinson had died from “manual strangulation with injuries to the cervical spine” and that his body had been thrown into the water.

WITI, video footage from a British Petroleum gas station allegedly shows Allen and a man, whom police later identified as Hubbird, briefly talking inside the gas station. Allen then steps into the passenger’s seat of a black Chevy Tahoe SUV, and the car drives off. Police say and the pair drove to Allen’s apartment complex, located at 26th Street and Wells Street in Milwaukee.

Twelve years after a murder in South Florida, detectives said they’ve identified a gay pornography model as the chief suspect in the killing.In August 2010, Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies found a man, 31-year-old Alfred “Chad” McMurray, dead from a gunshot wound at his residence in Oakland Park, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. They failed to locate a clear suspect at the time.On Friday, however, the office published an announcement saying that in May, “new information led homicide investigators to identify a possible suspect.”That person is Aaron Michael Dobbins, a 52-year-old Tampa resident who previously acted in gay pornography under the name “Trace Michaels.” According to the BSO statement, investigators obtained a search warrant for Dobbins’ DNA and matched it with forensic evidence found under McMurray’s fingernails at the crime scene 12 years ago.“Investigators said based on the information gathered and evidence collected in this case, they believe Dobbins is responsible for the murder,” the sheriff’s office said in its statement.Detectives claimed in an arrest report that McMurray’s truck, along with some personal items, had been stolen from the murder scene.

WLS-TV.The victims killed in the attack have been identified as 25-year-old South Holland native Donald Huey, who was planning to move back to the area from Los Angeles, 27-year-old Chicago resident Devonta Vivetter, and 23-year-old Jaylen Ausley, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan. All three were transported to a local hospital, where they were pronounced dead.The other victim was hospitalized in serious condition.

KOTV. The local police raised the case to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the community fund-raised $30,000 to retest the evidence for DNA.

Note: Spoilers ahead.“Ozark” ended its four-season run with Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner) dead and the Byrde family intact — just barely — as 14-year-old son Jonah (Skylar Gaertner) joined the show’s long list of cold-blooded killers.Or did he?In the show’s final scene, reminiscent of that WTF? “Sopranos” series ender, Jonah aimed a shotgun at pesky private investigator Mel Sattam (Adam Rothenberg), who broke into the Byrdes’ lakefront house to steal the ceramic-goat cookie jar containing the ashes of Wendy’s (Laura Linney) unstable brother, Ben Davis (Tom Pelphrey), contract-killed by his sister in Season 3.Sattam told Marty (Jason Bateman) that his crematorium did a subpar job burning Ben’s body and that he had enough DNA evidence (bits of teeth and bone) to prove that Ben was murdered. Jonah emerged from the shadows, pointed the shotgun at Sattam and the screen suddenly cut-to-black — the silence shattered by a shotgun blast that left Mel’s fate and Jonah’s intentions open to interpretation.Gaertner, 18, answered a few questions from The Post about the shocking finale and how Jonah evolved over the four seasons since “Ozark” premiered in 2017.Did you know how it would play out for Jonah going into Season 4?Well … not entirely.

her supposed lover — then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy — at her Brentwood, Calif., estate., Marilyn Monroe’s nude, lifeless body was reportedly found by her housekeeper.

In Ireland, the slew of unsettling news for LGBTQ people continues to mount. Most recently, a gay man was assaulted in the capital city of Dublin.Twenty-three-year-old Evan Somers, an openly gay rugby player, was attacked by a “marauding gang” in the parking lot of a supermarket during the pre-dawn hours of April 10 after a night of partying at The George, a local pub in Dublin.Somers said that, at first, just one man confronted him, “getting in [his] face,” mocking him, and insulting him with homophobic slurs before punching him.

DeKalb County police, the musician was shot March 25 on Golf Vista Circle.He died from his injuries at a nearby hospital on April 3. Cops responded to a Chevron gas station on Snapfinger Woods Drive where they found Eversole suffering from a gunshot wound.Kraus was arrested and charged after the shooting.His was first charged with aggravated assault, however, his crimes were changed to murder after Eversole died.Eversole is best known for his 2002 hit “We Ready,” which featured fellow rapper Bubba Sparxxx. The man who gave us “We Ready, the greatest Game Day anthem ever, has passed away at 37 years old.

Strippendales, in early 2020. Unlike his dad who was in on the business side, Banerjee is also the gyrating talent. But behind his family legacy — the G-strings and glossy camp veneer of the ’80s beefcake phenomenon — is a bloody tale of greed, arson, FBI informants and murder.

“Bone, Marry, Bury.”The “raunchy reverse whodunnit” from creators Rachael King and Becca Freeman premieres Tuesday (Feb. 22) and follows party girl Allie (Hyland, “Modern Family”) and her best friend (and series narrator) Gabe (Guillén).

The racially motivated 1993 murder of 19-year-old Stephen Lawrence in southeast London made headlines — but for all the wrong reasons.It took nearly 20 years for two of his killers to be brought to justice against the backdrop of a massive coverup by the Metropolitan Police. That long narrative road is the crux of “Conviction: The Case of Stephen Lawrence,” a three-part series on Acorn TV starring Steve Coogan as dogged DCI Clive Driscoll, who reopened the case and spent six years getting to the truth of what really happened that night.“Conviction” aired last August on ITV in the UK under the title “Stephen.” It’s not the first time that ITV dramatized the case; a 1997 movie, “The Murder of Stephen Lawrence,” starred Marianne Jeanne-Baptiste and Hugh Quarshie as Steven’s parents, Doreen and Neville Lawrence.Quarshie reprises his role in “Conviction,” with Sharlene Whyte as Doreen.

El Diario.The women, who leave behind three children, were married last July and were living in Ciudad Juárez, just over the border from El Paso, Texas, where Ramírez — also identified by the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office as Tania Montes Hernández — claimed to live on her Facebook page. The couple frequently traveled between the two cities, and were last seen Saturday after visiting relatives on the Mexican side of the border.On January 6, just 10 days before their deaths, Martínez had published a text, imposed over the image of an eerie-looking clown smoking a cigarette, to Ramírez’s Facebook wall, reading: “It seems unbelievable, but every time we are happy, something happens that ruins everything.”The couple’s murder comes amid a new wave of violence in which more than a dozen women and more than 50 men have been killed in Ciudad Juárez so far this year.

A man has finally confessed to killing a gay American college student in Australia, ending an almost 35-year mystery over his death.Scott White, 50, admitted to the murder of Scott Johnson, whose body was found at the bottom of a cliff in Sydney in 1988. The 27-year-old gay mathematician was studying for his PhD at Australian National University after moving to Australia to live with his partner.Johnson’s clothes and belongings were found at the top of the cliff above his body, and he was in an area known to be frequented by gay men, which led investigators at the time to write his death off as suicide.His brother, Steve Johnson, was unconvinced with that verdict and pushed for the investigation to be reopened after learning at an inquest in 2005 that three other men had died in similar circumstances, the New York Times reports.“It was inconceivable to me that Scott went somewhere and jumped off a cliff,” Steve Johnson told the BBC in 2018.“The coroner quickly determined suicide, which is what the police told them,” Johnson said.

husband-and-wife Susan and Chris Edwards (Colman and Thewlis) who, in 2014, were sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing Susan’s parents in 1998 and burying them in their backyard garden in Nottingham.

The Sinner and The Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece” (Penguin), out Tuesday.On December 14, 1834, Lacenaire (along with his axe-wielding henchman Victor Avril) knocked on the door to the apartment where Jean François Chardon lived with his widowed mother, Anne Marie Yvon Chardon, in Poissy, France. Jean François was a supposedly gay conman rumored to possess 10,000 francs — more than $200k in today’s money.

PD James’ bestselling series of crime books, comes to life in the “Dalgliesh.”The six-episode Acorn TV series, premiering Monday (Nov. 1), stars Bertie Carvel as the titular Dalgliesh; each close-ended episode airs in two parts, with different supporting characters.

guilty of second-degree murder and malicious harassment — a hate crime charge — for strangling Kuhnhausen, who was 17, to death and then burying her remains in a wooded area near Larch Mountain, in a remote part of northeast Clark County, in southern Washington.Kuhnhausen went missing on June 6, 2019 while crashing at a friend’s house. Six months later, on Dec.

Trigger warning: The story has details of a murder and cannibalism that might be disturbing to some readers.Stefan R, who was arrested in November 2020,  had met the victim, Stefan Trogisch (43) through the popular German online gay dating site PlanetRomeo.

Twitter users flooded the platforms with support for Herrin.On TikTok, supporters of Herrin jumped to make fan accounts to pay homage to their hot felon.

WKXW/NJ101.5.Vanderpump, 23, was known “in Trenton and across New Jersey as a fierce LGBTQ advocate,” the LGBTQ rights group Garden State Equality wrote in a Facebook post, vowing to “fight to bring justice to Shai and her loved ones.”According to The Trentonian, police responded to a report of a shooting at a residence in the unit block of Kelsey Avenue, in the city’s Pennington/Prospect neighborhood, around 4:40 a.m on Friday, July 30. Upon arrival, they found Vanderpump shot in the face.

KDFM. Police are asking anyone with information about Evans, her acquaintances, or the events that preceded her death, to call them at 409-832-1234, or to submit an anonymous tip via Southeast Texas Crime Stoppers at 409-833-TIPS (8477) or via the P3 tips app.Lois Balka, Evans’ grandmother, told ABC affiliate KBMT in a March interview that even though she and her grandchild sometimes clashed, she still wishes Evans were alive.

Vallarta Daily News.The Resilientxs collective and the LGBT Activists Network, two local advocacy groups, were the first to call for an investigation into the young man’s murder, and have called for political leaders to reform the state’s criminal code to include hate crime charges based on sexual orientation and gender identity.Currently, only 13 states in Mexico have bias enhancements, or hate crime charges, for crimes motivated by a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity, but Quintana

The News & Advance.Lynchburg Police spokesperson Carrie Dungan said police are investigating to see whether the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute.

Globo reports that local police have arrested three people, aged 20, 33, and 39, who all claimed to know Kosmaski.Kosmaski was last seen on April 30 at a local bar, and police found his body the following day in a car next to a highway. He had been shot twice, but police can’t confirm if he was still alive when the car was set on fire.While a motive is still trying to be determined, local activists are branding Kosmaski’s murder a hate crime.

(Read More: Gay man beheaded by family in Iran while preparing to flee country)Fazeli-Monfared’s murder sent shockwaves through the local and international LGBTQ community.

The NSW Police on Thursday morning charged a 43-year-old man with the alleged murder of his boyfriend in the car park of an apartment block in Rushcutters Bay, an eastern suburb of SydneyThe 39-year old victim died on Wednesday afternoon after a domestic violence incident, the police said.A spokesperson at NSW Police told Star Observer on Wednesday evening that the victim was in a relationship with the alleged offender, identified as Phillip Papaefthymiou.Sources close to the investigation said

New York Post that her sister had been suffering from mental illness for a long time before the shooting, and that Thomas was aware of her mental health issues.“My sister don’t deserve this, period. She don’t.

The Night Book” and “Soon,” arrives Thursday (April 29) on Sundance Now. It’s a binge-worthy murder mystery packed with twists and turns that will keep you guessing from beginning to end (and then some).While it does recycle some familiar murder-mystery tropes — i.e.

WBTV. “These trans individuals are somebody’s children, grandchild.

Springfield News-Leader. Court documents say that Nelson and Lucious met on an online dating website and had arranged to meet up at Lucious’s apartment, where, prosecutors allege, Nelson fatally shot her.According to charging documents, Nelson matched the description of the man witnesses saw at the scene of the shooting, and drives the same type of car witnesses reported seeing at the scene.